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From: sukumar@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Sukumar Rathnam)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: ICIS 1992
Date: 30 Sep 92 00:48:44 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas


From: denise langione <B3LR0001%SMUVM1@vm.cis.smu.edu>
Organization: Southern Methodist University

The Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) will be held
December 13-16, 1992 at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas, Texas.

The Conference is focused on research related to the use and management of
information and information technology within organizations.  A world-wide
community of information systems scholars and practitioners will attend.

This year's conference will offer 5 parallel tracks including:11 paper sessions
22 tutorials, panels, and workshops; and 8 sessions on research-in-progress.
Plenary speakers will be Professor F. Warren McFarlan of the Harvard Business
School; and Les Alberthal, CEO of Electronic Data Systems.

The theme of ICIS '92 will be: "The Year 2001: An Information Technology
Odyssey."  The conference will look ahead to the potential roles that
Information Technology (IT) can play in business, society, and education,
including the pursuit of quality management and an educated populace. ICIS '92
provides a forum to explain research that demonstrates IT's potential
contribution to the 21st Century.

For further information and registration details, please contact:

    ICIS-Dallas Headquarters: (214) 692-3252 / 
    On Bitnet: B3LR0001@SMUVM1
    On Internet: B3LR0001@SMUVM1.bitnet
From: joshua@cc.uow.edu.au (Poh Onn Joshua Fan)
Subject: Looking for Prof. Dani A. C. Foo
Keywords: Foo
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 08:21:16 GMT



Prof. Dani A.C. Foo
Business Information Systems
University of Eastern Asia



Can you please contact


Prof. Michael Gaffikin
Department of Accountancy
University of Wollongong
Northfields Avenue
Wollongong
N.S.W.
Australia 2522
Phone: 042-213718
Fax: 042-213097
E-mail: gaffikin@uow.edu.au


Thanks!

Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
From:  vic@liceum.udmurtia.su (Shirobokov Andrey)
Subject: Teenagers from Russia look for friends.
Reply-To: vic@liceum.udmurtia.su
Organization: liceum
Date: Tue,  6 Oct 92 17:29:14 +0400 

     Everybody who is interested in problems of finn-ugorish
     nationalities, their culture, traditions and customs!
     We are teenagers(15-16) and study at Humanitarian Lice-
     um udmurt language and literature, history of Udmurt
     Republic (in Russia) and of udmurt people, problems of
     ethnogenesis of our nationalities.We would like to dis-
     cuss problems of the past, the present and the future
     of finn-ugorish nationalities. Everybody will be wel-
     come to discussions.

     e-mail: vic@liceum.udmurtia.su


Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: dsr@bnr.co.uk ()
Subject: Patches
Reply-To: dsr@bnr.co.uk ()
Organization: BNR Europe Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, GB
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:33:33 GMT

Is there somewhere I can get patches for the WAIS system?

Dave


   Dave Riches
   Email:  David.S.Riches@bnr.co.uk
   Smail:  BNR Europe Ltd, London Road,
           Harlow, Essex. CM17 9NA.  England
   Phone:  +44 (0)279-402496
   Fax:    +44 (0)279-451434
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox)
Subject: Re: Basic info/questions about WAIS, etc. (sorry if FAQs)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:53:16 GMT

	While I grasp WAIS in principle and consider it a wonderful tool,
I find that in practice I can't use it worth a damn.  In particular, choosing
and using databases is exceptionally difficult, and even the most elementary
searches pose problems (I've mostly used the swais server on quake.think.com).

	Could a kind soul post one or more examples of intelligent use of
WAIS, starting with how to locate databases, how to conduct the search on
a particular server, retrieve files, etc.?  I have a feeling that there are
many others out there who are, like me, WAIS-impaired and would benefit 
enormously from such postings.

	Thanks,


-- 
				Tom Maddox
		    	    tmaddox@netcom.com
		"The Reptoids eat humans like we eat chickens."
				Alex Alexander
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: paulf@manor.demon.co.uk (Paul Fawcett)
Subject: PCWAIS
Distribution: world
Organization: UDI
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:44:18 +0000



I have had a couple of requests for the ftp location 
of this software. 

Archie says :-

Host samba.acs.unc.edu   (128.109.157.30)
Last updated 00:11 18 Sep 1992

    Location: /pub/wais/UNC/DOS
      FILE      rw-r--r--    159391  Aug 13 09:15   pcdist.zip

Host orion.oac.uci.edu   (128.200.15.20)
Last updated 21:15 16 Sep 1992

    Location: /ntslib/msdos/wais
      FILE      rw-r--r--    159391  Aug 21 16:59   pcdist.zip

Host plaza.aarnet.edu.au   (139.130.4.6)
Last updated 19:29 16 Sep 1992

    Location: /wais/UNC/DOS
      FILE      r--r--r--    159391  Aug 13 09:15   pcdist.zip




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Paul Fawcett                 |      Internet: paulf@manor.demon.co.uk
London, U.K.                 |                tenec@sun.pcl.ac.uk
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From: catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: PCWAIS
Date: 3 Oct 92 04:37:27 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
In-reply-to: paulf@manor.demon.co.uk's message of 30 Sep 92 18:44:18 GMT

In article <717895893snx@manor.demon.co.uk> paulf@manor.demon.co.uk (Paul Fawcett) writes:

   I have had a couple of requests for the ftp location 
   of this software. 

The original pcwais.zip and Jim Fullton's pcdist.zip are both also available
from hilbert.wharton.upenn.edu:pub/tcpip.


- Tony
  catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu
From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Archive site for this group?
Date: 6 Oct 1992 15:50:14 -0400
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: nigel.msen.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

comp.groupware archives avaiable for ftp on 
	avs.ncsc.org:/newsgroups/comp.groupware/*
with a wais server coming soon.  thanks Terry!		--Ed

[ Article crossposted from comp.groupware ]
[ Author was tvv@ncsc.org ]
[ Posted on Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:32:40 GMT ]

Hi folks -

Starting today, I will archive this newsgroup.  We also archive
comp.graphics.avs, so we already have the tools in place.

I will place the archives into mail folders named MONTH_YEAR.
As an example, to peruse all of the postings in the month of
October, you could download the archive Oct_92, and execute

%	Mail -f Oct_92  ( use whatever mailer you so desire )

In addition, I can supply a WAIS source soon.

The archive will be available through anonymous ftp to 
avs.ncsc.org ( 128.109.178.23 )

cd ~ftp/newsgroups/comp.groupware

Stay posted for the wais client...

Enjoy-

Terry

---
Terry Myerson
International AVS Center
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
tvv@ncsc.org
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: mtaranto@sura.net (Michael Taranto)
Subject: 2 Questions...
Organization: SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA, NA, Earth, Milky Way
Distribution: The Net...
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:52:27 GMT

	I have two questions, I use the Mac interface for WAIS.

      1)  What is the character limitation (in the question window)
	on performed searches?

      2)  Can search results be batched together rather than
          saved on a one-by-one basis?

Please email me. Thanks in advance

Michael Taranto
mtaranto@sura.net

Xref: sparky comp.infosystems.wais:498 comp.infosystems.gopher:540 talk.politics.misc:48238
From: ccoprmm@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Mealling)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.infosystems.gopher,talk.politics.misc
Subject: politically oriented network resources....
Keywords: Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independant
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:29:48 GMT
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.gopher
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I am attempting a collection of all of the politically oriented network
resources on one gopher server. I allready have the Campaign '92 stuff from
NPTN, some Libertarian files plus Libernet, and the alt.politics stuff.
If anyone knows of anything else please let me know and I should be
able to make it available. The only restriction is that they be oriented
to either an established political party or dealing with the November election
itself.

Thanks!


-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael Mealling                     ! Hypermedia WWW, WAIS, and gopher will be
Georgia Institute of Technology      ! here soon via MIME. Your view of the 
Internet: michael@fantasy.gatech.edu ! internet is about to change completely!
From: craigb@craigb.uark.edu (Craig A. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: Basic info/questions about WAIS, etc. (sorry if FAQs)
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:14:40 GMT
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais
Organization: University of Arkansas

In article <1992Oct5.165316.21554@netcom.com>, tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom
Maddox) wrote:
> 
> 	While I grasp WAIS in principle and consider it a wonderful tool,
> I find that in practice I can't use it worth a damn.  In particular, choosing
> and using databases is exceptionally difficult, and even the most elementary
> searches pose problems (I've mostly used the swais server on quake.think.com).
> 
> 	Could a kind soul post one or more examples of intelligent use of
> WAIS, starting with how to locate databases, how to conduct the search on
> a particular server, retrieve files, etc.?  I have a feeling that there are
> many others out there who are, like me, WAIS-impaired and would benefit 
> enormously from such postings.

I agree.  I addition, would someone please provide a pointer to a source
that describes how one BUILDS a WAIS sourse for those of use just beginning
to look into the functionality of WAIS?
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: RODRIGOL@BIOMED.UIO.NO (Rodrigo Lopez)
Subject: Interface for WAIS on VAX/VMS
Organization: THe Norwegian EMBnet node
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 10:41:42 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Earlier, during several attempt to get the wais client to work
on my VAX/VMS box, I had recieved a set of files which contained
a DCL Interface for WAIS. I've lost all of these file and would very
much appreciate pointers at to anyone that has (maybe even sent me)
this interface.

Thanks in advance!

Rodrigo:-)

Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: jpw@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (John  Price-Wilkin)
Subject: waisindexing a very large file
Keywords: groliers, large files, performance
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 18:41:36 GMT

I'm about to embark on something that should press the limits of WAIS
and I'd like as much feedback on the alternatives as possible.  For
our local gopher, I'll be indexing Grolier's Academic American
Encyclopedia.  (Licensing will necessitate our restricting access to
UVa-affiliated persons.  Sorry.)  I intend to index it with wais
but also to format it so that persons can browse through article titles
alphabetically and choose a topic.  The encyclopedia is large and contains
tens of thousands of articles; file size is less than 100M but will
push close to that in the future.  Incidentally, I've tried using
the "-t groliers" option and found that waisindex didn't recognize
the article boundaries, but as I'm going for the alpha browsing
simultaneously, this has become irrelevant.  I believe these to be
the two strategies open to me.

(1) insert mail headers in the file as I break it up into alpha lists,
and waisindex as "-t mail".  I would divide into as many lists as seems
practical, but this will probably result in eighteen sub-lists per
character (Aa - Ad), and so roughly 500 separate indexable files.

(2) write the entries out into separate files, clustering the files
in alpha groups similar to that mentioned above, resulting in some
500 directories, each including approx. 650 or more files (i.e., entries).

For the second option, I figure I can write the file names out as either
the entry number (unique, fixed width, and opaque) and use .cap files
to spell out the titles, or write out file names as the title of the 
entry (unique?, verbose, and hard to manage).

I've never indexed anything this large with wais and wonder what
path will provide the best performance.  For example, is there a performance
difference between a large collection of files, and a large
file containing many entries?  Will the number of directories be
a factor?  Are these both things I should minimize?

If anyone is interested in seeing a sample of the data in action,
Groliers has provided us with a small collection of entries.  I've
inserted mail headers and indexed with wais.  The product can be
found in the Library Services section of gopher.virginia.edu.  I
can provide a copy of the raw data, some thirty entries in the M's,
on request.

--
John Price-Wilkin		Information Management Coordinator
jpwilkin@virginia.edu		Alderman Library
jpw@poe.acc.virginia.edu	University of Virginia
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: ses@cmns-sun.think.com (Simon Edward Spero)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: Missing Piece In WAIS Protocol?
Date: 26 Sep 92 07:51:37
Organization: What's your clearance, citizen?
	<192ifhINNf7i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <Bv5Mq6.4M5@sti.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cmns-sun.think.com
In-reply-to: westes@sti.com's message of Fri, 25 Sep 1992 22:06:05 GMT

Quick piece of information that might help. Z39.50 V3 (i.e. the next version,
not the one that was balloted) has a new service called 'Explain'. Explain
allows the client to ask questions about the various databases and result 
types offered by the server (amongst other things). Explain seems to have
stabilised now, and can be used as part of V2, without requiring any V3
features.

Simon
--
-----
Guest account at TMC 	|	Just Another  WAIS Hacker | DOD# 0612
Xref: sparky comp.infosystems.wais:495 alt.wais:715
From: francois@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Francois Schiettecatte)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,alt.wais
Subject: HyperWais 1.3
Date: 28 Sep 92 13:18:59 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Welch Medical Library


Anouncing version 1.3 of HyperWais
----------------------------------


A new version of HyperWais is being released .You can pick it up on
mendel.welch.jhu.edu (128.220.59.42) in /incoming/HyperWais.sit.hqx.
The source is also available in /incoming/HyperWais.src.sit.hqx.


Hilights of this release include:

- Totally new memory management, this slims down the 
memory required by HyperWais.
- No restrictions on the number of open sources, downloaded
document headlines and open sessions to the listener.
- A second Hypercard stack designed for 12" monitors has
been created.
- Internet gateways (firewalls) can be traversed.
- A number of bug fixes.


Included below is a description of the software.


Please read the 'README' file and the 'Release Notes' file that is in
the HyperWais docs folder.


I hope you all enjoy this s/w and that you find it useful.

francois


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





Below is a diagram of how the software is layered.  There are a set of
basic routines which support basic connections to wais servers via
MacTCP. These routines provide very basic services such as connection,
disconnection, init, query and downloading data. The glue routines
provide an abstracted view of the basic routines and allow a user to
access wais services without having to worry about the protocol and
MacTCP. These are the routines that someone would use to integrate wais
in their products.

There is an FBA (called the wais-listener) which will listen out to
apple events and call the appropriate glue routines. This FBA can
either run on the same mac as the wais client (using the FBA that is)
or on another mac. The FBA will support any number of sessions either
from the same client or different client, and either from the same user
or different users on different mac.

At the other end, there are a set of stubs which implement the Apple
Events calling functions making it easier for people to integrate them
into their applications. And on top of that a set of XFCN for Hypercard
or others.

All this is written in a layered manner so that people who want to
integrate wais services into their applications can do so at various
levels.  Either one could use Apple Events, or call the glue routines
directly and just link in the C library into their application, or if
you want to program on the 'bare metal', you could go directly against
the basic routines.


	-----------------------
	|      XFCN           |
	----------------------- 
	|   Apple Events      |
	----------------------- 
		|
		|
		|
	-----------------------		This whole block
	|   Apple Events      |		is the wais listener
	----------------------- 
	|    Glue Routines    |
	----------------------- 
	|    Basic Routines   |
	----------------------- 
	|    WAIS protocol    |
	----------------------- 
	|    MacTCP           |
	-----------------------
From: Andrew Gilmartin <Andrew_Gilmartin@Brown.Edu>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Name of current document
Date: 29 Sep 1992 17:54:16 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cis_staff-kntx31.cis.brown.edu
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
X-XXMessage-ID: <A6EE1190E501B075@cis_staff-kntx31.cis.brown.edu>
X-XXDate: Tue, 29 Sep 92 18:58:40 GMT

I want to write a waisindex customized type for text documents
in Gopher-space. The header for these documents should be
either the file name, or if a link file exists, the title
associated with the link file's Name tag. Looking through the
ir code, it seems like the customized type functions can't find
out the name and path of the current file as this information
is local to index_text_file. Is this infact so? Thanks.

-- Andrew

--
Andrew Gilmartin
Computing & Information Services
Brown University

Andrew_Gilmartin@Brown.Edu
(401) 863-7305
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: biediger@lonestar.utsa.edu (David . Biediger)
Subject: Basic info/questions about WAIS, etc. (sorry if FAQs)
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:16:02 GMT


I've read any message in this group and also several .txt files about
WAIS but am still not clear if I can use it for a present job-to-be-
related need.  The people who have posted here seem very knowledgable
so please forgive me if I'm asking FAQs.

I have an opportunity to help EE grad students with research related to
their thesis.  In particular areas such as Artificial Neural Networks,
Digital Signal Prcessing, and related support areas like Math, Statistics,
and Electrical Engineering.

I need to know if I can use WAIS (or anything else) on the Internt to
search online databases for abstacts and articles that will be of use
to these students.  I will be using a NeXT station via dial up since I
am disabled and cannot use a mouse which is neccessary for the GUI on
the NeXT.  NeXT has a standard UNIX C-Shell (csh) that I can run a client
program on.

Will someone please tell me if I can use WAIS or anything else on the
Internet for this purpose?  Any info and assistance is greatly appreciated.


Thanks,
David Biediger
biediger@lonestar.utsa.edu
Xref: sparky comp.infosystems.wais:528 comp.infosystems.gopher:620 soc.libraries.talk:300
From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.infosystems.gopher,soc.libraries.talk
Subject: News from RLG // Z39.50 Server for Internet Use
Date: 6 Oct 1992 14:59:45 -0400
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: nigel.msen.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

good news here that these things are all interoperating, and that perhaps
(finally) we'll get reasonable client-server access to internet libraries.

--Ed

[ Article crossposted from bit.listserv.cwis-l ]
[ Author was BL.JMP@RLG.BITNET ]
[ Posted on 6 Oct 92 16:31:34 GMT ]

(The following is an announcement from the Research Libraries Group.
It has been cross-posted to several library-related listservs.)

              RLG DEVELOPS Z39.50 SERVER FOR INTERNET USE

October 6, 1992 -- The Research Libraries Group (RLG) has developed a
Z39.50 server for searching its RLIN and CitaDel databases, and 14
institutions nationwide have now successfully tested the server over
the Internet.  The Z39.50 server, when fully implemented, will make it
easier for users of other online catalogs to search RLG's databases.

Z39.50 is a national standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.50) for computer-to-
computer information retrieval that enables users to search other
online library catalogs and information sources using the same
commands they use to search their local online catalog.  As more and
more information providers implement this standard, the goal of global
information resource sharing will come closer to attainment.

The Z39.50 protocol translates commands back and forth between the
requesting system (called a "client") and the system with the database
being searched (called a "server"), even if the two systems run on
different hardware or use different commands and screen displays.  As
long as both systems support Z39.50, users of one system can search on
the other as if it were their local system.

Institutions that have tested RLG's server include AT&T Bell
Laboratories, Data Research Associates, Innovative Interfaces, Library
of Congress, NOTIS, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford
University, University of California at Berkeley, and University of
California Division of Library Automation -- all are members
of a Z39.50 implementation group established by the Coalition for
Networked Information (CNI) and provide feedback to each other on
testing.  Others who have tested the RLG server are Brown University,
Dartmouth College, Gaylord Brothers, OCLC, and University of Tennessee
at Knoxville.  All testers have their own Z39.50 clients.

For more information about RLG's Z39.50 server, please contact:
Lennie Stovel, Research Libraries Group, 1200 Villa Street, Mountain
View, CA 94041-1100; phone 415/691-2259; FAX 415/964-0943; e-mail
BL.MDS@RLG.BITNET or BL.MDS@RLG.STANFORD.EDU (Internet).



To:  CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: anders@dit.lth.se (Anders Ardo)
Subject: Funny escape sequences in documents from some WAIS-sources
Organization: Department of Computer Engineering, Lund University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 07:59:44 GMT

Hello,
  I have a problem when accessing some WAIS-sources through Gopher or
swais.
When I try to view a document I get a garbled screen. It turns out
that the document contains a lot of different escape sequences, for
example many words are bracketed by ESC( and ESC). These escape
sequences cause the mess I get. This holds for several different
sources for example usenet-cookbook.src and bible.src.
Using xwais to look at the same document at the same sources works
like a charm, no problems whatsoever.

What is happening? Can I fix this locally?

       Anders

 Anders Ardo                       Tel: int+46 46 107522
 Dept. of Computer Engineering     fax: int+46 46 104714
 University of Lund, P.O. Box 118  Internet: anders@dit.lth.se
 S-221 00  Lund, Sweden
From: dsr@bnr.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Thinks Internet
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:25:01 GMT
Reply-To: dsr@bnr.co.uk ()
Organization: BNR Europe Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, GB

Could someone mail me the internet address for think.com please.
My host doesn't recognise the name.

Thanks


   Dave Riches
   Email:  David.S.Riches@bnr.co.uk
   Smail:  BNR Europe Ltd, London Road,
           Harlow, Essex. CM17 9NA.  England
   Phone:  +44 (0)279-402496
   Fax:    +44 (0)279-451434
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: sicotte@cs.UAlberta.CA (Sicotte John-paul R)
Subject: FTP site for swais
Keywords: swais wais ftp
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:01:31 GMT


I have looked through all my WAIS stuff, but I cannot find my information on
swais.  Where can I get the latest version.

--
John-Paul Sicotte
jps@edm.isac.ca
ISA Corporation
Edmonton, Alberta