From: The Butterfly (salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com)
Date: 03/10/98
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 22:58:11 -0800 Message-Id: <199803110658.WAA00456@bootstrap.sculptors.com> From: The Butterfly <salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com> Subject: **ADMIN POST** - How to use the list archive
-Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:46:01 -0800 (PST)
-From: balloon crew <ballooncrew_at_yahoo.com>
-Reply-To: airships_at_sculptors.com
-
-I tried to get archived messages from the listserver but was not
-successful. How can I do it?
-
To access the archive, you send a note to 'airships-request_at_sculptors.com'
(so that it knows you're not trying to post)
Make the first word of the Subject: line the word "archive"
Subject: archive
(Then it knows you're doing archive stuff)
You can then issue other commands either on the Subject: line, or in the
body (one command per line)
Subject: archive help
Is a good place to start.
You can basically do a few different things:
get file...
ls directory...
egrep some_pattern file(s)...
The archive help file gives a brief rundown of these, and some
aliases (for example, 'dir' is an alias for 'ls' and 'search' is an aliase
for 'egrep').
So:
Subject: archive
get dist (get file named 'dist')
ls latest (list files in 'latest' directory. These
are stored as numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.)
egrep subject: latest/* (grabs all lines matching "subject:" in all
files in the 'latest' directory. Is case
insensitive, so also matches "Subject:")
This gives a quick listing of ALL subjects
in ALL posts. Pretty handy.
egrep helios latest/* (gives all files (by number) with string
matching 'helios' anywhere in 'em. Then you
send another archive message saying
'get file1 file2 file3' to fetch the ones
you want.)
search helios latest/* (means the same thing as egrep)
Hope this helps!
-- Pat ___________________Think For Yourself____________________ Patrick G. Salsbury - http://www.sculptors.com/~salsbury/ --------------------------------------------------------- Move away from stupid laws.