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- <H1><A NAME="name">NAME</A></H1>
- <P>WWW::Search::HotFiles - class for searching ZDnet HotFiles</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="supportedplatforms">SUPPORTED PLATFORMS</A></H1>
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- <LI>Linux</LI>
- <LI>Solaris</LI>
- <LI>Windows</LI>
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- <H1><A NAME="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A></H1>
- <P>require WWW::Search;
- $search = new WWW::Search('HotFiles');</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="description">DESCRIPTION</A></H1>
- <P>Class for searching ZDnet HotFiles (shareware, freeware) via Lycos.
- <EM><A HREF="http://www.hotfiles.lycos.com">http://www.hotfiles.lycos.com</A></EM>.</P>
- <P>If you use the raw method for this backend you will need to include
- a ``<p>'' at end of your print statement, example:
- print $result->raw(), ``<p>\n'';</P>
- <P>This is so that each result returned will have a HTML break since
- the HTML is being extracted from tables, and, there is no <p> or
- <br> trailing returned HITS to properly format the results. No
- BIG deal really.</P>
- <P>Print optioins:
- Using score will return nice star images for rating purposes
- at end of each description line for each HIT if desired.</P>
- <P>Using index_date will return the files date.</P>
- <P>Raw returns description, star rating image, date, downloads,
- OS version.</P>
- <P>This class exports no public interface; all interaction should
- be done through WWW::Search objects.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="usage example">USAGE EXAMPLE</A></H1>
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- One of several print samples for this backend (this is a WebSearch
- example):</PRE>
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- print <<END;</PRE>
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- <FONT SIZE=2><B>$count. <a href="$prefix$_">$result->{'title'}</A></B><BR>
- $result->{'description'}
- $result->{'index_date'} $result->{'score'}<P></SMALL></FONT></PRE>
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- END</PRE>
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- <H1><A NAME="see also">SEE ALSO</A></H1>
- <P>To make new back-ends, see <A HREF="../../../../site/lib/WWW/Search.html">the WWW::Search manpage</A>.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="author">AUTHOR</A></H1>
- <P>Maintained by Jim Smyser <<A HREF="mailto:jsmyser@bigfoot.com">jsmyser@bigfoot.com</A>></P>
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- <H1><A NAME="testing">TESTING</A></H1>
- <P>HotFiles.pm adheres to the WWW::Search test mechanism.
- See $TEST_CASES below.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="copyright">COPYRIGHT</A></H1>
- <P>The original parts from John Heidemann are subject to
- following copyright notice:</P>
- <P>Copyright (c) 1996-1998 University of Southern California.
- All rights reserved.</P>
- <P>Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
- provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
- duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, advertising
- materials, and other materials related to such distribution and use
- acknowledge that the software was developed by the University of
- Southern California, Information Sciences Institute. The name of the
- University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from
- this software without specific prior written permission.</P>
- <P>THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
- WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
- MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.</P>
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