Subject: Re: Wanted: reader that scans articles

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 27 Apr 1995 19:58:49 -0701

Nancy McGough <[email-masked]> writes:
>Peter Durcansky ([email-masked]) writes:
>>Is anybody aware of a newsreader that can scan all articles in the newsgroup for existence 
>>of a text string? 
>
>nn 6.5 can do this with either of these commands:

Someone mailed me that this is only possible in nn 6.5 if this feature
was switched on at compile time.  Pine 3.90 (and higher versions),
which is both a mailer and newsreader, has full text searching of a
newsgroup or mail folder.  To do this you first need to set the
enable-aggregate-command-set and then while viewing the newsgroup type:

  ; t a TextToSearchFor

Which means select (;) text (t) all messages (a).

Hope this helps,
Nancy

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