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From: pfeifer
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.answers,news.answers
Subject: freeWAIS-sf Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ] with answers
Supersedes: <freeWAIS-sf-faq-1-803619729@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
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Revision: 1.7 1995/07/04 12:16:53
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 some Documentation?
2.6) Where can I get freeWAIS-sf?
2.7) Where can I get documentation about freeWAIS-sf?
2.8) 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) Gopher Error: Nothing Available!
8.4) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with Mosaic?
8.5) 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 ...
------------------------------
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 had to close it for the
public - for the big files at least. 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/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.
There is a prerelease of 1.2. It may bug on your machine. Mine is
completely happy with it ;-)
------------------------------
2.5) Where can I get some Documentation?
Write some - and share! Especially extensions to the Texinfo manual
are very welcome.
The old documentation:
http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/freeWAIS-sf/
A paper I wrote:
http://www.igd.fhg.de/www/www95/papers/47/fwsf/fwsf.html
The Texinfo-Manual:
ftp://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/wais/freeWAIS-sf-1.2/
36680 Jun 29 15:39 /home/robots/ftp/pub/wais/freeWAIS-sf-1.2/fwsf.dvi.gz
25319 Jun 29 15:39 /home/robots/ftp/pub/wais/freeWAIS-sf-1.2/fwsf.info.gz
78828 Jun 29 15:39 /home/robots/ftp/pub/wais/freeWAIS-sf-1.2/fwsf.ps.gz
26054 Jun 29 15:38 /home/robots/ftp/pub/wais/freeWAIS-sf-1.2/fwsf.texi.gz
------------------------------
2.6) Where can I get freeWAIS-sf?
You can fetch them from
ftp://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/wais/
38779 Jun 29 15:39 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 1994 SFgate-3.3.tar.gz
46564 Jan 4 19:02 SFgate-3.4.tar.gz
51882 Apr 8 15:15 SFgate-3.5.tar.gz
53060 Apr 24 17:20 SFgate-3.6.tar.gz
61606 Jun 28 18:46 SFgate-4.0pre.tar.gz
852114 Jan 4 15:33 client-toolkit-EZ-2.2.1.tar.gz
512 Dec 2 1994 directory-of-servers
512 May 27 1994 essence
512 Apr 18 20:06 fmt-examples
512 Jan 10 17:31 freeWAIS-sf-1.0
512 Feb 10 11:49 freeWAIS-sf-1.1
512 Jun 29 15:39 freeWAIS-sf-1.2
41466 Mar 30 13:39 freeWAIS-sf.ps.gz
5675 Oct 5 1994 gopher2.016.patch.gz
12797 Aug 8 1994 waisperl-0.2.1.tar.gz
12767 Jun 22 1994 waisperl-0.2.tar.gz
14856 May 2 12:09 waisperl5-0.3.1.tar.gz
38970 Nov 3 1994 waisperl5-0.3.tar.gz
30113 Nov 24 1994 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.
------------------------------
2.7) 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.
------------------------------
2.8) 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
158 Apr 13 10:37 WRb.fde
969 Apr 13 10:37 WRb.fmt
3049 Apr 13 10:37 WRb.text
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
483 Apr 18 20:06 proxy-html.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:
75251 May 23 15:27 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 May 9 19:30 XwaisHELP
6218 May 9 19:30 XwaisqHELP
512 May 9 19:30 app-defaults
512 Apr 8 17:53 emacs
$DESTDIR/lib/app-defaults:
19718 May 9 19:30 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:
<record-end> /\L/
<layout>
<headline> /^From: / /\J/ 20 /^From: ./
<headline> /^Subject: / /\J/ 80 /^Subject: ./
<end>
<field> /^From: /
from SOUNDEX LOCAL TEXT BOTH
<end> /\J/
<field> /^Subject: /
subject stemming TEXT BOTH
<end> /\J/
Run 'waisindex -d mail -t fields <files>'
------------------------------
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:
<record-end> /(<.BODY>|<.HTML>)/
<layout>
<headline> /<TITLE>/ /<\/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 double '\'!
------------------------------
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:
Release 0.9.10
AIX 2 ********** cc
SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m gcc 2.5.8
Release 1εY
SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m gcc 2.4.2
Release 1.0
A/UX 3.1 mc68040 gcc 2.5.7
A/UX 3.1.1 mc68040 gcc 2.5.7
AIX 2 ********** cc
AIX 2 ********** gcc
BSD/386 1.0 i386 gcc
BSD/386 1.1 i386 gcc
BSD/OS 2.0 i386 gcc
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 9000/720 gcc 2.5.8
HP-UX A.09.01 9000/755 gcc 2.5.8
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
HP-UX A.09.05 9000/735 gcc 2.6.3
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 IP19 cc
IRIX 5.2 IP20 cc
IRIX 5.2 IP22 cc
IRIX 5.2 IP22 gcc 2.5.8
IRIX 5.3 IP19 gcc 2.5.8
IRIX 5.3 IP20 cc
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 1.1.18 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 2.6.0
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 1.1.72 i486 gcc 2.5.8
Linux 1.1.73 i486 gcc 2.5.8
Linux 1.1.73 i586 gcc 2.5.8
Linux 1.1.75 i486 gcc 2.5.8
Linux 1.1.75 i486 gcc 2.6.2
Linux 1.1.82 i486 gcc 2.5.8
Linux 1.1.85 i486 gcc 2.6.2
Linux 1.1.87 i486 gcc 2.5.8
Linux 1.1.88 i486 gcc 2.5.8
Linux 1.2.0 i486 gcc 2.5.8
Linux 1.2.1 i386 gcc 2.5.8
Linux 1.2.1 i486 gcc 2.5.8
Linux 1.2.1 i486 gcc 2.6.2
Linux 1.2.3 i486 gcc 2.5.8
Linux 1.2.8 i486 gcc 2.7.0
Linux 1.2.9 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 V2.1 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
OSF1 V3.2 alpha cc
OSF1 V3.2 alpha gcc
OSF1 V3.2 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-JL sun4c gcc 2.6.2
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 2.5.7
SunOS 4.1.2 sun4c gcc 2.5.8
SunOS 4.1.2 sun4c gcc cygnus-2.3.3
SunOS 4.1.3 sun4 gcc 2.5.7
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 2.2.2
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 2.6.3
SunOS 4.1.3-JL sun4c gcc 2.5.8
SunOS 4.1.3-JL sun4m gcc 2.5.8
SunOS 4.1.3-JL sun4m gcc 2.6.3
SunOS 4.1.3C sun4m gcc 2.5.7
SunOS 4.1.3C sun4m gcc 2.5.8
SunOS 4.1.3_Axil sun4m gcc 2.6.0
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 sun4c gcc 2.6.2
SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m cc
SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m gcc
SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m gcc 2.3.3
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 sun4 gcc 2.6.3
SunOS 4.1.4 sun4c gcc 2.6.3
SunOS 5.2 sun4c gcc 2.5.6
SunOS 5.2 sun4m gcc 2.5.6
SunOS 5.3 sun4c cc
SunOS 5.3 sun4c gcc 2.5.6
SunOS 5.3 sun4c gcc 2.5.8
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
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8) Does freeWAIS-sf work with ...
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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.
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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.
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8.3) Gopher Error: Nothing Available!
Do a "waisindex -export ...". It is important that the host and
port information is compiled into the *.src file, EVEN IF THE
SEARCHES ARE LOCAL! I have my gopher, wais , and all the databases
all on the same machine. It is also important that the waisserver
is running.
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8.4) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with Mosaic?
Yes. No details yet - but it is not hard to do ;-)
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8.5) 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.