A PROBLEM WITH "KEEP" ON ASFA CDROM

                       Peter Brueggeman
         Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library

ASFA CDROM's KEEP command may occasionally malfunction when
attempting to download certain searches.  KEEP occasionally
has a problem with long search statements.  According to
Cambridge, this problem will be cleared up in the upcoming
Version 3 of the ASFA CDROM search software.

Set 3 in the following strategy on the 82-86 ASFA disk cannot
be kept to disk (error message "error writing to disk") yet
similarly sized retrievals can be kept.

   1: S SALMON AND (RANCH* OR FARM* OR AQUACULTUR*)

   2: S COST* OR ECONOMI* OR FINANC* OR MARKET* OR SUPPL* OR
         FACILIT* OR EQUIP*

   3: S \1 AND \2

Set 1 and Set 2 can be kept to disk.  Individual overlapping
subsets of Set 3 (eg S \1 AND COST*, S \1 AND ECONOMI*, S \1
AND FINANC*, S \1 AND MARKET*, S \1 AND SUPPL*, etc.) can be
kept to disk and therein lies the solution.  If a long search
cannot be kept, then break it up into several smaller
searches.