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MOVING AROUND GENIE
If you want, you can use GEnie's menus to move from product to
product. However, there are a couple of quicker (as in saving you
time and money quicker) and easier ways to get around.
USING PAGE NUMBERS
The first is with the MOVE command. Every major menu in the GEnie
system has a page number. To move from one page to another, use the
MOVE command with the appropriate page number. You can use the MOVE
command whenever you are at the prompt, "Enter #, <P>revious, or
<H>elp?" For example, to move to page 200 (which is the GE Mail
menu), you would type:
M 200
You can even go one step more, and further detail the location you
want to move to within a menu. To do this, you add the menu item
number after the page number (separated by a colon or semicolon). For
example, if you wanted to move to page 200, item 9 ("GE Mail Command
Mode"), you would type:
M 200;9
The move command can be modified by adding "S" at the end of the item
number. This tells the system to scroll through the text without
prompting (otherwise, the display would pause each time the screen was
full and you would have to tell it to proceed).
This is useful if you are capturing the information and are not
interested in reading while its scrolling across the screen.
USING KEYWORDS
Another way to move about is by using Keywords. Keywords are words
which can be used to move from menu to menu. Every major menu has a
keyword centered at the top of the page. If you look at GEnie's main,
Top Menu, you will see the keyword for that page is "TOP". For
example, the keyword for moving to the menu for GE Mail is "MAIL".
You can use a keyword whenever you are at the prompt:
"Enter #, <P>revious, or <H>elp?"
For example, to move to the CHAT menu, you would type:
CHAT