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- README: WAIS Unix UI release 8 b5 Sun May 10 1992
- Jonathan Goldman Thinking Machines Corp
- Brewster Kahle
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-
- WARRANTY DISCLAIMER
-
- This software was created by Thinking Machines Corporation and is
- distributed free of charge. It is placed in the public domain and
- permission is granted to anyone to use, duplicate, modify and redistribute
- it provided that this notice is attached.
-
- Thinking Machines Corporation provides absolutely NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
- with respect to this software. The entire risk as to the quality and
- performance of this software is with the user. IN NO EVENT WILL THINKING
- MACHINES CORPORATION BE LIABLE TO ANYONE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT THE
- USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES RESULTING FROM
- LOST DATA OR LOST PROFITS, OR FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
- DAMAGES.
-
-
-
- These are some of the user interfaces for the WAIS system. We solicit
- enhancements and other user interfaces to be included in future releases.
- If you are interested in doing this, please contact us so we do not
- duplicate effort.
-
- -Brewster and Jonathan 6/91
-
-
- waissearch: A simple shell command for posing question. see
- ../doc/waissearch.txt for details.
-
- waisq: A shell level utility for using WAIS questions. Used by the the gnu
- emacs interface in wais.el. See the ../doc/waisq.txt file for details.
-
- wais.el is a gnu emacs interface. See ../doc/wais.el.txt for details.
-
- One thing to note for the Emacs interface on the NeXT: In wais.el lines
- 117-121:
-
- (let (
- ;; this doesn't work on the NeXT. Comment out this line.
- (process-connection-type nil)
- )
-
- Be sure to comment out the local variable on the NeXT.
-
- lucid.lisp is not finished yet, but will be a set of calling routines to
- the wais client libraries (not a full user interface).
-