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- From: sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman )
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher,comp.infosystems.wais
- Subject: Re: "About" information for WAIS servers via Gopher
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.171854.7660@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 17:18:54 GMT
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- Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
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- riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle) writes:
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- )There may actually be a way to do this without extending the protocol,
- )by making a minor change in the gopher clients.
- )
- )When I use a WAIS client (e.g. xwaisq) and send the WAIS server a null
- )search string, I sometimes get back two items:
- )
- ) 1000 9.5K Information on database: Aesop-Fables
- ) 1000 48.5K Catalog for database: Aesop-Fables
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- Actually the same information should be returned if you send a '?'.
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- Sridhar.
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- Sridhar Venkataraman sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu
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