Crawly Crypt Collection 1/crawlyvol1.bin/telecomm/dterm_1/dtermdoc.txt

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                             Dterm Docs 11-18-90

    Dterm was written to replace ST-Term as the terminal program availible
from inside FoReM BBS but works well as a stand alone term program. Dterm
is fast and easy to use, because it uses Gem and powerful with alot of
the better protocols built-in. One of the nicest features of Dterm is
Auto Zmodem. The program has been tested on many systems and everything
should work on all STs.
    To get the full power out of Dterm, use an alternate file selector like
UIS or Little Green, ect, because there are no built in Dos commands. This
is not a problem if you do not plan to delete, rename, copy, ect while
using Dterm.
    The main shell of Dterm (everything except the protocols) has been
written in assembler. The protocols are in C and were written by Jay Jones.
Needless to say, Dterm has little problem at the higher baud rates and
moves along at a pretty good clip.

                             MAIN SCREEN

    When Dterm boots up, you are at the Main Menu screen. Here is where you
set up your system and go to the other menus. Let's go through the different
buttons of the Main Menu.

Set Flow - This is for certain modems such as the HST that use flow control
    to speed transfer rates. Use NORMAL unless your modem can use FLOW and
    your version of TOS is patched to enable flow control use.
    Otherwise your system will most likely lockup.

Set Baud - Use the highest speed your modem allows. Individual connections
    can be set in the dialer. For Flow control, set baud at 19200.

Set Duplex - Use FULL for most BBS's and HALF for the online services and
    person to person calls.

Cap Buff - Amount of memory reserved for the Capture Buffer. SAVE will save
    the contents of the buffer to disk. CLEAR will clear buffer but leave
    size the same. REMOVE sets buffer to zero bytes and returns the capture
    memory to system memory. See Capture Buffer for more info.
    Note: The capture buffer only takes system memory if it has been turned
    on.

Quit - Ends Dterm. Will ask if you are sure and will save the Capture Buffer.

Term Mode - Switches to terminal screen for input/output to modem. You can
    also get to term mode via the right mouse button or hitting the return
    key.

Load-C - Load a different Configuration file (Config file has to have an
    extender of CNF).

Save-C - Save the current Configuration Setup.

Cap - Toggles Capture Buffer on/off.

L/F - Toggles Line Feeds on/off (leave Off for most St boards), experiment
    when going one on one.

Mem-Free - Show system memory left with current Capture Buffer.

Cap buff - Amount stored in the Capture Buffer so far.

Auto Dialer - Switches to Auto Dial Menu for editing phone numbers and
    calling out.

Set Protocals - Set defaults for uploads and downloads. Use G turns on
    Ymodem-G for both uploads and downloads used on some BBS's and certain
    modems with built-in error correction, use with caution with other
    modems. Auto Z - overrides the default in upload or download when the
    program detects a Zmodem header coming from other system and starts
    the transfer, eliminating some steps {hehe}.
    Note: If you are going one on one with someone, you may use wildcards
    and send/receive whole partitions or whatever with both Zmodem or
    Ymodem-G.

Macro Editor - edit the 5 macros for use in Term mode plus the Auto Macro.
    The auto macro string is sent to the modem at bootup. See Macros for
    more info.

Set Paths - Tells Dterm where files are. SYS is for Dterm files - config,
    dialer and where the Capture Buffer saves. This should be the same path
    as Dterm so the program fines the correct files to load in at bootup but
    can be changed once the system is booted. D/L and U/L paths are for the
    file transfers and can be different from each other.
         Edit like normal dialog boxes or click on name of each line and
    use file selector. Boxes along bottem are toggles for using the system
    names and auto saves or names of your choice. All files will auto
    auto save and auto increment IF there is a check in the box.

    * Caution * Dterm will overwrite files that use the auto settings. If
    boxes are not checked Dterm will bring up the file selector anytime a
    file is being saved and expect you to put in the filename.

Execute Prg - Allows you to run any program that fits in memory. Handy for
    un-ARCing or an editor for messages.

File Selector - Brings up the file selector for checking file names or
    sizes. Handy if you use something like UIS 3, that moves files and
    deletes old files.

D/Load | U/Load - Starts tranfer with pre-set protocal.
    Note: If auto Zmodem is turn on (check in box) - Dterm will auto-
matically start a download transfer as soon as the first packet comes across
the line. For an upload, a Zmodem packet will bring up the file selector
allowing you to click on the file to send. As soon as the file has been
selected, it starts the send.

    Hitting Alt-C when in Main Menu toggles colors (mono only). Works
    with color but colors are un-predictable.

    Alt-M from main menu toggles the mouse on/off. Usefull when Dterm
    has been called from another program and the mouse is not active.

                             TERM MODE

    At the bottom of the Term Mode screen is an info-line that reflects the
settings since entering term mode. Most should be self explanitory except
the one on the far right. This one is a connect timmer that will start when
a carrier has been detected. It will run until carrier has been dropped and
will reset when there is another connection.
    There is also place for the number of bytes that are in the capture
buffer (if on) at any given time. This counter is updated every second.

    This is the area that you receive the text from the other modem. You also
can access the capture viewer from term mode. A printer dump is also built-in.
Alt-C toggles the Capture Buffer and Alt-P toggles the Printer Dump. Alt-V
switches to the Capture Viewer. When the printer is active a '*' appears in
the info-line after the capture status.

    From Capture Viewer, clicking both mouse button or Undo exits viewer.
<T> will go to top of capture and <B> will go to bottom. Arrow keys scroll
up-down, shift-arrow keys page up-down. Holding right mouse button scrolls up
and left mouse scrolls down. The viewer remembers where it was when you exit
so the next time you return, it will be at the same location.

    From Term Mode, right mouse button or Help exits to Main Menu. Alt-D
starts Download and Alt-U starts Upload. Undo will quit Dterm (dialog box
confirms Quit).

                             Macros

    Function keys F1-F5 will send the macro that was created from the Macro
Editor. You may have more than one marco for each of the function keys. To
seperate macros on the same line, use a shifted back slash key '|'. Hitting
one of the function keys will send the whole macro or to the first '|'. If
it finds a '|' you are then returned to Term Mode. You can send the next part
of a multi-part macro anytime by hitting the SAME function key again. Once
the whole macro line has been sent, it will restart from the begining of that
macro. Hitting a different function key while inside a multi-line macro, will
abort the first macro and start the macro assigned to the new function key.
You can also restart ANY macro by hitting Alt-R.
    The Auto Macro (F6) can be sent at anytime but it is also sent at bootup
time. I use it to configure the modem when starting Dterm from the bbs
program.
    The Dialer Macro (F10) is only active if you have connected to another
modem from the Auto Dialer. The User Name and Password that was entered into
the dialer strings, will be moved to F10 for that bbs.

                             Capture Buffer

    The program will auto-save the buffer when it is full, if your set-up is
set for default filename, (check IN the capture box of the system config menu)
Dterm saves the first time as CAP_A.TXT and changes to B through Z. After Z
you will get an error.
    Everytime you run Dterm, it will start over at A, so be sure there aren't
files on disk that you want to save, it will overwrite the same files with NO
prompt. You can set Dterm to ask for a file name each time it saves the
capture
buffer.

                             Auto Dialer

    Dterm has a Auto Dialer that will call one number once, call one number
repeatedly until you get a carrier, or scan a list and call in order until the
modem receives a carrier. In either of the last two options, It will clear the
redial setting for that number after connection, and will not redial in next
scan. Single click the left mouse button to mark for redial. Double click to
dial. Right mouse will choose that number for editor. BBS is name for the
button. Phone number is the number you want to dial(including Area Code). Name
is first string sent by F10 in term mode and password is second string. They
can be resent in order(first,second,first,second). Last line is the modem
string which is sent before the phone number. Most users will set this to
ATDT. Note: I put any log distance calling strings on the prefix line.
    You can also set each numbers duplex, line feed by and flow control by
clicking on those choices and set baud by clicking on the speed you want.
Click on ADD to enter your settings. Clear will remove number or erase all old
settings (for that dialer button). You must save all changes before quitting
Dterm if you want to keep them permenately . Load will load your choice of
menus.
    DT_DIAL0.DAT is the default Dialer file loaded on start if found in same
directory as Dterm. Setting Dialer to autosave filename (see Set Path) will
overwrite your default on first save and increase on every save thereafter
(DT_DIAL1.DAT and so on) Leaving autosave off is best for Dial menus.

* Important * The Auto Dialer has been set up to use verbos (english) modem
codes (ATV1) and will echo the codes back to the dialer if you have echo
(ATE1) turned on. You can use the Auto Macro to send these commands -
AT V1 E1 (ctrl M).


                             Quick Commands for Dterm

Right mouse button - toggle between Term and Main Menu screens
Term Mode:
    F1/F5 - send normal macros
    F6 - send auto macro
    F10 - send dialer macro
    Alt-C toggle capture On/Off
    Alt-D download a file
    Alt-U upload a file
    Alt-P toggle printer output On/Off
    Alt-V go to capture viewer
    Help Key - go to Main Menu
    Undo Key - quit

Main Menu:
    Alt-C toggle colors (mono only)
    Alt-M toggle mouse On/Off
    Return Key - go to term mode

    Most SUB Menus from Main Menu - right mouse button exits to Main Menu
         otherwise use exit button.

Viewer Mode:
    Left mouse button - scroll down
    Right mouse button - scroll up
    Both mouse buttons - return to term mode
    Undo Key - return to Term Mode
    arrow key up - scroll 1 line up
    arrow key down - scroll 1 line down
    shifted arrow key up - page whole screen up
    shifted arrow key down - page whole screen down
    T - imediately to top of the viewer
    B - imediately to the bottom of the viewer

Dialer Mode:
    1 left mouse button - mark bbs for scan or redial
    2 quick left mouse buttons - start dialing
    1 righ mouse button - edit this dialer box
    both mouse buttons - exit dialer (as will the exit button)

    When dialing a number - 1 left mouse button will abort the call in
         progress as will the undo key.


    I wrote Dterm to be easy to use. It has been tested with many systems
and modems. I hope you enjoy using the program and if so, will send $10 as
a shareware fee.  I plan to write more programs for the ST and would like
to hear from user about Dterm.


                                                Don Pefley


Send Mail to:
Don Pefley
P.O.Box 6563
Kent Wa 98031

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or

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