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[Pat Ford]

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, steve ravet wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:22:31 -0500
> From: steve ravet <Steve.Ravet at arm.com>
> To: gmecm at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: archives
> 
> short answer, not without a lot of cutting and pasting on your part.

8-(

> 
> There's one interesting thing you can do.  If you download an entire
> monthly archive as a big file, netscape and probably other email clients
> will treat it as a mail folder, and you can use your mailers search
> functions to search it instead of the archive search.  Or you can load
> it into word or some other text processing program, or you can grep it.

cool I'll try that.

> 
> If you do search for 730, also search for other variants of the part
> number.  The most common that people use are 3 digits, 4 digits, and the
> whole thing.  If you search on 730 the search engine won't return a post
> that only has 1227730 (or whatever).

thanks for the pointers, I'll ftp the file when I get it done, and send a 
readme as well. It may take a while, I can't really do this @ work


> 
> These lists sorely need FAQs, if you make some progress here it will be
> greatly appreciated by all I'm sure.
> 
> --steve
> 
> 
> Pat Ford wrote:
> > 
> > Hi There
> >  Another annoying newbie question Is the a way the dl the results
> > of an archive search. What I want to do is search for "730" and compile
> > all the items into a faq type format.
> >  Can it be done?
> > 
> > thanks
> 
> -- 
> Steve Ravet
> steve.ravet at arm.com
> Advanced Risc Machines, Inc.
> www.arm.com
> 

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