This note is to announce the availability of several WAIS databases that
may be of interest to you and are searchable individually or
simultaneously WITH Netscape, WITHOUT the use of a WAIS proxy. Data is
now being served at:
http://hornet.mmg.uci.edu/~hjm/projects/sgi.wais.html
(for the Database Descriptions, notes)
http://hornet.mmg.uci.edu/cgi-bin/nph-fwais.pl
(for the Databases themselves, reiterated below)
Database Descriptions:
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Biology-related Software and Informatics
bionet.sw.95
bionet.biology.computational (started 12.12.95)
bionet.info-theory (started 12.12.95),
bionet.software (entire year)
bionet.software.gcg (started 12.12.95),
bionet.software.acedb (started 12.12.95),
bionet.software.x-plor (started 12.12.95),
bionet.molec-model (started 12.12.95),
bionet.structural-nmr (started 12.12.95)
bionet.sw.pre95
bionet.software to 1990; others and back archives to be included
based on interest (and disk usage)
NB: These and the entire (?) BIONET feed can be searched with a WAIS search
engine at BIONET, by searching:
gopher://gopher.bio.net:70/77/.wais-sources/biosci
but it's slow (as you might expect, since it's the entire archives in
one database.
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Shell Languages for Administration and the Web
comp.unix.admin
comp.unix.admin (surprisingly enough)
java
comp.lang.java
perl
comp.lang.perl.[announce, misc, tk], from about the last year
tcl
comp.lang.tcl
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Mac and Eudora groups
Mac_Eudora
comp.mail.eudora.mac
PC_Eudora
comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows
info-mac-pre95
the info-mac e-periodical, pre-1995
info-mac95
the info-mac e-periodical, 1995 only
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Silicon Graphics Related:
This database is composed of the back postings (updated every 3 days)
of the USENET News comp.sys.sgi hierarchy (descriptions below) Size of each
group as of 6/95
comp.sys.sgi (55MB)
Original group, now defunct, but still searchable
(last posting Nov 20, 95)
comp.sys.sgi.admin (52MB)
Administration Issues involving SGI Systems
(see also comp.unix.admin, below)
comp.sys.sgi.announce (1.6MB)
Announcements about SGI HW, SW, Corporate news, and related conferences
comp.sys.sgi.apps (19MB)
Applications for SGI platforms (see also the comp.graphics.* below)
comp.sys.sgi.audio (2.5MB)
Audio on SGI machines
comp.sys.sgi.bugs 16MB)
Bugs in HW or SW
comp.sys.sgi.graphics (24MB)
Graphics, both HW and SW (see also the comp.graphics.* below)
comp.sys.sgi.hardware 28MB)
Hardware, SGI and 2nd source
comp.sys.sgi.misc (52MB)
Other things, SGI-related
comp.sys.mips (4.2MB)
Old and New systems from MIPS Computer Systems
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comp.graphics.* - all the comp.graphics newsgroups
("c.g." = comp.graphics)
gfx.alg+rsrch
c.g.[algorithms, research]
gfx.anim
c.g.animation
gfx.api_ogl
c.g.api.[misc, opengl, inventor, pexlib], c.g.opengl
gfx.apps_datavis
c.g.apps.[data-explorer, gnuplot, avs, iris-explorer],
c.g.visualization
gfx.apps_image
c.g.apps.[wavefront, photoshop, alias, softimage, pagemaker,
lightwave].
c.g.packages.[3dstudio, lightwave, alias]
gfx.misc
c.g.misc
gfx.ray_render
c.g.rendering.[raytracing, renderman, misc], c.g.raytracing
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For Fun:
wood
rec.woodworking, about a year's worth
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For searching more (most?) newsgroups (although not as far back yet), see
DejaNews. (Click on Net Search in Netscape, or go to:
http://www.dejanews.com/
How to phrase your search
The freewais code used here allows searching with booleans (AND, OR, NOT)
and stems (print* = prints, printers, printing, printed).
The queries are case-INsensitive (Sony = sony = SONY).
Multiple words without booleans are considered as logical 'OR's ('Sony
color monitor' is evaluated as 'sony OR color OR monitor' which will result
in a wider search.
Unfortunately, this freeWAIS code does not handle grouped booleans (so
'seagate and (barracuda or hawk) will give strange results.
If a word is represented too frequently, the database eliminates it from
the index (so don't search for 'mac' in the info-mac archives or 'SGI' in
the comp.sys.sgi archives).
Phrases containing symbols such as periods, semicolons, colons, commas, etc
are considered separate words by freewais, so I'd advise against using them
(the query 'sendmail 8.7' is interpreted as 'sendmail or 8 or 7' - not a
very tight search.
Due to some bugs in the WAIS code, you cannot search on 3 letter queries
alone (even if they are infrequent - for example, TFP, RGB, etc), but if
you use them in conjunction with other queries, they should work (TFP and
r4400, RGB and transparency). The more precise you make your query, the
better your results. This applies to both the individual searches below
and to the simultaneous searches.
--
Harry J Mangalam, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UC Irvine,
Irvine, CA, 92717, (714) 824-4824, fax (714) 824 8598
http://hornet.mmg.uci.edu/~hjm/hjm.html
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