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After a series of trials and tribulations I have finally gotten the
WAIS 8.5b1 server running on an RS/6000 under AIX 3.2.  The server
works just fine, waissearch works and swais from a different system
(Ultrix 4.2A) works.

However, the swais text client does not work: the waisserver process
always returns zero matches, regardless of the query.  I speculate that
somehow swais has been miscompiled and is generating bogon queries to
the server.  I checked the log file and waisserver is definitely
finding no matches for the query.

Has anyone gotten swais to work properly under AIX 3.2, and if so, how?
I'm working under a deadline, so if anyone knows I would appreciate a
quick e-mail note.  If I get any positive responses I'll summarize and
post them to comp.infosystems.wais.

To compile WAIS 8.5b1 under AIX 3.2 I had to:

	In Makefile, set CC=c89
	In Makefile, set CFLAGS=-D_ALL_SOURCE
	edit ui/source.h and change the prototype for loadSource to
		Source loadSource _AP((char* name, char* sourcepath));

The really critical and unobvious one (at least to me) was the
-D_ALL_SOURCE addition to CFLAGS.  Without it c89 will crash and burn.

The standard cc compiler APPEARS to compile the code properly, but
somehow generates bad code when calling the scandir() library function
which is used to find sources in the WAIS server and client code --
scandir() always ends up returning a null list.

Thanks in advance!

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