Dear Costas,
 
I sent your commands to the HP3000-l listserv at
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pasted your commands into my e-mail message we can rule out a typo
as being the culprit, and since you received the output stats message, I
 
believe we can rule out any SMTP gateway problems.  However, the one
difference in the stats message and the actual output file is size, so
that may be the problem.  The size of the output message for your
commands is 45k, so you may want to see if your system admin has
set some sort of file limitation on incoming mail.  I will send you a
copy
of the output directly to you, which will indicate whether that is
indeed
the problem.  If by chance there is a limitation on incoming mail, then
you may want to break your query down into several parts (searching
just for 1996 information created a file that was 32k).
 
One further note, your query took 33.876 seconds.  I believe there is a
1
minute limitation on processing time for listserv queries, so that may
come into play on other queries.  However, I believe the message the
listserv sends back warns you of this limit.
 
Please let me know how it goes.
 
Regards,
Billy
 
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William E. Rowland
Manager of Information Systems
Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Corp.
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709
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>----------
>From:  Costas Anastassiades[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Tuesday, September 24, 1996 10:59 AM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list HP3000-L
>Subject:       Help : Searching the HP3000-l archive
>
>While looking at our options regarding our
>TRANSACT/ix,VPLUS,TURBOIMAGE,SUPERDEX in-house applications, I thought
>it
>would be a good idea to Search the HP3000-l for 'Client Server'. I did
>and
>I got this reply message :
>
>>  database search dd=rules
>File "DATABASE OUTPUT" has been mailed to you under separate cover.
>
>Summary of resource utilization
>-------------------------------
> CPU time:       33.876 sec                Device I/O:     4734
> Overhead CPU:    6.350 sec                Paging I/O:      578
> CPU model:        9221                    DASD model:     3380
>
>
>I assume this means that the actual results are on the way. But I've
>tried
>this twice in two days and  received the above reply both times but
>nothing
>else. Any pointers as to where the problem or goof is ?
>
>This is the search I sent, based on an informative post with a similar
>subject by Rowland Billy on 21/6/96 :
>
>//  JOB
>database search dd=rules
>//rules dd *
>search "client server" in HP3000-l since January 1995
>index
>print
>
>TIA
>
>Costas Anastassiades,
>IS Department,
>INTRACOM SA,
>Athens-Greece
>