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Re: More on Indexing and Moving one higher than HTML etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Fri Aug 5 16:58:31 1994
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 22:55:51 +0200
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From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
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On Fri, 5 Aug 1994 jsq@tic.com wrote:
> >Ahhh if only we had the money. But I think you hit the nail on the head here.
> >I
> >dont envisage a situation where people will be willing to do this, so we do
> >need automation. As far as I am concerned just a few small scripts may help.
>
> Have you considered WAIS? It has an HTTP interface.
Actually, I've grown much more fond of Glimpse.
http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu:1994/
It's a lot more lightweight (building the indices for our 10 meg
collection of docs takes minutes instead of an hour with WAIS) and
is a lot less flaky.
Brian
