Re: Question about www4mail
From: ONIME EHIMIKA OHIREIME (onime@ictp.trieste.it)
Date: Tue, Nov 09 1999
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:48:10 +0100 (MET)
From: ONIME EHIMIKA OHIREIME <onime@ictp.trieste.it>
To: ameyer@ix.netcom.com
cc: www4mail-comments@w3.org, Victor Cid <vcid@spine.nlm.nih.gov>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991109103824.6357A-100000@sv12>
Subject: Re: Question about www4mail
Hi Alan,
I believe that some of these perl code to change things were high handed!
Looking at it now and looking at the reply from Thomas, I can easily
understand the problem!
Probably, I would need a few days to look into the code and find out the
implications! or place a permanent fix on it.
Thanks for looking into the code!
Clement Onime
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 ameyer@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Clement,
>
> We have done some more experimenting with your excellent www4mail
> program at the National Library of Medicine in the United States.
>
> We had problems making it work with our searchable PubMed database
> until we commented out one line in the code.
>
> In the tag_strip subroutine you have two lines as follows:
>
> #Convert = to space
> $newpart =~ s/\=/&\#32/g;
>
> You are converting '=' to an HTML space. You also convert some other
> characters to space.
>
> Converting '=' to ' ' does not seem to work with our pages. So I
> commented that line out, and then everything worked. However, before
> we make this change permanent, I thought that I should tell you about
> it and ask if you think this will break something else.
>
> If you would like to try searching our database, start with:
>
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
>
> If you would like to try using our copy of the www4mail server, you
> can reach it at www4mail@spine.nlm.nih.gov. We have configured the
> server using .allow and .deny to only search pages at the National
> Library of Medicine. This server is not yet available to the public,
> so please do not broadcast its presence yet.
>
> Thank you again for your fine program.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan Meyer
> ---
> Alan Meyer
> AM Systems
> Randallstown, MD
> U.S.A.
>