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)