


General Flaristo Information



What is?

A tool for textual search inside files.

Features:
  - allow search for separated portions of text, or for some alternatives;
  - search inside the following compressed archives types:
    gzip, tar, arj, zip;
  - allow define preprocessors for some specified files;
  - save search result, and can export to html and plain text;
  - search in subdirectories;
  - search inside files contents and/or file names;
  - store data files, with search results, compressed;
  - graphical interface.



Requires:

  - Tk/TCL 8
  - Perl 5
  - gzip, tar, and other compressors, to search inside
    their respective archives
  - GNU fileutils



Contacts:

lebe@geocities.com

Last version would be placed in:
http://www.geocities.com/leberns



To Use:

The relevant files are in res/ directory, to start the
graphical interface, execute one of the files:
flaristo-xxxx.tcl
where xxxx define the execution platform and language of files.



Instalation:

Copy
flaristo-xxxx.tcl
and
flsearch-xxxx.pl
to one executable directory, like /usr/bin

Maybe is necessary set the access modes of the
files flaristo-xxxx.tcl and flsearch-xxxx.pl:
$ chmod a+rx fl*



Tips:

When the graphical interface start, one empty text entry is shown
(this is the default configuration).
Enter there, the part of continuous text you want search.
The right buttons allow enter more text that MUST be found.
The bottom button allow enter alternative texts for search.
For example, to search "Blue Moon", or the texts: "Rio" and "Sul"
  Fill the sheet as this:
  +-----------+----------+
  | Blue Moon |          |
  +-----------+----------+
  | Rio       | Sul      |
  +-----------+----------+

To restore the default configuration just remove the
configuration file with the command:
rm ~/.flaristorc

flsearch.pl can be used for search in command line, but the sintax
is quite hard, now.



Comments, help:

This is free software, so you can help the development: testing,
coding, documenting, or suggesting something.

Where I live there is no telephone, and too, Internet. My answers
will delay some days. If somebody want to "care" this project, adding
code eventualy contributed, and doing other manutenation, please email me.

If somebody know how to add Drag and Drop, without extra libraries in Tk/TCL,
tell me, ok?



Good use,

Leandro
