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["Rita Kaikow (Oceanside High School)" <K12OCKZR@VAXC.HOFSTRA.EDU>]

Recently several LM_NETters, including myself, inquired as to disppearance of
keyword searching capabilities to find archived items.  Mike had anticpated its
return sometime later this spring.  But I was surprised to receive the
following message from him almost immediately after the first.

>Subj:  RE: Searching
>
>
>Speak and you shall receive.
>
>Check out the new LM_NET searching capability - it searchers the subject
>line only, but it's fast...and good.
>

Wouldn't it be nice if all one's requests were realized?

Mike is entirely correct - the updated search feature is great.  Give it a try.

You can access the LM_NET archives by either telnetting or gophering to

   askeric@ericir.syr.edu

David Lankes indicated that they use JUGHEAD for searching the archive.

>jughead is an acronym for:
>
>   Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display
>
>jughead head can act as a search engine on a prebuilt table that
>allows searching through menus, or can create a linear view of
>menu space.  When running jughead you can specify what part of
>gopherspace you want search tables built or a linear view thereof.
>
>When running as a search engine, jughead listens out a port for a
>connection and a search string. The search string can contain the
>boolean operations "AND", "OR", and "NOT" between words.  If no
>operator is specified between words, it is an implied "AND"
>operation.  For example either:
>
>   "University of utah" or "University AND of AND Utah"
>
>will yield all gopher entries with "university" and "of" and
>"utah" in the title.  The case of the letters is irrelevant.  Now
>suppose you enter the string:
>
>       "university of utah NOT gopher"
>
>This will return the same information as the first search except
>for those entries containing the word "gopher".
>
>Currently there is no way to search on the words "AND", "OR", or
>"NOT"; nor is there a way to break an expression into a group of
>smaller expressions.  jughead also supports partial word searches,
>where the asterik '*' is the wildcard character.  The wildcard
>character cannot be the first or only character in a search word,
>and all characters following the wildcard are ignored.
>
>For example: both "*", and "*opher" are not valid, while "go*r"
>will return all items that have a word beginning with "go" in the
>title.  Note that the 'r' following the asterik is ignored in the
>search.  The maximum number of entries returned is 1024 unless you
>use a special command described at the end of this document.
>
>All words are broken into smaller words if any word contains a
>whitespace character or one of the following characters:
>
>   !"#$%&'()+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~
>
>Thus if a menu item has the name "A sample.file", this is broken
>into the three words "A", "sample", and "file".  So if your search
>statement is:
>
>       "sample.file some_thing-else"
>
>your query gets broken into the statment:
>
>       "sample AND file AND some AND thing AND else"
>
>which will only return those items with all these words in the
>menu.
>
>jughead supports some special commands, where each special command
>must be preceeded by a question mark '?', and are listed below:
>
>       ?all what
>       ?help [what]
>       ?limit=n what
>       ?version [what]
>
>where 'what' is a standard search string, anything enclosed in
>square brackets is optional, and all special commands must be
>preceeded with '?'.  Each command is described below:
>
>       ?all what       returns all the hits on 'what'.
>                       Otherwise items will only be returned
>                       it there are fewer than 1024 items.
>
>       ?help [what]    Gives you this document and any
>                       optional hits on 'what'.
>
>       ?limit=n what   Returns the first 'n' items on 'what'.
>
>       ?version [what] Returns the version of jughead and
>                       any optional hits on 'what'.
>
>Only 1 special command is supported per query, and if any syntax
>error is encountered it is reported as the title to this document.
>
>Any error messages encountered by jughead point to this document,
>with the title listed as the error.  Possible errors include:
>   Invalid wildcard usage
>   GetString: Timed out
>   ProcessRequest: readline error
>   Too many processes.  (Please try latter)
>   jughead could not fork
>
>
>...........................................................
>: "Virtual" Dave Lankes           rdlankes@ericir.syr.edu :
>: AskERIC Researcher "This is not your father's Internet" :
>: School of Information Studies       Syracuse University :
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On Thu, 9 Feb 1995, Mike Eisenberg wrote:

>
> Hmmm... I have no idea!  This is jughead searching.  Maybe Dave can help
> us out with this.  The search covers the subject line only.  Regarding
> the order of presentation of results....  Dave?
>
>
>
> On Thu, 9 Feb 1995, Rita Kaikow (Oceanside High School) wrote:
>
> > >Check out the new LM_NET searching capability - it searchers the subject
> > >line only, but it's fast...and good.
> >
> > I did.  And it is.
> >
> > >If you like it, send a message to the list, ok?
> >
> > Before I do, I need to know one thing.  I tried to determine the order that
 the
> > messages are listed in the search list.  Can you advise on this?  It doesn't
> > seem to be chronological.  Although the RE: do follow the original inquiry.
> >
> > Rita
> >
> >
>
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