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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
