WAIS For Microsoft Windows
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Introduction

WAIS for Windows is a simple WAIS client
for Microsoft Windows.  It is based on 
Microsoft Visual Basic, and can easily
be modified based on your needs.

WAIS for Windows embeds the WAIS protocol
in a DLL called wais.dll.  This DLL must be
accessible to Windows at run-time.

Getting Started

Searches are quite simple.  To select a network
resource to search, click on the Add Sources
button.  If you are using WAIS for Windows for the
first time, you will see a source called Directory
of Servers.  

Directory of Servers contains source information only.
Once you retrieve this source information, you can
submit queries to those sources.

Double click on it.  It will appear within the Sources to
Search window.  Press Ok.

Enter a query in the Tell Me About line.  A good start
is "src" if you selected the Directory of Servers.  A
large number of sources will be returned and displayed.
To look at the source information, double click on a source
of interest.  It will be displayed in a Text Display window.
Press Save.  You will be shown the source information in
a formatted window.  You may edit the Title of the source.
Don't modify the other information.  Press OK and the source 
be saved in your wais.src file.  You may select it and search 
it in future queries.

Relevance Feedback

If you have selected a text file and are viewing it, 
highlight a portion of it with the mouse and press Add Section.
That section of text will now be used as a refinement for
future searches.  You are, in effect, telling the servers
to show you all documents similar to the section of text you
highlighted.

GIF Files

GIF files will be displayed with a program called WINGIF.EXE.
WINGIF.EXE must be in the same directory as wais.exe.




