To facilitate CD-ROM publishers who want to distribute indexes, yet split their indexes and documents between CD and magnetic drives, the ISYS.CFG file can be edited to contain the keyword PathToDocs. The indexes can then be copied to the hard drive, for example, to take advantage of the increased performance, and Perceptive Search will still be able to locate the documents for browsing.
For relative indexes, where documents have been indexed without an explicit drive identifier, the PathToDocs statement tells Perceptive Search the path to use to locate the relative documents. For example, where the index has been structured in this manner:
Index Files | Document Files |
CDROM\INDEX | \DOCS |
and the indexes are then moved to a local hard drive in, for example:
C:\ISYS\INDEX
the ISYS.CFG file would have an entry:
PathToDocs D:\CDROM\DOCS
where D: is the drive on which the CDROM\DOCS directory has been mounted.
You can use the PathToDocs statement in conjunction with an absolute index, however, it is not recommended that you publish absolute indexes. Relative indexes provide a more trouble-free approach.
Note: The PathToDocs statement is only a Query parameter. It will not be taken in to account by Perceptive Search during an index Create or Update.