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From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: Funny escape sequences in documents from some WAIS-sources
Date: 1 Oct 1992 16:32:51 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: leander.think.com

In article <1992Oct1.075944.22549@lth.se> anders@dit.lth.se (Anders Ardo) writes:
>  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?

swais is failing to strip out markup from the CM database. You can use
other interfaces, or you can ask jonathan@think.com to give you a
patch. As of July 10th, the version of swais on quake.think.com was
fixed, but there hasn't been a new release put up for ftp since May. 

-- 
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 Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142
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        the ease with which such crazed rumors could spread.
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: chrisc@bu.oz.au (Chris Christoff)
Subject: List of sources
Organization: ITS, Bond University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 05:29:04 GMT

Has anybody compiled a list of sources witha brief description of their
content. I have added to a very useful list from the University of
Melbourne, Australia, but it occurred to me that someone may have
compiled a comprehensive list already.

Cheers, and thanks.

Chris


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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: francois@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Francois Schiettecatte)
Subject: HyperWais 1.4
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Welch Medical Library
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:15:37 GMT



Anouncing version 1.4 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:

- A number of pesky bug fixes in the various components.
- A new (updated) README file.
- Greater use of ToolBox routines.
- Better memory management in the Wais Listener and 
the Hypercard(tm) XFCNs.
- Better test/sample code.


Included below is a description of the software.


Please read the 'README' file, the 'COPYRIGHT' 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: gtoal@robobar.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: PC WAIS
Date: 26 Sep 92 14:22:38 GMT
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.

In article <717493966snx@manor.demon.co.uk> paulf@manor.demon.co.uk (Paul Fawcett) writes:
>In the abscence of an Ethernet card/link is there any alternative
>PD software (apart from Telnet) that would substitute as a client
>on such a system ? All suggestions would be most welcome, including
>'there isnt any !' if that's the case.

Ask on the demon local groups about a clarkson slip driver, and
change your demon connection to 'ask' so you can connect with slip
for pcwais and ppp for everything else.  Folks at demon are already
using the slip packet driver so they can use irc which also isn't
built into ka9q...

G
--
From: ottavj@pegase.inria.fr (Luc Ottavj)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: Missing Piece In WAIS Protocol?
Date: 2 Oct 92 09:24:55 GMT
Organization: INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (Fr)

|> WAIS server A has 20 documents, and 10 of these are restricted access.
|> User A is a user of WAIS server A.  User A does not have authorization
|> to see the 10 restricted documents.   User A decides that security is
|> kind of a boring concept and switches over from using the WAIS client
|> his employer provides to using xwais or any other commonly available
|> WAIS client.  User A grabs the catalog for the database (what I probably
|> incorrectly called a 'table of contents').  User A reads 10 documents he
|> is not authorized to read.  User A has violated security and user access
|> controls.
It would be very nice if such capabilities are available , but
there is a way to work around the actual wais inability to provide
document access control.


1-Make  MIME documents describing your  real documents:
each mime descriptor contains two parts
  -a text part with public information about the document 
   for example: Title author abstract
  -an external body pointer to the document itself
      * with an FTP/anon acces type  for public documents and  ftp for restricted documents
       for a wide area accessible ,or wide area distributed data base
    or 
      * with an NFS acces type for a local data base

2- Put the real docs in the correct directories and set-up the correct user/group ownership
   and permissions to the directories and the files.

3- Make a wais index with the MIME documents (using an external filter allows you to
   make the index with words of the real documents)


-- 
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INRIA U.R. de Sophia Antipolis      | Phone : (33) 93 65 77 21       
 2004, Route des Lucioles BP 93     | Telex :      97 00 50 F        
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From: cherry@OPAL.MGH.HARVARD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Can I change WAIS's concept of what makes a word?
Date: 6 Oct 92 00:29:54 GMT
Reply-To: cherry@OPAL.MGH.HARVARD.EDU
Organization: Molecular Biology - Mass Gen Hospital

I'm providing a few WAIS servers containing information about two
biological model systems, a small plant called Arabidopsis and the
nematode Caenorhabditis. Our communities are making good use of WAIS
however there are a couple of things that need to be modified to make
it perfect.

Many of the genetic and physical genome information within these
databases contains names which use non-alphanumeric characters. Most
notibly hyphen "-" and period ".". I therefore need to change the
indexing used by WAIS to include at least hyphen and period as part of
a word.  I noticed that there are a small number of isalnum() calls
that appear to be used in determining what characters are part of a
word, however in my attempts so far changing these isalnum() calls I
either find no effect or observe no matches when there should be.

Could someone point me in the direction of what is involved in
changing the way WAIS identifies a word.

The second part I assume is much more difficult. That is providing
subword matching. Within scientific terminology there are several
different standard methods of describing an observation. Many of these
could be more easily found if the user did not have to exactly specify
the word, rather be able to enter a short string of characters that
would match several words.

Has anyone been successful in adding this type of modification to a
WAIS server.

I actually had one more item on my wish list but I'm not alone in
wanting the search result to use a boolean AND instead of the current
OR. Any leads to implementing AND or the above two topics would be
greatly appreciated.

Mike Cherry
AAtDB Project Leader
Massachusetts General Hospital
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From:  OSAG AD Info Mgt DTN 381-0899, ZKO3-2/T63  <fleischer@tamara.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Missing Piece In WAIS Protocol?
Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:54:30 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 

        Where can one find information on the current status of
        Z39.50 V3?

        Bob Fleischer
        fleischer@zko.dec.com
        (603) 881-0899


Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: francois@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Francois Schiettecatte)
Subject: HyperWais 1.3
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Welch Medical Library
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:28:01 GMT



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: kerry.duke@analog.com (Kerry Duke)
Subject: info requested - Current IT Spending philosophy
Originator: duke@zion
Organization: Analog Devices, Inc.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:32:33 GMT

I am interested in finding some references to articles in the
current literature/periodicals which would indicate how much
money (as a percentage of Sales) a typical Fortune 500 company
is spending on IS/IT.

The last time I checked, I found an article by Dwight Davis
in the November 15th, 1989 issue of Datamation.

Thanks in advance...

Kerry Duke
-- 
  Kerry Duke
  System Manager                Internet: Kerry.Duke@Analog.Com
  Analog Devices Incorporated   Voice:    617-461-3598
  Norwood, MA  02062		FAX:      617-461-3010
Xref: sparky comp.bbs.misc:1094 alt.bbs.unixbbs:126 alt.bbs.unixbbs.uniboard:21
From: cambler@zeus.calpoly.edu (Christopher J. Ambler, Phish)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,alt.bbs.unixbbs,alt.bbs.unixbbs.uniboard
Subject: Re: Unix BBS Software FAQ with answers (partial) v0.1
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:59:24 GMT
Organization: Fantasy, Incorporated: Reality None of Our Business.

People, please understand:
Internet is a TRANSPORT MECHANISM, a physical reality.

Usenet is a MEDIA, which uses the Internet (as well as other physical
nets) as a transport.

They are NOT the same thing.

-- 
"What the fuck are you doing?!  | cambler@zeus.calpoly.edu | Fubar Systems BBS
This isn't lollapalooza!"       |                          | (805) 54-FUBAR
                                | Because all you of       | 3/12/24, MNP5, 8N1
-- Glenn (Toad The Wet Sproket) | Earth are IDIOTS!!       | FSBBS 2/FSUUCP 1.3
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
From: radel@bach.udel.edu (Todd Radel)
Subject: Re: Unix
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 03:32:36 GMT

In article <468.493.uupcb@grapevine.lrk.ar.us> jim.wenzel@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (Jim Wenzel)  writes:
>This has  probably been asked a  dozen times.. but.. I  have a question.
>After reading messages here and elsewhere  I have decided to take a look
>at Unix.
>
>A couple of questions:
>
>1: Is  there a public domain  or shareware Unix available  so that I may
>   get my feet wet? (if so where?  BBS number if applicable)
There are several free and/or low-cost versions around:

1. Linux -- developed by Linus Torvalds, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland
   Very active usergroup (read comp.os.linux for more info), lots of
   stuff available for it.
2. 386BSD -- Bill and Lynne Jolitz.  On comp.unix.bsd.  Don't know much
   about it, other than that it's supposed to be bigger and more complete
   than Linux in terms of networking, etc. but a bit slower.
3. Mach386 -- requires a source-code license for BSD or AT&T V7.
4. Coherent -- A $99 UNIX clone by the Mark Williams Company.  Not a lot
   of useful software yet (missing GCC and X-Windows, for example).
5. Minix -- anyone know the current prices and/or status?  Last I heard
   it was $150 from Prentice-Williams.

>
>2: I have heard about BSD/386 <sp> is this a good one? Is it commercial?
>   if so any idea of cost?
BSD/386 is a commercial implementation similar to 386BSD.  The difference
is that you get real customer support instead of the net. (Personally, I'd
take the net...plus 386BSD is free.)  Cost is $1,000 plus extras.

>
>Please respond Email to jim.wenzel@grapevine.lrk.ar.us
I'm posting this in case others are interested.


-- 
Todd Radel                   | "Hello.  My name is Inigo Montoya.  You killed
CIS/English undergrad        | my father.  Prepare to die."
University of Delaware       | "STOP SAYING THAT!" 
A.I. duPont Institute, 1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE  19899
From: ccastnl@prism.gatech.EDU (Nicholas Lagaros)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
Subject: bbs list
Date: 26 Sep 92 12:48:25 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

anyone have a bbs list for atlanta, ga?


-- 
LAGAROS,NICHOLAS
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!ccastnl
Internet: ccastnl@prism.gatech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
Subject: Practical Peripherals Sysop Plan
From: jim.wenzel@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (Jim Wenzel) 
Date: 26 Sep 92 10:37:00 GMT
Reply-To: jim.wenzel@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (Jim Wenzel) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The GrapeVine BBS *** N. Little Rock, AR *** (501) 753-8121




Hello again.  With the recent  conversation concerning modems  I asked a
member of our  BBS about the sysop plan  for Practical peripherals. Here
is his short  reply <G>. As always I ask  that you mention The GrapeVine
in your  inquiries. I will  add that we  receive nothing in  the form of
$$$'s from  PPI or Supra. And  are not affiliated with  them in any way.
The request for mention comes from the fact that some of their employees
may or may not belong to the BBS  and we wish to help them support their
BBS usage as valid.

========================================================================
Msg #: 245      Ref #: 244        Date : 09-25-92
TO   : SYSOP                      Time : 17:47
From : KELLY CRUISE               Conference: LR-RELAY
Subj : HELLO....                  BBS Name  : GRAPEVNE
========================================================================

The PM14400FXSA is going for $250 for sysops. The deal goes on till Dec
31, 1992 unless they change the time. They can get the info for it on
our bbs at (805) 496-4445. Kel


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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,comp.os.linux,alt.bbs.allsysop
From: radel@bach.udel.edu (Todd Radel)
Subject: Re: Fidonet under UNIX? Please HELP!!!!
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:34:21 GMT

In article <KRAUS.92Sep29101128@orchid5.rtsg.mot.com> kraus@rtsg.mot.com (David Kraus) writes:
>On Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:29:49 GMT, arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble) said:
>> radel@bach.udel.edu (Todd Radel) writes:
>
>>>		       * A fidonet mailer
>>>			 (Binkleyterm, rfmail?)
>> Binkleyterm = Forget it..
>
>Why?  The last version list I looked at (granted, this was about 6 months
>ago) listed a BinkleyTerm port to UN*X.  I've been thinking of looking for
>it, but haven't had the time.
>
>I'm just wondering why you're dismissing it out of hand.  I know that the
>code leaves something to be desired, but there's lots of that around.

I managed to ftp the BinkleyTerm UNIX port (or, at least, *a* BinkleyTerm
UNIX port) from somewhere in Germany.  The code is a mess:  the very first
file wouldn't compile.  I may attempt to play with it, but as my
knowledge of serial comm. under UNIX is extremely limited (well, actually
nonexistent) I probably won't get very far.  :-(

-- Todd


-- 
Todd Radel                   | "I obscenity in the milk of all," Agustin said,
CIS/English undergrad        | "if it does not seem like a lunatic asylum in
University of Delaware       | here." -- Hemingway, _For Whom the Bell Tolls_
A.I. duPont Institute, 1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE  19899
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
From: jjs@iedv7.acd.com ( James J. Song       )
Subject: Double bytes conversion?
Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 17:40:03 GMT


I really don't know what news group to which I should post in order to
get some information about double bytes conversion. So I just start 
from this one. 

I was asked whether I know anything about double bytes conversion
which I believe it is a technique used to convert the computer program
developed in US to the program that can run on the computers in the
Pacific countries such as Japan and Taiwan. Forgiving my ingnorant, this
is the first time I heard it. I would appreciate it very much if some
knowledgable people could provide some information on this double
bytes conversion stuff. 

Thank you.

James
From: drodrigu@irscscm.UUCP (Dianne Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
Subject: Re: tradewars registration code.
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:53:45 GMT
Organization: Internal Revenue Service


  The Castle RavenLoft BBS can be reached at (913) 832-2888,
  But you still have to register it by mail.  It's $15.00 U.S. Funds,
  You can also use VISA or Mastercard and mail it too:
     Martech Software, Inc.
     134 Indian Ave.
     Lawrence, Kansas  66046

     While you are there you might want to check out the files on the BBS they have lot's of add-on programs for TW2002.  There is also a TW2002 V1.03D, which fixes certain bugs in the program.  And the TW2002 2.0 release will be out
     soon.  TW2112 will not be released until sometime in 1994.  It's almost
     a completly different game.
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc