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- Lou Montulli writes:
- > I've been porting Lynx to the 2.09 WWW library and adding the direct
- > WAIS modules. My question is what is the best WAIS distribution to
- > use. I downloaded wais-8-b5 and am having alot of compile troubles.
- > Is there another "free" WAIS that I should be using? Is 8-b5 free
- > WAIS or is it the distribution that thinking machines distributes?
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- "free WAIS" == "freeWAIS 0.1" == CNIDR's packaging of "normal WAIS"
- (from Thinking Machines) with lots of user-contributed fixes [boolean
- searching, etc.] == the predecessor of freeWAIS 1.0, CNIDR's Mother of
- all WAIS's and Z39.50-92 engine. The FTP site is sunsite.unc.edu.
-
- > It looks like this isn't going to work on alot of machines anyways
- > since WAIS requires an ANSI C compiler.
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- GCC...
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- Marc
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