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=1 Help: Comprehensive Search
Entering a search term in the Comprehensive Search Field will result
in a search being performed on all fields of the database simultaneously,
retrieving all records containing the specified search term. It is
useful for finding all references to a specific term, or in searching
for obscure terms. For a more refined search, use one of the following
search fields, where the search is confined to the contents of that
particular field.
See below for further information on search operators.
You can access commands on the command line by pressing the Function
(F1..F10) key associated with the command, or by pressing \4TAB\0 and using
the \4\x1A\0 and \4\x1B\0 keys to highlight a command. Execute the command by
pressing \4\x11─┘\0.
The command line options are:
\4 Help \0 On-line help.
\4 Browse \0 List all the indexed words and fields.
\4 Display \0 Display the found documents.
\4 Query \0 Change the logical connections between search
fields and enables you to load, save or clear
search criteria.
\4 Options \0 Change parameters and defaults for CD Answer.
\4 Quit \0 Go back to the Main Menu.
To search for a document, enter your search criteria into one of
the search fields and then press \4\x11─┘\0. You can use the
following operators when you enter search criteria:
\4 AND (+) \0 The search terms must occur together in the
field for a match.
\4 OR (,) \0 Either one or the other or both of the
search terms must occur in the field for a match.
\4 NOT (#) \0 Use NOT to locate all documents that do not
contain the search term. You can also use NOT
with AND and OR, for example BOSTON AND NOT
BROOKLINE.
\4 WITHOUT \0 This is the same as AND NOT.
\4 ADJ x \0 The search terms must occur within x words
of on another for a match. x is a number. For
example THIS ADJ5 THAT will find all documents
in which the word THIS appears within 5 words of
the word THAT. It is order dependent.
\4 SAME \0 The search terms must occur in the same
field for a match.
\4 SAMEs \0 The search terms must occur in the same
sentence.
\4 NEAR x \0 The search terms must occur within x terms
of one another in the field, but the order is
irrelevant.
\4 NEARS x \0 The search terms must occur within x
sentences of each other but the order is
irrelevant.
\4 * \0 Use the asterisk to replace any number of
characters in the search term with a wildcard,
for example SMITH* or *BURG. You can include
only two asterisks per search term.
\4 ? \0 Use the question mark to replace one
character in the search term, for example SM?TH.
You can include as many occurrences as you want.
\4 LIKE term \0 Searches for term using the phonetic index.
For example, LIKE Mayer searches for Meier,
Mayer and Meyer.
\4 < x \0 Searches for less than x.
\4 > x \0 Searches for greater than x.
\4 <= x \0 Searches for less than or equal to x.
\4 >= x \0 Searches for greater than or equal to x.
\4 x TO y \0 Searches for the range from x to y, inclusive.
\4 x .. y \0 Searches for the range from x to y, inclusive.
\4 <> x \0 Searches for not equal to x.
\4 NONE \0 Searches for all documents for which this
field is empty.
\4 ALL \0 Searches for all documents that contain data
in this field.
Double quotation marks surrounding a search term disable
recognition of logical operators (for example "AND" searches for
the word AND). In addition, double quotes instruct CD Answer to
look in the line index (if one exists) before looking in the word index.
=2 Help: Title
Title of the conference or exhibition. It is possible to search on any
word or combination of words. Refer to the Browse Index (press F2)
under Entries for a complete list of all conferences in the database.
See below for further information on search operators.
You can access commands on the command line by pressing the Function
(F1..F10) key associated with the command, or by pressing \4TAB\0 and using
the \4\x1A\0 and \4\x1B\0 keys to highlight a command. Execute the command by
pressing \4\x11─┘\0.
The command line options are:
\4 Help \0 On-line help.
\4 Browse \0 List all the indexed words and fields.
\4 Display \0 Display the found documents.
\4 Query \0 Change the logical connections between search
fields and enables you to load, save or clear
search criteria.
\4 Options \0 Change parameters and defaults for CD Answer.
\4 Quit \0 Go back to the Main Menu.
To search for a document, enter your search criteria into one of
the search fields and then press \4\x11─┘\0. You can use the
following operators when you enter search criteria:
\4 AND (+) \0 The search terms must occur together in the
field for a match.
\4 OR (,) \0 Either one or the other or both of the
search terms must occur in the field for a match.
\4 NOT (#) \0 Use NOT to locate all documents that do not
contain the search term. You can also use NOT
with AND and OR, for example BOSTON AND NOT
BROOKLINE.
\4 WITHOUT \0 This is the same as AND NOT.
\4 ADJ x \0 The search terms must occur within x words
of on another for a match. x is a number. For
example THIS ADJ5 THAT will find all documents
in which the word THIS appears within 5 words of
the word THAT. It is order dependent.
\4 SAME \0 The search terms must occur in the same
field for a match.
\4 SAMEs \0 The search terms must occur in the same
sentence.
\4 NEAR x \0 The search terms must occur within x terms
of one another in the field, but the order is
irrelevant.
\4 NEARS x \0 The search terms must occur within x
sentences of each other but the order is
irrelevant.
\4 * \0 Use the asterisk to replace any number of
characters in the search term with a wildcard,
for example SMITH* or *BURG. You can include
only two asterisks per search term.
\4 ? \0 Use the question mark to replace one
character in the search term, for example SM?TH.
You can include as many occurrences as you want.
\4 LIKE term \0 Searches for term using the phonetic index.
For example, LIKE Mayer searches for Meier,
Mayer and Meyer.
\4 < x \0 Searches for less than x.
\4 > x \0 Searches for greater than x.
\4 <= x \0 Searches for less than or equal to x.
\4 >= x \0 Searches for greater than or equal to x.
\4 x TO y \0 Searches for the range from x to y, inclusive.
\4 x .. y \0 Searches for the range from x to y, inclusive.
\4 <> x \0 Searches for not equal to x.
\4 NONE \0 Searches for all documents for which this
field is empty.
\4 ALL \0 Searches for all documents that contain data
in this field.
Double quotation marks surrounding a search term disable
recognition of logical operators (for example "AND" searches for
the word AND). In addition, double quotes instruct CD Answer to
look in the line index (if one exists) before looking in the word index.
=3 Hel