Hank, you are of course right. I should not use -S prog. I have read too
much with too little comprehension.

I just re-indexed with "-c procedures.cfg"
Here is a sample of my errors.

Error: Couldn't open file 'd:\LowCoNet Intranet
Files\Procedures\WebDesign\Tipsa
ndTricks\manuals\hpLaserjet.pdf -'
Error: Couldn't open file 'd:\LowCoNet Intranet
Files\Procedures\WebDesign\Tipsa
ndTricks\manuals\library.pdf -'
Error: Couldn't open file 'd:\LowCoNet Intranet
Files\Procedures\WebDesign\Tipsa
ndTricks\manuals\LiveStats_5.0.pdf -'
Error: Couldn't open file 'd:\LowCoNet Intranet
Files\Procedures\WebDesign\Tipsa
ndTricks\manuals\postOfficeAdmin_v3.5.pdf -'
Removing very common words...
no words removed.
Writing main index...
Sorting words ...
Sorting 5666 words alphabetically
Writing header ...
Writing index entries ...
  Writing word text: Complete
  Writing word hash: Complete
  Writing word data: Complete
5666 unique words indexed.
7 properties sorted.
177 files indexed.  28189618 total bytes.  83082 total words.
Elapsed time: 00:00:07 CPU time: 00:00:07
Indexing done!


> From: moseley@hank.org
> Reply-To: moseley@hank.org
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:41:53 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Multiple recipients of list <swish-e@sunsite.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: [SWISH-E] Re: indexing pdf on win 2000
> 
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:39:19AM -0700, Kelli Coggins wrote:
>> I am using a win 2000 machine and I think I need to use xpdf's pdftotext
>> filter. We have not installed Perl on our machine.
> 
>> FileFilter .pdf c:/xpdf/pdftotext.exe '"%p"-'
> 
> I would think you would want a space after the %p
> 
>> I run the following from my command line
>> swish-e -c procedures.cfg -s prog
> 
> You mean -S prog.  But your config says:
> 
> IndexDir "d:/LowCoNet Intranet Files/Procedures"
> 
> which I'll bet is not a program.
> 
> 
>> I get a good index of the html files, but for each pdf file swish finds, I
>> get an "error:couldn't open file myfilename.pdf.
> 
> Is that really the error?
> 
> Please cut-n-paste your examples.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bill Moseley
> moseley@hank.org
>