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From: Danny.Keys@p0.f5.n119.z1.fidonet.org (Danny Keys)
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Subject: genie
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Date: 14 Jan 91 21:46:40 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

There are several problems with Genie;  The first one is that there is 
just to much text, and to many sub menus to scroll through before you 
can make up your mind as to where you want to go.
Even though the system is designed with text, the programmers of the 
system made the system available to a person who has no idea of how to 
use a computer and a network, atleast that is how i see it.
The reason that Genie has the star service is probably because they were 
loosing members.
I am using procomm 2.4.3, and I havent had any real problems other than 
having to go through millians of menus just to get to where I want to 
go.
Here are some solutions to the problem.
First of all I am using vocal-eyes and I will talk about the problems 
from that standpoint.
After you are at the top of a menu that you are already used to, just 
hit the shift or control key to halt the speech, and when the menu stops 
scrolling, the computer will emit a beap, it is quite a bit faster than 
listining to the voice prompts.  then you can either make your 
selection, or you can hit the, s, key and then the return key for 
nonstop scrolling.
Also there are key words which you can use either in or out of the star 
service.
for example;
*groliers *games
or
IBM APPLE 
and many others.
If you learn the key words which you will probably be using, you just 
type them at the prompt, and away you go off to some other minu.
The one thing which I really like about Genie is, Groliers.
It is fast, and they update the database quarterly.
Well, I hope that this has been of some help to you.

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