DialogWeb Help:  The FILE Command

Use the FILE command to switch from one database to another without erasing sets. FILE can be used at any time to check the content of a database other than the one you are currently searching. You will not lose your work in the original file, however, search results from sets created in one database cannot be used in any way in a different database except in the CLAIMS® databases.

A special application of the FILE command is available in CLAIMS®/UNITERM (Files 223-225) and CLAIMS®/U.S. Patents (Files 23-25). In this family of databases, FILE is used to search corresponding file pairs, for example, File 25 and File 225. Search results from either file in one of these pairs may be logically combined because the records have identical accession numbers.

A good example of the FILE command is in chemical searching. You can use FILE to check a chemical dictionary file in the middle of a bibliographic search and you will not lose the results you have retrieved. For example, when search CA SEARCH®, File 399, you can enter file 398 to switch to CHEMSEARCH®. In File 398, you can check a substance name or CAS® Registry Number. Then you can enter file 399 to switch back to CA SEARCH and continue your search. However, if you created any sets while in File 398, those sets cannot be used when you switch back to File 399.

You can also use the FILE command to enter PRINT TITLE after entering a PRINT command. For example, if you are in a single file and have forgotten to enter a PRINT TITLE command before entering a PRINT command, you can cancel the prints and use FILE to restart in the same file, enter your PRINT TITLE command, and then enter a new PRINT command.

Note:
The FILE command cannot be used while searching multiple files with OneSearch.