Hi,

not sure if this is the right group, if not, please post a followup to
the right group.

Basically, what I would like to do is to produce a documentation
cdrom, but which has a full text search cabability.

I looked for hours, butr the best thing I have come up with is the
windows .chm mechanism. This allows me to do a full text search.

The whole documentation is currently in HTML, and ideal would really
be something like if we pressed a full text index onto the CD created
by something similar to htdig and then jhave a java application or an
applet read that index and then do the searching locally and display
the search results in the java applet/application window.

I am open to any solutions really, even if it means going away to HTML
and using something propriertary, which means I am open to use some
other vendor's product. A nice to have would be if it were platform
independant, but if it only works on windows, then it would be fine
too.

There must be a help authoring system out there somewhere which allows
full text searching!

I know that most companies just have their HTML POST go to their own
servers. While this would work for us too, I would prefer something
that works without an internet connection.

I have looked at some commercial solutions, like AstaWare Searchdisk,
but that installs a httpo server locally on some weird port to do the
searches. In that case we might as well just install a local apache
and htdig, I don't really want to install any server applications on
the host where people just want to read documentation on.

I would welcome any expeiences and suggestions.

Thanks!

Michael Klose