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- CLIPBOARD DIALER
-
- BY GREG McCAIN
-
-
- WHAT IT DOES:
-
- The Clipboard Dialer is a little tool I whipped up to provide a quick and
- easy way to use your modem to dial a phone number from Windows. If you
- use a database or even a text file to store your phone numbers, you need not
- dial the telephone yourself. Just use the Clipboard Dialer hot key.
-
- HOW TO USE:
-
- All you have to do is copy a number to the Windows clipboard, and press
- CTRL-SHIFT-P. This will activate the Clipboard Dialer, which will use your
- modem to dial the number. To hang up after a number has been dialed simply
- press CTRL-SHIFT-P again.
-
- FEATURES:
-
- - The Clipboard Dialer will automatically dial a "1" in front of any 10
- digit phone number. It assumes that any 10 digit phone number is long
- distance, and requires a "1". Note it will *only* add a "1" if there
- are exactly ten digits in the number.
-
- - The Clipboard Dialer validates the data in the clipboard before dialing.
- It will dial any string of numbers, intermingled with the characters:
- ")", "(", "#", "*", "-", " ", "\n", "\r". If any other characters are
- in the clipboard, the Clipbaord Dialer will complain and not dial the
- number.
-
- - The "Hide Desktop Icon" option allows you to minimize the Clipboard
- Dialer without it creating a Windows "Icon". The program will still be
- running, and the CTRL-SHIFT-P will still activate the dialer.
- This allows you to start up the Clipboard Dialer in a mimimized state
- and you never even have to look at any window for it.
-
- - Supports COM1, COM2, COM3, and COM4. Just choose which one you want
- to use from the Clipboard Dilaer window.
-
- TECHNICAL INFO:
-
- - Uses up about 8K of RAM
-
- - I Open the communication ports at 1200 baud. If you are using a 300
- baud modem, the Clipboard Dialer will not work. (Get a real modem.)
-
- DISCLAIMER:
-
- The Clipboard dialer is distributed as FREEWARE. Just don't charge
- anybody anything for it. For questions, comments, love letters, hate
- mail, or nice cheesecake, call or write me at:
-
- Greg McCain
- gmccain@demeter.csc.calpoly.edu
- 633 Couper #4
- San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
- U. S. A.
-