That's exactly what I do but I found out that searching a huge textfile without threads is a pain in the butt. I have one file with all the archives and search it with emacs. Perhaps there's a way to do this better? A couple of days ago Sam Gendler wrote: "I have been saving copies of all responses to questions like this, that are asked SO frequently by newbies. I have about 40 questoins answered now." Wouldn't it be nice if some people would just like him collect postings topic-specifically and without even putting them together to a howto just put them somewhere where they could be accessed easily under a catchword? Ragnar
Just as I thought: it was a retrieval problem. I wish I could get all the List archives (with threads) into one file, too. There's such a lot of Information out there...
You can. Download all the [Archives] from http://www.zope.org/Resources/MailingLists
I try to keep a local copy of all the mailing list posts on my hard disk. When I have a problem with syntax, generally, I just grep the local copy for what I'm looking for.
-- Chris McDonough - Digital Creations, Inc. Publishers of Zope - http://www.zope.org