Options
BBS
This section contains information nessesary to dial up a bbs.
- BBS Name - a name for this configuration.
- Phone Number - the number to dial
- Emulation - this is ansi-only in the moment
- Login Protocol - how Kom shall login to the bbs
- Custom autologin - in cases none of the above suits. Beside ordinary
characters you can use special strings here:
!E
- send escapes
!N
- send user name
!P
- send password
!W
- wait 1/2 sec.
!I
- never do IEMSI (this is not implemented yet.
IEMSI is started
by an EMSI_IRQ sent by the bbs. Such a bbs will happily accect Kom's
reply. BBSs that don't know nuts about IEMSI most probably won't
sent an EMSI_IRQ. So allowing IEMSI is the right choice in all cases.
!xx
- two hex digits for control codes - not implemented yet.
The Name,Password
-protocol for example corresponds to the
string !W!N!W!P
.
Identity
This is needed with the auto login facility.
- Username - your user name at this bbs.
- Password - the matching password.
- Alias
- Location - your home town
- Voice Phone Number - your own number
- Data Phone Number
Serial
The setup for the serial line. If you make changes here, you must restart
Kom to make use of these settings. (Will be fixed in the next release).
None of these settings beside Device
is really used
by Kom in the moment - next release. If you have to make changes,
modify the constructor Modem::Modem
and recompile.
- Device
- Databits
- Stopbits
- Parity
- Speed
- Handshake - you sould prefere
Hardware
here.
Modem
Strings to sent to your modem.
- Init String
- Dial Suffix
- Dial Prefix
General
- Capture File - to caputure the bytes that come from the modem. This is
for debugging and you will normally like to leave this empty.
- Logo - which ansi picture to show on start-up.
- Upload Directory - uploading is not implemented yet.
- Download Directory - where to place downloaded files.
Local
Local words and preferences.
- Affirmation - If you have choosen a autologin sequence containing "Yes",
the first character of this word is send to the bbs. This is to cope
with local variations of dialogs like:
Login: <Name>
Are you a listed user of the box (Y/N): Y
Password: <Password>
- Time Format - data and time are eventually displayed when you make a
connection with IEMSI login. The format is then used to show the local
time of the bbs.
- Date Format