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Connecting to Lexis-Nexis on the DIAD Macs:
Quit out of the Terminal application if it's already running and
wait until the DIAD Monitor is almost ready to log you in before
doing the following:
- Right click on the Applications alias in the Dock at the bottom
of your desktop. It's near the Trash icon and has the following icon:
- Scroll down through the applications until you get to Utilities
and wait until your mouse-over shows you what's in that folder
- In the Utilities folder, find and left click once on SI-665-Launcher
- Click on the Lexis-Nexis button in the resulting
window
- Type in ".vt100" and hit return
- Wait for the DIAD Monitor to type in the 7 character personal
indentification number from the sheet and hit return
- Type in your uniqname and hit return
- Conduct your search
- During your search erase input errors by using the <DELETE> key.
- DO NOT use
the <LEFT ARROW> or <RIGHT ARROW> keys to backspace.
- When you are done, type ".so" and hit return to sign out
- You will then be asked whether you want to save their search, and
you should type "N"
- the connection to Lexis-Nexis will then close
- the terminal window will not close, and will go to the local prompt
- DO NOT CLOSE
THE TERMINAL WINDOW OR QUIT THE TERMINAL APPLICATION UNTIL YOU DO THE FOLLOWING:
- Edit out the password near the beginning of the search results
- Choose Save Text As from the file menu
- Type LexisNexis.doc in the save as box (you
can call it something else if you like, as long as it has the .doc
suffix)
- Choose Desktop from the Where pull-down menu
- Click on the Save button
- Now you can quit the terminal application and you're done. Info on how to
fix margins in the resulting document, print it, and save it to your NetWare
home directory are available on the User Instructions
page
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