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- Welcome to Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS)!
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- This is the main distribution site for WAIS software (think.com). Some
- other releases are maintained at other sites (see the announcement below).
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- Z39.50 archives are kept in the Z3950 subdirectory.
-
- The archives to mailing lists are in /pub/wais/*@quake.think.com
- Mailing lists on wais are listed in the following announcement.
-
- -Brewster and the WAIS Crew
-
- Brewster Kahle Thinking Machines Corporation
- Brewster@Think.com 1010 El Camino Real
- Project Leader Menlo Park, CA 94025
- Wide Area Information Servers 415-329-9300x228
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- New Unix Internet Release (Beta 3 Release) Available
- September 16, 1991
-
- Thank you for the interest in WAIS. The servers on Quake (including the
- directory of servers) has 70k requests from over 1100 different hosts all
- over the world (18 countries) in a couple of months. There are now 70
- servers including one in Norway, one in Australia, poetry, recipies,
- comp.sources, as well as a Connection Machine serving all sorts of things.
-
- There are are a few mailing lists on this subject that you might want to be
- on:
- wais-interest: only announcements like this (1 a month or so)
- wais-discussion: moderated mailings every 1 or 2 weeks. Good
- stuff including all on wais-interest.
- wais-talk: unmoderated for implementors and interactive discussions.
- To subscribe to these mailing lists, send email to
- wais-<foo>-request@think.com, or to listserv@think.com. When using
- listserv@think.com, the body of your message must contain
- "ADD yourlogin nameofmailinglist",
- i.e. "ADD barbara@think.com wais-discussion". Listserv help file is in
- /usr/lib/listserv/help@quake.think.com
- Archives available from wais server: wais-discussion or anonymous ftp from
- quake.think.com.
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- A bibliography of available written materials and resources is available
- from /pub/wais/wais-discussion/bibliography.txt@quake.think.com (ftp) or
- WAIS server wais-discussion-archive.src, or on request from Barbara@think.com.
-
- Jonathan Goldman pulled the most recent release together (with help from
- developers all over the world, see below):
- Highlights of modifications (see the release for the full report)
- Overall: make it more portable, and small enhancements
- Thank you to all that have contributed bug reports and suggestions. There
- are no concrete plans for the next release.
-
- Overview of components:
- In this release is source code for:
- * Server code: There is code to index text and picture files.
- * Protocol code: based on Z39.50-1988 using the internet.
- * Clients code: User interfaces for contacting servers
- * GNU emacs interface
- * simple shell interface
- * Mac interface (in separate WAIStation file)
- * tool kit for making your own interfaces
- * X interface
- * Directory of servers: This is be a network service that lists
- existing servers and how to contact them.
- * A Connection Machine server with some patent information, the CIA
- factbook, and some Biomedical abstracts, info-mac, risks, etc
- to serve as example servers.
-
- Other components available elsewhere:
- NeXT release: /wais/WAIStation-NeXT-1.0.tar.Z@think.com
- Telnet access: telnet quake.think.com login wais
- DOS: /pub/wais/UNC/wais-dos*@samba.oit.unc.edu
- Motif: /public/wais/motif-a1.tar.Z@think.com
- IBM RS6000: /pub/misc/wais-8-b2-dist.tar.Z@ans.net
- SunView: /pub/wais/sunsearch.src.*.tar.Z@samba.oit.unc.edu
- VMS: /pub/wais/vms*@samba.oit.unc.edu
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- The public servers that are currently advertized are:
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- Biology:
- biology-journal-contents.src
- biosci.src Molecular-biology.src
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- Usenet and internet archives:
- comp.graphics.src comp.admin.src
- comp.db.src comp.emacs.src
- comp.multi.src comp.archives.src
- rec.pets.src comp.sources.src
- usenet-science.src
- user-contrib-cookbook.src usenet-cookbook.src
- homebrew.src
- info-mac.src sun-spots.src
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- Frequently Asked Questions:
- NeXT.FAQ.src unix.FAQ.src
- ibm.pc.FAQ.src mac.FAQ.src
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- Connection Machine info:
- CM-applications.src
- CM-tech-summary.src
- CM-fortran-manual.src CM-paris-manual.src
- CM-star-lisp-docs.src CMFS-documentation.src
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- Books:
- jargon.src
- bible.src koran.src
- sample-books.src
- MIT-algorithms-bug.src MIT-algorithms-exercise.src
- MIT-algorithms-suggest.src
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- Libraries:
- online-libraries.src
- tmc-library.src
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- Misc:
- open_systems_calendar.src matrix_news.src
- astro-images-gif.src astro-images-fits.src
- nsf-bulletins.src
- midi.src
- unimelb-research.src (Australia!)
- supreme-ct.src
- NIH-Guide.src
- UNTComputerDoc.src
- US-Gov-Programs.src
- UiO_Publications.src (Norway!)
- cosmic-abstracts.src cosmic-programs.src
- directory-of-servers.src
- eff-documents.src eff-talk.src
- empire.src empire20.src
- internet-documents.src internet-drafts.src
- internet-resource-guide.src internet-rfcs.src
- patent-sampler.src
- poetry.src
- risks-digest.src
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- sample-pictures.src
- unix-manual.src
- wais-discussion-archives.src wais-docs.src
- wall-street-journal-sample.src
- weather.src
- world-factbook.src
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-
- The first "Digital Librarians", I think it would be safe to say are the
- maintainers of these servers:
- Geir.Pedersen@use.uio.no
- abc@banjo.concert.net
- ang@theory.lcs.mit.edu
- art@think.com
- billy@unt.edu
- biosci@genbank.bio.net
- brewster@think.com
- chris@cosmic1.cosmic.uga.edu
- fullton@lambada.oit.unc.edu
- ephraim@think.com
- gordon@think.com
- jcurran@nnsc.nsf.net
- jonathan@think.com
- jsq@tic.com
- root@next2.oit.unc.edu
- rvc@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU
- uriw@microworld.media.mit.edu
- wais@eff.org
- wais@talon.UCS.ORST.EDU
- waisp@quake.think.com
- weather-server@quake.think.com
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- The release is available from Think.com via anonymous FTP in
- /public/wais/wais-8-b3.tar.Z and WAIStation-0-62.sit.hqx.
-
- Bugs to bug-wais@think.com or to me.
-
- For the bug fixes, thanks to:
- Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@emily.uvm.edu>
- Simon E Spero <ses@ccgr.technion.ac.il>
- <simon@liasun1.epfl.ch>
- kent@parc.xerox.com,
- Michael Haberler (mah@parrot.prv.univie.ac.at) and to
- gcardwel@uci.edu for bug fixes to the last release.
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- -brewster and the wais crew
-
- "Paper and flesh are fleeting media for the treasures that are ideas."
-
- Brewster Kahle Thinking Machines Corporation
- Brewster@Think.com 1010 El Camino Real
- Project Leader Menlo Park, CA 94025
- Wide Area Information Servers 415-329-9300x228
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