	This fileset contains the VMSIndex search engine, originally developed
for use with the VMS Gopher Server, and now ported for use with the CERN HTTP
Server and OSU DECthreads HTTP Server.  We support it, and related aspects of
all three infosystem servers, via the VMSGopher-L@trln.lib.unc.edu email list.
(NOTE that none of us has any tolerance for WWW versus Gopher or Unix versus
VMS "religious wars", so be careful what you say should you seek our help!).

	Indexes are created with Build_Index.exe, which is common to all
three servers.  Its use is explained in Build_Index.Doc.  WWWquery.exe does
the searches for the CERN HTTP server, and query.exe is for the Gopher server.
Build them by executing Make.com, which will determine whether you are on a
VAX or AXP, and whether or not you have MMS, and then do the right things.

	Start by reading the headers of VMSIndex.com and HTTP_IndexTree.com,
then the headers of VMSGopherServer.com and HTTP_IndexDoc.com, then study
Build_Index.Doc, then read the header of WWWquery.c.

	A homolog of WWWquery.c, Index_Search.c, is distributed with the
DECthreads HTTP server.  The latter requires that the index (.IDX and .SEL)
files be in the same directory as the foo.html files.  WWWquery.c, like
query.c for the VMS Gopher Server, allows them all to be collected into a
subdirectory of the data tree (e.g., WWW_Root:[INDEX]).

	In addition to indexing a set of whole foo.html files, WWWquery and
query.c can index single or sets of sectional database files, analogously to
WAIS.  The indexing with HTTP_IndexTree.com and searches with VMSIndex.com are
a model for sets of whole foo.html files.  The indexing with HTTP_IndexDoc.com
and searches with VMSGopherServer.com are a model for sectional databases.

	Copy VMSIndex.com (and VMSGopherServer.com if you have reason to use
it) to your htbin directory, and set up a foreign command for WWWquery.exe
here.  Copy SearchWords.html (and EGREP.html if you have reason to use it) to
an appropriate subdirectory of your data tree for access in conjunction with
searches.

	The other command file interfaces for building indexes can be
executed from here.

	NOTE that files indexed with this software should not have links
with partial URL's (i.e, they should have href="/path/foo.html", not
href="foo.html").  Otherwise, clients will fill them in as "/htbin/foo.html"
instead of using "/path/foo.html".

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