>
> At 5:42 AM -0500 3/11/99, Cody Kwok wrote:
> >Hi , I'm just wondering if someone can enlighten me on boolean
> >searches. I can't translate an altavista query with
> >required and optional keywords into a boolean query, e.g. in
> >"+linux +intel pc" linux and intel are required but pc is
> >optional.
>
> "(linux and intel) or pc"
>
> As it says on http://www.htdig.org/TODO.html, we'd like to add Alta-Vista
> style parsing as well.
>
>
> -Geoff Hutchison
> Williams Students Online
> http://wso.williams.edu/
Sorry but this is not quite right - if pc is optional - then the query should be:
(linux and intel and pc) or (linux and intel)
(although unless there is some weighting trickery involved why not: linux and intel)
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