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1.8 KiB
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56 lines
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You can control the number of results returned in the archie system by 3
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variables. 'maxhits', 'maxmatch' and 'maxhitspm'.
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'maxhits' is a numeric variable whose value is the maximum number of
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matches you want the 'find' command to generate.
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If archie seems to be slow, or you don't want a lot of output this can be
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set to a small value. "maxhits" must be within the range 0 to 1000. The
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default value is 1000.
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Example:
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set maxhits 100
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'find' will now stop after 100 matches have been found
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There are 2 variables which work with the 'maxhits' variable to modify
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the behavior of the search mechanism. They are 'maxmatch' and
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'maxhitspm'. The database can be viewed as follows:
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filename1 ----> file1 -> file2 -> file3
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filename2 ----> file1 -> file2 -> file3 -> file4
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filename3 ----> file1
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(etc)
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Each filename can have several files associated with it which share that
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name. For example, the string "README" is only stored once but points to
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the information for each of the files in the database called README
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spread around all the anonymous FTP sites on the Internet (which, as you
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can imagine are numerous).
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The maximum total number of "files" (hits) returned is determined by the
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'maxhits' variable. The maximum number of filenames that match is
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determined by the 'maxmatch' variable. Finally if you only want to
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return a limited number of files for each filename matched, use the
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'maxhitspm' variable.
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If you do the following:
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set maxhits 20
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set maxmatch 5
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set maxthitspm 7
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Then you will match at most 5 filenames. For each filename you will be
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given back at most 7 files with that name. However, in total you will
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only be returned 20 hits, since maxhits operates on the total number
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regardless of the the combinations of the hits.
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