Re: FW: Anzio Lists Question

["David T. Jones" <djones@xxxxxxxxxx>]

These aren't in anyway related to Anzio, per se, but

At 04:32 PM 1/19/00 -0800, Jennifer Woods wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Brent Bernau 
>> 1)  What is the maximum number of conditions you can string together for
>> one Boolean search?

100 (or really 99) unless they've changed it with R2000 and not told us.

>> 2)  Is there a way to eliminate duplicate entries after appending a list?

Sort the list by record number and then resort it the way you wanted it in
the first place.

>> 3)  The "does not have" Boolean connector doesn't seem to work for me.  I
>> need to eliminate medical jurisprudence titles from the jurisprudence
>> bibliography.  I ran the search, "Location has tkf and subject has
>> jurisprudence and subject does not have medical" (all fields) and
>> retrieved zero records.  Yet I know we have hundreds of titles on
>> jurisprudence that don't have the word medical anywhere in them.  What am
>> I missing?

You're not missing anything, you've seem to have found a bug. The bug only
seems to appear (and ALWAYS appears) when you use the "1 > All fields do
not have" option. I did searches for:

No Hits (with all fields option):

LOCATION has "main" AND SUBJECT has intelligence AND SUBJECT does not have
military
LOCATION has "main" AND SUBJECT = intelligence tests AND SUBJECT does not
have military

and Lots of hits with no 'military' to be found:
 
LOCATION has "main" AND SUBJECT has intelligence
LOCATION has "main" AND SUBJECT = intelligence tests

Better report it to III and have them figure out what's wrong.


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