Hi John,

> I index my pdf and text documents with a shell script that 
> gets ran through cron.  The script checks my directory 
> structure every 30 minutes and if a new file has been added 
> or one removed, the index program runs that create the new index file.

Thank you for your feedback, but that was not what I was looking for. I
was trying to find the most optimal way execute from inside an
application. Basically use the swish-e engine as an indexing and search
engine inside a special purpose program.

Martin