NAME
   CPAN::WAIT - adds commands to search a WAIT4CPAN server to the CPAN
   `shell()'

SYNOPSIS
     perl -MCPAN -e shell
     > wq au=wall
     > wr 3
     > wd 3
     > wl 20
     > wh
     > wh wq

DESCRIPTION
   CPAN::WAIT adds some comands to the CPAN `shell()' to perform searches
   on a WAIT server. It connects to a WAIT server using a simple protocoll
   resembling NNTP as described in RFC977. It uses the WAIT::Client module
   to handle this connection. This in turn inherits from Net::NNTP from the
   libnet package. So you need Net::NNTP to use this module.

   If no direct connection to the WAIT server is possible, the modules
   tries to connect via your HTTP proxy (as given by the CPAN
   configuration). Be warned though that the emulation of the stateful
   protocol via HTTP is slow.

   The commands available are:

   wh [command]
       Displays a short help message if called without arguments. If you
       provide the name of another command you will get more information on
       this command if available. Currently only wq will be explained.

   wl *count*
       Limit the number of hits returned in a search to *count*. The limit
       usually is set ot 10 of you don't set it.

   wq *query*
       Send a query to the server.

       Here are some query examples:

         information retrieval               free text query
         information or retrieval            same as above
         des=information retrieval           `information' must be in the description
         des=(information retrieval)         one of them in description
         des=(information or retrieval)      same as above
         des=(information and retrieval)     both of them in description
         des=(information not retrieval)     `information' in description and
                                             `retrieval' not in description
         des=(information system*)           wild-card search
         au=ilia                             author names may be misspelled

       You can build arbitary boolean combination of the above examples.
       Field names may be abbreviated. For further information see
       http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/CPAN

       The result should look like this:

         wq au=wall

          1 8.039 a2p - Awk to Perl translator
          2 8.039 s2p - Sed to Perl translator
          3 8.039 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
          4 8.039 ExtUtils::DynaGlue - Methods for generating Perl extension files
          5 8.039 h2xs - convert .h C header files to Perl extensions
          6 8.039 Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
          7 8.039 h2ph - convert .h C header files to .ph Perl header files
          8 8.039 Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
          9 8.039 pl2pm - Rough tool to translate Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules.
         10 8.039 perlpod - plain old documentation

   wr *hit-number*
       Display the Record of hit number *hit-number*:

         wr 1

         source          authors/id/CHIPS/perl5.003_24.tar.gz
         headline        a2p - Awk to Perl translator
         size            5643
         docid           data/perl/x2p/a2p.pod

   wd *hit-number*
       Fetches the full text from the server and runs perlpod on it. Make
       sure that you have perlpod in your path. Also check if your perlpod
       version can handle absolute pathes. Some older versions ironically
       do not find a document if the full patch is given on the command
       line.

AUTHOR
   Ulrich Pfeifer <[email protected]>

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