From: pfeifer,pfeifer@woodstock.uucp Reply-To: Ulrich Pfeifer,pfeifer@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Newsgroup: comp.answers,news.answers,comp.infosystems.wais Receive-Date: Montag, 20-Mär-95 10:26:09 Creation-Date: Montag, 20-Mär-95 04:42:09 Message-ID: freeWAIS-sf-faq-1-795674527@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Date: 20 Mar 1995 04:42:09 GMT Subject: freeWAIS-sf Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ] with answers Organization: CS Department, University of Dortmund, Germany Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais Distribution: world UserFlags: Old ReadAccess GlobalFlags: Exported Link HardLink Posted-By: auto-faq 3.1.1.2 Archive-name: wais-faq/freeWAIS-sf Revision: 1.5 1995/02/20 04:42:15 URL: ftp://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/wais/FAQ 1) What is freeWAIS-sf? 1.1) What does 'stemming' mean? 1.2) What does 'soundex' mean? 2) Where to get ... 2.1) Most of the ftp accessable Stuff is mirrored on different 2.2) Where can I get this list (freeWAIS-sf-faq) 2.3) Where can I get the comp.infosystems.wais FAQ 2.4) What is the current Version of freeWAIS-sf? 2.5) Where can I get freeWAIS-sf? 2.6) Where can I get documentation about freeWAIS-sf? 2.7) Where can i get examples of this $#@ format files? 3) Is there ...? 3.1) Is there and Emacs client for freeWAIS-sf? 3.2) Is there an X11 client for freeWAIS-sf 3.3) Does the X client compile with X11R6 3.4) Is there a WWW gateway dedicated for usage with freeWAIS-sf? 4) Can I ... 4.1) How must a file name look like? 5) How can I ... 5.1) How can I index index mails? 5.2) How can I index HTML entities? 5.3) How can I force 'c++' to appear in the index? 5.4) How can I index HTML files? 5.5) How can I index my http server? 5.6) How can I index my ftp server? 6) Trouble ... 6.1) waisindex dumps core when it reads more than 20 filenames from stdin. 6.2) Hey, is directory-of-servers at quake.think.com down or what? 6.3) Compilation of the ctype directory does not work! 6.4) warning: couldn't open database.syn -translation disabled. 7) Does freeWAIS-sf run on .... 8) Does freeWAIS-sf work with ... 8.1) Can i use other wais clients to query a freeWAIS-sf server? 8.2) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with gopher? 8.3) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with Mosaic? 8.4) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with the cern httpd? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) What is freeWAIS-sf? FreeWAIS-sf is an extension of the freeWAIS software provided by the the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR). The SF suffix in the software name stands for "structured fields," an indexing and search feature which distinguishes this software from its predecessors. It is based on the version 0.202 of this software but includes and enhances much of what freeWAIS-0.3 contains. Major extensions of FreeWAIS-sf include: Introduction of text, date, and numeric field structures within a document, which allows a document to be indexed using potentially overlapping fields. Support for complex Boolean searches (a query parser is integrated in the server). Stemming and phonetic coding may be switched on and off for each individual field. Definition of document format and layout of the headlines are now configurable by a new specification language based on regular expressions. No C-code must be written to index new document types. Installation procedure now just requires running a sh script and answering simple questions. The script is generated using the GNU autoconf utility. No Makefile sets for individual systems are necessary. For development purposes, additional Imakefiles are provided since the Makefiles do not contain dependencies Support for country specific character sets (8-Bit) Lots of bug fixes. All changes are restricted to the indexer and server to allow existing clients to query FreeWAIS-sf databases. Document types contained in the original distribution remain intact. You can use FreeWAIS-sf as you would use original freeWAIS or take advantage of its enhanced features. ------------------------------ 1.1) What does 'stemming' mean? Stemming in a field means, that every word is reduced to its word stemm, before it is added to or search in the index. This way 'computer', 'computing' and 'computers' are treated identically. ------------------------------ 1.2) What does 'soundex' mean? Like stemming, every word is mapped to its soundex code before added to or search in the index. Equal or similar sounding words are treated as if tey were identical. ------------------------------ 2) Where to get ... Date: Sun Feb 19 1995 ------------------------------ 2.1) Most of the ftp accessable Stuff is mirrored on different sites. Please check archie or one of the sites below. The load on our server is growing out of bounds. We will have to close it for the public, if the load will not decrease significantly. Since all Packets are routed over the EUnet site, it will be faster to get the stuff from there as from ls6-www. ftp.germany.eu.net /pub/infosystems/wais/Unido-LS6/freeWAIS-sf-1.1/ ftp.switch.ch /mirror/wais/servers/sf-alpha/freeWAIS-sf-1.1/ ftp.leo.org /pub/comp/infosys/wais/freeWAIS-sf-1.1/ ------------------------------ 2.2) Where can I get this list (freeWAIS-sf-faq) ftp://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/wais/FAQ http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/wais-faq/freeWAIS-sf/faq.html ------------------------------ 2.3) Where can I get the comp.infosystems.wais FAQ http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/wais-faq/getting-started/faq.html ------------------------------ 2.4) What is the current Version of freeWAIS-sf? The latest release of freeWAIS-sf is 1.1 from January 1995. ------------------------------ 2.5) Where can I get freeWAIS-sf? You can fetch them from ftp://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/wais/ 18545 Feb 20 05:42 FAQ 0 Feb 6 09:45 GET-THIS-FROM-ftp.germany.eu.net:=pub=infosystems=wais=Unido-LS6 5657 Jan 23 12:52 README 45553 Oct 26 13:52 SFgate-3.3.tar.gz 46564 Jan 4 19:02 SFgate-3.4.tar.gz 47410 Jan 20 18:01 SFgate-3.5.tar.gz 852114 Jan 4 15:33 client-toolkit-EZ-2.2.1.tar.gz 512 Dec 2 09:48 directory-of-servers 512 May 27 1994 essence 512 Aug 19 1994 fmt-examples 512 Jan 10 17:31 freeWAIS-sf-1.0 512 Feb 10 11:49 freeWAIS-sf-1.1 41259 Jan 10 18:55 freeWAIS-sf.ps.gz 5675 Oct 5 09:45 gopher2.016.patch.gz 12797 Aug 8 1994 waisperl-0.2.1.tar.gz 12767 Jun 22 1994 waisperl-0.2.tar.gz 38970 Nov 3 11:42 waisperl5-0.3.tar.gz 30113 Nov 24 10:43 z3950-spec.txt.gz If you get the sources (freeWAIS-sf-1.1.tgz), unpack them with: gunzip -c | tar xvf - freeWAIS-sf-1.1.tgz This will create a directory freeWAIS-sf-1.1. Change to the new directory and enter: ./configure Which will determine some system parameters and ask you for some installation options. The script will tell you how to proceed. ------------------------------ 2.6) Where can I get documentation about freeWAIS-sf? Documentation is still rudimentary. Any volonteers for writing parts of a more verbose ;-) documentation? HTML: Check http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/freeWAIS-sf/ Postscript: ftp:/ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/wais/freeWAIS-sf.ps.gz TeX: Included in the sources. ------------------------------ 2.7) Where can i get examples of this $#@ format files? You can fetch examples from ftp://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/wais/fmt-examples 223 Jun 14 1994 Douglas.fde 717 Jun 14 1994 Douglas.fmt 3026 Jun 14 1994 Douglas.text 849 Aug 19 1994 HCIBIB.fmt 667 Jun 10 1994 HCIIR.fmt 849 Aug 19 1994 bibdb-html.fmt 844 Aug 19 1994 demo.fmt 143 Jun 10 1994 ftp-pages.fmt 849 Aug 19 1994 irdigest.fmt 838 Aug 19 1994 journals.fmt 143 Jun 10 1994 www-pages.fmt ------------------------------ 3) Is there ...? ------------------------------ 3.1) Is there and Emacs client for freeWAIS-sf? Yes the client comes with the source distribution. It is auto-magically configured in the installation procedure. It is installed in $DESTDIR/lib/emacs/lisp: 75255 Mar 1 13:27 wais.el ------------------------------ 3.2) Is there an X11 client for freeWAIS-sf Yes the client comes with the source distribution. It is auto-magically configured in the installation procedure. Application defaults are auto-magically generated and installed in It is installed in $DESTDIR/lib: 2106 Mar 1 13:28 XwaisHELP 6218 Mar 1 13:28 XwaisqHELP 512 Mar 1 13:28 app-defaults 512 Mar 1 13:27 emacs $DESTDIR/lib/app-defaults: 19718 Mar 1 13:28 Xwais ------------------------------ 3.3) Does the X client compile with X11R6 Yes it does. ------------------------------ 3.4) Is there a WWW gateway dedicated for usage with freeWAIS-sf? Yes it's called SFgate and can be found on the ftp server ftp://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/wais/ You can see it run at http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/SFgate/bibdb-html. The SF icon leads to some documentation about SFgate. ------------------------------ 4) Can I ... ------------------------------ 4.1) How must a file name look like? A field name must be composed of alpha characters only and must have at least 2 characters. ------------------------------ 5) How can I ... ------------------------------ 5.1) How can I index index mails? cd to your wais source directory (e.g. ~/wais-sources) Create a mail.fmt file like the following: /\L/ /^From: / /\J/ 20 /^From: ./ /^Subject: / /\J/ 80 /^Subject: ./ /^From: / from SOUNDEX LOCAL TEXT BOTH /\J/ /^Subject: / subject stemming TEXT BOTH /\J/ Run 'waisindex -d mail -t fields ' ------------------------------ 5.2) How can I index HTML entities? You can specify country specific characters during configuration. This is (currently) the place to customize the delimiter set. Other way round: You can specify, which chars make up words. You can "misuse" this feature to force special characters ('-', '+', ...) to be treated as parts of words. If you insist on indexing things like 'Universität', you should enter '&;' as country specific characters: You can compile freeWASI-sf with it's own ctype package. You should do this, if you want to use special (country specific) chars, which are not supported by your systems ctype. Use your systems ctype (no)? > Ok, will use my own ctype I will now ask for your special letters. If you do not want to give the now, edit Default.tmpl after this configure run. Input your upper case letters in the same order than your lower case letters. toupper() and tolower() depend on this order. Input letters wich are upper and lower case in both strings. what are your lower case letters ("a"o"u"s)? > \&; what are your upper case letters ("A"O"U"s)? > \&; ------------------------------ 5.3) How can I force 'c++' to appear in the index? See question 'How can I index HTML entities ?' ------------------------------ 5.4) How can I index HTML files? First decide which TYPE your documents should have: 1) If you want your WAIS server to deliver documents, TYPE should be HTML. Your command line should *start*: waisindex -T HTML ... Then go along as with other databases. You can use type field (-t field) in addition to the -T flags. 2) If you want an http server to deliver documents, TYPE should be URL. You must tell waisindex, how the URL of the files should be composed. This is done by specifying the prefix to be removed from the file path and a prefix to add: Your command line should *start*: waisindex -t URL what-to-trim what-to-add ... Note: If you have compiled with the modified URL handling (Questioned during configure) you can customize the headline also with document type URL. But currently only SFgate can handle such databases. The default handling is to put the URL in the headline. ------------------------------ 5.5) How can I index my http server? See question 'How can I index HTML files?' first. Lets assume, your servers pages reside in directory '/home/robots/www/pages'. Your servers URL might be 'http://myserver/'. The database will be named 'www-pages'. An easy format file (www-pages.fmt) would be: /(<.BODY>|<.HTML>)/ // /<\/TITLE>/ 80 /<TITLE> *./ <end> <field> /<HTML>/ stemming TEXT GLOBAL <end> /<.BODY>/ Then call waisindex -t URL /home/robots/www/pages http://myserver \ -d www-pages -t fields \ `find /home/robots/www/pages -type f -name "*.html"` If you do not have the modified URL handling compiled in, the headline always contains the URL. With the modified handling, headlines contain the title string of the HTML document, if there is any. An example database is running at http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/SFgate/www-pages rsp. wais://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/www-pages. ------------------------------ 5.6) How can I index my ftp server? See 'How can I index my http server?'. waisindex -t URL /home/robots/www/pages ftp://myserver \ -d ftp-files -t fields \ `find /home/robots/ftp/pub -type f -name "*.txt"` ------------------------------ 6) Trouble ... ------------------------------ 6.1) waisindex dumps core when it reads more than 20 filenames from stdin. There is a hardcoded limit of 20 filenames (BLOCK_FILES_FROM_STDIN) in ir/waisindex.c which is not even checked for overruns (shudder). Either increase that value or use the patch01 for freeWAIS-sf-1.1 wich allows for an arbitrary number of filenames: ftp://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/wais/freeWAIS-sf-1.1/patch01.gz ------------------------------ 6.2) Hey, is directory-of-servers at quake.think.com down or what? Yes it is. Use directory-of-servers at cnidir.org or server.wais.com instead. ------------------------------ 6.3) Compilation of the ctype directory does not work! If you see something like the following gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g mkctype.c mkctype.c: In function `main': mkctype.c:115: parse error before character 0344 mkctype.c:116: parse error before character 0304 You probably have sed metacharacters (like '&') defined as country specific characters. Escape them with a '\'! ------------------------------ 6.4) warning: couldn't open database.syn -translation disabled. I get the following error: 929: 1: ... -2: warning: couldn't open database.syn -translation disabled. Is this a bad thing? No it just tells you, that a file database.syn could not be found and therefore the synonym table is empty. If you did not intend to use synonym tables, you are perfect ok. ------------------------------ 7) Does freeWAIS-sf run on .... We got UDP packets from freeWAIS-sf servers running on the following os/hw/cc combinations: A/UX 3.1 mc68040 gcc 2.5.7 A/UX 3.1.1 mc68040 gcc 2.6.3 AIX 2 0000001964 cc AIX 2 000000525C cc AIX 2 0000008314 cc AIX 2 0000024535 cc AIX 2 000003085C cc AIX 2 0000052366 cc AIX 2 0000056118 cc AIX 2 0000061138 cc AIX 2 0000071147 cc AIX 2 0000080931 cc AIX 2 0000091446 cc AIX 2 000013875C cc AIX 2 0000139875 cc AIX 2 0000149746 cc AIX 2 0000195011 cc AIX 2 0000201518 cc AIX 2 0000217135 gcc AIX 2 0000238035 gcc AIX 2 0000261834 cc AIX 2 0000298037 cc AIX 2 0000307746 cc AIX 2 0000315337 cc AIX 2 0000334735 cc AIX 2 0000420476 cc AIX 2 0000454858 cc AIX 2 0000594042 cc AIX 2 0000603735 cc AIX 2 0000610646 cc AIX 2 0000826246 cc AIX 2 0000840341 cc AIX 2 0001211046 cc AIX 2 0001274866 cc AIX 2 0002048547 cc AIX 2 0003809731 cc AIX 2 0020411076 cc AIX 2 i386 cc BSD/386 1.0 i386 gcc BSD/386 1.1 i386 gcc BSD/386 1.1 i386 gcc 2.5.8 FreeBSD 1.1.5(RELE i386 gcc FreeBSD 1.1.5.1(RE i386 gcc FreeBSD 2.0-RELEAS i386 gcc HP-UX A.09.00 9000/822 gcc 2.5.6 HP-UX A.09.01 9000/710 gcc 2.5.8 HP-UX A.09.01 9000/715 gcc 2.4.5 HP-UX A.09.01 9000/720 gcc 2.5.8 HP-UX A.09.01 9000/730 gcc 2.6.3 HP-UX A.09.01 9000/755 gcc 2.5.8 HP-UX A.09.03 9000/712 gcc 2.5.6 HP-UX A.09.03 9000/715 unknown HP-UX A.09.04 9000/816 gcc 2.5.8 HP-UX A.09.04 9000/887 gcc 2.3.3 HP-UX A.09.05 9000/715 cc HP-UX A.09.05 9000/715 gcc 2.6.2 IRIX 4.0.5F IP20 gcc 2.5.2 IRIX 5.2 IP12 cc IRIX 5.2 IP12 gcc 2.6.3 IRIX 5.2 IP17 cc IRIX 5.2 IP19 cc IRIX 5.2 IP20 cc IRIX 5.2 IP22 cc IRIX 5.2 IP22 gcc 2.5.8 IRIX 5.2 IP22 gcc 2.6.3 Linux 1.0.8 i386 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.0.8 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.0.9 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.0.9 i586 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.18 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.18 i586 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.33 i486 gcc 2.5.7 Linux 1.1.45 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.45 i486 gcc 2.6.0 Linux 1.1.47 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.49 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.50 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.50 i586 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.51 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.52 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.52 i486 gcc 2.6.0 Linux 1.1.55 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.57 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.59 i386 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.59 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.59 i586 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.60 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.61 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.62 i486 gcc 2.5.7 Linux 1.1.62 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.64 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.65 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.70 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.70 i586 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.72 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.73 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.73 i586 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.73 i586 gcc 2.6.3 Linux 1.1.75 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.75 i486 gcc 2.6.2 Linux 1.1.81 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.84 i486 gcc 2.6.2 Linux 1.1.86 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.86 i486 gcc 2.6.2 Linux 1.1.86 i586 gcc 2.6.3 Linux 1.1.87 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.88 i486 gcc 2.5.8 Linux 1.1.94 i486 gcc 2.5.8 NetBSD 1.0 i386 gcc OSF1 V1.3 alpha cc OSF1 V2.0 alpha cc OSF1 V2.0 alpha gcc 2.5.4 OSF1 V2.0 alpha gcc 2.6.0 OSF1 V2.1 alpha cc OSF1 V2.1 alpha gcc 2.5.8 OSF1 V2.1 alpha gcc 2.6.0 OSF1 V3.0 alpha cc OSF1 V3.0 alpha gcc 2.6.0 SunOS 4.1.1 sun4c cc SunOS 4.1.1 sun4c gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 4.1.1 sun4c gcc 2.6.1 SunOS 4.1.1-GF sun4c gcc 2.3.2 SunOS 4.1.1-JL sun4c gcc 2.6.2 SunOS 4.1.1-JL sun4c gcc 2.6.3 SunOS 4.1.2 sun4 cc SunOS 4.1.2 sun4 gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 4.1.2 sun4c cc SunOS 4.1.2 sun4c gcc 2.2.2 SunOS 4.1.2 sun4c gcc 2.4.2 SunOS 4.1.2 sun4c gcc 2.4.5 SunOS 4.1.2 sun4c gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 4.1.2 sun4c gcc cygnus-2.3.3 SunOS 4.1.2 sun4m gcc 2.4.5 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4 gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4 gcc 2.6.0 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c cc SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c gcc 2.3.3 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c gcc 2.4.0 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c gcc 2.4.5 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c gcc 2.5.5 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c gcc 2.6.0 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c gcc 2.6.1 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m acc SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m cc SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m gcc SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m gcc 2.3.2 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m gcc 2.3.3 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m gcc 2.4.5 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m gcc 2.5.6 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m gcc 2.5.7 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m gcc 2.6.0 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m gcc 2.6.1 SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m gcc cygnus-2.3.3 SunOS 4.1.3-JL sun4c gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 4.1.3-JL sun4m gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 4.1.3C sun4m gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 4.1.3_Axil sun4m gcc 2.6.0 SunOS 4.1.3_DB sun4m cc SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4 cc SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4c gcc 2.4.5 SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4c gcc 2.5.7 SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4c gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4c gcc 2.6.0 SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m cc SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m gcc SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m gcc 2.2.2 SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m gcc 2.4.2 SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m gcc 2.4.5 SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m gcc 2.5.7 SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m gcc 2.6.0 SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m gcc 2.6.2 SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m gcc 2.6.3 SunOS 4.1.4 sun4c gcc 2.6.3 SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m gcc SunOS 4.1B sun4 cc SunOS 5.2 sun4c gcc 2.5.6 SunOS 5.2 sun4m gcc 2.5.6 SunOS 5.3 sun4c gcc 2.5.6 SunOS 5.3 sun4c gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 5.3 sun4c gcc 2.6.3 SunOS 5.3 sun4d cc SunOS 5.3 sun4d gcc SunOS 5.3 sun4d gcc 2.4.5 SunOS 5.3 sun4d gcc 2.5.6 SunOS 5.3 sun4d gcc 2.5.7 SunOS 5.3 sun4d gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 5.3 sun4d gcc 2.6.0 SunOS 5.3 sun4d gcc 2.6.2 SunOS 5.3 sun4d gcc 2.6.3 SunOS 5.3 sun4m acc SunOS 5.3 sun4m cc SunOS 5.3 sun4m gcc SunOS 5.3 sun4m gcc 2.4.5 SunOS 5.3 sun4m gcc 2.5.6 SunOS 5.3 sun4m gcc 2.5.7 SunOS 5.3 sun4m gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 5.3 sun4m gcc 2.6.0 SunOS 5.3 sun4m gcc 2.6.1 SunOS 5.3 sun4m gcc 2.6.2 SunOS 5.3 sun4m gcc 2.6.3 SunOS 5.3 sun4m gcc cygnus-2.3.3 SunOS 5.4 i86pc gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 5.4 sun4d gcc 2.5.6 SunOS 5.4 sun4d gcc 2.6.0 SunOS 5.4 sun4m cc SunOS 5.4 sun4m gcc 2.5.6 SunOS 5.4 sun4m gcc 2.5.8 SunOS 5.4 sun4m gcc 2.6.2 ULTRIX 4.2 RISC cc ULTRIX 4.2 RISC gcc 2.5.6 ULTRIX 4.2 RISC gcc 2.5.8 ULTRIX 4.3 RISC cc ULTRIX 4.3 RISC gcc 2.4.5 ULTRIX 4.3 RISC gcc 2.5.6 ULTRIX 4.3 RISC gcc 2.5.8 ULTRIX 4.3 RISC gcc 2.6.1 ULTRIX 4.4 RISC gcc 2.6.3 UNIX_SVR42 4.2 i386 cc achus 4.2 i386 cc dgux 5.4 AViiON gcc dgux 5.4R2.01 AViiON gcc dgux 5.4R2.10 AViiON gcc dgux 5.4R2.10 AViiON gcc 2.4.1 dgux 5.4R3.10 AViiON gcc gopher 3.2 i386 cc telescan 3.2 i386 gcc 2.5.7 ------------------------------ 8) Does freeWAIS-sf work with ... ------------------------------ 8.1) Can i use other wais clients to query a freeWAIS-sf server? Yes, all clients running the wais protocol (z39.50 V1 + adds) can query an freeWAIS-sf server. There is only one small incompatibility, which can be enabled during installation of freeWAIS-sf (default is: run compatible). This modification only applies to the document type URL and allows to customize the headline. The original handling uses the headline to store the URL. The modified freeWAIS-sf puts the URL in the document id field. But this handling currently is only supported by SFgate. ------------------------------ 8.2) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with gopher? Yes. Details for linking with gopher 2.1.1 and gopher 2.016 cand be found on the http server: http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/freeWAIS-sf/ Since freeWAIS-sf uses the same protocol than other wais systems linking with them is ok - as long as you use only the protocol part and do not try to do searches calling internal functions. ------------------------------ 8.3) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with Mosaic? Yes. No details yet - but it is not hard to do ;-) ------------------------------ 8.4) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with the cern httpd? Direct WAIS access for CERN httpd 3.0 is easy to provide with freeWAIS-sf 1.1. The only thing you need to do is rename the WAIS libraries in CERN httpd Makefile's. If you're a lucky guy and your system supports imake, you need to: Retrieve Rainer Klute's Imake extension to CERN httpd 3.0: ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/infosystems/www/cern/WWW-Imake.tar.gz Replace WWW.cf in the top-level directory with this code in http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/freeWAIS-sf/section3_13.html Update the location of your freeWAIS-sf code in WWW.cf (variable WAISDIR) If your system doesn't support imake, you need to update manually the WAIS libraries in the Makefile pertaining to your architecture and the top-level Makefile. And think about how easy life would be if only you had imake.