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- ║ Documentation For DIAL - Version 1.10 ║
- ║ A Shareware Program Written By Craig Veal ║
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- ║ I initially developed this program for my own personal use and the ║
- ║ rights to it are my sole property. This program is not and has never ║
- ║ been a public domain program. ║
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- ║ LIMITED permission is granted for your personal, NON-COMMERCIAL use ║
- ║ ONLY. ║
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- ║ This program may not be used in any commercial environment without my ║
- ║ WRITTEN PERMISSION. If you want to use it in a commercial environment, ║
- ║ simply send me a self addressed stamped envelope and I'll authorize ║
- ║ you to use this program as long as NO ONE, other than myself, MAKES ║
- ║ any profit from the sale of this program. ║
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- ║ SHARE this program with others! Craig D. Veal ║
- ║ 4734B Jacksonville Lane ║
- ║ Andrews AFB MD 20335 ║
- ║ Phone 301-599-1071 ║
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- Ever want to call someone and can't find the card with the number you want in
- your telephone card file? Do busy numbers aggrivate you? Yes, lots of phones
- have a redial function, but you have to keep pushing the button to redial a
- busy number.
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- Here's a telephone dialer I wrote to solve my problems - DIAL.COM
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- DIAL will support Com Ports 1-4 (you'll probably have to use ICP for Com Ports
- 3 and 4), will keep redialing a number automatically if you installed it to
- redial and uses a phone number data file you create with your own word
- processor.
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- INSTALLING DIAL.COM
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- To use DIAL, you must first install it with IDIAL. You'll need to know the
- following information:
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- Com port (Serial Port) your modem uses
- Highest baud rate your modem uses
- Command to tell the modem to dial (usually ATDT for Hayes compatables)
- Command to tell the modem to hang up (usually ATH0)
- Initialization string you want to send to the modem
- Busy indication value
- Path & filename of your telephone directory
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- To use the redial function, you must initialize the modem to return report
- result codes as DIGITS NOT repeat NOT as words. For Hays compatable modems
- this is usually V0, but check you modem manual to be sure. My initialization
- string looks like this ATE0 S0=0 L7 X4 V0 M3
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- AT - commands the modem that commands will follow
- E0 - tells the modem to set local echo off
- S0=0 - turns the auto answer mode off
- L7 - sets the internal speaker volume to maximum
- X4 - enables extended result codes
- V0 - sets result codes to DIGITS
- M3 - turns internal speaker off during dialing then back on
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- CREATING YOUR OWN TELEPHONE DIRECTORY
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- To create your telephone directory, use any word processor that creates ASCII
- files. If you don't know whether your word processor creates ASCII files, just
- create a sample file then use the DOS TYPE command to look at the file. If you
- can read it without problems then everything is probably OK. If any part of
- the sample file has strange or graphics type characters in it such as ╩ack
- (instead of Jack) or possibly ╙usan (instead of Susan) then you won't be able
- to use that word processor.
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- Each name entry in your directory can be any length you desire, however only
- the first 25 characters will be displayed to confirm who you're calling. Use
- a single space to name entry from the COMPLETE phone number (including long
- distance dialing access numbers). Each name in the directory MUST BE IN
- CAPITAL LETTERS! If you don't use all capital letters, the name WILL NOT BE
- FOUND! You can use initials, nicknames or whatever you want to use to identify
- each entry, but they MUST be in all caps. Here is a sample
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- SCHOOL 555-7890
- MOVIE 555-6789
- PIZZA 555-5678
- DEBBIE WORK 555-4567
- JOE'S HOME 555-3456
- BOB AND CINDY'S ROYAL CLOTHING STORE AND BARBER SHOP 555-2345
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- When you're ready to call any of the places or people in your telephone
- directory simply type DIAL (lower case letters is ok too) followed by the
- name you want to call such as "dial babysitter". DIAL converts the name of
- the person or place you're calling to all capital letters and try to match
- it with an entry in your telephone directory. If it finds a match it will
- dial the number. If it doesn't find a match then it will tell you that it
- did not find a match.
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- If you want to call a number that you know is NOT in your telephone directory
- simply type DIAL without a name and you'll be asked for the number you want
- to call then dial will call it. If you don't specifiy a phone number DIAL
- will terminate.
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- If you have comments, suggestions or complaints please send them to me at the
- address shown above.
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