According to Greg Fenton: > htfuzzy does not have a "-a" flag. This means that one cannot build > fuzzy databases until after the words databases have been "made live". > > So, for example, if I am trying to rebuild the databases offline (not > usable by htsearch), then I have to do some scripting tricks to rebuild > the fuzzy dbs or I have to build the dbs in one directory and move to > another for searching (thus eliminating the benefit of "-a" on other > programs). > > Wouldn't it make sense to add a "-a" flag to htfuzzy, or am I just > missing something?
It makes sense, for the so-called "word algorithms" that make use of word_db (i.e. accents, soundex and metaphone). However, even these algorithms do all their work in memory, and only write out their databases at the end, so doing this over a "live" database collection wouldn't put these fuzzy algorithms out of commission for long. These aren't needed for endings and soundex, which use static dictionaries, nor the other fuzzy algorithms which don't use databases. It would complicate your indexing scripts somewhat too, as you'd have up to 3 more .work files to move into place. Still, I think adding -a handling to htfuzzy is a good idea. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
