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- From: zlsiimw@info.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Subject: Re: Indexing gopher tree
- Message-ID: <7460@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 08:48:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.215154.4377@tigger.jvnc.net>
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- In article <1993Jan21.215154.4377@tigger.jvnc.net>, conklin@tigger.jvnc.net
- (David Conklin) writes:
- |>
- |> I was wondering if anyone knows of a good way to index a gopher tree,
- |> in such a way, that if a person searches for a string that leads to
- |> an object other than a document, the action specified by that object
- |> is "executed", just as if the user had chosen that object.
- |>
- |> A possible example (in an attempt to make what I'm trying to get across
- |> a little bit clearer) is for someone to search for the string, 'archie'.
- |> This could result in
- |> -----
- |> 1 Archie Document #A text document
- |> 2 Search Archie #A link to search archie
- |> -----
- |>
- |> If a user choses the first choice, they would see a document talking about
- |> archie. If they chose the second one, I would like for the link to be
- |> "executed" and the user allowed to enter their search pattern for archie,
- |> and go from there.
-
- This is possible through Dennis Boone's ts & tb - you should be able to
- get a copy by searching the gopher news archives at Minnesota; try searching
- for ts or tb.
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