Search Sybase Archive for Arbitrary Keywords

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UCO / Lick Observatory

Dwight McCann is kind enough to maintain a LISTSERV based mailing list for Net folks who use Sybase. However, there has been no convenient way to search the "back issues" of the mailing list for topics of interest. You could archive it yourself and grep through it, but that's tedious.

I offered in April 95 to present the archive via WWW with a waisindex-based topic search facility. Dwight and I made arrangements to copy the existing archive to me for a test run, and here it is. Just enter your keyword(s) below and Search away. Send fan mail if you like the service. It doesn't cost me much to offer it.

As with our other searchers, if the word "and" appears in your list of keywords, an AND rather than OR match will be done (selected files will have to contain all of the keywords you specify, rather than any of them). If you're looking for AIX problems therefore, try "AIX and problem".

You'll be presented with a list of pages that matched your criteria, which you can then browse easily. You should be able to hop right to your desired subject. Let me know if you have problems using this page.

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Note: Yes, I know the monospaced font is not very pretty. The first revision of this archive used a parser to turn the mail messages into attractive HTML -- or that was the theory anyway. In practise, the algorithm suffered badly from artificial stupidity, and some very strange formatting resulted from the writers' idiosyncrasies. It's a fascinating little problem and I could happily work on it for days, but my boss would be much less happy than I would :-) so I took the path of least resistance and preformatted the whole message body text. Too bad.

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