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Section 07: How To Request Copies Of Messages:
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After you have sent in your search command message, LISTSERV will send you
back the results of your search (assuming you keep reading and learn how to
do one). You will see a list of the archived posts meeting your criteria,
with their item # and subject header descriptions, plus a bit of context
showing the match. You can then request the full post(s) by sending a
GETPOST command to LISTSERV:
GETPOST PARKINSN 4362 24605 1964
Note that you have to give the list name, there are no # signs or commas in
this line, and posts do not have to be in numerical order. Each non-empty
search comes back to you with a GETPOST line ready to edit and send, BUT a
long string of post numbers will be truncated, and you will receive only
some of the posts followed by an "Unknown command" message.
One solution is to break it up into separate lines, each starting with
GETPOST (the posts will arrive in separate e-mail messages from LISTSERV,
one per GETPOST command). viz:
GETPOST PARKINSN 1964 4362 4381 4458 12172 22496 24605 25905
GETPOST PARKINSN 30905 32709 34739 36577 37978
Another solutions is to start the first line with "// " (slash, slash, space)
and end each BUT the last line with " ," (space comma) viz:
// GETPOST PARKINSN 1964 4362 4381 4458 12172 22496 27145 ,
30905 32709 34739 36577 37978 41212 4381 4458 12172 ,
4362 4381 4458 12172 22496 27145
You can also specify ranges, viz:
GETPOST PARKINSN 840 859 19464-19472
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