On Sat, 18 Nov 1995 14:28:23 -0500 you said:
>Greg:
>
>You said:
>
>> Now, I'd like to search these library files based on specified criteria
>> much like I can do for my list database.  Is this possible and if so,
>> how is it done?
>
>I am not familiar with VM enough to even remotely have a clue how to do this,
>but the answer to your question is, I think, it cannot be done with the
>current version of LISTSERV for VM.  I wanted to do the same thing. I wrote a
 
   On the contrary, I think that only the VM version has the search
routines you can use to build your own database search routines.  We've
done this in the past but it is a bit of work and since we're getting
rid of VM it isn't something we would want to do (we did some basic stuff
for the HICNEWS files here).  There are several samples you can follow (eg.
for notebooks, the lists database, etc.).
 
   I'm not sure how you'd do this on other systems and besides, using
something like a WWW frontend or mail frontend to something like WAIS
might be a better way to go.
 
       marty
 
>workaround for this a while back but it's not working at the moment (minor
 
>mod needed and other chores taking precedence).  The workaround involves
>having a duplicate set of files on a Unix host and using a perl script to
>go through and search for the files.  One thing that *does* work is a
>simple text phrase search.  You can see this at:
>
>        gopher://global.kidlink.org/77g/allmenu
>
>This host is running gn, which is a Gopher-compliant server that has an
>integral search engine.  Almost all the files on the host here are
>duplicates of our LISTSERV library files which are on a remote host and
>updated via an AFD script setup (see previous post by me today).
>
>My plan is to update the (currently) non-functional perl script so that
>it can be accessed from a WWW form.
>
>Depending on your knowledge of how all this stuff works, I suppose you
>could do some magic with NFS disks and symbolic links to avoid
>duplicating files on different hosts, but I don't know about all that
>stuff and the solution I came up with works as good as needed.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Cheers
>
>Mark Hunnibell                  Email: [log in to unmask]
>KIDLINK Gopher/WWW Coordinator  http://www.connix.com/~markh/index.html
>