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- DialThat.com v. 1.00
- =====================
-
- (C) Copyright 1990 Roger Schlafly.
- All Rights Reserved.
-
- How often do you look up a telephone number on your PC screen, and
- then manually dial it on your telephone? If so, you can automate
- the process with DialThat. DialThat is a resident program to read
- phone numbers on the screen and dial them thru a modem.
-
- Load DialThat by typing DIALTHAT at the DOS prompt. When you wish to
- dial a phone number on the screen, invoke DialThat by pressing Alt-D.
- The cursor will fatten, and you can use the arrow keys to position
- it on the screen. When the cursor is at the beginning of a phone
- number, press Enter. You should hear the modem dialing. When it
- is finished dialing, pick up the telephone hand-set and press the
- space key to shut down (hang up) the modem. The DialThat then
- relinquishes the phone line to your telephone and the PC to your
- application.
-
- Permission is hereby granted for free personal (non-commercial)
- use of this program. Others can register a license by sending
- $10 to the author.
-
-
- Technical Notes
- ---------------
- You can repeat the last call with Alt-R.
-
- These options are available when loading DialThat.
-
- /C
- Load with COMMAND.COM. You can then unload DialThat by typing EXIT
- at the DOS prompt. This option could use as much as 8K of RAM,
- depending on the DOS version. Otherwise, DialThat only uses less than 2K.
-
- /2
- Load assuming modem is on COM2. Likewise /3 is for COM3, etc.
- The default port is COM1.
-
- Assumes a Hayes-compatible modem is on a serial port. Also, the
- phone line must accept tone dialing.
-
- You can also abort a call with the Escape key. The Home, End, PgUp,
- and PgDn keys move the cursor in reasonable ways.
-
- A phone number is a contiguous string drawn from "1234567890,-()*#".
- Leading garbage is skipped.
-
- Uses only interrupts 10h, 14h, 16h, and 21h. Should be compatible with
- most PC hardware and software.
-
- Author:
- Roger Schlafly
- PO Box 1680
- Soquel, CA 95073
- USA
- phone: 408-476-3550
- CIS: 76646,323
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