http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ search for "word -whatever"

[Igor Pechtchanski]

To CGF:

We could add a "--" option to ignore further flags.  I wanted to look at
the search source for a while now, anyway; maybe submit a few patches...
Is there a CVS repository for htsearch?
	Igor

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Ljubomir Josifovski wrote:

> > Please send notification of technical problems (bad html, broken
> > links) concerning these web pages to the cygwin mailing list.
>
> Any search containing a word prefixed with '-' (without the
> quotes, ie -arg) at
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/
>
> results in
>
> > Options:
> >       -v -d   Verbose mode.  This increases the verbosity of the
> >               program.  Using more than 2 is probably only useful
> >               for debugging purposes.  The default verbose mode
> >               gives a progress on what it is doing and where it is.
> >
> >       -c configfile
> >               Use the specified configuration file instead on the
> >               default.
> >
> >       query_string    A CGI-style query string can be given as a single
> >               argument, and is only used if the REQUEST_METHOD environment
> >               variable is not set.  If no query_string is given, and
> >               REQUEST_METHOD is not set, htsearch will prompt for the query.
>
> Ex:
>
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?method=and&format=builtin-long&sort=time&config=htdig&restrict=%2Fml%2Fcygwin%2F&exclude=&words=qwe+-q

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