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HyperWais 1.9:
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Welcome to HyperWais, a Hypercard stack for searching Wide Area
Information Servers.
What is HyperWais:
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HyperWais is a hypercard stack which can be used to access Wide Area
Information Servers (WAIS) on the internet, currently there about about
450 public access servers available.
HyperWais allows you to connect up to any number of servers, search
them, download documents and view/save them either with built-in
handlers or using other applications to view them. Support is also
provided for doing relevance feedback. All this functionality is provided
within hypercard in the form of a stack, in fact there are two stacks,
one built for Macs with small screens and one built for Macs with larger
screens. Because the search interface is built using Hypercard, users
can completely remodel it to their taste.
Where can I get HyperWais:
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HyperWais can be obtained by anonymous FTP from:
sunsite.oit.unc.edu:/pub/wais/Mac/HyperWais.sea.hqx,
the internet address for sunsite is [152.2.22.81].
or from:
wais.com:/pub/freeware/mac/HyperWais.sea.hqx,
the internet address for wais is [192.216.46.98].
HyperWais.sea.hqx contains the User Distribution.
You may also want to download JPEGView to view pictures.
I have put a copy on wais.com along with HyperWais.
Source Code:
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Source code for the application is available upon request.
What does HyperWais cost:
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Nothing, but be sure to read the COPYRIGHT file to see what the
restrictions are. Also be sure to register your copy of dispGIF
that is supplied with the stack if you wish to display GIF images,
and register your copy of TIFFImages that is supplied with the
stack if you wish to displat TIFF images.
What is included in the User distribution:
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After you have uncompressed the archive, you should find:
- This file (named README).
- The copyright file (named COPYRIGHT).
- A Hypercard stack called HyperWais, which is a sample stack for
searching WAIS databases. This stack contains a set of XCMDs which
allow the stack to communicate (via Apple Events) with the "Wais
Listener". There is also another stacks called HyperWais 12 for 12"
monitors.
- A application called "Wais Listener", this is the Faceless Background
Application (FBA) which allows the Hypercard stack to communicate with
WAIS servers. This application just sits in the background and listens
out to Apple Events. All you need to do is start it up. Note that the
"Wais Listener" will grab a chunk of memory (about 450K) which will be
added to the system software in the "About this mac" box.
- Another application called "Wais Listener.debug", this is the same
application as the "Wais Listener" but will have a visible debug window
which will list out all the events/data received and events/data
returned. You may want to use this application to see what is going
on. Both "Wais Listener" and "Wais Listener.debug" create log files
which can be looked at with any text editor.
- A folder called wais-sources where HyperWais stores the WAIS source
description files.
- A folder called wais-documents where HyperWais stores some WAIS
document files.
- A folder called wais-questions which does nothing at this time.
- Dont forget to read the release notes located in the Release Notes
folder, these list out all the changes that were made with each
version of HyperWais.
Other software you need to run HyperWais:
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To run HyperWais you will need to run system 7.0, 7.0.1 or 7.1, Hypercard 2.1 and
MacTCP 1.1 (or MacTCP 1.1.1 if you are running system 7.1). Hypercard will have
to be allocated 1500K of memory, this is done using the "Get Info" menu in the Finder.
The Wais Listener should have about 450K of allocated to it.
Starting up:
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To start up you need to launch the "Wais Listener" application, then
start HyperWais. HyperWais will need the wais-sources folder and the
wais-documents folder in the folder it is located in (these are in the
archive and should be created automatically). Note that the "Wais Listener"
needs MacTCP to communicate with wais sources. You may want to place the
"Wais Listener" in the startup folder located in the system folder.
This will ensure that the "Wais Listener" is started up everytime you
start up your mac.
Some limitations:
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The "Wais Listener" will support any number of connections, any number
of open sources per connection, number of document headlines per
connection and any number of relevance feedback entries per
connection. The main limitation imposed is the amount of memory
available to the "Wais Listener'. The connections can be opened by
clients located either on the same macintosh as the "Wais Listener" or on
a different macintosh. This feature would enable you to set up a
"Wais Listener" gateway on one macintosh with a connection to
the Internet and have a number of other macintoshs using appletalk to
connect up to that Wais Listener.
francois
Francois Schiettecatte
Software Engineer
Internet: francois@wais.com
Phone : (716) 256-2850