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Dear Thunderstone:

We are reviewing webinator and have read through the manual. While
most of our questions have been answered there are two things we want
to confirm that relate to interface customization.=20

1. Make it simple for a site user (one that has their own disk
directory) to have only their directory indexed, and let them put a
search box in their own area. This is totally independent of the full
site search.

You do this as a service for other sites by having us submit a short
form (I did this and it worked fine). We could do the same for our own
site by changing a few lines of code on your script. True? We follow
your model, give number of days of non use before it is automatically
removed and have it re- index at a desired frequency.=20

2. Make available several results formats for the user.=20

You give examples of outputs of other search engines (e.g., alta
vista). A pull down menu could list several outputs depending on what
the user wanted, or a menu of dates of files written, so the user
could see what they want. Right?=20

Thank you.


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Questions on webinator customicatin

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Yes. See the -j option and database selection. Each user can have
their own database.


Yes. That's doable, but left as an excercise to the administrator.


You could select from a list of looks, all controlled thru Texis Web Script
(Vortex). Again, that's up to you to code.

I'm not sure what you mean by a "menu of dates of files written".


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