Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list gopher); Sun, 10 Mar 2002 19:20:58 -0500 (EST) Return-Path: <spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu> Delivered-To: gopher@complete.org Received: from stockholm.ptloma.edu (stockholm.ptloma.edu [199.106.86.50]) by pi.glockenspiel.complete.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F7F83B844 for <gopher@complete.org>; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 19:20:58 -0500 (EST) Received: (from spectre@localhost) by stockholm.ptloma.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA14744 for gopher@complete.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:25:41 -0800 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, 2 04:03:07 pm" To: gopher@complete.org Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:25:41 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 492 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: gopher@complete.org List-help: <mailto:ecartis@complete.org?Subject=help> List-unsubscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=unsubscribe> List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-ID: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> X-List-ID: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> List-subscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=subscribe> List-owner: <mailto:jgoerzen@complete.org> List-post: <mailto:gopher@complete.org> List-archive: <http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/> X-list: gopher

> 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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