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- From: fishwick@fish.cis.ufl.edu (Paul Fishwick)
- Newsgroups: alt.gopher
- Subject: Using Gopher for a News Group
- Message-ID: <37901@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 01:19:18 GMT
- Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu
- Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.
- Lines: 44
- Nntp-Posting-Host: fish.cis.ufl.edu
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- I have asked two seniors to build a gopher hierarchy from our existing
- archives from Simulation Digest. My hope is to "go beyond" what is
- done for frequently asked questions (FAQ) and let digest readers easily
- get information by keyword access directly to the digest archives. I
- have chosen gopher as a first start since it is freely available and
- its user base is expanding.
- Now, here's what I need to do: I want to allow people to user their
- xgopher,gopher programs (from wherever) to do text searches of the
- archives such as "search keywords: simulation AND network". I have
- had them set up the file hierarchy so that one file corresponds to
- one message that is within a particular issue within a particular
- volume (10 issues per volume). I am wondering how to implement the
- search. I had thought of executing a Unix script via a gopher .Link
- file (but I could not get this to work). The script would query
- the user, do a 'grep' and collect all messages into a file that would
- be shown by xgopher (as it allows perusal of normal text files). Is
- this a good way, or is there something better? I know nothing of
- WAIS, unfortunately. If WAIS is the method to use, then I'll be glad
- to read whatever is necessary. The script solution seemed like the best hack
- since I know about Unix scripts, at least. Any help would be appreciated..
- Here's what I did for the script: I created a file called .script
- under my gopher directory that contained:
-
- Name=Try running me - I'm a script!
- Type=0
- Path=exec:://cis/lightning3/fishwick/gopher/runme
- Host=+
- Port=+
-
-
- The "Name" text comes up fine within xgopher; however, nothing happens
- when I press on it. Shouldn't it execute 'runme' ?
-
- -paul
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- | Computer Simulation and Animation Group |
- | Dept. of Computer Science EMAIL: fishwick@cis.ufl.edu |
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