Search Option |
Function |
Example |
Restriction |
By Keyword |
Search articles containing the keyword occurrence in a folder. You can enter more than one words separated
by one or more blank space, for which articles containing ALL the words will be searched.
Keywords will be treated as case insensitive. For wild-card pattern matching,
an underscore (_) in the word matches exactly any single character, and a percent sign (%)
matches any zero or more characters. All keywords except those with wild-card will be highlighted in
an article. |
Web, web Page, w_b, pa%e, _a_e,p%ag%e,%pag_e |
Keyword search in mutiple folders is not supported. Keyword search in ALL folders
may take quite a long time to finish if the total number of articles is large. |
By Header List |
This option lists all articles in a folder one subset a page, starting from the most
recent ones. Instead of sorting a list by date (default), you can also sort it
by subject or by sender's email address by clicking the link on the table header. Keyword(s) will be
ignored when this option is selected. |
When you first entered AskNPAC, a header list by date of a default folder is used to
list the most recent articles. |
Header list of all or multiple folders is not supported. |
By Date |
We use the syntax mm/dd/yy - mm/dd/yy to search the database based on dates,
where the date on the left hand side of the hypen is the start of the search date,
and the date on the right hand side is the end of the search date.
If the date on the left hand side of the hyphen is missing then it will search from
the creation date of the database. If the date on the right hand side of the hyphen
is missing then it will search to the present date. You can search a particular folder or
the whole database (all folders). If no keyword is entered, a header list by date will be used. |
keyword | dates searched |
1/1/94 - 1/1/95 | from Jan. 1 1994 to Jan 1 1995 |
2/94 - 5/94 | from Feb 1. 1994 to May 31 1994 |
95 - 96 | from Jan 1, 1995 to Dec 31, 1996 |
96 | the whole year of 1996 |
12/95 | the month of December 1995 |
6/15/95 | during the day of June 15, 1995 |
95 - | from Jan 1, 1995 to the present day |
6/95 - | from June 1, 1995 to the present day |
6/14/94 - | from June 14, 1994 to the present day |
- 95 | from the creation date of the database to Dec 31, 1995 |
- 4/95 | from the creation date of the database to April 31, 1995 |
- 2/28/94 | from the creation date of the database to Feb 28, 1995 |
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Search in multiple folders is not supported. |
By Sender(Name) |
Search articles posted by senders whose names match the keyword. If no keyword is entered, a header
list by sender will be used. |
Gang, _ang, %ang,g_%ng |
Only first keyword will be used in a search. |
By Sender(Email) |
Search articles posted by senders whose email addresses match the keyword. If no keyword is entered, a header
list by sender will be used. |
cheng@,edu,npac.syr,npac,syr,%syr% |
Only first keyword will be used in a search. |
By URL |
This option searches articles containing URLs that match the keyword(s). Multiple keywords
can be entered for articles containing all the keywords. If no keyword is entered,
all URLs contained in the folder will be listed. |
asknpac, npac.syr, npac syr, edu index.html, edu:% |
none |
Other Options |
If you are not satisfied with all the search options provided on the current page,
you are welcome to explore other search interfaces we provided. |
Many fine tuned search criteria can be used for users looking for advanced search options. |
none |