- * Copyright (C) 1995-1999, Index Data ApS.
- * See the file LICENSE for details.
- * Sebastian Hammer, Adam Dickmeiss
+Copyright (C) 1995-2000, Index Data ApS.
+See the file LICENSE for details.
-Compilation and installation for YAZ
- $Id: README,v 1.27 1999-08-27 09:40:31 adam Exp $
+Compilation and installation instructions for YAZ
+ $Id: README,v 1.31 2000-04-05 07:39:54 adam Exp $
The primary output of the source here is the lib/libyaz.a library,
which contains support functions for implementing the server or client
Type "./configure", then "make" to build YAZ.
Two test-programs of interest are generated when you type 'make' at the
-top level: ztest/ztest and client/client. Ztest is a dummy database
-server which returns canned responses to all queries. It's good for
-verifying that the protocol works ok, and ztest.c shows an
+top level: ztest/yaz-ztest and client/yaz-client. Ztest is a dummy
+database server which returns canned responses to all queries. It's good
+for verifying that the protocol works ok, and ztest.c shows an
implementation of a 'backend' interface.
-Client is a linemode Z39.50 client. It supports a fair amount of the
+yaz-client is a linemode Z39.50 client. It supports a fair amount of the
functionality of Z39.50v2/SR, but some things you need to enable or
disable by recompilation. Its primary purpose is to excersise the
package, and verify that the protocol works OK. It can be started by
typing
- client tcp:<hostname>:<port>[/<database>]
+ yaz-client tcp:<hostname>:<port>[/<database>]
at the UNIX prompt, to connect to a Z39.50 server.
doc - Documentation.
util - Various little utility functions. Logging, memory debugging,
- primitive ISO 2709 presentation for the client, etc. You'll
+ primitive ISO 2709 presentation for the yaz-client, etc. You'll
find the ASN.1 Compiler for YAZ here as well (yc.tcl).
odr - Open Data Representation. This module implements the BER
asn - This module implements the Z39.50/SR protocol. The best way
to find out how it works is to look in the sample
- client/server code in server/seshigh.c or yazlib/tst.c. The
- interface is still wholly described by the file proto.h
- which defines structure and type definitions for each of the
- types introduced in the protocol specification.
+ client/server code in server/seshigh.c. The interface is still
+ wholly described by the file proto.h which defines structure
+ and type definitions for each of the types introduced in the
+ protocol specification.
z39.50 - This module implements the Z39.50 protocol. This module
does the same job as the 'asn' module except that the source
zutil - This module implements a collection of Z39.50 utilities, such
as query parsing, EXTERNAL handling, etc.
+ill - This module implements the ISO ILL protocol.
+
comstack - This module implements the transport transparency
stack (COMSTACK). The comstack implements a generic interface
for exchanging BER-encoded records over a network. It supports
server - This is the implementation of the server frontend. It
provides event-handling and server managament functions,
and calls the backend primitives (best documentation of these
- is in the file include/backend.h).
+ is in the file include/yaz/backend.h).
client - A demonstration client. If we come upon a good design for a
higher level client API, that will live here.
ztest - A demonstration server that implements a backend.
-include - The various header files.
-
-makelib - This is a simple utility that gathers the libraries from the
- previous modules into libyaz.a.
+include/yaz - The various header files.
-lib - The libraries. Primarily libyaz.a.
+lib - The libraries. Primarily libyaz.a. The makefile gathers the
+ libraries from previous modules into libyaz.a.
To get more information or assistance, send mail to yaz-help@indexdata.dk.
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