[Tutor] Re: Introduction and ? re: searching the list's archives

[Robert Lilly]

> > Does anyone have any recommendations on how
> > to go about searching an mbox archive? I am working primarily under
Windows
> > 2000, but I have Cygwin installed, so a *nix solution may be viable as
well.


> The mbox files are plain text. This means that a simple grep could work.
>

> you can also use regexes ( and set the case-senseitiveness I guess),
>

> As an alternative approach, you could try importing the mbox files
> into your favourite mail program and use it's search
> function. (Provided it has one.)
>

> Or, instead of all this, you can use everyone's favourite search
> engine: google!
>

> If, however, you want to restrict searching to the python-tutor
> archives, you can try something like
> 'foo inurl:mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/'
> as a searchterm (without the quotes) when looking for 'foo'.

Thanks for the suggestions. I can see that, depending on what I'm looking
for, there is no "best" way. I really appreciate the last suggest, because I
didn't know what the URL for this list is for Googling purposes.

Robert