The search engine used on this CD-ROM is the QuestAgent Pro version 4.0.9. from JObjects (http://www.jobjects.com/). It uses a Java applet interface to query a pre-generated index of terms derived from the full text of all book pages on the CD-ROM. The applet and index are licensed to O'Reilly and Associates for use with the Networking CD Bookshelf and may not be copied or redistributed for other purposes. See the copyright page for more information about restrictions on the content of this CD.
The search engine works with any Java-enabled browser supporting version Java 1.1.2 or later. It has been tested with Explorer 4.5 and Netscape 4.1 on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, XP Pro, Solaris, Linux, and Macintosh 8.5 operating systems. We have seen errors running the search engine on Linux and Slackware using the Mozilla browser.
The QuestAgent Pro search engine understands simple "boolean operations." By default, if you type multiple terms separated by spaces, they will be treated as arguments to an AND. In other words, every matching file will have to contain all the terms.
Alternatively, you can insert the word "OR" between each term if you are interested in files that contain any of the terms.
The word "NOT" can be used before a term to require that it not be present in the files.
Parentheses can be used to group terms and operators.
Select the popup menu to the right of the text field to select a maximum number of results to display.
The field selector does not currently contain any items to narrow searching. Future CD-ROMs may use this feature, however.
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