EBAY???

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
Date: Mon Mar 8 14:23:25 2004

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Marvin Johnston wrote:

>
> The Ebay search engine is a bad joke. One of the searches I used to use
> was:
>
> (s-100,altair,imsai) -canon -samsung -minolta
>
> They hyphen is not recognized, and instead of bringing up the stuff I am
> interested in, 521 items get brought up including junk like "70`S AND
> 80`S AND 90`S 100 baseball and football cards".
>

You need to quote anything you're using as a literal:
("s-100",altair,imsai)

g.
Received on Mon Mar 08 2004 - 14:23:25 GMT

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