Subject: ANNOUNCE: AltaVista::SearchSDK 0.99b released
From: James Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: 21 Jul 1998 16:25:01 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules

The initial beta version of AltaVista::SearchSDK (0.99b) has been
uploaded to CPAN.

This is a preliminary release, it really needs a lot of banging on by
various people on different platforms.  It is, however, currently
running live in a production environment serving 18 years of archives
for the Christian Science Monitor.

The documentation is included below. Be gentle with me, it's my first
time.

James

NAME
     AltaVista::SearchSDK - Perl extension for AltaVista Search
     Software Development Kit

SYNOPSIS
     use AltaVista::SearchSDK;

     avs_adddate(idx, yr, mo, da, startloc)

     avs_addfield(idx, pFname, startloc, endloc)

     avs_addliteral(idx, pWord, loc)

     avs_addvalue(idx, valtype, value, loc)

     avs_addword(idx, pWords, loc, pNumWords)

     avs_buildmode(idx)

     avs_buildmode_ex(idx, ntiers)

     avs_close(idx)

     avs_compact(idx, bMore_p)

     avs_compactionneeded(idx)

     avs_compact_minor(idx, bMore_p)

     avs_count(idx, pWordPrefix, pCountsHdl)

     avs_count_close(CountsHdl)

     avs_count_getcount(CountsHdl)

     avs_countnext(CountsHdl)

     avs_count_getword(CountsHdl)

     avs_default_options(pOptions)

     avs_define_valtype(name, minval, maxval, valtype_p)

     avs_deletedocid(idx, pDocId, pCount)

     avs_enddoc(idx)

     avs_errmsg(code)

     avs_getindexmode(idx)

     avs_getindexversion(idx)

     avs_getindexversion_counts_v(countsHdl)

     avs_getindexversion_search_v(searchHdl)

     avs_getsearchresults(searchHdl, resultNum)

     avs_getsearchterms(psearchHdl, termNum, term, count)

     avs_lookup_valtype(name)

     avs_makestable(idx)

     avs_open(path, mode, pIdx)

     avs_querymode(idx)

     avs_release_valtypes()

     avs_search(idx, pQuery, pBoolQuery, pOptions, pDocsFound,
     pDocsReturned, pTermCount, pSearchHdl)

     avs_search_close(pSearchHdl)

     avs_search_ex(idx, pQuery, pBoolQuery, pOptions,
     searchsince, pDocsFound, pDocsReturned, pTermCount,
     pSearchHdl)

     avs_search_genrank(idx, pBoolQuery, pRankTerms, pRankSetup,
     pOptions, searchsince, pDocsFound, pDocsReturned,
     pSearchHdl)

     avs_search_getdata(searchHdl)