Help about hiliting listings
Hiliting works very much like deleting, so you should also read the longer
explanation about Deleting.

If you want ONLY the hilited listings to be displayed, type "O" while you
are looking at the listings. If only hilited listings are being displayed
and you want ALL listings to be displayed, type "A".

As you look at all the listings (that haven't been deleted) you hilite
listings in one of two ways:

Whole line hilites -------------------------------------------------------

If you hit the ENTER or + key or INS key the entire line is hilited.
This sort of hiliting does not affect any other listings; if the same
program comes on again, the later listing will not be hilited. This is the
best way to hilite particular episodes of a series when you don't want the
other episodes to be hilited. If the listing is for a special or
miniseries that is not likely to appear again for years (if ever) you can
conserve TV Agent's time and memory by hiliting it this way rather than
hiliting the title.

If you hilite a whole line and then decide you do not want that line
hilited, putting the cursor on the line and hitting DEL or "-" will set
the line back to normal.

You may not want to hilite (or delete) a whole line when it is in one of
the listings files that is going to be updated. If today is Tuesday the
15th, for example, and you have called your BBS after 6 AM EST,
you have fresh listings for today and tomorrow (TVLIST15.ARC and
TVLIST16.ARC). [ Well, maybe that is optimistic. We will try for 6 AM EST,
but actually the freshest listings aren't often supplied to your BBS
before 2 PM EST. ] But you also have listings for later
days - TVLIST17 thru TVLIST22.ARC, which are not so fresh, and which will
be updated with fresh listings when you call your BBS on later
days. You will be warned (once) if you hilite or delete a whole line
beyond the end of the fresh listings. For instance when you call on
Thursday the 17th, you will get fresh listings for Friday the 18th in
TVLIST18.ARC . If today is Tuesday the 15th and you hilite a whole line in
the listings for Friday the 18th that hilite will disappear when you get a
fresh set of listings for Friday. If you call your BBS only
once a week this won't affect you. The whole line hilites and deletes for
the 18th will not be forgotten UNTIL you get a new TVLIST18.ARC on the
17th or 18th. (Future versions of TV Agent will be smart enough to
remember those whole line hilites and deletes and apply them to the fresh
listings.) Field hilites and deletes are NOT forgotten, no matter how far
in advance you mark them.


Field hilites ------------------------------------------------------------

You can hilite one field in the listing instead of the entire line. If you
hilite this way, TV Agent will remember that field's value (the channel,
type, or title) and hilite that value whenever it appears in future
listings.

To hilite the channel you hit the left arrow, and then ENTER or + or INS.
You might want to do this to make sure you notice whenever a little used
channel (like some obscure sports channel) has a scheduled transmission.
If you wanted a quick summary of what is going to be on The Learning
Channel you could set up a user that has only one hilite set, a channel
hilite on TLC. If you selected that user's name and looked at only hilited
listings you would be getting a program schedule for TLC.

To hilite the type, you hit the right arrow once. This would be a way to
get a sequential list of all the movies that are scheduled.

To hilite the title you hit the right arrow twice. This is the best way to
mark your favorite programs. It is much more specific than hiliting the
channel or type. It is better than hiliting the entire line because you
will see the title hilited by TV Agent every time it appears after you
have hilited it once. But it does not make sense to hilite a title that is
likely never to occur again (and that consumes TV Agent's memory and
time.)

You can review an alphabetized list of all your hilited fields (and
optionally remove the hilites) if from the Main Menu you hit the buttons
"User", then "Set Up", then "Review".

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