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- Subject: WAIS Toolkit 0.72 for Windows NT available
-
- This message is to announce the availability of a new version of the
- freeware WAIS Toolkit for Windows NT. This software allows a Windows
- NT machine to prepare and search full-text databases and can be used
- as the searching engine for the Gopher Server (GOPHERS), the HTTP
- Server (HTTPS), or the WAIS Server (WAISS) for Windows NT.
-
- WAIS Toolkit version 0.72 is largely based on the "freeWAIS" version 0.3.
- Executables for Intel-based systems, MIPS systems, and DEC Alpha systems,
- are available.
-
- This version is a merged upgrading from the WAIS Toolkit 0.6 to the
- "freeWAIS" version 0.3 plus some bug-fixes.
-
- The software may be FTP'd from emwac.ed.ac.uk in the directory
- pub/waitool. There are three ZIP files, for the different CPU types.
- Be sure you download the right one for your processor.
-
- Source for WAIS Toolkit 0.72 is available in WTSOURCE.ZIP in the same
- directory.
-
- New features in 0.72
- ====================
-
- * Bug fixed: when indexing files in current directory with "-r" option and
- wildcard, the WAISINDEX caused "Application Error".
-
- * WAISLOOK will return an more sensible error message for non-existing
- database.
-
- New features in 0.71
- ====================
-
- * Bug fixed: when indexing some long line HTML files, the WAISINDEX caused
- security access violation.
-
- New features in 0.7
- ===================
-
- * The WAISLOOK and WAISSERV support boolean searches. The boolean operators
- are 'and', 'or', and 'not'.
-
- * The WAISLOOK with -gopher option will return the Gopher type for
- each matching file based on the EMWAC Gopher Server configuration
- information.
-
- * Bug fixed: when indexing some HTML files, the WAISINDEX caused
- security access violation.
-
-
- This software has been produced as part of the European Microsoft
- Windows NT Academic Centre (EMWAC) project. EMWAC has been set up to
- support and act as a focus for Windows NT within European academia.
- It is sponsored by Datalink Computers, Digital, Microsoft, Research
- Machines, Sequent and the University of Edinburgh.
-
- Regards,
-
- Shangjie Jin Phone: +44 31 650 6565
- Edinburgh University Computing Service Fax: +44 31 650 6464
- JCMB, King's Buildings Email: S.Jin@ed.ac.uk
- Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom
-