[228] in DCNS Development
Re: X-Windows on-line directory client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Jul 20 14:35:35 1992
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 14:34:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: wade@MIT.EDU (Steven Wade Neiterman), Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: cfyi@MIT.EDU, developers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9207181941.AA19459@deathtongue.MIT.EDU>
Excerpts from mail: 18-Jul-92 Re: X-Windows on-line direc.. Marc
Horowitz@MIT.EDU (223)
> Why write your own client? Why not make the data available via WAIS or
> some other similar service, and take advantage of all the work being
> done for those clients?
The X-based clients require some significant work before they're usable
by people who don't already know how wais works. Telephone directory
users may not want to sit down and discover how wais works in order to
obtain a single telephone number. The difficulty with learning WAIS
from the X based package could be reduced significantly if the
documentation covered the crucial things like how to turn a reference to
a doc into an index, and how to get rid of all the superfluous windows
that pop up.
-wdc
