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Open System Consultants Pty. Ltd
24 Bateman St Hampton, VIC 3188 Australia
Phone, Fax: +613 95980985

Yet again it is me.

Looking through this group and all the web pages it seesm  
the following are the ways most people are  
indexing and searching web pages from the web. Can people  
commnet on the best for solaris 2.4 user.

1. FreeWAIS and wwwwais
2. Swish and wwwwais
3. Freewais-sf and sfgate

Is this true. I am messing about with the first two and  
wonder what others think is the best. What about all these  
other things which are mentioned like kid-of-wais.pl,  
son-of-wais.pl, uncle-twice-removed-wais.pl - are any of  
these better than wwwwais??

What about glimpse and harvest??

Anyone bought the commercial waisgate??

And is any of these good for indexing and searching things  
other than html files, eg a lot of our users have pc  
databases they would like to make searchable on the web.  
Ones in dbase and all kinds of things. We are thinking of  
having them generate ascii file reports, loading these on  
the unix box and then running waisindex on them. But these  
users really want the field structure search of their pc  
database replicated, ie if it is a community housing  
directory for homeless people they want to search on  
particluar fields, eg women only, in this area, fee etc.  
Can any of the above do this. Is there anything which can  
do it?? All help appreciated.

Now back to trying to work out why swish does not index and  
why wwwwais is not working with waisq and waissearch.

Please email me as well as board please.

Thanks for all your help

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All the best,
Adrian Bates

Victoria's Network: Vicnet Ph: (03) 669 9714, Fax: (03) 669  
9815 Intl: +61 3
Australia    "Come one you Maine Road Blues"
http://www.vicnet.net.au/

    Adrian> Can people commnet on the best for solaris 2.4 user.

    Adrian> 1. FreeWAIS and wwwwais
    Adrian> 2. Swish and wwwwais
    Adrian> 3. Freewais-sf and sfgate

I can speak for 3.

    Adrian> What about all these other things which are mentioned like
    Adrian> kid-of-wais.pl, son-of-wais.pl,
    Adrian> uncle-twice-removed-wais.pl - are any of these better than
    Adrian> wwwwais??

If you want to have fielded search supported by forms you will have to
take 3. or buy what WAIS Inc. can give you.

    Adrian> What about glimpse and harvest??

No real free text search (stemming ...) in glimpse. Harvest is another
subject but roughly the same applies. It's not build for full text
searches.

    Adrian> Anyone bought the commercial waisgate??

Comes daily closer to SFgate ;-) Seriously: I did not look for some
time.

    Adrian> And is any of these good for indexing and searching things  
    Adrian> other than html files, eg a lot of our users have pc  
    Adrian> databases they would like to make searchable on the web.  
    Adrian> Ones in dbase and all kinds of things. We are thinking of  
    Adrian> having them generate ascii file reports, loading these on  
    Adrian> the unix box and then running waisindex on them. But these  
    Adrian> users really want the field structure search of their pc  
    Adrian> database replicated, ie if it is a community housing  
    Adrian> directory for homeless people they want to search on  
    Adrian> particluar fields, eg women only, in this area, fee etc.  
    Adrian> Can any of the above do this. Is there anything which can  
    Adrian> do it?? All help appreciated.

freeWAIS-sf and SFgate can fulfill all of you wishes (above ;-).

Ulrich