Hello all, I'm helping a graduate student with a quick survey: does anybody know of CD-ROM editions with full text searching of the entire disk? I've looked through the editions I have, and I'm not sure any of the ones I own have mechanisms for full text searching of all the files on the disk. What she is looking for are texts that produce Google like results, limited solely to the contents of the disk in question, from a text search on CD-ROM. We are of course aware of the new Google beta disk search, and realise that things like HT/dig allow one to do this kind of searching on-line. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -Dan O'Donnell
Il giorno lun, 15-11-2004 alle 16:47 -0700, caedmon ha scritto:
Hello all, I'm helping a graduate student with a quick survey: does anybody know of CD-ROM editions with full text searching of the entire disk? I've looked through the editions I have, and I'm not sure any of the ones I own have mechanisms for full text searching of all the files on the disk. What she is looking for are texts that produce Google like results, limited solely to the contents of the disk in question, from a text search on CD-ROM. We are of course aware of the new Google beta disk search, and realise that things like HT/dig allow one to do this kind of searching on-line.
Perhaps these two can be of help:
Namazu http://www.namazu.org/
Namazu is a full-text search engine intended for easy use. Not only does it work as a small or medium scale Web search engine, but also as a personal search system for email or other files.
JSSINDEX http://jssindex.sourceforge.net/
JSS is a simple search engine designed for CDROM or Web-based document collections. The documents to be indexed can be in HTML, PostScript (.ps and .ps.gz), PDF, and DjVu. The main feature of JSS is that the query engine and the index are entirely in JavaScript, and therefore require no other software than a JavaScript-enabled Web browser.
Ciao
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Roberto Rosselli Del Turco