Subject:       WAIS Toolkit 0.74 for Windows NT available

This message is to announce the availability of a new version of the 
freeware WAIS Toolkit for Windows NT. This software allows a Windows 
NT machine to prepare and search full-text databases and can be used 
as the searching engine for the Gopher Server (GOPHERS), the HTTP 
Server (HTTPS), or the WAIS Server (WAISS) for Windows NT.

WAIS Toolkit version 0.74 is largely based on the "freeWAIS" version 0.3.
Executables for Intel-based systems, MIPS systems, and DEC Alpha systems,
are available.

This version is a merged upgrading from the WAIS Toolkit 0.6 to the
"freeWAIS" version 0.3 plus some bug-fixes.

The software may be FTP'd from  emwac.ed.ac.uk  in the directory
pub/waitool. There are three ZIP files, for the different CPU types. 
Be sure you download the right one for your processor.

Source for WAIS Toolkit 0.74 is available in WTSOURCE.ZIP in the same 
directory.

New features in 0.74
====================

* WAISLOOK now accepts a command-line argument -n maxhits, where maxhits is the
  maximum number of hits which are returned from the search.

New features in 0.72
====================

* Bug fixed: when indexing files in current directory with "-r" option and
  wildcard, the WAISINDEX caused "Application Error".

* WAISLOOK will return an more sensible error message for non-existing
  database.

New features in 0.71
====================

* Bug fixed: when indexing some long line HTML files, the WAISINDEX caused
  security access violation.

New features in 0.7
===================

* The WAISLOOK and WAISSERV support boolean searches. The boolean operators
  are 'and', 'or', and 'not'.

* The WAISLOOK with -gopher option will return the Gopher type for
  each matching file based on the EMWAC Gopher Server configuration
  information.

* Bug fixed: when indexing some HTML files, the WAISINDEX caused
  security access violation.


This software has been produced as part of the European Microsoft
Windows NT Academic Centre (EMWAC) project.  EMWAC has been set up to
support and act as a focus for Windows NT within European academia. 
It is sponsored by Datalink Computers, Digital, Microsoft, Research
Machines, Sequent and the University of Edinburgh.

Regards,

Shangjie Jin                                 Phone:  +44 31 650 6565
Edinburgh University Computing Service       Fax:    +44 31 650 6464
JCMB, King's Buildings                       Email:  S.Jin@ed.ac.uk
Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom