From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27985 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bud Rogers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir advice Date: 09 Dec 1999 09:54:26 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <8766y81559.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164912 27446 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:48:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:48:32 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA17776 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:54:15 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB24252; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:54:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:54:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23730 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:54:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from twocups.sirinet.net (postfix@twocups.sirinet.net [207.3.88.229]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA17768 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:53:45 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by twocups.sirinet.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id D99E8CB1F; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:54:26 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: dsg@mitre.org's message of "09 Dec 1999 10:29:26 -0500" Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27985 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27985 dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) writes: > downloaded nnir and set it up. I like it a lot. I don't know how I've > lived without it this long. Thanks Kai! Too cool, isn't it? > I wonder: should I look for a newer version, try out this freewais-sf > I've seen reference to or something else? Any advice or pointers to > appropriate URLs would be greatly appreciated. Some folks have had trouble using freewais with nnir. Not sure what or why. I already had glimpse, so I used that. It works really well with nnir and as a stand-alone search tool. I'm running glimpse 4.1. You might want to go for the latest version. http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ HTH -- Bud Rogers