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 late August 2000:

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).

UMEC's Jargon Server: The form allows you to search, or get a random entry.
http://leb.net/~tonyk/jargon/: HTML generated from the flat-text version. Pretty generic.
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.
Arjan De Mes's View: Arjan De Mes <mes@fwi.uva.nl> did this version at the University of Amsterdam. It allows search on a conjunction of up to three keywords. Version 4.0.0.; http://www.netmeg.net/jargon/ A rather nice conversion of 4.1.4 with search capabilty.; Fortune file Rob Kaper has written a script that converts the HTML version of the File to a fortune-cookie file.

Old Versions

These versions are out of date.

The Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing: borrowed a lot of Jargon File material, I'm not sure from which version.
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.

Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>