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Q180523: Ifilttst.exe & Ifilttst.ini Files Missing from IFilter Document

Article: Q180523
Product(s): Internet Information Server
Version(s): WINNT:4.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 31-DEC-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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The January 1998 MSDN Library and Platform Software Development Kit (SDK)
contains documentation on programming with the IFilter interface. The
documentation mentions a tool that will verify an IFilter implementation. The
tool consists of two files: Ifilttst.exe and Ifilttst.ini. These files were not
included with the documentation.

RESOLUTION
==========

You can get the missing files by downloading the IFilter SDK from the following
location:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/indexsrv/ixufilt_9279.htm

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft Internet
Information Server version 4.0.

MORE INFORMATION
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Documentation on the IFilter interface test tool is located in the Platform SDK
documentation at the following location:

  

  Internet/Internet/Extranet Services
   Indexing Service
       Indexing Service Filter Implementation
           Filter Examples
               IFilter Test Suite

Additional query words: iis

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbiisSearch kbiis400
Version           : WINNT:4.0
Hardware          : ALPHA x86
Issue type        : kbprb

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