Brain-dead search engine

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Hi,

(I'm CC:ing the list, it might be of interest for others as well)

John Hills wrote:
> I am trying to find out information, not start a flame, particularly with 
> the author of the software. However, it is very frustrating to try the 
> usual search techniques and come up short. As for helping RJ, whoever that 
> is, 

He's the maintainer of the mgetty mailing list archive.

> I am sure they can do without my meagre abilities. 

Why?  Mostly, the search engine isn't working because he's lacking the
time to repair it.

> If robots were allowed I could search the archive effectively myself.

But that would be a very large waste of bandwidth.

> As for  reading the NeXT chapter of the documentation yours is the first 
> reference I've come across to such a chapter. Where is it? I've tried the 
> usual search techniques, archie, websearches, poking around archive sites.

Well, just look into the *documentation* -- mgetty.texi, coming with the
source, convertable into mgetty.ps, mgetty.info, ...

If you don't have it, look on http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty/, look for
a chapter titled "The NEXTSTEP operating system".

> As for bitching about stuff one gets for free, well the Japanese have a 
> saying "tada yori takai no wa nai". At this point I'd be willing to pay for 
> Makefile and policy.h files thatt would just enable me to compile under 
> NS3.3 Intel with no mess and no fuss.

While I can't provide that, the authors of the NeXT port might help.  
They are Ben Stuyts <benst@stuyts.nl> and Gregor Hoffleit
<flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>

> P.S. My comments were meant somewhat tongue-in-cheek, although the 
> search-engine really didn't help me at all, but I guess that irony doesn't 
> export well.

Uh, no.  Not unless you know the writer of irony personally (and know his
ways), or unless it's marked as such by use of smileys, or things like
<sarcasm>...</sarcasm>.

gert
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