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^bT E R M I N A T E^n
^m─────────────────^n
Version 1.41
Copyright 1992-93 by Bo Bendtsen
All Rights Reserved
Welcome to the Terminate On-Line Manual. This Manual is designed so
anyone can add comments or even change the language as easily as possible.
You may change the Help files for your own purposes, but you are NOT
allowed to distribute any modified files. If you do translate files into
your own language, please send a copy to me or to a Registration Site so
other users can benefit from your work.
In almost every menu you are able to press F1 to get help for the current
menu. If you want to change the help file, you can press E to edit the
file directly. To speed things up, you can press F and enter a keyword to
find. This function will only search forwards - so if you want to search
the entire helpfile, you must press HOME first. I have chosen to use this
form of On-line Help, because then the entire manual can be loaded
directly from the menus where it is needed. You can run MANUAL.EXE, which
will compile all the help files into one big manual without colorcodes,
and then you can print it out. In this way you don't have to waste disk
space on both help files AND a manual since you can always delete
TERMINAT.DOC and run the MANUAL.EXE program later.
^hTERMINAT ?^n will give you a list of all available parameters.
You are now in terminal mode and have configured the system.
If you have not configured Terminate, press Alt-O now. Remember that you
can press F1 in any menu where you need more help.
^hEditing input fields^n
When you start editing a field/number/string, you can modify the previous
contents by first pressing cursor left/right. The field will then change
colour and you can append/insert new characters. If you just start typing
immediately, the field will be blanked and the cursor placed on position 1.
Terminate will always remember the last 16 fields you have typed. That way,
if you type something new in a field and want to change it back, just edit
the field again and press ^hCURSOR-UP^n or DOWN and you are now able to
cycle between the last 16 fields. In every input field where all characters
are allowed, you can also press ^hAlt-A^n and the character selector will
appear, showing all characters from #0..#255.
If you want a return sign, just move to #13 and press return. To see all 16
strings, press ^hAlt-F9^n from terminal mode.
The following section outlines all Terminal mode commands and gives some
useful tips and tricks. We advise you to read all of this if you are not
familiar with modems and communication programs.
If you are an advanced user you can probably guess what most functions
are used for and settle for the quick reference at Alt-Z and the help
lines at the buttom line in the menus.
^hMouse^n
The mouse system in Terminate provides some nice features and allows you to
move around easily in menus and even start downloading without touching the
keyboard.
You must have already installed a mouse driver, of course, eg: MOUSE.COM
v9.00 (MicroSoft) or LMOUSE.COM v6.10 (LogiTech) or similar.
Old mouse drivers may conflict with our communication driver - so if your
screen messes up, try turning off the mouse. If that does not work, then try
using another mouse driver. Old mouse drivers is also only able to support
80x25,80x43,80x50 and not all the extended like 100x40, 132x60 etc.
In menus, pressing the left button will be the same as pressing return on
that line. The right button will simulate the escape key and will leave the
menu. In terminal mode, left button on an empty line will send a return
(Ascii 13). Right button on an empty line will send a space (Ascii 32)
Pressing on any character on the terminal screen, will send that character
exactly as if you typed it yourself. You do not have to position the cursor
directly - if you click on a blank place, Terminate will find the nearest
character on the screen and send that instead of the space.
The mouse can be turned on/off in the Toggles menu.
Send 'F'
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ScreenLine = ' M Messages F Files '
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Send 'M' Send 's'
Pressing right button in the statusline will allow you to toggle between
3 different statusbars, allowing you to send all possible characters.
If you hold down one of the buttons, and mark a piece of the line, the
marked piece area will be sent by the modem; useful if a BBS program wants
you to type an areaname already shown on the screen!
^bSHIFT-ESC^n
Pressing Shift-Esc will bring you to the Runtime information menu.
This menu can be called from all other menus and will give you all
kind of information. Like current drive. Last incoming characters.
Costs. Memory left etc. look for yourself.
^bAlt-A^n
Calls the external editor. This could be Q.EXE (Qedit) or whatever editor
you might like to use.
^bAlt-B^n (^hShift-CursorUp^n)
Scrollback buffer. Terminate will save the last incoming screen in a
special buffer. The size of this buffer can be set in the configuration
and you should decrease it if you are running short of memory. Both text
and colours are saved in this buffer.
^bAlt-C^n
Clears screen, sets default colours and cleans up.
^bAlt-D^n
The dialling directory. From here you can store all you 'phone numbers and
all kinds of other information. The phonebook also holds information on how
much your 'phone bill will be for up to one year.
^bAlt-E^n
Echo all characters send to the modem on the screen. Normally this is
always turned off.
^bAlt-F^n
The File Manager. Also calls external utilities and has almost every
function that Norton Commander(TM) has - and then a little more :-)
^bAlt-G^n
Scripts will follow in later versions...
^bAlt-H^n
Hangs up the 'phone. The hangup string is determined in the Modem &
Dialling Menu. You can also set a toggle so you will be asked to confirm
hangup, before actually hanging up.
^bAlt-I^n
Screen image. Will save the current screen in the capture file (default is
TERMINAT.CAP). You can define other capture files for each phonebook entry
and the current capture file will always be used to save images.
^bAlt-J^n
Calls COMMAND.COM (COMSPEC) and invokes a dos-shell. You can set Terminate
up to not swap out memory first. Type ^hEXIT^n to return.
^bAlt-K^n
String grabber. Grabs any string and saves it in the history strings. You
can adjust the grab size by pressing Shift and move cursor keys right, left,
up or down. You can use this function EVERYWHERE in Terminate. So if you
call a system, and want to remember a phone number: Grab the number, go into
the phonebook, add a new entry, edit phone number, press cursor up and
recall the grabbed number. This should save you cluttering your desk with
thousands of small pieces of paper!
^bAlt-L^n
Opens or closes the current capture file; the capture files can be defined
for each phonebook entry. If you define a capture file and call a system,
the capture file will be opened upon connection. You can turn the
auto-capture system off by pressing Alt-0 and toggle if off permanently.
You can also force Terminate to always overwrite old capture files by
turning on a toggle.
^bAlt-M^n
^m╒╡^t Miscellaneous functions ^m╞╕
│ ^nReset device/Init ^bm^nodem ^m│
│ ^nSend ^ba^nuto-answer string ^m│
├───────────────────────────┤
│ ^b2^n5 lines ^m│
│ ^b4^n3/50 lines ^m│
│ ^bS ^nTseng 4000 100x40 ^m│
│ ^bO ^nXGA 132x25 ^m│
│ ^bE ^nReset 80x25 ^m│
├───────────────────────────┤
│ ^bH^nostmode ^m│
│ ^bC^nhoose char to send ^m│
│ ^bR^nun Download Manager ^m│
│ ^bL^nock keyboard ^m│
│ ^bF^nax manager ^m│
│ ^nScreen ^bb^nlanker ^m│
╘═══════════════════════════╛
^bm^n First reset device, then allows you to select which init
string to send to the modem
^ba^n Pick up phone (send the auto answer string)
^b2^n Switch to 25 lines screen mode
^b4^n If EGA, then switch to 43 lines; if VGA, then 50 lines
^bS^n Startup screen mode if using custom screen modes
^bO^n Another definable screen mode
^bE^n Mode to use when exiting Terminate and using custom mode
^bH^n Startup hostmode, look in configuration for more information
You can also start the hostmode directly: TERMINAT /HOST
^bC^n Choose a char from the ascii selector to send directly to port
^bR^n Run Download Manager
^bL^n Locks keyboard with password
^bF^n Fax manager, will be available soon
^bB^n Activate the screen blanker
^bAlt-N^n
Sends the user name from the current user profile. You will normally use
this function where Terminate can not log on automatically.
^bAlt-O^n
All the configuration menus.
^bAlt-P^n
Quick change of device, comport, baudrate, databits, parity, stopbit. You
can also save the chosen setup directly as the default startup settings.
^bAlt-Q^n
Quits current autologin script. If you see a flashing ^h^fA^n in the
statusline then probably Terminate did not logon properly. Try correcting
the login scripts in the configuration menus or turn them off.
^bAlt-R^n
Download Paths. Terminate has 3 download paths available. At startup,
number 1 will always be the default - but you can change this manually or
change it for each phone entry.
^bAlt-S^n
Send password. If you have called a system, then the password from the
phonebook is sent. If that password entry is blank you will be asked to
either input a new password directly or send the default password from the
current userprofile.
^bAlt-T^n
Change the current terminal emulation. The first one - called 'Avatar/0*
with Ansi-BBS fallback' - can be used on most systems to allow you to run
both Avatar and ANSI at the same time. Terminal emulations determine how
the control codes and colours are processed and displayed on your screen.
^bAlt-U^n
System information (which multitasker, processor, graphics card, etc,).
^bAlt-V^n
VISIBLE FAST (tm) access menu. This menu allows fast access with the mouse
to all functions from just one screen. For access, you can also just click
a mouse button in the lower right corner.
^bAlt-W^n
Translation editor. Handles how characters are changed before they are sent
to the remote system or what to change before displaying the character on
the screen. This function is mostly used when calling Hosts or systems that
cannot handle 8-bit characters.
^m╒═══════════════════════════════════════════╡^t Translation editor ^m╞╕
│ ^nFilename : .XLT ^m│
│ ^bC^nomment : ^hDefault translation tables for terminate ^m│
│ ^b( 0) ( Incoming table ) ^m│
│^h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^m│
│^h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^m│
│^h ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / ^m│
│^h 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? ^m│
│^h @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O ^m│
│^h P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ ^m│
│^h ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o ^m│
│^h p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ ^m│
│^h Ç ü é â ä à å ç ê ë è ï î ì Ä Å ^m│
│^h É æ Æ ô ö ò û ù ÿ Ö Ü ¢ £ ¥ ₧ ƒ ^m│
│^h á í ó ú ñ Ñ ª º ¿ ⌐ ¬ ½ ¼ ¡ « » ^m│
│^h ░ ▒ ▓ │ ┤ ╡ ╢ ╖ ╕ ╣ ║ ╗ ╝ ╜ ╛ ┐ ^m│
│^h └ ┴ ┬ ├ ─ ┼ ╞ ╟ ╚ ╔ ╩ ╦ ╠ ═ ╬ ╧ ^m│
│^h ╨ ╤ ╥ ╙ ╘ ╒ ╓ ╫ ╪ ┘ ┌ █ ▄ ▌ ▐ ▀ ^m│
│^h α ß Γ π Σ σ µ τ Φ Θ Ω δ ∞ φ ε ∩ ^m│
│^h ≡ ± ≥ ≤ ⌠ ⌡ ÷ ≈ ° ∙ · √ ⁿ ² ■ ^m│
│ ^m│
│ ^bR ^nReset ^bL ^nLoad ^bS ^nSave ^bT ^nIncoming/outgoing ^bU ^nAscii/Value ^m│
│ ^bX ^nTranslate a file using this table ^m│
╘═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛^n
^bC^nomment
Since it is important to know what the table is used for it is
strongly advised that you enter the description here.
^bR ^nReset
Remove all changes and clean the board.
^bL ^nLoad
Load a table
^bS ^nSave
Save table
^bT ^nIncoming/outgoing
A table consists of an incoming and an outgoing table. The incoming
is when you receive something from the other end, then this table
will be used. The outgoing is when you send something.
^bU ^nAscii/Value
Toggle values instead of character apperance.
^bX ^nTranslate a file using this table
Translate a complete file using the current table. This can be used
if you have files from other non PC's (Amiga, MAC, etc)
^bAlt-Y^n
Chat mode. If you are connected to another Terminate and press Alt-Y,
Terminate will send '**EMSI_CHTF5D4'+#13 to the other end. This is normally
used by IEMSI sessions, but a Terminate at the other end will change
automatically - even when NOT in IEMSI mode. When you press Alt-Y again to
exit chatmode the string '**EMSI_TCH3C60'+#13 will be sent to the other end
so both ends exit chat mode.
Chatmode works just like a terminal emulation so you can use all other
functions while you are chatting, including starting to up/download.
^bAlt-X^n
Exit Terminate. A function you hopefully only will use once a day :-)
If you are online (Carrier detected) you will be asked what to do: E^h^fx^nit,
Hangup & exit, or Not exit. You can also turn on a toggle that will ask you
if you are sure you want to exit Terminate.
^bAlt-Z^n
Quick reference menu. Here you can see a short description of all
functions - and see which functions are ^hOn^n or ^hOff^n.
^bAlt-=^n
Load a keyboard table. This key is different on some international
keyboards. It is the key next to the ^hBACKSPACE^n. Hold down Alt and press
the = (the key to the left of the backspace).
Keyboards can be customized in the configuration. You can setup a default
keyboard for each terminal emulation, but you can also specify a keyboard
file to be loaded for each phonebook entry.
^bCtrl-End^n
Will send a break to the other end. Breaks are rarely used anymore, but
Terminate will both detect and send breaks. A break is a condition in
which the data line is filled with zero bits for as long as it takes to
send one character. Some switchboards will need a break to hangup the line.
It can also be used to reset the buffers in your modem, if the modem has
been setup to act this way. If you are not an advanced user you will never
use this.
^bScrollLock^n
Doorway mode. This is a special mode (originated by Marshall Dudley) to
allow you to send keyboard scan codes, instead of normal ascii characters.
The statusline will be removed so the entire screen can be used. If you
need to use a menu, you must first disable Doorway mode, use the menu and
then enable Doorway mode again. The reason is that when you press, for
example, Alt-O then the scancode for Alt-O is sent and the remote site can
use the Alt-O as if that key had been pressed at the remote site.
The technical idea behind this Doorway mode is quite simple: If normal
ascii character, then send character; else, if special key, send a Ascii 0,
send scancode.
^bPageDown^n
Download. Here you can select which protocol you want to use for the file
transfer. Download means receive files. A file transfer protocol is a way
of sending/receiving data between the remote site and ourselves. Zmodem is
the best to use for normal users where it is available...
^bPageUp^n
Upload. When you want to send a file to the remote site, you will have to
use a file transfer protocol. First you will be placed in the filemanager.
From here you can select a file or files (if the file-protocol allows batch
transfers, meaning more than 1 file at the time). Just press ^hRETURN^n on
the selected file then the transfer will start. If you are using a batch
protocol, lets say Zmodem, then you can select several files by marking
the files first. You can select files in both windows.
^hAlt-1..Alt-0 are toggles that can be set permanently in the configuration^n
^bAlt-1^n
Turns beeps/alarms/alerts on/off
^bAlt-2^n
Turns ANSI music on/off. If any remote sites have ANSI music it may be
played. Terminate supports full ANSI music. Pressing Alt-2 while music is
playing will reset the music buffer.
^bAlt-3^n
Turn the statusline on/off. You can select in Emulation Setup not to have
the statusline, but since the statusline gives you important information
you should not need to turn it off.
^bAlt-4^n
The usage log is normally always turned on at startup, so you can later
see where you have called and which files you have downloaded. But you can
turn it off here, if there is a reason for not having something logged.
^bAlt-5^n
You can add a linefeed (#10) when Terminate receives a carriage return
(#13). This is normally not used and should be turned off as the default.
^bAlt-6^n
Turn on/off IEMSI logins. IEMSI logins will allow you to fast login to
systems that supports IEMSI (RemoteAccess, SuperBBS, Maximus, EzyCom). You
can setup options to rescan files, clear screen, etc, before calling the
system. Look in the Users/IEMSI setup for more information.
^bAlt-7^n
Toggle if you want the statusline to show information about CTRL-keys. This
can be turned off if you think it annoying that it changes all the time
(eg. if you use the CTRL key a lot in terminal mode.) You can also turn this
off in the configuration.
^bAlt-8^n
Turn on/off information in statusline about the Alt-F1..Alt-F10 keys -
although there is normally no reason for turning this off.
^bAlt-9^n
Turns on/off information about the keys Ctrl-Shift-F1..F10. This will show
you the abbreviated status of your external utilities. There is no reason
to turn this off.
^bAlt-0^n
Auto capture on/off. If you have defined a capture file for the phonebook
entry you have dialled, the capture file will be opened automatically at
connect. If you don't want to capture anything you can turn this off.
^bAlt-F1^n
Will toggle the information in the statusline to the left. The startup
setting and how to change on connect can be setup in configuration. It has
3 states:
^hAlt-Z for help^n just Help Information.
^hdsrdtr cd sdrd ctsrtsri^n Modem lights: capital letters mean
that the line is high. If cd is in
big letters:'CD', then carrier detect
on the modem is high (red/on).
^hSystem Name^n Name of the system called or `Manual' if
connection was not made via the dialer.
^bAlt-F2^n
Will toggle the information in the statusline to the right.
The startup setting and how to change on connect can be setup in
configuration. It has 4 states:
^hTime^n Current local time
^hOnline time^n Online time in mm:ss format
^hCosts^n How much money you have used this call
^hOnline time^n Online time in hh:mm format
^bAlt-F3^n
Pause. Many systems will log you off if you don't do anything for 2-3
minutes. This function will allow you to send a predefined character every
x seconds, to make the system at the other end think you are active. The
default is to send a RETURN (ascii 13) every 30 seconds. This is useful if
the doorbell rings and you have just connected to a very busy system, which
would take hours to get back onto, if you didn't have Terminate.
^bAlt-F4^n
Will show you the same information as you see just right after an IEMSI
connection. It will tell you exactly which BBS system and version number
the remote is running. Also the system name, sysop name, location and what
the local time is at the remote location.
^bAlt-F5^n
File tagger. This function will identify possible filenames anywhere on the
screen. You can tag the files you want to download so you don't need to
write them down on paper. You can also use the scrollback buffer ^hAlt-B^n
and tag files from there.
^bAlt-F6^n
Tagmenu. When you have tagged some files, and selected a protocol at the
remote site, then you will normally be asked which files to download.
The tagmenu will have stored all the files you want and will then send the
filenames, so you will not have to do this manually. The tagmenu has many,
many more functions such as tagging from file lists.
^bAlt-F7^n
Point system. The point system is a system were you can send/get mail or
files. It can connect to any other program using a mailer that has EMSI.
At the present time: Frontdoor, d'Bridge, Binkley, Portal of Power etc.
Note that you will not actually get online to the system, but only connect
to the remote mail system. From here you can ^hrequest^n files from
that system, without even getting online. You can also write a netmail
directly to sysops. But please, refer to the point manual for more.
^bAlt-F8^n
System searcher. Sometimes it is useful to test an entire BBS-list to
check which systems are still online. Although this is normally a tedious
task for Node list editors, they can now use this function and create a
file with a phonenumber on each line and call all these systems.
Terminate will then log all received information to edit later to determine
which to remove from the list.
^bAlt-F9^n
History strings.
Here you can edit or send old strings to the modem. Every time you edit
a string anywhere in Terminate, the last string will be saved and you can
recall old strings in an input field, by pressing Cursor Up/Down.
RETURN will edit the strings, and SPACE will send the string to the modem.
Here also the description for files is saved when uploading and a FILES.BBS
/DESCRIPT.ION file exist. You can also save and load the last 16 history
strings. If you have a FILES.BBS/DESCRIPT.ION file in the same directory as
the files, Terminate can find the description and import from the line
where the description for the file is found and the subsequent 16 lines
(Only FILES.BBS and in case of several description lines). When pressing
^bI^n, the filemanager will be called, just find the file and press ^hESC^n
with the cursor positioned above the filename.
^bAlt-F10^n
CD Audio player. If you have an audio CD-ROM, and have installed MSCDEX
(Microsoft CD Extension). Then you will be able to play normal music CD's.
You can view the start and length of every track on the CD.
^hNETWORK^n
To use Terminate on a network drive you must set the file to be shareable.
With Novell you can use the FLAG command. ^hFLAG TERMINAT.EXE srw^n, then
the file will be set to shareable.
On networks that do not support sharing directly (eg Lantastic), you
must load SHARE.EXE on the server ONLY. A lot of people think they must
load SHARE.EXE on the work stations also. But this is a mistake!!!!
SHARE.EXE should only be loaded on machines that allow others to access the
hard disk. So if you have a workstation that only accesses the server, you
should NEVER waste memory on loading SHARE.EXE. Unfortunately a lot of
programmers have misunderstood this idea and demand that SHARE is present.
The only problems that occur when running Terminate from several stations
at one time is that you cannot write to the same logfile and use the same
swapfile. This can be helped by either turning the logfile off or setting
an environment variable in your AUTOEXEC.BAT like this:
SET NET=1
Then define TERMINA%NET%.LOG. When opening the logfile TERMINA1.LOG
will be used. If SET NET=2 then TERMINA2.LOG etc. will be used.
Note that Terminate will always replace environment variables with the
correct values. The same goes for the swapfile.
You can also use different configuration files using this system.
TERMINAT /C:TERMINA%NET%.CFG
Then TERMINA1.CFG will be used for this station, if SET NET=2 then
TERMINA2.CFG will be used. If you are a network administrator then I bet
you have had these problems with configuration files many times before,
but this should solve any problems that you might get.