Newsgroups: bit.listserv.psycgrad
Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:59:04 EDT
              <PSYCGRAD@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
From:         "Matthew Simpson" <054340@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
Subject:      Retrieving letters by topic

Some of you have been asking how to retrieve files from PSYCGRAD.
Here is a booster on how to  1. Search for a topic
                             2. Ask for the postings to be sent to you.

TO SEARCH A TOPIC

Step 1:
Mail a letter to listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
              or listserv@uottawa

Step 2:
Include in your letter these commands....(and nothing else)

//
Database Search DD=Rules
//Rules DD   *
Search TheTopicOfYourChoice in psycgrad
Index
/*

Step 3:
Wait for Listserv to send you a file, called DATABASE OUTPUT.

Step 4:
Receive and read the file, called DATABASE OUTPUT.

Step 5:
Look at the index in the file and select which items of mail
you want to retrieve.  For example, the index of all of the
mail that has been sent through PSYCGRAD for today looks like...

> Index
Item #   Date   Time  Recs   Subject
------   ----   ----  ----   -------
003661 92/07/28 00:37   20   References on Stress-Moderating Variables?
003663 92/07/28 09:24   33   Re: References on Stress-Moderating Variables?
003664 92/07/28 07:15   21   this is personal (apologies)
003665 92/07/28 10:55   33   Re: References on Stress-Moderating Variables?
003666 92/07/28 11:07  231   FWD: ONLINE ACCESS TO CONGRESSIONAL INFORMATION
003667 92/07/28 16:29   10   Re: FWD: ONLINE ACCESS TO CONGRESSIONAL INFORMATION
003668 92/07/28 11:51   38   Re: References on Stress-Moderating Variables?
003669 92/07/28 11:09   26   purposes of psycgrad
003670 92/07/28 12:22   17   Re: FWD: ONLINE ACCESS TO CONGRESSIONAL INFORMATION
003671 92/07/28 12:29   88   MISSION STATEMENT: Please Read
003672 92/07/28 14:35   19   databases
003673 92/07/28 12:20   21   Re: this is personal (apologies)

If you want to retrieve the Mission Statement, for example.
Record number 3671 for future reference.  This is the number
of the item you wish to retrieve.  You can retrieve as many
item as you want to.

Step 5:
mail a letter to listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
              or listserv@uottawa

Step 6:
In the letter put the following commands and nothing else.

//
Database Search DD=Rules
//Rules DD   *
Search TheTopicOfYourChoice in psycgrad
Index
Print all of ### ### ###
/*

Of course instead of the string "TheTopicOfYourChoice," you would
use some real topic or word to be found in the items for which you
want to search, eg. EndNote.

Also, instead of the string "### ### ###," you would use the real
numbers of the items that appeared in the index.

Step 7:
Wait for the listserv to send you the file called DATABASE OUTPUT.

Step 8:
Receive and read the file called DATABASE OUTPUT.

Step 9:
Have fun!  :)

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