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HELP:  Main Menu

C - filter <C>aptured search files - create a new, processed (.PRO)
    file containing just database records, labeled and numbered

S - <S>ift filtered records - view filtered records, record by record,
    optionally write (keep) ones you select to one or more new files

K - select records by <K>ey words - place key words on a search
    request form and create a new file of records satisfying the
    request

R - <R>enumber record files - renumber record labels in files such as
    "kept" record files which otherwise would be out of order

F - <F>ormat changes - reformat TAGed records to remove hard carriage
    returns within paragraphs; insert page breaks every X records

V - <V>iew files - browse with cursor control keys, search for text,
    step through labeled records (if any)

HELP:  Filter Captured Files Sub-Menu

These three options let you filter captured search files to create
new processed files with just the records, labeled and numbered.
Menus, prompts, commands and other information will be cleaned out.

Select 1 to filter all online types in your captured search file to
a single new file.  Select 2 to let yourself specify up to five
online types and filter just the types you specify to a single new
file.  Select 3 to let yourself specify up to five online types,
specify separate files for each type, and filter records of each
specified type to its own separate file.

HELP:  Format Changes Sub-Menu

PostSearch KI lets you automate certain reformatting tasks.

Pressing 1 lets you reformat TAGed records to remove hard carriage
returns within paragraphs.  This feature is dependent on the presence
of TAGs in the file to be reformatted.  Knowledge Index displays TAGeg
records with the TAG option added to your type command.

Pressing 2 lets you automate the insertion of page breaks.  Logical
page breaks between records will be hard-coded at intervals you
specify.  This feature is dependent on the presence of record labels
in the format produced by PostSearch's filter.  You would want to use
this feature only with filtered or kept record files.

HELP:  Filter All Captured Types To One File

This option filters all online types in your captured search file to
one new file without altering your search file.  Menus, prompts,
commands and other information will be cleaned out.

Enter the name of your captured search file, e.g., SEARCH.LOG.  Case
is not sensitive.  If the file is in the current directory, only the
file name is needed.  If it is in another directory, give the full
drive and path.

The filter uses the base file name of the search file plus .PRO
(processed) for the output file.  Using .PRO for the input file name
will generate the error of both files having the same name.

HELP:  Filter Specified Captured Types To One File

This option lets you specify up to five online types and filter them
to one new file without altering your search file.  Menus, prompts,
commands and other information will be cleaned out.

To begin, enter the name of your captured search file, e.g.
SEARCH.LOG.  Case is not sensitive.  If the file is in the current
directory, only the file name is needed.  If it is in another
directory, give the full drive and path.  Other prompts follow.

The filter uses the base file name of the search file plus .PRO
(processed) for the output file.  Using .PRO for the input file name
will generate the error of both files having the same name.

HELP:  Use Default Configuration, Specified Types to One File

The program has detected the presence of a default configuration file.
This file sets up default online record types you typically wish to
have included in the filtered record file.  If these are what you want
right now, press "Y" or "y" for "Yes".

If you wish to choose different types, you have that option here.
Press "N" or "n" for "No" to tell the program you wish to specify a
non-default set of record types.  If you press "N", the default types
will be cleared from your screen and you will be able to enter the
types you want right now.  This will not alter your default
configuration; the default configuration will still be operative
later, unless you otherwise alter or remove the configuration file.

HELP:  Filter Specified Captured Types To Separate Files

This option lets you specify up to five online types, specify separate
files for each type, and filter records of each specified type to its
own separate file.

To begin, enter the name of your captured search file, e.g.,
SEARCH.LOG.  Case is not sensitive.  If the file is in the current
directory, only the file name is needed.  If it is in another
directory, give the full drive and path.  Other prompts follow.

The filter uses the base file name of the search file plus .PRO
(processed) for the output file.  Using .PRO for the input file name
will generate the error of both files having the same name.

HELP:  Use Default Configuration, Specified Types to Separate Files

The program has detected the presence of a default configuration file
which sets up default online record types you typically wish to have
included in the filtered record files.  If these are what you want
right now, press "Y" or "y" for "Yes".  If you wish to choose
different types, you have the option to press "N" or "n" for "No".
The default types will be cleared and you will be able to enter the
types you want right now.  This will not alter you default
configuration; the default configuration will still be operative
later, unless you otherwise alter or remove the configuration file.

In either case, you will need to specify the separate files for each
specified type, because there are no default filtered file names.

HELP:  Sift Filtered Record Files

As used here, sifting means viewing filtered records one at a time,
navigating among the records in the filtered record file, and
optionally writing (keeping) ones you select to a new file or some to
one file and others to other files.

To begin, enter the name of your filtered record file.  For sifting to
work, the file must be a filtered one, with everthing but the records
filtered out and the records labeled and numbered at the left margin
in the form Record - X, replacing the X with numbers.  For this
reason, PostSearch requires that the file you specify have a .PRO
extension, the extension all of its filters automatically give to
filtered files they produce making them compatible with the sifter.

HELP:  Saved Index Base File Name

While sifting in a prior session, you had the option to save the
record index the sifter must build and your place in the filtered
record file to a disk file by pressing F10.  If you did that for the
record file you want to sift now, you can use the index file to save
reindexing time and automatically begin your new sifting session at
the record you were viewing when you saved the index.

The index file has the same base name as the record file.  If you
remember the base file name, you can just type it.  If you don't,
pressing Alt-F5 will call a list of saved index files in the current
directory. In the list, you can highlight the index file you want and
press <enter> to select it.

HELP:   Sifting; Browse/Navigate/Keep Records

Browse the currently displayed record using the Up Arrow, Down Arrow,
PgUp, PgDn, Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn keys.

Navigate among records in the file with the N(ext), P(revious),
F(irst), L(ast), and J(ump) commands.  Jump will ask you the number of
the record to jump to and will tell you the range of valid numbers.

Keep, K, lets you write the currently displayed record to a new file
you will be able to specify.  Follow DOS conventions to specify the
file when prompted.  Keep Express, Alt-K, writes the currently
displayed record to the same file as the last kept record.  Keep List,
Ctrl-K, shows which records you've kept already in this session.

HELP:  Keeping Records

As used here, keeping means writing the currently displayed record to
a new file.  The record file being sifted is not altered; records not
kept are not deleted, so the term keep is a bit of a misnomer.

You are prompted to give the name of the file to which you want to
write the record.  Follow DOS conventions.  You can give a full path
if you wish to place the file in a subdirectory other than the current
one.  You can keep records to one or more files.

The orientation lines near the top of the screen tell the name of the
file to which the last kept record was written, and if you want to
keep the current record to that file, you can use Keep Express, Alt-K.

HELP:  Select Records by Key Words

This feature lets you place key words on a search request form and
write a new file of the records which satisfy the request.  You will
be prompted to fill in the form on your screen.

The form will have three nests of search terms.  Within each nest, the
terms will be related by the OR operator.  Between the first and
second nests is the AND operator.  Between the second and third nests
is the NOT operator.

Your input file will not be altered.  You must use a filtered record
file (.PRO) in which the records are labeled and numbered in the form
Record - X at the left margin.

HELP:  Saved Index Base File Name

To select records by key words (K at Main Menu) or sift a filtered
record file (S at Main Menu), PostSearch must build a record index.
If you selected records by key words from the same file before, the
index was saved to disk.  If you sifted the same file before, you had
the option to save the index by pressing F10 while sifting.  You can
use a saved index file to bypass reindexing time.

The index file has the same base name as the record file.  If you
remember the base file name, you can just type it.  If you don't,
pressing Alt-F5 will call a list of saved index files in the current
directory. In the list, you can highlight the index file you want and
press <enter> to select it.

HELP:  First Key Word, First Nest

A key word is required in this term field.

You may type a key word of up to 20 characters.   Phrases with spaces
are not supported (for example, "glacial lake").

Truncation is supported using the asterisk.  For example, typing
glaci* will hit on glacier, glaciers, glacial, etc.

This term will be related to any others you specify in this nest by
the OR operator.  Terms are not required in the second or third term
fields.  If you have a null term in the second field of this nest, the
third term of this nest automatically will also be made null.

HELP:  Second or Third Term, First Nest

A key word is optional in this term field.

This term will be related to others in this nest by the OR operator.
Terms are not required in the second or third term fields.  If you
have a null term in the second field of this nest, the third term
of this nest automatically will also be made null.

You may type a key word of up to 20 characters.  Phrases with spaces
are not supported (for example, "glacial lake").

Truncation is supported using the asterisk.  For example, typing
glaci* will hit on glacier, glaciers, glacial, etc.

HELP:  First Key Word, Second Nest

You are not required to have any terms in this nest.  Terms within
this nest will be related to each other by the OR operator and the
whole nest will be related to the other nests by the AND operator.

If you choose to have a term in the first field of this nest, you are
not required to have a term in either the second or third field.

If you have a null term in a field, each succeeding term field in this
nest automatically will be made null.  If the first term is null, the
second and third will be made null.  If the second term is null, the
third term will be made null.  The length of terms, phrases with
spaces and truncation are treated here the same as in the first nest.

HELP:  Second or Third Key Word, Second Nest

A key word is optional in this term field.

This term will be related to others in this nest by the OR operator,
and the whole nest will be related to the other nests by the AND
operator.  Terms are not required in the second or third term fields.
If you have a null term in the second field of this nest, the third
term of this nest automatically will also be made null.

You may type a key word of up to 20 characters.  Phrases with spaces
are not supported (for example, "glacial lake").  Truncation is
supported using the asterisk.  For example, typing glaci* will hit on
glacier, glaciers, glacial, etc.

HELP:  First Key Word, Third Nest

You are not required to have any terms in this nest.  Terms within
this nest will be related to each other by the OR operator and the
whole nest will be related to the other nests by the NOT operator.

If you choose to have a term in the first field of this nest, you are
not required to have a term in either the second or third field.

If you have a null term in a field, each succeeding term field in this
nest automatically will be made null.  If the first term is null, the
second and third will be made null.  If the second term is null, the
third term will be made null.  The length of terms, phrases with
spaces and truncation are treated here the same as in the first nest.

HELP:  Second or Third Key Word, Third Nest

A key word is optional in this term field.

This term will be related to others in this nest by the OR operator,
and the whole nest will be related to the other nests by the NOT
operator.  Terms are not required in the second or third term fields.
If you have a null term in the second field of this nest, the third
term of this nest automatically will also be made null.

You may type a key word of up to 20 characters.  Phrases with spaces
are not supported (for example, "glacial lake").  Truncation is
supported using the asterisk.  For example, typing glaci* will hit on
glacier, glaciers, glacial, etc.

HELP:  Select File

Here you may specify a "select file," which will be the output file of
records satisfying your search request.  Follow DOS file name
conventions to specify a file name.  The field where you can type the
output file name allows twelve characters so you may use up to eight
characters for the base file name, a dot to separate the base file
name from the extension, and an extension of up to three letters.

To protect your input file, the program will not let you assign to the
output file the same name as the input file.

When you specify a file and press <enter> or fill the field, the
search will begin and hit records will be written to the output file.

HELP:  Renumber Record Files

As used here, a record file means a file with everything but the
records filtered out and the records labeled and numbered in the form
Record - X at the left margin, replacing the X with numbers.

All of the PostSearch filters produce record files in numerical order,
but after sifting or editing you might have record files in which the
numbering no longer is in numerical order.  This option will read your
record file and write a new file changing the numbers to numerical
order, without changing anything else, and without altering your input
record file.

Avoid using the same name for both the input and output file.

HELP:  Reformat TAGed Records

This option lets you reformat TAGged records to remove hard carriage
returns within paragraphs.  Knowledge Index displays TAGed records
when you use the TAG option added to your TYPE command.  Reformatting
requires TAGed records.

While this feature is designed to work with filtered and kept record
files, you may use it with your unprocessed, captured search file; if
you do, don't be alarmed by the record counter remaining contant at 0.

Enter a file name with some extension other than .FMT.  The
reformatter uses the base file name of the input file plus a .FMT
extension for the output file.

HELP:  File for Page Break Insertion

This feature lets you automate the insertion of page breaks.  Logical
page breaks between records will be hard-coded at intervals you
specify.  This feature is dependent on the presence of record labels
in the format produced by PostSearch's filter.  You would want to use
this feature only with filtered or kept record files.

Enter the name of your record file, e.g., SEARCH.PRO.  Case is not
sensitive.

The page breaker uses the base file name of the record file plus .BRK
for the output file.  Using .BRK for the input file name will generate
the error of both files having the same name.

HELP:  Number of Records Before Break

You must specify the interval at which logical page breaks will be
inserted.  The range of permissible intervals is 1 to 99.

One handy use of this feature is to print as many records as will fit
on each page and insure that the next record begins printing on a new
page.  Using this feature is much faster and less tedious than
manually inserting page breaks with a word processor.

If you want every record to begin printing on a new page, specify 1.
If any record is more than one page long, your word processor will be
able to print it from page to page, and then begin the next record on
a new page.

HELP:  File Viewer

This option lets you view files.  The file viewer performs no
processing and does not alter the files you view.

The availability of the file viewer lets you review the contents of a
search file, a filtered record file, or other kind of file without
having to exit the program or drop to DOS to invoke an outside file
viewer.

The file viewer provides a text search facility on the F3 key and a
record stepper on the F8 key to step through a record file record by
record.  A record file compatible with the record stepper has records
labeled and numbered at the left margin in the form Record - X.

HELP:  Viewing/Searching/Record Stepping A File

Browse the file using the Up Arrow, Down Arrow, PgUp, PgDn, Ctrl-PgUp
and Ctrl-PgDn keys.

To search for text, press F3 and type the text in the input field that
will be presented.

To move to a line in the file, press F4 and type the line number in
the input field that will be presented.  A prompt will tell the range
of valid line numbers.

To step through the file bringing the next Record - X label to the top
line (if the file is a labeled record file), press F8.

HELP:  Default Search File Extension

If you typically use the same extension when naming captured
search files, setting up the extension as a default here will
save you the trouble of having to type it each time you wish to
filter search files.  The program will supply it for you.  For
example, if you usually use the extension .LOG, you may type .log
or .LOG here.  Case is not sensitive.  At the current prompt,
type just the extension without the dot (.)  The prompt already
assumes the dot.

HELP:  Default Types To Filter To One File

Pressing C at the Main Menu presents a sub-menu at which you might
choose to filter up to five specified online types to one file. You
can specify L, M, S, F or K types.  If you typically want the same
types, you can save yourself the trouble of having to re-specify
them each time by setting them up as defaults here.  Then the
program will supply them for you.  If you want to set up less than
five default types, fill in the ones you want, and after that just
press <enter> to leave the remaining ones blank.

HELP:  Default Types To Filter To Separate Files

Pressing C at the Main Menu presents a sub-menu at which you might
choose to filter up to five specified online types to separate
files. You can specify L, M, S, F or K types. If you typically want
the same types, you can save yourself the trouble of having to
re-specify them each time by setting them up as defaults here.
Then the program will supply them for you. If you want to set up
less than five default types, fill in the ones you want, and after
that just press <enter> to leave the remaining ones blank.