From: ataylor AT cs DOT ucsd DOT edu (Adam Taylor) Subject: Re: Search engine? 5 Nov 1997 18:25:56 -0800 Message-ID: <3460D7D7.180.cygnus.gnu-win32@cs.ucsd.edu> References: <34591A51 DOT 467E AT cup DOT hp DOT com> Reply-To: ataylor AT cs DOT ucsd DOT edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "John F. Kolen" Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Actually, I didn't. You're right, it doesn't come back with many hits, and none from the mailing list. But the mailing list archives _are_ searched. A better example would have been: +ncurses +host:www.cygnus.com which comes back with ~70 hits, many from the mailing list archives. I think 'curses' just doesn't occur in the mailing list archives as a word. i.e. set of by whitespace. This is by using the engine at: http://www.altavista.digital.com/ Adam ----- John F. Kolen wrote: > > On Nov 3, 1:10pm, Adam Taylor wrote: > > Subject: Re: Search engine? > > Why can't you just do stuff like, e.g. > > > > +curses +host:www.cygnus.com > > > > at Alta Vista's site? > > > > Adam > > > > Did you try this before posting it to the mailing list? If you did, you > would have discoverd that AltaVista produced three hits (on 11/4/97): > > 1. Xconq Home Page > Xconq is an Empire-type strategy game, where each player contests for > domination of a simulated world. However, unlike most empire-building > games, it... > http://www.cygnus.com/~shebs/xconq.html - size 2K - 18-Sep-97 - English > > 2. UNIX apps successfully ported with GNU-Win32 > UNIX apps successfully ported with GNU-Win32. To give you some idea of > the power of the Cygwin32 API, we've put together a list of some of the > useful... > http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ported.html - size 6K - 6-Sep-97 - > English > > 3. GUILE ML archives by subject > GUILE ML archives by subject. About this archive. Messages sorted by: > [ date ][ thread ][ author ] Other mail archives. Starting: Sat 20 May > 1995 -... > http://www.cygnus.com/ml/guile/subject.html - size 115K - 22-Sep-97 - > English > > I might be blind, but I didn't see any GNU-win32 mailing list hits. Maybe you > have a different AV search engine? > > -- > John F. Kolen voice: (850)474-3075 > Assistant Professor fax: (850)474-3023 > Dept. of Computer Science > University of West Florida > Pensacola, FL 32514 > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".