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Date: Sun 03-Aug-1989 19:26:12 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Indexing in the Digital Librarian In article <9187@pucc.Princeton.EDU> SEB@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Scott E. Barron) writes: >I am trying to add a folder of large text files to the Digital Librarian on >a NeXT. I cannot find any sufficient documentation for doing this, so the >process I used is as follows: Known problem. I tried to index the Internet RFCs (which run to about 19 meg), and never could get them in. Your procedure is correct, but I don't think you're going to get results under 0.9. If you want to experiment further, try the shell-level program index(1). It's not terribly stable, but it gives a bit more flexibility in indexing. >The files I am trying to index are very large, but not as big as the works >of Shakespeare. Do you mean that the total file size is smaller than 8 meg, or that the individual files are no larger than any in Shakespeare? The largest directory I have successfully indexed had only a total of 2 meg of text, with file sizes ranging from 45 bytes to 250 Kbytes. The index is a respectable 800K. >Yet, the DL locked up the first time I tried this, and the >second time it completed the index but the index exceeded 18MB!! The index >on Shakespeare is less than 4MB. What am I doing wrong? It's possible that the text contains a great many words that seem important enough to index (see pword(1)), or that the indexing options were oddly set. Another possibility is that the indexing program failed, but claimed to succeed. >Furthermore, the first time I tried to do a search on the newly created index, >the system locked up. Sounds like the third option! Was this the same copy of the Librarian that you created the index under? Had any other aggresively memory-hungry programs been running? >My biggest complaint about the NeXT is the lack of thorough documentation and >the need for non-UNIX ways to handle problems/errors. I've found the existing documentation to be quite reasonable, despite its very pre-release nature. Meanwhile, parsing the second half of your sentence (with some difficulty), I gather you want more visual administration tools. They are, as far as I know, in the process of being written/debugged. The goal is to have as few tasks as possible that require "old-fashioned" Unix administration. My back-and-forth with the bug handling group about the console (excuse me, the "Mach Window") has convinced me that they want *everything* done from the Workspace, preferably in a visual fashion. >Another problem is that there is no indicator light to show when the >printer is receiving data or when the hard disk is being accessed. Funny, I thought both of these were obvious. When the cube is making coffee, the hard disk is being accessed. When the coffee beans are being ground, the optical disk is in use. When the screen freezes, it's preparing to send data to the printer, and when the cargo jet takes off, it's about to begin printing. Simple. NeXT Support Guru for sale or rent. Inquire within. -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely) >From: smb@datran2.uunet (Steven M. Boker)
Date: Sun 05-Aug-1989 05:13:53 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Indexing in the Digital Librarian In article <9204@pucc.Princeton.EDU> SEB@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes: | In article <JGREELY.89Aug3152612@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu>, | jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: | Are there indexing options that can be set from within the DL? Or are | those options available only when using index(1)? Actually, the Librarian just runs index. Do a ps while your machine is at the mercy of the Librarian in "indexing-processor-hog-mode". | >>My biggest complaint about the NeXT is the lack of thorough documentation and | >>the need for non-UNIX ways to handle problems/errors. It would be great to have more "non-Unix" ways to handle things but, I hope they don't go too far since the Unix ways have such wounderful flexibility that would surely be lost in a point and click interface. Right now, I love the schizo interface. I can be lazy with the mouse or I can be fast and efficient with the keys. | Then could you please tell me where I could find documentation on the | DL and specifically about indexing? Search for index in the Librarian, There is an interesting document about "indexing from the developers point of view. | How about creating icons | for the DL? For your own personal lib, look in ~/.NeXT/Targets/targets for a setup file of each lib entry. You can change the icon name there after you make your eps icon in that directory. For the system, you do the same in /NextApps/Librarian.app/targets. | I find the documentation to be geared more for UNIX | programmers/developers (such as yourself), rather than for general | users. Good observation. The machine is beta "for developers and aggressive end users". Apparently, you and I fall into the latter category. Right now, you can expect no more than to have to fend for yourself. I suggest you locate the campus support people with these problems since they are the ones who have direct access to Next via the ask_next e-mail address. Chris
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