Re: Hopi Elders Knock for Peace

Gary S. Trujillo (gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
Mon, 6 Jul 1992 18:59:08 GMT


In <1992Jul5.175843.15994@gnosys.svle.ma.us> I wrote:

> ...
>
> If anyone would like to review the discussions we have had on this matter to
> date by means of the nn.hopi list, you can obtain articles from an online
> archive by sending a message to the address "almanac@gnosys.svle.ma.us" of
> the form:
>
> confget nn hopi <article-numbers>
>
> where <article-numbers> represents a space-delimited list of article numbers
> you would like to retrieve. For example, to get copies of articles 1, 5, and
> 15-18, you could say:
>
> confget nn hopi 1 5 15 16 17 18
> or
> confget nn hopi 1 5 1[5-8]
>
> (using the UNIX shell conventions for matching ranges of names). To obtain
> all articles from the nn.hopi archives, you can say:
>
> confget nn hopi *

I made a mistake. <blush> In order to use the UNIX shell metacharacters,
like "[" "]" "*" and "?" you have to put them in quotes:

confget nn hopi 1 5 "1[5-8]"
or
confget nn hopi "*"

Sorry about that.

Gary

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    Gary S. Trujillo                            gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts              {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst