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diff --git a/docs/VMSWAIS.announce b/docs/VMSWAIS.announce new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50133f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/VMSWAIS.announce @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ + 03-Jun-1994 + + I have added DIRECT_WAIS support for VMS to Lynx. It uses highly +modified freeWAIS modules, collected into HTVMS_WaisUI.c, HTVMS_WaisUI.h, +HTVMS_WaisProt.c, and HTVMS_WaisProt.h, interfaced to HTWAIS.c and HTWSRC.c +of the WWWLib. The socket reads and writes use the code for VMS in the Lynx +version of the WWWLib, and thus are non-blocking (interruptible via the 'z' +command), and "already" ported to all the VMS TCPIP packages supported by +Lynx. All messaging associated with WAIS searches and document fetches go to +the Lynx statusline as Progress() or Alarm() reports. + + I also prettied up the HTWAIS.c and HTWSRC.c screen displays for both +VMS and Unix. I've been trying to build in recursive FORM-based interfaces, +instead of the present iSINDEX-based interfaces, but haven't succeeded ;(. + + The DIRECT_WAIS support is automatic for VMS (i.e., is implemented +via the BUILD.COM and LIBMAKE.COM procedures, without need to specify anything +but your TCPIP package, as in the previous, standard VMS builds). Simply +enter @BUILD <TCPIP package> or enter @BUILD and then the number of +your TCPIP package in response to the prompt, and you'll have DIRECT_WAIS +support along with every other wonderful thing in Lynx 8-). + + Fote + +========================================================================= + Foteos Macrides Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology + MACRIDES@SCI.WFEB.EDU 222 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury, MA 01545 +========================================================================= |