From: brewster@quake.think.com (Brewster Kahle)
Newsgroups: alt.wais
Subject: Re: Need help building WAIS on an RS6000
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:55:22
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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In-reply-to: whenry@leland.Stanford.EDU's message of Thu, 5 Nov 92 00:49:07 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.004907.13195@leland.Stanford.EDU> whenry@leland.Stanford.EDU (homo obsolescensis) writes:

   I am trying to build wais-8-b5 on an IBM Risc System/6000 running AIX

ANS has been distributing a port of WAIS.  here is an announcement:


	   New Unix Internet Release (Beta 5 Release) Available
			      Sun May 10 1992

Thank you for the interest in WAIS.  The servers on Quake (including the
directory of servers) have well over 100k requests from over 6000 different
hosts all over the world (>18 countries) in about a year.  There are now
over 200 servers including one in Norway, one in Australia, poetry,
recipes, comp.sources, as well as a Connection Machine serving all sorts of
things.

There are are a few mailing lists on this subject that you might want to be
on: 
	wais-interest: only announcements like this (1 a month or so)
	wais-discussion: moderated mailings every 1 or 2 weeks.  Good
			stuff including all on wais-interest.
	wais-talk: unmoderated for implementors and interactive discussions.
Requests to wais-<foo>-request@think.com.  Archives available from
wais server: wais-discussion or anonymous ftp from quake.think.com.

A bibliography of available written materials and resources is available
from /pub/wais/wais-discussion/bibliography.txt@quake.think.com (ftp) or 
WAIS server wais-discussion-archive.src, or on request from Barbara@think.com.

Jonathan Goldman pulled the most recent release together (with help from
developers all over the world, see below):
Highlights of modifications (see the release for the full report)
	Overall: make it more portable, and small enhancements
Thank you to all that have contributed bug reports and suggestions.  There
are no concrete plans for the next release.

Overview of components:
In this release is source code for:
 * Server code:  There is code to index text and picture files.
 * Protocol code: based on Z39.50-1988 using the internet.
 * Clients code: User interfaces for contacting servers
	* GNU Emacs interface
	* simple shell interface 
	* Mac interface (in separate WAIStation file)
	* tool kit for making your own interfaces
	* X interface
 * Directory of servers: This is be a network service that lists
	existing servers and how to contact them.

Other components available elsewhere:
 NeXT release: 	/wais/WAIStation-NeXT-1.9.tar.Z@think.com
 Telnet access: telnet quake.think.com login wais
 DOS: 		/pub/wais/UNC/wais-dos*@ftp.oit.unc.edu
 DOS:		/pub/tcpip/pcwais.zip@hilbert.wharton.upenn.edu
		(Clarkson packet driver and Erick Englke's WATT/TCP)
 Motif: 	/public/wais/motif-a1.tar.Z@think.com
 SunView: 	/pub/wais/sunsearch.src.*.tar.Z@wais.oit.unc.edu
 VMS: 		pub/wais/UNC/vms-client@wais.oit.unc.edu
 AVS:		DATA/awais/*@avs.ncsc.org
 RS6000 port:	/pub/misc/wais-8-b3-dist.tar.Z@ftp.ans.net
 Mac Hypercard: /incoming/HyperWais.sit.hqx@mendel.welch.jhu.edu
		/incoming/HyperWais.src.sit.hqx

The public servers that are currently advertised are:

Biology:
 biology-journal-contents.src
 biosci.src 			Molecular-biology.src

Usenet and internet archives:
 comp.graphics.src		comp.admin.src
 comp.db.src			comp.emacs.src
 comp.multi.src			comp.archives.src
 rec.pets.src			comp.sources.src
 usenet-science.src 
 user-contrib-cookbook.src 	usenet-cookbook.src
 homebrew.src
 info-mac.src 			sun-spots.src

Frequently Asked Questions:
 NeXT.FAQ.src		 	unix.FAQ.src
 ibm.pc.FAQ.src			mac.FAQ.src

Connection Machine info:
 CM-applications.src
 CM-tech-summary.src 
 CM-fortran-manual.src	 	CM-paris-manual.src
 CM-star-lisp-docs.src		CMFS-documentation.src

Books:
 jargon.src
 bible.src			koran.src
 sample-books.src
 MIT-algorithms-bug.src 	MIT-algorithms-exercise.src 
 MIT-algorithms-suggest.src
 
Libraries:
 online-libraries.src
 tmc-library.src

Misc: 
 open_systems_calendar.src	matrix_news.src
 astro-images-gif.src 		astro-images-fits.src
 nsf-bulletins.src
 midi.src
 unimelb-research.src (Australia!)
 supreme-ct.src
 NIH-Guide.src
 UNTComputerDoc.src
 US-Gov-Programs.src
 UiO_Publications.src (Norway!)
 cosmic-abstracts.src		cosmic-programs.src
 directory-of-servers.src
 eff-documents.src		eff-talk.src
 empire.src 			empire20.src
 internet-documents.src		internet-drafts.src
 internet-resource-guide.src	internet-rfcs.src
 patent-sampler.src
 poetry.src
 risks-digest.src

 sample-pictures.src
 unix-manual.src
 wais-discussion-archives.src	wais-docs.src
 wall-street-journal-sample.src
 weather.src
 world-factbook.src

plus more (it's getting hard to list).

The first "Digital Librarians", I think it would be safe to say are the
maintainers of these servers:

Andrew_Gilmartin@Brown.Edu
Geir.Pedersen@use.uio.no
Vincent.Cate@cs.cmu.edu
abc@concert.net
akers@next2.oit.unc.edu
anders@dit.lth.se
ang@theory.lcs.mit.edu
art@think.com
avs@doppler.ncsc.org
billy@unt.edu
biosci@genbank.bio.net
blaze@think.com
brendan@cs.widener.edu
brewster@think.com
bug-public@think.com
chris@cosmic1.cosmic.uga.edu
datta@cs.uwp.edu
deboer@bio.vu.nl
djossou@charly.inria.fr
doc@sophia.inria.fr
emv@cic.net
escott@eos.ncsu.edu
farrell@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au
francois@welch.jhu.edu
fullton@samba.oit.unc.edu
harper@wais.funet.fi
info@sura.net
jcurran@nnsc.nsf.net
jik@pit-manager.mit.edu
jsq@quake.think.com
mlm@cs.brown.edu
mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
news@turbo.bio.net
nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net
peter@julian.uwo.ca
pozar@kumr.lns.com
reuse@b.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu
rhys@cs.uq.oz.au
rik.harris@fcit.monash.edu.au
rolland@cirm2.univ-mrs.fr
rvc@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU
sjl@doc.ic.ac.uk
spot@cs.cmu.edu
sridhar@enuxha.eas.asu.edu
steve@cs.uow.edu.au
stisop@stis.nsf.gov
uriw@microworld.media.mit.edu
wais-admin@zenon.inria.fr
wais-directory-of-servers@quake.think.com
wais@archie.au
wais@archive.orst.edu
wais@calypso.oit.unc.edu
wais@cujo.curtin.edu.au
wais@eff.org
wais@nostromo.oes.orst.edu
wais@quake.think.com
wais@sun-wais.oit.unc.edu
wais@wais.sdsu.edu
waisguy@solomon.technet.sg
walters@pc.maricopa.edu
weather-server@quake.think.com
willem@lawmail.law.columbia.edu


The release is available from Think.com via anonymous FTP in
/public/wais/wais-8-b5.tar.Z and WAIStation-0-62.sit.hqx.

Bugs to bug-wais@think.com or to me.

For the bug fixes, thanks to:

wollman@emily.uvm.edu
ses@ccgr.technion.ac.il
simon@liasun1.epfl.ch
kent@parc.xerox.com,
mah@parrot.prv.univie.ac.at
gcardwel@uci.edu
escott@eos.ncsu.edu
francois@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu
steinkel@carlisle-emh2.army.mil
fullton@mdewey.ga.unc.edu
riddle@rice.edu

-brewster and the wais crew

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