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- From: gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert)
- Subject: Re: WAIS: Boolean vs. "Standard" searching...
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:29:03 GMT
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- The boolean search ability resides with gopher/wais servers. It
- is always going to be the case in gopher/wais land that users
- will need to pay some attention to the customizations at the
- servers that they use. I may want to provide a unique search service
- suited only to biology data, and I will make help available via
- gopher to explain this as need be. After all, gopher is a great
- tool for making such help available also. We can lead the horses
- but we can't force the stuff down their throats.
-
- However, I have in the back of my mind that a Gopher+ server and client
- might use an extended query (+ASK ?) that would have additional lines
- of info as the query is presented to the user, with such pertinent
- help as:
- Question from server ------
- Search for what recipe?
- (use "and" and "not" between terms to limit responses,
- use "word*" to match partial words, and
- use "'some phrase!'" to match literal strings )
-
- I don't know yet if this can be shoehorned into the protocol.
-
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- Don Gilbert gilbert@bio.indiana.edu
- biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405
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