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Sep 11, 2007 5 Replies

How do you get messages from comp.arch.fpga archives?



Google brings up headings that I may want to read, however, when I click on those headings I go to the archives that are listed by year and month. There isn't a clear way to find the message that I wanted to read.



Brad Smallridge Ai Vision


The way I used to do it is to use the browsers search within the page funciton to find the words I originally told google to look for. Nowadays, if I'm looking for stuff on c.a.f, I use the "Google groups" interface to search for it (adding "group:comp.arch.fpga" to the text I type into the search box, or use the advanced search).

I still use GNUS to post though, no pointy-clicky for me :-)

Cheers, Martin

martin.j.thompson@trw.com TRW Conekt - Consultancy in Engineering, Knowledge and Technology http://www.conekt.net/electronics.html

Thanks Martin,

I found google groops and this seems to search into the archives without any problem and a nice interface to boot.

Don't know what c.a.f. stands for or how to use GNU, although for you keyboard guys, I hear it's great.

Brad Smallridge

You're welcome!

comp.arch.fpga :-)

Gnus is the usenet reader that runs within Emacs - once I'd started using Emacs for writing VHDL I discovered all sorts of other useful tools inside it as well!

Cheers, Martin

martin.j.thompson@trw.com TRW Conekt - Consultancy in Engineering, Knowledge and Technology http://www.conekt.net/electronics.html

Google indexes both the article pages, and the month indexes, and the author indexes at

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Unfortunately, when it returns searc results, it sometimes gives the index pages, rather than the article pages. I have not found a way to avoid this.

What you can do, once you get to one of the index pages, is just do a text search on the page (ctrl-f) to find a link to the related article page. From there you can follow the articles by topic, by author, or cronologically.

Cheers, Philip Freidin

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