On Sat, 21 Jun 1997 19:37:26 -0400 (EDT), Robyn Duke of Amber wrote:

I was wondering....
if I used the command 
egrep latest/* 
with fanfic-request@fanfic.com
with the subject archive if this was correct.....?

Not quite. egrep is a search command. To use it you need to include a
search string, e.g.

egrep haggis latest/*

will get you a list of all the incidences of "haggis" in the archived
messages -- or the first 512, anyway.

A useful trick is to search for subject: in a certain hundred messages.
Since every message has a subject line, this will get you a list of a
hundred messages and their subject headers. For example,

egrep subject: latest/382*

will list messages 38200-38299 with their subject headers -- which is
better than ls latest which only gives you sizes. The 382 is there to
limit it to a hundred messages, otherwise it'll cut off after the first
512. To figure out which ranges you want to search, check the archive
numbers in the messages you are getting now. Then check the ones you got
before you got unsubbed, and search the ranges in between.

Hope this helps!

Gary Kleppe
kleppe@execpc.com, Home page http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe
My fanfics and the FFML map are on my comics/manga page,
       http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics