MONTANA RIVERS INFORMATION SYSTEM 

 Rivers Report 



Montana Rivers Information System 

 Rivers Report 



Enter River Names 



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Enter up to 25 river names. Press the Exit key when you are finished. 

 For help with river names and abbreviations press the Help key. 



River name ^^^^^^^^M 

 RATTLESNAKE CREEK 



Figure 8b. Enter River Names after Entering Rattlesnake Creek 



Exit this screen by pressing the Exit key which will return you to the 

 opening screen. 



RUNNING THE RETRIEVAL. At this point, you are ready to run the 

 retrieval to search for any stream(s), named Rattlesnake Creek. There are 

 several options to running the retrieval: 



1. Count the number of records which meet your selected criteria, 



2. Display the report to the screen, 



3. Send the report to the printer, or 



4. Send the output to a text file. 



It is a good idea to count the number of records retrieved before you attempt 

 printing or viewing the output on the screen. If you have a very large number 

 of records, which is common for general searches, printing may not be your 

 wisest choice for viewing the report. Instead, you may want to choose one of the 

 other report options like sending the retrieval to a text file. You may need to 

 make your retrieval more specific and reduce the number of records included in 

 the report. 



Note: any retrieval can be interrupted in progress by pressing any key during 

 the retrieval. 



For this exercise, select 'Count the records' from the opening screen and 

 press Enter. The program will 'crank away' for a short time and then indicate 

 four records with the name Rattlesnake Creek have been located (Figure 9). 



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