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Archive-name: wais-faq/freeWAIS-sf
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1) What is freeWAIS-sf?
1.1) What does 'stemming' mean?
1.2) What does 'soundex' mean?
2) Where to get ...
2.1) Most of the ftp accessable Stuff is mirrored on different
2.2) Where can I get this list (freeWAIS-sf-faq)
2.3) Where can I get the comp.infosystems.wais FAQ
2.4) What is the current Version of freeWAIS-sf?
2.5) Where can I get some Documentation?
2.6) Where can i get examples of this $#@ format files?
3) Is there ...?
3.1) Is there and Emacs client for freeWAIS-sf?
3.2) Is there an X11 client for freeWAIS-sf
3.3) Does the X client compile with X11R6
3.4) Is there a WWW gateway dedicated for usage with freeWAIS-sf?
4) Can I ...
4.1) How must a field name look like?
5) How can I ...
5.1) How can I index index mails?
5.2) How can I index HTML entities?
5.3) How can I force 'c++' to appear in the index?
5.4) How can I index HTML files?
5.5) How can I index my http server?
5.6) How can I index my ftp server?
5.7) How to remove a file from index ?
5.8) How should I maintain WAIS indexes?
5.9) How can I search for the date specified in the layout.
6) Trouble ...
6.1) waisindex dumps core when it reads more than 20 filenames from
stdin.
6.2) Hey, is directory-of-servers at quake.think.com down or what?
6.3) Compilation of the ctype directory does not work!
6.4) warning: couldn't open database.syn -translation disabled.
7) Does freeWAIS-sf run on ....
8) Does freeWAIS-sf work with ...
8.1) Can i use other wais clients to query a freeWAIS-sf server?
8.2) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with gopher?
8.3) Gopher Error: Nothing Available!
8.4) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with Mosaic?
8.5) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with the cern httpd?
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Subject: 1) What is freeWAIS-sf?
1.1) What does 'stemming' mean?
1.2) What does 'soundex' mean?
FreeWAIS-sf is an extension of the
freeWAIS software provided by the the Clearinghouse for Networked
Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR). The SF suffix in the
software name stands for ßtructured fields," an indexing and search
feature which distinguishes this software from its predecessors.
It is based on the version 0.202 of this software but includes and
enhances much of what freeWAIS-0.3 contains.
Major extensions of FreeWAIS-sf include:
Introduction of text, date, and numeric field structures
within a document, which allows a document to be indexed
using potentially overlapping fields.
Support for complex Boolean searches (a query parser is
integrated in the server).
Stemming and phonetic coding may be switched on and off for
each individual field.
Definition of document format and layout of the headlines are
now configurable by a new specification language based on
regular expressions. No C-code must be written to index new
document types.
Installation procedure now just requires running a sh script
and answering simple questions. The script is generated using
the GNU autoconf utility. No Makefile sets for individual
systems are necessary. For development purposes, additional
Imakefiles are provided since the Makefiles do not contain
dependencies
Support for country specific character sets (8-Bit)
Lots of bug fixes.
All changes are restricted to the indexer and server to allow
existing clients to query FreeWAIS-sf databases. Document types
contained in the original distribution remain intact. You can use
FreeWAIS-sf as you would use original freeWAIS or take advantage of
its enhanced features.
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Last Update May 13 2007 @ 00:24 AM