You can search for any word or phrase on this Web site by typing the word or phrase into the "Search" query form on the main page and then clicking on the "Search" button. The search engine will return a list of documents matching your query. Click on the underlined title to go directly to the item.

Searches produce a list of files that contain the word or phrase no matter where they appear in the text. This list gives some rules for constructing queries:

1. Consecutive words are treated as a phrase; they must appear in the same order within a matching document.
2. You may type your query in uppercase or lowercase. (Queries are case insensitive.)
3. You may search for any word except for those on the exception list (common words, such as a, an, and, as), which are ignored during a search.
4. Punctuation mars, such as the period (.), colon(:), semicolon (;), and comma (,) are ignored during a search.
5. You may insert Boolean operators (AND, OR, and NOT) and the proximity operator (NEAR) to specify additional search information. Examples
6. The wildcard character (*) can match words with a given prefix. The query esc* matches the terms "ESC", "escape," and so on. Examples
7. The NOT operator can be used only after an AND operator in queries; it can be used only to exclude pages that match a previous search.
8. You can add parentheses to group expressions in a query. The expressions in parentheses are evaluated before the rest of the query. Examples