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2.3       timbl       1: <HTML>
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2.1       timbl       3: <TITLE>WAIS protocol module for the W3 library</TITLE>
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2.4     ! frystyk     7: <H1>WAIS Protocol Interface</H1>
        !             8: 
        !             9: This module does not actually perform the WAIS protocol directly, but it
        !            10: does using one or more libraries of the freeWAIS distribution. The
        !            11: ui.a library came with the old free WAIS from TMC,  the client.a and
        !            12: wais.a libraries are needed from the freeWAIS from CNIDR. <P>
        !            13: 
        !            14: <EM><B>Note: </B>The current version suppored is freeWAIS-0.3, June 1994</EM><P>
        !            15: 
        !            16: If you include this module in the library, you must also
        !            17: 
2.1       timbl      18: <UL>
2.4     ! frystyk    19: <LI> Register the HTWAIS protocol at initialisation (e.g. HTInit or HTSInit)
        !            20:      by compiling it with -DDIRECT_WAIS
        !            21: <LI> Link with the WAIS libraries
        !            22: </UL>
        !            23: 
        !            24: The wais source files are parsed by a separate and independent module,
        !            25: <A NAME="z1" HREF="HTWSRC.html">HTWSRC</A>.  You can include HTWSRC
        !            26: without including direct wais using this module, and your WWW code will
        !            27: be able to read source files, and access WAIS indexes through a gateway.<P>
        !            28: 
        !            29: A <A NAME="z2" HREF="../../Daemon/WAISGate.html">WAIS-WWW gateway</A>
        !            30: is just a normal W3 server with a libwww compiled with this module.<P>
        !            31: 
        !            32: Anyways, this interface won't change much:
        !            33: 
        !            34: <PRE>
        !            35: #ifndef HTWAIS_H
2.1       timbl      36: #define HTWAIS_H
                     37: #include "HTUtils.h"
                     38: #include "HTAccess.h"
2.4     ! frystyk    39: </PRE>
        !            40: 
        !            41: <H2>Control Flags</H2>
        !            42: 
        !            43: The number of lines handled from a WAIS search is determined by this variable.
        !            44: The default value is 100 (this is defined in the module)
        !            45: 
        !            46: <PRE>
        !            47: extern int HTMaxWAISLines;
        !            48: </PRE>
2.1       timbl      49: 
2.3       timbl      50: GLOBALREF HTProtocol HTWAIS;
2.1       timbl      51: 
                     52: #endif
2.4     ! frystyk    53: </PRE>
2.1       timbl      54: 
2.4     ! frystyk    55: <ADDRESS><A NAME="0" HREF="http://info.cern.ch./hypertext/TBL_Disclaimer.html">Tim BL</A>
        !            56: </ADDRESS>
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