Recoll for eCS and OS/2

Recoll∞ is a personal full text search tool. It is based on the very strong Xapian back-end, for which it provides a feature-rich yet easy to use front-end with a WPS graphical interface. Recoll is free, open source, and licensed under the GPL. The current version is 1.8.2

Features:

• Easy installation, few dependancies. No database daemon, web server, desktop environment or exotic language necessary.
• Will run on most unix-based systems
• Supports most common document types.
• Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, proximity, wildcards, filter on file types and directory tree.
• Multi-language and multi-character set with Unicode based internals.
• OS/2 WPS native integration.
• OS/2 Extended Attribute indexing.
• (more)

OS/2 features
Now OS/2 have a desktop search system integrated with WorkPlace Shell: open the search folder, enter the text and click 'Search'; the folder will be populated with shadows of the found objects! Then change view to details view, you will get more informations about the search results.
Also OS/2 Extended attributes can be parsed and stored in database, so you can search also for keywords in EAs!

Download:
Preview Release 0.5.2 is available. Current downloads:

• Installation notes.
• WarpIN installation package.

If you are a developer, you can look at source code:

• Recoll code.
• Xapian library code.

NOTE: this is a preview release, and requires XWP hacking to enable the notification daemon, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK, NO WARRANTY. BACKUP YOUR WPS BEFORE REPLACING XWP CODE!

Documentation
Please refer to RecollHelp page for most recent OS/2 specific documentation.

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