RE: Where the HELL are the Books.

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If your employer has a web site and uses a search engine on it, it might be
fun to try Google qualified by site vs. the product you're using on your
site.   Then again, it might not.  

I've tried this on the IBM site and it works really well as long as your
search argument is half way sensible.  E.G. "chain" isn't enough to narrow
down the results to RPG random I/O.

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@iquest.net]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 12:51 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Where the HELL are the Books.


Mark, 
Here is another way that was posted on IGNITe/400 back on 7/8 under the
thread "More Info Center Rants" 
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John, 
I'm not sure where your problem is in searching manuals. With the HTML
manuals, there is an 
icon at the top of each page (look for a flashlight) for searching that
manual. There is also a 
place where you can list all of the manuals and search all of them for your
phrase. 
For PDF files, Adobe Acrobat gives you a search (look for the binoculars). 
As far as IBM's search engine is concerned, I've given up. I use Google 
( http://www.google.com ). Simply enter your search criteria and then
"site:ibm.com". This tells 
Google to only return results from IBM. You'll be amazed at how well that
Google has IBM's site 
indexed. 
Bruce 
===================================================================== 
That was from  bruce-list@netburg.net (Bruce Hobbs, Netburg Internet
Services) and I had never tried Google for anything like this. You need to
click on Advanced Search to specify the domain(s) to search. 
It is REALLY slick ! 
Chuck 
  
  
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