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NAME
       htfuzzy - fuzzy command-line search utility for the ht://Dig search
       engine

SYNOPSIS
       htfuzzy [-c configfile] [-v] algorithm [options]

DESCRIPTION
       Description to follow here

OPTIONS
       -c configfile
              Use the specified configfile instead of the default.

       -v     Verbose mode , -vvv
               etc ). Specifying more than two v's is probably only useful for
              debugging purposes.

Supported Algorithms
       Different algoritms are supported for searching:
              soundex Creates  a slightly modified soundex key database.
              Differences with the standard soundex algorithm are: Keys are 6
              digits and the first letter is also encoded.       metaphone
              Creates a metaphone key database. This algorithm is more
              specific to English, but  will  get  fewer  "weird" matches than
              the soundex algorithm.

              accents (No description of the algorithm at the moment)

              endings Creates  two  databases  which  can  be  used  to match
              common word endings. The creation of these databases requires a
              list of affix rules and a dictionary which uses those affix
              rules. The format of the affix  rules and  dictionary  files are
              the ones used by the ispell program. Included with the
              distribution are the affix rules for English and a fairly small
              English dictionary.  Other languages can be supported  by
              getting  the appropriate affix rules and dictionaries. These are
              available for many languages; check the ispell distribu- tion
              for more details.

              synonyms Creates a database of synonyms for words. It reads a
              text database of synonyms and creates a  database  that htsearch
              can  then use. Each line of the text database consists of words
              where the first word will have the other words on that line as
              synonyms.

Notes on searching
       Please consult specialised literature to find out how the different
       algorithms work or simply try another
              search stragegy you do not get the intended search results.

FILES
       /usr/local/etc/htdig/htdig.conf
              The default configuration file.
              /usr/local/share/htdig/database/db.accents.db (Output) Maps
              between characters with and without accents for accents fuzzy
              rule /usr/local/share/htdig/database/db.metaphone.db (Output)
              Database of similar-sounding words for metaphone fuzzy rule
              /usr/local/share/htdig/database/db.soundex.db (Output) Database
              of similar-sounding words for soundex fuzzy rule
              /usr/local/share/htdig/common/english.0,
              /usr/local/share/htdig/common/english.aff (Input) List of words
              and affix rules used to generate endings
              /usr/local/share/htdig/common/root2word.db,
              /usr/local/share/htdig/common/word2rood.db (Output) Database
              used for endings fuzzy rule
              /usr/local/share/htdig/common/synonyms (Input) List of groups of
              words considered synonymous
              /usr/local/share/htdig/common/synonyms.db (Output) Database used
              for synonyms fuzzy rule

SEE ALSO
       Please refer to the HTML pages (in the htdig-doc package)
       /usr/share/doc/htdig-doc/html/index.html and the manual pages
       htdigconfig(8) , htmerge(1) , htnotify(1) , htsearch(1) and rundig(1)
       for a detailed description of ht://Dig and its commands.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Robert Ribnitz. It is based on
       documentation of ht://Dig, and on earlier manpages provided by
       Christian Schwarz and Stijn de Bekker.

                                 21 July 1997                         htdig(1)