BleepingComputer.com: Archiving In Outlook 2000

Having never used the archiving facility in Outlook 2000 I was persuaded to use this facility as a backup mechanism for sent items. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
I archived the appropriate folder and the old entries disappeared in due course.
However when I accessed the archived folder it contained nothing.
I found the archive.pst folder which had grown in size so I assume the sent items have been transferred.
The missing link is how do I get Outlook to read the archive file??
I guess it is something simple but any help would be appreciated

Regards
Pete

I found this

Outlook 2000 Archiving and Rules
http://jrm.phys.ksu.edu/outlook-archive.html

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