Alternate Views of the Jargon File
Lots of people have used the Jargon File as a test case for different
kinds of search and retrieval engines. Here are all the different ways of
viewing it that I have URLs for as of October 2002:
Current Versions (4.0.0 or later)
Most of the recent conversions have search capability but only crude ASCII
highlighting (they were generated from the info or ASCII versions).
- http://pinewo.ods.org/jarl/index.shtml
- Very nice searchable version.
- UMEC's Jargon
Server
- The form allows you to search, or get a random entry.
- http://watson-net.com/jargon/
- This version has good support for searching and picking a random
term.
- http://www.elsewhere.org/jargon_search/
- Indexed with Excite.
- http://www.netmeg.net/jargon/
- A rather nice conversion of 4.1.4 with search capabilty.
- Im Eunjea
- has created his own searchable version.
Old Versions
These versions are out of date.
- Hans DeWolf's WWW Jargon
File
- This appears to be the best of the `rogue' conversions, except for the
lack of search capability. Crossreference-to-URL translation was apparently
done with a filter, and the results extensively hand-hacked (even including
indexes to lists of entries deleted in various versions!)
Foreign Language Translations
- Il Gergo Telematico
- Maurizio Codogno has done an Italian documnt he describes as a
"derivative work" or "spinoff" of the 3.0.0 Jargon File.
I know there are WAIS and other databases built from the Jargon File, but
don't have those URLs. If you know of an interesting one, send me mail.
Other packagings
Here's a clever hack that converts the Jargon File into a
fortune-cookie file; jfcookie.
Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]>