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htload
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ht://Dig Copyright © 1995-2004 <a href="THANKS.html">The ht://Dig Group</a><br>
Please see the file <a href="COPYING">COPYING</a> for
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Synopsis
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htload [<em>options</em>]
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Description
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Htload reads in an ASCII-text version of the document and word
databases 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.
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Options
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-a
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Use alternate work files. Tells htload to append <em>
.work</em> to database files, allowing it to
operate on a second set of databases.
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-c <em>configfile</em>
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Use the specified <em>configfile</em> file instead of the
default.
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-d
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Do <strong>not</strong> load the document database.
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-v
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Verbose mode. This doesn't have much effect.
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-w
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Do <strong>not</strong> load the word database.
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File Formats
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<h3>Document Database</h3>
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<p>Each line in the file starts with the document id
followed by a list of
<strong><em>fieldname</em>:<em>value</em></strong>
separated by tabs. The fields always appear in the
order listed below:
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<tr> <th>fieldname</th> <th align="left">value</th></tr>
<tr> <td>u</td><td>URL</td></tr>
<tr> <td>t</td><td>Title</td></tr>
<tr> <td>a</td><td>State (0 = normal, 1 = not found, 2
= not indexed, 3 = obsolete)</td></tr>
<tr> <td>m</td><td>Last modification time as reported
by the server</td></tr>
<tr> <td>s</td><td>Size in bytes</td></tr>
<tr> <td>H</td><td>Excerpt</td></tr>
<tr> <td>h</td><td>Meta description</td></tr>
<tr> <td>l</td><td>Time of last retrieval</td></tr>
<tr> <td>L</td><td>Count of the links in the document
(outgoing links)</td></tr>
<tr> <td>b</td><td>Count of the links to the document
(incoming links or backlinks)</td></tr>
<tr> <td>c</td><td>HopCount of this document</td></tr>
<tr> <td>g</td><td>Signature of the document used for
duplicate-detection</td></tr>
<tr> <td>e</td><td>E-mail address to use for a
notification message from htnotify</td></tr>
<tr> <td>n</td><td>Date to send out a notification
e-mail message</td></tr>
<tr> <td>S</td><td>Subject for a notification e-mail
message</td></tr>
<tr> <td>d</td><td>The text of links pointing to this
document. (e.g. <a
href="docURL">description</a>)</td></tr>
<tr> <td>A</td><td>Anchors in the document (i.e. <A
NAME=...)</td></tr>
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<h3>Word Database</h3>
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The first line of the ASCII word database is a comment,
prefixed with '#' and specifies the columns of the file
separated by tabs.
The fields are:</p>
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<em>word</em><br>
<em>document id</em><br>
<em>flags</em><br>
<em>location</em><br>
<em>anchor</em><br>
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Files
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CONFIG_DIR/htdig.conf
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The default configuration file.
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DATABASE_DIR/db.docs
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The default ASCII document database file.
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DATABASE_DIR/db.worddump
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The default ASCII word database file.
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See Also
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<a href="htdig.html">htdig</a>,
<a href="htdump.html">htdump</a> and
<a href="attrs.html">Configuration file format</a>
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Last modified: $Date: 2004/05/28 13:15:18 $
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