From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 21 09:28:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA16493 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fps.biblos.unal.edu.co ([168.176.37.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA16342; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:28:23 -0700 (PDT) From: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Received: from localhost by fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA54616; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 11:35:34 -0500 Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 11:35:34 -0500 (CDT) To: "Julian H. Stacey" Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: search engines ? In-Reply-To: <199609211014.MAA17210@vector.jhs.no_domain> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi Ports People, > > I don't see a web search engine in ports/www/ (unless I mised it). > > The database will only ever deal with (say) train engines & will be optimised > for that, but I might as well use a generic search engine structure if > available ? > For internet searches you can use harvest, for databases you can use the z39.50 protocol: Isite (http://cnidr.org). I was going to port it, but if you have time please do so. Isite replaces WAIS, which I don't use anymore due to space limitations. Pedro. > Julian > --- > Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ >