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<title>Zebra Server - Administrators's Guide and Reference
<author><htmlurl url="http://www.indexdata.dk/" name="Index Data">, <tt><htmlurl url="mailto:info@index.ping.dk" name="info@index.ping.dk"></>
-<date>$Revision: 1.30 $
+<date>$Revision: 1.31 $
<abstract>
The Zebra information server combines a versatile fielded/free-text
search engine with a Z39.50-1995 frontend to provide a powerful and flexible
*Port the system to Windows NT.
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-Add index and data compression to save disk space.
-
-<item>
Add more sophisticated relevance ranking mechanisms. Add support for soundex
and stemming. Add relevance <it/feedback/ support.
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The order of evaluation may be changed by using parentheses.
-If the <bf/Regxp-2/ query begins with a plus sign (<tt/+/) it marks the
-beginning of a section with non-standard specifiers. The next minus sign
-marks the end of the section. Currently Zebra only supports one
-specifier, the error tolerance, which consists one digit.
+If the first character of the <bf/Regxp-2/ query is a plus character
+(<tt/+/) it marks the beginning of a section with non-standard
+specifiers. The next plus character marks the end of the section.
+Currently Zebra only supports one specifier, the error tolerance,
+which consists one digit.
Since the plus operator is normally a suffix operator the addition to
the query syntax doesn't violate the syntax for standard regular