Kent Covert ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: In article <1994Jul19.014415.27207@miavx1>, [log in to unmask]
(Michael Jones) writes:
: > Note2:  I was playing with the PIPE command to experiment with piping the
: > results to a file and found it to give inconsistant results, so I recommend
: > not using PIPE with archie.  If you want to save the results in a file, I
 
: As to using pipes, the following seemed to work for me:
:     PIPE ARCHIE -S LINUX > RESULTS.TXT
: It did time out on me a couple of times.  I don't know if that was a
: problem with PIPE or with ARCHIE, though.
 
The problem I was having is that on some searches, using
        archie -s substring
provided results, where as
        pipe archie -s substring > results.txt
provided "No matches."... but only on some searches, not all of them.
For example, when I searched for "linux" with piping, it gave me no matches,
but when I searched for "wmos" with piping, it worked fine.  I did this
several times with the same results.  Both searches without piping returned
hits.
 
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Mike Jones
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