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- From: peterson@choctaw.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Bob Peterson)
- Subject: Re: Gopher and Hypertext links
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.140814.2401@csc.ti.com>
- Keywords: hypertext
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:08:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.020752.12706@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, rww@mugwump.cl.msu.edu (Richard W. Wiggins) writes:
- |> ...
- |> On the other hand, making people cruise through the hierarchy to find
- |> a particular arcane item may not be the best scheme either. Even
- |> if a full Hypertext scheme isn't implemented, it'd be nice if the
- |> user could do a string search on the current menu (as the CMS Gopher
- |> client allows) or across all the titles in the hierarchy, allowing
- |> a quick shortstop to the data desired. It seems systems that grow
- |> big (like Compuserve and Prodigy) all provide some sort of fast path.
-
- For some time now I've used WAIS to index my file tree. The following
- two lines run as part of a script executed daily from crontab.
-
- ls -lLRA /conestoga/u2/peterson \
- >/conestoga/u3/peterson/WAISIndexes/ls-lRA
- /conestoga/u2/peterson/Bin/waisindex \
- -t para \
- -d /conestoga/u3/peterson/WAISIndexes/Peterson_Tree \
- /conestoga/u3/peterson/WAISIndexes/ls-lRA
- rm /conestoga/u3/peterson/WAISIndexes/ls-lRA
-
- If you do something akin to the above, perhaps based on Dennis
- Boone's gophertree, and make the index available from Gopher, you have
- exactly what you ask for: an index of the Gopher burrows.
-
- |> /Rich Wiggins, Michigan State U
-
- Bob
-