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Started by T.J. Fiske
Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:21
Re-writing WAISStation
Author: T.J. Fiske
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:21
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:21
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It appears that there is going to be no new versions of the WAIS Station for those WAIS users from Macintosh environment. I'm not sure if I am the only person that has experienced some rather pecular problems with WAIS station mis-understanding my Sources, and holding onto queries, and combineing them. I have been given the go ahead to start reworking the current WAIS station. With an installed base of over 400 macintosh users, we need to have a product that is stable enough so as to not create more questions than answers. Before I start work on this, I wanted to see if anyone else has 1) experience the same problems, or other problems I should address. 2) Has someone else started re-writting and has some input? 3) Will the new protocol have a new WAISStation written as well, from Think? -- T.J. Fiske ------------------------------ QUALCOMM, Inc. Room A-232 E-Mail: tfiske@qualcomm.com 10555 Sorrento Valley Rd. Phone: (619) 587-1121 x5763 San Diego, CA 92121-1617
Re: Re-writing WAISStation
Author: John Hardin
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 05:33
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 05:33
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T.J. Fiske (tfiske@qualcom.qualcomm.com) writes: > > It appears that there is going to be no new versions of the WAIS Station > for those WAIS users from Macintosh environment. I'm not sure if I am the > only person that has experienced some rather pecular problems with WAIS station > mis-understanding my Sources, and holding onto queries, and combineing them. > > I have been given the go ahead to start reworking the current WAIS station. > With an installed base of over 400 macintosh users, we need to have a product > that is stable enough so as to not create more questions than answers. > > Before I start work on this, I wanted to see if anyone else has 1) experience > the same problems, or other problems I should address. 2) Has someone else > started re-writting and has some input? 3) Will the new protocol have a new > WAISStation written as well, from Think? > As I posted here a few weeks ago, we at MCC are, among many other things related to WAIS, developing a *new* client for the Macintosh (called, for now, "MacWAIS"). (We're also developing a *new* client for Windows named "WinWAIS".) MacWAIS alleviates several of the shortcomings of WAIStation. MacWAIS's single biggest feature (IMHO) is that it (under System 7) allows applications to be launched to process retrieved WAIS documents. (And this is *completely* user-extensible.) For example, MacWAIS can be set up so giffer will be launched with weather maps retrieved from weather.src (i.e., WAIS documents of type "GIF"); TeachText can be launched with documents retrieved from sample-pictures.src (i.e., WAIS documents of type "PICT"). And so on. If you have any specific questions about MacWAIS's (or WinWAIS's) capabilities please feel free to ask. As I mentioned in our previous posting, we're working out the details of making these new WAIS clients available to the public. I had hoped to have had the details completed by now, but the holidays put a "torpedo into the magazine" of those plans. But we're not far away. I'll certainly keep y'all (Texas slang for "each of you" :-) informed. Some of our other WAIS work includes the addition of Kerberos authentication to the WAIS init protocol; thus, servers can accept connections from properly authenticated clients ONLY. We've also implemented ACLs (Access Control Lists) so WAIS servers can regulate access to documents based on the authenticated user's identification (which can be different from user to user). We're working these sorts of security issues with Jim Fulton and the CNIDR group. -jwh -- John W. Hardin phone: (512)338-3535 MCC email: hardin@mcc.com 3500 W. Balcones Center Dr fax: (512)338-3897 Austin, TX 78759-6509 uucp: ...!cs.utexas.edu!milano!hardin
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