Improvements made to the CERNVM FIND server

In reverse chronological order, these are the improvements which have taken place to the FIND server . Changes are made immediately in machine SERVUS03 (operating occasionally on port 8000), and later transferred to SERVUS02 (operating continually on port 2784).

October 1991

Bug fix:Ocasionally the server got into a mode in which it returns all blank lines. This bizarre mode is only reset by killing it.
CERN phone book (white pages) on line.

September 91

Internet node number of client passed to REXX execs as first parameter for monitoring (26-Sept-91).
Log file introduced as in normal daemon.
Bug fix: A file containing a line consisting of just slash followed by asterisk put the server into a weird mode in which everything was returned as a sequence of blank lines. (A crazy facet of the IBM C runtime library in which /* was interpreted as eond of file! ) (24 Sep 91)
Title added (in C) to seach result virtual documents.

End Mar 91

Bug fix: Anchors which do not go anywhere are no longer generated.
Bug fix: If nothing is found, a message to that effect is generated, not an acess error message.

11 Feb 91

The Yellow pages information and NEWS information has been added.
The format has been changed to use heading tags instead of glossary tags.

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Tim BL