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This program is intended to be more or less self-explanatory. It will
give you a menu, from which you select the various items that need to
be configured. You should configure, as an ABSOLUTE MINIMUM, both your
serial port configuration and your callsign.
KTconfig will also allow you to configure the various colors, etc.,
while seeing the results immediately on the screen as you change the
colors with the arrow keys. Neat, eh? If you want, you can have a
color-chart appear on the screen, too (this will usually hide the
sample of the window you're trying to configure, though, and isn't
displayed unless you ask for it).
There is a help window at the bottom of the screen that will tell you
what the item you currently have selected actually does (usually a very
terse description, due to space requirements). In a couple of cases
(changing menu and text entry colors), a second help window will appear,
and you will need to use CTRL-LEFT-ARROW and CTRL-RIGHT-ARROW to switch
between various options (this is done so that you can configure the
entire set of menu and text entry colors in one screen, rather than
having to go between multiple screens).
KTconfig will include a substantial portion of the documentation for
each config file item in the config file. This is for those of you
who, like me, usually prefer to just edit the ASCII config file and
go on about your business, rather than having to use a config program
every time you want to change something. Also, KTconfig will print the
various parameters in more or less the same order as they appear in the
documentation, but you are free to re-order these at any time (this
still won't affect the order that KTconfig prints them in, though).
In other words, KAMterm and KTconfig don't care what order the config
file's options are in when they read it in.
That brings me to the one last thing I wanted to mention about KTconfig.
KTconfig *WILL* take note of your existing configuration file, if it
exists (if not, it uses the default values for everything), and will
use the values for each parameter that you have specified in there.
In other words, using KTconfig doesn't mean you have to reconfigure
everything from scratch. This shouldn't be any big surprise to anyone,
but I just wanted to make sure everyone knows that this was taken care
of.
And with that, I'm going to close this thing up, ZIP it up, and re-load
Linux so I can get a copy uploaded to wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (not to
mention the fact that a UUCP poll is scheduled in a few minutes, and
it isn't going to happen if I'm still running dos!).
Enjoy, folks!
--jim
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