Elizabeth Smigielski wrote: > > Dear Sir or Madam, > > I'm writing a report on the general function and design of ht://Dig, as it is used >here at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. I am a bit confused as to the >difference between ht://Dig (the formal name) and htdig. From what I gather, >ht://Dig the general name for the system, whereas htdig is the name for the component >that retrieves documents and functions as the search robot, and works in conjunction >with htmerge, htfuzzy, etc to create the overall product, ht://Dig. Is this >accurate? If not, please clarify this. > > Sincerely, > > Mrs. E. Smigielski Yes, this is correct. Perhaps a little history would be good here... When I started developing a search engine, way back in '93 (I don't remember exactly when I started), I called it 'htdig'. The first version was written entirely in Perl while the second version was in Perl and C. When I started development on version 3 I asked one of the graphic artists (Keith Parks) at San Diego State University to design a logo for the software. He came up with the logo as it stands now. He was the one that actually put the '://' in the name because he throught it was more appropriate. I liked it and decided to rename the package to 'ht://Dig' to go with the logo! Since '/' is a special character under Unix, I couldn't rename the indexer, so it remained 'htdig'. I hope this helps! -- Andrew Scherpbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Contigo Software <http://www.contigo.com/>
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