Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!bigtex!nueces!chari From: chari@nueces.UUCP (Christopher M. Whatley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Indexing in the Digital Librarian Message-ID: <302@nueces.UUCP> Date: 5 Aug 89 05:13:53 GMT References: <9187@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <9204@pucc.Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: chari@nueces.UUCP (Christopher M. Whatley) Organization: Nueces Inc.- Makers of Crelm(TM) Toothpaste Lines: 48 In article <9204@pucc.Princeton.EDU> SEB@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes: | In article , | jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: | Are there indexing options that can be set from within the DL? Or are | those options available only when using index(1)? Actually, the Librarian just runs index. Do a ps while your machine is at the mercy of the Librarian in "indexing-processor-hog-mode". | >>My biggest complaint about the NeXT is the lack of thorough documentation and | >>the need for non-UNIX ways to handle problems/errors. It would be great to have more "non-Unix" ways to handle things but, I hope they don't go too far since the Unix ways have such wounderful flexibility that would surely be lost in a point and click interface. Right now, I love the schizo interface. I can be lazy with the mouse or I can be fast and efficient with the keys. | Then could you please tell me where I could find documentation on the | DL and specifically about indexing? Search for index in the Librarian, There is an interesting document about "indexing from the developers point of view. | How about creating icons | for the DL? For your own personal lib, look in ~/.NeXT/Targets/targets for a setup file of each lib entry. You can change the icon name there after you make your eps icon in that directory. For the system, you do the same in /NextApps/Librarian.app/targets. | I find the documentation to be geared more for UNIX | programmers/developers (such as yourself), rather than for general | users. Good observation. The machine is beta "for developers and aggressive end users". Apparently, you and I fall into the latter category. Right now, you can expect no more than to have to fend for yourself. I suggest you locate the campus support people with these problems since they are the ones who have direct access to Next via the ask_next e-mail address. Chris -- Chris Whatley chari@nueces.cactus.org P.O. Box 50254 !nueces!chari@cs.utexas.edu Austin, TX 78763 chari@walt.cc.utexas.edu 512/499-0475