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- E FRONTEND.SCR - Sample Script for use with Alt-N from TAPCIS Main Menu
- E Output is captured to the MAIL.MSG file.
- E Captures WEAther & QUOtes and OLT-90.
- E Make changes for your city name and state and tickers.
- E Also shown in script is how to automate NEW
- C N
- ; turn capture off
- ; lines starting with a semi-colon are ignored. In this script,
- ; they document the previous command
- S G CIS^M
- ; get a CompuServe top menu
- W !
- ; wait for a system prompt
- C Y
- ; turn capture on
- S WEA Columbus,OH^M
- ; get local weather
- W !
- ; wait for prompt
- S QUO IBM,HRB,DJ 30^M
- ; get a quote on H&R Block stock
- W !
- ; The next 9 lines demonstrate a way to read the entire offering of
- ; CompuServe's "What's New". TAPCIS has a physical limit of 350 lines
- ; per mail message, so we've REMmed the WN commands in favor of the
- ; ones that follow, which get the daily news from Online Today. You can
- ; reverse it by carefully deleting "; * " in each line where that sequence
- ; appears .......
- ; * S G NEW^M
- ; go to the "What's New" menu
- ; * W !
- ; * C Y
- ; * S ALL^M
- ; read everything
- ; * W age!
- ; wait for "last page!" message
- ; * C N
- ; ...... and deleting everything from this line down to (but not
- ; including) S ^M below
- S G OLT-90^M
- ;OLT-90 is the home of Online Today's daily edition ...
- W !
- S ALL^M
- ; ... read it
- W Last
- W age!
- C N
- S ^M
- ; outta here
- W T-90
- S ^M
- ; See news menu and make exit certain
- ; get back to a navigation prompt
- W !
- ; return control, leaving TAPCIS at a navigation prompt
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