Help about deleting listings
You can view ALL the listings that your BBS provides, if you want.
But probably you don't get ALL the channels, and there are some series you
know you are not interested in. You can delete listings for channels
and series you don't care about.

There are five ways to delete listings:
1.   Deleting channels you don't receive or no user is interested in
2.   Deleting channels you aren't interested in  (eg, CNBC G5-13)
3.   Deleting types you aren't interested in (eg, DAYTIME SOAPS)
4.   Deleting titles (eg, Sesame Street)
5.   Deleting particular listings

Method 1 affects ALL users. Methods 2 thru 5 affect only the current user.

A deleted field (that is, channel, type, or title) or deleted line (method
5) takes precedence over a hilited field or line. For example TV Agent
will not show you a listing if it has a channel you deleted, even if the
title appeared in another listing and you hilited it.


1.  Deleting channels you don't receive or no user is interested in ------

Suppose there are several people who use this TV Agent, and none of you
want to see listings for one channel because you don't subscribe to it. It
is most convenient to delete that channel once on the System Set Up
form. Otherwise, each user can delete the channel for herself, but if
there are 50 channels you don't receive a new user will start out seeing
many useless listings. If channels you don't receive are deleted at the
System Set Up, new users will never have to deal with them.

In the lower left corner of the System Set Up is a list of channels. If
the list is displayed with yellow print on a blue background (the same
colors you see while looking at listings) the list is telling you which
channels will be displayed in your listings. If the list is displayed with
red print on a black background (the colors of deleted listings) it is a
list of channels that are being supplied by TV Agent but which you have
chosen NOT to display in your listings. A button on the System Set Up
will switch the display from one list to the other. Another button lets
you move channels from one list to the other. When new channels are
available from your BBS, they will always show up on the list of
channels that will be displayed, and they'll stay there unless you delete
them.

If any user wants to see listings for a channel then don't let it be in
the list of eliminated channels on the System Set Up form; move it to the
list of channels to be displayed also on that form. That way it will be
available to every user, and anyone who does not want it can delete it
from their listings with a channel field delete.

2. Deleting channels you aren't interested in ----------------------------

If you see a listing that is a waste of your time because you have no
interest in that channel, move the cursor up/down and put it on that
listing. Then hit the left arrow key. A box will appear around the
channel, and the bottom of the screen will prompt you on what key to hit
next. If you want to delete all listings for that channel, hit the "-" key
or the DEL key. The channel will change to red print on black, indicating
that channel will not appear on your screen again. If there are other
listings on the screen with the same channel, the print will change to red
on black in those listings as well.

To UNDELETE a channel - that is, to correct a mistake you made when you
deleted a channel you shouldn't have - the channel must be showing on your
screen, and it will be in red print on black. Move the cursor to that row,
hit left arrow to put the box around the channel, and then (as the
instructions at the bottom of the screen will show) hit the "+" key or the
ENTER or INS key. That will restore the channel to normal yellow print on
blue.

There is another way to undelete a channel if it has scrolled off the
screen. Quit the listings and return to the Main Menu; then hit these
buttons: User  Set Up  Review . The Review form that will be displayed has
help that tells you how to recover a deleted field.

3.  Deleting program types you aren't interested in ----------------------

Here are all the program types that appear in the listings:

1ST RUN SYNDIC          KID'S SPECIAL            RELIGIOUS
ARTS                    MINI-SERIES              SEASONAL SPEC.
CARTOONS                MISCELLANEOUS            SIGN-OFF
CINEMA FRENCH           MOVIE                    SPECIAL
DAYTIME SOAPS           MUSIC                    SPORT EVENT
FILLER                  MUSIC SPECIAL            SPORTS ANTHOL.
FINANCE                 NETWORK SERIES           SPORTS RELATED
GAME SHOWS              NEWS                     SYNDICATED
HEALTH                  PELICULA SPAN            TALK SHOW
HOBBIES/CRAFTS          PLAYOFF SPORT            TEAM VS. TEAM
INSTRUCTIONAL           PSEUDO-SPORT             TO BE ANNOUNCD
KID'S SHOW              PUBLIC AFFAIRS           TV MOVIE

If you are sure that one of those types is used ONLY for listings you have
no interest in, you can delete all listings with that type by focussing
on the type and hitting the "-" key or the DEL key. To focus on the type
when you see it on the screen, you move the cursor vertically to that
line, and then hit right arrow. That will put a box around the type, and
instructions at the bottom of the screen tell you how to delete all future
display of listings with that type. You may not want to delete types
because you aren't sure what the type applies to - for instance, the
series "Newton's Apple" has the type "KID'S SHOW". If you deleted a type
and you want to undo that elimination, put the box around the deleted type
and hit "+" or ENTER. This only works before all the listings with the
deleted type scroll off the screen; after they scroll away they will not
scroll back. After they scroll away the only way to recover them is thru
the "Review" button on the User Set Up form.


4. Deleting program titles -----------------------------------------------

The most efficient way to reduce the number of listings you look at is to
delete channels, since that way with one deletion you get rid of
hundreds of listings. Deleting a program type may get rid of TOO many
listings. So when listings appear and you know you have no interest in any
episode with that title (perhaps you never watch "Sesame Street") you can
delete listings by title. Move the cursor to the line, and then hit
Right Arrow twice - the box will move past the type, to the title. With
the box around the title you want to delete, hit the "-" key or the DEL
key. To undo the elimination of a title while it still appears on the
screen, put the cursor on the line, hit Right Arrow twice, and then hit
"+" or ENTER or INS. Occasionally use the Review function available on the
User Set Up form to make sure you have not accidentally deleted a title or
other field that you would like to have displayed in the listings.

Sometimes unrelated programs use the same title - for instance, if you
delete the CBS series "48 Hours" you'll also delete the movie "48 Hours".
And both CBC and VISN have series called "Man Alive"; whatever you do to
one title will happen to the other too.

The full length of the title counts when you focus on a title, altho the
instructions at the bottom of the screen may not show the full title. Even
if the title is so long that it does not all appear in the listing, the
full title will be compared to titles in future listings. You'll be able
to see the full title, no matter how long it is, if you look on the Detail
screen.


5. Deleting particular listings ------------------------------------------

If you hit the "-" key or the DEL key without moving the cursor to either
the left or the right, the entire line will be printed red on black, and
once it scrolls off the screen it will not scroll on again.  Deleting a
line like this does not affect any other listing. If the same program
appears later (or earlier) in the listings, it will show up again when
that other listing scrolls onto the screen.

If you want to preview the listings for a child, deleting certain
programs, this is a way to do it very specifically. Otherwise you will
probably not bother to delete many listings this way, because there is a
better way (hiliting) to distinguish what you want to watch from what you
don't. There is another help file that discusses hiliting fields and
lines, which is like marking in a printed guide what you're particularly
interested in. The help file on hiliting also explains why you may not
want to do whole line hilites and deletes beyond the end of the fresh
listings (that is, later than midnight EST tomorrow night.)

But there is a situation where deleting a line is appropriate. Suppose
there is a series that you usually want to see, so the title is hilited
when a listing appears on the screen. But you recognize from the details
that this particular episode is one you do NOT want to watch. The listing
was hilited because the title is hilited - but you do not want the listing
to print. To keep it from printing, delete the whole line by hitting "-"
or DEL without moving the cursor left or right; the whole line will print
red on black and the listing will NOT show up when you print only hilited
listings. (It won't show up on screen, either, once it has scrolled off.)
This will not affect future listings for the same episode - they will
scroll on to the screen with their title hilited.

If you delete a line and then change your mind before it scrolls off the
screen you can undelete it by putting the cursor on it and hitting ENTER
or + or INS. That will set it back to normal, yellow print on blue. The
User Set Up Review function will NOT let you recover deleted lines, only
deleted fields. So to undelete a line you MUST fix it before it scrolls
off screen.

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