I saw that David gave you a much better answer.  Sorry I didn't see his reply 
before I sent this.  What a great technique!  

On Friday 17 June 2005 01:17 am, Nancy Anthracite wrote:
> Ismet, I have almost all of it in Kontact if you have that.  I might be
> able to pull it out for you.  However, using google to search it works
> pretty darn well.  Just stick in VistA and Veterans Affairs or something
> like that to make it stick in the VistA documentation for the most part and
> you will get great hits.
>
> On Thursday 16 June 2005 08:15 pm, Ismet Kursunoglu, MD 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/[email protected]/ 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?
> >
> > Thanks very much.

-- 
Nancy Anthracite


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