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From: hardin@dino.mcc.com (John Hardin)
Subject: Re: Re-writing WAISStation
Organization: MCC ISD, Austin, Texas
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:33:49 GMT

T.J. Fiske (tfiske@qualcom.qualcomm.com) writes:
>  
>  It appears that there is going to be no new versions of the WAIS Station
>  for those WAIS users from Macintosh environment.  I'm not sure if I am the
>  only person that has experienced some rather pecular problems with WAIS station
>  mis-understanding my Sources, and holding onto queries, and combineing them.
>  
>  I have been given the go ahead to start reworking the current WAIS station.
>  With an installed base of over 400 macintosh users, we need to have a product
>  that is stable enough so as to not create more questions than answers.
>  
>  Before I start work on this, I wanted to see if anyone else has 1) experience
>  the same problems, or other problems I should address.  2) Has someone else
>  started re-writting and has some input?  3) Will the new protocol have a new
>  WAISStation written as well, from Think?
>  

As I posted here a few weeks ago, we at MCC are, among many other
things related to WAIS, developing a *new* client for the Macintosh
(called, for now, "MacWAIS").  (We're also developing a *new* client
for Windows named "WinWAIS".)  MacWAIS alleviates several of the
shortcomings of WAIStation.  MacWAIS's single biggest feature (IMHO)
is that it (under System 7) allows applications to be launched to
process retrieved WAIS documents.  (And this is *completely*
user-extensible.)  For example, MacWAIS can be set up so giffer will
be launched with weather maps retrieved from weather.src (i.e., WAIS
documents of type "GIF"); TeachText can be launched with documents
retrieved from sample-pictures.src (i.e., WAIS documents of type
"PICT").  And so on.  If you have any specific questions about
MacWAIS's (or WinWAIS's) capabilities please feel free to ask.

As I mentioned in our previous posting, we're working out the details
of making these new WAIS clients available to the public.  I had hoped
to have had the details completed by now, but the holidays put a
"torpedo into the magazine" of those plans.  But we're not far away.
I'll certainly keep y'all (Texas slang for "each of you" :-) informed.
 
Some of our other WAIS work includes the addition of Kerberos
authentication to the WAIS init protocol; thus, servers can accept
connections from properly authenticated clients ONLY.  We've also
implemented ACLs (Access Control Lists) so WAIS servers can regulate
access to documents based on the authenticated user's identification
(which can be different from user to user).  We're working these sorts
of security issues with Jim Fulton and the CNIDR group.

-jwh
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: francois@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Francois Schiettecatte)
Subject: wais and AUX
Organization: Welch Medical Library
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:04:24 GMT


I would like to hear from anyone who had gotten 
the wais server (-8-b5) running on Apple's 
AUX 3.0 Specifically I would like to know
which C compiler was used and what changes 
need to be made to the source code for it
to compile correctly.


thanks

Francois Schiettecatte
Software Engineer
Advanced Technology Group
Welch Medical Library
Johns Hopkins University
Internet: francois@library.welch.jhu.edu
Phone	: (410) 955-7581

Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: s.budd@imperial.ac.uk (Mr S. Budd)
Subject: SGI  xwais compilation problems
Reply-To: s.budd@imperial.ac.uk (Mr S. Budd)
Organization: Imperial College
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 18:59:20 GMT


I am running a SGI  IRIX 4.0.5
with X11R5  software.

We are trying to compile  wais-8-b5.1 


I would appreciate knowing what Makefiles
and Imakefiles will work with the OS/X11 system.

Regards
S.budd@imperial.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: chrisc@bu.oz.au (Chris Christoff)
Subject: New source list document
Organization: ITS, Bond University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:28:43 GMT

I have released a new version of the WAIS source description
document, valid for WAIS sources in the Directory-of-Servers prior to
Nov 23 1992.

You can ftp the document from kirk.bu.oz.au (131.244.1.1), directory
pub/Bond_Uni/doc/wais.

This directory has the WAIS source description document. The document is
in 2 parts, one a list of WAIS sources and their descriptions grouped
into categories (the src-list) and the other the sources and
descriptions listed in alphabetical order (the annex).

There is a compressed postscript (.ps.Z) and a text version (.txt). 
The postscript version had to be compressed as I am running out of disk 
space in this ftp archive.

There is also a Microsoft Word (ver 5.0) for Macintosh version of both
documents in the .sit.hqx archive.

annex.ps.Z
annex.txt
src-list.ps.Z
src-list.txt
list_and_annex.sit.hqx

If you have any trouble, email me.

Cheers,

Chris

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From: kean@cerridwen.UCS.ORST.EDU (Kean Stump)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: New source list document
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:24:09 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: University Computing Services, OSU
NNTP-Posting-Host: cerridwen.ucs.orst.edu

In article <1993Jan5.082843.12204@kirk.bu.oz.au> chrisc@bu.oz.au (Chris Christoff) writes:
>I have released a new version of the WAIS source description
>document, valid for WAIS sources in the Directory-of-Servers prior to
>Nov 23 1992.
>
>You can ftp the document from kirk.bu.oz.au (131.244.1.1), directory
>pub/Bond_Uni/doc/wais.
>
>annex.ps.Z annex.txt src-list.ps.Z src-list.txt list_and_annex.sit.hqx
>

These documents are available (on this side of the Pacific) from 
archive.orst.edu:pub/doc/wais (128.193.4.2:pub/doc/wais, for the dns-impaired).

Kean

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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us (Mitra)
Subject: Re: where can I ftp the sco-patch for wais
Organization: Pandora Systems
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:40:52 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

: I saw there must have been an article about a sco-patch for wais, about 600
: lines long, a pity that expire already killed it...
: 
: Where can I find it and ftp it?

It can be ftp-ed from:

ftp://pandora.sf.ca.us/pub/patches/wais

Please let me know of any problems with it.

- Mitra

Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: conover@netcom.com (John Conover)
Subject: wais exec sources
Keywords: wais exec sources
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:40:15 GMT

Excuse me for just joining this conference now, but is wais
available to the general public, if so where are the sources?
If not, is it available as exec's?

Thanks,
john@netcom.com

Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: len@gibbon.cornell.edu (Lenny Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,alt.wais
Subject: waisindex for private use
Date: 11 Jan 1993 23:58:13 GMT
Organization: Cornell University CIT
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gibbon.cit.cornell.edu

I'd like to use wais to index my own mailfiles, extractions from newsgroups,
etc.  I made an index using waisindex, and I'm able to search it with
waissearch, but when waissearch types an article, it simply cat's it to
the screen, instead of paging it in some sensible manner.

Does anyone reading this newsgroup know how to get waisindex/waissearch
to behave in a more friendly way?

thanks in advance
Lenny Silver
From: kean@cerridwen.UCS.ORST.EDU (Kean Stump)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: Trouble with comp.archives.src?
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:14:02 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services, OSU
NNTP-Posting-Host: cerridwen.ucs.orst.edu

I'm sorry for the delay in responding.  Christmas break and
then the flood of problems associated with returning students
have delayed this problem resolution.

waisserver segmentation faults when searching several of the
databases on archive.orst.edu, including comp.archives.

We're working on the problem this week.

kean
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: leon@base.bellcore.com (Leon Shklyar)
Subject: problems with compiling "mxwais"
Organization: Bell Communications Research
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 18:42:46 GMT

Hi,

I tried to build "mxwais" and failed because the make file, which
I have extracted from think.com:/wais/motif-a1.tar.Z, expects
to find ui.a in the wais bin directory. I have just built wais,
and the bin directory only contains client.a, inv.a, libftw.a, bin/sig.a,
bin/wais.a. Even if I define all these to the cc command, I still get
the following unresolved references:

   _writeWAISPacketHeader 
   _twais_dsply_rsp_apdu 
   _ceil 
   _readWAISPacketHeader 

I would appreciate any help.

Thank you,

Leon Shklyar

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From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Public CM WAIS Server now gives help
Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:48:59 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bug-public@think.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: charon.think.com


The Public CM WAIS Server on cmns.think.com now returns a help
document as the last result (score = 1) for every query. Server logs
showed that many would-be users of the public server had no idea how
to proceed. This mechanism is an attempt to improve the situation.
Please take a look at the new document and e-mail your suggestions for
improvement to bug-public@think.com.

You should be able to retrieve the document by searching any public
server source (including public-cm-server.src, bible.src,
info-mac.src, info-nets.src, scsi-2.src, and many others) for anything
or nothing at all. The help document will be last in the list of
results. 

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        the ease with which such crazed rumors could spread.
From: GQ.JAN@forsythe.stanford.edu (Tony Navarrete)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: CWIS Project Leader position available
Date: 4 Jan 1993 11:45:59 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

The Stanford Data Center at Stanford University is developing
Portfolio - a Campus Wide Information System (CWIS) that will extend
and enhance the functions of Folio (SU's current CWIS).

The Portfolio Project Leader will manage & coordinate the design &
development of Portfolio.

For details on this position, see the posting on ALT.GOPHER.
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: hrp@cray.com (Hal Peterson)
Subject: Trouble with comp.archives.src?
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:44:43 CST

I haven't gotten a response from comp.archives.src for three or four
weeks now.  When I try to use it with xwaisq, I get a connection but
then no results come back; the world just spins madly for hours, if I
let it go.  When I try to use it with swais, I get a connection and
then "0 results".  Is anybody else running into this?  Is it broken?

Here's the description I'm using:

    (:source
     :version 3
     :ip-name "archive.orst.edu"
     :tcp-port 9000
     :database-name "comp.archives"
     :cost 0.00 
     :cost-unit :free 
     :maintainer "wais@archive.orst.edu"
     :description "This source contains all of comp.archives from the beginning of Ed
    Vielmetti's work through last night at 7pm.

    No limits on access time are currently in effect, though this may change
    with system load.

    Comments and questions to archivist@archive.orst.edu

    --kean"
    )

Help!						Hal
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From: asher@wam.umd.edu (Yes it's me....Asher)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Boolean searches on WAIS
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:33:25 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park


	Hi !

		I'm new to WAIS and was wondering if there is any
	way to do Booleans searches on WAIS. More specifically, I'm
	interested in 'AND'. For example, if I want to know about 
	IBM tapes, is there any way I can specify to get articles that
	deal with IBM AND tapes ??? Any help on this would be greatly
	appreciated. Thanks.


							.......Asher.
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will)
Subject: where can I ftp the sco-patch for wais
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:24:17 GMT
Summary: where can I ftp sco-wais-patches or anything wais-like for sco?
Keywords: wais,sco

Hello,

I saw there must have been an article about a sco-patch for wais, about 600
lines long, a pity that expire already killed it...

Where can I find it and ftp it?

Are there any sco-interactive-wais or gopher or anything alike to be ftped?

Any information highly welcome, Michael Will from HH92
PS: eMail would be nice
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: zakon@hicup.mitre.org (Robert H Zakon)
Subject: List of waisindex file types?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:37:29 GMT

Is a list being maintained somewhere of the additional file types
created by net people for waisindex?  I am looking for a way to
index world92 and for some general hints on how best to index
literature such as that put out by the Gutenberg project.

Please reply directly to rzakon@mitre.org

Thanks,
   Robert H'obbes' Zakon
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: lotozo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William A Lotozo)
Subject: Installing waisserver
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:56:41 GMT


I am trying to bring up a waisserver.  I've compiled the programs and 
installed waisserver.d.  I created several databases with wais indexes
(via waisindex).  When I use the Mac or pc wais clients, I am able to 
successfully connect to my waisserver and query and retrieve documents
from my newly created wais index/doc files (.inv .dct ...).

When I try to use swais I get a error message "Bad server" and the following
is placed in the "bad server" log file.

12967: 0: Jan 10 05:25:24 1993: 1: Accepted connection from: app1.us.ohio-state.edu [128.146.15.11], WAIS release 8 b5
12967: 999999: Jan 10 05:25:24 1993: -1: Fatal Error:    checkPtr found a NULL pointer
13069: 0: Jan 10 16:31:49 1993: 1: Accepted connection from: top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu [128.146.216.15], WAIS release 8 b5
13069: 999999: Jan 10 16:31:49 1993: -1: Fatal Error:    checkPtr found a NULL pointer


Does anyone have any idea why my server would work with pc/mac clients but 
not swais?  The server is on a hp9000/827.  The swais is on a the same machine
and I have also tried the swais on a ultrix machine.  In both instances, the
swais program was successful against sources on other machines.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bill Lotozo
lotozo+@osu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Grouping Sources
From: baragry@amdahl1.lat.oz.au (Jason Baragry)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:06:13 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

G'Day,

	I was wondering if it is possible to group sources into subjects.
I use XWais and if, for instance, I want to locate a technial report or
journal article on a particular subject I have to choose about 6 different
sources to search through. What I would like to be able to do would be to
group all those sources together and simply chose that source group whenever
I wanted to look for technical reports.

	Is this possible? Has someone done this? Which bits of the source
can I hack to do it?

thanks,

Jason.
From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Complete source files for Macintosh WAIStation available
Date: 11 Jan 1993 15:03:19 -0500
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation


A complete set of WAIS source files for the Macintosh WAIStation is
now available by anonymous ftp from think.com, in the file
/public/wais/wais-sources.sea.hqx. This file is a BinHexed
self-extracting archive containing all the same source descriptions as
wais-sources.tar.Z, converted to WAIStation source documents.

After you download and unpack this archive, you'll want WAIStation to
recognize (some of) the new sources. There are at least two ways to do
this:

1. The slow way: Run WAIStation. Choose "Open Source..." from the
Source menu for each source that you want added to your source list.
Close each one without changing it, and it will appear in your source
list. 

2. The faster way: With WAIStation *not* running, select all the
sources you want added (but not more than a couple dozen at a time)
and choose Open from the Finder's File menu. WAIStation will start up
and will open all the selected sources. Close the stack of open source
windows. (Command-W will close one, so just repeat until they're all
gone.)

How this was done (in case you want to do it yourself in the future):

1. Download the latest wais-sources.tar.Z from /public/wais to your
favorite Unix box. Expand it:

	zcat wais-sources.tar.Z | tar xvf -

2. Download the resulting .src files from your Unix box to your Mac.
If you use Fetch, add a suffix mapping for .src with file type = WSRC
and file creator = WAIS. If you don't use Fetch, use a bulk file type
setting utility such as FileTyper, File Fanatic, or BunchTyper to fix
up the file type and creator.

Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: kshaddri@nic.cerf.net (Kelley Shaddrick)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: PC Software Standards
Date: 7 Jan 1993 02:30:39 GMT
Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer Group
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.cerf.net

The company that I work for is in the middle of growing pains. I have been
asked to determine what the policy should be for the purchase of PC
related software within the company.

The group I manage supports all PC's, workstations, servers, and midrange
computers within our company. We currently have "standards" for hardware.

Where we don't have "standards" or "recommendations" in place is the
software area. This is the problem we're trying to get our arms around.

Do we set "standards" that must be followed and then support that software,
or do we set "recommendations" to follow but you can still buy what you
want, although we only support the recommended software?

I'm looking for input from anyone who's gone down this road. What choices
did you make? Why did you go that route? If you did standardize, how did
you deal with the folks who were using non-standard software?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Kelley Shaddrick
kshaddri@cerf.net
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
From: kaskubar@mayo.edu (Bruce Kaskubar)
Subject: Scheduling problem
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 19:53:26 GMT

Problem shape...

I'm a medical center.  I have an (out)patient in a clinic that  
needs medical services (like a chest X-ray, a blood draw for  
laboratory tests, a consultation with a physician, and an EKG).  I  
have locations where specified services can be performed.  I have  
staff people certified to provide specified services.  I can  
perform a certain volume of each service per unit time.  Each  
service may interact with other services in relationships such as  
prerequisite, postrequisite, result conflict (i.e., service A's  
performance invalidates service B's result if A is performed during  
specified time period relative to B).  For each patient's set of  
ordered services, I want a computer to build, say, an itinerary  
including location, date, time, and service provider.

Solution?

The solution appears amenable to knowledge-based systems, no?  If  
so, where can I find a body of work that describes algorithms for  
solution to such a problem?

Thanks
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 and BBS software
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:18:34 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.213753.9390@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
> >> 
> >> >OS/2 v2.x is an excellent platform for what Kevin is trying to do. There is 
> >> >OS/2 version of Maximus that does the job very well.
....
> >> Note that this does, however, have the problem of not allowing the use
> >> of most 'doors' (which are written to run on DOS) or of a lot of the
> >> Opus-compatible utilities that Maximus on DOS should be able to run.
....
> >I'm sure there are ways to do this.  As for the doors they should be able to
> >be run by shelling out a command.com /c doorprogram and OS/2 will just load
> >a temporary DOS session for that program under the OS/2 session.  I've done
....
> I believe that the problem is that there is no way to give the serial
> port as input to the shelled DOS session -- because the OS/2
> application window running the BBS has it.  Multitasking OS's won't
> let you hand hardware assets around like that.  I've been told that
> there is a way around this using OS2YOU, but I've never used that so
> couldn't state this absolutely.

If the OS/2 BBS software was multi-threaded, a thread may be able to spin off
(spawn?) another which could be the Door program.....and received the serial
port input. Multi-threaded BBS software could monitor any number of serial
ports and kick off quite a few doors with out any great problems. I have read
the OS/2 redbooks on this general subject and it seems that - conceptually -
this is consistent with what i read. 
 
OS/2 apps have the potential to blow the DOS equivalents away. We just have to
write the software. 
 
A group here in Wellington is being organised to write just such a BBS....:-)

Steve
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