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- From: gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert)
- Subject: Re: A Gopher What Does Boolean
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:41:07 GMT
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- In article <By18Hq.2ns@harpo.dev.uga.edu> bdesimon@uga.cc.uga.edu (Bert DeSimone) writes:
- >One final note, and this is probably a TERRIBLE thing to do; I have no idea
- >what the potential impact could be. I noticed that if you use iubio-wais
- >waisindex, a new index file is created (index.dlm). Sooooo, the first time
- >after I made gopher with the -DBIO option and searched my old indices, I got
- >a core dump and a .lock file for my efforts. Then, I simply touched a file
- >called index.dlm and all was fine.
-
- This is a bug in my modifications, that the index.dlm is causing some
- problems here, where it shouldn't. The index.dlm is an addition to wais
- index files needed only for those biology (or other) data that use symbols
- within words. The index.dlm file is simply a string of characters that
- are used as word delimiters, both in indexing the data and in searching it.
- In most cases, the index.dlm file should be ignored, though it will be
- created when the -DBIO options are enabled.
-
- If you create indices with another version of wais (w/o -DBIO) then use
- them with a version of wais/gopher that has -DBIO enabled, the software
- may crap out when looking for an index.dlm file. You can make an empty
- index.dlm and it should be happy, as you report.
-
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- Don Gilbert gilbert@bio.indiana.edu
- biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405
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