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topmost section may also exist in older versions.</i></p>
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<h2><a name="b_latest">recoll 1.15</a></h2>
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<h2><a name="b_latest">recoll 1.15</a></h2>
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<li>The rclzip filter can't handle archive members with a colon
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(':') in the file name or path. The files are normally indexed and
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can be searched for, but they can't be displayed (neither opened
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<li>The rclzip filter can't handle utf-8 in path names for archive
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nor previewed).</li>
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members. An <a
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href="http://www.recoll.org/filters/rclzip">updated filter</a> is
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<li>The rclzip and rclchm filters can't handle archive members
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with a colon (':') in the file name or path. The files are normally
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indexed and can be searched for, but they can't be displayed
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(neither opened nor previewed). There is a <a
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href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/changeset/3751ea8ea179">
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patch</a> which fixes the issue (then needs full reindex for these
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files).</li>
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<li>After an upgrade, the recoll GUI sometimes crashes on
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<li>After an upgrade, the recoll GUI sometimes crashes on
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startup. This is fixed by removing (back it up just in case)
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startup. This is fixed by removing (back it up just in case)
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time, removing the directory preventively may be preferable .</li>
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time, removing the directory preventively may be preferable .</li>
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<li>Under Solaris, it is necessary to perform the initial
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<li>Under Solaris, it is necessary to perform the initial
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indexing with the recollindex program (the recoll index
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indexing with the recollindex program. For some unknown reason,
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thread doesn't work for creating the database). Don't know
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the recoll index thread does not work for creating the database.
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the reason. Only idea I have is problem with exception
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The only idea I have is a problem with exception handling (recoll
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handling (recoll catches an exception while trying the yet
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catches an exception while trying the yet inexistant db).</li>
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inexistant db).</li>
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<li>The default filter for files in microsoft word format
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<li>The default filter for files in Microsoft Word format
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(application/msword, .doc), antiword, has trouble with some
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(application/msword, .doc), antiword, has trouble with some
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relatively rare files with a very small text, resulting in the
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relatively rare files with a very small text, resulting in the
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following error message:
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following error message:
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<html>
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<head>
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<title>Recoll known bugs</title>
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<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">
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<meta name="Author" content="Jean-Francois Dockes">
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<meta name="Description" content=
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"recoll is a simple full-text search system for unix and linux
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based on the powerful and mature xapian engine">
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<meta name="Keywords" content=
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"full text search, desktop search, unix, linux">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en">
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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<meta name="robots" content="All,Index,Follow">
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<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/style.css">
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<body>
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<div class="rightlinks">
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<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
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<li><a href="download.html">Downloads</a></li>
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<li><a href="doc.html">Documentation</a></li>
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</div>
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<div class="content">
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<h1>Known bugs in current and older versions</h1>
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<p><i>Bugs that are listed in an older version section are
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supposedly fixed in later versions. Bugs listed in the
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topmost section may also exist in older versions.</i></p>
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<h2>Latest (recoll 1.11.4 + xapian 1.0.x)</h2>
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<li>Performing a full index with release 1.11, over a version
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created with a much older recoll release may sometimes end
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with an error saying "backend doesn't implement metadata".
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If this happens, you need to delete the index directory
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(typically <em>~/.recoll/xapiandb/</em>) and restart
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indexing. For big indexes, removing the directory preventively
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may be a smart move to avoid losing time.</li>
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<li> When Recoll is built with qt 4.4.0, the icons in the
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result list are all displayed at the top of the page and
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garbled. This appears to be a qt bug, fixed in 4.4.1. Use
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either qt 4.3.x or 4.4.1
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<li> If the user-chosen result list entry format results in
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several paragraphs (in the qt textedit sense), right clicks
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will only work inside the first one for each entry.
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<li>The "Copy file name" and "Copy URL" entries of the
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right-click menus only copy the data to the X11 primary
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selection (use middle-button click to paste). This is
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probably a mistake, the data should be copied to the
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clipboard too (permitting the use of the "Paste" edit menu
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entry or Ctrl+V in the target).
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<li> When a mime type has an external viewer defined, but the
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actual file is compressed (ie: xxx.txt.gz), recoll will try
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to start the external viewer on the compressed file, which
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will not work in most cases.
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<li> NEAR crashes: 1.6 has added NEAR searches. Unlike what
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recoll did with PHRASES, stemming expansion is performed on
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terms inside NEAR clauses (except if prevented by a
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capitalized entry of course). There is a bug in Xapian (all
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versions as far as I know), where NEAR does not support
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multiple OR subclauses, as would result from a multiple
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expansion. This manifests itself by a 'not implemented'
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Xapian exception. Workarounds:
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<li>Prevent expansion of NEAR terms (possibly except one) by
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capitalizing them.
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<li>Or apply the following patch to xapian, inside the
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"api/" directory:
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http://www.recoll.org/xapian/xapNearDistrib-1.0.patch
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or fetch the already patched source:
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http://www.recoll.org/xapian/xapian-core-1.0.7-recollNEARpatch.tar.gz
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then recompile, and install.
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</li>
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I hope that an equivalent fix will make it into xapian at
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some point (the current fix is not completely correct but
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still handles most useful cases).</li>
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<li> If you are seeing a delay of a few seconds before the
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result list displays for the first query of a recoll
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instance, try changing the result list font in the query
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preferences. This is not a recoll problem, I don't know the
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exact cause (I've seen it happen with "Sans Serif" and go
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away with Helvetica or Arial).
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<li> Under some versions of KDE (ie: Fedora FC5 KDE
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3.5.4-0.5.fc5), there is a problem with the window stacking
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order. Opening the "browse" file selection dialog from the
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advanced search dialog will stack the latter under the main
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window, possibly making it invisible. This is quite probably
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a Kwin bug, possibly related to
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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79183 or a correction
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thereof.
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<li> Under Solaris, it is necessary to perform initial indexing with the
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the database). Don't know the reason. Only idea I have is problem with
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exception handling (recoll catches an exception while trying the
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yet inexistant db).</li>
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interface search entry. Badly parsed searches would retrieve no
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results, when the same search entered with ascii space characters
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<li>Spaces were inserted inside CJK strings when building
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abstracts for the result list.</li>
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<li>Accent removal should not be performed for Japanese.</li>
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<li>When using the query language, an OR part with more than
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two terms will swallow preceding AND terms, one for each
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additional OR. Ex: (champagne ext:odt OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx)
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"champagne OR ext:odt OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx"
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which may prevent, for example, the kde applet from
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copy/paste between the result list and preview windows and x11
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<li> Under some conditions, recoll startup and exit could be very slow: the
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simple search history list had serious problems with non-ascii strings,
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spaces (rcluncomp rclsoff rclps rclmedia rcldjvu). This is fixed in 1.4.
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compile. I have a patch for this (will be fixed in the next release),
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contact me if you get the problem. Typical error message:
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main.cpp:160: error: no match for 'operator+=' in 'msg += reason'
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<li> The 'None of these words' field in the complex search does not work if
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there are no other filled fields (it transforms into an ordinary
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search). Workaround: enter very common term(s) in the 'any of these
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words' field.
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<li> Indexing cannot currently be conveniently and cleanly
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stopped when it's started. You can kill the process, and
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keyboard interrupt might work, but this may leave the
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database in a bad state. This is fixed in the upcoming
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release, there is no current workaround.
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<h2>1.2.2</h2>
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<ul>
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<li> The preview window is supposed to scroll after loading the document so
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that the first search term is visible. This does not work in many cases.
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<li> The result list title is not shown for sorted lists
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<li> Trouble compiling on some linux systems (Gentoo and Slackware?). There
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existed a quite common issue where the Recoll link will fail trying to
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use a libstdc++.la file. This was due to a problem with the xapian-config
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program. A workaround has been included in the configure script for
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recoll 1.2.2, and the problem should not occur any more.
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<li> Case-insensitive search should now work in most cases
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(used to not work except for accented ascii).
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<li> All directories and files with names beginning with a dot were ignored
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by the skippedNames directive in the default recoll.conf file from
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older versions (no indexing of mozilla or thunderbird email !). An
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|
||||||
upgrade will not fix this (it will not modify an existing
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configuration). You need to edit recoll.conf by hand and remove the .*
|
|
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from skippedNames.</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>
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@ -144,8 +144,12 @@
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"http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/IndexMozillaCalendari">
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"http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/IndexMozillaCalendari">
|
||||||
the wiki</a> about this.</li>
|
the wiki</a> about this.</li>
|
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|
|
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<li><span class="literal">Wordperfect</span> with <a href=
|
<li><span class="literal">Wordperfect</span> with the
|
||||||
"http://libwpd.sourceforge.net">libwpd</a>.</li>
|
<span class="command">wpd2html</span> command from <a href=
|
||||||
|
"http://libwpd.sourceforge.net">libwpd</a>. On some distributions,
|
||||||
|
the command may come with an package named <span
|
||||||
|
class="literal">libwpd-tools</span> or such, not the base <a
|
||||||
|
span="literal">libwpd</a> package.</li>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<li><span class="literal">postscript</span> with <a href=
|
<li><span class="literal">postscript</span> with <a href=
|
||||||
"http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html">
|
"http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html">
|
||||||
|
|||||||
@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
|
|||||||
the <a href="devel.html">development</a> page for things you
|
the <a href="devel.html">development</a> page for things you
|
||||||
could do.</p>
|
could do.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>The list of known bugs is <a href="BUGS.txt">here</a></p>
|
<p>The list of known bugs is <a href="BUGS.html">here</a></p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<h2>Thanks</h2>
|
<h2>Thanks</h2>
|
||||||
<p>We borrow a lot of code
|
<p>We borrow a lot of code
|
||||||
|
|||||||
@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
|
|||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>Voir aussi la <a href="devel.html">page sur le
|
<p>Voir aussi la <a href="devel.html">page sur le
|
||||||
développement</a>.</p>
|
développement</a>.</p>
|
||||||
<p><a href="BUGS.txt">Liste des problèmes connus</a> (en
|
<p><a href="BUGS.html">Liste des problèmes connus</a> (en
|
||||||
anglais). </p>
|
anglais). </p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<h2>Remerciements</h2>
|
<h2>Remerciements</h2>
|
||||||
|
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