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DMJ TERM 1.0 (Pre-release version)
This is an INCOMPLETE terminal program. I cannot stress that enough;
many things remain to be done before I would even think about calling
it finished. What follows is a description of what DOES work in the
program.
You may notice the program itself claims to be last modified sometime
last year, whereas the time/date stamp on the file says it was
modified in March. The reason for this is before LHarcing the program
I went through and made non-functional or barely-functional items
unselectable, and then re-compiled the program.
Running the program: double-click on DMJ_1_0.PRG from the desktop in
MEDIUM resolution. (Sorry, no monochrome [yet].) The files IBM.FNT and
MOUSETXT.FNT should be in the same directory. These are GEM font
files. IBM.FNT is the IBM graphics character set; MOUSETXT.FNT is the
Apple MouseText font. You will NOT need GDOS to use these fonts.
Once the program is loaded, it will briefly initialize itself. You
will then be presented with a blank screen, with a cursor in the
corner. You are now in terminal mode. To send commands to the modem,
just type. To use the menus, just move the mouse pointer (which will
promptly reappear when you do so) up to the top of the screen and the
menus will appear.
Under the Desk menu you will find the familiar "About..." item. Select
this to find the last revision date of the program (some time in
December, I think). You will not be able to select this more than 25
times, however. Those of you who are terribly bored may try to do so
and find out why.
Under the File menu you will find Load, Save, View, Delete, and Quit.
Moving the pointer over Load or Save will present you with a
"submenu". To select these items, move the pointer into the submenu
and click on the items just as you would a normal menu. You will only
be able to load Macros. You can load Flash function-key files, but if
they contain commands in them they will NOT work. Straight text macros
(using the vertical bar | to generate a carriage return) will work
just fine. Under Save, you will be able to select Capture and Macros.
In each case, Load or Save, you will be prompted for a filename.
View will allow you to view a file. Just select a filename from the
file selector box to view it. (Text files only.) Click on Cancel to
exit. Delete operates similarly, but deletes files instead of viewing
them. Useful for freeing up disk space.
Under the Disk menu you will find Directory and Free Space. Directory
will list the files in DMJ TERM's directory. As yet you cannot change
this directory. Free Space will show you the amount of space remaining
on the disk. (On hard drives this can take a bit, so be patient.)
Under the Dial menu you will find various Omaha BBS's. In the final
version of the program, you will be able to edit that menu and place
your own preferred BBS's in, but at the moment, you can't... but if
you feel so inclined to call long distance, the numbers are there.
Redial will redial the last selected number from the menu.
The next two menus, Transfer and Edit, have no selectable items.
The Options menu is mostly functional. First is the Baud option. You
can select 2400, 1200, or 300. Please note that DMJ TERM cannot quite
keep up with 2400 baud with emulation and IBM font active; it will
appear sluggish, but you will probably not miss anything since I did
expand the RS232 buffer to 8K.
Next is Capture. You may turn the capture on or off, or clear it. You
may also print it, but I am not sure if this item functions properly
(use at your own risk).
Next are various options to control the output of text, such as
generating line feeds for carriage returns, echoing all the characters
received, using full or half duplex, and sending all characters received
to the printer. Somewhere in there is the Emulation submenu, where you
can select None (fastest), ANSI (real flashing text!), ProTERM (for
Apple BBS's, sometimes done quite nicely), or Datamedia (another Apple
emulation, due to be dropped). VT52 is not quite functional, and is
therefore unselectable.
Also in the Options menu is the Clock submenu. You may turn the clock
on or off, and choose between analog and digital clocks. If the analog
clock is selected, you may turn the second hand on or off.
The Font submenu allows you to choose between the Atari and IBM fonts.
The IBM font allows you to properly see the IBM graphics that some
BBS's use, but slows down the program. The Atari font is much faster,
but doesn't have the graphics. (Tradeoffs, tradeoffs...)
If you don't like the black-on-white text, you may select
white-on-black text, by choosing Inverse from the Colors submenu.
Under the Modem menu, you will find various items for setting your
modem up. These assume (as does the rest of the program) that you are
using a standard Hayes-compatible modem. The most useful of these is
Hang Up, conveniently placed at the top of the menu.
The last menu is Info, where you will find a Copyright notice,
Keyboard Equivalents for menu items, and a short blurb on what will be
in the finished version.
Once again, let me say that the program does NOT keep up with 2400
baud if you have an emulation and IBM font active. But if you only
have a 1200 baud modem, the emulations are quite good.
Please enjoy the program. You can reach me on Z*Net BBS at (201)
968-8148 (if that isn't where you got this).
-Damien Jones