searching mboxes and Newsgrazer files with WAIS

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1 total messages Started by Hal.Varian Tue, 11 Aug 1992 21:12

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Author: Hal.Varian
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 21:12

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There have been a number of posts about how to get Digital  
Librarian to index old mail files (mbox) and NewsGrazer files.   
Several folks have contributed scripts to do these sorts of  
things.  Alas, it looks like these will all be broken in  
NeXTStep 3.0 since NeXT has changed the model of indexing.

Since there is now an Indexing Kit available, it shouldn't be  
too hard to write some programs that understand mboxes, etc.
Meanwhile people might want to consider using WAIS.  It has a  
very nice indexing engine that understands mboxes and NewGrazer  
folders.  You can use it pretty much out of the box.  In  
addtion, you can search other databases all over the Internet.

WAIS is available at your favorite archive.

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Hal.Varian@umich.edu    Hal Varian
voice: 313-764-2364     Dept of Economics
fax:   313-764-2364     Univ of Michigan
                        Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220

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