W.A.I.S Release 9-b2

The following information is in our local copy of the WAIS released code. (currently wais-8-b2 (Aug 91)). The following are notes distributed with the software.

README

Top-level introduction, advice for installers, random notes on relationship to Z39.50.

INSTALLATION

A few notes - there's more in the README .

Release Notes

for the latest release.

Documentation

The "doc" subdirectory has various files generated from man files on installation.

Other Subdirectories:

The X browser

A browser for the X11 window system. See help files on " xwais " a shell which invokes " xwaisq ". When installing, make ir first.

Protocol code (ir)

Software for creating a sample server, protocol software, and a low level user interface building tool.

User interfaces (ui)

some of the user interfaces for the WAIS system

Directory of "sources"

WAIS "SRC" , ie server coordinate files. One sample provided, directory-of-servers.src .

See also: other hypertext related products .

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Tim BL