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DIAL.EXE Documentation File
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DIAL.EXE is a program that has been designed to connect you to The
Ride bulletin board system. In order to use this program, you must
have a modem somewhere in your machine that is hooked up to a working
phone line. That's all you need to know. To get started, just type
"DIAL" at your DOS prompt followed by a carriage return to get started.
The first thing that the program will do is to search your computer for
a modem. You need not trouble yourself with what COM port your modem
is in, or any of that: the DIAL program will find your modem, wherever
it is. DIAL will then automatically set itself up to the fastest
communications rate that your modem can handle.
DIAL will then ask you a few simple questions... It may ask you
questions about if a certain city and state are local calls to you.
These are simply yes or no questions that can be answered by simply
typing a Y or an N when the question is asked. Another question that
may be asked is whether or not you need to dial any special number to
get an outside line. If you answer Y to this question, it will ask you
for the number to dial.
Next, the DIAL program will try to connect you to the BBS (bulletin
board system). If it encounters any problems with connecting, it may
ask you the configuration questions again, just to make sure that the
responses it recorded were correct. If it still can't connect after
two attempts, it will give up and advise you to call your
representative or just try again later. Otherwise, you're online!
When you're online, you really only need to know three things. The
first thing is that any time you want to quit and go back to DOS, all
you have to do is hit ALT-X. This will hang up your modem and then
return you to DOS.
The second thing is exiting DIAL without hanging up, and then returning
back to DIAL. You can do this by typing ALT-J (this is also known as
"jumping to DOS"). You will temporarily exit DIAL, and go down to DOS.
When you're ready to return to DIAL, just enter in the EXIT command
from DOS.
The last thing is transferring files. If you need to transfer a file
from your machine to the BBS, or you need to transfer a file from the
BBS to your machine, you can use DIAL's built-in ZMODEM support. If
you want to receive a file from the BBS, then make the proper
selections on the BBS, and make sure you select the ZMODEM protocol if
it asks you what protocol to use. Once you select ZMODEM, the DIAL
program will automatically sense that you're downloading (receiving a
file from the BBS), and go ahead and transfer the file from the BBS to
your hard drive (it will go in the same directory as the DIAL program).
To upload (transfer a file from your hard drive to the BBS), you also
need to make the proper selections on the BBS and choose the ZMODEM
protocol. Once you select ZMODEM, the DIAL program will sense that you
are about to start an upload, and prompt you for the file name you want
to upload. It will then transfer the file to the BBS and return you to
normal terminal mode. (You can upload multiple files by using
wildcards in the name of the file you wish to upload. For example, you
might type *.ZIP to upload all .ZIP files.)