From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Message-Id: <200203110025.QAA14744@stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Subject: [gopher] Re: buckd + wais
In-Reply-To: <3C8BCA0B.3030509@myrealbox.com> from Aaron Angel at "Mar 10,
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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:25:41 -0800 (PST)
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> Anyone have any clue how to use WAIS with the buckd gopher server?  All 
> I can get from the documentation is to use a script, but I haven't the 
> slightest on how to write such a script, nor have I found anything else 
> helpful lately.

Actually, it's tricky to use WAIS with any server. What you have to do is
make a WAIS query file and feed that into waisq. It's not as simple a
matter as feeding arguments to grep, but it's much more flexible and a lot
faster. The format of a WAIS query is in the respective man pages.

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