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- From: lbroda@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Larry Broda)
- Subject: Re: Wais search not working
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- Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:12:18 GMT
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- lbroda@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Larry Broda) writes:
-
- >Surely I'm making a simple configuration error here: on a simple WAIS
- >index search (wais-8-b5, gopher 1.03) I get "Nothing available" though
- >I know this is incorrect (a waissearch proves this).
-
- >Furthermore, I tried running gopherd in Debug mode and the debugging
- >output clearly showed that it was finding the correct documents on and
- >index search... though there was an odd "dangling file" message. Here
- >is an example of gopherd debug output:
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- etc, etc...
-
- I found the cause myself. In the WAIS utility (under ir/) futil.c,
- the call to the Sun library routine "access" was not working right.
- It was saying the file didn't exist when it did. I kludged it by
- replacing the calls to access with my own routine, but wonder what is
- up.
-
- --
- Larry Broda
- Systems Administration
- Department of Psychology,
- University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
- email: lbroda@s.psych.uiuc.edu
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