NOTICE! EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY! The Karmann Ghia Mailing List addresses have changed. The domain name has changed from @swissbank.com to @wdr.com. Please use the following new addresses from now on, and do not use the old addresses. karmann-ghia@swissbank.com has changed to karmann-ghia@wdr.com karmann-ghia-request@swissbank.com has changed to karmann-ghia-request@wdr.com karmann-ghia-digest-request@swissbank.com has changed to karmann-ghia-digest-request@wdr.com Replace these addresses where appropriate ------------------------------------------------ K A R M A N N - G H I A ( Karmann Ghia Digest Archive Server ) Every article sent to this list from the Karmann Ghia Mailing List ( karmann-ghia@swissbank.com ) is archived. These articles may be accessed by sending specific commands to 'karmann-ghia-digest-request@swissbank.com' ( NOT 'karmann-ghia-digest@swissbank.com' ). The commands may be used to list the articles that are stored in the archive and retrieve those that you want to read. You can also search for specific words or phrases in one or more articles before retrieving. There are six commands which the archive understands, a description of the commands follows. Listing Articles. This is done using the 'ls' command. Send an email to 'karmann-ghia-digest-request@swissbank.com' with the Subject: field set to 'archive ls ', where is set to the name of a directory in the archive. For example, all articles received and built into digests are stored in a directory called 'volumeXX' where XX is the year, so the command 'archive ls volume96' will give a list of all articles as digests from 1996. Retrieving Articles. This is done using the 'get' command. Send an email with the Subject: field set to 'archive get ', where is set to the pathname ( directory and filename ) of a file. For example, to get the first ever digest from 1996 send the command 'archive get volume96/1'. To get all articles sent in 1996 send the command 'archive get volume96/*'. To get all articles starting with the character '2' in 1996 send the command 'archive get volume96/2*'. To get 3 specific articles for 1996 ( numbers 12, 23 & 3 ) send the command 'archive get volume96/12 volume96/23 volume96/3'. Finding Articles. This is done using the 'egrep' command. Send an email with the Subject: field set to 'egrep ', where is set to a case insensitive regular expression and is set to the pathname ( directory and filename ) of a file. For example, to find the articles containing the word 'restoration' in 1996 send the command 'archive egrep restoration volume96/*'. To find articles containing the words 'door' and 'trim' in 1996 send the command 'archive egrep door.*trim volume96/*' ( where '.*' is the regular expression meaning any number of any characters ). Regular expressions may be very complex, matching for single words or entire phrases in certain places in the mail etc ( to use it's power to the full extent you should be familiar with UNIX regular expressions which is worth a whole chapter of it's own ! ). This command will provide a listing giving each instance of the expression with the pathname of the article and line numbe! ! r within the article. This infor mation may then be used to retrieve the articles. Reducing Traffic. This is done using the 'maxfiles' command. Send an email with the Subject: field set to 'archive maxfiles ', where is set to the maximum number of articles that are returned by the 'get' command. This command is useful when getting articles and you're not sure how many will be returned. For example, to get the first ten files with a pathname including the character 2 in 1996, send the command 'archive maxfiles 10 archive get volume96/*2*'. To remove the limit send the command 'archive maxfiles 0'. Software Information. This is done using the 'version' command. Send an email with the Subject: field set to 'archive version' to get information about which versions of the 'procmail' and 'smartlist' software are being used by the list administrator to provide the emailing list. ( Not very interesting ) Help. This is done using the 'help' command. Send an email with the Subject: field set to 'archive help' to get this information that you are reading now. ( Just in case you saved this information, but coud not remember where it came from ) The aliases for the three important commands, should you wish to use them, are as follows... 'ls': dir, directory, list, show 'get': send, sendme, getme, gimme, retrieve, mail 'egrep': search, grep, fgrep, find For the technically minded, other things to bear in mind are as follows... Commands starting with a '#' are ignored. Multiple commands per email ARE allowed. The X-Mailing-List: field in the header of each email from the list shows the pathname in which the article was archived.