Re: lynx-dev INSTALLATION error

[Doug Kaufman]

On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Henry Nelson wrote:

> > +     To add direct WAIS support, get the freeWAIS distribution from
> > +     "ftp://ftp.cnidr.org/pub/NIDR.tools/freewais";, and compile it.  The 
> > compile
> 
> My question is, is this URL correct?  Is there a better one?  I tried to
> connect just now, and couldn't.

Yes, this is still the correct URL. I can connect without problems.
  
> When you said you tested WAIS, can I assume that was Unix, or does it
> compile into the DOS version, too?

This was under unix. I've tried to get freeWAIS to compile under DOS,
but it has not yet been ported (as far as I know). I didn't spend a lot
of time trying to do the port, since there are so few wais:// sites
left.
                            Doug
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