Surf4me, a freeware Internet text search tool

[Glenn Scheper]

> Tnaks!
> Had never heard of surf4me ...

http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/surf4me.exe

Windows Desktop version. Just save it on your desktop and run it.
For each query, it will make a new folder full of fetched files,
in whatever is the current startup directory, e.g., the desktop.

It writes/obeys search engine list surf4me.txt, which you can change.

This is just the start of the next version of the surf idea,
and it has just the absolutely trivial GUI, for Windoze users.
It already far surpasses surf v1.7 in good URL canonicalization
and quantity and type of resources found, but lacks any ranking
and organization yet. So after I use surf4me, I run "SURF17 -b"
in the collected directory to produce a file ranking list.
Or I run DIVIDE.EXE to separate files containing a text match,
Or I run WH.EXE -r to find text in the files, show KWIC output.
(all on my web site.) In surfer.cpp, is its heart of C code.

You know, I use it all the time on my desktop, but it may gather hundreds or
thousands of header and content files into one directory, then they need
much examination and pruning.

So I changed Surf4Me such that the .TXT files of HTTP header text
are no longer saved, and all the search engine result pages are made to
start with an underscore character to assist their grouping and deletion,
and also underscore marks any 302 redirects or other non-success statuses.
Then, for any non-html files I fetch, I added an html file showing its URL.

Oh, and if you specify an http://... URL instead of a query topic, I now
fetch all the links mentioned in that page. Yeah, now that's really cooking!

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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