NAME

       htdump - write out an ASCII-text version of the document database

SYNOPSIS

       htdump [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Htdump  writes  out  an  ASCII-text version of the document database in the same form as the -t option of
       htdig.

OPTIONS

       -a     Use alternate work files. Tells htdump to append .work to database files, allowing it  to  operate
              on a second set of databases.

       -c configfile
              Use the specified configfile instead of the default.

       -v     Verbose mode. This doesn't have much effect.

File Formats

       Document Database
              Each  line  in  the  file  starts  with  the  document  id followed by a list of fieldname : value
              separated by tabs. The fields always appear in the order listed below:

       u      URL

       t      Title

       a      State (0 = normal, 1 = not found, 2 = not indexed, 3 = obsolete)

       m      Last modification time as reported by the server

       s      Size in bytes

       H      Excerpt

       h      Meta description

       l      Time of last retrieval

       L      Count of the links in the document (outgoing links)

       b      Count of the links to the document (incoming links or backlinks)

       c      HopCount of this document

       g      Signature of the document used for duplicate-detection

       e      E-mail address to use for a notification message from htnotify

       n      Date to send out a notification e-mail message

       S      Subject for a notification e-mail message

       d      The text of links pointing to this document. (e.g. <a href="docURL">description</a>)

       A      Anchors in the document (i.e. <A NAME=...)

       Word Database
              While htdump and htload don't deal with the word database directly, it's worth mentioning it  here
              because  you need to deal with it when copying the ASCII databases from one system to another. The
              initial word database produced by htdig is already in ASCII format, and a binary version of it  is
              produced by htmerge, for use by htsearch. So, when you copy over the ASCII version of the document
              database produced by htdump, you need to copy over the wordlist as well, then run htload  to  make
              the  binary  document  database on the target system, followed by running htmerge to make the word
              index.

       Each line in the word list file starts with the word
              followed by a list of fieldname : value separated by tabs. The fields always appear in  the  order
              listed below, with the last two being optional:

       i      Document ID

       l      Location of word in document (1 to 1000)

       w      Weight of word based on scoring factors

       c      Count of word's appearances in document, if more than 1

       a      Anchor number if word occurred after a named anchor

FILES

       /etc/htdig/htdig.conf
              The default configuration file.

       /var/lib/htdig/db.docs
              The default ASCII document database file.

       /var/lib/htdig/db.wordlist
              The default ASCII word database file.

SEE ALSO

       Please  refer  to  the HTML pages (in the htdig-doc package) /usr/share/doc/htdig-doc/html/index.html and
       the manual pages htdig(1) , and htload(1) for a detailed description of ht://Dig and its commands.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Stijn de Bekker, based on the HTML documentation of ht://Dig.

                                                 15 October 2001                                       htdump(1)