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From: [email protected] (Don Gilbert)
Subject: Go-Ask-WAIS customizes WAIS searches for Gopher+
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 19:08:02 GMT
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Go-ask-wais provides a link from Gopher+ ASK dialogs to WAIS index files,
allowing you to add various customizations to the Gopher-WAIS query.
Basically it is a script that processes the ASK query, and a subprogram
that queries WAIS indices and returns the matches in Gopher directory
format.

Example usage:

-->  1.  Search FlyBase Genes data/ <??>
     2.  Search GenBank (latest full release)/ <??>

+-------------------------Search FlyBase Genes data--------------------------+
|                                                                            |
| _____ Search data by key words _____                                       |
| Search for?       red                                                      |
| Maximum matches:  100                                                      |
| ___________________________________________________                        |
| The default search finds records matching all words.                       |
| Use `and' and `not' to eliminate useless matches.                          |
| Use `*' (as in gen*) to match partial words.                               |
| Want more help?   no                                                       |
|                                                                            |
|       [Switch Fields: TAB] [Cancel: ^G] [Erase: ^U] [Accept: Enter]        |
|                                                                            |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The main ASK script processes the above query and returns the results below
including
 1. a list of all matches as one document
 2. a second ASK dialog that lets user select subset items to return
    as one document.
 3. optional help files
 4. optionally various VIEW formats.
-------------------
                          Search FlyBase Genes data

-->  1.  Titles of matches to "red".
     2.  Select items to return as one document. <??>
     3.  (1)  Act88F  Actin-88F  genemap: 3-57.1  cytomap: Placed in 88F by...
     4.  (2)  Aldox-1  Aldehyde-oxidase-1  genemap: 3-57.2.
     5.  (3)  amb  amber  genemap: 1-6.8..
               ...


Installing Go-ask-wais on your Gopher server

Assumptions:
       have U.Minnesota gopherd server version 2.04 or later, and its working.
       have some WAIS variant linked in and working w/ gopherd
       have perl interpreter

Available:
       gopher or ftp to ftp.bio.indiana.edu, find it as
       IUBio-Software+Data/util/gopher/go-ask-wais.tar.Z

Author:
       don gilbert, [email protected], October 1993
       no copyright restrictions are imposed.

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