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. --- Mike Jones [log in to unmask]