I thought I would run through an quick install on my WinXP box and doc 
how I did it. But after installing Swish-e it proved difficult for me to 
do in less than an hour and I gave up.

Perhaps another windows user could do better. I found that I had to hack 
the fixperl.pl script to correctly quote the 'use lib' include lines and 
then when that worked, PATH was goofy with regard to / vs \ etc.

So I gave up.

My suggestion: use Linux. It may be that more recent builds of the 
Windows version fix the problems I found - Dave would know.

pek


CARUSO Holly scribbled on 7/7/06 12:27 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been posting to get help with installing Swish-e on my Windows XP
> machine to have it index a single pdf file.
> 
> I can't seem to get anything working.
> 
> I have seen the following steps at:
> http://swish-e.org/archive/2002-09/4549.html
> However, they don't seem to help the cause.
> 
> Could someone please provide step by step from installation of
> ActivePerl to get swish-e to index a pdf, including changes to all .pl,
> conf, .in, .cgi files, anything done to make it work.
> 
> I presume this information would be very useful to other windows users.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Karman [mailto:peter@peknet.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:34 PM
> To: CARUSO Holly
> Cc: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: [SWISH-E]
> 
> 
> 
> CARUSO Holly scribbled on 7/6/06 3:54 AM:
> 
> 
>> I have done what is suggested, running the index on a single file with
> the =
>> following command:
>>
>> C:\Program Files\SWISH-E>swish-e -i AM29LV128.pdf -T indexed_words
>>
>> =20
>>
>> I presume this commands doesn't use the swish.conf... some of the
> output fr=
>> om this commands is as follows:
>>
> 
> 
> the swish-e command doesn't know how to index .pdf files without a 
> config file to tell it how. So yes, you are correct in presuming that 
> swish.conf is not used. You need to use it in order for swish-e to 
> filter the .pdf file through the appropriate xpdf filters.
> 

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