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The UltraKiss Search facility is a tool designed to automatically scan for KiSS sets on your computer. The Search tool will create an index of files on your computer for automated load through the UltraKiss Portal.
The search is a five step process.
Step 1. Given a file directory or other URL, obtain the HTML page. The Search tool will parse the page to identify all links to LHA or ZIP archive files. Links to all subordinate directories or pages are searched recursively. This process effectively scans the subordinate structure looking for files. When all links in the hierarchy have been processed begin Step 2.
Step 2. For each archive file identified through the search process, load the file in UltraKiss. If the file successfully loads this validates it as a KiSS archive. The UltraKiss load is a batch process. No user interaction is required or permitted.
Step 3. With the file loaded, a thumbnail image is produced from the initial UltraKiss screen image. The set can also be saved to local storage. Set statistics are accumulated. This information is captured for each set.
Step 4. When all sets are validated an HTML index page to the set names is constructed. This is a table of all validated sets, by name, with thumbnail images and links to the set archive file. The HTML index is written to the directory specified in the UltraKiss Search options and named according to the site URL or top level directory originally specified in Step 1.
Step 5. The new HTML index is now added to the consolidated index maintained for all scanned hosts. This consolidated index is named in the UltraKiss Search options and is typically called 'index.html'. Each primary site URL or top level directory is one line item in the main search index that links to the site specific HTML index page built in Step 4. The consolidates index is accessible by the UltraKiss Portal with the File-Index menu command.
Web Search options can be set through the Tool-Options-Search facility.
With default options, for local directory scans, the indexed KiSS sets are referenced through absolute paths to the file location on your computer. For world wide web scans, the identified archives are automatically downloaded and saved on your computer and referenced through absolute paths to the downloaded file location.
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