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- @@@STARTPACK(freeWAIS;Wide Area Information Server)
-
- <P> The freeWAIS-sf distribution contains clients, servers, and auxiliary
- programs for the TCP/IP protocol known as WAIS. The distribution is
- focussed on the WAIS server waisserver and the indexer waisindex. Clients
- are distributed only for convenience. You can use any WAIS client to query
- the freeWAIS-sf server. </P>
-
- <P> A WAIS System consists of clients talking to a server via an TCP/IP
- network using the WAIS protocol. Servers answer search requesta using
- auxiliary data structures called the index. These are created for the
- original documents by the waisindex program. Retrieve-requests are answered
- by the server fetching (parts of) the original files. As set of documents
- together with their associate index is called a WAIS database.</P>
-
- @@@UW2DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/net/)
- @@@OSR5DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/net/freeWAIS-sf/)
- @@@SOURCE(ftp://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/wais/freeWAIS-sf/)
- @@@HOMEPAGE(http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/ir/projects/freeWAIS-sf/)
- @@@ENDPACK
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-