NAME

       htload - reads in an ASCII-text version of the document database

SYNOPSIS

       htload [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Htload   reads  in an ASCII-text version of the document database in the same form as the  -t  option  of
       htdig  and  htdump. Note that this will overwrite data in your databases, so this  should  be  used  with
       great care.

OPTIONS

       -a     Use  alternate  work files. Tells htload 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.

       -i     Initial.  Do  not use any old databases. This is accomplished by first erasing the databases.

       -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)  ,  htmerge(1)  and htdump(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                                       htload(1)