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************ *** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **** ** **** *** *** **** ****** **** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ****** ** ****** ** ** ** ***** ** ****** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **** **** **** ** ** ** ****** *** **** Version 1.10 By HU Tsung, Winfred Documentation By Allan Smith Copyright (C) HU Tsung, Winfred. 1989. All rights reserved. Registration ------------ Telemate is a Shareway product. Shareway products are similar to Shareware in that they are distributed through public access channels so that perspective buyers can have the opportunity to evaluate the product before making a decision to buy. Unlike most software distributed through commercial channels Shareway permits you, the user, to try out the product on your machine so that you can better decide whether the product meets your needs and expectations. If, after evaluating the software, you decide not to use it, you are under no obligation. But, if you decide to use this software then you are under both legal and moral obligation to register it with the author. Shareway software like Shareware is not public domain software and is not free. It is fully protected by State, Federal and International copyright laws. Telemate is offered for sale, and is fully supported by its author. If you decide you like Telemate and you use it, then you are obligated to pay for it. How much do you pay? Registration Fee : $ 50.0 US or $ 60.0 CAD Registering Telemate can earn YOU money! For every indiviual who registers a copy of Telemate using your registration number or your name you will receive $10 US or $12 CAD Unlike Shareware which sells site licenses, Shareway offers multi- user licenses to schools, companies, etc., Telemate's multi-user licenses are priced as follows: Number of Users: Price (US) Price (CAD) Discount 1 - 10 @ $ 50.0 @ $ 60 0 % 11 - 20 @ $ 45.0 @ $ 54 10 % 21 - 50 @ $ 40.0 @ $ 48 20 % 51 - 100 @ $ 35.0 @ $ 42 30 % 101 - 200 @ $ 25.0 @ $ 30 50 % 200+ $ 60,000 $ 7,500.0 $ 9,000 (one time fee) With Telemate, a registered user receives TWENTY PERCENT of the price of any licenses sold from his copies. Thus, he can receive up to $1500US/$1800CAD perlicense sold! Register your copy, then give copies of Telemate to your employer, friends, schools, BBS's, etc. Windows ------- Open/Select a window . . . . . . Alt + Window letter (e.g. [Alt E]) Pull down menu . . . . . . . . . . Alt + Window letter (a 2nd time) Close a window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Esc] Zoom a window to full size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt Z] Resize a window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt W] [R] Move a window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt W] [M] Ending Telemate session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt X] The Window Borders In Telemate the window borders are mouse sensitive. Click the main mouse key on the window edges makes things happen! Top Border : Move window Top-Left corner : Close window Top-Right corner : Zoom window Bottom-Right corner : Resize window Bottom Border: Scroll horizontally Right Border: Scroll vertically The Scroll Bar When the scroll bar option is turned on the active window (the one most recently opened) will have an enlarged right side and bottom borders . These borders are the window's scroll bars. To scroll vertically with the mouse, point at "scroll box" (the dark box on right side scroll bar) and while holding down the left mouse button drag it to a position in the scroll bar that corresponds to the general location in the file to which you wish to go. For example if you wish to go to a point approximately halfway through your file, drag the dark box halfway to the bottom of the scroll bar and release. The same process can be used to scroll horizontally in a file using the dark box on the bottom scroll bar. To scroll one line or one character at a time, click on the arrows at either end of the scroll bars. To scroll one page at a time, click on the region between the scroll box and the arrows at end of the scroll bar. Dial ---- Save the dial list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F2] Load phone directory and memo file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F3] Find entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F4] Repeat last find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F5] Edit entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F6] Go to entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F7] Manual Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F8] Recall last dial list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Enter] Hang up phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt H] Start the dialing process again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recycle Aborts the dialing process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abort Aborts without disconnecting the line . . . . . . . . . . . . . Break Delete the current number from the dial list . . . . . . . . Delete Subtract seconds from the dial time . . . . . . . . . . . . [Gray -] Add seconds to the dial time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Gray +] Mouse: Clicking on a directory entry will send that entry number to the top of the Dial window to be dialed. Click on multiple entries and Telemate will properly space them. Click once in the top portion of the Dial window and Telemate will dial the first number and, if no connection is made, proceed to the next number. As with all the windows you can resize and move the Dial window using the window borders and corners. Terminal -------- Send (upload) files to remote system . . . . . . . . . . . . [PgUp] Receive (download) files from remote system . . . . . . . . . [PgDn] Execute script file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt S] Capture received text to log file . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt L] Paste text from clip buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt P] Quote text from clip buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt Q] Copy the content of terminal to image file . . . . . . . . . [Alt I] Chat mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt C] Originate mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt G] Answer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt A] Hang up phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt H] Clear terminal text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Ctrl Home] Send break signal to remote system . . . . . . . . . . . [Ctrl End] Print received text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Ctrl PrtSc] Pasting and Quoting Telemate allows you to mark and copy text while in the Edit, View and Back windows. Marked text is copied to a clip buffer or clipboard. Once the text is copied to the clip buffer the terminal window can handle it in either of two ways: Pasting [Alt P] Pasting text sends the marked text to the remote system. If a blank line is encountered it will be convert to a line containing a space. Quoting [Alt Q] [Alt Q] functions much the same as [Alt P]. [Alt Q] is designed for quoting text into BBS message areas and three characters " > " will be added to each line. Mark the text as above and Copy to the clip buffer. To insert into a BBS message position the cursor where you want the text to go and hit [Alt Q]. Edit ---- Save file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F2] Load file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F3] Find text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F4] Repeat last find or replace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F5] Replace text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F6] Go to a specified line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F7] Filter - strip high bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F8] Reformat paragraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F9] Mark/Unmark text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F10] Copy marked text to clip buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt C] Copy marked text to clip buffer and delete it . . . . . . . . [Alt U] Paste text from clip buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt P] Quote text from clip buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt Q] Write (append) marked text to file . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt A] Delete marked text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Del] Status Line The first line of the Edit window is the Status line. It consists of six parts. Line 6 Col 1 Total 74 Insert FILENAME.EXT Marking \ / \ / | | | Cursor Location Total # of Mode File Appears by line and lines in indicator Name when column number the file. marking cUt [Alt U] Telemate's cUt feature allows you to move marked text from the file you are editing. Paste [Alt P] Text which is first marked [F10] and copied [Alt C] or cUt [Alt U] to Telemate's clipboard can then be pasted [Alt P] into Edit window. Quote [Alt Q] [Alt Q] functions much the same as [Alt P]. [Alt Q] is designed for quoting text into BBS message areas. This function allows you prepare messages, with quotation, in the Edit window. View ---- Load file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F3] Find text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F4] Repeat last find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F5] Go to a specified line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F7] Filter - strip high bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F8] Mark/Unmark text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F10] Copy marked text to clip buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt C] Write (append) marked text to file . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt A] Mark [F10] Before you can work with a a block of text you must first define where the text block begins and ends. Hit [F10] once and use the cursor keys to highlight the text you want copied. Hitting [F10] again will unmark the selected text. Copy [Alt C] Once the text is highlighted strike [Alt C] to place the marked text on the copy clipboard. Once text is copied to the copy clipboard it can, from there, be pasted or quoted into other windows or to other portions of the file. Back ---- Find text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F4] Repeat last find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F5] Go to a specified line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F7] Filter - strip high bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F8] Reformat paragraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F9] Mark/Unmark text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [F10] Copy marked text to clip buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt C] Copy marked text to clip buffer and delete it . . . . . . . . [Alt U] Write (append) marked text to file . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Alt A] Delete marked text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Del] The number of lines that the Back window can contains can be set in the Option menu. Mark [F10] Before you can work with a a block of text you must first define where the text block begins and ends. Hit [F10] once and use the cursor keys to highlight the text you want copied. Hitting [F10] again will unmark the selected text. Copy [Alt C] Once the text is highlighted strike [Alt C] to place the marked text on the copy clipboard. Once text is copied to the copy clipboard it can, from there, be pasted or quoted into other windows or to other portions of the file. Write [Alt A] Telemate's Write function allows you to mark text and then write or append the marked block of text to a file. After you have marked your text and selected this function the File Dialog will appear asking you for the name of the file. Type in the correct DOS file and path name, press [Enter] and the marked text will be written to the designated file. Macro ----- In addition to accepting standard alpha-numeric text, Telemate also uses certain symbols which when passed through the phone lines perform specific functions. For example, the character "^M" in a macro translates as [Enter] on the other end. Below is a table of symbols you can incorporate in your macros: Symbol Function Symbol Function ────── ──────── ────── ───────────────── ^@ Null ~ Pause 0.5 second ^A Ctrl A ^# Hang up phone ... ... ^% Send break signal ^Z Ctrl Z ^& Send password ^[ Esc ^( Send init string ^^ ^ ^) Send answer string ^~ ~ ^M Carriage Return ^J Line feed For example, if your macro includes the symbols ^[ Telemate will send the [Esc] key sequence through the phone line to the remote system. All the macro combinations key can be defined through the Macro menu. The Macro Table The macro table, once defined by you, usually remains constant. You might want to assign your name to the F2 key, your address or key phrases to the [Ctrl]+[Fn keys]. These types of definition would be put in the macro table. The Keypad Table The keypad table is used for terminal emulation function key assignments. Therefore, for each terminal there is a keypad definition file. The Keyboard Table This is sometimes called translate table because it changes the incoming or outgoing characters to another value. For every character in the ASCII set, the table defines what it should be changed to. By default, no character translation is performed but it can be changed through the Macro menu. This table allows you to completely redefine your computer's keyboard when using Telemate. Options ------- The Options Menu allows you to setup Telemate to work the way you want it to. When you select an area to setup you will see one of of Options Dialog. There are 3 types of choices you will face in the Options Dialog area. Pressing the [Tab], [Shift Tab] or using the Arrow keys moves you from choice to choice. Circular Buttons: Circular buttons refer to black dots inside the parenthesis ( ) that you see in the Mouse selection box. Press [Spacebar] and the button will jump from box to box and only one option in each group can be selected. Check Boxes: Some options are simple yes or no type choices. These appear as a pair of brackets: [ ]. Press the [Spacebar] and an X appears in the brackets: [X] which means "yes, I want this feature turned on". An empty bracket means "No." Text Boxes: There are some options which require you to type in your choice. For example to change the Edit window's margin, tab to that choice and type in the number you desire to use as the right margin. Pressing the [Esc] key will cancel the dialog and all options will be remain unchanged.