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- Miniscule Term v1.0
- By Harry Sarber
- 10/25/89
-
- Introduction
-
- Miniscule Term was written to provide me a small terminal program to use
- in place of Flash. Flash is great, but at times it's a little too much for
- what I need. This terminal is an ASCII/VT-52 terminal that has no upload or
- download capabilities unless you use an accessory file transfer program. You
- can upload from the Capture buffer, but that's it.
-
- GFA Basic 2.0 source code is included in case you wish to add more things
- to the program or fix any bugs I missed (grin). The program has been tested
- by others than myself and I couldn't believe the number of problems in the beta
- version.
-
- Setup
-
- The following files should be included in the archive:
-
- MINISCUL.PRG
- MINISCUL.DOC
- MINISCUL.LST
-
- That's all you need to run the program. Two more files will be created by
- the program when you run it. One is the configuration file which stores
- information such as Baud, Duplex, Capture on/off, Long distance string, and
- Long distance character. The other is a dial directory which you can make up
- yourself or if you own Flash you can use it's dial directory since I made it
- compatible with Flash's dial directory. Either load the directory in and save
- it as MINISCUL.DIR so it will load automatically the next time you run
- Miniscule Term or you can rename DIAL.DIR from Flash to MINISCUL.DIR. Just
- make sure the dial directory is in the same folder as Miniscule Term.
-
- Now run Miniscule Term. The screen should clear and credits should be
- shown. From here you can use it manually to call with or you can click the
- right mouse button for a menu bar. Pressing Help will bring up an alert box
- that says:
- F1-Capture On F2-Capture Off
- Right mouse button for menu bar
- Undo-Exit
-
- Not much, but that's all you should need. I added F1 and F2 so that you
- wouldn't have to go to the menu bar to turn the Capture buffer on or off.
- You can do it from the menu bar, but it's easier using F1 and F2.
-
- Menu Bar
-
- Clicking the right mouse button will clear the screen and bring up a menu
- bar for setting up various parameters. The first is Desk which lets you look
- at the credits again and also to be able to run accessories. Next is Options
- which is used to set Duplex, Linefeeds, and Tone/Pulse. After that comes
- Baud which is self-explanatory. The Capture section is used to toggle the
- Capture buffer on and off (same as F1/F2 from the terminal screen), Load or
- Save the buffer, View the buffer, Print the buffer, and Send the buffer to the
- modem. Dial is used to Dial a number, Edit a number, Load or Save a dial
- directory, change the Long distance string, or change the Long distance
- character. Config is used to Load a configuration file or Save the present
- configuration to disk.
-
- Selecting On or Off from the Capture section will turn the buffer on or
- off. You can load an ASCII or VT-52 file into the Capture buffer as long as
- it is less than ~32K (32000 characters). If it is larger than that it will
- prompt you if you want to load part of the file. (Don't blame me. GFA Basic
- 2.0 only supports strings up to 32K.) Print will print out the buffer. Make
- sure your printer is online or else it may lock up the program until you either
- turn on the printer or turn off the computer. Select View to see what's in the
- buffer. Use the mouse to page ahead or abort viewing the buffer. Select Send
- to send what's in the buffer to the modem.
-
- Selecting Dial will bring up a dial directory. There is room for 60 names
- and numbers. Use the arrows on the left to page through the names. Click on
- the name you wish to dial. The screen will go back to the terminal screen and
- it will say who you are dialing and then it will send out the number to the
- modem. Press the right mouse button to abort the dialer.
-
- Selecting Edit will again bring up a dial directory. Select the number
- you wish to edit. It will prompt you for a new name and then a new number.
- Hitting return on each prompt will leave the name/number as it was before
- it was selected. Press the right mouse button to abort the editor.
-
- Load directory and Save directory are used to load and store directories
- to disk. Saved directories are compatible with Flash. Save the directory
- as MINISCUL.DIR if you want it to load when you run Miniscule Term.
-
- The Long distance string is a string of characters that are sent out to
- the modem after "ATDT" (or "ATDP") and before the number selected. For
- instance, if you were using a long distance carrier you could set up the string
- to be: 444-1234,,,43254 in which case the complete number dialed would be:
- ATDT444-1234,,,43254(Number selected). This would cause it to dial the local
- node and then send out the access code prior to the number selected.
-
- The Long distance character is the first character in the number section.
- It is used to tell the program to use the Long distance string when dialing.
- The default is the plus character (+).
-
- Once you have everything set up the way you like it, use Save
- Configuration to save the present setup to disk. If you want it to load the
- next time you run the program name it MINISCUL.CFG. Make sure it gets saved
- in the same directory as Miniscule Term or it won't get loaded the next time
- you run the program.
-
- Disclaimer
-
- Any damage to you or your system from running this program ain't my fault
- and I won't be held responsible.
-
- Epilog
-
- And that's about it. It's a rather simple terminal program, but it fills
- my needs. Source code is included in case you wish to make changes. This
- program is being distributed as Shareware and as such, if you like and use
- this program please support the Shareware concept by sending $5.00 to:
-
- Harry Sarber
- 191 Forsyth Road
- Oakdale, CT 06370
-
- Feedback, criticisms, and bug reports can be made to me on either Genie
- (H.SARBER) or you can call my BBS (ST Ranger BBS) at 203-859-3871
- 300/1200/2400 baud.
-