On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 09:57:42AM -0700, Peter Karman wrote:
> 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.

Can that work?  If "?" isn't in WordCharacters it would be removed
from the query and then you wouldn't have any query words and swish
should complain.

My favorite is:

    not asdlalkdiwis93js

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org

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