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Neubase MANUAL (this file: neu.man) Neubase version 4.2 smart calendar notepad: automatic and Hyper searches copyright 1990 by Peter Neuendorffer Neubase is a Calendar Notepad with smart searching. For IBM and compatibles. When you enter thoughts or news into Neubase, you are creating an integrated information system. New in Version 4.2: F2 HOTKEY goes to Search. Imbedded, Non-Imbedded Searches (from Settings) The author uses Neubase myself to enter in Appointments, a personal diary- for computer notes, and a Journal of daily news headlines over the past three years. Once installed, Neubase allows flexible moving of lines of data between it's three areas, Appointments, Journal, and Index. They are all seperate from each other, but exactly the same options are available in each of these files for every year of Neubase data installed. Run from DOS: "README" "INSTALL" "NEU STARTUP" "NEU" To register Neubase send $20.00 money order to Peter Neuendorffer 1399 Commonwealth Avenue Apt 11 Allston MA 02134. Support: Voice 617-789-4516 (7PM-11PM E.S.T) Modem Channel One 617-354-8873. You need: IBM PC, AT, XT Ps-2 or compatible. 640k RAM . CGA Graphics Card recommended. Color or Monochrome monitor. Hard disk Serial mouse if desired Printer if desired Installation: Run <install pathname> from a floppy or <year> from hard disk containing Neubase. Quick Reference is at the end of this manual. There are three areas in Neubase for each year : APPOINTMENTS DIARY JOURNAL The main thing in Neubase is to enter in and edit your data from a Day page, when you have the bar up reading "Files Edit moDe Options" This MAIN MENU is used with Arrow Keys, 1st letters, Enter key,or Mouse Options: The Settings screen tailors Search or Match or Hyper searches Also, you may get rid of the (slowing down) mouse by choosing Acceler. or you can get rid of the "highlight <Y>es...." with Highset or for ADVANCED USERS: dispense with the main menu with "menubar". (typing the first three letters of most command Words) When you go to find things in Neubase, you may call up a date by pressing <ESC> from the main menu . Then, for ex, enter Jan 10. Search or Match or Hyper search to group similar information together . The INDEX allows you to put in words for each file that you think you use often. You can rearrange the index at any time. (Neubase keeps track of the index, and the "All" index menu choice is only if you reboot out of Neubase, or have a power failure.) Searches are speeded up by adding index topics, but they are not required. =======================INSTALLATION preview========================= Please read installation section in this manual before running Neubase. By running the installation program <install pathname>, or <year> you will be formatting the Neubase datafiles for each year. WARNING: Rebooting your Machine (cntrl-alt-del) or (powerswitch) to leave Neubase will damage Neubase datafiles, as Neubase's index will not be updated. ==========================INSTALLATION=========================== Please follow these steps carefully. To install datafiles for one year of Neubase: From a floppy: 1. insert Neubase program disk and type <install c:\neubase><ENTER> or substitute the drive and directory you wish to have NEUBASE PROGRAM installed. This will be where you run the program Neu.exe usually. 2. You will be asked what year you are formatting you will be asked where you wish to install your years DATA pick a subdirectory of the root directory: ex: for 1990 your DATA path might be <C:\CAL1990>. 3. When returned to the DOS prompt from "Install" or "Year", you should move to your Neubase PROGRAM directory and type <NEU STARTUP> YOu will be asked to type in your DATA directory from above again, so Neubase knows where to load DATA from. From hard disk: 1. move to directory on hard disk containing Neubase files and type <YEAR><ENTER> you will be asked what year you are formatting you will be asked where you wish to install your years DATA (pick a subdirectory of the root directory: ex: for 1990 your DATA path might be <C:\CAL1990>. 2. When returned to the DOS prompt from "Install" or "Year", you should move to your Neubase PROGRAM directory and type <NEU STARTUP> YOu will be asked to type in your DATA directory from above again, so Neubase knows where to load DATA from. <C>olor to configure for color = color graphics card w/color monitor. <M>onochrome =no color graphics card or monochrome monitor. You may alter this later from the color system, or by re-running <NEU STARTUP> at any time. -------------------------------------- Neubase has mouse support, but only for the Serial mouse. If you are using a serial (emphasize, SERIAL) mouse, such as the Logitech or Microsoft mice, you may choose <Y>es for the mouse question to install the mouse in Neubase. Neubase assumes that you have your mouse.sys or mouse.com installed but will only have problems if you are using a BUS mouse and have answered <Y>es. Thus, if you are using a bus mouse, say on the PS-2, it is best to answer <N>o to the mouse question. ------------------------------------------------ (installation cont....) Next time you run Neubase, you type <NEU><ENTER>. To change the default year, you must run the "year" program once for each new year. You then may run <NEU STARTUP> to link in this new year for the startup of each Neubase session. ===================Neubase==================== It's as simple to negotiate Neubase options as resting your hand on the computer desk and typing various keys located on an AT keyboard between the regualar keyboard and the "number keypad". A list of hotkeys that allow you to get around Neubase are detailed on the next page: You may reach any option in Neubase from the main menu. Move the arrow keys to the box and item you wish, and press ENTER. ------------------------------- Every command appearing on the f1 screen from the main menu (except actual use of word "date") may also be implemented from the command prompt. Simple press Escape from the main box menu. You may in fact turn off the main menu by choosing OPTIONS menu, and Menu bar option. (-----Neubase :using text commands..... Now you type in all commands to Neubase in WORDS, rather than moving arrow keys around the main menu. If you lose your main menu, and want it back, press Escape to get it back. If you keep losing it, you may wish to try OPTIONS-Menu Bar <enter> again. F1 (Alt-H) Context sensitive help (from anywhere) F10 (Alt-I) A status screen showing index topics and whether you have enabled printing or putting your search on a text file. PGDN moves to next calendar day in the year PGUP moves to the last calendar day in the year. END moves to next calendar week in the year HOME moves back one calendar week in the year CTRL-PGDN (hold down Control key and then press Page Down key) switches between Appointments, Diary, and Journal files CTRL-PGUP (same as Control Page Down). Escape get back to a calendar day from the a search, or opt not to do something Neubase asks. ALT-X NEW HOT KEY TO LEAVE NEUBASE program. F5 While you are searching, you can get back to a day and make a command at the same time. ====================MOVING FROM Day to Day=============== If you wish to move to a date by name, From the main menu, Press the Escape keyu is up YOu will get a prompt "command". At this point you can type the date you wish to display, or edit. ex: <esc> <jan 1><enter> The format is Monthname <space> number. October 10 or Monthabbreviation <space> number. Oct 10 For example, at the main menu, press Escape or choose Edit-Date bar. At the "command" prompt, type <Jan 10><Enter>. Neubase should have moved to January 10 page in the current file. =====================COMMAND WORD MODE WITHIN NEUBASE============== Command word mode: You may disable the menus in fact, and ALWAYS work from the command prompt in Neubase. If you do so inadvertently, you can get back your menus at any time at the Command prompt by typing <ESCAPE> and then choosing Options-Menubar and pressing ENTER. The sudden loss of your main menu is always explained, in fact, by your inadvertently choosing this option at some point. Moving around menus in Neubase: Use the left and right arrow keys to select a menu, Files Edit Mode Options Then use the up and down arrow keys to select an option, and then press Enter. From each of the four menus, you can also execute an option by pressing the first letter of a menu selection in the menu box. Exit Neubase from the Files-Quit option. (go to the the Main menu, with the Escape key, move to Files box with left arrow key, press <Q>. ) Each time you run <Neu> to execute neu.exe, the main program, you are taken to the DAY PAGE.(after the opening screen) This is where you enter in data. Try pressing ESCAPE and typing <oct 31><ENTER>. Now you are in October 31. Hold down Control key and the PgeDown Key. Now you have switched files to the Diary file. Press Control and Page-up key at once. You are back in Appointments file, still in oct 31. The DAY PAGE is your home base, your main screen, where you will always return when you press <escape> key a number of times. DAY PAGE is a description for this screen, not an actual command. ==================SUMMARY OF THE DAYPAGE======WEEK AT GLANCE You may enter in up to 10 lines for every day for each of the three files (10 lines on Appointment page for Jan 10, for example, 10 lines on Diary page for Jan 10, and 10 lines on Journal page for Jan 10.) You can edit, copy and paste these lines from various options found in the Edit and Mode menus. You may see the current year's calendar (the file you are looking at not neccessarily the actual year) from the Neubase calendar menu choice. The Week option:A summary of a following weeks data may be displayed for the current file using the Week option from the Mode menu. from Week: -it is a TILED WINDOWING of the Week, like laying each day of week as if it was a playing card face up. - Downarrow to pile up next day. - UpArrow to peel off a day. (see last day underneath) - Escape = return to where you were before Week at glance. - Enter = exit to main program, but go to the TOP PAGE in VIEW Xpress gives you a menu to Move to the real world Today page, or page back a day or week. To enter in a line of your information in to a day in Neubase , select Edit, move the highlight bar to "Add", and press Enter. Once you have data in various days, you can search for it by using the Mode menu and selecting the Search, In general, the Settings selection can be used to set Printing on during searches, or a Text file of your search (always called caldump.txt) can be created on your disk drive while you are searching for something in Neubase. You may also select whether Neubase searches forward or backwards through the year. Suppose you are in Appointments . Every time you entered in a phone number on a date, you put the persons name and the word <phone> with their number. Now, in Neubase, you could search for <phone and Mary> to bring up Mary's phone number. Or, for example, in my news file, you might search for <earthquake or tornado or hurricane>. Any items mentioning either of these three would be found. In addition, lines found in a search can be expanded to view the entire page of data for that day. Index topics can be created or deleted for every file in Neubase. Once in place, a Topic is checked automatically by Neubase every time you enter in or edit a line in a day page. When you go to search for that topic, you are guaranteed much faster searches. The last few section have been intended as an overview. Detailed instructions may be found in the sections Editing in Nuebase, Searching in Nuebase, Indexing in Neubase. =============COLOR SYSTEM======================= From the main menu, move to Options with the right arrow key, and choose Color with the down arrow key. Press enter. The new menus you see are NOT the main program. You can't enter or process data here, but you can decide what colors Neubase will display from now on. You can rerun Color at any time, and if you re-do the Startup option (see installation section above) you will need to do so. These menus DO NOT work with hot keys, unlike the active menus in the regular part of Neubase. To see the results of a color change, you choose a box, choose a color, and press Enter. Then move to the left box and choose "factory" if you with to reset all colors to the factory settings, or "current" to restore colors to where they were when you went into the Color system this time, or "mono" to switch to monochrome. When your colors are as you wish them, choose Options, Exit, and presss Enter. You can decide to have your changes updated on disk then, if you wish. Once out of the color system, you can proceed with your current Neubase session. =============NEUBASE EDITING=============SAMPLE SESSION Here is a sample session to indicate how you can enter in lines of information into Neubase. Note you are always asked when you enter in a line of data (except in searches or index) if you wish to Highlight that line. These prompts can be disabled from the Options-High Set option on the main menu for your session. The Edit Menu: Move to the directory containing neu.exe Run <neu> Press any key. If it says "can't find datafiles", you may have not done installation properly. You would at this point enter in the FULL DIRECTORY PATH (no file name) containing your Neubase datafiles (the DATA directory you created when you ran "year" or "install"). for example, if you put 1990 data in c:\cal1990 when you ran "Year" or "Install", you should enter <c:\cal1990> ===========SAMPLE SESSION CONT================ You should get a main menu: Files Edit moDe Options Add Insert Replace Move Erase Highlight The date of the DAY page at the top left of the screen should coincide with today's real date. (assuming you have set your system clock in DOS). The current time should be at the top right. Note you are now working in ONE YEAR AT A TIME. You are in the Appointments file. (Edit menu options......... Add To add a line to the current day, press Enter, as the item "Add" should already be highlighted. If not, move to the Edit box (left right arrow keys) and move to Add. You will see a prompt "Add mode "Entry:" You can type in a line, and press enter. In all entry, the left arrow, right arrow, backspace, insert and delete, ctrl-cursor-right (to move to next word) and ctrl-cursor-left keys are active. If you decide not to enter the line you have typed, you may press ESCAPE to zero it out, then ENTER. Now press <N> to not HIghlight. Next time try <Y> to HIghlight? question. Now your line will have appeared in the Day Page for today, for appointments. You should have your menu back. Insert Now at the Menu, type "I". This is the first letter of the command insert. It is just as if you have moved the arrow key to highlight Insert, and chosen Insert with Enter. You will see a flashing arrow at the top of the window in the upper part of the screen. This indicates where you wish to insert a line. When you have more lines of data, you can move this arrow up and down with the up or down arrow keys, and press enter, or move the arrow with the NUMBER (not function key) of the line and press ENTER. You can now enter in the line to insert on the page, and press ENTER as before. Replace works like add, except that you can choose the line to replace by moving the blinking arrow up and down until it is even with the line you wish to edit. Then press enter. You can now press enter. Zeroing out the replace line and pressing enter will not change the line at all. ===================SAMPLE SESSION continued=============== Delete as before, move the menubar to Delete, press enter. Indicate the line you wish to delete by moving the blinking arrow up and down, then press ENTER. Answer Yes to delete by pressing the Yes key. If you answer Yes "copy to clipboard" now, the deleted line will be copied into Neubase's CLIPBOARD line (see clipboard, below). If you wish to get it back, from any page or file, you choose Add <ENTER> from the main menu, then type clip <ENTER>. You have now "added" the clipboard to the current page. (Editing menu options cont....... Move Move a line of data around on the same page. Try adding another line to your page first with the Add option. Now choose <MOVE> from the Edit menu by pressing the "m" key. 1. you move the blinking arrow to the line you wish to move. press enter. 2. now you move the lighted veresion of the line up and down to the line you wish it to be moved TO. Other lines will be bumped down when you move it. Erase Move the menu bar to Erase and press ENTER. Erases the entire page of data from the current day and file. You may abort with <N>. See Clipboard below to see how you may Unerase a page. Switching between Appointments, Diary , Journal. from virtually anwhere (except the Calendar option, or the Index), you can switch Neubase files by pressing CTRL-PGDN or CTRL-PGUP. Try it now. It won't hurt your data. Or at the main menu you may move to the FILES box, and type the first letter "a" or "d" or "j" to switch to the SAME DAY AND YEAR in each of the files (appointments, diary, or journal). ===============The NEUBASE CLIPBOARD============ The clipboard allows Copying, Pasting of lines and Pages of data in Neubase. Additionally, you may copy 49 character chuncks for external DOS text files. You can also retrieve deleted or erased lines if they are copied into the clipboard. From the Main Menu, choose Mode box, and type <C> for clipboard. You should get a single new menu: CLIPBOARD Paste Change Get Page Add Page File Get Import These commands relate in pairs of twos as shown below: Clipboard Paste option Change Get Page Add Page File Get Import (clipboard) Paste: The single clipboard line (appearing at right of screen, when you are in a Day Page), may be added to the current page. (clipboard) Change: ________________________ Type in your current clipboard line, or simply enter the NUMBER of the line you wish to COPY into the clipboard, and press enter. For example, if line 1 in the window of the day page said "Call Mary today". A call to Clipboard-Change would produce an edit box at the lower part of your screen. You could type in the number 1 and enter, and you would have copied "Call May today" into the clipboard. Any call to Clipboard-Paste now on any page would paste this line to the page you were in. (clipboard) Get Page: ________________________ Same as Change, except that it copies the entire DAY PAGE you are in into a special clipboard. =================THE CLIPBOARD continued ================ (clipboard) Add Page: ________________________ Add whatever you had put in Get Page to the current Day Page. If you answer <Y> to next question, the current page will be overwritten. Gone. (clipboard) File Get: ________________________ You can copy lines of data from an External DOS file. You specify the COMPLETE path of the file. drive letter colon backslash directory path file name. You can page up or down in the file. Move the lighted box around on any screen with the arrow keys and press Enter to clip that line into the File Buffer. You can clip ten lines at a time. (clipboard) Import: ________________________ Like Add Page above except the current lines you have copied in File Get are used. How to =========UNERASE or UNDELETE data in Neubase========= Clipboard: Unerase, Undelete uses: Note in the clipboard, if you had answered "Yes" to the Delete or Erase questions while erasing or deleting data from a page, the Deleted line would be your current Paste clipboard, and the Erased page would be your current Add Page clipboard. Clipboards remain in effect across years, files , and days within the entire system, UNTIL you exit your session each time. ===========SEARCHING IN NEUBASE============== The following parts of the Manual are for the Search option, the Index, and a Quick Reference section Searching in Neubase is it's best feature. Neubase uses a system of logic to allow you to search for more than one thing at once in a Neubase file for a year. Neubase Searches can be printed while they happen in report form, or they can be dumped to an external text file called Caldump.txt at a directory and drive you specify. Try entering in some data in Neubase Diary file, on several days throughout the year. Always include the word "find" in each line, however, for purposes of demonstration. Now from any day in the Diary file (for the current year), go to the main menu {ESCAPE if you are not already there. Now choose the MODE menu with the left-right arrow keys. Choose Search and press enter. ========================SEARCHING continued============= Now type <find><ENTER>. Enter a month name to start for the month, <Jan><ENTER>. Your items will be found and displayed with their date. The highlighted lines indicate data items which are "highlighted". If the search is over ( a message will say so), you may move the blinking arrow up and down the page. When it is next to a date you are interested in, press the LEFT arrow key. The day page for that found item will pop up. NOW, if you press Enter, you go to that page, but if you press the RIGHT arrow key, you are returned to your search. WHEN THE ARROW APPEARS AT THE TOP OF EACH PAGE, YOU MAY PRESS UP ARROW TO GO TO THE PREVIOUS SEARCH PAGE (if there is any). This is called Re-entrant searching. ==================Search in Neubase:the Settings Option.========== From the main menu, select OPTIONS-Settings, and press enter. A window should appear. You move the highlighted bar to the item you wish and press ENTER to put an x in the box next to your choice. You can choose: no boolean search or boolean line search or boolean fuzzy search. text dump option to single space or double space printing on or off. ===================SETTINGS for SEARCH or MATCH=========== (settings menu from the Options menu......... This is a "radio button" screen to set your search options. It controls how Neubase will do it's searches, and whether the search will also be sent to the printer or a text file. Move to the setting you wish and press X. ESCAPE= to exit. Ahead search Your search will move forward Reverse search or reverse through year no (boolean) Smart searching disabled * Line boolean Smart searching on every line Fuzzy boolean Smart searching on every page off (file export) Single space file export Export your search to a DOS text Double space file export file (single or double spaced) incapable (print) Print Print your search on your printer Non-Imbedded Search for standalone words. Word imbedded Find all occurences of word. If file export is set to Single or Double the SEARCH will export to DOS textfile "CALDUMP.TXT" in a directory you choose during the search. During MATCH, current File export and Print settings are active * reccommended setting. More information from Main menu help system. ========WHAT IS A BOOLEAN SEARCH?============ IN NEUBASE: two --------Boolean line------Boolean fuzzy Boolean line means that you can search for more than one word at a time For example, in your search you can ask Neubase to find phone and mary (You do not include quotations in actual request) Any line in the current file is found that has BOTH the word "phone" AND the word "Mary" At the Search prompt, you are really asking Neubase to put up on the screen any line (/page) in the file if it mentions MARY and it also mentions phone A boolean line search for "phone or address" finds a line with EITHER "phone" OR address You can even search for "(phone or address) and Mary" etc. A BOOLEAN FUZZY search shows any day that meets your search Condition ANYWHERE on the day's page. In boolean searches, at the Search prompt, the words and or not and any parens tell Neubase how, and for what what, you wish to search. ============MATCHING=========== The match option (selected from Daypage from the Main Menu or from Search-Match screen by pressing <M> You select a line..... find MATCHING data in the current file. Once you are in a MATCH search, the program functions just as if it was a regular search finding data LIKE the line you picked. as with SEARCH, you may choose to Print your results or export them to a text file. This is set From main menu Options, Settings option. Choose Search and press F1 to see more about that When a MATCH is under way: F5 = Allows you to give a main command right from the Match. M = During a MATCH result screen, you may Match again on data the arrow points to H = Do a Hyper search on any word of data found F2 = Jump to a new Search. ==========NEUBASE INDEXING================ Move to the file you wish to index from the FILES section (appointments, diary or journal) Move to the MODE box, and choose Index. Press enter. You need be in no particular day in the current file, as long as you are in the file you wish. If you are in Diary, Indexing options apply to Diary. Neubase contains automatic indexing of up to 50 topics for EACH file, (appointments, diary, hournal) for each year. The index system will NOT touch your data, but REBOOTING your machine to exit a neubase session is strongly discouraged. Not because it would affect your other data or your drive, but because, Neubase has processing it needs to do in the last couple of seconds between when you chooose the "quit" option, and when DOS is returned. A technical description will be provided upon request from REGISTERED users. All: To repair an Index. Choose the All option in the MODE-Index menu. Wait. Type <Y> to commit. Neubase does this task automatically. but it is provided for unforseen system freezes due to printer message lock, etc. It may be rerun for any file to INSURE your index is current. (see Questions and Answers department below) Topic: To add an Index topic: Move to the Index option in the MODE menu. Press enter. Choose Add Topic. Enter in your topic, for the file, such as "phone". Wait for next question. Choose <Y> to commit to this new index. Now every time you enter in a line using "phone" in your data, Neubase will automatically check off a table of it's own to make searches faster. To see the list of current topics, press F10 from anywhere in the system. ===========INDEX MENU continued=================== Delete: To Delete an index topic (will not touch your data): Choose Delete Topic option FROM THE INDEX MENU, press enter, and choose the number (not the name) of the topic you wish to delete. Press Enter. Answer <Y>es to commit to the change. Insure: This performs the End of Job work of Neubase Immediatly, so you know your disk is absolutely up to date to this point in the session. This is ALL it does. Print: A book at of the current file is printed by index topic. Move to the file you wish to print. Choose MODE menu, Index menu. Make sure Printer is ready at line one of the top of a new printer page. Choose Print option (FROM THE INDEX MENU) You don't need Printing enabled for this Index printing (unlike a Search print), however your current Lines per page (from the Set Print option in the Main Menu) will be active for how many lines are printed on the page. Hyper: Allows searching on an index topic (if there are any) choose Hyper, and move arrow keys to highlight topic. Then Enter to search on highlighted topic, or Escape to exit without searching. ===============HYPER SEARCH====================================== HYPER SEARCH New in Neubase version 4.0 ! You may highlight any word in your Neubase database from 1. the Day Page 2. Index, or 3. Search screen 4. Match screen If not already in Hypertext (there would be a message saying so) from Daypage: choose Mode <H>yper option to search on the Day Page. choose Mode <I>ndex <H>yper to search on Index topics. from a Search or Match output screen: press <H> key to search on current search screen words. ============================================ You move the highlighted word around on the current page, ---------------------------------------- use ARROW KEYS. ENTER = do Hyper Search ESCAPE = exit (no search). Enter =choose to Search for a word by pressing the Enter key on a highlighted word. Escape = from HYPER SEARCH Escape key returns you to the main program, without doing a search. Please note you cannot advance or push back the current date from this option. You should press Escape first. ===============MOUSE in Neubase======================== Works with a Logitech or Microsoft compatible SERIAL mouse. Will not work along with a bus mouse installed. You should disable mouse from Options menu at startup if so. [note:you must have installed your mouse.sys driver as you would for other mouse drived programs] [the word click means to push and release a mouse button] ----------------------------------------------- Click left button = ENTER Click right button = ESCAPE ----------------------------------------------- Hold down left button and move (drag) the mouse: DOWN = QUIT NEUBASE LEFT = NEUBASE HELP SYSTEM RIGHT = PROGRAM STATUS SCREEN -------------------------- (with NO buttons pushed): UP = UP arrow key DOWN = DOWN arrow key LEFT = LEFT arrow key RIGHT = RIGHT arrow key ----------------------------------------------- NOTE: the mouse is not active: during "press any key" prompts or in Help system or Index utility or in middle of search page [Turn off mouse, and "highlight..." prompt from Options menu] ------------------------------------------------- To get the online BULLITEN BOARD number for product support, choose On Line from the Options menu. All inquiries welcomed. ----------------------------------- ========================NEW OPTIONS================================= Additional Options: Rematch brings up last match string, whether it is data or in the same file anymore. Manual option allows you to page through the Neubase manual. (it is reading neu.man text file in current directory) Gab option reads a text file in current directory. 1. you can install your own. 2. rules: must be in same subdirectory as Neu.exe must be a legal DOS text file not too long (10-20k I suppose.) must be named story.doc Once <arrows active> message appears on Search-match screen, The Mouse if fully functional. Enter will advance to next search page, allowing you to use the mouse LEFT click. ========================NEUBASE Quick Reference============ [Alt-X = QUIT] File box: appointments go to appointments diary go to diary journal go to journal calendar display calendar swap change year manual, gab read the Neubase manual, or Story.doc quit ends program Edit box: add insert replace delete move erase highlight Mode box: Xpress menu for "real today",frd-back 1 day,1 week search smart search index index utility clip calls clipboard week week at glance hyper hyper text search on current Day match, rematch finds similar data Options: Settings set search or match options Printset set number of print lines per page High set toggle on/off the Highlight? <Y><N> prompts Menu bar toggle off/on the MAIN MENU (if off, you type in text commands from "command:" prompt) Info Program status screen [F10 hotkey] On line Neubase product information Color Configure colors for Neubase screens Acceler Toggle on/off the SERIAL mouse [ F10 or ALT-I = Program status ] [F1 or ALT-H = help system ] [ HOME END = change week ] [PGDN PGUP = change by 1 day] [ CTRL-PGUP CTRL-PGDN = switch files ] [ ALT-F ALT-E ALT-D ALT-O changes boxes from the main menu] [ F2 Hotkey: to Search] From a Search: <M> = automatic match. <H> = hyper text search on a word [to access a day from main menu,press escape, then type ex:Oct 10 Dec 20] USE THE COMMANDS IN THE Edit BOX TO ENTER IN DATA UNDER A FILE AND DAY USE Search, Match, and Rematch (in the Mode box) options to find DATA USE Settings to enable printing and/or file dumps. (file will be "caldump.txt" in directory you say) USE the Clipboard to copy and paste lines or pages. USE the Index to set up index topics: useful for faster searches, and for helping the Match option locate similar data. USE Index-Hyper option to do Hyper search on index topics. Note: You do not have to search on an Index topic.