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- Release Notes 10 January 1993
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- Version 1.6
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- HyperWais Stack
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-
- - The document type is now sent when adding to
- relevance feedback. This was done to support the FTP
- extensions in the WAIS server implemented by UNC.
-
- - Added support for MBIN (MacBinary type documents),
- the stack will prompt the user for a name to save under
- and will then proceed to unbinify the document. The document
- will be saved whether the user selects "view" or "save" from
- the document menu. Currently there are no sources that I
- know of which will provide documents in MacBinary
- format, but this would be useful to someone who wanted to
- provide an archive of Mac applications for people to search
- and download applications from.
-
- - Added support to allow users to define which applications
- they want to launch when retrieving a particular document type.
- This is done through the "Edit Applications" card, the user needs to
- fill in the wais document type, the file type (a default of '????"
- is used if no file type is specified), an application (which
- is selected by using either the "select application" button or
- clinking in the application field) and clicking on the MacBinary
- box to indicate whether the user wants to convert the document
- from a macbinary format (as far as I know only one wais server
- serves documents in a macbinary format, that being the sample
- -pictures server). When the user has finished entering the
- information, "save" can be pressed to add the entry to the table.
- If the document type is already handled by the stack (such as
- TEXT, WSRC, WCAT and PICT),v the user will be asked whether they
- want to override the built-in handler or use the selected application.
- If the user chooses to override the built in handler, then the
- application will be used to view a document and the file type
- will be used when saving a document. The handler which uses an
- external application to view the document will prompt the user
- for a file name for saving the document before displaying it.
- This facility allows the user to choose which applications to
- use to display documents and also allows the internal handlers
- to be over-ridden. This allows HyperWais to retrieve and display
- any document type provided there is an application to view it
- with. Currently the format of the table is not really very pretty
- and could be cleaned up considerably.
-
- A couple of things I should mention here, some applications do
- not like to be opened with a document when they are already
- open (they beep at you) while other are better behaved and will
- allow that. I have found that GIFConverter does not behave well
- whereas JPEGView does, but I may well have an older view of
- GIFConverter. You will have to experiment for yourselves here
- with your favorite applications.
-
- - Added support for easier selection of sources when adding
- them to the source list. A dialog box will appear listing all the
- sources in the wais-sources folder. This dialog box allows
- the user to select any number of sources using the shift-key
- to select ranges or the option key to select any source and
- then pressing the "Add" button to add all the selected
- sources to the source list. Note that the wais source files
- have to be of type TEXT or WSRC.
-
- - Fixed a number of bugs in the background script which
- handles adding of sources to the source list.
-
-
- XFCNs
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-
- - The document type is now sent when adding to
- relevance feedback. This was done to support the FTP
- extensions in the WAIS server implemented by UNC.
-
- - Added an XFCN (HCConvertFile) which will convert
- a text file from unix/dos format to mac format. Only
- the data fork of the file is converted.
- The syntax for this XFCN is:
-
- put HCConvertFile(fileName) into error
-
- fileName can be gotten using "answer file".
-
- - Converted all XCMD projects to use 4 byte integers.
-
-
- Wais Caller routines
- ------------------
-
- - The document type is now sent when adding to
- relevance feedback. This was done to support the FTP
- extensions in the WAIS server implemented by UNC.
-
- - Converted all projects to use 4 byte integers.
-
-
- Wais Listener and C Libraries
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-
- - The document type is now sent when adding to
- relevance feedback. This was done to support the FTP
- extensions in the WAIS server implemented by UNC.
- If not document type is specified, the Listener takes th e
- default document from the document type list for that
- document.
-
- - Fixed a bug which did not truncate a file when it was
- opened for over-writting, this resulted in garbled files
- when saving a document to a file which already existed,
- contained stuff in it and was longer than the document saved.
-
- - Fixed a bug which did not append a carriage return at the
- end of the first document type when multiple document types
- were returned, this caused the first and second document
- types to be merged into one string of characters.
-
- - Fixed a bug in the memory management routines which caused the
- Wais Listener to quit with a bus error on a Quadra 950 running 7.0.1.
- The bug was caused by disposing a invalid handle.
-
- - Converted all projects to use 4 byte integers.
-
- - The log file is not not created for the "Wais Listener". The
- "Wais Listener.debug" now list all debug information in the
- window.
-
-