The greatest advantage of online documents over paper documents is that you
have tremendours search capabilitites. HTMLHELP provides an easy to use yet
powerful
way
to search your HTML documents. What HTMLHELP does is that is scans
all HTML files belonging to the entire book and stores each word it finds
in a database. This process is only needed once or at least when HTML pages
have changed.
After the database has been build up you can quickly find any word or word
combination in all your HTML files.
Building the index database
When you first start HTMLHELP with a new bunch of pages making up e.g. an
online documentation for a new program you will notice that a window appears
and asks you for some patience. After that another window shows you the progress
of the indexing process. You will notice that each page actually each HTML
file is being scanned and this will take its time. After indexing is complete
a search statistic shows you how many different words had been indexed in
how many pages.
Whenever you need to, you can re-index you database by pressing the
refresh button from the search window.
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