From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 15 15:12: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B2A837B847 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:11:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 14366 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2000 22:11:48 -0000 Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 15 Jul 2000 22:11:48 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA16070; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:11:39 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [OT alert!]freeWAIS-sf From: Harry Putnam Date: 15 Jul 2000 15:10:03 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 22 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been trying to learn and work with freeWAIS-sf. I've not even been able to get it installed on my linux box. `make' breaks with far too many problems to discuss here. Trouble is there is no place to discuss it. `comp.infosystems.wais' is nearly dead. Apparently freeWAIS is not a popular app, and then some. I finally went so far as to install FreeBSD-4.0 on my laptop thinking the ported for FreeBSD version would install easily. It did and I have it running now. But still having major trouble getting working databases built and query syntax working. The FreeWAIS documentation is written at a pretty high level. Not really for newbies, so isn't much help. (why do manpage authors do that?) I'm hoping there may be some seasoned FreeWAIS-sf users here who don't mind discussing it privately. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message