P3D Re: searching the archives

[Dan Shelley <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

bob Wier wrote:
> 
> Someone recently said they could not search the archives.
> 
> Let me reinterate that they are large enough now that a search
> will likely time out before results are obtained (there is a CPU
> time limit to kill infinite loops, which occasionally happen).
> If necessary, select sub-sets of the archives and search individually
> (they are in 500 digest "chunks"). Also if you specify a lot
> of options, like mutiple misspellings, etc, again it's likely to
> time out, so it's best to keep the keyword match request as simple as possible.

Of course, they could always get a 3D-CD and search them there... ;-)

Dan Shelley
dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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