On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:49:44 -0700, Lee Brown wrote:
>Do you know if the index file is in some kind of standard format (like *.mdb
>or .dbf).  It may be possible to write a Client-Server java application that
>would run on your machine (don't know if it could take the load though) to
>process queries that the client side java code on the loaded page could
>transmit.  I don't know enough about the java database stuff to know how
>easy it would be to do this.  I could write some code in Delphi that would
>do it, but that would mean that an .exe would have to be downloaded for
>people to run on the client-side.  Delphi would necessitate a known database
>format which is why I asked that originally.  This is not a very good
>solution I must admit, but the only one that comes to mind.

Interesting definition of standard you have there.  No, the index file is in
swish-e format, because that's what I indexed it with.  Server-side code would
have to run on Linux, and client-side would have to be sufficiently portable
to run on, at the very least, Linux, BSD, Windows, MacOS, and BeOS.  I'd 
rather make it work in a web browser.  

Part of the problem is that I don't want to run the server locally, because
I have limited bandwidth available.

Fortunately, a solution may have presented itself.  I just need to work out 
the details.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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