This is a VERY EARLY version of CNIDR Isearch.  It is based on (and owes
greatly to) some very extensive design and coding work done by Jim Fullton
(with contributions from Erik Scott), but this C++ version has as its
primary aim to be modular and object-oriented.  Future versions will be
better commented! 

This system contains both a command-line indexer/search engine for general
purpose search and retrieval, and a C++ class library for integrating high
speed text search features into your applications. 

The command-line utilities will be under ../bin/ after you have run "make
build" from the top level.  They are called "Iindex" and "Isearch".  Run
them with no options to see a list of commands. 

We have many plans for enhancements over the next several weeks, including
adding fielded and boolean searching, but your feedback will let me know
what you would like to see in future versions.  Also, if you make any
additions or corrections, please tell me so I can integrate them into the
distribution.  Some of the code is badly in need of optimization (e.g.,
caching of file pointers), but I wanted to put something out for people to
try out before worrying too much about that.  I hope to release lots of
incremental updates over the next few weeks. 

There will be on-line documentation, hopefully for both the utilities and
for the class library API.  It will be at

	<URL:http://vinca.cnidr.org/software/Isearch/Isearch.html>

Have fun!

Nassib Nassar, nrn@cnidr.org
1/9/95

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