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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: Company Name
-
-
- Searchable by full organisation name, acronyms, abbreviations and
- translations. Alternative forms of a company's name will be cross-
- referenced to the name under which it is listed. It is possible to search
- on any word or combination of words from a company name.
-
- eg Dataware
- Dataware Technologies Ltd
- Dataware Ltd
- Technologies
-
- will all retrieve "Dataware Technologies (UK) Ltd"
-
- Refer to the Browse Index (press F2) under Entries for a complete list of
- all companies 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 Help: Company Activity
-
-
- Specific area(s) of expertise of the company, including the following:
- publisher, information provider, software producer, hardware producer,
- developer [(CD-ROM), (CD-I), (CDTV), (CD-ROM XA), (VIS), (EB)],
- distributor, retail outlet, consultancy, systems integrator, data
- preparation, mastering, replication and others. These exact terms need to
- be used in searching - refer to the Browse Index (press F2) for complete
- list.
-
- 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.
- =4 Help: Titles Published
-
-
- List of the CD-ROM and multimedia CD titles that the company is publisher
- or developer of. It is possible to search on any word or combination of
- words from the title name excluding the word "the".
-
- eg CD-ROM
- CD-ROM Directory
- CD-ROM DISC
-
- will all retrieve "The CD-ROM Directory ON DISC"
-
- Refer to the Browse Index (press F2) under Entries for a complete list of
- all titles in the database.
-
- Also refer to the Titles 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.
-
- =5 Help: Information Provided For
-
- The "Information Provided For" field lists the CD-ROM and multimedia CD
- titles that the company contributes data to, excluding those it actually
- publishes. To establish which organisations provide information for a
- particular title, enter the name of the title in this field.
-
- In many cases the information provider is not directly involved in the
- publication of the CD-ROM and does not distribute it, so use the publisher
- or distributor as the first point of contact.
-
- It is possible to search on any word or combination of words from the title
- name excluding "the".
-
- eg CD-ROM
- CD-ROM Directory
- CD-ROM DISC
-
- will all retrieve "The CD-ROM Directory ON DISC"
-
- Refer to the Browse Index (press F2) under Entries for a complete list of
- all titles indexed in this field.
-
- Also refer to the Titles 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.
- =6 Help: Contact Name/Title
-
- Name and designation of the most appropriate person to contact within the
- company for CD-ROM enquiries. Searchable by both first and/or last name or
- by full name.
-
- Refer to the Browse Index (F2) under entries for a complete list of all
- contact names.
-
- 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.
- =7 Help: Address
-
- Full address of the company. All terms in the field are searchable, so
- companies can be located by country, city, street, post code or any
- combination of these.
-
- US states are generally referred to by their two letter postal
- abbreviation.
-
- European post codes do not have the country letter identifier preceding the
- post code.
-
- 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.
-
-
- =8 Help: Software Produced
-
-
- Related software (usually authoring or retrieval) produced by the company.
- Please note that this does not include actual CD-ROM titles (see CD-ROM
- Titles field). It is possible to search on any word or combination of
- words from the software name.
-
- Press F2 for a complete list of search terms.
-
- Also refer to the Software 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.
-
- =9 Help: Hardware Produced
-
-
- Name of the related hardware products produced by the company, including
- drives, workstations and peripherals. It is possible to search on any word
- or combination of words from the hardware name. Press F2 for a complete
- list of search terms.
-
- Also refer to the Hardware 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.
-
- =10 Help: Products Distributed
-
-
- Products distributed by the company. Can include titles, software and
- hardware - listed either by product or producer.
-
- It is possible to search on any word or combination of words. Press F2 for
- a complete list of search terms.
-
- 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.
- =11 Help: Company Description
-
-
- A description of the company's background and involvement in the industry,
- supplied by the organisation.
-
- It is possible to search on any word or combination of words. Press F2 for
- a complete list of search terms.
-
- 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.
- =12 Help: Associates
-
-
- List of associate companies and branch offices worldwide, organised by
- country.
-
- It is possible to search on any word or combination of words from a company
- name.
-
- eg Dataware
- Dataware Technologies Ltd
- Dataware Ltd
- Technologies
-
- will all retrieve "Dataware Technologies (UK) Ltd"
-
- Refer to the Browse Index (press F2) under Entries for a complete list of
- all companies in the database appearing in this 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.
- =13 Help: Distributors
-
-
- List of companies who distribute the company's products organised by
- country or region in which they operate.
-
- It is possible to search on any word or combination of words from a company
- name.
-
- eg Dataware
- Dataware Technologies Ltd
- Dataware Ltd
- Technologies
-
- will all retrieve "Dataware Technologies (UK) Ltd"
-
- Refer to the Browse Index (press F2) under Entries for a complete list of
- all companies 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.
-
- =14 Help: COUNTRY
-
- Use this field to retrieve all the companies located in a particular
- country.
-
- Refer to the Browse Index (press F2) under Entries for a complete list of
- all countries 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.
- =
-
-