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8. Monica and Other Programs

8.1 Monica and AppleScript

Monica now has some very basic scriptability. The following commands are supported:

• Put a new URL in the queue: GetURL
  tell application "Monica" to GetURL "http://www.somewhere.com/file.zip"
  
• Purge the queue: PurgeQ
  tell application "Monica" to PurgeQ
  
• Start the queue : StartQ
  tell application "Monica" to StartQ
  
• Stop the queue: StopQ
  tell application "Monica" to StopQ
  
• Start Monica ( ie load and run the application ): StartUp
  tell application "Monica" to StartUp
  
• PPP control: StartPPP and StopPPP
  tell application "Monica" to StopPPP
  tell application "Monica" to StartPPP
  
• Remote List Control: Activate "Get File" Function
  tell application "Monica" to GetList

8.2 Monica and Hotline

Hotline is a really great net program from Hotline Communications. If you don't already use it I really recommend it.

Monica is NOT an officially sanctioned Hotline product, and is not affiliated with Hotline Communications in any way. The Hotline applications themselves were not decompiled in any way to provide Monica's Hotline functionality - the protocol was analysed through monitoring the communications. Monica should be regarded as a "helper" application for Hotline, the type of program that has been actively encouraged by Hotline Communications.

While Monica can now download files from Hotline servers I wish to state a few things about this, and Hotline etiquette. Firstly, Monica is NOT a full Hotline client and is NOT meant to replace using the Hotline application. Monica only downloads files, she does not allow newsreading, messaging, chatting etc. Consequently I suggest the following unless you wish to incur the wrath of the Hotline server admins:

• Connect using Hotline not Monica.
• Request permission from the admin to use Monica to download files.
• If refused - then use Hotline to get the files. If granted - well then you know what to do ;).
• Remain connected with Hotline itself ( for chat, messages etc ).

Username, password and port are not required if you are logging in as a guest to a server using the standard Hotline port ( 5500 ).

You may enter your Hotline nickname and preferred icon number in Monica's preferences.

What advantages does Monica have over the Hotline application for getting files?

• Items are placed in a queue and are not lost if you are disconnected from the server.
• Monica will keep retrying if all server download slots are full.
• Monica can be downloading from up to four servers simultaneously.
• Monica does not load the often-lengthy News, and ignores all incoming messages/chat etc.

• Monica allows only one connection per server at a time ( queue your downloads! ).
• Monica will only try to get the next file in the queue for the same server if the queue is running.
• Many Hotline servers contain special characters in their file names. In certain cases Monica has to translate these into hex values.

8.3 Monica and PPP

With version 2 of the RealBASIC compiler came preliminary support for PPP control. It is still a bit unreliable, but I have chosen to leave the new PPP functions in Monica .

PLEASE NOTE: The PPP functions ONLY work with the PPP supplied with MacOS and Open Transport. They do NOT work with FreePPP. This is a RealBASIC issue.

If the PPP functions do not work for you please let me know the machine you are running on, the Open Transport version, and the version of PPP/Remote Access you are running.

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Last updated by DocGen on Thursday, March 15, 2001 at 8:56:53

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