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PD/PDscheme/!NewsFind/!Help
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File contents
________________________________________________________________________
Program Name: NewsFind
Purpose: Newsbase search engine
Author: Tony Houghton
Version: 0.01 (alpha)
________________________________________________________________________
Contact details:
Tony Houghton
271 Upper Weston Lane
Southampton
SO19 9HY
mailto:tonyh@tcp.co.uk
URL:http://www.tcp.co.uk/~tonyh/
________________________________________________________________________
NewsFind is an 'applet' for searching for patterns in messages stored by
Newsbase. Matching articles are copied to a folder so that they can be
read by TTFN or Messenger. NewsFind makes use of overview files to speed
up searching, so you need to use Newsbase 0.55 or later and ensure that
this feature is switched on.
When you choose a group to search you can either pick it from the menu
or type it. You can also type a hierarchy, using a trailing *, eg
"comp.sys.acorn.*" to search all the groups within Newsbase beginning
with comp.sys.acorn.
You can either confine a search to the contents of a specific header in
each article or search the whole body, including headers. The range of
headers available is restricted to those consistently available in
overview files, for speed of searching.
Messages are searched on a line by line basis, and matching patterns
apply to whole lines. This means that if you want to search for "Tony
Houghton" anywhere in a header or article you must wildcard the Match
expression with "*Tony Houghton*" instead of just typing "Tony
Houghton". A '#' character in the expression matches any one character,
and a '*' matches 0 or more. The end condition of a *-wildcard is either
the end of a line (if the * is at the end of the expression) or the
sequence that matches what follows the * in the expression. You can
search for * or # characters specifically contained in messages by
escaping them in the expression with a backslash ('\').
The Choices dialogue box allows you to choose a folder to copy matching
articles to, set a log file where brief details of each search are written,
and to set a user. Setting a user allows that user's email to be searched.
NewsFind does not support passwords.
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