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)