What about google?

for instance: http://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.va.gov+cprs

Ismet B. Kursunoglu wrote:
>As I get into the nooks and crannies of VistA I find that it's as vast
>and rich as the Pacific ocean. What's more the old adage (which I won't
>repeat here) about reading the documentation surely holds true in that
>the  VistA Documentation Library (VDL) http://www.va.gov/vdl/ has the
>answers to many of my questions.
>
>The problem is that the answers are often contained across many MB's
>worth of PDF (total of 625 documents) or html files.  I have
>read/searched many of these documents but the going is pretty slow.
>
>I am using shell scripts (like pdfgrep http://blog.rompe.org/pdfgrep)
>and other *NIX tools to speed this process up but was wondering if there
>was some "Google like" interface to all this documentation? I know that
>some of this is available on the Hardhats site, but I haven't seen any
>comprehensive search links - however I could easily have missed them.
>
>I have also been searching this mailing list archive
>http://www.mail-archive.com/hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net/ and
>generally find them extremely rich in good content but there are no
>advanced search functions to be had there. Maybe there is a capability
>to download the entire archive of the list, but I don't see it. I also
>tried the Sourceforge mail site directly but found it pretty tedious to
>use.
>
>Do such search-able sites exist for all the VistA documentation and/or
>the Hardhats mailing list?

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Jim Self
Systems Architect, Lead Developer
VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis
(http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself)


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