138 lines
5.1 KiB
HTML
138 lines
5.1 KiB
HTML
|
<html>
|
||
|
|
<title>Archie Help</title>
|
||
|
|
<center><h2>Archie Help</h2></center>
|
||
|
|
<blockquote>This help file explains in moderate detail what each field in the search page
|
||
|
|
means. If you still can't locate the help you need or you want to report an
|
||
|
|
error please mail us at <i><A
|
||
|
|
HREF="mailto:archie-group@bunyip.com">archie-group@bunyip.com</A></i> and we
|
||
|
|
will get back to you as soon as we can.
|
||
|
|
</blockquote>
|
||
|
|
<hr>
|
||
|
|
<br>
|
||
|
|
<b>Search For:</b>
|
||
|
|
<blockquote>
|
||
|
|
Here you type in the search variable. If regular expression is the type of
|
||
|
|
search you are using then the string would be the
|
||
|
|
<A HREF="archie-help.html#regex" REL="SUBDOCUMENT">regular expression</A> you are
|
||
|
|
looking for.
|
||
|
|
</blockquote>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<b>Database:</b>
|
||
|
|
<blockquote>
|
||
|
|
The database which will be undergoing the search. If you are searching the
|
||
|
|
web then press on the <i>Web Index</i> button. Otherwise if you are searching
|
||
|
|
the FTP sites then press on the other button.
|
||
|
|
</blockquote>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<b>Search Type:</b>
|
||
|
|
<blockquote>
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><b>Exact: </b>
|
||
|
|
<li><b>Sub String: </b><br>
|
||
|
|
<i>Substring (case insensitive)</i>: A match occurs if
|
||
|
|
the file (or directory) name in the database contains
|
||
|
|
the user-given substring, without regard to case.
|
||
|
|
<pre>
|
||
|
|
Example:
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The pattern:
|
||
|
|
is
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
matches any of the following:
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
islington
|
||
|
|
this
|
||
|
|
poison
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
</pre>
|
||
|
|
<i>Substring (case sensitive):</i> As above, but taking case as significant.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<pre>
|
||
|
|
Example:
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The pattern:
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
TeX
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
will match:
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
LaTeX
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
but neither of the following:
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Latex
|
||
|
|
TExTroff
|
||
|
|
</pre>
|
||
|
|
<li><b><A NAME="regex" REL="SUBDOCUMENT">Regular Expression</A>: </b>
|
||
|
|
Regular expressions follow the conventions of the ed(1) command,
|
||
|
|
allowing sophisticated pattern matching. Regular expressions imbue
|
||
|
|
certain characters with special meaning, providing a quoting mechanism to remove
|
||
|
|
this special meaning when required.
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
</blockquote>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<b>Case: </b>
|
||
|
|
<blockquote>
|
||
|
|
This option only affects searches of type Regular Expression and Substring.
|
||
|
|
</blockquote>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<b>Output Format: </b>
|
||
|
|
<blockquote>
|
||
|
|
This controls the output format for results from the Web Index database.
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><b>Keywords Only</b>: The most frequently occurring Keywords in each document will
|
||
|
|
be displayed after the document's URL.
|
||
|
|
<li><b>Excerpts Only</b>: A short excerpt from each document is displayed
|
||
|
|
after its URL.
|
||
|
|
<li><b>Links Only</b>: Only links are displayed with no further details. No excerpts
|
||
|
|
or Keywords are displayed with each URL.
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
</blockquote>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h3>Optional Parameters</h3>
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><b>Path restriction or exclusion: </b>Several parameters could be used to
|
||
|
|
improve your search results. But first you must specify what type of operation
|
||
|
|
to be used on those upcoming fields. If you specify <b>OR</b> then you ask
|
||
|
|
that the strings you provide in these fields have an OR relationship among
|
||
|
|
them. Otherwise if you specify <b>AND</b> then you are asking for all the
|
||
|
|
strings that you provide in these fields to be considered.
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><b>Path Restriction</b> : You can improve the results by restricting on
|
||
|
|
the path of each URL that comes back. The strings you provide in these field
|
||
|
|
will be matched against the paths returned in the result and paths that do not
|
||
|
|
contain these strings will be disregarded. If you have chosen the <b>OR</b>
|
||
|
|
as your operator among the strings then if any of the strings occur in a path
|
||
|
|
this path will be considered valid. However if you have chosen <b>AND</b> as
|
||
|
|
your operator then unless all the entered strings appear in the path, the path
|
||
|
|
is invalid.
|
||
|
|
<li><b>Path Exclusion</b> : You can exclude certain results from coming back
|
||
|
|
if they contain a specific string you don't need to see. By specifying this
|
||
|
|
string in this field you will achieve your goal.
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><b>Domains: </b> This variable allows you to restrict the scope of
|
||
|
|
your search based upon the Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) of the
|
||
|
|
anonymous FTP or Web sites being searched. In this way, you can specify a
|
||
|
|
list of domain names to which all returned sites must match.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<li><b>Maximum Hits :</b> Allows Archie to generate at most the
|
||
|
|
specified number of matches (permissible range: 0-200; default: 100).
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<li><b>Maximum Hits Per Match :</b> Across all the anonymous FTP and
|
||
|
|
Web archives on the Internet (and even on one single anonymous FTP archive) many
|
||
|
|
files will have the same name. For example, if you
|
||
|
|
search for a very common filename like "README" you can
|
||
|
|
get hundreds even thousands of matches. You can limit
|
||
|
|
the number of files with the same name through this variable.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<li><b>Maximum Match :</b> This variable will limit the number filenames (or
|
||
|
|
strings matched) returned.
|
||
|
|
For example, if maxmatch is set to 2 and you perform a
|
||
|
|
substring search for the string "etc", and the database
|
||
|
|
contains filenames "etca", "betc" and "detc" only the
|
||
|
|
filenames "etca" and "betc" will be returned. However,
|
||
|
|
depending on the values of maxhitspm and maxhits you
|
||
|
|
will get back a number of actual files with those
|
||
|
|
names.
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
</html>
|