Using TV Agent for the first time

                   Welcome to TV Agent !

This is a DEMONSTRATION of TV Agent, Version 1.01 D . It works just like
the other 1.01 versions of TV Agent, EXCEPT it will only work with
demonstration listings supplied during "free preview" periods.

**** UPDATE **** TV Agent Version 2 is now available, including keyword
searches and many more features. No demo is available yet for version 2,
but this version 1.01 demo will show you the basic ideas. **************

Now you will be able to find the TV programs you are interested in more
quickly, without having to hunt for them among many channels you don't
receive and listings that are a waste of time to read.

You will set up a user name in your first session with TV Agent. Click on
the "User" button (or type ALT-U) to do this.

After the first session you can skip the opening menus and go straight to
the listings if you include an existing user name in the command line,
like:

C:\TV> TVAGENT JOE

If you're not on Eastern time you'll set your time zone in your first
session by clicking on the "Set Up" button.

Don't waste your time looking at ALL the listings; make TV Agent do the
work for you by deleting TITLES of programs you are never interested in.
You can eliminate many listings at once by deleting uninteresting programs
by TYPE (like "GAME SHOW"). Each user can also eliminate listings by
CHANNEL; or you can eliminate channels for all users at once by using the
"Set Up" button on the Main Menu.

When you follow the instructions you see by pressing the "Help" button on
the Main Menu, you'll be shown more buttons that offer more help. One of
them is the "Overview" button -- use that to get the Big Picture of how to
use TV Agent effectively. There's also a button that will print out all
the help files. The details about hiliting and deleting are available on
screen when you hit "H" while the listings are displayed.

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Some listings are included in this TVADEMO.ZIP file along with the TV
Agent program and help files so that you can test TV Agent after
downloading only this one file. But to keep the file under 700K, only 22
channels are included in the listings. Actually TV Agent subscribers
currently receive listings for 133 channels. TV Agent may seem like
overkill if you only have 22 channels, so as you use this demo remember
that it would be MUCH harder to read 133 channels without a customizable
reader like TV Agent.

When you subscribe to TV Agent you get the listings by calling a BBS that
posts the TVLIST*.ARC files. The file WHERE.LST lists some of the BBS that
make the TV listings available for download. Any Planet Connect site and
some Skylink sites can post the listings. They get the listings daily in
their satellite datastreams. There are additional details in WHERE.LST
about which files you would download if you were a subscriber to TV Agent.

Subscribe to TV Agent for $24.95 per year from:

   Planet Systems Inc.
   1065 Cosby Hwy
   Newport TN 37821
   (615) 623-8300

VISA/MasterCard accepted.

TV Agent comes on a diskette as an Everlock protected program.

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Here is a chart showing the relation of the 2-character satellite ID used
in the listings and the location of the satellite.

    ID   Longitude  Satellite        Odd Channel Polarity
    F5   139        SATCOM C5           V
    C1   137        SATCOM C1           H         When the satellite ID
    F4   135        SATCOM C4           V         and the channel number
    G1   133        GALAXY 1            H         are separated by a "/"
    F3   131        SATCOM C3           V         ( like "F3/2" ) that
    G5   125        GALAXY 5            H         means the programming
    T3   123        TELSTAR 303         V         is "In The Clear", no
    M2   116.8      MORELOS 2           H         subscription is needed.
    A1   111.1      ANIK E1             H
    M1   109.2      SOLIDARIDAD 1       V         A "-" separator means
    A2   107.3      ANIK E2             H         you must subscribe to
    S4   101        SPACENET 4          V         the channel to get an
    G4    99        GALAXY 4            H         unscrambled picture
    T1    97        TELSTAR 401         V         (eg  HBO G5-15 ).
    G3    93.5      GALAXY 3            H
    G7    91        GALAXY 7            H
    S3    87        SPACENET 3          H         Some satellites are
    T2    85        TELSTAR 302         V         shown here even tho
    G6    74        GALAXY 6            H         TV Agent is not carrying
    F2    72        SATCOM 2R           V         any listings on them
    S2    69        SPACENET 2          H         currently.

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