Here are some general notes on the alpha release 0.08a of skSearchEngine.
This is the alpha release of skSearchEngine and as such is fully functional and not shareware crippled in any way. It does however expire on 30/11/1997.
The query system will die horribly if the users gets more than 1000 hits on a query.
The generated index and link files must reside in a directory called sksearchengine which must be a subdirectory from your main http directory. (ie d:\wc5\http\sksearchengine ). While these files would probably be better suited to being in a sub directory in the data directory Wildcat! does not support sub directories in the data directory.
It has been found that the index database is quite large. A good rule of thumb is that your index database will be approximately the same size as the total size of the documents indexed.
Below is a table that describes some of the more important files supplied in the skse008a.zip archive.
File(s) Description html-sksearchengine.wcx This is the wcCode program that is used for online queries. skidxgen.exe This is the C program that is called by sksearchengine_idxgen.wcx to index a single file sksearchengine_idxgen.wcx This is the wcCode program that is used to generate an index on a directory. sksearchengine_idxgen.bat This is an example batch file that was used to generate the example index database supplied in the archive. data\sksearchengine.cfg This is the example configuration file. http\sksearchengine\*.dat This is the example index database. http\skware_ad\*.htm This is the html documentation for skWare's HTML Acey Duecy game and also one of several directories used to generate the example index database. http\skware_hm\*.htm This is the html documentation for skWare's HTML Hang Man game and also one of several directories used to generate the example index database. http\skware_rd\*.htm This is the html documentation for skWare's HTML Roll The Dice game and also one of several directories used to generate the example index database. http\skware_se\*.htm This is the html documentation for sksearchengine and also one of several directories used to generate the example index database. http\skware_templates\*.htm This is the example html templates for footer customisation. http\skware_textfiles\*.txt This is some text based documentation on some of the various products produced by skWare. It has been supplied as it is on of the several directories used to generate the example index database.