[Info-vax] how to do a search for just today's info

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-01-28 19:59:46 +0000, pcoviello at gmail.com said:

> I would love to run a newsreader but unfortunately here at work I am 
> somewhat limited in my ability to access certain sites/ports. :-(

Probably only administratively.  In practice, it's usually trivial to 
bypass most institutional firewalls, short of those few that are 
configured as a full-on block for everything.  You can VPN via various 
protocols, such as HTTPS and DNS, for instance.   Though there can 
occasionally be folks managing firewalls that will take umbrage at 
anyone that expose the flaws in the local security assumptions.  I just 
drill out via an iPad and cellular carrier.  That's less controversial 
than a tunnel bypass, as far as the folks running the network firewall 
are usually concerned.

> and what I searched on, was several iterations of search, date, file.
> I did see one that was kind of close but not quite what was needed.

Probably just date-related and date-formatting search keywords, given 
that's what you're after.   SEARCH itself doesn't care what you're 
after and pretty much anything within the syntax constraints of DCL 
will work, and SEARCH usually works with files.  (Not that I've even 
tried using SEARCH with a mailbox...)

Distilling down the question — much like creating a reproducer for a 
software error — tends to help clarify the question, and is often a 
much quicker way to get to a solution.


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