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NAME

bin/simplethes.pl - simple sample thesaurus plug-in

SYNOPSIS

  bin/simplethes.pl [-d] [-f filename]
 

DESCRIPTION

This is a simple example program which is intended to illustrate the possibilities for using Perl and DB(M) databases to perform query expansion. The query to be expanded is passed as an environmental variable QUERY_STRING, as per the CGI specification.

OPTIONS

-d

Turn on debugging mode.

-f filename

The name of the thesaurus DB(M) database which should be used.

SEE ALSO

"wppd.pl" in bin, "dumpdbm.pl" in admin-cgi, "makethes.pl" in bin

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1988, Martin Hamilton <martinh@gnu.org> and Jon Knight <jon@net.lut.ac.uk>. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

It was developed by the Department of Computer Studies at Loughborough University of Technology, as part of the ROADS project. ROADS is funded under the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), the European Commission Telematics for Research Programme, and the TERENA development programme.

AUTHOR

Jon Knight <jon@net.lut.ac.uk>