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- Version: 0.85, wais-8-b5.
- Date: Sun May 10 1992
- Author: Jonny Goldman <jonathan@Think.COM>
-
- Use this window to obtain information from one or more sources available in
- your WAIS system.
-
- If you have opened a questions that already exists, it appears in the "Tell
- me about:" box.
-
- To ask a new question, type search words in the "Tell me about:" box. These
- should be words that relate as closely as possible to the topic you are
- interested in. They don't have to form a grammatical sentence, and they
- don't have to be in any particular order.
-
- To choose the source or sources to be searched for the information, click
- on Add Source. A popup menu displays the list of available sources. Click
- on the source you want to highlight it, then click on the "Ok" button; this
- adds it to the "In Sources:" list. To delete a source, click on it in the
- "In Sources:" list so that it is highlighted, then click on the Delete
- Source button.
-
- When you have chosen the sources you want, click on the Search button to
- start the search. The documents that WAIS finds are listed in the
- "Resulting documents:" list. The number to the left of each document is its
- "score"; the higher the score, the closer the document matched your
- question.
-
- To view a document, click on its name in the list so that it is
- highlighted, and then click on the View button. The document appears in a
- window. Click on the Add Section button to add this file to the "Similar
- to:" list, which is described below. Click on Find Key to highlight the
- search words that this document matches. Click on Save to File to save the
- document to a file; a dialog box appears that prompts for a filename.
- Click on Done to delete the window.
-
- To save a result to a file, click on its name in the list so that it is
- highlghted, and then click on the Save... button. A file requester will
- appear. Simply fill it in and press "OK".
-
- To view one of the sources in the "In Sources:" list, double click on its
- name in the list. A Source View window will appear. To remove this
- window, press "Cancel". If you wish to change this source, edit its data
- and press "Save".
-
- To view one of the documents in the "Similar To:" list, double click on its
- name in the list. The document will appear in a window. All the actions
- associated with document windows apply.
-
- Normally the Abort button is "fuzzed", but during Search or Retrieval you
- may click on this button to abort the Search or Retrieval operation.
-
- If you want to fine-tune your search, add documents to the "Similar to:"
- list. Adding a document to this list essentially tells WAIS to "get me
- more documents like this one." To add a document, click on it in the
- "Resulting documents:" list, then click on Add Document. To remove a
- document, click on it in the "Similar to:" list, then click on Delete
- Document. When you have the documents you want in the "Similar to:" list,
- click on Search to rerun the search.
-
- Click on the Done button when you are finished with your search. If this is
- a new question, a dialog box will appear, asking if you want to save the
- question to a file. If you do, it will subsequently appear in your
- Questions list in the main X WAIS window.
-