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TT - Tiny Terminal
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Version 1.0 08-Aug-90
© Mikael Karlsson & Absolut Software 1990
Is it Public Domain?
TT is NOT Public Domain. TT is 'Freely distributable
copyrighted software with a shareware option'.
"Permission is hereby granted to copy TT provided that
the copyright notice and this document is left intact.
Copies may not be made for profit."
I don't know if the above should hold in court but what
I mean is: Copy TT if you want to but don't make a
business of it. It is of course free to include it on
public domain disks or putting it on a BBS.
If you find TT useful, please feel free to send a
donation ($10 is a nice round number) or a nice program (PD).
Please don't send personal checks. It costs me $5 to
cash them. Or you can buy me a beer or two when we meet.
If you wish to include TT with a commercial product,
please contact me first. I just want to make sure that
my ego can stand for it. Of course it would also be nice
with a registered copy of the product.
What is it?
TT is a very small communications program. I got fed up
with 100+ KBytes communications programs that had millions
of options, buttons, bells and whistles.
TT is
* small (approximately 13 KBytes)
* uses no chipmem (runs in the CLI)
* has no built-in protocol (uses the XPR standard)
* does no terminal emulation (ANSI is good enough for most BBSing)
* doesn't have any phonebook.
Starting
TT accepts a couple of command line arguments.
Argument Specifies Example
-------- --------- -------
-S serial.device The device -Ssupra.device
-U n The device unit -U3
-P protocol The XPR protocol -Pzmodem
-K keymap The keymap -Ks
-F font/size Name and size of the font. -Ftopaz/8
-D xferdirectory Upload/download directory. -Dsys:transfer
Everything else that is specified on the command line is
sent to the modem. A newline is inserted after each word
on the command line.
Example: TT ATDT555-4132
I have found that the easiest way to use TT is to have a
couple of aliases, where each alias is a host that I want
to call.
Example:
alias npd "TT -Pzmodem ATDT112196"
alias dogs "TT -Pzmodem ATDT261204"
When I want to call a host, I simply type the name of it.
Running
When TT is running, you can use a couple of command keys.
Hold down the right Amiga key and type the appropriate
character.
P prompts for a new XPR protocol.
D prompts for a filename and downloads that file.
U prompts for a filename and uploads that file.
Q exits TT.
That's all folks
That's it. Now you know how to use TT. Doesn't seem too
hard, does it? Have fun.
The future
Fixing the bugs. I can't find any at the moment, but I'm
sure there are some.
ARexx, ARexx, ARexx!
Note to programmers
I'm sure that a lot of programmers will find the source code
interesting. It explains how to do asynchronous IO in the
CLI. It took some job getting it right.
It also provides a complete working (well :-) example of how
to use the XPR standard.
s-mail: Mikael Karlsson
Lövsättersvägen 10
S-585 98 LINKÖPING
SWEDEN
e-mail: micke@slaka.sirius.se
micke@slaka.UUCP
{mcvax|munnari|seismo}!sunic!liuida!slaka!micke
Phone: +46-13 50479
+46-431 50623 (in the summer)
\_/ Mikael Karlsson, Lovsattersvagen 10, S-585 98 LINKOPING, SWEDEN
V | micke@slaka.sirius.se
| Absolut Software | micke@slaka.UUCP
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