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- Quick Dial Utility
-
- Copyright by Phil Burk 1991
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- written using JForth Professional V3.0
-
- DIAL may be freely redistributed as ShareWare when accompanied by
- this file. If you like DIAL, please send $10.00 to:
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- Phil Burk, PO Box 151051, San Rafael, CA, 94915-1051
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- DIAL is a CLI based utility that will look up and dial
- telephone numbers through your modem. All you have to do
- is enter in a CLI:
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- DIAL FRED
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- then pick up the phone and wait for Fred to answer. DIAL will
- search a text file containing names and phone numbers. When
- it finds a match it opens the SER: device and send a Hayes
- compatible message to your modem to dial.
-
- DIAL was written as a shell command because a mouse driven interface
- would take longer to use then just dialing the phone directly.
-
- To install DIAL you must:
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- 1) Copy DIAL to your C: directory or other command directory.
-
- 2) Set your serial preferences to match your modem.
- Eg. 1200 baud, 8 data bits, etc.
-
- 3) Create a file called S:PHONELIST containing names and phone
- numbers. Names and phone numbers cannot have spaces
- inside them. For example:
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- JOE 1(707)555-1212 <-- GOOD
- FRED FLINTSTONE 1 (707) 555-1234 <-- BAD
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- There are two ways to do this. One is using a text editor.
- The other is to use the ADD option of DIAL.
- For example:
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- DIAL ADD WILMA 1(415)555-9876
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- The above will add WILMA's name to your phone list.
- To delete names, or to change names, just edit the
- file using a normal text editor like EMACS or Textra.
- If the phonelist file does not exist, DIAL will create it.
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- You can optionally specify a filename other than S:PHONELIST.
- For example:
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- DIAL IRMA MYSTUFF:MYLIST
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- Since that would be more typing than just dialing it yourself,
- I recommend making an alias as follows:
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- ALIAS DL DIAL [] MYSTUFF:MYLIST
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- Put that alias in your S:SHELL-STARTUP file.
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- If you would like information about JForth, write to:
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- Delta Research
- PO Box 151051
- San Rafael, CA
- 94915-1051
-
- or phone: (415) 461-1442
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- or e-mail to: phil@mills.edu
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