I have been using the Win32 version of swish-e-1.3.2-PHRASE (m) kindly 
compiled by David Norris.

I am running NT4 SP6.

Having built an index, I ran a simple search - and got this:

# SWISH format 1.3.2m PHRASE
# Swish-e format 1.3.2m - PHRASE
#
# Name: Swish-E Index
# Saved as: rs.idx
# Counts:
# Indexed on: 01/07/2000 16:29:10 GMT Daylight Time
# Description: Swish-E Index
# Pointer: http://chris
# Maintained by: Chris Humphries ChrisJMH@vermilion99.freeserve.co.uk
# DocumentProperties: Enabled
# Stemming Applied: 1
# Soundex Applied: 0
# WordCharacters: 
#&0123456789;abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzeiU??i+++--+-+||++--|-+
----+++++++|_||?a?GpSs?tFTOd8fen=?==()??..vn?| 
# MinWordLimit: 1
# MaxWordLimit: 40
# BeginCharacters: 
"&'(0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzeiU??i+++--+-+||++--|
-+----+++++++|_||?a?GpSs?tFTOd8fen=?==()??..vn?| 
# EndCharacters: 
"'),.0123456789\abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzeiU??i+++--+-+||++--|
-+----+++++++|_||?a?GpSs?tFTOd8fen=?==()??..vn?| 
# IgnoreFirstChar: "'(
# IgnoreLastChar: "'),.;
err: the index file(s) is empty
.

Does anyone know what is going on here?

The index seemed to build ok, and the files I wanted indexed were retrieved 
by SWISHm with no complaints.

Has the config file format changed?

Chris Humphries

P.S. There were some emails on Wednesday June 28th that I lost because of a 
problem retrieving mail. Sorry if I'm asking a question already asked by 
someone else.