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How to Use Grolier's New Academic American Encyclopedia:
Search Term
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Select the Encyclopedia from the GEnie menu system. After the Grolier's
heading has been displayed, the prompt, "Search Term", appears. At this
prompt, you may respond with one of the following:
. A search term
. A number from a previous search list
. STOP, QUIT, or <RETURN>
Each of those choices will now be explained:
. Search Term - a search term is a string of characters. The database is
searched for articles that begin with the same letters as your search term.
The search is case blind, so a search term of "FRA" might find articles
about France, Francis, Franklin, and so on. The special character "#" can
by used at the end of the term to specify that the search should find only
the article matching the search term exactly. All articles found to match
the search term are displayed next in a list called the SEARCH LIST.
. A number from the search list - after a search list has been produced from
a retrieval of the search term, and an article has been read, the prompt,
"Search Term", will be re-displayed. At this point, you can enter a new
search term. If you want to read a different article from your previous
search, you can enter the number of that article. This is a big time saver!
As with all choices in the Encyclopedia, you can add the letter "S" to the
end of the number if you want the text scrolled, without pagination. So an
entry of "4S" would say list article 4 with scrolling.
. STOP, QUIT, <RETURN> - these responses will end the Session in Grolier's
and return you to the GEnie menus. You cannot use STOP, or QUIT as search
terms.
Article Outlines
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Longer articles have ARTICLE OUTLINES. For these articles, a Sub-menu will
be displayed. Choice 1 will always display the whole article. The other
choices will display only parts of the article. Choices are indented. A
choice will list all sub-articles indented below it. As usual, an "S" may
be added to the choice number to force scrolling. After a sub-article has
been displayed, you can continue to select sub-articles, until you have
finished. You then can choose a new Search Term to find a different
Article.
I want to stop text on screen to read?
Sometimes, you may want to stop text as it scrolls on the screen. To stop
the text as it scrolls by, you can press CONTROL S (press your terminal's
Control key and S at the same time). To start the text again, press CONTROL
Q (press terminal's Control key and the Q key at the same time).
I'm in the middle of scrolling a long article and want to stop?
Press the terminal's BREAK key to end a long scroll or list.