Version: 0.85, wais-8-b5.
Date: Sun May 10 1992
Author: Jonny Goldman <jonathan@Think.COM>

Use this window to obtain information from one or more sources available in
your WAIS system.

If you have opened a questions that already exists, it appears in the "Tell
me about:" box.

To ask a new question, type search words in the "Tell me about:" box. These
should be words that relate as closely as possible to the topic you are
interested in.  They don't have to form a grammatical sentence, and they
don't have to be in any particular order.

To choose the source or sources to be searched for the information, click
on Add Source.  A popup menu displays the list of available sources. Click
on the source you want to highlight it, then click on the "Ok" button; this
adds it to the "In Sources:" list.  To delete a source, click on it in the
"In Sources:" list so that it is highlighted, then click on the Delete
Source button.

When you have chosen the sources you want, click on the Search button to
start the search.  The documents that WAIS finds are listed in the
"Resulting documents:" list. The number to the left of each document is its
"score"; the higher the score, the closer the document matched your
question.

To view a document, click on its name in the list so that it is
highlighted, and then click on the View button.  The document appears in a
window.  Click on the Add Section button to add this file to the "Similar
to:" list, which is described below.  Click on Find Key to highlight the
search words that this document matches.  Click on Save to File to save the
document to a file; a dialog box appears that prompts for a filename.
Click on Done to delete the window.

To save a result to a file, click on its name in the list so that it is
highlghted, and then click on the Save... button.  A file requester will
appear.  Simply fill it in and press "OK".

To view one of the sources in the "In Sources:" list, double click on its
name in the list.  A Source View window will appear.  To remove this
window, press "Cancel".  If you wish to change this source, edit its data
and press "Save".

To view one of the documents in the "Similar To:" list, double click on its
name in the list.  The document will appear in a window.  All the actions
associated with document windows apply.

Normally the Abort button is "fuzzed", but during Search or Retrieval you
may click on this button to abort the Search or Retrieval operation.

If you want to fine-tune your search, add documents to the "Similar to:"
list.  Adding a document to this list essentially tells WAIS to "get me
more documents like this one."  To add a document, click on it in the
"Resulting documents:" list, then click on Add Document.  To remove a
document, click on it in the "Similar to:" list, then click on Delete
Document.  When you have the documents you want in the "Similar to:" list,
click on Search to rerun the search.

Click on the Done button when you are finished with your search. If this is
a new question, a dialog box will appear, asking if you want to save the
question to a file.  If you do, it will subsequently appear in your
Questions list in the main X WAIS window.