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- > Yes, the solution you suggest (spidey) could work. While the present
- > scheme is like "go to the Royal Library in Stockholm, 2nd floor, take
- > to the left, walk 20 meters, turn to the right, there it is on the
- > 3rd shelf, 15th book from the left, page 257.", the spidey scheme is
- > like "I think that John Shakespare wrote something about dreaming in
- > the middle of the summer". I would still prefer ISBN numbers. When
- > will spidey be up and running?
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- You can embed WAIS searches in URL's which is really the same thing.
- Also, my server has a search package included so you can do this
- pretty easily (some assembly required).
-
- For an example the following directory is searchable.
- http://www.bsdi.com/info/lawsuit/
- and you could embed a query in a link
- http://www.bsdi.com/ifno/lawsuit?frey
- will pop you into a menu of press releases by Donnalyn Frey.
-
- --sanders@bsdi.com
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