Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:03:45 -0700
Reply-To: "Berryhill, Timothy" <TWB2@PGE.COM>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From: "Berryhill, Timothy" <TWB2@PGE.COM>
Subject: Re: Advanced search in the SAS-L archive
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A short, relevant extract from the FAQ...
SAS-L and comp.soft-sys.sas FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
One hopes the answers are the significant part, but tradition demands...
Last revised 8/18/98 Better archive search instructions, thanks
to Kevin Brunson for the suggestion
The Lsoft manual (it maintains the list) is at:
http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
Q) How do I search the archive?
The full instructions are at:
http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
Be careful. Many people who try this send their request to the list
rather than to the list server, and they get derisive notes.
The list server names begin with listserv, while the list name begins
with sas-l.
Send e-mail to any of the list servers:
SEARCH DDE IN SAS-L SINCE 98/05/26
The reply will include something like:
Item # Date Time Recs Subject
------ ---- ---- ---- -------
006546 96/07/22 23:25 94 Lines written
006569 96/07/22 15:47 1184 Re: SAS Data Set Format (long)
Send another message using the item numbers in the first column:
GETPOST SAS-L 6546 6569
Q) How can I do a better search?
Be careful. Most people who try this send their request to the list
rather than to the list server, and we all send them derisive notes.
The list server names begin with listserv, while the list name begins
with sas-l. Start by sending a message to the list server with the body:
help
The server will send you a quick reference card. The author knows more
about searching than I do, so read it.
Q) How can I do an easier search?
If you have a web browser, you can try www.dejanews.com. Forms-aware
browsers will do better than Mosaic 2.1 there.
There is a gopher-based search engine for the SAS-L at
gopher://jse.stat.ncsu.edu under "Other Discussion Groups". There are
reports the search engine is imperfect in that when accessed via
Netscape, it returns different search results than when accessed via
gopher.
> ----------
> From: Stuerzl,
> Heinr.,DE,Diagnostics[SMTP:STUERZL@MSMBWMA.HOECHST.COM]
> Reply To: Stuerzl, Heinr.,DE,Diagnostics
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 6:47 AM
> To: SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Q: Advanced search in the SAS-L archive
>
> Hi there,
>
> as far as I know there are two ways to search for former SAS-L postings in
> the web.
> 1. www.dejanews.com
> 2. gopher://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/11/othergroups/sasl/
>
> ad 1.) Dejanews provides a comfortable search engine for the newsgroup
> comp.soft-sys.sas. But it covers
> only a limited period of time (don't know how long, 1-2 month?).
>
> ad 2.) The Journal of Statistics Education offers a gopher search for the
> whole (!) SAS-L archiv, divided in
> postings before 1994 and postings after 1994. The search is quick, but not
> very comfortable. e.g. only a limited list
> of matches is shown und you don't get the number of total matches.
> How can you refine your search?
> What advanced search features are possible?
> Is there an help document to learn more about this search engine?
>
> Does anybody know other ways to search the SAS-L archive?
>
> Tia
> Heinrich
>
> Heinrich Stuerzl
> Data Management & Biostatistics
> Dade Behring Marburg GmbH, Marburg, Germany
> eMail:stuerzl@msmbwma.hoechst.com
>
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