CHAPTER 5
                     NAVIGATING MENUS


Once you get to the main menu, you are ready to follow 
your instincts and/or desires and look for the information 
that is of interest to you.  Each menu lists a variety of 
subjects, one subject per line, with a sequential number 
at the beginning of each line.  At the bottom of the menu 
is a command line that starts with the prompt:

Your Choice ==>

Enter the number of the desired topic, then a carriage 
return.  The system will then respond with the requested 
selection.  In looking at a menu line, there are some 
conventions that will indicate what should happen if that 
line is selected.

Selecting a line that just has a topic and no suffix 
should result in the display of an information file.  It 
will be displayed one screen full (page) at a time, with 
the prompt to press the space bar to see the next screen.

NOTE : IF IT SCROLLS TO THE END OF A LONG DATA FILE
       WITHOUT STOPPING, IT USUALLY INDICATES AN
       ERROR IN YOUR OSFN SETUP.  SEE THE Free-Net
       SETUP SECTION.

If you don't want to see all of a long file displayed, you 
may enter a "q" to exit from it.

There may be times when you want an information file to be 
displayed without paging.  For instance, if you want to 
capture or log it to a file on your own computer.  In such 
cases, enter "nopage" on the command line, set your 
computer to capture mode, then SELECT the desired 
information file.  This will avoid having page breaks 
embedded in your file.  When you are finished enter the 
command "page" to restore the normal paged display of 
information.

At any point you may back up one level in the menu system 
by entering "p", or you can return to the main menu by 
entering "m".

In addition to stepping through the menus to find a topic, 
there are some direct access commands that will get you 
immediately to some items in one step.  These include but 
are not limited to:


COMMAND            SUBJECT

go admin         Administration menu
go config        Set Environment Parameters menu
go directory     Directory Services menu
go editor        Set Your Editor menu
go files         File Transfer Services menu
go password      User Services menu
mail             entry to mail reader
send             entry to send mail
who              display of who is logged on the
                   system
time             displays time remaining in your
                   session

Note that any of these commands may be entered on the 
command line regardless of how deep you are in the menu 
structure.  After getting to the desired point with such a 
command, the "p" command can then return you to your 
original starting point in the menu structure in one step.

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