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2.1       timbl       3: <TITLE>WAIS protocol module for the W3 library</TITLE>
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2.7       frystyk     6: 
2.4       frystyk     7: <H1>WAIS Protocol Interface</H1>
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2.7       frystyk     9: <PRE>
                     10: /*
2.12      frystyk    11: **     (c) COPYRIGHT MIT 1995.
2.7       frystyk    12: **     Please first read the full copyright statement in the file COPYRIGH.
                     13: */
                     14: </PRE>
                     15: 
2.4       frystyk    16: This module does not actually perform the WAIS protocol directly, but it
                     17: does using one or more libraries of the freeWAIS distribution. The
                     18: ui.a library came with the old free WAIS from TMC,  the client.a and
                     19: wais.a libraries are needed from the freeWAIS from CNIDR. <P>
                     20: 
                     21: <EM><B>Note: </B>The current version suppored is freeWAIS-0.3, June 1994</EM><P>
                     22: 
                     23: If you include this module in the library, you must also
                     24: 
2.1       timbl      25: <UL>
2.4       frystyk    26: <LI> Register the HTWAIS protocol at initialisation (e.g. HTInit or HTSInit)
2.10      frystyk    27:      by compiling it with -DHT_DIRECT_WAIS
2.4       frystyk    28: <LI> Link with the WAIS libraries
                     29: </UL>
                     30: 
                     31: The wais source files are parsed by a separate and independent module,
                     32: <A NAME="z1" HREF="HTWSRC.html">HTWSRC</A>.  You can include HTWSRC
                     33: without including direct wais using this module, and your WWW code will
                     34: be able to read source files, and access WAIS indexes through a gateway.<P>
                     35: 
2.13    ! frystyk    36: A <A NAME="z2" HREF="../../Gateways/WAISGate.html">WAIS-WWW gateway</A>
2.4       frystyk    37: is just a normal W3 server with a libwww compiled with this module.<P>
                     38: 
2.7       frystyk    39: This module is implemented by <A HREF="HTWAIS.c">HTWAIS.c</A>, and it is
                     40: a part of the <A
2.11      frystyk    41: HREF="http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Library/User/Guide/Guide.html">
2.7       frystyk    42: Library of Common Code</A>.
2.4       frystyk    43: 
                     44: <PRE>
                     45: #ifndef HTWAIS_H
2.1       timbl      46: #define HTWAIS_H
2.9       frystyk    47: 
2.1       timbl      48: #include "HTAccess.h"
2.4       frystyk    49: </PRE>
                     50: 
                     51: <H2>Control Flags</H2>
                     52: 
                     53: The number of lines handled from a WAIS search is determined by this variable.
                     54: The default value is 100 (this is defined in the module)
                     55: 
                     56: <PRE>
                     57: extern int HTMaxWAISLines;
2.1       timbl      58: 
2.3       timbl      59: GLOBALREF HTProtocol HTWAIS;
2.6       frystyk    60: </PRE>
2.1       timbl      61: 
2.6       frystyk    62: End of Difinition module
                     63: 
                     64: <PRE>
2.1       timbl      65: #endif
2.5       timbl      66: 
2.4       frystyk    67: </PRE>
2.1       timbl      68: 
2.11      frystyk    69: <ADDRESS><A NAME="0" HREF="http://www.w3.org./hypertext/TBL_Disclaimer.html">Tim BL</A>
2.4       frystyk    70: </ADDRESS>
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