On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Dennis Paulson wrote:

> Dan or Steve, could you post a paragraph again on how to search tweeters
> archives for subjects, and include the paragraph as part of the info
> package for anyone who joins?

Hi Dennis and all,

You can search the tweeters archives for subjects and/or text of
messages. In the limited amount of searching I've done it's apparent
that the search *is* case sensitive despite the instructions. You can,
however put in a 'pipe' or vertical bar to indicate 'or.'

Address your search to: listproc at u.washington.edu

search tweeters chickadee | CHICKADEE

should yield which archives the word 'chicadee' or 'CHICKADEE' appear.

Then to obtain the resulting archive issue the command

get tweeters tweeters.log9507

or whichever number your search yielded. Unfortunately it's not possible
to retrieve individual messages by themselves. I just retrieved the log
above and it exceeded my quota as it was 1,800K in size.

If you send the command:

help search

to the listproc you'll receive detailed unix instructions.

> Such info isn't part of the packet I
> received, but maybe you've modified it subsequently.

I'm in the process of editing the tweeters FAQ and will post it soon.

Hope this helps,

Dan Victor, Seattle, WA <dvictor at u.washington.edu>
Tweeters = http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dvictor/