On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:32:16AM +0000, Pat Colbeck wrote: > Hi > > I am working on a little project to produce some reference materail on a > CD. Basically it will be a canned web site. The idea being that you > could stick it in your CD drive and browse all the content easily. What > I would like to do is have an option to search teh CD without the use > having to index it themselves. > > Does anyone know of a search engine that you can install on Windows that > will let you point it at a pre made index file and that is > free. Preferably one that is compatable with indexing produced by HTdig > as the live copy of the web site is running on Woody with HTdig and > Apache.
Just a thought - rather than a Windows app, could this be done with Java or Javascript (will a browser load a Java applet from a local disk?) or similar, and therefore remain internal to the browser, and (mostly) cross platform (and on-topic :-). http://www.google.com/search?q=client-side+search+engine came up with some interesting hits that could be useful. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
