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From: Pascal.Schulz%bbs@parrot.in-berlin.de (Pascal Schulz)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 07:21:20 MET
Organization: Parrot Public BBS
Subject: BSD386
Distribution: world
Reply-To: Pascal.Schulz%bbs@parrot.in-berlin.de (Pascal Schulz)
X-Posting-Software: UniBoard 1.10a S/N 217921

Hi Freaks !
-----------

Sorry for writing to COMP.INFOSYSTEMS, but I miss the right board for
questions and problems with BDS386 (public "unix").

My question is:

"How to solve problems in fact of installing BDS386 on the second hard drive
(d:) ?  I'm using an ADAPTEC 1542 with two SCSI-drives (C: = Quantum LPS105,
D: = Seagate ST296N). It doesn't work, if I try to install BSD386 on the D:
drive ....  Does everyone know how to solve it ?   I would be very, very
happy to get any information !"


Bye ......           Pascal Schulz

                     Phone: +49 30 8173040/49
                     Fax  : +49 30 2141720
                     Net  : Pascal.Schulz%bbs@parrot.in-berlin.de


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From: rbowen@ntet.nctr.fda.gov
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Is there a WAIS Server for VMS & Multinet?
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:31:41 -0600
Organization: NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Does anyone know of a WAIS server that will run under VMS
with TGV Multinet?
From: odin@macc.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: WAIS FAQ
Summary: Is their one?
Keywords: FAQ
Date: 16 Nov 92 21:08:46 GMT
Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, UW-Madison

Can someone point me to the FAQ for this group?

Thanks in advance!
Odin

Odin J. Anderson
odin@macc.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: francois@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Francois Schiettecatte)
Subject: Re: choosing servers, specifying keywords
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Welch Medical Library
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:43:48 GMT

In article <JANNE.92Nov18121804@seita.oulu.fi>, janne@seita.oulu.fi (Janne Himanka) writes:
|> >>>>> On 9 Nov 1992 23:19:10 GMT, emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) said:
|> 
|> 	Edward> Masoud Majidi (majidi@rwja.umdnj.edu) wrote:
|>  
|> Masoud>  2) Is there any way to bypass the stage where one has to
|> Masoud>  specify keywords?  In particular there is a wais server
|> Masoud>  called cacm.src which has most/all of the ACM articles over
|> Masoud>  the recent years and I would very much like to browse
|> Masoud>  through these articles from time to time. 
|> 
|> 	Edward>  This is a second of the weak spots of WAIS.  There
|> 	Edward> really isn't good support for general browsing.  The
|> 	Edward> best hack that I've thought of doing would be to
|> 	Edward> download the 'catalog' file that some servers have,
|> 	Edward> and then munge that into a format that gopher or that
|> 	Edward> world wide web could use to work down the articles one
|> 	Edward> at a time.
|> 
|> There is a "browse" facility in the Z39.50 1992 standard, encompassing
|> just the "scan" module, if I'm not mistaken. Could someone explain in
|> plain terms, what this browse facility looks like in existing
|> implementations, if there are any? Could WAIS adopt this, and provide
|> a way to browse records online?
|> 
|> 


Janne

I dont know about the browse facility in Z39.50-92, but I can tell you 
that WAIS will soon become Z39.50-92 compliant, I think that the folks 
at the Office of Information Technology at UNC are working on this.



francois
Xref: sparky comp.infosystems.wais:640 comp.sys.sgi:16526
From: mark@alsvid.une.edu.au (Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Trying to build wais-8-b5 under IRIX 4.05
Date: 17 Nov 92 00:04:27 GMT
Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)

From article <1992Nov10.224905.27758@news.yale.edu>, by dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth):
> 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)); })

If you look at the source code you will find that this line actually says
if(0 != rename(temp_filename, filename))  
	Although I find this a little backward, your problem it seems
is that your rename is being expanded as a macro. You must have a peculiar 
compiler..?  Check your man pages on rename, see if you really have a libc
entry for rename. This macro expansion for rename is wrong according to
my BSD man pages rename returns an error code 0 for success and -1 on failure.
	If the above failed the first link the unlink would remove the file,
very bad I would think .... I'd be glad you compiler didn't like it.


	Cheers
		Mark :)
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   University of New England, Northern Rivers, Lismore NSW Australia.
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@lucid.com>
Subject: newbie creating-a-database questions
Organization: Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
X-Windows: The defacto substandard.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 08:20:16 GMT

I want to index my mail with WAIS, and it's not obvious to me how to do it.
I keep my mail in 'From ' format, and apparently my assumption about what
the "-T mail_or_rmail" args to waisindex would do with this was wrong.  I
want it to consider each message in my mail files to be a "document," but
I end up with each mail file being a document, which is less than useful.

Do I need to run a server on my machine if I'm the only one who's going to
be using this database?

If yes, does this mean that anyone who can connect to the WAIS port on my
machine will be able to read my mail?

What if I want to create other databases which are public?  How are public
and private databases different?

	-- Jamie
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: "Peter Marshall CCS UWO" <peter@julian.uwo.ca>
Subject: Registration for london-free-press-regional-index
Cc: wais-talk@think.com, comp.infosystems.wais@newshost.uwo.ca,
        gord.nickerson@uwo.ca
Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:06:03 GMT
To: wais-directory-of-servers@quake.think.com


Please add the following database to the directory-of-servers.
Thanks, Peter Marshall.


(:source 
   :version  3 
   :ip-address "129.100.2.12"
   :ip-name "gopher.uwo.ca"
   :tcp-port 3041
   :database-name "london-free-press-regional-index"
   :cost 0.00 
   :cost-unit :free 
   :maintainer "peter@julian.uwo.ca"
   :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5 on Nov 21 19:29:18 1992 by peter@julian.uwo.ca

This is an index of local and regional stories in the London
Free Press (London, Canada).  The index includes birth notices
and obituaries. Editorials and letters to the editor on regional
issues are indexed.  The sports section is not indexed (although
a few sports stories are included).

Entries consist of the headlines of the stories, added keywords,
date and page number.  Bylines are only included for opinion
pieces.

Keywords can be subject terms (Recycling, Development, Crime,
Annexation, Sexual Assault, Music, Police); place names (East
London, Woodstock, Sarnia, St Thomas); corporate names (PUC,
City Council, Orchestra London, Canada Trust); or people's names
(Gosnell, Blackburn, Boyd).

People's names are entered last name, period, first initial.
Thus, Tom Gosnell would be entered: Gosnell.t.  When searching,
just use the last name.

Editorials are identified by the keyword "Editorial" at the end 
of the entry.  Letters are identified by the keyword "Letter"
followed by the name of the letter-writer at the end of the entry.
In other respects, editorials and letters are treated the same
as other articles.

The London Free Press is available on microfilm at UWO's Weldon
library and in other libraries in the region.

Currently the index covers January 1991 to the present.  The
index is updated monthly.  We expect to add entries covering
May 1988 to December 1990.

A microfiche version of the index covers 1978 to the present.
The microfiche is available at UWO's Weldon Library and the
Journalism Resource Centre.

This data is provided by the Graduate School of Journalism at
the University of Western Ontario in cooperation with the
Department of Computing and Communications Services at UWO.

For more information about the index please contact Heather
York-Marshall <york-marshall@uwo.ca> (or phone: 519/661-3383
ext. 6661) at the UWO Graduate School of Journalism.
"
)
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From: cowleym@sacomm.schulz.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: waisindex and wiassearch??
Date: 18 Nov 92 06:13:36 GMT
Reply-To: cowleym@sacomm.schulz.unisa.edu.au ()
Organization: University of South Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: saccs1.schulz.unisa.edu.au


OK, I've installed wais-8-b5 on a DS5000, running Ultrix 4.3 and got the xwais
and xwaisq files installed where I want them. They even work to a certain
point. Now I would like to use waisindex and waissearch but I can't find them
in the distribution. 

So, where are they - is there a compile flag I should use to get them? 
I have the man pages, but not the executables.

No point in downloading the executables from other sites - the architecture
probably wouldn't match ours.

Can anyone help?

Margaret

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From: ward@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Lynn Ward)
Subject: Re: WAIS FAQ
Keywords: FAQ
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:28:06 GMT

jkummer@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Kummer) writes:

>In article <1992Nov16.210846.21267@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> odin@macc.wisc.edu writes:
>>Can someone point me to the FAQ for this group?
>>
>>Thanks in advance!
>>Odin
>>
>>Odin J. Anderson
>>odin@macc.wisc.edu

>I would be interested in this as well.  Also, because my internet node
>does not (cannot) run as a WAIS client, is there any WAIS server on 
>the net that I could log into with nothing more than a terminal 
>emulation package using telnet, and execute their WAIS client S/W 
>remotely for queries?

You can open a telnet session with the host at Thinking Machines Corporation,
at the address quake.think.com.  Then login as "wais".  You'll have access
to SWAIS, a Unix client for dumb terminals.

Also, if you have access to Gopher, some Gopher clients provide access to the
WAIS databases, but do not include the ability to search multiple sources
simultaneously or provide relevance feedback.  

I wrote a rather long article about WAIS for our campus networking newsletter
that you can grab from the anonymous ftp host: ftp.cso.uiuc.edu.  It's in
the doc/net/uiucnet directory and the name of the file is vol5no6.txt.  It might
provide some additional help.

Good luck!  
-- 
_________________________________________
Lynn Ward L-ward1@uiuc.edu
1541 DCL
1304 W. Springfield Ave
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: ses@sunSITE.unc.edu (Simon Spero)
Subject: Re: WAIS FAQ
Keywords: FAQ
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:25:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.043012.27172@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jkummer@nyx.UUCP (James Kummer) writes:
>I would be interested in this as well.  Also, because my internet node
>does not (cannot) run as a WAIS client, is there any WAIS server on 
>the net that I could log into with nothing more than a terminal 
>emulation package using telnet, and execute their WAIS client S/W 
>remotely for queries?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help.
>

You can use John Curran's simple wais client from a simple terminal emulator. 
Just telnet to sunsite.unc.edu, and log in with user id 'swais'

Simon
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: jkummer@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Kummer)
Subject: Re: WAIS FAQ
Keywords: FAQ
Reply-To: jkummer@nyx.UUCP (James Kummer)
Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 04:30:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.210846.21267@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> odin@macc.wisc.edu writes:
>Can someone point me to the FAQ for this group?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>Odin
>
>Odin J. Anderson
>odin@macc.wisc.edu

I would be interested in this as well.  Also, because my internet node
does not (cannot) run as a WAIS client, is there any WAIS server on 
the net that I could log into with nothing more than a terminal 
emulation package using telnet, and execute their WAIS client S/W 
remotely for queries?

Thanks in advance for any help.


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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: ron@rivm.nl (Ron Roozendaal)
Subject: Xwais Mod's
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais
Reply-To: ron@rivm.nl (Ron Roozendaal)
Organization: RIVM
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:26:29 GMT

Hi all,

We have made modifications made to Xwais that implement a SaveAll button. Handy
with all the servers using boolean searching, keyword searching etc. coming up.

Mail if you want the mod's!


Regards

Ron

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  Senior Consultant
  National Institute on Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM)
  Informatics Service Centre
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From: SPCook@cen.ex.ac.uk (S.P.Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: WAIS-8-b5 on IRIX 4.0.5
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:31:47 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Computer Unit. - University of Exeter. UK


waisindex problem:

Compilation details:   Invoking command:- make ir

The only warning (apart from the "rename" problem in ustubs.h - fixed) was:-
  ccom: Warning: ustubs.c, line 71: illegal combination of pointer and integer.

  This was fixed by changing "getcwd(...."  to  "(char*)getcwd(...."

After the above correction and remake, "waisindex args" terminates with message
    "Segmentation fault, core dumped".

Has anyone else had this problem and fixed it?  Thanks for your attention.

Stuart Cook, Computer Unit, University of Exeter, UK. 
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: janne@seita.oulu.fi (Janne Himanka)
Subject: Re: choosing servers, specifying keywords
Organization: Tilde's home bakery
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:18:04 GMT

>>>>> On 9 Nov 1992 23:19:10 GMT, emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) said:

	Edward> Masoud Majidi (majidi@rwja.umdnj.edu) wrote:
 
Masoud>  2) Is there any way to bypass the stage where one has to
Masoud>  specify keywords?  In particular there is a wais server
Masoud>  called cacm.src which has most/all of the ACM articles over
Masoud>  the recent years and I would very much like to browse
Masoud>  through these articles from time to time. 

	Edward>  This is a second of the weak spots of WAIS.  There
	Edward> really isn't good support for general browsing.  The
	Edward> best hack that I've thought of doing would be to
	Edward> download the 'catalog' file that some servers have,
	Edward> and then munge that into a format that gopher or that
	Edward> world wide web could use to work down the articles one
	Edward> at a time.

There is a "browse" facility in the Z39.50 1992 standard, encompassing
just the "scan" module, if I'm not mistaken. Could someone explain in
plain terms, what this browse facility looks like in existing
implementations, if there are any? Could WAIS adopt this, and provide
a way to browse records online?


Janne
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she said, "but /I've/ heard nonsense,   %%%% shem@nic.funet.fi 
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From: cowleym@sacomm.schulz.unisa.edu.au ()
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: waisindex and wiassearch??
Date: 20 Nov 1992 02:00:48 GMT
Organization: University of South Australia
Distribution: world
Reply-To: cowleym@sacomm.schulz.unisa.edu.au ()
NNTP-Posting-Host: saccs1.schulz.unisa.edu.au


My apologies, these files had been removed from ./bin when I did a make clean.
Perhaps they should be copied to /usr/local/bin at the end of a make all?
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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: waisindex and wiassearch??
Date: 23 Nov 1992 04:33:50 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com

In article <1ehgsgINN8l1@sacomm.schulz.unisa.edu.au> cowleym@sacomm.schulz.unisa.edu.au () writes:
>My apologies, these files had been removed from ./bin when I did a make clean.
>Perhaps they should be copied to /usr/local/bin at the end of a make all?

I've never seen a makefile that automatically installed software as part of
"make all", and I would be very upset at an author who did this; "make all"
is just supposed to compile the software.  If a makefile provides for
automatic installation, it's conventionally done with "make install";
distinguishing them permits you to compile and test the software without
installing it.  The WAIS makefiles don't happen to include this feature,
possibly because there's quite a bit of variation in where sites put such
software.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Xref: sparky comp.infosystems.wais:635 comp.infosystems.gopher:1157
From: zlsiimw@mcchpc.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Re: Boolean, literal and other biology data mods to WAIS 8b5 available
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:23:57 GMT
Reply-To: M.Whidby@mcc.ac.uk
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <1992Nov12.200841.18062@news2.cis.umn.edu>,
lindner@danzig.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner) writes:
|> In <BxGKu8.I19@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu
|> (Don Gilbert) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> >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.
|> 
|> Gopher Users:  I will have these mods in 1.1 (and in the next 1.1 beta
|> release 1.1b2)  
|> 
|> It's really cool to have booleans and wais.  Don gets the gopher
|> software seal of approval from me :-)

3 million cheers for Paul!!! I was dreading putting these mods into
an earlier version of gopher than I was running and then possibly
running 2 servers.
-- 
_____________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: bianco@aethelbehrt.cs.odu.edu (David J. Bianco)
Subject: Distributed WAIS Servers?
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:39:39 GMT

Has anyone done any work towards setting up and maintaining
a distributed WAIS server?  By distributed, I mean that although
the master index resides on machine A, not all of the reports
may physically be there.  If machine C queries for a report on
machine B, server A should fetch the report from B and send it
to C, possibly without the user even knowing what's going on.

This is not quite the same as the forwarding mechanism implemented
in the current WAIS release, which (to my understanding) is really
only a pointer to another database.  I'd like to have several
different sites indexed under one database, instead of several
different databases, one for each site.

Has anyone done this yet?



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From: cowleym@sacomm.schulz.unisa.edu.au ()
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: New xwaisq user questions
Date: 16 Nov 1992 03:37:00 GMT
Organization: University of South Australia
Distribution: world
Reply-To: cowleym@sacomm.schulz.unisa.edu.au ()
NNTP-Posting-Host: saccs1.schulz.unisa.edu.au


Hello,

I just installed wais-8-b5 on a DecStation 5000, running Ultirx 4.3
We only want to use the client side of xwais, so do I need "xwais" at all, or
only xwaisq?

When I first ran "xwaisq" the only data in my "Sources" window was 
directory-of-servers.src. So, I ftp'd all the *.src files from quake.think.com
and put them into my wais-sources directory. Now I can do searches.

My next question is: 

Do I have to update these .src files myself, or is there some automatic way 
of doing this?

Sometimes, when I'm searching in a particular source, I get messages like:

Connect to socket did not work (2): Error 0		or
Connect to socket did not work (2): Connection refused

Do these messages mean the server is temporarily unavailable or what?
Apart from z3950-spec.txt in ../doc, is there anywhere else these error
conditions are defined?

Margaret

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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais