The intent is that this model should be placed 'in front' of new and existing information systems, to provide a uniform interface to client applications. This in turn provides the user with a number of benefits, including a uniform interface to many different kinds of information sources - hopefully tailored exactly to his specific needs by the provider of the client software. Z39.50 allows many different systems to look the same to the individual user, and it allows the individual information system to appear in many different forms, to suit the varying preferences and requirements of the users. The quotation above should encourage you to believe that Zebra will somehow index and answer Z39.50 queries on, say, the stuff that Combine recently fetched from the Web. Installing and running Zebra Installation Get zebra and yaz from Indexdata .
Installation is simple.
Make sure that you build yaz before you build zebra. Configuring and running Zebra Download the configuration files and unpack them with 'tar xzvf zcfg.tgz' . Enter the new directory zebraindex . Create a link to the data collected by Combine. Browse the configuration in zebra.zfg and check all paths.