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- June 21st 1991
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- Term II
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- version 1.1
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- (c) 1990,1991 - Eric GONTIER
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- PHONE.doc
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- INTRODUCTION
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- Term II has a simple phone book. It allows the user to
- registers phone numbers, with the settings of connections
- (baud, word length, parity, etc...). The phone book is an
- XCMD, that is a process, that can be run in the same time
- than Term II (and other AmigaOS processes). It will run
- with modems which know the standard Hayes commands : ATZ
- and one of ATD, ATDT, ATDP for dialing.
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- STARTING THE PHONE BOOK
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- There are several ways to start the phone book. However, to
- make it as easy as possible to used, there is a menu entry
- "Phone book..." in the main menu (short or long menu) of
- Term II for an automatic start. The user can also start the
- panel with the "phone_book" command, which can be used from
- Term II, from an ARexx script or even from an other XCMD.
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- The phone book can also be started "by hand" that is by
- typing "run phone" from the CLI (the phone book program
- must be in the current directory, and Term II should have
- been already started). This will install the phone book as
- an AmigaOS process, which is waiting for a signal from Term
- II to start. From Term, the user will wake up the phone
- book with the command xcmd_start "PHONE". (see the file
- XCMD.doc for more informations on how to start an XCMD with
- the xcmd_start command, and how to write your own XCMDs).
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- Programmers should be awared that the message port used by
- the phone book is called "PHONE".
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- The phone book will not be loaded in memory until the user
- select it from Term. It will be unloaded automatically when
- quitting Term.
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- The phone book will read the file called phone.config in
- which are stored all the informations. New phone numbers,
- and modifications, are made with the phone book, the file
- cannot be modified with a text editor.
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- USING THE PHONE BOOK
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- Using the phone book is quite simple. The interface is made
- of list of name, buttons to set the serial configuration,
- command buttons (for creation, deletion, etc...) and two
- string gadgets for edition.
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- The list of names :
- Just click on a name to select it. All the informations
- associated with this name will be reflected in the
- configuration buttons (parity, word lenght, baud...).
- You change the parameters by clicking the appropriate
- buttons. You can edit the name or the number in one of
- the sting gadgets. You can delete the name from the
- list with the DELETE button, or you can ask for the
- connection with the CONNECT button.
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- The configuration buttons :
- These buttons show the parameters for the current
- selection made in the list. You can change the
- parameters by clicking in these buttons : parity, word
- length, number of stop bits, baud, and the command to
- be used (one of ATD, ATDT, ATDP).
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- Command buttons :
- There are 4 of them. The NEW button allows to enter a
- new entry in the list. The string gadgets can be used
- to enter the name and the phone number to be included
- in the list. The DELETE button is used to remove the
- current selection fron the list. A name must have been
- selected in the list before ! The SAVE button is used
- to save the current list in the file phone.config. And
- the CONNECT button will try to connect to the current
- selection : a name must have been selected in the list.
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- When trying a connection, the serial device parameters will
- be changed to those of the current selection in the list.
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