From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 10 10:18:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29288 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:18:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29283 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:18:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA02951 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:17:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:17:07 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199902101817.KAA02951@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Meta-question on searching FreeBSD mail archives Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So... I'm trying to be a "good kid " (well, sometimes) and check the archives because I came up with an oddity re: the "depends-list" target for making a port. So I tried searching -questions with the expression ports and depends-list But of the results I get, few have the expression "depends-list" in them... but they do seem to have "list" or "depends" in them. So is the hyphen being treated as a meta-character? I would welcome suggested improvements for search criteria. If I get a significant number of responses that are not copied to the list, I'll summarize to the list. Thanks, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message