elsen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (02/03/90)
In article <942.25c76679@dayton.saic.com>, fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) writes: > I would like to make a suggestion for a small addition to ANU-NEWS. > I would like to see a '/title' qualifier added to the search command which > would search only the titles of articles for the specified string. A number > of times I knew a keyword in the title only to have it take a long time since > it was searching through the entire text of each article for my 'string'. If > I knew 'C' a little better, I would do it myself. Easy or difficult addition? > > -- Better still : why don't we ask the GREAT MASTER for a 'dir/edit' command such as in MAIL ! -- Marc Elsen (System Manager/Software Engineer) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Dep. E.S.A.T. Kard. Mercierlaan 94 3030 HEVERLEE Belgium tel. 32(0)16220931(ext. 1080) EMAIL : elsen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be ...!kulcs!kulesat!elsen (UUCP) elsen%kulesat.uucp@blekul60 (BITNET) psi%02062166012::elsen (PSI MAIL)
jeh@simpact.com (02/06/90)
In article <942.25c76679@dayton.saic.com>, fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) writes: > I would like to make a suggestion for a small addition to ANU-NEWS. > I would like to see a '/title' qualifier added to the search command which > would search only the titles of articles for the specified string. ... In 5.9C you can do a READ/SUBJECT=string and get the effect you want. The `string' is matched anywhere within the subject line. --- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA Chair, VMSnet [DECUS uucp] and Internals Working Groups, DECUS VAX Systems SIG Internet: jeh@simpact.com, or if that fails, jeh@crash.cts.com Uucp: ...{crash,scubed,decwrl}!simpact!jeh
fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) (02/08/90)
In article <908.25cde34b@simpact.com>, jeh@simpact.com writes: > In article <942.25c76679@dayton.saic.com>, fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) writes: >> I would like to make a suggestion for a small addition to ANU-NEWS. >> I would like to see a '/title' qualifier added to the search command which >> would search only the titles of articles for the specified string. ... > > In 5.9C you can do a READ/SUBJECT=string and get the effect you want. > The `string' is matched anywhere within the subject line. Thanks Jamie! That must be one of those undocumented commands. I am running 5.9C and it does not appear in the help library. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ ____ ____ ___ Earle Ake /___ /___/ / / Science Applications International Corporation ____// / / /__ Dayton, Ohio ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: fac2%dayton.saic.com@uunet.uu.net uucp: uunet!dayvb!fac2