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# 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These versions are out of date.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.

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