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2.16      frystyk     3: <TITLE>WAIS protocol module</TITLE>
2.19      frystyk     4: <!-- Changed by: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, 23-Oct-1995 -->
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2.7       frystyk     7: 
2.4       frystyk     8: <H1>WAIS Protocol Interface</H1>
                      9: 
2.7       frystyk    10: <PRE>
                     11: /*
2.12      frystyk    12: **     (c) COPYRIGHT MIT 1995.
2.7       frystyk    13: **     Please first read the full copyright statement in the file COPYRIGH.
                     14: */
                     15: </PRE>
                     16: 
2.4       frystyk    17: This module does not actually perform the WAIS protocol directly, but it
                     18: does using one or more libraries of the freeWAIS distribution. The
                     19: ui.a library came with the old free WAIS from TMC,  the client.a and
                     20: wais.a libraries are needed from the freeWAIS from CNIDR. <P>
                     21: 
                     22: <EM><B>Note: </B>The current version suppored is freeWAIS-0.3, June 1994</EM><P>
                     23: 
                     24: If you include this module in the library, you must also
                     25: 
2.1       timbl      26: <UL>
2.4       frystyk    27: <LI> Register the HTWAIS protocol at initialisation (e.g. HTInit or HTSInit)
2.10      frystyk    28:      by compiling it with -DHT_DIRECT_WAIS
2.4       frystyk    29: <LI> Link with the WAIS libraries
                     30: </UL>
                     31: 
                     32: The wais source files are parsed by a separate and independent module,
                     33: <A NAME="z1" HREF="HTWSRC.html">HTWSRC</A>.  You can include HTWSRC
                     34: without including direct wais using this module, and your WWW code will
                     35: be able to read source files, and access WAIS indexes through a gateway.<P>
                     36: 
2.13      frystyk    37: A <A NAME="z2" HREF="../../Gateways/WAISGate.html">WAIS-WWW gateway</A>
2.4       frystyk    38: is just a normal W3 server with a libwww compiled with this module.<P>
                     39: 
2.7       frystyk    40: This module is implemented by <A HREF="HTWAIS.c">HTWAIS.c</A>, and it is
                     41: a part of the <A
2.17      frystyk    42: HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Library/">
2.15      frystyk    43: W3C Reference Library</A>.
2.4       frystyk    44: 
                     45: <PRE>
                     46: #ifndef HTWAIS_H
2.1       timbl      47: #define HTWAIS_H
2.9       frystyk    48: 
2.18      frystyk    49: #include "HTEvntrg.h"
2.4       frystyk    50: </PRE>
                     51: 
                     52: <H2>Control Flags</H2>
                     53: 
                     54: The number of lines handled from a WAIS search is determined by this variable.
                     55: The default value is 100 (this is defined in the module)
                     56: 
                     57: <PRE>
                     58: extern int HTMaxWAISLines;
2.1       timbl      59: 
2.20    ! frystyk    60: extern HTEventCallback HTLoadWAIS;
2.6       frystyk    61: </PRE>
2.1       timbl      62: 
2.6       frystyk    63: End of Difinition module
                     64: 
                     65: <PRE>
2.1       timbl      66: #endif
2.5       timbl      67: 
2.4       frystyk    68: </PRE>
2.1       timbl      69: 
2.19      frystyk    70: <ADDRESS><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/TBL_Disclaimer.html">Tim BL</A></ADDRESS>
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