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Searching NABOKV-L
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EDITOR's NOTE. NABOKV-L has been in operation for nearly six years and has
built up in impressive data base. Every posting is available in the list
Archive and this archive can be searched by the procedure outlined below.
You can use the listserv software just like a database by
sending a set of commands to the listserv address telling it to search
for a particular word, name, or phrase. The tricky part is that you have
to type these commands just exactly right for it to work. Let's suppose
that you want to get all the lists of new books that have been posted to
NABOKV-L since day one. Here's the message you'd send to the listserv
address: <listserv@ucsbvm.ucsb.edu>. Here the search is for the novella
Transparent Things, but it can be anything.
// JOB Echo=No
Database Search DD=Rules
//Rules DD *
SEARCH "Transparent Things" IN NABOKV-L
INDEX
PRINT
Everything in the above set of commands must look just as you see
it here, with capital and small letters and spaces arranged just this way;
notice, for instance, that there is a space after the first "//", but not
after the second one. (Note, too, that if you want to search for a
phrase, you need to put it in quotes.) This will get you a list of all
postings containing the phrase "new books," followed by the text of the
postings themselves. If you just want to try some searches to see what
they would turn up before getting the actual texts, simply leave off the
"PRINT" command; this will get you the list, and you can then send the
whole command-set again, with "PRINT" added, when you're sure that your
search terms have retrieved what you want.
built up in impressive data base. Every posting is available in the list
Archive and this archive can be searched by the procedure outlined below.
You can use the listserv software just like a database by
sending a set of commands to the listserv address telling it to search
for a particular word, name, or phrase. The tricky part is that you have
to type these commands just exactly right for it to work. Let's suppose
that you want to get all the lists of new books that have been posted to
NABOKV-L since day one. Here's the message you'd send to the listserv
address: <listserv@ucsbvm.ucsb.edu>. Here the search is for the novella
Transparent Things, but it can be anything.
// JOB Echo=No
Database Search DD=Rules
//Rules DD *
SEARCH "Transparent Things" IN NABOKV-L
INDEX
Everything in the above set of commands must look just as you see
it here, with capital and small letters and spaces arranged just this way;
notice, for instance, that there is a space after the first "//", but not
after the second one. (Note, too, that if you want to search for a
phrase, you need to put it in quotes.) This will get you a list of all
postings containing the phrase "new books," followed by the text of the
postings themselves. If you just want to try some searches to see what
they would turn up before getting the actual texts, simply leave off the
"PRINT" command; this will get you the list, and you can then send the
whole command-set again, with "PRINT" added, when you're sure that your
search terms have retrieved what you want.