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Subject: [gopher] Re: Full text search
From: "R.A.Pavlov" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:33:41 +0400
Reply-to: gopher@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
David Meyer wrote:
> Just enjoyed watching the video of Gopher's creators Mark 
> McCahill and Farhad Anklesaria:
> 
> <gopher://hal3000.cx:70/5/Audio_Visual/Videos/mpm_gopher.zip>
> 
> They tout full text search as a key feature of Gopher, which I 
> didn't realize was such an integral part of Gopher.
> 
> A Veronica-2 search on "full text search" produces a number of 
> type 7 search server selectors, but none of them are on 
> operational hosts. Does anyone have a search server or WAIS still 
> running or resurrected?

WAIS is installed on SDF. I used it to search my gopherspace. But it has 
only web interface for now (http://rp.freeshell.org/wais/waisq.cgi) - as 
I remember, because of restrictions on usual user account there, but now 
I have ARPA account and planning to work on this more.
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