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Re: Find Key in iubio wais

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From: Archie Warnock
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:27
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ann@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Ann Farny) writes:
>I noticed, however, that the Find Key function does not
>parse the "Tell me about" string, so after doing a boolean
>search, the Find Key function takes you to every "and" in
>the file.

I think you'll find that the interpretation of the word "and" is a
server function (doesn't really matter that it's treated as a boolean,
it could be any stop word) and, as such, the client doesn't know not to
highlight it when you hit Find Key.  In fact, this isn't unique to the
iubio code - it happens to me in the b5.1 client all the time, with any
server.  I seem to recall something that could be done about it passing
through wais-talk a while back, but it might also just be a random
neuron firing <g>.

Anyway, I don't find it all the unusual an occurrance - you'd have to
make your client aware of all the "special" words used by _all_ of the
servers you talk to.
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