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From: mangalam@uci.edu (Harry Mangalam)
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Subject: Info-mac WAIS db is back!!
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Date: 10 Mar 1995 10:44:12 -0600
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Hi All,

   One of the very nice things that Thinking Machines Corp did was to make
the individual articles of the Info-Mac periodical available via WAIS
(another TMC invention).  TMC no longer maintains this db and it ceased
answering
requests a while back.  Since that db was something I used quite a bit, I
looked into reviving it and while WAIS Inc (now a TMC spinoff) has said
that it may revive it, it may be while before it does, SOOooooo since I had
a little extra disk space,  I grabbed the available postings and
waisindexed them.

   INFO-MAC is BACK!  But in slightly different form, for reasons of
   reindexing.

   It is split into 2 dbs:   info-mac    - Volumes 10-12 (1992-1994) inclusive
                             info-mac95  - Volume 13 (1995)

The easy Web way (also gives you access to the comp.sys sgi, comp.os.linux,
and rec.woodworking archives):

http://hornet.mmg.uci.edu/~hjm/projects/sgi.wais.html

The naked URLs:

wais://ih34.hsis.uci.edu:210/info-mac?query boolean query ...
and
wais://ih34.hsis.uci.edu:210/info-mac95?query boolean query ...


NB:If you use Netscape, you have to specify a WAIS proxy; you can use the
same host (ih34.hsis.uci.edu, port 80), but note that the proxy jump is
very slow - sometimes as long as minutes.  I'm trying to modify it to use a
local WAIS gateway, instead of jumping to CERN (the default).
Mac Mosaic does not support WAIS queries directly yet.

You can get free Mac WAIS clients from an info-mac mirror, of course:
for example..
ftp://ftp.hawaii.edu//mirrors/info-mac/comm/tcp/wais-for-mac-12a.hqx
ftp://ftp.hawaii.edu//mirrors/info-mac/comm/tcp/mac-wais-129.hqx

or check out the WAIS freeware collection:
ftp://ftp.wais.com/pub/freeware

The bare WAIS src file for info-mac is:

(:source
  :version  3
  :ip-address "128.200.5.34"
  :ip-name "ih34.hsis.uci.edu"
  :tcp-port 210
  :database-name "info-mac"
  :maintainer "mangalam@uci.edu"
  :description
  "Harry's test infomac server
   The info-mac digest from info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu"
  )

Replace "info-mac" with "info-mac95" and you'll have the other.

It is, of course, free, for the cost of bug reports and comments.
Cheers
harry
-- 
Harry J Mangalam, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UC Irvine,
      Irvine, CA, 92717, (714) 824-4824, fax (714) 824 8598
                 --- knowledge is fractal ---
            http://hornet.mmg.uci.edu/~hjm/hjm.html
  Computational Biology..SGI..Woodworking..Bicycling..Linux..WWW 

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