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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