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Neubase v2.0 a Personal Information Manager.
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copyright 1989 by Peter Neuendorffer.
This is a shareware program with a daily
Appointments
Diary
Journal
an indexed conditional query list maker,
officially speaking.
Compatible with all prior Calbase and Neubase programs
Please send $20.00 to the author,
Peter Neuendorffer
1399 Commonwealth Ave, apt 11
Allston, MA 02134.
neu.exe: Main program.
cbi.exe: Data file installation program.
*****MUST BE RUN FIRST*********
do not delete this file!
license.doc: Your license.
install.doc: Quick installation instructions.
readme.doc Last minute information.
neu.man: This file.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
_________________
A few words aboout: on page
Introduction 2
Installation 3
Neubase 4
-what it does
-how to move around in it
-the color system.
Editing in Neubase 8
-how you manage your data
Neubase Clipboard 11
Searching in Neubase 14
-how you present your data
Indexing in Neubase 16
-speed up your searches
-print a year end report
Quick Reference 17
-Questions and answers
-Hot Keys
-quick file diagram
-USING TEXT COMMANDS IN NEUBASE
-swap command. the file reader.
An Neubase manual pg 2
Introduction to this manual
___________________________
PLEASE NOTE!
Your license agreement is in the file license.doc .
If you like Neubase, please send $20.00 to Peter
Neuendorffer, 1399 Commonwealth Ave, Apt 11,
Allston, MA 02134, as described in you file
license.doc.
PLEASE READ INSTALLATION SECTION IN THIS MANUAL
BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO RUN NEU.EXE.
YOUR INSTALLATION PROGRAM : CBI.EXE
YOUR MAIN PROGRTAM: NEU.EXE
WHEN RUNNING NEUBASE, REBOOTING THE MACHINE TO
EXIT NEUBASE WILL NOT ALLOW NEUBASE TO PROPERLY
MANAGE IT'S DATA.
ALWAYS EXIT NEUBASE FROM THE "quit" option in
the Files Menu. (follow Escape prompts to main
menu, press escape, and type Quit <ENTER>) will
get you out if you are confused.
This manual is for the Shareware program Neubase.
Please read the sections About Neubase and Installation before running
Neu.exe, the main program. You must have run cbi.exe, the data file
formatter before you can use Neu.exe.
The files in this package are:
neu.exe: Main program.
cbi.exe: Data file installation program.
*****MUST BE RUN FIRST*********
license.doc: Your license.
neu.man: This Manual file.
( a text file. Prints 66
lines per page).
readme.doc Last minute notes at press time.
Neubase is a true personal information manager.
It gives you 10 lines per page. three pages per day for every day
of the year. As many years as you are willing to give up 600k of
floppy or hard disk space for. You enter in information under a
day, and can present it in different ways using the Neubase Search
option.
Neubase manual pg 3
Some words on
Neubase Installation:
____________________ ============
Please follow these steps carefully.
To install datafiles for one year of Neubase:
You will be running the program CBI.EXE from an empty
subdirectory- preferabely on your hard disk.
1. go to your hard disk drive or floppy drive.
If you are installing on a floppy, it must be
a 3 1/2" inch 720k or greater floppy.
<c:><ENTER> or <a:><enter>
2. make a directory with a name you'll remember for
the year.
suggested : <md cal1990><ENTER>
3. change to your new directory
<cd cal1990>
4. copy CBI.EXE to this directory
<copy cbi.exe>... or <copy a:\cbi.exe>
5. your new sub directory now contains ONLY cbi.exe
6. from this new sub directory, run
<CBI><ENTER>
7. Type in the sentence when prompted.
8. Answer 1990 for the year, if you so wish. (for 1990 installation)
9. Answer holiday questions with numbers as prompted,
or type <ENTER> for each holiday.
10. when ready, you type <C> to continue when requested.
11. the program CBI will take over for 2-5 minutes.
12. save a copy of cbi.exe for future use.
13. Copy Neu.exe (your main program)
to anwyhere in the system you wish to run
it from.
14. go to directory containing Neu.exe.
15. run <Neu STARTUP>
16. type any key
17. type <Y> to configure.
18. It wants to know the PATH of the sub directory you created
above. ex: <c:\cal1990>
19. type <C> for color <M> for black and white.
20. "quit" command gets you out of the main program.
21. Next time, run Neubase from <Neu.exe>'s directory with
just
<Neu>
22. Wherever you are in Neubase, the ESCAPE key will get
you back to the main menu or
"command:" prompt.
23. Installing a new year with cbi.exe should be done
from a subdirectory with ONE file in it. Cbi.exe.
This avoids wiping out a previous set of Neubase
datafiles.
Neubase manual pg 4
Some words
About Neubase:
______________
Neubase is meant to be a personal information manager. It allows you
the user to enter in personal schedule or date oriented information under
a date, and present that information in various combinations using
the Search option (located in Neubase's Mode menu).
I have been using various versions of this program to enter in
my Appointments, a personal diary- where I keep my computer notes,
and a Journal of daily news headlines over the past two 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.
Neubase System requiremnets:
IBM PC, AT, XT Ps-2 or compatibles.
System Requirements
640k RAM recommended. CGA graphics card or emulator.
Hard disk recommended.
(detailed floppy system instructions will be
provided to registered users so requesting).
It is NOT recommended running Neubase on a
hard disk that is virtually full. Index files
do expand slowly over time, although not dramatic-
ally so. In order not to disable the Neubase
indexing system , out-of-disk space
is not specifically reported during
Neubase Index writes to disk. A 100k overhead
on your disk is more than adequate for Neubase's
needs.
Printer if desired
(note certain combinations of 386 machines
and certain brand printers must
be checked to be on line before
printing. Neubase successfully checks
printer status on most printers,
but may not proceed if your printer
is attached but not powered up or
on-line.) Note Neubase
always updates it's
files before proceeding with a
Printing request.)
Moving around 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:
Moving around Neubase (continued) HOT KEYS Neubase manual pg 5
F1 Context sensitive help
F10 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.
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.
If you wish to move to a date by name, Press the Esape key, WHILE
the main menu is up (the menu boxes at the bottom of the screen.)
YOu will get a prompt "command". At this point you can type the
date where you wish to go in the format
Monthname <space> number.
or
Monthabbreviation <space> number.
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.
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.
F5 While you are searching, you can get back to a day and
make a command at the same time.
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>. )
Moving Around Neubase (continued) Neubase manual pg 6
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.
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.
Move to the real world Today page, or Jan 1 with List.
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.
Onve 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.
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.
This section was intended as an overview. A quick summary may ber
found in Quick Reference, and detailed instructions may be found
in the sections Editing in Nuebase, Searching in Nuebase, Indexing
in Neubase.
Neubase manual pg 7
Before proceeding to Editing in Neubase, here is
a word about the 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.
Some words on Neubase manual pg 8
Editing in Neubase
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 directory you created when you ran cbi).
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.
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 should see a prompt at the lower part of the screen
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.
Neubase manual pg 9
Editing in Neubase continued
Edit- Add option continued
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.
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.
Neubase manual pg 10
Editing in Neubase, continued (Edit menu)
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).
Neubase manual pg 11
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
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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.
Neubase manual pg 12
Clipboard Menu continued (accessed from Mode menu)
(clipboard) Get Page
________________________
Same as Change, except that it copies the entire DAY PAGE you are
in into a special clipboard.
(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.
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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.
Neubase manual pg 13
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.
Neubase manual pg 14
Searching (Mode menu) in Neubase:
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.
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.
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.
Neubase manual pg 15
Searching in Neubase (continued).
WHAT IS A BOOLEAN SEARCH???????
What is a boolean search?
From the Settings option in the main menu you can set your
search to Boolean line, or Boolean fuzzy.Boolean line means
that you can search for more than one word at a time.
For example, in your search you could ask Neubase to find
"phone and mary"(You do not include quotations in actual request).
Any line in the current file (say Diary) would be found
that contained BOTH the word "phone" AND the word "Mary".
A boolean line search for "phone or address" would find any line
that contained EITHER "phone" OR address.
You could even search for "(phone or address) and Mary" etc.
A BOOLEAN FUZZY search shows any day that meets your search
condition ANYWHERE on the days page.
In boolean searches, at the Search
prompt, the words and or not and any parentheses
tell Neubase how, and for what what, you wish to search.
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.
You may use parentheses to emphasize a complicated request.
For example Search: (mary or sue) and not (bob or tom)
Text Dump
__________ Outputs your search to a text file with numbered
date format for each line. This format, if double
space is requested, is Ideal for importing
data into Lotus (r) Agenda (r).
Printing
________ Supports dot matrix and letter quality printers.
On ps-2,s (r) or Compaq 386's (r) it is important
to check your printer is on line first.
Your printed Search will be in report form with
headings, and page numbers.
To select a page length other than 66, you may set
the number of lines (without changing the Print
switch) to a different number.
66 is the startup default for every session.
The reentrant Search is NOT enabled if Printing or Text dump is
being done during a Search. Make sure Text Dump and Printing
are set to off from the Options-Settings menu.
Neubase manual pg 16
Some words on
Indexing in Neubase
___________________
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.
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)
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.
Neubase manual pg 17
Indexing in Neubase continued (from the MODE-Index menu).
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 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 THE END OF YOUR YEAR ARRANGED BY YOUR INDEX TOPICS.
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 do not have to have 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.
Some words of
Quick Reference=================================================
_______________
A word from the Question and Answer department
1. How do I leave Neubase?
press escape repeatedly until you get main
menu.
move left arrow to FILES.
type Q.
2.No main menu? Suddenly no menu?
Pressing Escape from the main menu allows you
to enter in a date to move to, such as
<Mar 5>
If you keep getting the command: prompt without
asking,
YOu probably chose the Menubar option from
the Options menu by mistake. From the command prompt,
type ESCAPE, and move to
Options-Menubar. If the status line on your screen
says "set menubars to always ON" then you should
press enter on this choice.
Your menus will return now.
Neubase manual pg 18
Neubase Questions and answers, continued.......
3. I went to Print. Nothing happened.
Make sure your printer is on and on-line.,
Certain 386 computers and their printers may
hang Neubase if they are not powered up.
If neccessary, reboot your machine. (following
your NORMAL system procedures for doing so.)
Neubase has updated it's data already.
4. I ran Neu.exe and it kept saying Datafiles not found.
You must run the installation program,
CBI.EXE according to instructions
before you can use Neubase.
4. I ran Neubase on a floppy and it complained that I had
the wrong disk in the drive.
Do not switch floppy disks in Neubase unless the
program SPECIFICALLY asks you to do so.
5. I got file read errors or file write errors during searches.
You cannot switch floppies during a search, if
you are installed on a flpppy.
The program is having trouble reading and writing
files at this point, probably due to a DOS
"drive not ready" report.
6. Color keeps showing up on my screen, when I asked for
Monochrome.
Neubase monochrome will display some color on a
color monitor.
7. Suddenly I was returned to DOS.
You may not have enough free RAM to run Neubase.
A 300k ceiling of RAM is assumed in Neubase.
Running Neubase under a DOS shell from a gigantic
program might not be advisable.
8. My text dump was terminated with a "not enough disk
space" message.
Neubase DOES check the free disk space on the drive
your are dumping the export file Caldump.txt to.
Neubase manual pg 19
Neubase Questions and Answers continued>>>>>
9. I keep entering in data, and Neubase won't report it in
a search.
Make sure you are searching in the right file.
When Neubase searches 1989, Diary, it won't be
searching the 1989 appointments at same time, for
example.
If the problem persists:
(a) re-index the file with
the Index-All option, whick may take
a few minutes, and choose
<Y>es to commit to the new index.
Do this for all files you used during the
last session:
appointments
diary
journal.
(b) setting boolean searches to No from the
Settings menu will cause Neubase to report the
data, even if the Index-all option has not been
run.
10. When I run neu.exe, it never brings me to
today's date.
Neu.exe finds today's date from the DOS
system clock. If you have not set the date
and time correctly, you are usually brought into
General List (which is the page for Jan 1).
The problem will not affect any of your
data in Neu.exe
Neubase Hot Key list
Pge-Dn 1 calendar day later
Pge-Up 1 calendar day earlier
End 1 week later
Home 1 week earlier
F1 :help.
F10 :system status.
Ctrl-Pg-UP
Ctrl-Pg-Dn switch between the appointments,
diary and journal files.
Neubase manual pg 20
File diagram of Neubase (logical)
data path (example c:\cal1989)
File: Appointments Diary Journal
_____________ ______ ______
days days days
10-line pages 10-line data 10-line data
pages pages
Switching days does not switch files.
Switching files does not change the day.
Index Index Index
Search Search Search.
Each of the three files for each year has its own Index, and Searches
apply only to the current file.
Quick Reference:
COMMAND MODE USE OF NEUBASE.
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Every command appearing on the f1 screen from the
main menu (except actual use of word "date") may
be implemented from the command prompt you are
using to Specify a change in date.
You may in fact turn off the main menu by choosing
OPTIONS menu, and Menu bar option.
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.
The Swap command from the Main menu Files box:
You can swap to another Neubase subdirectory that has Neubase installed
data, allowing you to move to another years worth of files for Neubase.
THE FILE READER: A DOS text file reader is a part of your Get File option in the
clipboard menu
Also note a file list of files in a DOS subdirectory may be obtained
from the FILES-File Dir option. (subdirectories are not reported)
