searchable archives

["Ryan Schuermann" <rts@nol.net>]

nod, well you all let me know what's up, i've already written a web 
(perl)cgi interface to search a wais database, and to interpret the 
results and provide links to the found references, sweet really, dats 
why they pay me the small change!

Ryan

> At 03:54 PM 9/16/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >i remember reading on the Corrado list someone from the VR6 list or 
> >Jetta ist or some list offering to host the search engine and all the 
> >work....anyone know who that was? can we get it running on 
> >scirocco.org? is that a unix box? i'll compile and install WAIS if 
> >youd like.
> 
>   That would be great. As I believe I've mentioned before here, WAIS is the
> way to go. Compare the Corrado list archive(using Glimpse- a UNIX search
> utility) with the Search engine for the DIY_EFI site(using WAIS). The
> DIY_EFI site has just about as good a search engine as I could envision. I
> have even written simple Perl programs to search large archives. But
> they're just not fast enough, without doing a lot of data manipulation.
> This is where WAIS is useful, as it can handle indexing the archives to
> make them accessible quickly. Unfortunately, I don't have a Unix box on a
> direct connection either.
> 
> Brad
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