Webinator 1.3 product release

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Webinator 1.3 product release

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[insert drum roll here]

Webinator 1.3 has been released. You may pick up the free versions at:

ftp://ftp.thunderstone.com/prod/webinator

Significant changes in this version are:


*Rank order: The rank method has been altered to provide biasing towards
matches in the beginning of a document. (ie TITLES)

*Installation: You no longer have to have root access to install it.
You may install it anywhere on the server.

*Formatting: Even better formatting for various HTML elements and
image ALT text.

*Abstracts: The brains behind the document abstract generator (shown
on the hit listing) have been improved. It tries to find
the first chunk of _real_ text on the page.

*Character set: It will properly translate 8 bit ISO characters.
This provides better foreign language support.

*Duplicate docs: It can now be told to universally ignore replicated documents.
(See: -unique, -nounique)

*Copy Website : Will now re-author the html to be correct for the destination
site. (See: -C -A )

*robots.txt : now respects port addresses.

*DNS cache : Faster and uses fewer file handles.

*Reload : Now respects -wait period.

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Commercial Webinator & T1000 Webinator

*Help docs : May now be placed at local site.

*PDF : We are still trying to get Adobe to fix their API.

*T1000 Only : Texis Web Script 2.0 is now included in the package.
A full Texis upgrade will be required ($400).
For more info on Texis Web Script see the demos at
http://www.thunderstone.com/Demonstrations.html

Commercial and T1000 users may order the upgrade by calling: 216-631-8544


We're very pleased with feedback we've received from this product. Keep it up.

Thanks for choosing Thunderstone!
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Thunderstone
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Posts: 2504
Joined: Wed Jun 07, 2000 6:20 pm

Webinator 1.3 product release

Post by Thunderstone »



Webinator 1.3 has been released. You may pick up the free versions at:

ftp://ftp.thunderstone.com/prod/webinator

Significant changes in this version are:


*Rank order: The rank method has been altered to provide biasing towards
matches in the beginning of a document. (ie TITLES)

*Installation: You no longer have to have root access to install it.
You may install it anywhere on the server.

*Formatting: Even better formatting for various HTML elements and
image ALT text.

*Abstracts: The brains behind the document abstract generator (shown
on the hit listing) have been improved. It tries to find
the first chunk of _real_ text on the page.

*Character set: It will properly translate 8 bit ISO characters.
This provides better foreign language support.

*Duplicate docs: It can now be told to universally ignore replicated documents.
(See: -unique, -nounique)

*Copy Website : Will now re-author the html to be correct for the destination
site. (See: -C -A )

*robots.txt : now respects port addresses.

*DNS cache : Faster and uses fewer file handles.

*Reload : Now respects -wait period.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Commercial Webinator & T1000 Webinator

*Help docs : May now be placed at local site.

*PDF : We are still trying to get Adobe to fix their API.

*T1000 Only : Texis Web Script 2.0 is now included in the package.
A full Texis upgrade will be required ($400).
For more info on Texis Web Script see the demos at
http://www.thunderstone.com/Demonstrations.html

Commercial and T1000 users may order the upgrade by calling: 216-631-8544


We're very pleased with feedback we've received from this product. Keep it up.

Thanks for choosing Thunderstone!