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- From: lindner@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
- Subject: Re: building gopher wais search server
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.172502.780@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:25:02 GMT
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- In <BxrEGC.2t7@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) writes:
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- >The modification's I have made to gopher, for use of my changes to wais,
- >are only needed if (a) you want to index and search biology or other data
- >that contains symbols, (b) you would like to add some minor enhancements or
- >hacks of mine (like date+size display, display of header files for
- >range retreivals, extended search retrievals >200, or likewise small things).
-
- True... However I noticed that I was getting core dumps when using
- iubio-wais-v8b5 with stock 1.x gopher code. Turns out that gopher
- wasn't setting the WordDelimiter function... If this function isn't
- set the Wais code blows up trying to execute a NULL function...
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- >You do not need to edit the gopher v1 server or client in order to use
- >the enhancements to WAIS that many of you want: booleans, partial words
- >and literal phrase searches. These three changes affect only the WAIS
- >server portion. If you want to add just these features, fetch the
- >iubio-wais-v8b5.tar.Z source, compile it WITHOUT the -DBIO option,
- >then re-compile your gopherd program linking to this new wais, and
- >you should be set. No need even to re-index your data.
-
- Perhaps the above bug doesn't happen if you don't compile with
- -DBIO?????
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