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 Estraier: a personal full-text search system
 Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Mikio Hirabayashi
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This is a package of Win32 binaries of Estraier.
It contains Cygwin products also.

See http://estraier.sourceforge.net/ for more information.


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 INSTALLATION
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Copy the following files into such system directory as `C:\WINNT'.

  estindex.exe
  estserver.exe
  estxview.exe
  estutil.exe
  estmbtomh.exe
  sh.exe
  cygwin1.dll
  cygz.dll
  cygiconv.dll

Copy the following files into the doucument root directory of your web site.

  estsearch.cgi
  estsearch.conf
  estsearch.tmpl
  estsearch.top

Set configurations of your web server to enable CGI scripts on the
document root directory.


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 Making the index
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Open a DOS prompt window and change the current directory to the document
root directory of your web site.

Perform the following commands.

  estindex register casket
  estindex relate casket

When a series of work finishes, a directory named as `casket' is created.
It contains the index of files in your web site.  Files whose suffix is
`.txt' or `.asc' are handled as plain text.  Files whose suffix is `.html'
or `.htm' are handled as HTML.  Files whose suffix is `.eml' or `.mht'
are handled as MIME.  Other files are ignored.


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 Search the index
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Access the CGI script `estsearch.cgi' on the document root directory of
your web site using a web browser.

If you feel bothered about installation of a web server, use the search
server of Estraier.  It is an integrated program of a web server and
features of a full-text search system.  Install configuration files and
an index directory into the document root directory, set the current
directory there, and perform the following command.

  estserver casket estsearch.conf estsearch.tmpl estsearch.top

Thus, a web server is ready at port 4210.  For example, if the host name of
your system is `jack.foo.bar', access `http://jack.foo.bar:4210/estsearch'.


================================
 License
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Estraier was released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
See the file `COPYING.txt' for details.

Estraier was written by Mikio Hirabayashi.  You can contact the author by
e-mail to `mikio@users.sourceforge.net'.  However, as for topics which can
be shared among other users, pleae send it to the mailing list.  To join
the mailing list, refer to the following URL.

  http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/estraier-users


Thanks for using Estraier.



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