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These versions are out of date.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.