3.1 The Main Menu

The Main menu can be called up from all points in the program by pressing "Escape" (you may have to press it several times). Move the cursor to the desired item with "Arrow up/down" and select by pressing "Enter". The following menu items are available:

Quick search   see 3.2             1. Menu         1. With "Arrow up/down", select one of the options from the menu and press "Enter". 2. Follow the explanations in section 3.2 (Quick search menu)

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Subject (Classifier tree)     see 3.5         1. Classifier tree   2. Key-word       1. Move around the classifier tree with "Arrow up/down" and the "Enter" and "Escape" keys and select a heading by pressing "Shift+Enter". In the case of starred headings, press "Shift+F1" to call up a comment, which you can leave again by pressing "Escape". If you select a heading without a key-word list ("[]"), you will directly obtain a result of all titles to which the respective heading or those subordinate to it are allocated. If you select a heading with a key-word list, continue with the selection of the key-word(s). 2. In the key-word list, position the cursor either with the first letter of the desired key-word (pay attention to upper/lower case) or with "Arrow up/down". You can mark several key-words in the list by pressing "Left shift+Arrow up/down". Either start the search by pressing "Enter" or form a result over the entire key-word list by pressing "Escape". 3. Follow the instructions in section 3.5 (Title card)

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Key-word       siehe 3.5     1. File name   2. String   3. Key-word list     1. The "Key-word" function in the Main menu searches through all key-word lists of the active database simultaneously. For reasons of speed, the search differs from the procedure in an individual key-word list. First of all, enter the name under which the result is to be saved and press "Enter" (no more than eight digits, no diacritic characters). 2. Enter the character sequence to be searched for and press "Enter" (all characters of the extended DYABOLA character set allowed). With this input, you position yourself in a key-word list which is only created from all available lists with the aid of your search word. 3. Position yourself finally in the list with "Arrow up/down" or press "F5" to enter a new character sequence. If necessary, mark several key-words with "Left shift+Arrow up/down" and conduct the search finally by pressing "Enter". 4. Follow the instructions in section 3.5 (Title card)

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Titles     siehe 3.5         1. Key-word list   2. File name       1. This function only covers the title texts of the main titles of a database. The main titles of a database are mostly the various sections, such as object or literature lists. However, in large pure literature databases, all literature titles can be of the main title text type. Position yourself in the list either with the first letter of the title text you are looking for (pay attention to upper/lower case) or use "Arrow up/down". With "Left shift+Arrow up/down" you can mark several title texts in the list. Start the search by pressing "Enter". 2. Enter the name under which the result is to be saved and press "Enter" (no more than eight digits, no diacritic characters). 3. Follow the instructions in section 3.5 (Title card)

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Any part of title/comment         1. File name   2. String   3. Accents?   4. Confirm?   5. Confirm 1. Enter the name under which the result is to be saved and press "Enter" (no more than eight digits, no diacritic characters). 2. Enter the character sequence to be searched for and press "Enter" (all characters of the extended DYABOLA character set allowed). 3. Select whether or not upper/lower case and accents should be ignored and press "Enter". 4. Enter "y" (yes) or "n" (no) in order to search with or without the confirmation function. If you activate confirmation, you are given the option of taking up every title found to contain the sought after character sequence into the final result or of passing over titles not required. 5. If a title is found, you can look at the title card and its data sheets. Press "Enter" to pass over the title, "Shift+Enter" to take it up in the result. At the end of the search, the number of hits in the collection of titles is shown. Return to the Main menu by pressing "Enter".

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--Display result   siehe 3.5             1. Selection         1. Select a result from the results list with "Arrow up/down" and "Enter". In the list, you can see the file name of the result and the number of titles it contains. 2. Follow the instructions in section 3.5 (Title card)

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Tools   siehe 3.3             1. Menu         1. Select a result from the results list with "Arrow up/down" and "Enter". In the list, you can see the file name of the result and the number of titles it contains. 2. Follow the instructions in section 3.3 (Tools menu)

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Quit                 1. Menu         1. Select one of the installed databases from the menu with "Arrow up/down" and press "Enter" or exit DYABOLA by selecting Quit.

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