Hi Bill,

Thxs for your reaction. We've don't have a linux-box here on our
school. And the glits itn't new: I've tried at the and of 2001 also to
get this problem solved. But want to have it solved now because all the
pdf and doc aren't include in the indexfile: to give you an idea: 
on the server the indexfile is: 
index.swish 5.741 KB SWISH File 13-9-2002 7:18 and on my test-mirror
its 
index.swish 7.341 KB SWISH File 13-9-2002 15:14

I'll go of for my weekend; and hope Dave wil tell something more.

Greetings Bertus


>>> Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> 09/13/02 04:13pm >>>
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Bertus Douma wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I am using swishe on our intranet of a highschool; but having a
strange
> problem: indexing of pdf and doc files doesn't work.
> Whats the case: using catdoc and xpdf the following happens: the
> filename (as parameter passed to the batchfile) does have two quotes
at
> each side. So looking for a file called 'filename.pdf' doesnt
succeed.
> Also with .doc file is there something wrong because the message
Invalid
> argument appears.
> The operational machines uses NT4.0 with Apache/1.3.12 (Win32) and
my
> test-site W2K with Apache/1.3.20. Does anyone know a quick fix for
it.
> I've tried to substring it (see below) but that doesnt work.

Dave you want to reply to this? ;)

Try specifying in your Filefilter command something like:

FileFilter .pdf pdf2text '"%p %P"'

Check the docs for the correct syntax.


Dave can give details, but I think it is basically that NT's cmd.com
stinks.  Try using a different shell -- bash is a good one.

I don't have NT -- works fine on my Win98 machine -- but Dave has seen
this problem on NT before.  

Dave, is it possible that swish doesn't see it's running under NT and
using single quotes?  

Do you have a linux machine at your school?

-- 
Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org