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                          NORTEL

INTRODUCTION:
     Nortel is a communication program designed for people who hate
     memorizing key combinations.  Nortel is unlike any other dos
     based terminal because Nortel offers you a totally graphical
     environment making it very easy to use.  Get things done fast
     with Nortel because all you need is your mouse, you can zip
     through the menus at lighting speed no keystrokes required.
     Yes you can get a graphical environment with a Windows
     terminal but if you ever tried to use a terminal for windows
     you know it's very slow and somewhat complicated to use.
     Nortel also has a built in editor which comes in very handy.
     And one of the best things about Nortel is it has internal
     multi-threading (internal multi tasking) this means you can do
     more then one thing a time such as use the editor at the same
     time as dialling a BBS!!!!

DISCLAIMER:
     EZEware provides no warranty of any kind, either express
     or implied. In no event shall EZEware be liable for any
     damages. Damages may include loss of business. Even if EZEware
     was advised of problems that may cause such damages.

LICENSE:
     NorTel is Copyright (c) 1994 by EZEware.
     You are granted a limited license to use NorTel for a period
     of up to 50 days, in order to determine if it suits your
     needs. NorTel must be distributed in absolutely unmodified
     form, including all program, documentation, and other files.
     NorTel may not be included with any other product for any
     reason whatsoever without a license from EZEware. No charge or
     paymant can be accepted for distributing NorTel. Except BBS'S
     that charge for the general opperating costs of the system.


REQUIREMENTS:
     IBM PC or compatible.
     330k of ram.
     VGA graphics.
     286 or better.

RECOMMENDATIONS:
     Mouse (Microsoft compatible).
     Hard disk.
     Modem.

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT NorTel:
     This is the first release of Nortel therefore there might be
     some bugs please report all bugs to the EZEware and be sure to
     describe the dos error number and where abouts in Nortel did
     it occur. Do not report bugs in the text editor, we will be
     heavily modifying it and we know there are bugs in it which we
     didn't fix yet.

Registered users can request features they want added to the
program.  Here are some example features that will be added to
future released of Nortel.

     1. More terminal emulations This version of Nortel has ANSI
        and TTY (plain ASCII). Please tell us the ones you'd like.
     2. Rip Graphics compatibilities and maybe even Roboboard
        compatibilities (VGA emulations).
     3. Fax transfer and receive. This will allow most fax modems
        to send and receive faxs. Faxs can be written using any
        texted editor.
     4. Back ground file and fax transfer. This will actually allow
        you to shell to dos while downloading, and ran most program
        normally.
     5. SVGA support so you fit more then one window on the screen
        at once such as the dialling directory and the terminal on
        the screen at the same time.
     6. Sound card support: We will add neat sounds, and speech
        synthesis which  will say what is sent onscreen.
     7. Faster more efficient graphics and use of memory
     8. Automation!!!!: Calling and uploading or downloading files
        at the time you specify (you don't have to be there.  Like
        programming your VCR) This is like script, but all the hard work
        of programming is done by us. You just need to learn some real
        simple things. Automation will be a sort of combined
        programming menu using self learning or recording and the
        already present autologin. In anycase this feature will
        be planed out more.
     9. Modem configuration setup.
     10. Use two or more modems at the same time.  This will enable
         you to call two bbs's at the same time.  For example you
         could call one BBS and start downloading a file then call
         another and read and reply to email. You'll need two modems and
         phone lines.

     11. There will be a Windows version of Nortel.  Hopefully
         before next year.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
     USING MOUSE AND KEYBOARD ---- starts PAGE. 1
     TERMINAL -------------------- starts PAGE. 1
     DIALING DIRECTORY ----------- starts PAGE. 3
     SETUP ----------------------- starts PAGE. 4
     ENTRY EDITOR ---------------- starts PAGE. 6











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HOW TO USE THE MOUSE AND KEYBOARD WITH NORTEL:
     If you have a mouse Nortel is very simple to use.  Use the
     Left mouse button to click on buttons. This Left button
     works like the Enter key. You can use the Enter key to
     activate the buttons that the cursor is currently on. The
     right mouse button is used only in the dialling directory for
     tagging entries. You will probably find using the keyboard is
     also very easy especially if you just switched from an all
     keyboard terminal program. If you only have a keyboard  thats
     fine as well. On the menus you will see that there is
     sometimes a red coloured character press this character to
     activate this button. ONLY in the terminal is it required that
     you press ALT plus the red key. If you like you, can disable
     the red key colour in the setup. The keys however remain
     active. If there is no hot key (red key) then you can for
     example press ESC to activate the exit buttons. A button like
     INSERT or DEL, found in the dialling directory will be
     activated by thoughs keys on your key board. Unforunatinally
     it was impossible to use hot keys for every button. The setup
     has many buttons with almost the same name, and the file
     lister was made for a mouse. Too solve this problem Nortel
     draws a fake mouse cursor that can be moved around using the
     arrow keys. This fake cursor only works if a real mouse was
     not detected. The fake cursor is activated by pressing the
     Enter key. Also only in the file lister you can use the up and
     down arrow keys to move the  cursor. In menus with buttons,
     only the side arrow keys work.



TERMINAL MENU:

     SHELL (DOS SHELL)
     This is usefule if you need to quickly go to dos to type some
     commands with out exiting the program.  You can type any valid
     dos command here.

     TEXT EDITOR:
     Useful for editing or viewing text files while online etc....
     And also works while downloading. This editor is limited to
     700lines at current.

     DOORWAY (DOOR WAY MODE):
     This option disables all keys in Nortel so non of the ALT
     commands work etc.  This is useful if the online service you
     are using needs to use the keys normally used by Nortel.

     SETUP:
     This option is used to set up Nortel to your specific needs
     and modem configurations etc.  We will go into more detail
     later on about this option.


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     DIAL (DIALLING DIRECTORY):
     This option takes you into the dialling directory where you
     can dial up bbses.  More about this later.

     BACK SCROLL:
     If you want to go back and see something you missed and
     scrolled of the screen then you can use the scroll back and
     scroll your way back to where ever you want.

     PATH (CHANGE DIRECTORY):
     By default you are in the directory where Nortel is. If you
     shelled to dos and changed the directory there by going to a
     different directory and then shelled back into nortel then
     this path will change to represent this current path. The PATH
     button will allow you to change the path without shelling to
     dos. All files downloaded go into this current path.

     CHAT:
     A useful option if you are directly connected to someone who
     is also using a terminal program like NorTel. Chat will split
     the screen in two parts and will show your typing on the
     bottom half. Normally when calling a BBS, the BBS sends back
     the keystrokes you send it and gets displayed on your screen.
     A terminal program doesn't send characters back so your typing
     doesn't appear.

     FILE TRANSFER:
     To download a file press pageup or pagedown or ALT-F this will
     activate the download menu and gives you a list of 9
     protocals.  The best protocal is zmodem and you probably won't
     use many of the others but in case you need them they are
     there.

     CAPTURE:
     Often when online you will need to capture text this means you
     will write text to the screen and to disk. NorTel's capture
     dosn't need for you to enter a file name. NorTel automatically
     makes a new file called screen.000. The extenchion 000
     represents the number of the file. New files always are given
     the highest number. For exsample if there are 2 files called
     screen.010 and screen.013 in the NorTel dirrectary then the
     new file name is called screen.014. To activate capture type
     ALT-A. Now you will see 4 buttons.

     -Open new file
     -Keep ansi code
     -Add to old file
     -Keep ansi code

     Choose "Open new file"  to create a new file of all incoming
     text.


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     "Keep ansi code" will write the captured file with ansi codes.

     Choose "Add to old file"  to append incoming text to the
     newest old capture file.

     "Keep ansi code" write captured file with all ansi code.

     Press ALT-A to stop the capturing of incoming text.


THE DIALING DIRECTORY:
     This is one of the most important parts of the program, the
     dialing directory used for calling your favourite BBS's and
     online services. Here is a list of all the commands
     and what they do.

          DEL : This function deletes any bbs entry that the scroll
          bar is currently positioned on.

          INSERT : Used to make room for a new entry.

          TAG ALL : Tages all entries in the currently loaded list
          for dialling.

          HOME : Used to move the scroll bar to the first entry.

          PAGE UP : Scrolls upwards, a page at a time.

          EDIT : Use to edit each entry. More on this under Entry
          editor

          RESTORES : Restores the current dialling list by
          reloading it from disk. This is possible because all
          changed are only saved when exiting Nortel. Restoring is
          only necessary if you pressed on the delete button by
          accident, however any other changed will also be
          restored.

          UNTAG ALL : Used to untage all taged entries.

          END : Moves the scroll bar to the vary last entry on the
          currently loaded directory.

          DEFAULTS : Dials all tag entries, using their default
          prefixes from the entries editor.
          You can use the other prefixes to dial all taged
          entries using that particular prefix. Example one day
          you decided to call all bbs with you phone line
          blocked, then you'd use the prefixes that sends the
          code to bock your phone line.



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          LOAD LIST : Press this button to load any desired
          dialling directory.

THE NORTEL SETUP:

     TERMINAL SETUP:
          The terminal setup is the most important part of the
          Nortel setup indeed!  Here is a brief list of all the
          options that norton terminal setup window offers you.
          For a more technical explanation consult your modem
          manual.

          COMPORT : Used to set Nortel to the right com port.
          Nortel will support up to four com ports. Set this option
          to which ever com port your modem is on.

          DATA BITS : You can set Nortel to work at either 8 (most
          common) or 7 bits depending on what online service you
          are going to connect to.

          PARITY : Your options here areas follows None, even, odd,
          mark, space

          STOP BITS : You options here are simply 1 or 2.

          BAUD RATE: Your options are 300, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600,
          38400, 57400, 115200.

          EMULATION : You have two options Ansi and TTY (plain
          text).

          HARDWARE FLOW CONTROL : Most protocols need this on.

          SOFTWARE FLOW CONTROL : Keep this off.

          Press the ESC key to exit or when done.

     DIALLING SETUP:
          These are the options you will find in the dialling setup
          and an explanation of what they will do.

          INITE STRING : This configures your modem when you start
          up Nortel. This option is user definable, the default
          ATZ this is what will be sent to your modem.

          DIALLING PREFIXS 1 to 5:
          These are user definable prefixes. They are very useful
          what they do is they let you add a certain number(s) to
          the beginning any number on the dialling directory.  For
          example if you are making calls out of your office and
          you are dialling threw a PBX you would configer one of
          the prefixes to send *9 before the number that is to be
          dialed.
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          MODEM RESPONSE STRING:
          Nortel uses these responses to recognize what your modem
          is doing. They also let you know what they are doing.
          You may need to change these responses if your modem uses
          different ones, however the default strings work with
          most modems so don't change them unless you have
          problems. Here is a list of the response strings in
          order.

          -CONNECT
          -BUSY
          -VOICE
          -NO DIAL
          -NO CARRIER
          -FAX
          -RING

     PROTOCOL SETUP:

          SETUP EXTERNAL PROTOCOLS:
          You often will need to use external protocols, these are ones
          which you will receive from BBSs and other online services and
          are often shareware or public domain.  You can use up to 8
          external protocols with NorTel. We have already setup NorTel
          to use hslink. However you will have to get hslink from a BBS.
          Nortel does no use batch files, it uses an internal batch
          process. All you have to do is enter some of the simple
          information about the protocol.  Because this part of
          the setup may be tricky, we provide help right of the setup menu.
          If the external protocol s designed properly you should have no
          problem. The only thing you have to watch out for is when entering
          the path and name to the protocol, make sure you include the
          extension (.exe .com).

          Next auto zmodem when on, automatically calls the internal
          zmodem without you having to go to the transfer menu. Zmodem
          always sends a string before transferring so NorTel recognizes this
          string and automatically calls the internal zmodem if turned on.
          You will have to turn auto zmodem off if you for some reason what
          to use an external one such as DSZ, or GIFLINK.

     BUTTON NAMES:
          This is used for naming the buttons used in the dialling
          directory such as the prefix buttons and the buttons used
          for loading a dialling directory.  You should name these
          buttons to what you defined them to do for example if you
          configured prefix 1 to enable call blocking you could
          call this button "CallBlock" for example.  The buttons
          used for loading the dialling directories (all 4 of them)
          You could name them to identify the different BBS list
          you are using.



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ENTRY EDITOR:
     Here you can and or change BBS names or phone numbers. Also
     here you can pick which auto loggin to use and which dialling
     prefix is to be used as default. For the auto loggin you'll
     also want to enter your name and password.

     HOW TO EDIT AUTO LOGGIN:
     If you press on the big button for entering edit mode, you
     will be able to edit the text in the yellow bars. This text is
     what NorTel uses to do an auto login. It's very simple, but it
     maybe a little tricky to get the right delays in. You'll
     likely avoid delay problems by setting them higher so the BBS
     you just called has time to send all it's screens and is ready
     for you input. We provide some examples and a little window
     pops up to show all the functions so there no need to describe
     this any further. One thing that isn't describe is the '{'
     bracket. You can use this to describe that particular auto
     loggin string, but be sure to put it right after the end of
     your string, else if you add space, then those spaces will be
     sent too.