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)