[gopher] Re: Full text search
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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