Qmodem SST 3.0 Online Help 0044 0071 0 0072 0079 . 0080 0089 0090 0252 0253 0261 ! 0262 0276 " 0277 0296 # 0297 0307 0308 0317 $ 0318 0346 % 0347 0360 & 0361 0371 2 0372 0380 1 0381 0392 0393 0413 0414 0428 0429 0488 0489 0502 0503 0517 0518 0525 0526 0533 / 0534 0550 0551 0559 - 0560 0571 0572 0580 , 0581 0587 I 0588 0608 Q 0609 0619 H 0620 0656 w 0657 0670 u 0671 0682 r 0683 0692 0693 0698 x 0699 0710 y 0711 0726 z 0727 0730 { 0731 0734 | 0735 0738 } 0739 0742 0743 0762 ΓΌ 0763 0769 0000 0000 ALT-A STRIP/REPLACE TABLE. Strip/Replace is used to translate incoming characters to some other characters. Pressing the ALT-A key combinations produces a screen containing the ASCII values 0-127 and their translated equivalents. Above the translate table is the character representation of the highlighted entry, both received and translated. Any characters that have been translated will appear highlighted. To change a character, move the highlighted (semi box looking thing) around the table (up, down, left, and right) to the number/character you want to strip or replace. The number to the left of the dash is the ASCII position in the table. The number to the right of the dash is the character you will see when Qmodem receives the number on the left. Press the Space Bar once. You will receive a prompt at the bottom of the screen asking for an integer between 0 and 255. To strip the character, replace the number on the right with a 0 (ZERO). Press [ENTER] to complete the change. The 'S' key will swap the table showing the high bit entries 128-255. Repeat the procedure to change any of these also. When you are finished, press the [Esc] key to save the changes. ALT-B BELLS AND BEEPS TOGGLE. Qmodem uses the PC's speaker to notify you of events you should be interested in. Since Qmodem cannot control the volume of the speaker, it may be desirable to turn it off (or on, depending on the default in Qinstall). You can toggle the noise on and off with ALT-B. ALT-C CLEAR SCREEN. This will clear the screen of all information. For those of you who call Bulletin Boards that have those neat color screens, sometimes the colors end up different than you would like. Using ALT-C will reset the color on your screen back to your configuration selections. If you have changed the screen colors with a Script command, then the colors specified in the Script will override the default colors. ALT-D DIALING DIRECTORY. Qmodem has the capability to store up to 200 entries with information such as: name, number, port configuration, script file for auto-logon, date of last connect, total connections, default transfer protocol, and duplex to use. After pressing ALT-D the following is displayed on the screen. * Dial number(s) [ <cr> for Dialing Directory, <Esc> to exit ] > _ This is referred to as the "quick entry" prompt. You can enter your dialing directory number(s) and skip the dialing directory. All of the dialing prefix codes are valid. For example, to dial directory number 12, you would just enter "12<cr>" and Qmodem will process the call. * Dial number(s) [ <cr> for Dialing Directory, <Esc> to exit ] > 12 With the use of the alternate prefix codes, long distance services may be utilized. Some services require the prefix codes before the actual number, another needs it just at the end of the number, while still others need two codes sent out. Qmodem can handle all of the above cases with ease. Refer to the dialing prefix subcommand below for a full interpretation on how to use the prefix codes. To Manual dial a number, you only need include the letter 'M' somewhere in the number. So, the quick entry would be: * Dial number(s) [ <cr> for Dialing Directory, <Esc> to exit ] > M824-8167 The dialing directory can hold up to 200 names, numbers and communication parameters. From here, you can dial or revise any one of the 200 numbers, change any one of the 5 prefix dialing strings, enter a manual dial mode or just page through the listing. There are 9 sub-function as listed in the lower window shown above. Lets take a closer look at each of them. CLEARING ENTRIES The Clear command removes unwanted information from the phone book. One entry or a block of entries can be cleared. Lets experiment with the phone book Qmodem created for you. First, press the "C" key. The prompt "Number >" shows up waiting for you to enter a number in the range 1 - 200. Pressing [ENTER] exits back to the dialing option menu. Enter the number "10" and press [ENTER]. Now you will get the "Through >" prompt. Here you can press [ENTER] and Qmodem will repeat the first number for you or you can enter a larger number if you want to clear a group of numbers. Just press [ENTER]. Last, you get the "Are you sure ?" prompt. To clear the entry(s), a "Y" or "y" must be entered. Anything else and Clear command aborts. The above commands will look like the following in the lower window: To clear a block of numbers, enter a larger number at the second prompt. The comm parameters can also be pre-selected by using the ALT-P command before Clearing. DIALING AN ENTRY Dialing is how you connect with the world and Qmodem has one of the best. Multiple numbers and combinations can be used to get you online quickly. You can prefix the number with one of five characters, [+ - ! @ #]. This will cause one of the five optional prefix strings to be tacked on to the phone number from the entry. The following examples show both good and bad dialing entries: Good ==> Number > +1 Number > 123 Bad ===> Number > a12 (a is not a valid prefix) Number > 201 (number > 200) Qmodem has the capability to dial up to 10 different numbers at one time. At either of the dialing prompts (quick entry or from the dialing directory), you can specify up to 10 different entry numbers with prefix codes to be cycled through until a connection has been established. [PgUp] and [PgDn] are active while you select your numbers to dial. At the dial prompt, you are allowed to enter up to 60 characters that define the entries in the phone book. REVISE PREFIX ENTRIES Prefix characters are used to modify the numbers in the phone book. A window will open up showing you all of the prefix codes and their entries. Enter the prefix character for the string you want to change or press [ENTER]. To clear an entry, press [SPACE] and then [ENTER]. As declared earlier in the documentation, the prefix codes can be used in a variety of ways. MANUAL DIAL With manual dial, any combination of numbers and letters can be used. Note that the dialing Prefix codes are valid in manual dial mode! There is no limit on the number of characters that can be entered in the manual dial window. It is up to you to determine how many characters that can be entered before your modem will stop accepting data. And don't forget to add the Prefix codes! OTHER INFORMATION This replaces the information under Comm and Script with new information. Qmodem now can keep track of last call date, total calls, default protocol, and echo. They are labeled LastCall, Total, P, and E respectively. LastCall and Total are maintained by Qmodem, while P and E are user defined. LastCall is the date in MM/DD/YY format of the last CONNECT to this number. It is important to understand, that simply dialing the number does not mean that LastCall and Total will be updated. It must be a valid CONNECT. PGUP & PGDN Pressing PgUp shows you the next page of the dialing directory unless page 10 is already displayed. If page 10 is displayed, then it will wrap around back to page 1. Similarly, pressing PgDn shows you the previous page of the dialing directory unless page 1 is already displayed. If page 1 is displayed, then it will wrap around back to page 10. REVISE AN ENTRY You Revise an entry to change the information it contains. Pressing the letter "R" will get you the "Number >" prompt on the bottom of the Options window. There you will enter the number of the directory to be changed. Note that the number to be changed does not have to be displayed for this to work. Any number from 1 to 200 will work. Each part of the entry number is displayed, one part at a time, and waits for you to enter something. If you are updating just the number for a bulletin board, when the name is displayed, just press [ENTER] to skip to the next entry. A null entry in the form of [ENTER] at any prompt in the revise window will NOT change the previous data for that entry. In other words, you won't have to retype all of the data every time you want to make a small change. When the revision is complete, the window will disappear and the directory will be updated both on disk and in memory. LOADING A NEW PHONE BOOK. New with version 3.0 is the ability to have more than one phone book! Using the "L" command, you can load another phone book. If the new phone book does not exist, you are asked if you want to create it. When a new phone book is created, you will go through the same questions as when you created the first phone book. After answering all of them, the phone book is ready to be used. EXIT DIALING DIRECTORY Pressing ESC will make the dialing directory window disappear and bring you back the main screen just as it was before. ALT-E ECHO TOGGLE. This will toggle on and off the Echo which is sometimes referred to as "Duplex". This is used in case your keyboard strokes are echoed like "HHEELLOO" or not visible at all. If the Remote host is echoing your keystrokes back to you, this is considered "Full Duplex". When you have to supply the characters yourself, this is called "Half-Duplex". ALT-F SCRIPT FILE EXECUTION. Qmodem includes a command language to automate your logons. Scripts can be used on commercial services like CompuServe, Delphi, Dow Jones News/Retrieval, GEnie, MCI-Mail, NewsNet, The Source and local BBS systems like PCBoard, Fido, Nochange, and RBBS-PC. Using a script, you type just a few keystrokes to set your communication parameters, dial (and re-dial) the phone, connect to another computer, log on with your name or account number and password, retrieve and save information, then log off. Because everything is automatic, there are no mistakes or wasted time spent online. If you're paying for your online time, scripts can save you big money. For more information on the Scripts and its language, refer to the Scripts Section. ALT-G TERMINAL EMULATION. Terminal emulation makes Qmodem look like another terminal. An example would be the popular VT100 from Digital(tm). In terminal emulation mode, Qmodem translates the terminal codes to ones that the PC can display and generally looks just like that terminal. There are 4 types of terminals emulated now: TTY - No emulation at all. ANSI - Emulates the ANSI.SYS of PC-DOS. VT100 - Emulates the Digital VT100. TVI925 - Emulates the Televideo 925 terminal. Pressing ALT-G opens up a window with the four choices. Just press the letter that corresponds to the terminal you want to emulate. When pressed, the screen will clear and the Status Line will reflect the emulation mode. If you are in Split-Screen mode (via ALT-S), you cannot change your emulation mode. Split- Screen requires the TTY emulation mode. ALT-H HANG UP. The Hangup command is used to terminate a call. If you get connected to a host computer that 'locks up', you would use this command to disconnect the call. Pressing ALT-H may do one of two things depending on what you have entered in Qinstall. If you have entered "DTR" for the modem hangup string, Qmodem will toggle the "DTR" signal and the connection will be dropped. Otherwise, it sends out the Modem Hangup string. The recommended Hangup string from Hayes(tm) is "~~~+++~~~ATH{". ALT-I INFORMATION ON QMODEM. This will show you an order invoice to register your copy(s) of Qmodem. If you have any problems with Qmodem, please send me a card or letter and include this information. Also include a complete description of the hardware and software running on your system when the problem occurs. Note any TSR's you may have running at the time. This is the only way I can accurately solve the problem. ALT-J FUNCTION KEY MACROS. Function key macros (FKey for short) are used to store keystrokes that you would send repetitively. New with 3.0, you can tie Script Command files to an FKey. By pressing one key, you can invoke Scripts! The keys are numbered from 1 to 40 for clarity. Each column references F1 through F10, top to bottom with the key modifier being the label. Each column displays the first 10 characters that are assigned to each key. This can looked at as a Quick Reference for all macros. If you want to see the complete definitions for any column, select the number at the prompt to bring that column into full view. CHANGING A KEY MACRO. When you select 1 through 4, the window will clear and bring that specific column into full view. LOADING A NEW .KEY FILE. Look back at the first example screen, the one with the quick reference of all FKeys. Just above the line with the options, you see the name of the KEY file that is currently loaded. Using the "L" command will load a new KEY file. If the KEY file does not exist, then you will be asked if you want to create it. Once loaded, all the above features will work on the new KEY file. ALT-K CHANGING THE ACTIVE COM PORT. Selecting ALT-K opens a window showing you the currently active COM port and the ones you have available. All 8 COM ports will be shown, but you can only select ports that are marked COMx (where x is 1 through 8). If the port is marked "Undefined", that means that you have not set that port up in Qinstall and cannot select it. After you choose the COM port, Qmodem will close the current port and open the NEW port with the same parameters your previous port had. If you want to change the parameters, then press ALT-P and continue. ALT-L CHANGING THE LOGGED DRIVE. This opens a small window and asks for the drive letter to become the default drive. Drive letters A through Z are valid. Qmodem will check to make sure the drive is valid before closing the window. If the drive is found to be invalid, a message to that effect will be displayed and you will be prompted for another drive letter. If the drive WAS valid, the window will politely disappear. Pressing ESC will abort the drive change and the window will disappear. ALT-M MUSIC TOGGLE. Music will be generated on the PC's speaker if three things happen: 1) The terminal emulation must be ANSI (ALT-G). 2) Music is ON (ALT-M). 3) The BBS you are connected to has music encoded screens. If any of these are not correct, you will not hear music. The format of the Encoded Music string that Qmodem recognizes is: ESC[M.....music codes......^N ALT-N INVOKING QINSTALL ONLINE. New with 3.0, you can now run Qinstall from inside Qmodem. There is a restriction that you must have enough memory to load Qinstall. Almost all of the preset fields can be modified. You can change the colors, the upload and download directory paths and add new protocols without leaving Qmodem. Qinstall will even come up using the window colors you have defined. If there is not enough memory to load Qinstall, nothing will happen. You then must use the ALT-X (exit) command and run Qinstall from outside Qmodem. ALT-O CHANGING SUBDIRECTORIES. With this command, not one, but two windows open up. The long tall one is a listing of valid subdirectories for the current directory you are in. If you don't have any subdirectories or don't use them, this would be blank. The other window lists your current path (if any) and waits for you to enter a CHDIR command. Any valid CD command can be entered here, not just what shows in the left column. If you enter something wrong, Qmodem will give you the message: "Invalid CHDIR command. No changes made." On the other hand, taking the same example as above, if you wanted to switch to an optional download directory, you could have typed in "C:\COMM\DOWNLOAD" to the prompt and (provided the path was valid) you would then be in your download subdirectory. Note too, that if you include the drive specified with a new path command, and the Drive is valid, the current Logged Drive will be changed also. ALT-P COMMUNICATIONS PARAMETERS. You can change your communication parameters on the fly without having your modem hangup. There are two ways to select the new parameters. The first method is my using the Space Bar to select the topic. The four topics are SPEED, PARITY, DATA BITS, and STOP BITS. As you press the Space Bar, each of these will light up in turn. You then use the left and right arrow keys on the numeric keypad to change the values. The second method is to just hit the letter associated with the parameter you want. Pressing [ENTER] alone keeps the previous setting and exits to Qmodem ready. If one of the list entries is selected, the communication parameters are altered to reflect the new choice before the window disappears. ALT-Q THE DIAL/REDIAL SCREEN. As explained in the ALT-D command, you can enter up do 10 phone book dial commands complete with prefix codes. Qmodem will cycle through them one at a time until a connection is made. But this release has an exclusive Queue Edit feature that lets you manipulate the queue and continue where you left off. You can change an entry, delete an entry, or add a new entry, and then start the cycle over. The screen will show you not only the status of the current call, but the information from the phone book about the current number being called. The last time you connected successfully, how many time you have called, and the name of a Script (if any) attached to this number. The next line shows the status of the redial session. When you started the Dial/Redial, the current system Clock and the current Attempt number. The fourth line is reserved for messages that your modem returns. The fifth line is reserved for Status messages. DIALING FROM THE ALT-D SCREEN. If you entered ALT-D to get to this window, then the calling process starts immediately. There are no delays, the ALT-D screen will close and this window will open automatically. While the window is open, you have the following commands: [C]ycle Next - Pressing the "C" key will abort the current call, and start the next. The queue works from top to bottom skipping any blank lines. [D]elete Current - Pressing "D" aborts the current call and also deletes its entry from the queue. [E]dit Queue - Pressing "E" aborts the current call and places you into an Edit mode. There you can change the queue before continuing. [X]tend Cycle - There is a preset limit in Qinstall as to how long a call should wait for a connect before cycling. You can extend this timeout by 5 seconds for every press of the "X" key. [Esc] - Pressing ESC will abort the current call and also remove the Dial/Redial window. When a connection has been made and the Beeps and Bells are active, Qmodem will sound off letting you know. Press any key to silence the bells and remove the window. If a script file was attached to the dialing entry, the bells will not go off and the script will begin executing automatically. EDITING THE QUEUE. When you are in the Edit mode, the line right below the dividing line will change to the following: Enter the queue number to change ? _ Here you type in a number from 1 to 10 and press [ENTER] or press [Esc] to abort the Edit. Assuming you entered a valid number, you will then get the following: Enter the new dial command for X, [Esc Exit] ? _ The X will be replaced by the number you typed in for verification. This line does not tell the whole story, and that's what the Status Line is for. The Status Line says to enter a new FON command, [ENTER] alone clears the entry, or [Esc] to exit. ALT-R DOS SHELL. If there is enough memory in your system and a copy of COMMAND.COM can be located with the COMSPEC= in the environment, you can drop to DOS. Qmodem is still running, capturing data if any comes in. If you remain in the DOS shell too long, the buffer in Qmodem may fill up and cause lost data. All DOS commands are then available, should you wish to format a disk for example. You can NOT execute any program that attaches itself to DOS and remains resident. SideKick is a good example. To return to Qmodem, enter the EXIT command at the DOS prompt. Remember, not all programs can be executed in this fashion, Qmodem is not designed to be a DOS shell. ALT-S SPLIT SCREEN MODE. The screen is divided into two partitions with one fifth of the screen reserved for the bottom partition. ALT-S is a toggle, so hitting ALT-S again will drop you out of split screen mode. If you are using a terminal emulation other than TTY, the emulation will be changed to TTY. Upon leaving Split screen, the emulation will remain in TTY mode. This is a true split screen mode complete with a 254 character buffer. Pressing the <CR> transmits the buffer. The keystrokes are kept track on on the dividing line. The character "{" can be used to substitute a [CR] in the string. Another feature of the Split screen is that all blank lines are "eaten" and not displayed. White space is then reduced to make better use of the upper partition. ALT-T SCREEN DUMP. This copies the screen to a file as specified in Qinstall. The screen is APPENDed to the file with a Time and Date stamp. If the file does not exist, you are prompted to create it. When successful, you will a quick "bleep" sound and a Status window will pop open for a moment. ALT-U SCROLL BACK TOGGLE. The Scroll Back toggle controls what is stored in the Scroll Back buffer. The Scroll Back command is discussed under the command "Up Arrow" later in this documentation file. Qmodem comes up with the Scroll Back turned ON. Everything coming to the screen will be stored for later recall in the buffer. ALT-V VIEW A FILE. The gateway can be used to either browse or edit a file. Any program that you would like to use could be put in here, even WordStar(tm)! This uses memory the same way the DOS shell does. You must have enough memory to invoke your list program or this will not work. For you power users, this can also be used to "visit" DOS. Any valid DOS command and/or program will work here. You could, for example, type in "DEL *.BAK" and press enter. This would go out and delete all the files in the current directory with an extension of ".BAK". When the "visit" has been completed, you will get: * Press any key to continue Then you will be back in Qmodem where you left off. ALT-W DISK DIRECTORY. This is just like the DOS version of DIR /p. Depending on where you are with respect to subdirectories, all of the normal files are displayed with their respective attributes. One of the enhancements is to add the Transmit times to each file. This Xmit time is based on your current baud rate set by the ALT-P command. ALT-X EXITING QMODEM. Pressing ALT-X will open a window and ask if you really want to exit. This is just a safety measure in case you really didn't intend to press ALT-X. If you do exit, Qmodem will return to the directory on your disk where you started. Qmodem will also close the Capture and LOG Files if they are open. Entering an 'X' will cause Qmodem to exit to DOS and leave the DTR line active. If you were online with another computer, you could issue the ALT-X command, enter an 'X', format a disk, re-invoke Qmodem and still be online. ALT-Y DELETE A FILE. This is used to delete a file you no longer want or need. Qmodem asks for a valid filename and checks to see if that file exist in the current directory. If it does, it asks you again if you really really want to delete the file. This will be the last chance before you might do something that can only be regretted later. Please be careful with this one! ALT-Z XON/XOFF TOGGLE. This will toggle the Xon/Xoff flow control built into Qmodem. Xon/Xoff is a very simple means of flow control usually used by mini and mainframe computers. With Xon/Xoff in the OFF mode, a buffer overrun may occur on long ASCII transmissions. PgUp UPLOAD (SENDING) A FILE. The PgUp key will open a window and ask you what type of transfer protocol you would like to use. If you have installed the protocols that come with the 3.0 disk, your window will also have 4 External protocols listed. Select the protocol that both you and the host have agreed upon and press the appropriate letter. For example, press the letter "X" for Xmodem. 99% of all BBS systems accept the Xmodem protocol. Now the protocol window will disappear and two more windows will pop onto the screen. Because you are uploading, you will be prompted for a filename to send to the other computer. Enter that filename in the Allocation window. Then the actual transfer will take place. Be patient. It takes a few seconds to get going. The actual protocols themselves will not be covered in the online help. Refer to the documentation for a complete discussion. PgDn DOWNLOAD A FILE. Download uses the same protocols as Upload and the descriptions will not be repeated. A window will open up prompting for the protocol. After selecting the protocol, a file allocation window will appear. Enter the name of the file you wish to download. Then the actual file transfer will take place. Be patient, it may take a few seconds to begin. UP-ARROW SCROLL BACK. By pressing the Up-Arrow, you can scroll back through the previous lines of data that have come in. The valid keys in scroll back mode are: Up arrow - go up one line Down arrow - go down one line PgUp - go up one page PgDn - go down one page Home - go to the top End - go to the end ALT-S - save to disk ALT-C - clear the scroll back Esc - exit scroll back Pressing the [Esc] will exit scroll back mode. This should be pretty much self explanatory. When you reach the top of the scroll, you get the message: * Top of Scroll When you are at the bottom : * Bottom of Scroll The scroll back area is dynamically allocated in Qmodem so you can store thousands of lines. Qinstall has the capability to set Qmodem's Heap/Stack space for just this purpose. Qmodem comes configured with the minimum setting, 0C00 hex paragraphs. A paragraph is 16 bytes and the number is specified in hex. Because Qmodem needs room of its own, the minimum of 0C00 will give about 36 lines to the scroll back. The memory left over not used by the scroll back is used for the ALT-R DOS shell, the ALT-V View File and the External Protocols for file transfers. If you over allocate the scroll back memory, these may not work properly. CTRL-HOME CAPTURE TO DISK. Pressing Ctrl-Home open a window and ask you to verify the file to be used to "Capture" data to. You can change the file to be used by back spacing over the current filename and entering a new one. If it is a new file, Qmodem will ask you if it should create the file. Enter a "Y" to do so, or "N" to re-enter the filename. Pressing ESC will abort the Capture and return you to Qmodem Ready mode. If you do start capturing to disk, Qmodem will put a message on the screen telling you it is working. To close the capture file, you hit the Ctrl-Home again. Qmodem will close the file on disk and put a message on the screen telling you the Capture is OFF. CTRL-END SENDING A TRUE BREAK. If your modem is capable of sending a true BREAK signal, you would use Ctrl-End to send it. A true BREAK signal lasts for 1.5 seconds and is used to notify the other computer that you want to interrupt whatever it is doing. The online service GEnie can use the BREAK signal like you would use the ^C to stop some of your programs on the PC. Pressing Ctrl-End put a message out on the screen that says: * <BREAK> CTRL-PRTSC COPYING TO THE PRINTER. If you have a printer hooked up, and would like the text on your screen to echo to the printer, press Ctrl-PrtSc. Then, everything that comes across the line will go to the printer. This is a toggle, so to turn the copy off, press Ctrl-PrtSc again. Be SURE you have a printer hooked up and turned on before turning this on. If you don't, you will get a DOS "Abort, Retry or Ignore" error message. SHIFT-TAB ADD LINEFEEDS TO CARRIAGE RETURNS. This is a toggle to add a Linefeed (LF) to a lone Carriage Return (CR). You can tell when you need to turn this on by seeing lines write over each other on the screen. ALT-1 BACKSPACE <-> DEL TOGGLE. This controls the character sent when the backspace (BS) or CTRL-H (^H) key is pressed. The ^H and the BS key are treated the same in Qmodem. The BS normally sends a ^H (ASCII 8) when pressed. If you are using a terminal emulation such as VT100, you may want the BS to send a DEL (ASCII 127) when pressed. This toggles the state back and forth between BS and DEL. Whichever mode is active for the BS key (BS or DEL), by pressing ^BS (holding the CTRL key down and pressing BS) will send the opposite code. ALT-2, ALT-3, ALT-4, ALT-5 & ALT-6 EGA SCREEN MODES. We have good news for those of you with EGA adapters! Qmodem supports 5 different screen modes when using an EGA adapter. Now you can have more lines on your screen at the touch of a key. ALT-2 - 80 x 25 This is the standard mode ALT-3 - 80 x 35 ALT-4 - 80 x 43 43 lines on the screen... ALT-5 - 80 x 50 A bit fuzzy, but twice the screen. ALT-6 - 80 x 57 An incredibly 57 lines! Some commands can take advantage of the larger screens; the Help Screen from the Main Menu, the Disk Directory (Alt-W), the Split screen mode (Alt-S) and the Scroll back display (Up Arrow). ALT-2, ALT-3, ALT-4, ALT-5 & ALT-6 EGA SCREEN MODES. Please refer to ALT-2 EGA modes. ALT-2, ALT-3, ALT-4, ALT-5 & ALT-6 EGA SCREEN MODES. Please refer to ALT-2 EGA modes. ALT-2, ALT-3, ALT-4, ALT-5 & ALT-6 EGA SCREEN MODES. Please refer to ALT-2 EGA modes. ALT-2, ALT-3, ALT-4, ALT-5 & ALT-6 EGA SCREEN MODES. Please refer to ALT-2 EGA modes. ALT-8 HI BIT STRIPPING TOGGLE. This is used to strip the hi bits from incoming data when using mini or mainframe systems such as CompuServe or the Source. The symptom is when you are online to these systems, some of the data coming in looks like garbage characters. What you are really seeing is the correct data, but the parity bit is causing the PC to display the graphics characters above ASCII 127. To view this correctly, you need to strip the hi bits before they get displayed. Qmodem comes up in 8 bit mode by default, but this can be changed with a Script command to automate it when calling Cserve. The Status Line will either show an 8 or a 7 in the Toggles area depending on the current mode. If you use Qmodem to call BBS's that use the fancy graphics characters and ANSI escape codes, make sure you are in 8 bit mode. Otherwise, the graphics will be converted to alphanumerics and will not look right. ALT-0 LOG FILE TOGGLE. The LOG feature is used to track the usage of Qmodem. Who you called, when you called, how long you were online are just a few of the things in the LOG file. The Log has a Time and Date stamp for every entry. ALT-0 is a toggle. If the Log is closed, you are prompted for a filename and it opens. If it's already open, then it will be closed.
