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- > If there's no improvement to the disk space used by these I'll announce the
- > server to the world Wednesday morning in alt.wais and the archie-people mailing
- > list.
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- Magic -- I really like it. I have modified the WAIS-WWW gateway so that is the
- database is an archie one (i.e.database name contains "archie" :-| ) a W3 search of
- the database will give links directly to the files. This relies on the headline
- starting with host:/filename.
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- For the first test I ran www, followed a pointer to your archie server, looked for
- "html" to find any hypertext files out there. At the bottom of the list is a file
- of Ed Vielmetti's "archie.html" in Toronto. Jumped over there.. it has a pointer
- to the comp.archives newgroup ... jumped into the newsgroup... jumped into an
- article... This is how things SHOULD work!
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- Now the things which need neatening up. The gateway I was using is here in CERN,
- and the server is at ordst.edu. This implies a transatlantic link for every search.
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- - Would you or anyone like to run the gateway locally? Volunteers?
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- - Perhaps we should run the WAIS archie here, mirroring files.
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- - One of us could run a direct W3 archie server rather than using a gateway
- process.
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- To use www as an archie client,
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- setenv WWW_wais_GATE http://info.cern.ch:8001/
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- (or point to a more local gateway!) and
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- alias archie www wais://archive.orst.edu:9000/archie-orst.edu
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- I've put a pointer to the archie index in our CERN home page, but not publicised it
- yet.
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- Tim BL
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