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- From: catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
- Subject: Re: PC WAIS Client for Windows Sockets?
- Message-ID: <CATONE.92Dec31001034@sovereign-gw.dmark.wharton.upenn.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 05:10:34 GMT
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- In-reply-to: tfiske@qualcom.qualcomm.com's message of 30 Dec 92 19:18:35 GMT
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- In article <tfiske.725743115@qualcom> tfiske@qualcom.qualcomm.com (T.J. Fiske) writes:
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-
- With the upcomming release of Windows Socket Standard, is anybody
- working on converting one of the Windows WAIS clients over to this
- standard? This would allow one client to work for everybody! No
- matter what network software they were running under Windows.
-
- If anyone has any ideas please let me know, we are using PC/TCP and
- therefore cant run and any of the PC Clients, and since we have 400
- PC users, this is a bit a problem? :)
-
- Actually, if you use the generic ethernet version of PC/TCP over
- packet drivers, you can run PCWais simply by wrapping a batch file
- around it to inet unload beforehand and ethdrv after; alternatively,
- and perhaps more simply, you could wrap batch files around your PC/TCP
- commands to ethdrv before and inet unload after. That's what we used
- to do, before we decided PC/TCP wasn't worth the bother.
-
- As for ideas for a port, you can find the source code for Faiez
- Hindi's version of PCWais at hilbert.wharton.upenn.edu in
- pub/tcpip/pcwais.zip; source is for Borland C++ 3.0 with Application
- Frameworks, though it should be easy to move the WAIS engine stuff to
- other environments, it was a fairly straight port of the Unix 8-b4
- code. In fact, I believe I have a version of the command line waisq
- program port to DOS that Faeiz did, which might make a better starting
- point; that is in fact how we did PCWais in the first place, port the
- command line version then wrap a user interface around the WAIS
- engine. We never bothered to release the command line version, but if
- folks are interested let me know and I will have a look when I get
- back to the office next week.
-
- Note that neither of these Penn versions with source code have Jim
- Fullton's enhancements of relevance feedback, buffer size negotiation
- and others; Jim's version is in pcdist.zip at hilbert and at UNC. I
- don't think his version comes with source, though I haven't looked in
- a while. Oh, and there is at least one known bug with both versions
- having to do with queries returning no matches that would have to be
- found and fixed.
-
-
- - Tony
- catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu
-
-