Using Search Commands in Dialog
BEGIN
I will use several basic commands in the Command Search option. The first one is the BEGIN command to enter the database(s) of choice.
Take a look at an example of the BEGIN command below:
| Command | Example | When to Use It |
|---|---|---|
| BEGIN B |
begin 4 b 4 b 4,8 current b compsci |
Use BEGIN with a
file number to specify the database(s) to be searched. Use CURRENT to restrict a search to the current year plus previous year in the database specified. |
In Lesson 2 you looked at the description of File 2, the Inspec database (Files 2,3,4,202). It appears to have the kind of information we need for this topic. Since we want only the current data, we can use File 4, which contains information from 1983 to the present.
From the Dialog Command Search page, I will type in the BEGIN command and add the CURRENT qualifier following. This allows me to search only the current year plus one back year and narrows the search at the beginning of the search. Tip 3-1
We click 
or press the Enter key on the keyboard to start our search.
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