On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:24:28 EDT Raymond Ayers said:
>I have a group of users who are of the impression that the only suitable
>way to search for anything is via a Web application. They want to be
>able to search the archives and look at the results when the LIST and
>ARCHIVES are located on  VM  .
>
>Does anyone out there have an answer to the problem? I am perfectly
>willing to tell them THEY have to get a commercial web server in here
>(we currently run the Webshare (free) server), but none of them for
>VM seem to speak to list archives directly.

I've written WLV.  Currently it is written for EnterpriseWeb, but it
originally was for WEBSHARE, and if you make a few minor mods to WEBSHARE,
it can run most of it also.  (For those running VM:Webserver, I
have it setup so it shouldn't be a large amount of work to port there.)
It uses undocumented Listserv interfaces, and I'm not big on writing
documentation, but you can look at http://www.marist.edu/vm/web/wlv.vmarc
for the 2.1 version.  It's a personal project, but we're starting to use
it for things here, and I'd welcome suggestions and comments.
(Though being a personal project, when I'm out, I'm out)  I've also
started a Owner and Postmaster interface.

It isn't WA (the L-Soft web archive interface).

>
>They want something like CataList from the L-Soft site, but it HAS
>to run on VM because that's what we have for now.
I've thought about the Catalist, and written some code, but it isn't
really working.

>
>Any info, pointers to info or other help will be appreciated.
>Even the "they're crazy" responses help me respond to them.
>
> | Raymond Ayers                           VM & MVS Systems Programmer |
/ahw