HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dgaraffa@bigmac.mskcc.org (Dave Garaffa)
Subject: Wais/Gopher Problem...???
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 09:57:06 EST
Organization: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais

I have a problem and I am not too sure where to post it so here goes....

Unix    : A/UX v3.0
Hardware: Quadra 950 w/16Meg
Software: gopher 1.0.3
          wais-8-b5


I am running gopher 1.0.3 and wais-8-b5, all *seemed* well.

Here is the problem:  When I do a wais search and I get LESS than 40
                      responces everything is A-OKAY!!!

                      But... *IF* I get MORE than 40-50... CORE DUMP
                      location of the CORE is my root gopher dir.

this ONLY happens when I do searches on MY OWN indexes...  when I use
gopher to connect to foo.bar.edu and search their indexes I never get
the CORE DUMP.  (note: I just tried using 'just' the waissearch
software and it still dumped core so it looks like a waisserver problem. 

Any info would be a BIG help....

Dave Garaffa
Manager Macintosh Information Center
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1-212-639-3738
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: snorman@den.mmc.com ( Stephen P. Norman )
Subject: SPARC waissearch & sockets
Keywords: wais, waissearch, sparc, sockets
Reply-To: snorman@den.mmc.com
Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:48:09 GMT

I have just built wais-8-b5 using cc on a SPARCstation 2/SunOS 4.1.1/
OpenWindows 3. All went well, although I cannot seem to talk to the 
outside world:

../bin/waissearch -h quake.think.com -p 210 -d directory-of-servers source
Connect to socket did not work (2): Permission denied
Error opening connection to quake.think.com via service 210.

The README indicates that this should work if I can telnet directly to
quake.think.com, which I can. Any ideas?

Steve Norman
Computer Technology Center
Martin Marietta Astronautics Group
PO Box 179
Denver CO 80201
303-971-6066
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.sys.sgi
From: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth)
Subject: Trying to build wais-8-b5 under IRIX 4.05
Organization: Yale University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:49:05 GMT

Can anyone enlighten me?

        cc -O -cckr -DSYSV -DUSG -DSECURE_SERVER -DRELEVANCE_FEEDBACK -c irfiles.c
ccom: Error: irfiles.c, line 924: syntax error
        if(0 !=  {link((temp_filename),( filename)); unlink((temp_filename)); })
      -----------^
ccom: Error: irfiles.c, line 924: syntax error
        if(0 !=  {link((temp_filename),( filename)); unlink((temp_filename)); })
      -------------------------------------------------------------------------^
ccom: Error: irfiles.c, line 927: redeclaration of waislog
            temp_filename, filename);
      ------------------------------^
ccom: Error: irfiles.c, line 927: Function declarator looks like function call
            temp_filename, filename);
      ------------------------------^
ccom: Error: irfiles.c, line 928: syntax error
        return(0);
      -------^
*** Error code 1

Stop.

TIA,

--
| Dave Schweisguth   Yale MB&B & Chemistry   Net: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu |
| Lab phone: 203-432-5208     Fax: 203-432-6144    Home phone: 203-624-3866 |
From: greenie@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Compiled version for VMS?
Date: 10 Nov 92 10:48:41 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

Does anyone know where I can get a COMPILED VMS version of the client/server?

Andy
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: Mathew L. Spolin <mspolin@cyber.hughes.american.edu>
Subject: REQUEST:  List of sources for Mac WAIStation
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A724AFA2A9019637@cyber.hughes.american.edu>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 10 Nov 92 05:15:30 GMT
Organization: Cybervision Productions
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:11:24 GMT

Sorry if this a FAQ, but could someone send me a list of more sources to
use with the Macintosh WAIStation other than think.com?

Thanks,
---Matt Spolin
   Washington DC
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: dduchier@csi.uottawa.ca (Denys Duchier)
Subject: Re: SPARC waissearch & sockets
Organization: Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Distribution: usa
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:10:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.204809.17040@den.mmc.com> snorman@den.mmc.com ( Stephen P. Norman ) writes:

 > I have just built wais-8-b5 using cc on a SPARCstation 2/SunOS 4.1.1/
 > OpenWindows 3. All went well, although I cannot seem to talk to the 
 > outside world:
 > 
 > ../bin/waissearch -h quake.think.com -p 210 -d directory-of-servers source
 > Connect to socket did not work (2): Permission denied
 > Error opening connection to quake.think.com via service 210.

I had the same problem and tracked in down to the fact that, in file
ir/sockets.c, the result of htons(port) wasn't being cast to an
unsigned short:

name.sin_port = (unsigned short) htons(port);

--Denys
From: catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: MIME
Date: 11 Nov 92 05:29:54 GMT
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
In-reply-to: peterson@choctaw.csc.ti.com's message of 10 Nov 92 21:19:17 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.211917.3210@csc.ti.com> peterson@choctaw.csc.ti.com (Bob Peterson) writes:

     I have an MS-DOS executable named metamail.exe.
     [...]
     I scanned the file for some indication of its origin, but I didn't
   find anything.  The strings seem very similar to those in the Unix
   executable.

You'll find it's home in thumper.bellcore.com:pub/nsb/dos.


- Tony
  catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu

Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
Subject: Re: SPARC waissearch & sockets
Organization: Draper Laboratory
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:37:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.204809.17040@den.mmc.com>,
snorman@den.mmc.com ( Stephen P. Norman ) writes:

>I have just built wais-8-b5 using cc on a SPARCstation 2/SunOS 4.1.1/
>OpenWindows 3. All went well, although I cannot seem to talk to the
>outside world:
>
>../bin/waissearch -h quake.think.com -p 210 -d directory-of-servers source
>Connect to socket did not work (2): Permission denied
>Error opening connection to quake.think.com via service 210.
>
>The README indicates that this should work if I can telnet directly to
>quake.think.com, which I can. Any ideas?

Check with your network administrator.  You may have a packet filter
that doesn't allow port 210 to go outside your site.  It may be letting
only specific ports through (like telnet and ftp).  If so, this is a
reasonable security measure.  You may have a job persuading your
network people that Z39.50 is a "safe" protocol.


--
Steve Bacher (Batchman)                 Draper Laboratory
Internet: seb@draper.com                Cambridge, MA, USA
Xref: sparky comp.infosystems.wais:623 alt.wais:744
From: rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu (Rich Travsky)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,alt.wais
Subject: Need Help Getting Started With WAIS
Date: 11 Nov 92 09:20:56 MST
Distribution: world
Organization: Banzai Institute

We're just getting started at our site with learning about WAIS. I have
some idea of what WAIS offers, and am currently trying to pin down
specifics. The problem is I'm not sure how to get oriented. I'm using
the PCWAIS package, and it has no documentation. Trial and error have
gotten me only so far. 

Does anyone have an introductory text on WAIS? Know of someplace that
has something like that? Thanks in advance!

+---------+    Richard Travsky   RTRAVSKY @ CORRAL.UWYO.EDU
|         |    Division of Information Technology
|     U W |    University of Wyoming   (307) 766 - 3663 / 3668
|      *  |    "Wyoming is the capital of Denver." - a tourist
+---------+    "One of those square states." - another tourist
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Subject: Re: X resources not properly installed
Reply-To: rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Organization: Design Systems Division, Evans & Sutherland, SLC, UT
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 07:29:58 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.034323.4725@umbc3.umbc.edu>
	finin@cujo.cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin) writes:
>At least, that's what xwais thinks.  I built and installed wais on an
>SGI, after a bit of fiddeling.  When I run xwais from our SGI server,
>it runs fine.  When I run it from any of our other SGI workstations,
>It pops up a window that complains "X resources not properly
>installed".

Its probably talking about its app-defaults file.  There are several
ways to work around this.

    1) Install the app-defaults file on every machine's
	/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults that might use xwais

    2) set the envarable XENVIRONMENT to point to the file directly

    3) modify XAPPLRESDIR, or one of the any other X environment
	variables that control the search path for finding X application
	defaults files.  These are described in the mound of X
	documentation somewhere; I believe they are definately
	discussed in the Xt manual that comes with X.

						-- Rich
-- 
		      Don't blame me; I voted Libertarian
Disclaimer: I speak for myself, except as noted; Copyright 1992 Rich Thomson
UUCP: ...!uunet!dsd.es.com!rthomson			Rich Thomson
Internet: rthomson@dsd.es.com	IRC: _Rich_		PEXt Programmer
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: davidw@mis.CSIRO.AU (David Woodgate)
Subject: Re: Wais/Gopher Problem...???
Originator: davidw@steps
Organization: CSIRO ITS
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 08:18:33 GMT


Dave Garren writes:

>I have a problem and I am not too sure where to post it so here goes....
>
>Unix    : A/UX v3.0
>Hardware: Quadra 950 w/16Meg
>Software: gopher 1.0.3
>          wais-8-b5
>
>
>I am running gopher 1.0.3 and wais-8-b5, all *seemed* well.
>
>Here is the problem:  When I do a wais search and I get LESS than 40
>                      responces everything is A-OKAY!!!
>
>                      But... *IF* I get MORE than 40-50... CORE DUMP
>                      location of the CORE is my root gopher dir.
>
>this ONLY happens when I do searches on MY OWN indexes...  when I use
>gopher to connect to foo.bar.edu and search their indexes I never get
>the CORE DUMP.  (note: I just tried using 'just' the waissearch
>software and it still dumped core so it looks like a waisserver problem. 

I'm not sure this is the same problem because I didn't try the
waissearch. However, this does sound similar to a problem I was
having.

In the gopher server "gopherd", line 514 of waisgopher.c 

	Abortoutput("returned message too large");

should be

	Abortoutput(sockfd,"returned message too large");

This cured my gopher core dumps.



						davidw
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.infosystems.gopher
From: gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert)
Subject: Boolean, literal and other biology data mods to WAIS 8b5 available
Organization: Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:06:07 GMT


I've mostly finished adding boolean operators 'and' and 'not', 
partial words, literal phrases, symbol matching and extended results
retrieval to WAIS source.  

These modifications can now be picked up via ftp or gopher to 
ftp.bio.indiana.edu. Look in folder IUBio Software+Data/util/wais  
for iubio-wais-8b5.tar.Z (full source) or iubio-wais-8b5.patch for 
a difference or patch file.  Internet Gopher users: you will want
to pick up the file /util/gopher/iubio-gopher-v1.patch to properly
use the biology data modifications to wais.

These modifications are based upon the publicly available WAIS
source distribution from ftp.think.com, version 8-b5, dated
10 May 92, by Harry Morris, Brewster Kahle and Jonathan Goldman.  

The boolean 'and' and the literal search code was borrowed mostly intact 
from the work done by Tim Gauslin on verson 8-b3 of wais source. 
This source is available thru ftp as
   ridgisd.er.usgs.gov:/software/wais/usgswais.tar
See the USGS_Earth_Science_Data_Directory.src WAIS source for more
details.

-- 
Don Gilbert                                     gilbert@bio.indiana.edu
biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405
From: pfgarvey@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Patrick F. Garvey)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: how to make wais
Date: 6 Nov 92 06:23:43 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana


   help ?!?

      i cannot seem to make wais. i am initially trying to set it up
 on an RS6000 running aix 3.2. i changed the CC variable to c89, instead
 of cc. When i try to make the system it blows up in my face. I am doing 
 this for an undergrad project, and i really only need to make the client,
 but i would like to eventually run a server. Has anyone done this on an
 RS6000 ? If so, i would be grateful for any guidance; either through a
 post or through e-mail.

      thanks,
        pat garvey
-- 
*** Pat Garvey ****************************************************************
*              aka...   pfgarvey@bsu-cs.bsu.edu    pfg@marvin.helpdesk.bsu.edu
*             pfgarvey@glee-rs6000.bsu.edu     pfgarvey@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu; etc.
******************* I support full VT100 emulation !!!! ***********************
From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: BUGFIX to my code to make wais use syslog
Date: 12 Nov 1992 21:02:19 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: pit-manager.mit.edu

I posted some patches earlier to make WAIS log with syslog instead of
just printing to stdout.

I have become dissatisfied with the method I used to translate WAIS
priority numbers info syslog priorities.  WAIS priorities go from 1 to
9, with 1 being the highest priority, and 9 being the lowest priority.
Originally, I made 1 LOG_ERR and 9 LOG_DEBUG, with even gradations in
between.

The problem with that is that none of the messages logged by wais
should be either LOG_ERR or LOG_WARNING messages, unless the message
type in the waislog command is a negative number (to indicate an
error).

Therefore, I've changed my code to use the range LOG_DEBUG through
LOG_NOTICE for non-error logging, and LOG_NOTICE through LOG_ERROR for
error logging.

A patch to my previous patch is below.

By the way, if you're using any of the patches I've posted, could you
drop me a line?  I'm interested in knowing if all the bother of
posting them is doing anybody any good :-).

*** 1.4	1992/06/11 18:37:20
--- ir/cutil.c	1992/11/12 20:43:43
***************
*** 588,615 ****
  	use_buffer = buffer;
        }
  
!       switch (priority) {
!       case 1:
!       case 2:
! 	log_priority = LOG_ERR;
! 	break;
!       case 3:
!       case 4:
! 	log_priority = LOG_WARNING;
! 	break;
!       case 5:
!       case 6:
! 	log_priority = LOG_NOTICE;
! 	break;
!       case 7:
!       case 8:
! 	log_priority = LOG_INFO;
! 	break;
!       default:
! 	log_priority = LOG_DEBUG;
! 	break;
        }
! 
        sprintf(use_buffer, "%d: %s", message, format);
        vsyslog(log_priority, use_buffer, ap);
      }
--- 588,623 ----
  	use_buffer = buffer;
        }
  
!       if (message < 0) {
! 	   /* Error message or warning */
! 	   if (priority >= 9) {
! 		log_priority = LOG_NOTICE;
! 	   }
! 	   else if (priority >= 5) {
! 		log_priority = LOG_WARNING;
! 	   }
! 	   else {
! 		priority = LOG_ERR;
! 	   }
        }
!       else {
! 	   switch (priority) {
! 	   case 1:
! 	   case 2:
! 	   case 3:
! 		log_priority = LOG_NOTICE;
! 		break;
! 	   case 4:
! 	   case 5:
! 	   case 6:
! 		log_priority = LOG_INFO;
! 		break;
! 	   default:
! 		log_priority = LOG_DEBUG;
! 		break;
! 	   }
!       }
!       
        sprintf(use_buffer, "%d: %s", message, format);
        vsyslog(log_priority, use_buffer, ap);
      }

-- 
Jonathan Kamens                                         jik@MIT.Edu
MIT Information Systems/Athena              Moderator, news.answers


Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: finin@cujo.cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
Subject: X resources not properly installed
Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:43:23 GMT

At least, that's what xwais thinks.  I built and installed wais on an
SGI, after a bit of fiddeling.  When I run xwais from our SGI server,
it runs fine.  When I run it from any of our other SGI workstations,
It pops up a window that complains "X resources not properly
installed".

At our site we put the core X programs (e.g. xterm) in /usr/bin/X11,
which goes onto the local disks of each of our SGI workstations.  The
non-core X programs, such as xwais, go into /usr/local/X11, which is
on the central SGI server.  Our users are told to make sure that both
directories are in their path.

So, I installed xwais and xwaisq in /usr/local/X11 and Xwais in
/usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults and in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults just
to be safe.  

When I run xwais from the server it comes from /usr/bin/X11 and works
fine.  WHen I run it from a worsktation it comes from
/usr/local/X11/xwais and I get the pop up window complaining that it
is not properly installed.

Any ideas, short of putting a copy the /usr/bin/X11 on each of our 75
SGI Indigo's?

Tim
From: tai@starbird.WPI.EDU (Lisa Taikitsadaporn)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: Advice needed concerning MS programs in IS/MIS/CIS.
Date: 12 Nov 1992 03:30:14 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: starbird.wpi.edu


I am writing to this group in search of some advice concerning graduate
programs in IS/MIS/CIS (whatever the difference is between those programs I'm
still not sure).

Currently I'm a senior at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester,
Mass.) doing a double major in computer science and management (bachelor's
of science).  I am looking to pursue a master's of science in IS.  I
recently subscribed to this group and noticed that many of you are
professionals in the field or are in the academics, and this seems to be the
right place to get my questions answered.  I would like some advice as to
which schools have strong programs in IS.  I am looking for programs that
would give a good balance between the technical and non-technical material
covered in their curriculum or have enough flexibility to allow me to
"design" my own curriculum which would still meet the institution's
requirements.  I tend to lean a little more on the technical side, which is
why I am not looking at MBA programs with concentrations in MIS.  

One other thing that I noticed as I looked though graduate school guides
(ie. the Peterson's guide), the bulk of the IS programs are listed under the
institution's graduate school of management.  However, there were a few that
were listed under institution XXX's school of computer and information
science or school of information studies.  From the point of view of the
industry/employers which would be better - getting an MS in IS from XXX's
graduate school of management or YYY's school of computer and information
science? 

In terms of career paths for budding IS professionals, what is the trend? 
What will be the demand of people of these skills, what are the job 
opportunities in the next 5 years like?  If you were to advise a student on 
preparing for a career in this field, what would you tell him or her such 
that by the time they have completed their degree they would be very 
"marketable."

I hope that by posing my questions on this newsgroup I will be able to get
the point of views from both the academics and the professionals in the
industry.  I am looking at pursuing a career in this field after graduate
school.

FYI:
My areas of interest include system design/analysis/implementation, software
engineering, applied expert systems, decision support systems,
human-computer interface (user interface point of view) and object-oriented
design (I have no prior experience in this what so ever, but would like to
find out and learn these new design concepts).

Please reply to me directly at tai@wpi.wpi.edu.  Any useful suggestions and
advice would be very appreciated.


Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Lisa Taikitsadaporn

Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
From: aprins@athena.research.ptt.nl (Prins A.)
Subject: Info for information (text) retrieval software with thesaurus.
Keywords: Thesaurus, Information (text) retrieval system
Organization: PTT Research
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:24:45 GMT


Hello,

I'm constructing an (information) (text)-retrieval system at the Free 
University in Amsterdam the Netherlands (for my PhD). In my preliminary 
investigation I have to use a (prototype) text-retrieval system with a 
thesaurus.  Does anyone know (or has experience with) a (prototype) 
text-retrieval system that uses a thesaurus (in Public domain or as 
commercial software).

Thanking you in advance,


Aris Prins,
Dr. Neher Laboratory,       Telephone (070) 3323371        
St. Paulusstraat 4,         Telefax   (070) 3326477
Postbus 421                 Telex     31236 rnl nl
2260 AK Leidschendam,     
The Netherlands.

You can send mail to:

a.r.prins@research.ptt.nl   (At the PTT-research center)  or
aprins@cs.vu.nl             (At the Free University in Amsterdam).
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:21:05 EST
From: Mike Rampton <MRAMPTON@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: Communication problems in IS

Well, it seems that this discussion has presented a problem that exists to a
great extent in IS systems: communication.  What is said and what is
understood can be two totally different things.  The student simply said that
he saw the question on his midterm and was wondering what the correct answer
was.  He did not specify what type of test (in-class, take-home) and this
seems to be what caused the discussion.  Now it was my understanding that the
test had been given in class.  However, I came to this conclusion based upon
the types of tests that I have been given as an undergrad, grad and what was
contained in the message.  Obviously others did not read the message the
same way.  It would seem that how one interprets the message might be
dependent upon what group they are a part of.  It was my impression that the
participating professors saw the worst after reading the initial "cheating"
messae posted by a professor.  What if this had been a management/employee
problem?  In my opinion, it mingt keep people from using an IS system for
inquiries if they are constantly assumed to be up to no good.  Obviously
there was no one person at fault in this example.  One person was specific
emough while another jumped to their own conclusion.  In an IS environment
where everyone is 1's and 0's, it is important to avoid relying on certain
processes used in decision making when dealing with people face to face or
over the phone.  Being vague can lead to incomplete information resulting
in a poor decision.  Anyone else interested in how IS systems affect
communication?

M. Rampton
-----

     Calvin: "Boy, what a day!  I went to school, played outside, and did my
              homework.  I'm exausted.  You know what time it is now?"
        Dad: "Uh, 7:35."
     Calvin: "It's Miller Time."
        Dad: "GET BACK HERE!"
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:14:47 EST
From: Eduardo M. Tirado <ET3327A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: Re: programming courses

Carla, I think it is good to know something about programming, but you don't ha
ve to be programmer in order to understand what, when and how to implement tech
nical tools.  When making computer solutions to a problem, you always need peop
le that know about programming and some that understands the business side.  Yo
u have to choose which one to specialize in.  Later by working with it you prpa
bly will gain knowledge about the other side.  But some knowledge about what is
 available is not a bad idea.

If your main interest is on the business side, I think you should concentrate o
n that and then later get more into the technical aspects.
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems