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Re: NG, MIME, and what does WAIF stand for (was: the thread on RTF and SEF

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From: Paul Burchard
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:15
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In article <12458@tamsun.tamu.edu> cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick)  
writes:
> What does WAIF stand for (try to define your acronyms in the  
> beginning of your article please)?

I think that was "WAIS" = Wide Area Information Servers.  It's a network  
client/server protocol for information retrieval developed at Thinking  
Machines.  (The NeXT FAQ are for example searchable through WAIS.)

I just put the latest version (1.9.1) of the NeXT client into the submissions  
directory on sonata.cc.purdue.edu.  If anyone still has version 1.0 I  
definitely recommend upgrading.

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