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- HyperWais 1.9:
- --------------
-
- Welcome to HyperWais, a Hypercard stack for searching Wide Area
- Information Servers.
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-
-
- What is HyperWais:
- ------------------
-
- HyperWais is a hypercard stack which can be used to access Wide Area
- Information Servers (WAIS) on the internet, currently there about about
- 450 public access servers available.
-
- HyperWais allows you to connect up to any number of servers, search
- them, download documents and view/save them either with built-in
- handlers or using other applications to view them. Support is also
- provided for doing relevance feedback. All this functionality is provided
- within hypercard in the form of a stack, in fact there are two stacks,
- one built for Macs with small screens and one built for Macs with larger
- screens. Because the search interface is built using Hypercard, users
- can completely remodel it to their taste.
-
-
- Where can I get HyperWais:
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-
- HyperWais can be obtained by anonymous FTP from:
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- sunsite.oit.unc.edu:/pub/wais/Mac/HyperWais.sea.hqx,
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- the internet address for sunsite is [152.2.22.81].
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- or from:
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- wais.com:/pub/freeware/mac/HyperWais.sea.hqx,
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- the internet address for wais is [192.216.46.98].
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- HyperWais.sea.hqx contains the User Distribution.
-
-
- You may also want to download JPEGView to view pictures.
- I have put a copy on wais.com along with HyperWais.
-
-
- Source Code:
- ------------
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- Source code for the application is available upon request.
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-
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- What does HyperWais cost:
- -------------------------
-
- Nothing, but be sure to read the COPYRIGHT file to see what the
- restrictions are. Also be sure to register your copy of dispGIF
- that is supplied with the stack if you wish to display GIF images,
- and register your copy of TIFFImages that is supplied with the
- stack if you wish to displat TIFF images.
-
-
-
- What is included in the User distribution:
- ------------------------------------------
-
- After you have uncompressed the archive, you should find:
-
- - This file (named README).
-
- - The copyright file (named COPYRIGHT).
-
- - A Hypercard stack called HyperWais, which is a sample stack for
- searching WAIS databases. This stack contains a set of XCMDs which
- allow the stack to communicate (via Apple Events) with the "Wais
- Listener". There is also another stacks called HyperWais 12 for 12"
- monitors.
-
- - A application called "Wais Listener", this is the Faceless Background
- Application (FBA) which allows the Hypercard stack to communicate with
- WAIS servers. This application just sits in the background and listens
- out to Apple Events. All you need to do is start it up. Note that the
- "Wais Listener" will grab a chunk of memory (about 450K) which will be
- added to the system software in the "About this mac" box.
-
- - Another application called "Wais Listener.debug", this is the same
- application as the "Wais Listener" but will have a visible debug window
- which will list out all the events/data received and events/data
- returned. You may want to use this application to see what is going
- on. Both "Wais Listener" and "Wais Listener.debug" create log files
- which can be looked at with any text editor.
-
- - A folder called wais-sources where HyperWais stores the WAIS source
- description files.
-
- - A folder called wais-documents where HyperWais stores some WAIS
- document files.
-
- - A folder called wais-questions which does nothing at this time.
-
- - Dont forget to read the release notes located in the Release Notes
- folder, these list out all the changes that were made with each
- version of HyperWais.
-
-
-
- Other software you need to run HyperWais:
- -----------------------------------------
-
- To run HyperWais you will need to run system 7.0, 7.0.1 or 7.1, Hypercard 2.1 and
- MacTCP 1.1 (or MacTCP 1.1.1 if you are running system 7.1). Hypercard will have
- to be allocated 1500K of memory, this is done using the "Get Info" menu in the Finder.
-
- The Wais Listener should have about 450K of allocated to it.
-
-
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- Starting up:
- ------------
-
- To start up you need to launch the "Wais Listener" application, then
- start HyperWais. HyperWais will need the wais-sources folder and the
- wais-documents folder in the folder it is located in (these are in the
- archive and should be created automatically). Note that the "Wais Listener"
- needs MacTCP to communicate with wais sources. You may want to place the
- "Wais Listener" in the startup folder located in the system folder.
- This will ensure that the "Wais Listener" is started up everytime you
- start up your mac.
-
-
-
- Some limitations:
- -----------------
-
- The "Wais Listener" will support any number of connections, any number
- of open sources per connection, number of document headlines per
- connection and any number of relevance feedback entries per
- connection. The main limitation imposed is the amount of memory
- available to the "Wais Listener'. The connections can be opened by
- clients located either on the same macintosh as the "Wais Listener" or on
- a different macintosh. This feature would enable you to set up a
- "Wais Listener" gateway on one macintosh with a connection to
- the Internet and have a number of other macintoshs using appletalk to
- connect up to that Wais Listener.
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-
-
- francois
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- Francois Schiettecatte
- Software Engineer
- Internet: francois@wais.com
- Phone : (716) 256-2850
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