freeWAIS-sf Frequently Asked Questions

1) What is freeWAIS-sf? 
  1.1) What does 'stemming' mean? 
  1.2) What does 'soundex' mean? 
2) Where to get ... 
  2.1) Most of the ftp accessable Stuff is mirrored on different 
  2.2) Where can I get this list (freeWAIS-sf-faq) 
  2.3) Where can I get the comp.infosystems.wais FAQ 
  2.4) What is the current Version of freeWAIS-sf? 
  2.5) Where can I get some Documentation? 
  2.6) Where can i get examples of this $#@ format files? 
3) Is there ...? 
  3.1) Is there and Emacs client for freeWAIS-sf? 
  3.2) Is there an X11 client for freeWAIS-sf 
  3.3) Does the X client compile with X11R6 
  3.4) Is there a WWW gateway dedicated for usage with freeWAIS-sf? 
4) Can I ... 
  4.1) How must a field name look like? 
5) How can I ... 
  5.1) How can I index index mails? 
  5.2) How can I index HTML entities? 
  5.3) How can I force 'c++' to appear in the index? 
  5.4) How can I index HTML files? 
  5.5) How can I index my http server? 
  5.6) How can I index my ftp server? 
  5.7) How to remove a file from index ? 
  5.8) How should I maintain WAIS indexes? 
  5.9) How can I search for the date specified in the layout. 
6) Trouble ... 
  6.1) waisindex dumps core when it reads more than 20 filenames from 
  stdin. 
  6.2) Hey, is directory-of-servers at quake.think.com down or what? 
  6.3) Compilation of the ctype directory does not work! 
  6.4) warning: couldn't open database.syn -translation disabled. 
7) Does freeWAIS-sf run on .... 
8) Does freeWAIS-sf work with ... 
  8.1) Can i use other wais clients to query a freeWAIS-sf server? 
  8.2) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with gopher? 
  8.3) Gopher Error: Nothing Available! 
  8.4) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with Mosaic? 
  8.5) Can i link freeWAIS-sf with the cern httpd? 
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Subject: 1) What is freeWAIS-sf?

  1.1) What does 'stemming' mean? 
  1.2) What does 'soundex' mean?

  FreeWAIS-sf is an extension of the 
  freeWAIS software provided by the the Clearinghouse for Networked 
  Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR). The SF suffix in the