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IV. The Aladdin Main Screen IV. The Aladdin Main Screen IV. The Aladdin Main Screen
Aladdin is an automated access tool for GEnie users. Above
everything else, Aladdin is designed to help you get the most
use from GEnie for your hard-earned money. It will retrieve
and send message for you from GEmail and the RoundTables, and
will also download/upload files into the RoundTable software
libraries. Additionally, it provides you with tools like
Terminal Mode and the Script languages, each with its own
features to make life as a GEnie user much easier for you.
The Aladdin Main Screen is the door to all the features of
Aladdin. In this section we will discuss each of the main
menu items.
The File Menu
1. & 2. Configuration and RoundTables 1. & 2. Configuration and RoundTables 1. & 2. Configuration and RoundTables
We have already covered the Configuration from this menu in
the manual section titled, "Setting Up Aladdin". If you have
not yet read that section and/or setup Aladdin, please go
back to that section now and follow the instructions to
configure the Aladdin software. How to Configure RoundTables
is found in this manual starting on page 34.
3. Product Index 3. Product Index 3. Product Index
Clicking on Product Index pops up a window through which you
can scroll through a complete list of all GEnie pages. This
is shown as the page #, the page title, and a brief
description. Options at the bottom of the window are -
L Log onto P sort by page
S Search M sort by mnemonic
U Update Index D Sort by description
as well as a CANCEL button.
4. Change Password 4. Change Password 4. Change Password
There are three (3) options available from this menu
selection. You can manually type in your own 8 character
password or allow Aladdin to automatically generate a new
password. A new password can be generated consisting of
Random Words, or Random Characters.
If you choose to have Aladdin select a new password composed
of Random Characters, you can select from 209,000,000,000,000
possible choices. You can click the mouse button while
pointing to the Random Characters Button until Aladdin
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displays a password that you consider to be satisfactory,
then press <Return> or click on "Ok" with the mouse button.
Asking Aladdin to select a new password composed of two
Random Words will yield 6,800,000 different choices. As
before, you can continue to press the left mouse button while
pointing to the
Random Words button until Aladdin displays a password that
you consider to be satisfactory, then press <Return> or click
on the "Ok" Button to tell Aladdin to change the password to
the one displayed.
Aladdin will change your password instantly by logging on to
GEnie.
5. Billing History 5. Billing History 5. Billing History
One of the nicest features of Aladdin is that it keeps track
of the money you are spending on your GEnie account while you
are logged on, as long as you use Aladdin exclusively for
accessing the GEnie services. You will notice that Aladdin
keeps a dollar and cents count of your charges when you are
logged on, and displays this count on the screen while it is
accessing GEnie.
NOTE - Every time you log off GEnie, Aladdin adds the total
dollar and cents accumulation to a file which contains the
billing history for your account from the point at which you
started using Aladdin.
NOTE - the GEnie STAR*SERVICE has free areas which will be at
no charge to you from GEnie. But Aladdin will not know when
you are using these areas and will show a charge as if you
were paying to use the GEnie STAR*SERVICE.
To ensure that Aladdin keeps a correct billing history of
your account it is imperative that you ensure that Aladdin
knows the amount of money you are being charged for GEnie
usage. This billing rate figure is entered in the Aladdin
Setup Screen (see the section on Setting Up Aladdin"). Some
services on GEnie have additional surcharges, and the method
of access you are using may also carry another surcharge,
such as when you use Telenet to access GEnie. If you are not
sure what your billing rates are, contact GEnie Client
Services for information or assistance. If Aladdin does not
know what your billing rate is, or if the billing rate is
incorrect, the billing history will also be incorrect. At any
rate, it is impossible for Aladdin to predict exactly what
all the billing rates and surcharges will be, so at best the
billing history will always be a close approximation of your
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actual billing charges, to be used as a general cost
guideline only.
Click on "Billing History" from the "File" menu. Now click on
the month you wish to view by clicking the appropriate
button. You may also choose to view your entire billing
history by clicking the button marked "All Months". If you do
not want to view your billing history at this time, click on
"Cancel" to close the window and return to the main Aladdin
Screen.
If you click on a single month, Aladdin will display a
detailed listing of that month's activity. If there is
activity for more than one year in the data file, Aladdin
will separate the listing for each year's selected month. If
you click on all months, Aladdin will display a summary of
the activity for each month of each year for which Aladdin
has information in its data file.
Aladdin displays the approximate billing for each month in
dollars and cents, followed by the number of calls Aladdin
made to GEnie, the total time it spent online in
HOURS:MINUTES:SECONDS format, the average duration of each
call in the same format and the average cost of each call in
dollars and cents.
If you select a particular month for viewing, Aladdin will
display a screen containing information for that month.
Aladdin may display a message stating that a "Summary of
charges follows listing", which means that if you scroll
further down you will find a summary of the month's billing
activity. If there is only a small amount of activity in the
data file for that month, Aladdin will display the summary on
the same screen and you will not see that message. If a call
was made during prime-time, a letter "P" will be placed to
the right of the cost figure to indicate that.
6. Edit user Script 6. Edit user Script 6. Edit user Script
See the Aladdin Script Language section for editing
information.
7. Browse File 7. Browse File 7. Browse File
Clicking on "Browse File" calls the GEM file selector and
allows a file to be clicked on for viewing. The file is
displayed, and may be browsed by using the cursor keys or t