X-Git-Url: http://git.indexdata.com/?p=yaz-moved-to-github.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=a4005892a8678076279023397f2033817fb25203;hp=79ec0a517347c9889b3de91c0f92c992d8254d6f;hb=30cfc59b71c25923e2e9cfb63c310c095bb3b6c1;hpb=6a7d650e44134d161a4614a5e68245216dec2b19 diff --git a/README b/README index 79ec0a5..a400589 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,71 +1,66 @@ - * Copyright (C) 1995-1998, Index Data. - * See the file LICENSE for details. - * Sebastian Hammer, Adam Dickmeiss +Copyright (C) 1995-1999, Index Data ApS. +See the file LICENSE for details. -Compilation and installation for YAZ - $Id: README,v 1.21 1998-01-29 14:08:43 adam Exp $ +Compilation and installation instructions for YAZ + $Id: README,v 1.28 1999-12-02 13:54:56 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 role of Z39.50/SR. -Windows programmers: refer to the file windows.txt which describes -how to compile the software using Microsoft Visual C++. +Windows programmers: refer to the file windows.txt which describes how +to build the software using Microsoft Visual C++. + +On Unix, GNU configure is used to configure YAZ and generate Makefiles. +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 a minimalistic -implementation of the 'backend' interface. +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:: - -at the UNIX prompt, to connect to a Z39.50 server, or - -client osi:['/']: +package, and verify that the protocol works OK. It can be started by +typing -to connect to an OSI SR target (this requires mOSI-support). To connect -to the DANBIB test target, you might use: + yaz-client tcp::[/] -client osi:0103/find2.denet.dk:4500 +at the UNIX prompt, to connect to a Z39.50 server. Use '?' to get a list of the available commands. The current query language for the find command is a bit awkward, but functional: -query ::= ['@attrset' ] rpn -rpn ::= complex | simple | attr rpn -complex ::= operator rpn rpn -operator ::= '@and' | '@or' | '@not' | '@prox' proximity -simple ::= term | set. -term ::= | '"' ... '"'. -set ::= '@set' . -attr ::= '@attr' [] '=' . -proximity ::= exclusion distance ordered relation which unit -exclusion ::= '1' | '0' | 'void' -distance ::= -ordered ::= '1' | '0' -relation ::= -which ::= 'known' | 'private' -unit ::= + query ::= ['@attrset' ] rpn + rpn ::= complex | simple | attr rpn + complex ::= operator rpn rpn + operator ::= '@and' | '@or' | '@not' | '@prox' proximity + simple ::= term | set. + term ::= | '"' ... '"'. + set ::= '@set' . + attr ::= '@attr' [] '=' . + proximity ::= exclusion distance ordered relation which unit + exclusion ::= '1' | '0' | 'void' + distance ::= + ordered ::= '1' | '0' + relation ::= + which ::= 'known' | 'private' + unit ::= Eg.: -Andersen + Andersen -"Hans Andersen" + "Hans Andersen" -@and @attr 1=1 andersen @attr 1=4 @attr 4=2 duckling + @and @attr 1=1 andersen @attr 1=4 @attr 4=2 duckling -@attrset Bib-1 @and @attr GILS 2=2008 Washington @attr 1=21 weather + @attrset Bib-1 @and @attr GILS 2=2008 Washington @attr 1=21 weather The sort command takes a sequence of sort specifications. A sort specification holds a field (sort criteria) and is followed by flags. @@ -76,17 +71,18 @@ value. If no = is in the SortKey it is treated as a sortfield-type of type InternationalString. Flags observed are s (sort case sensitive), i (sort case insensitive), < (ascending), > (descending). Eg.: - 1=4 i> (use is title, insensitive, ascending). - Title s< (String Title, sensitive, descending). + 1=4 i< (use is title, insensitive, ascending). + Title s> (String Title, sensitive, descending). The directories: doc - Documentation. util - Various little utility functions. Logging, memory debugging, - primitive ISO 2709 presentation for the client, etc. + 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 +odr - Open Data Representation. This module implements the BER encoding rules. Documentation is found in the files odr-use.man and odr.txt. @@ -97,7 +93,14 @@ asn - This module implements the Z39.50/SR protocol. The best way which defines structure and type definitions for each of the types introduced in the protocol specification. -comstack- This module implements the transport transparency +z39.50 - This module implements the Z39.50 protocol. This module + does the same job as the 'asn' module except that the source + files are auto-generated using an YAZ' ASN.1 Compiler (YC). + +zutil - This module implements a collection of Z39.50 utilities, such + as query parsing, EXTERNAL handling, etc. + +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 the 'American' mode of exchanging the records straight over @@ -109,13 +112,13 @@ rfc1006 - Xtimosi requires an implementation of the OSI transport notably) provide this. For others, we provide an implementation of the RFC1006 protocol (which is what ISODE-based implementations often use). This module is not - neeeded if you don't use xtimosi, and it's not included in the + needed if you don't use xtimosi, and it's not included in the libyaz.a library. 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). See server.txt. + is in the file include/backend.h). client - A demonstration client. If we come upon a good design for a higher level client API, that will live here. @@ -124,10 +127,8 @@ 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. - -lib - The libraries. Primarily libyaz.a. +lib - The libraries. Primarily libyaz.a. The makefile gathers the + libraries from previous modules into libyaz.a. 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