The Zettair Search Engine -- Getting Started

1. Download Zettair as a zip file.
2. Change into the directory where you've saved Zettair and unzip it:

   [hugh@hugh hugh]$ cd ~
   [hugh@hugh hugh]$ unzip zettair-0.6.0.zip
   

3. Download this zipped collection (40,872 bytes) of HTML documents (which are part of the HTML 4.01 standard at http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/)
4. Change into the directory where you've saved the collection and unzip it:

   [hugh@hugh hugh]$ cd ~
   [hugh@hugh hugh]$ unzip html.zip
   Archive:  html.zip
     inflating: collection/about.html
     inflating: collection/charset.html
     inflating: collection/conform.html
   ...
   

5. Make and install the Zettair software:

   [hugh@hugh hugh]$ cd zettair-0.6.0
   [hugh@hugh zettair-0.6.0]$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/zettair-0.6.0
   [hugh@hugh zettair-0.6.0]$ make
   [hugh@hugh zettair-0.6.0]$ make install
   

6. Build an index on the files in the collection:

   [hugh@hugh zettair-0.6.0]$ mkdir ~/index
   [hugh@hugh zettair-0.6.0]$ cd ~/index
   [hugh@hugh index]$ find ~/collection/* | ~/local/zettair-0.6.0/bin/zet -i -t HTML
   zettair version 0.6.0
   created new index 'index'
   sources (type html): /home/hugh/collection/about.html /home/hugh/collection/charset.html /home/hugh/collection/conform.html /home/hugh/collection/cover.html /home/hugh/collection/references.html /home/hugh/collection/types.html 
   parsing /home/hugh/collection/about.html...
   parsing /home/hugh/collection/charset.html...
   parsing /home/hugh/collection/conform.html...
   parsing /home/hugh/collection/cover.html...
   parsing /home/hugh/collection/references.html...
   parsing /home/hugh/collection/types.html...
   merging...
   
   summary: 6 documents, 2049 distinct index terms, 0 10541 terms
   

   A Unix note: the command find ~/collection/* lists all files in the directory ~/collection, and this is piped as input into the Zettair index construction process. The result is that Zettair indexes all files in the directory. This command does the same thing:

   /zet -i -c ../config/parser_settings.html -t HTML /home/hugh/collection/about.html /home/hugh/collection/charset.html /home/hugh/collection/conform.html /home/hugh/collection/cover.html /home/hugh/collection/references.html home/hugh/collection/types.html
   

7. Search the collection:

   [hugh@hugh index]$ ~/local/zettair-0.6.0/bin/zet
   > Tim Berners-Lee
   1. file:///home/hugh/collection/about.html (score 2.455709, docid 0)
   2. file:///home/hugh/collection/references.html (score 1.087303, docid 4)
   
   2 results of 2 shown (took 0.001164 seconds)
   > tags
   1. file:///home/hugh/collection/conform.html (score 0.952401, docid 2)
   2. file:///home/hugh/collection/references.html (score 0.664334, docid 4)
   
   2 results of 2 shown (took 0.000962 seconds)
   

8. Enjoy!

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   Page created by Hugh Williams, 30 July 2003.
   Updated by William Webber for Zettair 0.6.0, 21 July 2004.