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All of these interfaces are too complicated to learn in one sitting.
The basic use of any of the bibliographic databases can be taught in a
one-hour session, but the fine points take many months to get under
control, and even then they are continually evolving--new commands
and displays are added regularly to both public and commercial
catalogs. The programmers of the Internet utilities and assumed that
their `typical' user knows a lot about computers and
inter-networking. Or, maybe the utilities were written with more savvy
users in mind.
I first tried WAIS software in March of 1993. I have dabbled with it
regularly, and tried in earnest to master it over the past three
weeks. I have yet to retrieve a unique or especially helpful
information item with this software.
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