sgrep does work

Subject:      SGREP Anyone tried it?
From:         ben.pawson@virgin.net (Dave Pawson)
Date:         1997/11/21
Message-ID:   <3475ed22.938114@news.virgin.net>
Newsgroups:   comp.text.sgml
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Has anyone tried sgrep yet?
Seems intrigueing.

More to the point,
has anyone ported it /recompiled it
on a wintel platform?

Here's hoping!

DaveP

Findable at
http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgrep099.html

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Subject:      Re: SGREP Anyone tried it?
From:         hayslett@cowbay.com (Paul Hayslett)
Date:         1997/11/24
Message-ID:   <347988ba.330190679@nntp.connix.com>
Newsgroups:   comp.text.sgml


On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 20:22:10 GMT, ben.pawson@virgin.net (Dave Pawson)
wrote:

>Has anyone tried sgrep yet?

I've got one of my clients using it as their main search engine for
production work.  It performs spendidly.

>has anyone ported it /recompiled it
>on a wintel platform?

I ported the core (everything except preprocessor support) to Win32
(MS VC++ plus the Posix section of the Win32 SDK) in about 2 hours,
start to finish.  Only a few lines of code needed changing.  I have
managed to lose those changes (don't ask), but not before mailing them
to the sgrep authors.  If they don't still have them, porting again
should not scare anyone.

Porting preprocessor support will require dealing with differences in
UNIX vs. Win32 handling of child processes.  Not too big a job, I just
never got around to it.

Sgrep's performance is already extremely good, but it really needs to
be able to index the text for fast lookups.  The idea of linking it to
an indexing system (such as lqtext, but without the use restrictions)
has been kicked about before in this forum.  Anyone gotten to it yet?

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Paul Hayslett
Cow Bay Software
hayslett@cowbay.com


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Subject:      Re: SGREP Anyone tried it?
From:         michael@textscience.com (Michael Leventhal)
Date:         1997/11/21
Message-ID:   <6552qn$daf@shell1.aimnet.com>
Newsgroups:   comp.text.sgml

In article <3475ed22.938114@news.virgin.net>,
Dave Pawson <ben.pawson@virgin.net> wrote:
>Has anyone tried sgrep yet?

Yes.

>Seems intrigueing.

It is very useful.

>
>More to the point,
>has anyone ported it /recompiled it
>on a wintel platform?

Sorry.  I've compiled it on several Unixes
including Linux, HP, Sun, and BSDI.  No
problem.  I have used it to implement structured
searching on Web servers.

>Here's hoping!

Stop hoping and roll up your sleeves...

Michael Leventhal

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