IBM SearchManager/2 AddOn

• Support of RMAIL files
• Support of HTML files
• Support of gzipped files
• Files can be ignored by file-extension
• Format of some specific or all files in a directory can be specified using a special file
• Contains complete source

Please read the documentation for further information.

If you'd like to have SM/2 support for a file format which is currently not supported, take a look into the SM/2 FAQ for more information.

Release History:

• CHANGED: New SM2AddOn Homepage URL and contact email address.

• NEW: Files with extension ".shtml" are treated as HTML.

• NEW: Support for RMAIL files (aka Babyl Format) used by GNU Emacs to store mails and news. SM2AddOn treats files with extension .rmail like a directory containing files, where each file correspond to one mail.
• NEW: Release of the Sourcecode.
• CHANGED: SM2AddOn uses zlib to uncompress files packed with gzip. The environment variable SM2_GZIP_FILTER is now obsolete. (As a side effect it not longer possible to prevent SM2AddOn from uncompressing gzipped files).
• FIXED: Several minor bugs (most of them only showed for directories with a huge amount of files).

• FIXED: The AddOn didn't work properly on systems with partitions unknown to OS/2 (e.g. NTFS)

• FIXED: EHSLSSFS.DLL crashed if a document could not be opened.
• FIXED: GZIP compressed files and/or HTML files could not be processed, if the filename contained some special characters (e.g., '+')

What is SearchManager/2?

Just think of it as if you can use AltaVista to search your harddisk (in fact, AltaVista has released a similar freeware program called " AltaVista Discovery", but it only runs on Windows 95 and Windows NT).

Unfortunately the SM/2 is held secret by the IBM marketing and even support is hard to get (don't bother to search the Internet for fixes, just write to the support-staff on Compuserve, Forum IBMDES). At least there is some product information on IBM's WWW pages.

Please note that the email address provided on the IBM SM/2 homepage seems to be invalid. But you may write to Peter Andermann at IBM for SM/2 support questions.

Other useful SearchManager/2 stuff: