There's probably a better way, but I just do a search I know will return 
everything:

foo=(not ?)

where foo is a metaname in my index where I know the ? character is not 
present.

Tac wrote on 07/06/2004 11:38 AM:
> Is it possible to return everything in a search?   Or just set a limit and
> sort options, and get all the results, without a search pattern?  I guess I
> could search for something that returns everything ("+2b -2b" or "2b OR (NOT
> 2B)", but perhaps there's a simpler way.
>  
> Thx,
>  
> Tac
>  
> 
> 
> 
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