the Pianotech Digest Searcher

stanwood stanwood@tiac.net
Thu, 28 Dec 1995 08:31:52 -0500


>> "Enter search word(s) (or = , and = ; * = # )"

>> What does all this mean?

>For example, if you want the Searcher to return
>only the entries which contain both the terms "piano" and "tuner"
>you would type in the following entry:

>piano;tuner

>If, on the other hand, you wish the Searcher to return all the
>entries containing either of the search terms, "piano" or
>"tuner" you would give this command:

>piano,tuner

>The # serves as a wildcard letter.

>The Searcher can be found at:

>http://www.webcom.com/wind/ptsearch.html

David,

What about the "=" sign?  I take it these "Boolean Operators" are a good
thing to know about in other respects to our use of computers.  Thanks for
explaining.

Would give us some more examples of different combinations of the operators?

Learning all the time!

David Stanwood





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