NAME

       htfuzzy - fuzzy command-line search utility for the ht://Dig search engine

SYNOPSIS

       htfuzzy [-c configfile] [-v] algorithm [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Description to follow here

OPTIONS

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

       -v     Verbose  mode  Use  this  to get more verbose output while running htfuzzy. More than one v can be
              specified (ie.  -vv , -vvv
               etc ). Specifying more than two v's is probably only useful for debugging purposes.

Supported Algorithms

       Different algorithms are supported for searching:
              soundex Creates  a slightly modified soundex key database. Differences with the  standard  soundex
              algorithm  are: Keys are 6 digits and the first letter is also encoded.        metaphone Creates a
              metaphone key database. This algorithm is more specific to English, but  will  get  fewer  "weird"
              matches than the soundex algorithm.

              accents (No description of the algorithm at the moment)

              endings  Creates  two  databases  which  can  be  used  to match common word endings. The creation
              of these databases requires a list of affix rules and a dictionary which uses those  affix  rules.
              The  format  of  the  affix  rules and  dictionary  files are the ones used by the ispell program.
              Included with the distribution are the  affix  rules  for  English  and  a  fairly  small  English
              dictionary.   Other  languages  can  be  supported   by   getting  the appropriate affix rules and
              dictionaries. These are available for many languages;  check  the  ispell  distribution  for  more
              details.

              synonyms  Creates  a  database  of  synonyms  for  words. It reads a text database of synonyms and
              creates a  database  that htsearch  can  then use. Each line of  the  text  database  consists  of
              words where the first word will have the other words on that line as synonyms.

Notes on searching

       Please consult specialised literature to find out how the different algorithms work or simply try another
              search strategy you do not get the intended search results.

FILES

       /etc/htdig/htdig.conf
              The default configuration 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 htdigconfig(8) , htmerge(1) , htnotify(1) , htsearch(1) and  rundig(1)  for  a  detailed
       description of ht://Dig and its commands.

AUTHOR

       This  manual page was written by Robert Ribnitz. It is based on documentation of ht://Dig, and on earlier
       manpages provided by Christian Schwarz and Stijn de Bekker.

                                                  21 July 1997                                          htdig(1)