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Mouse ............................................................... 2 SHIFT-ESC Runtime information ....................................... 2 Alt-A SmartNote ..................................................... 3 SmartNote commands ................................................. 3 SmartNote cursor-movement commands ................................. 4 Alt-B (Shift-CursorUp) Scrollback buffer ............................ 4 Alt-C Clear Screen .................................................. 4 Alt-D Dialing directory ............................................. 5 Alt-E Local echo .................................................... 5 Alt-F The File Manager .............................................. 5 Alt-G Scripts ....................................................... 5 Alt-H Hangup ........................................................ 5 Alt-I Screen image .................................................. 5 Alt-J DOS-Shell ..................................................... 5 Alt-K String grabber ................................................ 5 Alt-L Capture file .................................................. 5 Alt-M Miscellaneous functions ....................................... 6 Greenwich Mean Time ................................................ 7 Privacy Insurance .................................................. 7 Prevent annoying phonecalls ....................................... 7 Prevent burglary .................................................. 7 Alt-N Send username ................................................. 8 Alt-O Configuration ................................................. 8 Alt-P Adjust comm. parameters ....................................... 8 Alt-Q Quit autologin ................................................ 8 Alt-R Select download path .......................................... 8 Alt-S Send password ................................................. 8 Alt-T Terminal emulation ............................................ 8 Alt-U System information ............................................ 8 Alt-V VISIBLE FAST (tm) access menu ................................. 8 Alt-W Translation editor ............................................ 9 Alt-Y Chat mode ..................................................... 10 Alt-X Exit Terminate ................................................ 10 Alt-Z Quick reference menu .......................................... 10 Alt-= Load a keyboard table ......................................... 10 Ctrl-End Break ...................................................... 10 ScrollLock Doorway mode ............................................. 10 PageDown Download ................................................... 11 PageUp Upload ....................................................... 11 Alt-1 Sound ......................................................... 11 Alt-2 ANSI music .................................................... 11 Alt-3 Statusline .................................................... 11 Alt-4 Usagelog ...................................................... 11 Alt-5 Add linefeed .................................................. 11 Alt-6 IEMSI ......................................................... 11 Alt-7 Ctrl-Status ................................................... 11 Alt-8 Alt-Status .................................................... 12 Alt-9 Ctrl-Shift-Status ............................................. 12 Alt-0 Auto capture .................................................. 12 Alt-F1 Status left .................................................. 12 Alt-F2 Status right ................................................. 12 Alt-F3 Pause function ............................................... 12 Alt-F4 IEMSI information ............................................ 13 Alt-F5 File tagger .................................................. 13 Alt-F6 Tagmenu ...................................................... 13 Alt-F7 Point system ................................................. 13 Alt-F8 Hostmode ..................................................... 13 Alt-F9 History strings .............................................. 13 Alt-F10 CD Audio player ............................................. 13 Alt-F11 External editor ............................................. 14 Alt-F12 Fax manager. ................................................ 14 NETWORK ............................................................. 14 Terminate Thesaurus ................................................. 14 Configurating Terminate ................................................ 15 Command line switches ............................................... 17 /CONFIG ............................................................ 17 /F ................................................................. 17 /HOST .............................................................. 17 /POINT ............................................................. 17 /C:filename.ext .................................................... 17 /NOCARD ............................................................ 17 /SKIP .............................................................. 17 /DISK .............................................................. 17 /BUF:xxx ........................................................... 18 /NOXMS ............................................................. 18 /DIAL:xxx .......................................................... 18 /BOSS[:x] .......................................................... 18 /CALL:node/name .................................................... 18 /FIX ............................................................... 18 /SCRLEN:xxx /SCRCOL:xxx ............................................ 18 /DEVICE:x .......................................................... 18 /PORT:x ............................................................ 18 /BAUD:x ............................................................ 18 /TASK:x ............................................................ 18 /MODE:x ............................................................ 19 /UPG ............................................................... 19 /NOIMPORT .......................................................... 19 Errorlevels ......................................................... 19 Fatal errors 255 ............................................. 19 Overlay errors 254 ............................................. 19 Password error 253 ............................................. 19 Lock error 252 ............................................. 19 Out of diskspace 251 ............................................. 19 Inactivity 250 ............................................. 19 Semaphore exit 249 ............................................. 19 Hostmode shutdown 248 ............................................. 19 No errors 0 ............................................. 20 Screen and Colors ...................................................... 21 Colors .............................................................. 21 Palette ............................................................ 21 Auto palette ........................................................ 22 Windows sound ....................................................... 22 Exploding windows ................................................... 22 Direct writes ....................................................... 22 Snow checking ....................................................... 22 Screen blanker ...................................................... 22 Show snakes ......................................................... 22 VGA Fadeout ......................................................... 22 Center screen ....................................................... 22 Screen size ......................................................... 22 ├─Start mode ........................................................ 22 ├─Other mode ........................................................ 22 └─Exit mode ........................................................ 22 Big phonebook ....................................................... 23 Force CP-850 ........................................................ 23 Find textmodes ...................................................... 23 Use intensity ....................................................... 23 Only low ASCII ...................................................... 23 Use SND files ....................................................... 23 Communications ......................................................... 24 Maximum baud rates .................................................. 24 When to use a fast 16550A serialchip with FIFO buffer ............... 24 Device setup ........................................................ 25 Serial interface .................................................... 25 UART/Serial Direct serial chips ............................ 25 Interrupt 14h Via BIOS int 14h max 9600 baud ................. 25 Fossil Resident serial devices, like X00/BNU .......... 25 Digiboard Very fast intelligent multiport adapter. ....... 25 Comport ............................................................. 25 Device name ......................................................... 25 Baudrate ............................................................ 25 Lock port ........................................................... 25 Databits / Stopbits / Parity ........................................ 25 Databits ............................................................ 25 Stopbits ............................................................ 26 Parity .............................................................. 26 None No parity is added, default .................................. 26 Even A parity bit is added such that the bit sum is always even ... 26 Odd A parity bit is added such that the bit sum is always odd .... 26 Mark A parity bit of value one is always added .................... 26 Space A parity bit of value zero is always added ................... 26 Phonebook ........................................................... 26 Costfile ............................................................ 26 Receive buffer size Transmit buffer size ........................... 26 Software flow control (Xon/Xoff) .................................... 26 Hardware flow control (CTS/RTS) ..................................... 27 Hardware flow control (DSR/DTR) ..................................... 27 Use 16550 fifo if available ......................................... 27 Keep 16550 fifo on in shell ......................................... 27 RTS low while writing ............................................... 27 Auto RTS low trigger ................................................ 27 Carrier detect mask ................................................. 27 Init string ......................................................... 27 Restore port on close ............................................... 27 Close port in shell ................................................. 28 Configure comports .................................................. 28 Check IRQ ........................................................... 29 Set default values .................................................. 29 Auto installation ................................................... 29 General options ........................................................ 30 General options 1 ................................................... 30 Swap method ......................................................... 30 Swap when shelling .................................................. 30 Warning days ........................................................ 30 ScrollBack buffer kb ................................................ 30 Time format ......................................................... 31 Country code ........................................................ 31 Pause time / char ................................................... 31 Minimum diskspace ................................................... 31 Tag char ............................................................ 31 Edit background ..................................................... 31 Online warn minutes ................................................. 31 Information time .................................................... 31 Max log size kb ..................................................... 31 Inactivity seconds .................................................. 31 Audio control ....................................................... 31 Auto password ....................................................... 32 Separators .......................................................... 32 Thousand : . , ........................................ 32 Decimal : , . ........................................ 32 Date : - / ........................................ 32 Time : . : ........................................ 32 Filefinder drives / Scan drives ..................................... 32 Release buffer ...................................................... 32 Menu background ..................................................... 32 General options 2 ................................................... 32 External support .................................................... 33 !P ................................................................. 33 !C ................................................................. 33 !0 ................................................................. 33 !E ................................................................. 33 !M ................................................................. 33 !W ................................................................. 33 !B ................................................................. 33 !L ................................................................. 34 !F ................................................................. 34 !CD ................................................................ 34 !25,!30,!43,!50 .................................................... 34 Toggles ................................................................ 35 Blind support ....................................................... 35 Deaf Support ........................................................ 35 Sound ............................................................... 35 Connect alarm ....................................................... 35 Transfer then beep .................................................. 35 Key click ........................................................... 35 Opening screen ...................................................... 35 Closing screen ...................................................... 36 Ask start device .................................................... 36 Start in phone ...................................................... 36 Start in top ........................................................ 36 Ask phone ........................................................... 36 Phonebook after ..................................................... 36 Jump back to phone .................................................. 36 Dialer auto untag ................................................... 36 Quick dialing bar ................................................... 36 Return aborts ....................................................... 36 Show big CONNECT .................................................... 36 Auto save config .................................................... 36 Auto save history ................................................... 36 Auto update baud .................................................... 37 Backup cfg/phone .................................................... 37 Second backup ....................................................... 37 Save before dial .................................................... 37 Save scrollback ..................................................... 37 Save tagfile ........................................................ 37 Open logfile ........................................................ 37 Auto-open capture ................................................... 37 Overwrite capture ................................................... 37 Append capture ...................................................... 38 Ctrl in capture ..................................................... 38 Capture keystroke ................................................... 38 Special Capture ..................................................... 38 Hide passwords ...................................................... 38 Password checking ................................................... 38 Crypt cfg/fon ....................................................... 38 Ask at Alt-X ........................................................ 38 Ask at Alt-H ........................................................ 38 Show when Ctrl ...................................................... 38 Show when Alt ....................................................... 38 Show when Ctrl+Sh ................................................... 39 Baud in status ...................................................... 39 Mouse ............................................................... 39 Enhanced keyboard ................................................... 39 Auto ANSI ........................................................... 39 Flush Cache ......................................................... 39 Import descript. .................................................... 39 RegInfo bright ...................................................... 39 Select sort ......................................................... 39 Shell information ................................................... 39 Tag advance ......................................................... 39 Transfer info ....................................................... 39 Transfer slice ...................................................... 40 Wrap word in chat ................................................... 40 EMSI debug info ..................................................... 40 Alt-K infoscreen .................................................... 40 Reset toggles ....................................................... 40 Modem and dialing ...................................................... 41 Install modem ....................................................... 42 Including your own modem in Terminate's database .................... 42 Init strings ........................................................ 43 Send all ........................................................... 43 Dial prefix/suffix .................................................. 44 Exit string ......................................................... 44 Connect string ...................................................... 44 No connect strings .................................................. 44 Hang-up ............................................................. 45 Ring/Ok string ...................................................... 45 Dial time ........................................................... 45 Dial cancel string .................................................. 45 Redial timers ....................................................... 46 Auto-answer string .................................................. 46 Auto answer ......................................................... 46 Baud change ......................................................... 46 Modem string delay .................................................. 46 Force initstring .................................................... 46 RS-232C INTERFACE ................................................... 47 HAYES ............................................................... 48 Filenames and paths .................................................... 51 Download manager .................................................... 52 Upload directory .................................................... 52 Script directory .................................................... 52 Translation file .................................................... 52 Phonebook directory ................................................. 52 Capture directory ................................................... 53 Capture file ........................................................ 53 Log file ............................................................ 53 Editor filename ..................................................... 53 Line command ........................................................ 53 Viewer filename ..................................................... 53 The internal lister ................................................ 53 Protocol directory .................................................. 53 Shell directory ..................................................... 54 Swap file ........................................................... 54 Utility directory ................................................... 54 Manual directory .................................................... 54 Run after download Run after upload ................................ 54 Qwk reply files ..................................................... 54 Semaphore directory ................................................. 54 Exit file ........................................................... 54 Filelist manager .................................................... 55 Protocols .............................................................. 56 Default ............................................................. 56 Allow auto .......................................................... 56 Internal protocols .................................................. 56 Enable protocols ................................................... 56 CPS adjust ......................................................... 57 Hangup after time .................................................. 57 Hangup default ..................................................... 57 Zmodem/ZedZap: ..................................................... 57 Allow CRC-32 ...................................................... 57 Allow recovery .................................................... 57 Check file date ................................................... 57 Touch file ........................................................ 58 Increase filename ................................................. 58 Always overwrite .................................................. 58 Zmodem signature .................................................. 58 Auto upload ....................................................... 58 ASCII send/receive ................................................. 58 Strip high bit .................................................... 58 Remote abort char ................................................. 58 Local echo ........................................................ 59 Blank line -=> 1 Space ............................................ 59 Line pacing ....................................................... 59 Character pacing .................................................. 59 CR translation LF translation .................................... 59 External protocols .................................................. 59 Protocol name ...................................................... 60 Information ........................................................ 60 [Path]+Filename .................................................... 60 Ask at downloads ................................................... 60 Change to UL dir ................................................... 60 Change to DL dir ................................................... 61 Batch .............................................................. 61 Hotkey ............................................................. 61 Upload parameters / Download param. ................................ 61 Auto-download ...................................................... 61 Signature Signature hex ........................................... 62 Transfering files ................................................... 62 Total / Costs ...................................................... 62 Disk space ......................................................... 62 Activity ........................................................... 62 Path ............................................................... 63 Hangup after ....................................................... 63 Skip rest of file .................................................. 63 RTS low while writing .............................................. 63 Batch upload PgUp,Alt-B ............................................. 63 Emulations ............................................................. 64 Default terminal .................................................... 64 Setup terminal ...................................................... 64 Emulation .......................................................... 65 Comment ............................................................ 65 Keyboard file ...................................................... 65 Scroll screen ...................................................... 65 Local echo ......................................................... 65 Add linefeed ....................................................... 65 Strip high ......................................................... 65 Erase backspace .................................................... 66 Ignore null ........................................................ 66 Statusline ......................................................... 66 ANSI music ......................................................... 66 Edit keyboard ....................................................... 66 @DIAL 5 6 7 8 9 10 .................................................. 67 Host mode .............................................................. 68 Host init-string .................................................... 68 Open system ......................................................... 68 Send path ........................................................... 68 Receive path ........................................................ 68 Shut down pwd ....................................................... 68 Allow sound ......................................................... 68 Ring count .......................................................... 69 Callback wait ....................................................... 69 Fax receive ......................................................... 69 Fax init ............................................................ 69 Fax answer .......................................................... 69 Fax internal ........................................................ 69 Fax command ......................................................... 69 External 1 External 2 External 3 .................................. 70 Using the hostmode .................................................. 70 Esc ................................................................. 70 Alt-H Hangup ........................................................ 71 Alt-Y Yell .......................................................... 71 Alt-J DOS ........................................................... 71 (C)hat .............................................................. 71 (D)ownload .......................................................... 71 (E)rase ............................................................. 71 (F)iles ............................................................. 71 (G)oodbye ........................................................... 71 (H)D-free ........................................................... 71 (I)nfo-HD ........................................................... 71 (L)ocate ............................................................ 72 (M)essage ........................................................... 72 (N)ew dir ........................................................... 72 (R)ead .............................................................. 72 (S)hutdown .......................................................... 72 (T)ype .............................................................. 72 (U)pload ............................................................ 72 (1),(2),(3) ......................................................... 72 Auto login ............................................................. 73 Script delay ........................................................ 73 Login timeout ....................................................... 73 Login strings ....................................................... 73 Mini Scripts ........................................................ 74 Users / IEMSI setup .................................................... 75 Edit user profiles .................................................. 75 Username ............................................................ 76 Password ............................................................ 76 Prg/host Pwd ........................................................ 76 Address ............................................................. 76 Comment ............................................................. 76 Host settings ....................................................... 76 Access ............................................................. 76 Callback ........................................................... 76 Dial prefix ........................................................ 76 Phone number ....................................................... 77 User IEMSI settings ................................................. 77 IEMSI ............................................................... 77 Info time ........................................................... 77 Location ............................................................ 77 Phone # ............................................................. 77 Prg. Pwd (Program password) ......................................... 77 Birthday ............................................................ 77 Security ............................................................ 78 Configuration ...................................................... 78 Phonebook .......................................................... 78 Point system ....................................................... 78 File manager ....................................................... 78 Screen blanker ..................................................... 78 System Searcher .................................................... 78 Security menu ...................................................... 79 Encrypt logfile .................................................... 80 Secondary logfile ................................................. 80 Password .......................................................... 80 Decrypt/View logfile .............................................. 80 Network lock ....................................................... 80 Lock .............................................................. 80 EXE ............................................................... 80 KEY ............................................................... 80 CFG ............................................................... 80 The Pointsystem ........................................................ 82 Poll ................................................................ 83 Request ............................................................. 83 Netmail ............................................................. 83 Echomail ............................................................ 84 Hold ................................................................ 84 Snailmail ........................................................... 84 Alt-O,N ............................................................. 85 Main address ........................................................ 85 Boss setup .......................................................... 85 Dial ............................................................... 85 Boss phone ......................................................... 85 Boss device ........................................................ 86 Boss prefix ........................................................ 86 Boss password ...................................................... 86 Boss synch ......................................................... 86 Boss autodial ...................................................... 86 Descriptions ........................................................ 86 Redial tries ........................................................ 86 Dial prefix ......................................................... 86 Allow ZedZap ........................................................ 86 Ask device .......................................................... 86 Pop Simulate ........................................................ 87 Zone match .......................................................... 87 Handshake ........................................................... 87 Inbound ............................................................. 87 Outbound ............................................................ 87 Nodelist 1 Nodelist 2 Nodelist 3 .................................. 87 Password file ....................................................... 87 Phone convert ....................................................... 87 Modem strings ....................................................... 88 Mail editor ......................................................... 88 Import .............................................................. 88 Export .............................................................. 88 After mail .......................................................... 88 Alt-F7 Using the point system ....................................... 89 The outbound window ................................................. 89 Call Boss ........................................................... 90 Call system ......................................................... 90 Send files .......................................................... 90 File requests ....................................................... 90 Kill mail (DELete) .................................................. 91 Auto request { Only in registered version } ......................... 91 Pick up mail ........................................................ 91 Send AKA's .......................................................... 91 Zoom mail ........................................................... 92 Main address ........................................................ 92 Send message ........................................................ 92 Change mail ......................................................... 92 Mail editor ......................................................... 92 Import .............................................................. 92 Export .............................................................. 92 V View logfile ...................................................... 92 Manual { Only in registered version } ............................... 92 Cost management ........................................................ 94 Calculate costs ..................................................... 94 Cost file 1 Cost file 2 Cost file 3 ............................... 94 Show at connect ..................................................... 94 Show costs after .................................................... 94 Start at once ....................................................... 94 Currency string ..................................................... 95 Decimalpoint ........................................................ 95 Pay by period ....................................................... 95 Max costs ........................................................... 95 Max costs per day ................................................... 95 Cost editor ......................................................... 96 Phone # ............................................................ 96 Days:MTWTFSS ....................................................... 96 Hours .............................................................. 96 Costs in units/minute / Add Y units every X second ................. 96 Start .............................................................. 97 Connect ............................................................ 97 External editor ..................................................... 97 2. currency string .................................................. 97 2. currency calc. ................................................... 97 2. calculator ....................................................... 97 The Phonebook .......................................................... 98 Insert .............................................................. 98 Delete .............................................................. 98 A Add new entry ..................................................... 98 D (RETURN) Dial number(s) ........................................... 98 Add 15 seconds ..................................................... 99 Untag entry ........................................................ 99 Edit entry ......................................................... 99 Retry .............................................................. 99 Space=cycle ........................................................ 99 Return=abort ESC=hangup/abort ...................................... 99 M Manual dial ....................................................... 100 F Find entry ........................................................ 100 SPACE Tag/untag ..................................................... 100 + Tag all ........................................................... 100 - Untag all ......................................................... 100 * Invert all ........................................................ 100 S Sort menu ......................................................... 101 I Import ............................................................ 101 BBSlist ............................................................ 102 Import from nodelists .............................................. 102 Import/Export comma separated files ................................ 102 Export: Phonebook to printer/textfile .............................. 102 P Change phonebook .................................................. 102 O Other functions ................................................... 102 G Global changes .................................................... 104 V Save phonebook .................................................... 104 L Voicecall ......................................................... 105 C Copy menu ......................................................... 105 T (Alt-L) Edit capture file ......................................... 105 N (Alt-N) Edit note file ............................................ 105 W Warn days ......................................................... 105 Alt-J DOS-shell ..................................................... 105 Alt-X Exit .......................................................... 105 E Edit entry ........................................................ 106 System name ........................................................ 106 Phone number ....................................................... 106 Device ............................................................. 106 User profile ....................................................... 106 Password ........................................................... 106 Opening hours ...................................................... 107 Terminal ........................................................... 107 Dial prefix Dial suffix ........................................... 107 Comm. information .................................................. 107 Autologin .......................................................... 107 Comment 1 Comment 2 ............................................... 108 Download path ...................................................... 108 Keyboard mapping ................................................... 108 Translation table .................................................. 108 Capture file ....................................................... 108 Note file .......................................................... 108 Clear last call .................................................... 108 Time used/Connects ................................................. 108 Transfer guess ..................................................... 108 Costs used ......................................................... 109 Local Echo ......................................................... 109 StripHigh .......................................................... 109 Erase backspace .................................................... 109 Color .............................................................. 109 File tagging and tagmenu ............................................... 110 File tagger keys .................................................... 110 File tagger cursor movements ........................................ 110 Tag menu ............................................................ 111 A Edit tagfile ...................................................... 111 C Clear all ......................................................... 111 D Delete (■) ........................................................ 111 L Load tagfile ...................................................... 111 S Save tagfile ...................................................... 111 E Edit entry ........................................................ 112 I Import dir ........................................................ 112 F Filelist .......................................................... 112 Turbo Search ....................................................... 113 View filelist ...................................................... 113 Tag from list ...................................................... 113 Pack filelists ..................................................... 114 Unpack filelists ................................................... 114 Filemanager ........................................................ 114 M Magic ............................................................. 114 G GenTag ............................................................ 114 B Sort .............................................................. 114 U UnTag ............................................................. 114 Del Remove entry .................................................... 114 ■=Sent / ■=Request .................................................. 114 Space / Return ...................................................... 114 + All+13 - All+32 / +-* Toggle all .................................. 114 The Filemanager ........................................................ 116 Changing directory .................................................. 116 Drive colours ....................................................... 116 K Mask .............................................................. 116 P Enter/create path ................................................. 116 Movements ........................................................... 118 Left cursor (< An arrow pointing to the left) ....................... 118 Right cursor (> An arrow pointing to the right) ..................... 118 . Reread ............................................................ 118 \ Change to root .................................................... 118 + Tag all ........................................................... 118 - Untag all ......................................................... 118 * Invert all ........................................................ 118 SPACE Tag ........................................................... 119 TAB Change window ................................................... 119 T Enter CPS ......................................................... 119 S Sort files ........................................................ 119 C Copy file(s) (Print textfiles) .................................... 119 M Move file(s) ...................................................... 119 R Rename file ....................................................... 119 D (DEL) Delete file(s) .............................................. 119 A Change attributes ................................................. 119 J DOS-Shell ......................................................... 120 U Compare paths ..................................................... 120 N Send filename ..................................................... 120 Z Tree-size ......................................................... 120 V View file ......................................................... 120 E Edit file ......................................................... 120 F Find file(s) ...................................................... 120 W Window display style .............................................. 120 I Disk information .................................................. 120 X Edit extensions ................................................... 120 O DOS-command ....................................................... 121 B Both paths ........................................................ 121 Q Quiet ............................................................. 121 Fido-style address .................................................. 121 The Fax manager ........................................................ 122 Introduction to the faxmanager ...................................... 122 The fax manager menu ................................................ 122 Receive faxes ....................................................... 123 Force receive ....................................................... 123 Polling fax ......................................................... 123 Send fax ............................................................ 123 Quick note ......................................................... 123 File selector ...................................................... 123 Pick phone entry ................................................... 123 Accept fax info .................................................... 124 Send with cover page / Send without cover page .................... 124 To ................................................................. 125 Number ............................................................. 125 From ............................................................... 125 Current cover page ................................................. 125 Multi fax ........................................................... 125 Start multifax ..................................................... 125 Phonelist .......................................................... 125 File to fax ........................................................ 125 Multi cover page ................................................... 125 Reset phonelist .................................................... 125 Cost estimate ...................................................... 126 Schedule fax ........................................................ 126 Convert ............................................................. 126 View faxes .......................................................... 126 Print files ......................................................... 126 File manager ........................................................ 126 Fax phonebook ....................................................... 126 View logfile ........................................................ 126 Encryption menu ..................................................... 126 Password ........................................................... 126 Auto encrypt ....................................................... 126 Encrypt any file ................................................... 126 Decrypt any file ................................................... 127 Fax configuration ................................................... 127 Auto config ........................................................ 127 Fax device ......................................................... 127 Class .............................................................. 127 Receive class ...................................................... 127 Fax bps rate ....................................................... 127 Initstring ......................................................... 128 Dial prefix ........................................................ 128 Error correction ................................................... 128 Local ID ........................................................... 128 Fine resolution .................................................... 128 Ring counter ....................................................... 128 Send retries ....................................................... 128 Retry delay ........................................................ 128 Page width ......................................................... 128 Page header line ................................................... 128 Pagesize & margins ................................................. 129 Incoming control ................................................... 129 Slow init .......................................................... 129 Filenames & paths .................................................. 129 Fax path .......................................................... 129 Fax receive path .................................................. 129 Fax transmit path ................................................. 129 Font .............................................................. 130 HP LaserJet font .................................................. 130 CAS PCX Logo file ................................................. 130 Cover page ........................................................ 130 Fax phonebook ..................................................... 131 Printer setup ...................................................... 131 Printer ........................................................... 131 Printer path ...................................................... 131 Auto print ........................................................ 131 Use scaling ....................................................... 131 Suppress blanks ................................................... 131 Print header ...................................................... 131 Fax command line switches ........................................... 131 Send a fax ......................................................... 131 /FAX /SEND Filename Number-to-dial [To-user] [From-user] .......... 131 Receive faxes ...................................................... 132 /FAX /RECEIVE ..................................................... 132 Send multifaxes .................................................... 132 /FAX /MULTI filename file-with-numbers /RESET ..................... 132 Convert files ...................................................... 132 /CONVERT filename ................................................. 132 Print files ........................................................ 132 /PRINT filename ................................................... 132 CD audio player ........................................................ 134 Play ................................................................ 134 Stop ................................................................ 134 Resume .............................................................. 134 Next ................................................................ 134 Previous ............................................................ 134 Eject ............................................................... 134 Lock CD door ........................................................ 135 MSCDEX Version ...................................................... 135 CD in drive ......................................................... 135 Door locked ......................................................... 135 Raw and cooked ...................................................... 135 Data and Audio ...................................................... 135 HSG and Red book .................................................... 135 Audiomanipulation ................................................... 135 Volume size ......................................................... 135 Track ............................................................... 135 Track start ......................................................... 135 Total track time .................................................... 135 Track time .......................................................... 135 Track time left ..................................................... 135 Copyrighted track ................................................... 136 International information .............................................. 137 International information ........................................... 137 Unit of measurement ................................................ 137 Numeric sizes ...................................................... 137 Linear measure ..................................................... 138 Square measure ..................................................... 138 Cubic measure ...................................................... 139 Weight ............................................................. 140 Temperature ........................................................ 140 Decimal/Hexadecimal/Binary numeric systems ......................... 140 Hexadecimal (hex) -> Binary ........................................ 141 Binary -> Hexadecimal (hex) ........................................ 141 Decimal -> Hexadecimal ............................................. 141 Hexadecimal -> Decimal ............................................. 142 Decimal -> Binary .................................................. 142 Binary -> Decimal .................................................. 143 End of manual .......................................................... 144 Information about SHAREWARE/LITE/PLUS versions ...................... 144 SHAREWARE versions: ................................................ 144 LITE versions: ..................................................... 144 PLUS versions: ..................................................... 144 PROFESSIONAL versions: ............................................. 144 EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY .............................................. 145 Special thanks ...................................................... 145 Trademarks .......................................................... 146 The story about the Terminate trademark ............................. 146 Information for blind people ........................................... 147 Additional Features when you Register... ............................... 150 Licence agreement ...................................................... 152 Introduction to the Final Terminal Welcome to Terminate's On-Line Manual. This manual is designed so anyone can add comments or even change the language as easily as possible. Once you have upgraded, you may change the help files (*.HLP) for your own purposes, but you are NOT allowed to distribute any modified files without permission. If you do translate files into your own language, please send a copy to DAN BBS ApS, Kastanie alle 14, 2620 Albertslund, Denmark or to a Registration Site so other users can benefit from your work. What is a terminal program? A terminal program is used for communicating with other computers via special hardware. Terminate takes care of the hardware interface - whether it's a data modem, ISDN adapter or fossil - via its' various inbuilt device layers and leaves you free to concentrate on the message rather than the medium. Terminates' various emulations and protocols will interpret colour codes and draw your screen appropriately and transfer files from and to your system. Other terminal programs will cope with this basic job too, but we like to think that what makes Terminate different is the helpful human interface and added features to help you communicate quicker and easier. This did not happen by accident. Terminate is better because of the suggestions from our hundreds of thousands of users all over the world. Please tell us if there is anything we need to change or add to make it better for YOU! Online help 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. TERMINAT ? 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. Editing input fields When you start editing a field/number/string, you can modify the previous - 2 - 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 CURSOR-UP 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 Alt-A 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 Alt-F9 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 bottom line in the menus. Mouse 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 modes 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' | ScreenLine = ' M Messages F Files ' | | 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! SHIFT-ESC Runtime information 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 kinds of information. Like current drive. Last incoming characters. - 3 - Costs. Memory left etc. look for yourself. Alt-A SmartNote If you use The Internet or some other network where you need to remember hundreds of different strings or note down lots of information, then you cannot live any longer without the SmartNote! The SmartNote function is better than a very long piece of paper because it is always ready for writing down anything needed at a later time. Backups will be made automatically. For example, you see something on the screen you wish to note: 1. Press Alt-K and grab the text with the string grabber - this can be adjusted in size and position with Shift and cursor-keys. 2. Then enter SmartNote by pressing Alt-A and import by pressing Alt-G at the place you want the grabbed text to appear. NB: It does not matter where you see something on the screen, just so long as you are inside Terminate. The Alt-K string grabber will work everywhere. If, for example, you want to copy something to another note file, just follow the procedure above. If you want to test this powerful feature, you could go into Alt-O, press Alt-K and grab some of the menu. Then start up SmartNote with Alt-A and insert the grabbed text with Alt-G. (You can grab from any of the Manual Files and insert in a note file.) You can adjust the grabbers' size by holding down Shift and then using the cursor movement keys (Arrow up, down, right or left). Z will Zoom the grabber to maximum size. Once you try this, you will soon understand how powerful and useful this feature can be! The editor inside SmartNote has the following functions: SmartNote commands (Many of these commands are the same as Qedit by SEMWARE) Alt-1 Uppercase line Alt-2 Lowercase line Alt-A Select character from ASCII-selector Alt-C Clear/erase all lines Alt-D Do it for you. Simulate a fast typist Alt-E Edit file with the external editor Alt-F Search after keyword Alt-G Import the last block you grabbed with Alt-K Alt-I Import all history strings at cursorline Alt-J Jump to DOS Alt-K String grabber Alt-L Load another note file Alt-R Send from cursor position and Rest of line Alt-S Send line without carriage return (#13) Alt-T Send from position 1 To cursor position Alt-U Import textfile into cursor position Alt-W Send Word under cursor Alt-Z Turbo Search in all note files - 4 - ┌──────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┤ Searching for 'YOU' ├┐ │ INTERNET │ Here you can place any command you like or just want to r │ │ INTERNET │ The following lines are only examples of what you could s │ │ SMARTNOT │ used by default. If you want to use another note file with │ │ SMARTNOT │ it will be used when you are online at that system. │ │ SMARTNOT │ In here you can write all the information you normally wr │ │ SMARTNOT │ several small pieces of papers, which you of course cannot │ │ SMARTNOT │ You can grab from all places in Terminate, not only in term │ │ SMARTNOT │ I hope you now understand how useful this feature will be │ │ SMARTNOT │ Try and grab something, it does not matter where you grab f │ │ SMARTNOT │ matters that you try yourself and see how easy you can grab │ │ COMPSERV │ Here you can place any command you like or just want to r │ │ COMPSERV │ The following lines are only examples of what you could s │ └──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Turbo Search will allow you to search through all note files very fast and let you choose your match and jump to the place in the notefile where the match was found. If several matches were found, then you will be asked which match to use, like the above example. Ctrl-Enter Send line to device with a carriage return (#13) Ctrl-Y Delete current line Ctrl-T Delete right word F2 Add line F4 Duplicate line F6 Delete from cursor until end of line Alt-F9 History strings SmartNote cursor-movement commands Home Goto start of line End Goto end of line Ctrl-Home Goto first screen line Ctrl-End Goto last screen line Cursor Up Move 1 line up Cursor Down Move 1 line down Cursor Left Move one position left Cursor Right Move one position right Ctrl-Left Move one word to the left Ctrl-Right Move one word to the right PageUp Go 1 page down PageDown Go 1 page up Ctrl-PageUp Goto top of file Ctrl-PageDown Goto bottom of file Insert Toggle Insert/Overwrite Delete Delete character under cursor Backspace Delete character before cursor Alt-B (Shift-CursorUp) 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. Alt-C Clear Screen Clears screen, sets default colours and cleans up. - 5 - Alt-D Dialing directory The dialling directory. From here you can store all your 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. Alt-E Local echo Echo all characters sent to the modem on the screen. Normally this is always turned off. Alt-F The File Manager Also calls external utilities and has almost every function that Norton Commander(TM) has - and then a little more :-) Alt-G Scripts Scripts will follow in later versions... Alt-H Hangup 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. Alt-I 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. Alt-J DOS-Shell Calls COMMAND.COM (COMSPEC) and invokes a dos-shell. You can set Terminate up to not swap out memory first. Type EXIT to return. Alt-K 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! Alt-L Capture file 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. Use PRN or LPTx to capture directly to printer. - 6 - Alt-M Miscellaneous functions ╒╡ Miscellaneous functions ╞╕ │ Modem reset/Init device │ │ Answer call at once │ ├───────────────────────────┤ │ 25 lines │ │ 30 lines │ │ 43/50 lines │ │ V Tseng 4000 100x40 │ │ O XGA 132x25 │ │ E Reset 80x25 │ ├───────────────────────────┤ │ Hostmode │ │ Fax Manager (Alt-F12) │ │ Run Download Manager... │ │ Keyboard lock │ │ Blanker (screen) │ │ Choose char to send │ │ S-registers (read/write) │ │ Terminal mode simulation │ │ List of countries │ │ GMT & time zones │ │ Privacy Insurance │ ╘═══════════════════════════╛ M First reset device, then allows you to select which init string to send to the modem A Pick up phone (send the auto answer string) 2 Switch to 25 lines screen mode 3 Switch to 30 lines screen mode (VGA only) 4 If EGA, then switch to 43 lines; if VGA, then 50 lines V Startup screen mode if using custom screen modes O Another definable screen mode E Mode to use when exiting Terminate and using custom mode H Startup hostmode, look in configuration for more information You can also start the hostmode directly: TERMINAT /HOST F This menu will allow you to send and recieve faxes, please refer to the information later in this manual or press F1 in the menu. Alt-F12 from terminal mode will also start this menu. R Run Download Manager K Locks keyboard with password B Activate the screen blanker C Choose a char from the ASCII selector to send directly to port S Show/change S-registers in a HAYES(tm) compatible modem. T Simulate characters received from modem or other device. With this function you can first capture some screens with Alt-L and then replay the screens later in the current emulation to see if they display correctly. With this you can test if your ANSI, AVATAR etc. screens are working properly. L Show list of countries that are directly supported in Terminate. G Watch the time all over the world. P Privacy Insurance. - 7 - Greenwich Mean Time ╒══════════════════════╡ Greenwich Mean Time (G.M.T.) & time zones ╞╕ │ │ │ Greenwich Mean Time 23.15.29 │ │ │ │ Your country 45 Denmark / Danmark │ │ │ │ Time zones │ │ Lowest GMT+1 00.15.29 │ │ Highest GMT+1 00.15.29 │ │ Your zone GMT+1 00.15.29 │ │ │ │■Other country 1 United States / Canada │ │ │ │ Time zones │ │ Lowest GMT-11 12.15.29 │ │ Highest GMT-3 20.15.29 │ │ Zone used GMT-7 16.15.29 │ │ │ ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ TAB Move between lines C Country list │ │ LEFT/RIGHT Change GMT time or time zone │ │ UP/DOWN Change country │ ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ This function does not handle daylight saving time (summer time) │ ╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ From this menu will you be able of viewing the current time in many countries. The GMT must be adjusted if it is not correct. Terminate will guess your time zone, but in some countries that have several time zones like USA and Russia you must adjust the GMT to the right time. GMT is the exact time in a part of London called Greenwich, which lies next to the river Thames. Press TAB to move the '■' around and the cursors to change time or zone. C will show you the entire list of countries that Terminate supports. Privacy Insurance With this function, Terminate will pretend that you are home. It will pick up the phone randomly after 1 to 5 rings and hang up immediately. Every call is noted in the logfile. Prevent annoying phonecalls If someone wants to bother you by calling in at odd hours, this function will avoid any disturbance. After a while the would-be prankster will become bored and quit. Prevent burglary By enabling this function you make sure that thieves who are calling you to check if you're home can not be sure whether you are home or not. They might think that you are home and don't want to talk to anyonne - in any case, they will certainly be uncertain and possibly change their mind. WE CAN NOT GUARANTEE OR PROMISE THAT THESE FUNCTIONS GENERATE THE DESIRED RESULTS. USE AT OWN RISK. - 8 - Alt-N Send username Sends the user name from the current user profile. You will normally use this function where Terminate can not log on automatically. Alt-O Configuration All the configuration menus. Alt-P Adjust comm. parameters Quick change of device, comport, baudrate, databits, parity, stopbit. You can also save the chosen setup directly as the default startup settings. Alt-Q Quit autologin Quits current autologin script. If you see a flashing A in the statusline then probably Terminate did not logon properly. Try correcting the login scripts in the configuration menus or turn them off. Alt-R Select download path 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. Alt-S 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. Alt-T Terminal emulation 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. Alt-U System information Which multitasker, processor, graphics card, speed index etc... Alt-V 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. - 9 - Alt-W 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. ╒═══════════════════════════════════════════╡ Translation editor ╞╕ │ Filename : .XLT │ │ Comment : Default translation tables for terminate │ │ ( 0) ( Incoming table ) │ │ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . │ │ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . │ │ ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / │ │ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? │ │ @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O │ │ P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ │ │ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o │ │ p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ │ │ Ç ü é â ä à å ç ê ë è ï î ì Ä Å │ │ É æ Æ ô ö ò û ù ÿ Ö Ü ¢ £ ¥ ₧ ƒ │ │ á í ó ú ñ Ñ ª º ¿ ⌐ ¬ ½ ¼ ¡ « » │ │ ░ ▒ ▓ │ ┤ ╡ ╢ ╖ ╕ ╣ ║ ╗ ╝ ╜ ╛ ┐ │ │ └ ┴ ┬ ├ ─ ┼ ╞ ╟ ╚ ╔ ╩ ╦ ╠ ═ ╬ ╧ │ │ ╨ ╤ ╥ ╙ ╘ ╒ ╓ ╫ ╪ ┘ ┌ █ ▄ ▌ ▐ ▀ │ │ α ß Γ π Σ σ µ τ Φ Θ Ω δ ∞ φ ε ∩ │ │ ≡ ± ≥ ≤ ⌠ ⌡ ÷ ≈ ° ∙ · √ ⁿ ² ■ │ │ │ │ R Reset L Load S Save T Incoming/outgoing U ASCII/Value │ │ X Translate a file using this table │ ╘═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Comment Since it is important to know what the table is used for it is strongly advised that you enter the description here. R Reset Remove all changes and clean the board. L Load Load a table S Save Save table T Incoming/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. U ASCII/Value Toggle values instead of character apperance. - 10 - X Translate 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) Alt-Y 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. Alt-X 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: Exit, 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. Alt-Z Quick reference menu Here you can see a short description of all functions - and see which functions are On or Off. Alt-= Load a keyboard table This key is different on some international keyboards. It is the key next to the BACKSPACE. 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. Ctrl-End Break 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. ScrollLock 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. - 11 - PageDown 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... PageUp 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 RETURN 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. Alt-1..Alt-0 Change different toggles These are toggles that can be set permanently in the configuration. Alt-1 Sound Turns beeps/alarms/alerts on/off Alt-2 ANSI music 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. Alt-3 Statusline 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. Alt-4 Usagelog 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. Alt-5 Add linefeed 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. Alt-6 IEMSI Turn on/off IEMSI logins. IEMSI logins will allow you to fast login to systems that support 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. Alt-7 Ctrl-Status 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 - 12 - this off in the configuration. Alt-8 Alt-Status Turn on/off information in statusline about the Alt-F1..Alt-F10 keys - although there is normally no reason for turning this off. Alt-9 Ctrl-Shift-Status 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. Alt-0 Auto capture 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. Alt-F1 Status left 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 4 states: Alt-Z for help just Help Information. dsrdtr cd sdrd ctsrtsri 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). System Name Name of the system called or `Manual' if connection was not made via the dialer. Current device Which device is in use. Alt-F2 Status right 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 6 states: Time Current local time Online time Online time in mm:ss format Costs How much money you have used this call Online time Online time in hh:mm format Secondary currency Show costs in secondary currency Cursor position Show x,y position of cursor on screen Alt-F3 Pause function 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 - 13 - 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. Alt-F4 IEMSI information 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. Alt-F5 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 Alt-B and tag files from there. Alt-F6 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. Alt-F7 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 request files from that system, without even getting online. You can also write a netmail message directly to sysops. But please, refer to the point manual for more. Alt-F8 Hostmode For more information about the hostmode, see the section about hostmode or enter hostmode and press F1. Alt-F9 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 exists. 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 'I', the filemanager will be called, just find the file and press 'RETURN' with the cursor positioned above the filename. Alt-F10 CD Audio player If you have an audio CD-ROM, and have installed MSCDEX - 14 - (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. Alt-F11 External editor Calls the external editor. This could be Q.EXE (Qedit) or whatever editor you might like to use. Alt-F12 Fax manager. See the documentation for the fax manager. NETWORK To use Terminate on a network drive you must set the file to be shareable. With Novell you can use the FLAG command. FLAG TERMINAT.EXE srw, 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. Terminate Thesaurus The word Terminate does in our case mean to come to an end of a dataline, but in other cases the word can have different meanings: abort, bring or come to an end, cease, close, complete, conclude, cut off, discontinue, end, expire, finish, issue, lapse, put an end to, result, run out, stop, wind up. - 15 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Configurating Terminate ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ -=> T E R M I N A T E C O N F I G U R A T I O N <=- Setting up Terminate is the easiest thing in the world. All options and features are already set to give best performance - all you should do is to adjust the few things you would like to function in ways other than standard. Remember: If you do not understand something - then leave it alone and do not change it! If you make some kind of mistake and your machine hangs, because of a wrong device or something like that, you can start Terminate with the /CONFIG parameter. This will only access the configuration and then exit Terminate again, without initializing the comport or anything. Read below for all commandline switches. ╒══╡ Change configuration ╞╕ │ Screen and colors │ │ Communications setup │ │ General options │ │ Toggles │ │ Modem and dialing │ │ Filenames and paths │ │ Protocol options │ │ Emulation/keyboard setup │ │ Host settings │ │ Login strings/scripts │ │ Users/IEMSI/Security │ │ Point system │ │ Cost management │ │ Registration info │ │ Write setup to disk │ ╘══════════════════════════╛ Screen and colors Here you can setup all screen related options. Colours, windows, videomode, codepage, etc. Communications setup One of the most important menus. Setting up your serial connection is actually the first thing you always should set up in a terminal program, so that communication is fully functional and no errors occur. General options Set up Terminate exactly as you like it and define external programs that can be called by pressing Ctrl+Shift F-keys. Toggles Toggles that can be turned on or off - 16 - Modem and dialing After setting up the device you should now configure your modem to give best performance. Many popular modems already appear in the picklist which is continually being expanded. Filenames and paths Define Download/Upload directory, external editor / lister, etc. Default files to load when starting Terminate. Protocol options Setting up internal and external protocols. Protocols are used for transfering files between your system and other systems. Most used is Zmodem. As well as being extremely efficient and starting a download automatically, it can also recover a file not fully transfered. If the connection was lost it can `pick up' again where transmission ceased and continue where it left off without having to send the whole file again. Emulation setup How Terminate should react to incoming characters. ANSI is one of the most used emulations in the world, because it is simple. If you have chosen ANSI and Terminate gets a sequence ESC2J (ESC=#27) then the screen will be cleared. Terminate will default to using AVATAR with ANSI fallback - that means it will understand both AVATAR and ANSI control codes at the same time and this should be the preferred setting. Host settings Host mode means that you set up Terminate to handle incoming calls and allow specific users to logon to your computer. Login strings/scripts Instead of having complicated scripts that have to be compiled, Terminate has a lot of built-in mini-scripts, which should log you on to almost every normal BBS system. Subsequent versions will additionally have a comprehensive and sophisticated script language (currently in beta test). You can define in Strings all possible questions you want Terminate to recognise like 'WHAT IS YOUR NAME','PASSWORD', etc. Users/IEMSI/Security Define 10 different users. Each can be used for dialling a system, settings for a user that calls the host mode or when you use the point system. Point system All settings for the fido point system allowing you to send/receive mail and files. Cost management Allows you to calculate very exactly how much you spend, when calling other systems. Registration info - 17 - If this is the PROFESSIONAL version, check that your personal details are correctly embedded. This menu option will also show you how you can quickly upgrade your software to PROFESSIONAL standard... Write setup to disk If Autosave config is ON in toggles, then the configuration will be written when you leave the configuration menu, so you will not lose your settings even if your machine hangs somewhere in an external program. Command line switches /CONFIG Only configures the .CFG file then exits again without initializing anything at all. /F Only starts up the filemanager, then exits again. /HOST Start Terminate normally, then enter hostmode. This could be used in an AUTOEXEC.BAT if you want to start in hostmode when accidentally rebooted by some external program called while in hostmode. If you call Terminate from a mailer, like Portal of Power, you should also use the /LOGIN switch, which will login a user, then exit hostmode and Terminate. Commandline for mailer: TERMINAT /HOST /LOGIN /POINT Startup directly in point system, then exit to DOS when ESC is pressed. /C:filename.ext Use alternate configuration file. You can also use environment variables in the filename, these will be replaced when opening the file. (Network:/C:TERMINA%NET%.CFG) /NOCARD Do not test or use any soundcards. (Maybe your machine would hang if this was not turned off if you have no card. But this could also be turned off when running windows, otherwise windows would say something like `device already in use.) /SKIP Skip systeminfo tests, PS/2 test. Again this takes microseconds to check, and should only be turned off if you have problems with your machine hanging when starting Terminate. /DISK Force the overlay file to stay on disk. If you have a fast harddisk, you don't need to load the overlays into memory, but it will, of course, improve the speed of the menus. - 18 - /BUF:xxx If you do not load the overlays into memory, then you could increase the overlay buffer, but this will grab normal low memory. The xxx value is how many kilobytes to add to the previous buffer. The buffer can never be lower than the smallest overlay file. /NOXMS Terminate will always try XMS first because it is faster than EMS. But if you, for some reason, never want Terminate to try XMS or want to force Terminate into using EMS memory, you can use this switch. /DIAL:xxx After startup, dial this number from phonebook and connect. /BOSS[:x] Call Boss and send/receive mail/files. The x is which Boss to call, if /BOSS or /BOSS:0, then Terminate will dial all Boss's that have the autodial enabled. /CALL:node/name Search nodelist for nodenumber or search string and call the first match found. /FIX Search/Update BIOS data area for serial ports. Will save the normal values for the COM-ports into low memory and the bios equipment flag so it would look like you have 4 COM-ports. Terminate does not need this but some external utilties might. /SCRLEN:xxx /SCRCOL:xxx If you are using the custom videomode or a videomode that Terminate cannot detect, you will have problems with the screen size. So these parameters allow you to force a screen size. Please do not set the size bigger than the screen, because it could give unpredictable results. /DEVICE:x Force a Terminate device at startup /PORT:x Force a COM-port at startup /BAUD:x Force a baudrate at startup /TASK:x If Terminate cannot detect the multitasker for some reason, you can force Terminate to think it is using a multitasker, which means it will release timeslices calling the routine for that multitasker. - 19 - 1 = OS/2 2 = Windows 3 = DESQview 4 = TaskView 5 = TopView 6 = DoubleDos 7 = Virtual /MODE:x Force videomode 0=Mono,1=CGA,2=EGA,3=MCGA,4=VGA If you use the /MODE Terminate will not try to detect the videoadapter, but assume you are right. /UPG Will generate an UPGRADE.CFG with all default values. This file is used when upgrading from old versions, but you can also use it for testing and start Terminate with TERMINAT /C:UPGRADE.CFG /NOIMPORT Do not auto-import any configuration from other program. Look in INSTALL.DOC for information on importing Errorlevels Fatal errors 255 Out of memory, runtime errors, fatal read error from disk. Overlay errors 254 If a problem occur when loading or using overlays. Password error 253 If the startup password was not correct. Lock error 252 If the program was started up from a different path than allowed Out of diskspace 251 If less than the specified minimum diskspace available. Inactivity 250 If Terminate was inactive for longer than specified. Semaphore exit 249 The semaphore file was created or changed filetime, which forces Terminate to exit. Hostmode shutdown 248 If pressing Alt-X or using the /LOGIN /EXIT command - 20 - No errors 0 Normal exit and closedown, no errors were detected - 21 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Screen and Colors ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ╒════════════════════╤═══════════════════════════════╡ Screen and colors ╞╕ │ Colors │ │ │ Auto palette │ Color 0 Mono 0 │ │ Windows sound │ Off │ │ Exploding windows │ Off │ │ Direct writes │ Yes │ │ Snow checking │ Off │ │ Screen blanker │ 300 │ │ Show snakes │ On │ │ VGA Fadeout │ Off │ │ Center screen │ On │ │ Screen size │ Auto Ax Bx Cx Dx │ │ ├─Start mode │ Tseng 4000 100x40 Registers: 002A │ │ ├─Other mode │ XGA 132x25 Registers: 0014 │ │ └─Exit mode │ Reset 80x25 Registers: 0003 │ │ Big phonebook │ Off │ │ Force CP-850 │ Off │ │ Find textmodes │ │ │ Use intensity │ Off │ │ Only low ASCII │ Off │ │ Use SND files │ Off │ ╘════════════════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Colors Define all colours used inside Terminate's menus. Palette ╒═════╡ Choose color palette ╞╕ │ Color 1 │ │ Color 2 │ │ Color 3 │ │ Color 4 │ │ Color 5 │ │ Color 6 │ │ LCD/composite/black & white │ │ Monochrome │ │ Flashy │ │ Purple │ │ Intense 1 │ │ Intense 2 │ │ Intense 3 │ │ Blind palette │ ╘═════════════════════════════╛ There are 14 predefined colour palettes - choose the one you like the most!. A colour palette is a complete set of colours that will be loaded into the default colour record, then you can change some of the colours again. If you are blind you should use the last palette, press END and return in this menu. The Intense requires that you have a graphic adapter that can show background color intense instead of blink/flash. (EGA,VGA etc.) - 22 - Auto palette At startup, test if colour or monochrome screen. You could enter a '1' at Color and a '8' at Mono, then if you start Terminate from a machine with a colour graphics card, then palette 1 will be choosen and if it has Hercules monochrome then palette 8 will be used. This is useful if you are on a network and want to use the same configuration. Windows sound Make annoying sounds when popping in or out of windows. Exploding windows Try it! (Visual effect) Direct writes Should always be turned ON (except in special cases) because using BIOS calls is MUCH slower than direct screen writes. Some blind people can benefit of using the 'Only menus' function. Which will use direct screen writes all other places than in terminal mode. It depends on which speech thing you use. Snow checking When writing directly to the screen, then remove snow. Should only be turned on with old CGA cards, because it can slow down screen writes. Screen blanker Blank screen after X seconds if nothing has happened. If you enter '0' here, then the screen would never blank out. Show snakes When blanking screen, you could allow a lot of snakes to eat your screen. The number of snakes will be decided according to how big your screen is and how fast your machine is. If using a multitasker you should turn this off, since then all timeslices will be released. VGA Fadeout Fade down colours on VGA and MCGA cards when leaving Terminate. Looks real nice, but not all VGA cards will support this. Center screen If you are using a screen size more than 80, lets say 132, and call a system that only uses 80 chars (most systems), then Terminate can center the screen for you. That means position 1 on the screen will be recalculated for all screen writes with (132-80)/2 = 26 as left margin. Screen size ├─Start mode ├─Other mode └─Exit mode Screensize has 4 values, Auto, 25, 43/50 and Custom. Auto will just use - 23 - whatever videomode is current. 25 will force 25 lines when starting and exiting Terminate. 43/50 will force 43/50 lines if you have a EGA or VGA card installed when starting or exiting Terminate. Custom will call the BIOS videomode routine with the parameters you give. In CUSTOM.DOC you will find the codes for several VGA cards. Start mode will then be used at startup or when returning from shell. Exit mode will be used when exiting Terminate or calling an external utility. If you do not want Terminate to change videomode, but always use some other kind of videomode (also when calling external utilities), just set the videomode before calling Terminate and set Screen size to Auto. Big phonebook If ON, when entering the phonebook, Terminate will switch into 43/50 lines and back into 25 lines when exiting the phonebook. This should not be used together with custom screen size. Force CP-850 Use framechars only from Codepage 850. Only use this if your windows look funny and have strange characters in the frames. Find textmodes Run an external program called SCANMODE (in UTILS\), which detects all textmodes your VGA card is able of showing. This information is saved in MODEINFO.DAT and can afterwards be imported by Terminate. You can also run this program manually directly from DOS. Use intensity EGA and VGA cards have the possibility of using background intense colors, instead of blink/flash. This feature will be turned on/off automatically when you select a color palette. Only low ASCII Some countries use special codepages where the use of high-ASCII causes improper display of the graphical boxes. If you live in such a country, turn this toggle on, but beware that Terminate will not look like it former self after this. This toggle activates the next time you enter the configuration menu. Use SND files If you want different sounds inside Terminate, you can define your own. All the sound files must be placed in the utility directory. Look in UTILS\CONNECT.SND for information on making a sound file. - 24 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Communications ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ╒══════════════════════╤═══════════════════════════╡ Communications setup ╞╕ │ Device name │ Device Port Baud Com Address Irq Vector │ ├──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Async Modem COM1 │ 8250A/16450 1 19200 8N1 $03F8 04 0C │ │■Async Modem COM2 │ 16550A FIFO 2 19200 8N1 $02F8 03 0B │ │ Async Modem COM3 │ No UART 3 19200 8N1 $03E8 04 0C │ │ Async Modem COM4 │ No UART 4 19200 8N1 $02E8 03 0B │ │ Interrupt 14h │ Interrupt 14h 1 9600 8N1 │ │ ISDN │ Fossil 1 64000 8N1 │ │ Fossil │ Fossil 1 38400 8N1 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Configure comports │ Async Professional │ │ Check IRQ │ ■ = Default device │ │ Set default values │ │ │ Auto installation │ │ ╘══════════════════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Maximum baud rates Since setting up the serial port is one of the most important things in any terminal program, you must remember the following rules: Maximum bps rates: 4.77 MHz PC (8088) 9600 bps 8 MHz PC (8088) 19200 bps 8 MHz PC (286) 57600 bps 16 MHz PC (386) 115200 bps When to use a fast 16550A serialchip with FIFO buffer You need 16550A serial UART chips if you want to have error free connections when using: an 8 MHz PC (8088); any kind of multitasker - eg: OS/2, Windows, DESQview, etc; a modem connected to a network drive. It does not matter how fast your machine is, my 486DX2-66 still gives me errors when there is no FIFO buffer in the machine. And this happends with baud rates even at 38400. If you have problems, set the speed to 19200 and see if that works. The 16550A UART chip gives you a small 16 byte FIFO buffer - which means the chip does not have to generate an interrupt every time a character arrives. Most PC's are delivered with the old 8250 or 16450 chips (almost the same), so if you get CRC errors, you should buy such a card. (Ask us or one of our Registration Sites where to obtain them.) All good internal high speed modems already have a 16550A UART implemented. When buying an internal modem make sure it has one! - 25 - Device setup ╒════════════════════════════════════╤═════════════════════╡ Device setup ╞╕ │ Serial interface │ UART/Serial │ │ Comport │ 1 │ │ Device name │ Async Modem COM1 │ │ Baudrate │ 19200 │ │ Lock port │ Yes │ │ Databits / Stopbits / Parity │ 8,1,N │ │ Phonebook │ TERMINAT.FON │ │ Costfile │ TERMINAT.CST │ │ Receive buffer size │ 2048 │ │ Transmit buffer size │ 4096 │ │ Software flow control (Xon/Xoff) │ Off │ │ Hardware flow control (CTS/RTS) │ On │ │ Hardware flow control (DSR/DTR) │ Off │ │ Use 16550 fifo if available │ 14 │ │ Keep 16550 fifo on in shell │ No │ │ RTS low while writing │ No │ │ Auto RTS low trigger │ 2 │ │ Carrier detect mask │ 128 │ │ Init string │ ATZ^M │ │ Restore port on close │ No │ │ Close port in shell │ No │ ╘════════════════════════════════════╧═════════════════════════════════════╛ Serial interface Terminate supports 4 different interfaces. UART/Serial Direct serial chips Interrupt 14h Via BIOS int 14h max 9600 baud Fossil Resident serial devices, like X00/BNU or ISDN fossil devices. Digiboard Very fast intelligent multiport adapter. Comport Select which port to assign for this device, COM1..COM8 can be selected. Device name Enter the string to be shown everywhere the device is shown. You should enter your modem name here, 'Spirit II 19200 8N1' or whatever you have. Baudrate Which baudrate to use for this device as default. Note that if you want to use a special baudrate that is not shown in the list, just press D and define it. Lock port When using a high speed modem (bps>=9600) you should always choose to lock the port. Databits / Stopbits / Parity Databits - 26 - A data byte can contain 5,6,7 or 8 bits. The vast majority of applications will use either 7 or 8 bits since most of the data we are used to dealing with is expressed in 8-bit bytes (although text data can often be expressed in only 7-bits). Many time-sharing systems, such as CompuServe, work with only 7 data bits because that's all they need to display text data. When transfering binary data though, for example with a file transfer protocol, you usually switch to 8 data bits. If you use 8N1 and 7E1 on different systems, you must define 2 different devices and select the correct device in the phonebook. Create 2 devices which looks the same. They could be called: Device 1:MODEM COM2 2400 8N1 Device 2:MODEM COM2 2400 7E1 Stopbits Stop bits follow the data bits in the serial stream. The value for stop bits will always be either 1 or 2. Generally, 1 stop bit is used. Parity Parity describes a bit checking scheme. When used, all of the bits in a data byte are added together. A final bit, called the parity bit, is added such that the sum of all bits will be either odd or even (whichever you specify). The transmitter calculates and transmits a parity bit. If it is correct then it is assumed that the characters were received without error. If not, then it is assumed that there was some sort of error during transmission. Possible choices are determined by the remote system: None No parity is added, default Even A parity bit is added such that the bit sum is always even Odd A parity bit is added such that the bit sum is always odd Mark A parity bit of value one is always added Space A parity bit of value zero is always added Phonebook When this device is selected, then use this phonebook. This will only work when starting up Terminate. Costfile Which costfile to use when using this device. Receive buffer size Transmit buffer size Size of internal buffers used by Terminate. Only used with an interface that is buffered, otherwise these buffers are ignored. Only the UART/Serial interface is buffered. Do NOT change these values unless you are absolutely sure that you know what you are doing! Software flow control (Xon/Xoff) This option controls the automatic software flow control. (Receive flow control - where Terminate tells the remote to stop transmitting characters, and Transmit flow control - where Terminate responds to the remote's request to stop transmitting characters as its input buffer fills. Whenever the input buffer is more than 75% full, an Xoff (#19) character is sent to the remote. It is up to the remote to recognize the Xoff (#19) and cease sending data. When the input buffer - 27 - empties again to below 75% of buffer size, Terminate will send an Xon (#17) character to the remote. It is then up to the remote to recognize this character and resume sending data.) Hardware flow control (CTS/RTS) Hardware flow control is always preferred when available, because it is faster and much safer. Hardware flow control works with lowering and raising the modem lines. First you need to setup your modem to work with CTS/RTS hardware flow control. CTS means Clear-To-Send and when using hardware flow control the CTS line must be high (with the CTS light in modem lit) before anything will be sent to the modem. When the receive buffer is more than 90% full the RTS (Request-To-Send) line will be set low telling the modem not to send again until the buffer is less than 90% full. Hardware flow control (DSR/DTR) Some strange modems need DSR (Data-Set-Ready) instead of CTS and DTR (Data-Terminal-Ready) or both options together, but it is not advised to ever use this option unless you are sure you know what you are doing. Data-Set-Ready is sometime refered as Modem-Ready (MR) on your modem. Use 16550 fifo if available Tests whether a 16550A is available in the serial chip and, if it is, uses its' FIFO buffer. Windows cannot use this by default. Keep 16550 fifo on in shell When calling an external program or exiting Terminate, we normally disable the FIFO buffer. Some utilities cannot detect the 16550A chip or do not support the FIFO. The best thing is to disable (No) and let external utilities detect for themselves. RTS low while writing If you do not have a 16550A chip and have problems with errors, you can try to set RTS low while writing. This means Terminate will stop receiving while writing protocol blocks to the disk. This will slow down performance a little, but is safer and could prevent hangups. Auto RTS low trigger If you get more than X errors then the Auto RTS low function can be set to go into progress, a good way of keeping up performance to a maximum and only turn on RTS low when really needed. Carrier detect mask When checking the modem status register this determines which bit should be used for checking carrier detect. Normally bit 7 (128) is used and you should only change this if you really know what you are doing. Init string Select which init string you want to sent to the modem after changing device and before dialing. This string is also sent to modem at startup if it is the current device. Restore port on close - 28 - After Terminate closes the port you can choose to restore the port as it was before. But this means that you will get hung up if Terminal ready was low at startup and you call any external program. You should only turn this on if you really know what you are doing. Close port in shell Normally there is no reason for closing the ports while shelling to DOS. But some external protocols might need this. Closing the port will save you a little in swap space, but if you are using fossil/ISDN you might get hung up if you close the port. Configure comports ╒═══════╡ Configure comports ╞╕ │ Address Irq Vector │ ├──────┬──────────────────────┤ │ COM1 │ $03F8 04 0C │ │ COM2 │ $02F8 03 0B │ │ COM3 │ $03E8 04 0C │ │ COM4 │ $02E8 03 0B │ │ COM5 │ $4220 03 0B │ │ COM6 │ $4228 03 0B │ │ COM7 │ $5220 03 0B │ │ COM8 │ $5228 03 0B │ ╘══════╧══════════════════════╛ When using the UART/Serial interface, you can change the actual port IO address, the hardware IRQ and the software interrupt. You should not need to change anything here, but if you do, you must beware of potential hardware conflicts. Do not try to change the IRQ on your internal modems or serial card without knowing exactly what you are doing. If you have an internal modem and 2 external comports, you should always choose COM1 for the mouse and COM4 for the modem. If you choose COM3 you will conflict with IRQ4. Do not try changing the hardware jumpers/ switches without help and a manual for the modem. Before you change anything on the modem, always make a note of the current jumper settings so you always can go back. If your internal modem is capable of using IRQ 5 or 7, please be aware that the modem could conflict with other hardware, like netcards or SoundBlaster cards. If it does not work at once with the internal modem, please seek professional help. It is your hardware supplier that is responsible for ensuring the modem works. Terminate uses only standard calls, so if the default settings do not work, contact your hardware supplier. Please always remember to turn off the power before doing anything. The vector number is where to install the software interrupt, this number should always be IRQ + 8. IRQ>7 = IRQ+$68 IRQ0 , Vector $08 ( 8) Timer IRQ1 , Vector $09 ( 9) Keyboard IRQ2 , Vector $0A (10) Screen IRQ3 , Vector $0B (11) COM2,COM4 IRQ4 , Vector $0C (12) COM1,COM3 IRQ5 , Vector $0D (13) Free IRQ6 , Vector $0E (14) Floppy IRQ7 , Vector $0F (15) Free IRQ8 , Vector $70 (112) - 29 - IRQ9 , Vector $71 (113) IRQ10, Vector $72 (114) IRQ11, Vector $73 (115) IRQ12, Vector $74 (116) IRQ13, Vector $75 (117) IRQ14, Vector $76 (118) IRQ15, Vector $77 (119) These are the defaults for normal machines. If you have an internal modem that is capable of using IRQ 5 or 7, you should consider this. If you try to use IRQ0, IRQ1 orIRQ6 you could get in serious trouble and your machine could hang. Check IRQ ╒══════════════════════════════════════════════╡ Check IRQ ╞╕ │ Found COM1, $03F8, testing...uses IRQ 4 │ │ Found COM2, $02F8, testing...uses IRQ 3 │ │ Found COM3, $03E8, testing...uses IRQ 4 │ │ Found COM4, $02E8, testing...uses IRQ 5 │ │ No chip COM5, $4220 │ │ No chip COM6, $4228 │ │ No chip COM7, $5220 │ │ No chip COM8, $5228 │ │ │ ╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ This function tries to determine which hardware IRQ the comports are using. Even if this routine fails to find the IRQ, it will work anyway, if you specify the correct IRQ. Not all machines will show the correct IRQ. Set default values Set all devices to the default parameters. If you make some kind of mistake and cannot remember what you did wrong, you could use this function. Auto installation Detect IRQ's on ports and finds on which port your modem is connected. Test for maximum baudrate on device and select initstrings. - 30 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ General options ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ General options 1 ╒══════════════════════╤══════════════════════════════╡ General options 1 ╞╕ │ Swap method │ XMS/EMS/Disk │ │ Swap when shelling │ On │ │ Warning days │ 30 │ │ ScrollBack buffer kb │ 32 │ │ Time format │ 24-hour │ │ Country code │ 45 Danmark │ │ Pause time / char │ 30 . │ │ Minimum diskspace │ 250000 │ │ Tag char │ ■ │ │ Edit background │ ░ │ │ Online warn minutes │ 15 │ │ Information time │ 15 │ │ Max log size kb │ 64 │ │ Inactivity seconds │ 1800 │ │ Audio control │ 00:00 - 00:00 │ │ Auto password │ 8 │ │ Separators │ Thousand . Decimal , Date - Time . Lines ─ │ │ Filefinder drives │ │ │ Scan drives │ │ │ Release buffer │ Yes │ │ Menu background │ ▒ │ ╘══════════════════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Swap method ┌─┤ Select swap method ├┐ │ XMS/EMS/Disk │ │ EMS/XMS/Disk │ │ XMS/Disk │ │ EMS/Disk │ │ Disk │ │ None │ └───────────────────────┘ Select the preferred way of swapping out memory when calling external utilities or invoking a shell to DOS. Remember that XMS is faster than EMS. Swap when shelling Swap out memory when shelling to DOS. If you don't have much memory left, you will need to enable this. Disabling this option will swap faster, but you will not have as much memory left in the DOS shell. Warning days Pressing W in the phonebook with this set means all entries you have not called in x days flash. ScrollBack buffer kb - 31 - How big the scrollback buffer Alt-B should be in bytes. The range that can be choosen is 16-128k, but don't use too great a value if you also have a big phonebook. If Terminate needs memory badly this buffer will be decreased to release resources to other functions. Time format Select 12 or 24 hour time format. Country code Selects your country code, installs international dial prefix and phone conversion for the point system. Currently Terminate supports almost 100 different countries, when showing timezones and using international dialprefixes. Pause time / char The pause option Alt-F3 will send the defined character every x seconds. The character to send every x seconds when using the pause function Alt-F3 Minimum diskspace Terminate will check every 60 seconds if the diskspace where TERMINAT.EXE is located and exit if below this value. If you never want Terminate to exit because of low diskspace enter a '0'. Tag char Enter here the globally used character for tagging (in menus, etc.) Edit background Which character to use as a background in editing fields. Online warn minutes After how many minutes would you like to be warned that you have spent too much time on-line. 0 will disable warnings. Information time How long (1/10 second) some windows remain on screen. Increase this value if you think Terminate is too fast. Max log size kb When the logfile exceeds x kb it will be automatically reduced to half of the current size. This means you will never have to worry about deleting your logfile if it should get too big. 0 will disable this auto adjust. Inactivity seconds How many seconds in Terminal mode without any activity before Terminate automatically exits to DOS. 0 = disable. Audio control During which time period sound is allowed. 00:00 - 00:00 means that sound is always allowed. - 32 - Auto password When you edit any password and the field is blank, a random password is created with length x. This password will only consist of characters 'a..z' and '0..9'. If you never want these random passwords you can disable this feature by entering a zero here. Separators Separators for numbers, time and date vary according to your country codepage: Denmark USA Thousand : . , Decimal : , . Date : - / Time : . : Lines are used in many places and are normally the graphics char '─' which will give you lines like this: ───────── in most places (phonebook report etc.). But if for some reason you want to change this, you can... Filefinder drives / Scan drives ╒╡ Drives ╞╕ │ C: ■ │ │ D: ■ │ │ E: │ │ F: ■ │ ╘══════════╛ When using the internal filefinder or the filemanager you can switch off testing of some drives (eg: CD-ROM drives or mapped network drives.) Release buffer If you want to free the scrollback buffer when calling any external program This allows you to swap faster, because less bytes have to be swapped to memory or disk, the buffer will still be saved if autosave scrollback is on (toggles), so if you never use the scrollback, turn it auto save off. Menu background The character that will be used to fill out the background of the screen in the configuration menus and in hostmode. General options 2 ╒══════════════════════╤═════════════════════════╡ General options 2 ╞╕ │ Status start offline │ Alt-Z for Help │ │ Status start online │ System name │ │ Status end offline │ Time 11:59:59 │ │ Status end online │ kr 3,75 │ ╘══════════════════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════╛ This menu controls what to show in the statusline and when to show it. You can manually change it with Alt-F1 (Start) and Alt-F2 (End). Status start offline : When No Carrier, show this at start of statusline - 33 - Status start online : When Carrier, show this at start of statusline Status end offline : When No Carrier, show this at end of statusline Status end online : When Carrier, show this at end of statusline External support ╒═════════════════════════════════════════════════╡ External support ╞╕ │ │ │ F1 Help @HELP │ │ F2 Memo MEM /D |More !W │ │ F3 Frmt FORMAT A: │ │ F4 Vira C:\U\SCAN C: !M !E │ │ F5 GSet GSETUP !M │ │ F6 Echo ECHO %COMSPEC% %FD% %RA% %DIRCMD% %PATH% !W │ │ F7 VPic VPIC !F !M │ │ F8 Pack SHEZ !M │ │ F9 Prnt DIR >PRN │ │ F10 NCD NCD !M │ │ F11 │ │ F12 │ │ │ │ !P=COM1-8 !C=COM0-7 !0=DownPath !E=No COMMAND.COM │ │ !M=Swap !W=Wait !B=Baud !L=LinkRate !I=Irq !A=Address │ │ !F=FileName !CD=Change path !25,!30,!43,!50=Screen size │ │ │ ╘═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Setup the utilities that can be called with Ctrl or Shift F1..F12 from terminal mode or in the filemanager. The first word is what will appear on the status line when holding down Ctrl and Shift. The parameters will be replaced with the correct value or turn on the option. !P Replace with current comport. !C Replace with current comport-1. COM1=0 COM2=0 !0 Replace with current download path. !E Call program directly without using COMMAND.COM. !M Swap out memory if program needs a lot of resources. !W Wait for return to be pressed before returning to Terminate. !B Replace with current baudrate. - 34 - !L Replace with current linkrate (14400) !F Name under cursor in filemanager. !CD Change to path where program is located before starting program. !25,!30,!43,!50 Change screen size to 25 lines, 30 lines, 43 lines or 50 lines. Only possible on some systems. - 35 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Toggles ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ╒═══════════════════╤═════╤══════════════════╤═════╤═══════╡ Toggles ╞╤═════╕ │ Blind support │ Off │ Auto save config │ On │ Show when Ctrl │ On │ │ Deaf support │ Off │ Auto save his. │ On │ Show when Alt │ On │ │ │ │ Auto update baud │ On │ Show when Ctrl+S.│ On │ │ Sound │ On │ Backup cfg/phone │ On │ Baud in status │ On │ │ Connect alarm │ On │ Second backup │ On │ │ │ │ Transfer t. beep │ Off │ Save before dial │ Off │ Mouse │ Off │ │ Key click │ Off │ Save scrollback │ On │ Enhanced keyb. │ On │ │ │ │ Save tagfile │ On │ │ │ │ Opening screen │ On │ Open logfile │ On │ Auto Ansi │ On │ │ Closing screen │ On │ │ │ Flush Cache │ On │ │ Ask start device │ Off │ Auto-open cap. │ On │ Import descript. │ On │ │ Start in phone │ Off │ Overwrite cap. │ Off │ RegInfo bright │ On │ │ Start in top │ Off │ Append capture │ Off │ Select Sort │ Off │ │ Ask phone │ On │ Ctrl in capture │ Off │ Shell info. │ On │ │ Phonebook after │ Off │ Capture keystrok.│ Off │ Tag advance │ On │ │ Jump back t. phone│ Off │ Special capture │ Off │ Transfer info │ On │ │ Dialer auto untag │ On │ │ On │ Transfer slice │ Off │ │ Quick dialing bar │ Off │ Hide passwords │ On │ Wrap word chat │ On │ │ Return aborts │ Off │ Password check. │ Off │ │ │ │ Show big CONNECT │ Off │ Crypt cfg/fon │ Off │ │ │ │ │ │ Ask at Alt-X │ Off │ │ │ │ │ │ Ask at Alt-H │ Off │ Reset toggles │ │ ╘═══════════════════╧═════╧══════════════════╧═════╧══════════════════╧═════╛ Blind support Read BLIND.DOC for more information. Deaf Support Flash screen before making alarm or other bells generated by Terminate. Sound Turn on/off all alarms/beeps. You can also set a time period where sounds could be disabled. Connect alarm Make a sound when carrier is received. Transfer then beep Keep on beeping until any key is pressed after a file transfer is completed, will timeout after 60 seconds. Key click Make a click sound when pressing any key. Opening screen Skip the TERMINATE picture when starting (only registered users). - 36 - Closing screen When leaving Terminate you can disable the last screen. Ask start device If you are using several devices, it might be a useful feature for you to select the current device when starting up Terminate. Start in phone Jump directly to the phonebook at startup. Start in top After loading a phonebook, place menubar at the top. Ask phone When changing phonebooks (Alt-D) with P, this will ask if this phonebook should be default for the current device. If you think it is annoying just turn it off and it will make it the current book everytime you change book. Phonebook after When you get hung up by the system you just called or logoff the system, this function will allow you to force Terminate directly into the phonebook afterwards. Jump back to phone Upon a no connect string like BUSY or NO CARRIER, dialling is aborted and returns to phonebook. Dialer auto untag When you connect to a remote system, Terminate will untag all entries that have the same 5 first characters in the system name. Quick dialing bar Use Quick Dialling Bar in phonebook. Return aborts If enabled then Return will hangup the line instead of Escape when dialing from the phonebook. Show big CONNECT When carrier is detected a gigantic CONNECT picture will be shown. Auto save config Make sure your configuration is always saved. Auto save history - 37 - Save and load the contents of history strings at startup/closedown Look in Alt-F9 for more information. Auto update baud Update baudrate in phonebook to show the last connect rate obtained on that system. Backup cfg/phone Make backup files of: Configuration (.CBK) Phonebooks (.PBK) Note files (.NBK) Second backup The configuration and the phonebooks are the most important datafiles for Terminate. When you enable this function Terminate will create an extra backup of these files if Backup cfg/phone is enabled. Here is what actually is done: 1. Erase TERMINAT.2BK 2. Rename TERMINAT.PBK -> TERMINAT.2BK 3. Rename TERMINAT.FON -> TERMINAT.PBK 4. Write new TERMINAT.FON The same procedure is followed for the configuration and note files. Save before dial When you are installing a new device or setting up new drivers, you should save your phonebook before dialing, because if your driver does not work it could hang the machine and you would loose your changes. When you are sure everything works, you should turn off this function. Save scrollback Save the entire scrollback buffer and position in TERMINAT.SBK and reload next time you startup Terminate. Save tagfile Load latest tagfile at startup. The file is called TERMINAT.TBK and is placed in the Terminate directory. With this function both filenames and tagged filenames be remembered for next time. Open logfile Enable logfile at startup. Auto-open capture Enable the auto-open capture feature. Overwrite capture Force overwrite of capture when the auto-open feature is used. - 38 - Append capture Force appending to the old capture file when the auto-open feature is used. Ctrl in capture If disabled, then Ctrl codes will be filtered off in capture files. Capture keystroke When capturing with Alt-L or Autocapture. Then you can record all the keystrokes that you press in terminal mode by turning this on. Special Capture Capture keystroke must be enable to use this. If you press an A then [A,65] will be saved in the capture file. The 65 is the ASCII value for 'A'. Please do not abuse this function. Hide passwords If hide is on, all characters typed will be shown as dots on the screen when any password is entered. Password checking Use the password checker, when entering passwords. Terminate will warn you when your password that are too easy to guess. Terminate will search through the file of bad passwords called PASSWORD.BAD (Normally in the utility directory). You should never use passwords that only consist of numbers or the same letter like '911' or 'AAAA'. You should also never use your wife/girlfriend/children or any other human names, because they are the first names a hacker will try with. If you have a dog called Fido, you can mix in some numbers like: 'F0I1D2O3' nobody will then guess it because the combinations are too high and will take too many tries. If you only use these passwords, the only way a person can get your passwords is if he gets direct access to your computer or the system you are calling. Crypt cfg/fon Encrypt configuration file and all phonebooks next time they are saved. The encryption will change each time. Ask at Alt-X Ask: "Are you sure?" when pressing Alt-X in Terminal mode. Ask at Alt-H Asks if you are sure you want to hangup the line when pressing Alt-H. Show when Ctrl Change status line when holding down Ctrl in terminal mode Show when Alt Change status line when holding down Alt in terminal mode - 39 - Show when Ctrl+Sh Change status line when holding down Ctrl+Shift in terminal mode Baud in status When enabled Terminate will show the connect bps in the status line when you are online. The device speed is really not important because normally the port is locked at 19200 or 38400 (If using a modem faster than 2400 baud). If for some reason you don't want the connect bps to be shown you can turn it off here. Mouse Allow use of mouse. Enhanced keyboard Allow use of F11 and F12 on enhanced keyboard (AT). Auto ANSI Some systems send an ANSI request cursor position; if enabled Terminate will respond and the other end will assume you are capable of ANSI. Flush Cache Flush diskcache right after saving configuration and any phonebooks, to make sure nothing is lost. Import descript. When uploading, Terminate will search FILES.BBS/DESCRIPT.ION for a description of the file. When you are finished uploading and the system asks you for the description, you can press Alt-F9 and send that descript- ion. This will only operate if you select 16 or less files to upload. RegInfo bright If you bought Terminate PROFESSIONAL the registration information will be shown when pressing Alt-O. If you want to use dark gray when showing the information (almost invisible) turn this off. Does not work with all colours. Select sort When selecting for example phonebooks (FON) a small selector will pop op on screen. Yes, will sort the files alphabetically. No, will sort on time and put the newest on top. Shell information Show information on screen when calling external programs. Tag advance When anything is tagged, then jump to next line. Transfer info - 40 - Enable/Disable statusbar, activity bar and block information. If you suspect something is slowing down the system, then turning this off might improve the speed a little. Transfer slice Release some timeslices while transfering files, giving more time to the other tasks. Wrap word in chat Use wordwrap in chat mode. EMSI debug info Appends EMSI/IEMSI information to EMSI.TXT. This function should only be turned on for debugging purposes or if you simply just are curious about what actually goes on. This function will not work if network lock has been performed, to protect the security on larger installations. Remember to turn it off it you don't use it and erase EMSI.TXT. Alt-K infoscreen To help you understand the Alt-K function, a window is displayed with useful information the first time you press Alt-K from terminal mode. After a while you don't need this information anymore and should disable it here. Reset toggles Sets all toggles to 'factory' settings. These settings are the same as the first time you accessed this menu. - 41 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Modem and dialing ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ When sending strings to your modem, you can do some extra things: ~ 1/2 second pause << DTR low (should be set so your modem will hangup) >> DTR high ^A..^Z This allows you send control characters. A ^A will only send an ASCII #1, because the ASCII value of a 'A' is 65, then Terminate will deduct 64 and send that value instead. ^M = #13 = Carriage return. Most terminal programs allow you only to enter these values, but in Terminate you also press Alt-A to call the ASCII selector. Instead of having ATZ^M, you could enter ATZ and press Alt-A and choose the ASCII #13 sign. ^^ will send a ^ in case you need that. | Carriage return (#13). || will send a single |, sometimes you might need this if your username has a |. (Used at some 7-bit systems) Example: '<<~~~>>~ATZ^M' will lower DTR, wait 1.5 seconds, raise DTR, wait 0.5 seconds, send modem reset+#13. (DTR means Data-Terminal-Ready and is sometimes also refered to as TR on some modems.) ╒════════════════════╤════════════════════════════════╡ Modem and dialing ╞╕ │ Install modem │ ^M Return ~ ½ sec. pause << DTR low >> DTR high │ │ Init string │ │ │ Dial prefix/suffix │ │ │ Exit string │ │ │ Connect string │ CONNECT │ │ No connect strings │ NO CARRIER,BUSY,VOICE,NO DIAL TONE │ │ Hang-up │ 100 ^M~~~+++~~~ATH0^M │ │ Ring/Ok string │ RING^M^J OK^M │ │ Dial time │ 45 seconds │ │ Dial cancel string │ ^M~^M~ │ │ Redial timers │ Delay: 2 Pause: 60 seconds │ │ Auto-answer string │ ATA^M │ │ Auto answer │ Off │ │ Baud change │ Before: ~~~+++~~~ After: ATO^M │ │ Modem string delay │ 0 │ │ Force initstring │ No │ ╘════════════════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ - 42 - Install modem ╒╡ Total modems : 178 ╞══════╡ Modem Quick install ╞╕ │ USRobotics 16800 Dual Standard w/FAX │ │ USRobotics 16800 HST or Dual Standard │ │ USRobotics Sportster 14400 │ │ USRobotics Sportster 14400 FAX/modem │ │ USRobotics Sportster 9600 v.32 │ │ Ven-Tel 2400 Half Card (4 Option Switches) │ │ Ven-Tel 2400 Half Card (6 Option Switches) │ │ Ven-Tel 2400-33 │ │ Ven-Tel Pathfinder 18K │ │ ViVa 24m 2400 baud MNP-5 │ │ Yoriko 9600/14400/Fax │ │ Zoltrix 14400 FAX/modem │ │ Zoltrix 9600 FAX/modem │ │ ZOOM/Modem HC2400R │ │ ZOOM/Modem MX2400R │ │ ZOOM/Modem HC2400S (SendFax) │ │ ZOOM/Modem MX2400S (SendFax) │ │ ZOOM/Modem V.42bis (2400 baud) │ │ ZOOM/Modem 14400 FAX/modem │ │ ZyXEL U-1496, U-1496B, U-1496E V.32bis V.42bis │ ╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Choose one of the default modems, from the modem database. Some of the settings will also allow you to save the configuration inside your modem, if the modem supports this. If you have already set up your modem you should not need to run this. The main reason for having this setup is because the factory defaults of most modem manufacturers do not give best performance. My first go old USRobotics Dual Standard modem took around a month back then, to get best performance out of. Newer modems like ZyXEL and others have now learnt how important it is to setup the modems correctly as burnt-in factory defaults that can be recalled with AT&F if a user makes a mistake. Setting up the modems from the factory will save many support call to your modem distributor and allow them to sell the modems even cheaper. Including your own modem in Terminate's database You can install your own TERMINAT.MOD file if you sell a modem that is not listed in the database using the TERMINAT.INS installation script. Look in DOCS\MODEMSET.DOC, create the structure in the file called TERMINAT.MOD. You cannot change TERMINAT.MOD yourself, but you can create your entries and send directly to us or to the nearest registration site. - 43 - Init strings ╒════════════════════╤════════════════════════════════════╡ Init strings ╞╕ │ Init string 1 │ ATZ^M │ │ Init string 2 │ ATZ^M~~~AT S7=60 S0=0 V1 X4^M │ │ Init string 3 │ AT&C1&D2S0=0S7=60V1X4Z^M │ │ Init string 4 │ │ │ Init string 5 │ │ │ Init string 6 │ │ │ Init string 7 │ │ │ Init string 8 │ │ │ Init string 9 │ │ │ Init string 10 │ │ │ Send all │ No │ ╘════════════════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ An init string will be sent right after startup and Terminate will not wait for any response from the modem. The best thing is always to save your setup inside the modem, if the modem supports that, and then only send an "ATZ^M" to reset the modem. Some modems are not capable of saving these settings and require the setup to be sent each time it has been turned off. You should always first try to make the modem hangup when lowering DTR. This is normally done by giving the command AT&D2, but look inside your manual to be sure. Then you should set the carrier detect to follow DCD (Data-Carrier-Detect) line, this is normally done by sending an AT&C1 to the modem. Another good init string that works with most modems: ATZ^M~~~AT S7=60 S0=0 V1 X4^M Reset modem, Set dial timeout to 60 seconds, set modem not to pickup phone, enable verbal response codes, enable extended response codes (like BUSY). All these command are HAYES commands, which almost every modem in the world supports. If you have a non-HAYES and no manual, you are in trouble... Here are some others you can try out if that does not work: ATS0=0Q0E1X4^M , ATE1X1Q0V1S7=60^M If you want Terminate to always start dialing a certain number you could also insert @DIAL 4 6 8. Where numbers are the entry numbers in the phonebook. Look below for more information on HAYES commands. Send all This function will allow you to send all init strings to the modem when starting up Terminate. This can only be used when you only have 1 modem attached. Remember to put some ~ characters after the init strings, otherwise your modem might not be fast enough for the commands. Remember if you have several devices (modems) attached only the line for that device will be sent. Blank init strings will not be sent to the modem. - 44 - Dial prefix/suffix ╒════════════════════╤═════════════╡ Prefix / Suffix ╞╕ │ Dialing prefix 1 │ ATDT │ │ Dialing prefix 2 │ ATDT │ │ Dialing prefix 3 │ ATDT │ │ Dialing prefix 4 │ ATDT │ │ Dialing prefix 5 │ ATDP │ │ International dial │ ATDT 009 │ │ Dialing suffix 1 │ ^M │ │ Dialing suffix 2 │ ^M │ │ Dialing suffix 3 │ ^M │ ╘════════════════════╧════════════════════════════════╛ When dialing, the modem wants a dial command. The complete string it will build will look like this: prefix+number+suffix. Example: ATDT43623990^M The international prefix is for calling a system abroad. The different suffixes can be used if you have some kind of calling card and have to call another number first and enter a code or number. Remember when you are calling a system, that the terminal program is not responsible for getting the connect. Any terminal program just sends these commands to the modem, and waits for a reply from the modem. The reply is either a connect string and a carrier detect signal, or a no connect string like 'BUSY' or 'NO DIAL TONE'. So if you cannot get a connection you should never blame the terminal program. It is your modem that is not set up correctly. You must remember that not all modems will connect with each other and maybe need a special dial string to turn off MNP compression or something like that, but it depends on which modem you have. Generally if you cannot connect with a system, try turning all error correction and compression off and try again, that will allow you to connect to many systems anyway. Look in the modem manual for instructions on how to turn this off. If you have these problems with your modem, it will not help changing terminal programs, because it will not change anything at all. Sending 'ATDT' is done in the exact same way in all terminal programs. Exit string When leaving Terminate this string can be sent to your modem. Some pocket modems require the DTR to be set low, so it will turn off the use of the battery. This can be done by giving the command '<<'. Connect string All normal Hayes compatible modems will give you a result code starting with CONNECT when getting a carrier. Terminate will wait for this string and grab everything after it until a return (#13) or a maximum of 4 seconds. This will be placed in the connect string which can be seen by pressing Shift-Esc everywhere. From this connect string the modem speed will be decided by Terminate. With a "CONNECT 14400/ARQ/V32", the connect speed will be set to 14400, which will be used for calculating CPS rates, performance percentages, etc. No connect strings When dialling another system, your modem will send back some strings to inform you that a connection could not be established. If your modem - 45 - is non-standard, you might need to change these. NO CARRIER This string will be returned if the timer S7 runs out. BUSY If the line is busy, this string will be returned, this may not always work. Old analog lines can have problems detecting busy at all, even though the modem should be able to. Some modems will even abort dialling if the BUSY response is enabled. If you have problems just change your dial command to ATX1DT instead of ATDT. VOICE Some modems can detect if it is a human answering the phone, then quickly abort the dial and pick up the phone. Some modems will try to trick you and sometimes tell you that you got a voice call, so if you have problems turn it off like the busy command or look in your manual. NO DIAL TONE When starting to dial, if the modem does not get a dial tone before the time set in the S6 register (default 2 seconds), then the modem will give you this response. Hang-up It is very important your modem is capable of hanging up correctly. The best way is to set your modem to drop the carrier when the DTR (Data-Terminal-Ready) goes low. This is the fastest way of hanging up and is always preferred. You need to have a proper modem serial cable with all the correct pins connected and your modem correctly set (AT&D2 normally). The number you can edit is the time to hold down DTR before raising the line again in 1/100 seconds. 100 is 1 second and should be enough. If your modem is faster you can decrease this value. If there is no possible way to hang up by lowering DTR, you can send a string to your modem that should force the modem to hangup: ^M~~~+++~~~ATH0^M (Send return, wait 1.5 seconds, send +++ (go into command mode), wait 1.5 seconds, send on-hook command.) If this does not work you need to consult your manual. Ring/Ok string The Ring string is used for identifying incoming calls in Terminal and in Host mode. When an incoming call arrives in terminal mode, a window will pop up and allow you to pick up the phone within 10 seconds. The OK string will be used in the hostmode to be sure that the modem has been reset correctly. Dial time Timeout for dialling in Terminate, remember you also must set the S7 register. You should always set the S7 register to more than the Dial Time in Terminate, otherwise the modem will abort first with a NO CARRIER instead of Terminate saying timeout. Dial cancel string Hayes modems, will normally abort dialling when they receive a return (#13). The default for Terminate is ^M~^M~, send return, 1/2 second delay, send return, 1/2 second pause. But if your modem does not respond to this you could enter <~~> to hangup the line first before dialling. - 46 - Redial timers The delay timer is the pause time between calls. The pause timer is for how long to wait in seconds when all tagged numbers have been dialled before starting over. This means that after first calling all the tagged entries (with only the delay time between the calls), Terminate will then wait for the pause time. A good feature if you are calling a system with x lines and they are all busy since you can first try all the lines quickly and then delay some minutes and try all the lines again. Auto-answer string This string will tell your modem to try connecting when an incoming call arrives or to connect in the hostmode. Auto answer When an incoming call arrives in terminal mode, if OFF then you will be asked to pick up the phone, if ON then the Auto-answer string will be sent to the modem. Baud change When a connection has been made and you have told Terminate to change baudrate (only when using 2400 baud and calling a 1200 baud system). Then this command must be used. Modem string delay If your modem reacts very slowly, you can insert a delay when sending strings to the modem. Also all Function keys will then have this delay. Force initstring Normally Terminate will not send the init. string if the modem has detected carrier, but you can force Terminate to send the string at startup even if the carrier is high. This is useful when you have a modem that cannot save the setup and the carrier (&C0) is set when turning on the modem. - 47 - RS-232C INTERFACE DB-25 (25 pin connectors) Pin Assignment Short Signal Flow ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1 Chassis Ground GND Terminal <-> Modem 2 Transmit data TR Terminal --> Modem 3 Receive data RD Terminal <-- Modem 4 Request to send RTS Terminal --> Modem 5 Clear to send CTS Terminal <-- Modem 6 Data set ready DSR Terminal <-- Modem 7 Signal ground GND Terminal <-> Modem 8 Carrier detect DCD Terminal <-- Modem 20 Data terminal ready DTR Terminal --> Modem 22 Ring indicator RI Terminal <-- Modem DB-9 (9 pin connectors) Pin Assignment Short Signal Flow ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1 Carrier detect DCD Terminal <-- Modem 2 Transmit data TR Terminal --> Modem 3 Receive data RD Terminal <-- Modem 4 Data terminal ready DTR Terminal --> Modem 5 Signal ground GND Terminal <-> Modem 6 Data set ready DSR Terminal <-- Modem 7 Request to send RTS Terminal --> Modem 8 Clear to send CTS Terminal <-- Modem 9 Ring indicator RI Terminal <-- Modem Lines 2,3,4,5,6,8,20,22 (DB-25) or line 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 (DB-9) are sometimes referred to as 'The big eight'. - 48 - HAYES There is no guarantee that all the commands will work with your modem, but if you have some special needs, you might like to change the settings. It is not possible to make a complete list of all commands, since most modem manufacturers have their own special settings. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ HAYES STANDARD COMMANDS │ ├──────────┬──────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┬───────────┤ │ Command │ Parameters │ Function │ Default │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ AT │ │ Attention code; indicates start │ │ │ │ │ of command line. │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ +++ │ │ Escape code; changes modem from │ │ │ │ │ on-line to command state; see │ │ │ │ │ registers S2 and S12. │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ D<s> │ │ Dial │ DP │ │ │ s = 0..9 # * │ │ │ │ │ () - . / │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ P │ Pulse dial │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ R │ Dial an "originate-only" │ │ │ │ │ modem (reverse mode) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ T │ Touch Tone(tm) dial │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ , │ Pause when dialing │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ; │ Return to command state │ │ │ │ │ after dialling │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ A/ │ │ Repeat command; redial; the │ │ │ │ │ only command neither preceded │ │ │ │ │ by AT nor followed by a │ │ │ │ │ carriage return │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ A │ │ Answer call immediately │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ E<n> │ n = 0,1 │ 0 = no echo │ E1 │ │ │ │ 1 = echo │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ F<n> │ n = 0,1 │ 0 = half-duplex │ F1 │ │ │ │* 1 = full-duplex │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ I<n> │ n = 0..? │ information │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ L<n> │ n = 0..? │ volume control │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ M<n> │ n = 0..2 │ 0 = speaker OFF │ M1 │ │ │ │* 1 = speaker ON until carrier │ │ │ │ │ 2 = speaker always ON │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ O │ │ Return to on-line state │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ Q<n> │ n = 0,1 │ 0 = result codes sent │ Q0 │ - 49 - │ │ │ 1 = result codes not sent │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ S<r>? │ r = 0..17 │ Read register r │ None │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ S<r>=<n> │ r = 0..17 │ Set register r to value n │ None │ │ │ n = 0..255 │ │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ V<n> │ n = 0,1 │ 0 = digit result codes │ V1 │ │ │ │* 1 = word result codes │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ X<n> │ n = 0..? │ 0 = basic result code set │ │ │ │ │ 1 = extended result code set │ X0 │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ Z │ │ Reset │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ C<n> │ n = 0,1 │ 0 = transmitter OFF │ C1 │ │ │ │* 1 = transmitter ON │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ H<n> │ n = 0..1 │ 0 = ON hook (hang up) │ None │ │ │ │ 1 = OFF hook │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ &C<n> │ n = 0,1 │ 0 = carrier always on │ &C0 │ │ │ │* 1 = carrier follow DCD line │ │ ├──────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤ │ &D<n> │ n = 0,1,2,3 │ 0 = Do not hangup when DTR is low │ &D0 │ │ │ │ 1 = return to command-state DTR │ │ │ │ │* 2 = when DTR low, hang up modem │ │ │ │ │ 3 = same as 2, but also resets │ │ └──────────┴──────────────┴────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ * = advised ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ HAYES STANDARD REGISTERS │ ├──────────┬──────────┬───────────┬──────────────────────────────┬─────────┤ │ Register │ Range │ Units │ Function │ Default │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────┤ │ │ │ --DIALLING-- │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ S6 │ 2..255 │ seconds │ Wait time for dial tone │ 2 │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────┤ │ S8 │ 0..255 │ seconds │ Length of pause (caused │ 2 │ │ │ │ │ by comma) │ │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────┤ │ S11 │ 50..255 │ milli- │ Duration and spacing of │ 70 │ │ │ │ seconds │ Touch-Tones (tm) │ │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────┤ │ │ │ --ANSWERING-- │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ S0 │ 0..255 │ rings │ Number of rings on which │ 0 │ │ │ │ │ modem answers call │ │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────┤ │ S1 │ 0..255 │ rings │ Number of rings occurred │ 0 │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────┤ │ │ │ --DIALING & ANSWERING-- │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ S7 │ 1..255 │ seconds │ Wait time for carrier │ 30 │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────┤ │ S9 │ 1..255 │ .1 second │ Carrier detect response time │ 6 │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────┤ │ S10 │ 1..255 │ .1 second │ Time between loss of carrier │ 7 │ - 50 - │ │ │ │ and hang up │ │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────┤ │ │ │ --CHARACTER DEFINITIONS-- │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ S2 │ 0..127 │ ASCII │ Escape code character │ 43 │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────┤ │ S3 │ 0..127 │ ASCII │ Carriage return character │ 13 │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────┤ │ S4 │ 0..127 │ ASCII │ Line feed character │ 10 │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────┤ │ S5 │ 0..32,127│ ASCII │ Backspace character │ 8 │ └──────────┴──────────┴───────────┴──────────────────────────────┴─────────┘ - 51 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Filenames and paths ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ For Paths that do not start with a \ or a drive:\, (C:\) is assumed always to be within the Terminate home path. So DOWNLOAD\ would actually be: C:\TERMINAT\DOWNLOAD\, so you will save a little typing: ╒═════════════════════════╤═════════════════════════╡ Filenames and paths ╞╕ │ Download manager │ │ │ Upload directory │ UPLOAD\ │ │ Script directory │ │ │ Translation file │ .XLT │ │ Phonebook directory │ PHONE\ │ │ Capture directory │ CAPTURE\ │ │ Capture file │ TERMINAT.CAP │ │ Log file │ TERMINAT.LOG │ │ Editor filename │ Q.EXE !M │ │ Line command │ -N@LINE │ │ Viewer filename │ LIST.COM │ │ Protocol directory │ PROTOCOL\ │ │ Shell directory │ │ │ Swap file │ TERMINAT.SWP │ │ Utility directory │ UTILS\ │ │ Manual directory │ MANUAL\ │ │ Run after download │ │ │ Run after upload │ │ │ Qwk reply files │ DANBBS.REP │ │ Semaphore directory │ │ │ Exit file │ TER-EXIT.NOW │ │ Filelist manager │ │ ╘═════════════════════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ - 52 - Download manager ╒════════════════════╤═════════════════════════════╡ Download manager ╞╕ │■Default download │ Use wildcards │ │ Download path 1 │ DOWNLOAD\ │ │ Download path 2 │ DOWNLOAD\PICTURES\ │ │ Download path 3 │ DOWNLOAD\ │ ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ *.GIF │ DOWNLOAD\PICTURES\ │ │ *.PCX │ DOWNLOAD\PICTURES\ │ │ *.JPG │ DOWNLOAD\PICTURES\ │ │ *.GFB │ DOWNLOAD\PICTURES\ │ │ *.BMP │ DOWNLOAD\PICTURES\ │ │ *.QWK │ C:\QWK\ │ │ *.OPX │ C:\XPRESS\ │ │ NODEDIFF.* │ C:\TERMINAT\UTILS │ │ Z?-DIFF.* │ C:\TERMINAT\UTILS │ │ │ DOWNLOAD\ │ │ │ DOWNLOAD\ │ │ │ DOWNLOAD\ │ │ │ DOWNLOAD\ │ │ *MAIL │ IN\ │ │ *ARCHIVE │ DOWNLOAD\ARCHIVES\ │ │ *.* │ DOWNLOAD\OTHER\ │ ╘════════════════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Terminate allows you to have 3 different download directories, which can be set for each phonebook entry, so if you call systems with one kind of file, lets say OS/2 files, you would surely not want them to get mixed up with your normal DOS files. The wildcard system in Terminate allows you to specify any DOS wildcard (*,?) and the directory where to save the files. This will also work when using the point system. If you change the first wildcard path you will be asked if this path should be copied to all wildcard paths. *MAIL Is a wildcard for mailpackages MO#, TU#, WE#, TH#, FR#, SA#, SU# where the # is a number from 0-9. *ARCHIVE Is a wildcard for the most popular archivers, currently supported: ARC,ARJ,ZIP,LHA,LZH,DWC,SQZ,ZOO,PAK,HYP,RAR,EXE Will also match when the two first characters matches and the 3 is a number from 0-9, like: AR1, ZI5 etc. Upload directory When starting an upload, you can force the filemanager always to start in this directory. Script directory When scripts are ready in Terminate, they will be placed here Translation file Which XLT file should default to be loaded at startup. No filename here means no translation, which is normal. Phonebook directory Where to place phonebooks (*.FON), phonebook backups (*.PBK), - 53 - translation files (*.XLT) and keyboard mapping files (*.KBD). Capture directory Where all the capture files should be stored *.CAP Capture file Which file should be the default when pressing Alt-L (capture) or Alt-I (Screen image) Log file Name of the logfile. Terminate will keep this file open all the time if the logfile toggle is ON. A problem would occur when using networks because you cannot write to the same file from several Terminates. You will have to define different logfiles or turn it off. You could enter the name TER%NET%.LOG and then have an environment variable in your AUTOEXEC.BAT: SET NET=04 and then have a separate number for each machine. Terminate will then replace the %NET% so the filename would be TER04.LOG Editor filename An external editor is something you must have. I admit that people are used to different editors and hate learning new keys. Qedit seems to be one of the most used and is surely one of the best. You can request or download QEDIT from DAN BBS. You should put a !M on the line, so memory will be swapped out before calling the editor. Line command The @LINE is where the line number is replaced when needed. This is for example used when you edit one of the manual files. Then Qedit can start up and place the cursor on the same line as in Terminate. Viewer filename A viewer is a program that will allow you to look in big files without editing. Terminate has a built-in filelister, which works almost like the original LIST.COM program by Vernon D. Buerg. Use @LIST for the internal lister or give the entire filename here. Just remember that with the internal lister, you can grab and import to all other functions like the SmartNote (Alt-A) or the history strings (Alt-F9). The internal lister Use normal cursor movements to browse the file. F Search for a keyword F3 Search for same keyword again F9 Search for same keyword again backwards H Toggle hexmode Alt-K String grabber (Shift cursor to adjust size) T Tag files Protocol directory If you do not give any path with the external protocols, this directory will be assumed. - 54 - Shell directory When shelling to DOS with Alt-J, change to this directory. You could enter a C:\ if you want to have the root directory as current when shelling. If blank, then the Terminate directory will be used. In the filemanager Terminate will always change to the current directory in the current window. Swap file If you do not have enough XMS or EMS memory, Terminate will swap the memory to a swapfile. You should define a different swapfile for each person that runs Terminate if you are on a network. Use the environment variables to fix this like the logfile: TER%NET%.SWP Utility directory When opening some files, this directory will first be searched. Place all other files that have nothing to do directly with Terminate in this directory and don't ever allow the Terminate home directory (eg: C:\TERMINAT) to be filled with all kinds of garbage. Some of the files that should be placed in here are: MAGIC.TXT List of magic names for the point system NODELIST.000 Nodelists for the point system PASSWORD.BAD Bad passwords for the password checker PASSWORD.TXT Passwords for the point system TERMINAT.CST Costfile TERMINAT.EXT Extensions for the file manager TERMINAT.LGO File to show at startup if registered TERMINAT.MOD Quick modem install WELCOME.ASC Welcome picture for the hostmode Manual directory Where to search for the help and manual files, if you run several Terminate's on a network you can save diskspace by using the same manual files. Run after download Run after upload After an internal or external download/upload, this program or batch file can be called. This could be useful if you have some kind of program to import descriptions into a FILES.BBS file, for example. !0 on commandline will be replaced with the current download directory. Qwk reply files When you write offline mail with an offline reader like TMAIL or other QWK readers. Then your messages will be saved in a file. This file should be specified here. When you then upload the file Terminate will delete it afterwards. Semaphore directory This directory will contain the exit file, look below for more information. Exit file - 55 - The exit file is used to force Terminate to shutdown without actually being at this workstation. Terminate will look if the exit file exists at startup and will only exit if someone touches (change filedate/time) this file. You can also delete the file and create it again in a batchfile like this: DEL C:\TERMINAT\TER-EXIT.NOW ECHO hello>C:\TERMINAT\TER-EXIT.NOW On a network you should turn this off or have the directory to point a place where Terminate only have read access, so the users cannot force other tasks down. If you want to be able to shut a particular Terminate down use SET NET=1 and have TER-EXIT.NO%NET% as exit file. The places from where you can shut Terminate down: The hostmode The point system The fax receive Terminal mode Filelist manager You will probably download a lot of filelists from a lot of different systems. To quickly access and tag files from these filelists, you can press Alt-F6 and F, select the filelist and tag files with T. You MUST have a seperate directory for the filelists, which ONLY contain filelists and information that can be packed into the archives. Please do not try to mix up other files. For security reasons you cannot use the Terminate path or the ROOT of any drive. The Pack and Unpack commands are used to save space on your hard disks, since filelists are not used all the time and can easily be stored in a way that only uses half or less diskspace. - 56 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Protocols ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ╒════════════════╤══════╡ Protocol options ╞╕ │ Internal │ │ │ External │ │ │ Default │ Zmodem │ │ Allow auto │ Yes │ ╘════════════════╧══════════════════════════╛ Default Where to put the cursor as the default when pressing Page-Up or Page-Down. Allow auto Global switch for allowing auto-download for all protocols. Internal protocols ╒═════════════════════╤╡ Internal protocols ╞╕ │ Enable protocols │ │ │ CPS adjust │ 5 % │ │ Hangup after time │ 10 │ │ Hangup default │ No │ │ │ │ │ Zmodem/ZedZap: │ │ │ Allow CRC-32 │ Yes │ │ Allow recovery │ Yes │ │ Check file date │ No │ │ Touch file │ No │ │ Increase filename │ Yes │ │ Always overwrite │ No │ │ Zmodem signature │ rz..** │ │ Auto upload │ Yes │ │ │ │ │ ASCII send/receive │ │ ╘═════════════════════╧══════════════════════╛ Enable protocols ╒═════════════════════════╤═════╡ Enable/disable protocols ╞╕ │ ■ Z Zmodem │ The most used protocol │ │ ■ P ZedZap │ Zmodem 8k for 2 Terminates │ │ ■ A Ascii │ Text files │ │ ■ X Xmodem │ Not good, last choice │ │ ■ 1 Xmodem 1k │ Not good, last choice │ │ ■ E Xmodem 1k-G │ Fast, but not good │ │ ■ Y Ymodem Batch │ Ok, but Zmodem is better │ │ ■ G Ymodem-G │ No correction, only with MNP │ │ ■ K Kermit │ Host/Server/Unix │ │ ■ C CIS Quick B+ │ CompuServe │ ╘═════════════════════════╧═════════════════════════════════╛ Press SPACE to toggle use, if you disable some of these protocols, then they will also be disabled in the hostmode. Press RETURN to change - 57 - the hotkey. CPS adjust If you think your CPS rate is a little wrong you can adjust the values by telling how many percent Terminate should add. Many external protocols will claim that they get a much higher CPS rate than possible or use other expressions like 'throughput', 'speed' etc. and then people will think that their protocol is much faster. Don't be fooled, Zmodem is still one of the fastest, and it is normally not worth the work to setup an external protocol, unless it is a full duplex protocol like BiModem, HSLink, Janus or HydraCom, which transfers files both ways at the same time. Remember even if an external protocol gives you 1-2% faster transfers that time will be lost just by swapping out memory and calling the protocol. Hangup after time When using the internal protocols you can toggle if you want to hangup right after the transfer. This option allows you to choose how many seconds to wait before hanging up. Hangup default When transferring files, which value should be used as default. If Yes, then Terminate will try to hangup after every transfer. You can also change this value while transfering files by pressing 'H', only available with internal protocols. If Yes then after a download with an external protocol, Terminate will countdown and hangup if not aborted. Please remember that you should only hangup after a transfer if you are allowed by the sysop. A lot of sysops do not like this, so please ask him/her first. Zmodem/ZedZap: Zmodem is the most used protocol in the world now, it has many special features and allows you to control a few things. When auto-downloading with ZedZap 8k, instead of Zmodem, the other end must send a 'ZAP' before the normal Zmodem string, then Terminate will start up ZedZap instead. This is currently only supported by the internal hostmode in Terminate. Allow CRC-32 CRC means 'cyclic redundancy check' and is for checking if a block received or sent was error free. A very few, old Zmodems might only support CRC-16 check, which is less secure than the CRC-32 check. You should only turn this off in very rare cases. Allow recovery If a file transfer is aborted, you can resume the transfer where you left off if this feature is enabled. Check file date When resuming a transfer, Terminate will test to see if the filesize is the same this time, but you can also set Terminate to test the file date / time. (In this case, Touch File should not be enabled.) - 58 - Touch file Zmodem will also transfer the original file date/time stamp. If you enable this option, all files received will be touched with the current date/time. Increase filename If the file already exists and Terminate decides not to recover the file, Terminate will increment the filename like this: DANBBS.ARJ -> DANBBS.AR1 If DANBBS.AR1 exits Terminate will keep on incrementing, first 1..9, then A..Z, then abort. Always overwrite With this option Terminate does not check if the file already exists and simply overwrites the existing file. Zmodem signature In terminal mode Terminate will scan for this string if autodownload is enabled. When Terminate gets this string Zmodem download will start. On some systems you need to shorten this string into: 'rz'+#13 , but normally you should not change this. Auto upload When a '**'#24'B01' is received then Terminate will assume an upload is wanted and enter the protocol selection menu. ASCII send/receive ╒═══════════════════════════════╡ ASCII transfer ╞╕ │ Settings for Receive/view and Send/view │ │ │ │ Strip high bit Off │ │ Remote abort char 24 (ASCII) │ │ │ │ ─ Send ─ │ │ │ │ Local echo On │ │ Blank line -=> 1 Space On │ │ Line pacing 0 (1/10 seconds) │ │ Character pacing 0 (1/10 seconds) │ │ CR translation None │ │ LF translation None │ │ │ │ ─ Receive ─ │ │ │ │ CR translation None │ │ LF translation None │ │ │ ╘═════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Strip high bit Strip away characters with ascii values above 127. Remote abort char - 59 - If this option is not #0 then the remote can abort the transfer by sending this character (normally #24 (Ctrl-X) is used). Local echo When transferring a file, this allows you to see what it is you are sending. Blank line -=> 1 Space Some BBS editors will abort on blank lines, so this option will take blank lines and turn them into a single space. #13#10 -=> #20#13#10 = Blank, carriage return (CR), linefeed (LF) Line pacing How many 1/10 second to wait between each line. Some BBS editors are not fast enough to accept all the characters if you just send a lot of lines without a pause. Character pacing If you want it to be real slow, you can also make a pause between each character - but this is slow and is not advised. CR translation LF translation When sending or receiving carriage returns and linefeeds you can change or strip them with this option. This is only used in special cases and should not normally be changed. A CR can be either stripped or changed into either a LF or CR+LF. Same goes for a LF. External protocols ╒══════════╡ External protocols ╞╕ │ ■ Puma/Mpt │ │ ■ BiModem │ │ ■ HSlink │ │ ■ Super Zmodem │ │ ■ Lynx │ │ ■ CMP - Chatmanager │ │ ■ Jmodem │ │ ■ Zmodem external │ │ ■ Zmodem GIFLINK │ │ ■ Fax receive │ │ Free slot │ │ Free slot │ ╘════════════════════════════════╛ External protocols are often used by experienced comms. users. Transferring files has become some kind of artform, where everybody tries to outdo each other. The internal Zmodem is often the preferred protocol, since otherwise it can sometimes be impossible to keep track of how many files have been downloaded. Especially on networks or in multitasking environments, where several people have access to the download directory. Terminate calculates the bytes downloaded by first checking the download directory size before and after the protocol has been called. Then the - 60 - CPS rate is calculated based upon the time from leaving Terminate until back in Terminate again. If you are in a multitasking environment, please do not delete or change any files in the download directory while an external transfer is in progress. I have set up all the most popular protocols and a lot of people have tested the settings, but there can be many, many problems setting up an external protocol if you haven't tried it before. Don't believe that the actual CPS rate that external protocols claim to achieve is always correct, there are some limitations that are impossible to exceed and still some protocols claim to be better than is physically possible. Another reason for using an external protocol is that it offers some special things that are not included in the terminal package, like the BiModem/HSLink which are full duplex protocols (that means you can transfer files both ways at the same time and even chat). These are high-tech protocols and impossible to implement in a terminal program because the specifications are not released. Well, if you are a newcomer, there will be a while before you will need these. ╒═══════════════════╤═══════════════════════════════════╡ Change protocol ╞╕ │ Protocol name │ Zmodem external │ │ Information │ The immortal protocol │ │ [Path]+Filename │ GSZ.EXE │ │ Ask at downloads │ No │ │ Change to UL dir │ Yes │ │ Change to DL dir │ Yes │ │ Batch │ Yes │ │ Hotkey │ Z │ │ │ !P=COM1-8 !C=COM0-7 !0=DownloadPath !E=No COMMAND.COM│ │ │ !M=Swap !W=Wait !B=Baud! L=Linkrate !I=Irq !A=Address│ │ Upload parameters │ handshake on port !P speed !B sz │ │ Download param. │ handshake on port !P speed !B pB4096 rz -Z -m -rr │ │ Auto-download │ Yes │ │ Signature │ rz.**. │ │ Signature hex │ 727A0D2A2A180000000000000000000000000000 │ ├───────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ If [Path] not is used, protocol path will be used instead. │ │ A signature is the chars that the sending protocol is sending to start. │ │ Zmodem looks almost like this: rz**B0000000000 You can monitor a new │ │ protocol with the ASCII download (PgDn,A), and then convert the bytes to │ │ hex. Just a small part of the signature (5-10 chars at most) is needed │ │ depending on how redundant it is. All 00 at the end are ignored. │ ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Protocol name The name that is presented in the menus. Information Any information you would like to see in the menus. [Path]+Filename Filename of the protocol. If no path is supplied then the protocol directory will be used. Ask at downloads Ask the filename, should only be used with non-batch protocols. Change to UL dir - 61 - Before starting the external protocol, change to upload directory. Some external protocols are limited to not allow the upload directory in unregistered versions. Change to DL dir If you change to the download directory, then you will normally not have to enter a path on the command line, because the external protocol will then use the current directory. Batch Batch protocol means that it can transfer several files after each other. Protocols like Zmodem, Bimodem, Hslink and Ymodem Batch are batch protocols while Xmodem is a not. Hotkey Which key should activate this protocol in the protocol menu. Upload parameters / Download param. When using an external protocol you will need to send some parameters to the program, to tell the program the port, baudrate and other information it might need. !P Replace !P with port-number. If you are using COM2 then !P will be replaced with a '2'. !C Same as above but some protocols use port 0..7 instead of 1..8 If you are using COM2 then !P will be replaced with a '1'. !B Replace !B with baudrate. !L Replace !L with connect baud rate. !0 Replace !0 with downloadpath, example: C:\TERMINAT\DOWNLOAD\ !M Swap Terminate out to memory or disk first, try first without this parameter and see if you have enough memory to run it without swapping. This will increase the start of the protocol. !W Wait for return before returning to Terminate. You can use this for testing the protocol, if the protocol gives you some kind of error message and the screen clears too fast to see it. !E Do not use a second COMMAND.COM, call directly. If you use this parameter then you must give the complete path+filename+ext, like: C:\PROTOCOL\HSLINK.EXE !E !M !I Replace with current comport IRQ. !A Replace with current hardware port address of comport. Auto-download Test for incoming signature and try to start the protocol without having to press PageDown and select the protocol manually. - 62 - Signature Signature hex You can either edit the signature as a string and enter special characters with the Alt-A function or you can enter the signature in hexnumbers. Look at all the default external protocols for more examples. Transfering files ╒══════════════╤══════════════╤═════════════════╤════════╤╡ File transfer ╞╕ │ Protocol │ Zmodem │ Total errors │ │ │ │ Check/size │ Crc32/1024 │ Total blocks │ 1843 │ Request file │ │ File name │ DANBBS.ARJ │ Blocks rcvd │ 13 │ Start file │ │ File size │ 1886640 │ Blocks left │ 1830 │ Synchronize │ │ Bytes rcvd │ 13312 │ Total kr │ 9,71 │ Received block │ │ Bytes left │ 1873328 │ Costs kr │ 0,07 │ Received block │ ├──────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────┼────────┤ Received block │ │ Throughput │ 1560 CPS │ Estimated time │ 20.34 │ Received block │ │ Efficiency │ 163% │ Elapsed time │ 0.09 │ Received block │ │ Diskspace │ 873.673.728 │ Remaining time │ 20.26 │ Received block │ ├──────────┬───┴──────────────┴─────────────────┴────────┤ Received block │ │ Activity │ ████████████████████████████████████ │ Received block │ │ Progress │ 0% ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ Received block │ │ Connect │ CONNECT 9600/ARQ/HST/HST/V42BIS │ Received block │ │ Status │ Ok │ Received block │ │ Log │ │ Received block │ │ Path │ DOWNLOAD\ │ Received block │ │ Device │ COM2 19200 8N1 │ │ ├──────────┴─────────────┬───────────────────────────────┤ │ │ Software flow Off │ Hardware flowcontrol CTS/RTS │ │ │ Hangup after No │ RTS low while writing No │ │ │ Skip rest of file │ Baud 9600 │ │ ╘════════════════════════╧═══════════════════════════════╧═════════════════╛ DAN BBS Line 1 │ COM2: 19200·8N1 FX │ Avatar/Ansi │L │kr 0,42 This is the transfer window which is used while transfering files from or to your system. Most of the information is quite obvious, but some entries need an explanation. Total / Costs If you are using the cost system in Terminate here you will be able to see how much the file will cost to send for you or the remote site. You can also see in the status line what the total is for this call. Disk space Terminate will only test diskspace before each file and calculate the remaining disk space. Since most files you receive will be compressed you must have as much space as the size of the file you are about to receive, even when you are using compressed drives, like Stacker, DoubleDos or Novell DOS. If you are running out of disk space, you have 20 seconds to abort hangup. If you still are online you will be asked to enter a new download directory, which can also be created here, then the transfer will be continued. Activity Will give you a moving bar when the transfer is in progress. In this - 63 - way you will know if your computer hangs. Path When you are receiving several files you can change the download path. When you change this path, then the next file(s) will be saved in the new directory. Hangup after Pressing H will toggle hangup after transfer. This can be used if you are leaving the house and have a big download or upload in progress. When the transfer is finished then a window will appear and you will have 10 seconds to abort the hangup. Skip rest of file When downloading several files with Zmodem, you can sometimes skip the current file and proceed with the next one. Not all Zmodem protocols will accept this skip command, so if it does not work you should abort the transfer and select the files again, without the unwanted file. RTS low while writing Request-to-send can be set low if your system gets to many CRC-errors. Setting this line low, means that the modem will not accept anything from the other modem, and it can then save without also having to receive bytes in the receive buffer at the same time. The Auto-RTS function in Terminate will allow you to setup how many errors you will accept before enabling. If triggered you will see the word 'AutoOn' instead of 'Off'. For more information look in the communications setup menu. Batch upload PgUp,Alt-B To prepare a list of files to upload before calling a system, use this function. Remember that it will only work with protocols like Zmodem that are capable of sending several files at the same time. The list of files to be uploaded will be stored in the utility directory as UPLOAD.TXT Commands Space Tag/untag file E Edit line manually Insert Insert line Delete Delete line F Filemanager selects a file and inserts name on this line Return Upload file under menubar U Upload all tagged files A Upload all files * Invert tags + Tag all - Untag all - 64 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Emulations ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You will not need to know how an emulation works. Just think of it as a screen translator. The remote sends control codes that will be translated by Terminate and shown on screen. In this way it is possible to change the colours and move around the screen. The only thing you need to know is what emulation the remote supports. If you only call normal BBS systems you won't need to change anything here, since the default emulation is set to Avatar/ANSI. That means Terminate understands both ANSI and AVATAR codes. If systems you call ask if you want AVATAR codes, say yes - then screens will be updated 30-40% faster than using ANSI codes. Some BBS systems will use some VT-102 scrolling commands that are the same as the ANSI-music; that is why the ANSI-music must be turned off when using those systems. Terminate provides 16 Terminal slots and each of these slots can be setup to act in different ways. The Avatar/ANSI module Terminate uses, is made by Gregory P. Smith and is called Pavatar. The ANSI-music module is made by Bo Bendtsen and donated to Gregory. ╒════╡ Emulation setup ╞╕ │ Default terminal │ │ Setup terminal │ │ Edit keyboard │ ╘═══════════════════════╛ Default terminal ╒═════════════╤══════════════════════════════╡ Change Terminal ╞╕ │■Avatar/ANSI │ Avatar/0* with ANSI-BBS fallback │ │ Avatar/ANSI │ Avatar/0* with ANSI-fallback │ │ Avatar │ Avatar/0* without ANSI fallback │ │ Avatar/ANSI │ Avatar/1 with ANSI-BBS fallback │ │ Avatar/ANSI │ Avatar/1 with ANSI fallback │ │ Avatar │ Avatar/1 without ANSI fallback │ │ ANSI-BBS │ Only use ANSI for Bulletin Boards │ │ ANSI/VT-100 │ Normal ANSI / VT-100 terminal │ │ VT-52 │ Digital Equipment Corp. │ │ VT-102 │ Enhanced VT-100 │ │ VT-220 │ Not available yet │ │ TTY │ Disable all emulations │ │ Avatar/ANSI │ Avatar/0* with ANSI-BBS fallback User 1 │ │ Avatar/ANSI │ Avatar/0* with ANSI-BBS fallback User 2 │ │ Avatar/ANSI │ Avatar/0* with ANSI-BBS fallback User 3 │ │ Avatar/ANSI │ Avatar/0* with ANSI-BBS fallback User 4 │ ╘═════════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Which terminal slot should be default when starting up Terminate. Do not get confused about all the emulations, always use the first emulation if it works. Some Unix systems demand some special things so, if you call some old system that only uses 7E1 and it does not work, try using the ANSI/VT-100 emulation. Setup terminal - 65 - ╒═════════════════╤═══════════╡ Terminal setup 1 ╞╕ │ Emulation │ Avatar/ANSI │ │ Comment │ │ │ Keyboard file │ AVATAR .KBD │ │ Scroll screen │ Yes │ │ Local echo │ No │ │ Add linefeed │ No │ │ Strip high │ No │ │ Erase backspace │ Yes │ │ Ignore null │ Yes │ │ Statusline │ Yes │ │ ANSI music │ Yes │ ╘═════════════════╧═══════════════════════════════╛ Emulation Which emulation should Terminate use for this slot. You must know which emulation the other end is using. If this is not possible, try all the emulations one by one and see if one of them works. Avatar is the fastest emulation because it is able to 'compress' the screen a little. Avatar with ANSI fallback means that Terminate first will assume Avatar screen codes, but also translate ANSI codes. In this way Terminate supports both Avatar and ANSI at the same time. That is useful because many RemoteAccess/SuperBBS systems first look for Avatar (.AVT) files and if they are not found then ANSI (.ANS) files. Comment A small comment that will be shown when you choose default Terminal and Terminal in the phonebook. If you have a terminal without the statusline enabled you could make a comment about it here. Keyboard file If you want a special keyboard file (.KBD) to be loaded when this terminal slot is selected. You can overwrite this in the phonebook by entering another keyboard mapping for that phonebook entry. Scroll screen Normally Terminate will scroll the screen down, but some systems will not need this, so you can just change this setting if you have problems. Local echo Toggles local echo. Local echo is sometimes also called DUPLEX. Local echo off = Full duplex Local echo on = Half duplex When local echo is on, the characters you type will echo on the screen. If you have a modem connected, you may then see the characters twice every time you press a key. You normally always use local echo off (Full duplex) Add linefeed When Terminate gets #13 it is interpreted as if Terminate had also received a linefeed. Strip high - 66 - Strip all characters above ASCII 127 on incoming traffic. Should not be used normally. Erase backspace When pressing backspace (ASCII 8) then if this option is On, the cursor will move 1 back and erase the character, Off will only move the cursor 1 back. Default is On. Ignore null If a system sends nulls (#0), Terminate ignore them when this is turned on. TTY and VT52 emulations ignore these. Statusline When using a terminal slot, you can choose to show the statusline on the screen. This is normally always turned on. With this option you can select a terminal slot for a phone entry that has the statusline turned off when you call that system. ANSI music Allow ANSI music when using this emulation. Note that VT-102 cannot use ANSI music because a scroll command ESC[M starts with the same code as ANSI music. Edit keyboard ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │ │ F1 Sh-F1 C-F1 Bo Bendtse │ Keyboard mapping │ F2 Sh-F2 C-F2 Kastanie a │ │ F3 Sh-F3 C-F3 2620 Alber └────────────────────┤ F4 Sh-F4 C-F4 Danmark^M │ F5 Sh-F5 C-F5 ATM0 Keypad * │ F6 Sh-F6 C-F6 ATM1 Keypad - - │ F7 Sh-F7 C-F7 ATDT#43# Keypad + + │ F8 Sh-F8 C-F8 ATDT*43# Keypad . . │ F9 Sh-F9 C-F9 ATI4 Keypad / / │ F10 Sh-F10 C-F10 AT&V Keypad<┘ │ F11 @DIAL 5 6 Sh-F11 C-F11 ATI6 │ F12 Sh-F12 C-F12 AT$H ─────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Tab │ Keypad 0 0 Grey CUp CurUp Sh-Tab │ Keypad 1 1 Grey CDn CurDn Insert │ Keypad 2 2 Grey CLf CurLf Delete │ Keypad 3 3 Grey CRt CurRt Bckspace │ Keypad 4 4 Grey Ins C-Home │ Keypad 5 5 Grey Del Home C-End │ Keypad 6 6 Grey Home End C-PgUp │ Keypad 7 7 Grey End C-PgDn │ Keypad 8 8 Grey PgUp Enter C-Bckspc │ Keypad 9 9 Grey PgDn Esc = Exit Enter = Edit Grey PgUp/PgDn=Up/Download if blank │ AVATAR.KBD Each keyboard file contains a complete set of codes that will be sent when you press the function or special keys on your keyboard. Different emulations need special characters to be sent when, for example, you press F1. You have 20 chars for each entry and 40 chars for the Ctrl-F1..Ctrl-F12 keys. - 67 - C- = Ctrl Sh- = Shift As you can see in this AVATAR.KBD file, I have set up my name on Ctrl-F1. Then my name will be sent in terminal mode when I press Ctrl-F1. It's a good idea to insert your name, address, city, etc, here because most systems will ask you for this information and then you don't have to enter it manually over and over again. A special command is @DIAL, which you can insert anywhere. When you then press this key. Terminate will enter the phonebook, tag the entries and start dialing the numbers. @DIAL 5 6 7 8 9 10 Will tag and then start dialing these entries. If you have a system you call very often, you can enter the entry number from the phonebook here and then you can call this system by pressing just one key. In the example F11 is used. Remember to turn on enhanced keyboard in toggles first or use other keys than F11 and F12. You should not change Grey PgUp/PgDn unless 100% necessary, because these keys are used for the upload and download menu. Another default setting only for Denmark is Ctrl-F7. This turns off something we call "knock on door". Which means that, on digital lines while we are talking to another person, we hear a beep when a 3rd person calls. Since this noise on the line might interfere, we turn it off. Ctrl-F8 turns it on again (at the phone company) If you need any special characters here, just press Alt-A while editing - then you can select from the ASCII selector. Terminate will understand both a #13 and '^M' as the same. The reason that ^M will be translated into a #13 (return) when it is sent, is to remain compatible with old terminal programs that don't have an ASCII selector like Terminate and then it would be impossible to edit that character. The keyboard string and modem strings will understand the ^ parameter. ^@ = 0, ^A = 1, ^M = 13. It is because the ASCII value of a M is 77, from that is deducted 64 (77-64) equals 13. - 68 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Host mode ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ╒═══════════════╤══════════════════════════════════════════╡ Host settings ╞╕ │ Host init │ ATS0=0^M │ │ Open system │ No │ │ Send path │ UPLOAD\ │ │ Receive path │ DOWNLOAD\ │ │ Shut down pwd │ ........ │ │ Allow sound │ Yes │ │ Ring count │ 1 │ │ Callback wait │ 90 │ │ Fax receive │ No │ │ Fax init │ │ │ Fax answer │ │ │ Fax internal │ Yes │ │ Fax command │ RCVFAX 2 /p:1 /r:0 /w:c:\terminat\fax │ │ External 1 │ Doorway DOOR.BAT !P !B │ │ External 2 │ Boot BOOT.COM │ │ External 3 │ BiModem BIMODEM.COM │ │ │ !P COM 1-8 !C=COM 0-7 !B Baud !0=Download-path │ │ │ !M Swap memory first !W Wait for return after │ ╘═══════════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Host init-string You must not setup the modem to answer the modem automatically. The S0 register holds the number of rings before answering - this should be set to 0, then Terminate rather than the modem will answer for you. When Terminate gets the ring-string (RING), the answer-string (ATA) will be sent and Terminate waits for a carrier. Open system If the system is closed then only users defined in your setup will be allowed to logon. If you have an open system, all users that call will be able to log on - but only with normal user status and only able to up or download with specified directories. If a supervisor logs on, complete access will be granted whether the system is open or closed. Send path Users that are not supervisors are only allowed to download from this directory. Receive path Users that are not supervisors are only allowed to upload to this directory. Shut down pwd If a supervisor logs on, the supervisor can shut down Terminate and exit to DOS, so no one can call the hostmode again. Allow sound - 69 - Make sounds when users disconnects, etc. You can still define the global time period, but to be sure never to make any sound here, turn it off. Ring count How many rings before answering, if you enter a 0 here then the phone will never be answered. Callback wait To prevent someone from breaking your callback security. Waiting 90 seconds is normally the maximum time the phone company will hold the line if one of the parties hung up. Normally you would only use this function if you have really important information on your machine and want to be sure noone guesses your password. The callback function will most likely be used by you, if you have a computer at work and are working from home. Fax receive Enable reception of faxes if you have an adaptive answer faxmodem. If this is enabled, Terminate will first check if it has received one of the default fax answer strings (+FCON, CED, FAX) and then also check the customised fax answer string that has been entered in the 'fax answer field' if any. Adaptive answer: If your modem does not support adaptive answer, then you cannot accept both incoming faxes and data calls on the same line at the same time. To test if your modem support adaptive answer, enter in terminal mode: AT+FAE=1 + Enter (Class 1) AT+FAA=1 + Enter (Class 2) If your modem says ERROR or something other than OK, then your modem does not support adaptive answer. However, some modems have other ways of enabling this feature. In this case you will need to have a special fax initialisation string. Fax init Extra string to send to modem, to enable special features like other adaptive answer commands. Fax answer If your faxmodem responds with a string other than FAX, +FCON or CED, you must insert this different response in this field. Note: As long as 'FAX' is contained in the response string this will also work for example: 'CONNECT FAX'. Fax internal Use the internal fax receive in Terminate. Terminate can print out the pages if you enable the auto print in the fax configuration. Fax command - 70 - The default is a fax program for ZyXEL modems, but there are other similar programs that can be called to receive a fax. External 1 External 2 External 3 Here you can define what external programs supervisors can call from hostmode while logged on. You can setup any program you like and use all the parameters you can see in the menu. Using the hostmode The hostmode in Terminate is fully built-in, so you will not have to setup anything at all. Just define the password for a user and you are ready to go. Terminate Host Mode 17.21 (Mon) 21-Feb-1994 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒╒═══════════════════╡ Status ╞╕▒▒▒╒════════════════════════════╡ System ╞╕▒ ▒│ │▒▒▒│ Environment : AT BIOS (80486) │▒ ▒│ Waiting for a call │▒▒▒│ Comm. : COM2,19200 8N1 │▒ ▒│ │▒▒▒│ Last caller : │▒ ▒╘═════════════════════════════╛▒▒▒│ Open system : Yes │▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒│ Messages : No │▒ ▒╒════════════════════╡ Modem ╞╕▒▒▒│ Fax Receive : No │▒ ▒│ │▒▒▒│ Status Call Username │▒ ▒│ │▒▒▒│ Supervisor No Bo Bendtsen │▒ ▒│ ATS0=0 │▒▒▒│ Normal No Guest │▒ ▒│ OK │▒▒▒│ Normal No Terminat │▒ ▒│ │▒▒▒│ Normal No │▒ ▒│ │▒▒▒│ Normal No │▒ ▒│ │▒▒▒│ Normal No │▒ ▒│ │▒▒▒│ Normal No │▒ ▒│ │▒▒▒│ Normal No │▒ ▒│ │▒▒▒│ Normal No │▒ ▒│ │▒▒▒│ Normal No │▒ ▒╘═════════════════════════════╛▒▒▒╘══════════════════════════════════════╛▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Esc-Exit L-Logon E-Edit messages O-Open system Alt-J DOS Esc Exit the hostmode L Login locally to the hostmode - you should only need this when testing hostmode. E If someone has written a note to you, you will be able to edit and delete messages. O Toggle open system, look above for more info. - 71 - Logging in to the host mode Terminate will first detect if the other end supports ANSI. If detected, Terminate will show menus that end with .ANS. If that file is not found or ANSI is not detected then .ASC files will be used. First the WELCOME.ANS/ASC will be shown, then you will be asked for a name and password. If callback is enabled, then Terminate will hangup the line and callback to the number specified in the user record. The user will then be asked the same password again and the session will continue in the normal way. The hostmode has two level. You are either a Supervisor or a normal user. A Supervisor will view the menu called SUPERVIS.ANS/ASC. A Normal user will view the menu called NORMAL.ANS/ASC. View the ANSI files 'TYPE UTILS\SUPERVIS.ANS' from DOS. You must use an ANSI editor to edit .ANS files. The commands: Alt-H Hangup Will hangup and return to host menu. Local only. Alt-Y Yell Start the fullscreen chatter. Local only. Alt-J DOS Jump to DOS. Local only. (C)hat Allows users to page you, the SysOp. Alt-Y will start chat. (D)ownload Download files, from current directory. Only internal protocols that are available can be selected by the users. Zmodem cannot be turned off. (E)rase Delete file in current directory. (F)iles Show files in current directory. If a FILES.BBS is present you will be asked if you want to show that instead, just like BBS systems. (G)oodbye Logoff system. (H)D-free Show how much free space on current drive. (I)nfo-HD - 72 - Information on all drives available in your system. (L)ocate Filefinder, allows you to search a drive for specific files. You are allowed to use wildcards (?,*). (M)essage Write message to you, the SysOp (N)ew dir Change to other directory. (R)ead Read messages written by other users. (S)hutdown Shut down Terminate and exit to DOS. (T)ype Type a textfile on screen. (U)pload Upload files into upload directory. Supervisors are asked to choose between the default upload directory or current directory. (1),(2),(3) Calls the external utilities, look in setup for information. - 73 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Auto login ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ╒════════════════╡ Login strings/scripts ╞╕ │ Script delay │ 40 │ │ Login timeout │ 60 │ │ Strings │ │ │ Mini Scripts │ │ ╘════════════════╧════════════════════════╛ Script delay How long to wait after connection before starting the login script. Some modems have a long response time, but you can set it to a lower value if your modem is ready right after connect. Login timeout If no auto login has been attemped in x seconds then all checking will be turned off. Checking all the strings can take up some time if you have a slow computer. You can always turn off auto login, by pressing Alt-Q. Login strings ╒════╤════════════════════════════════════════════════════╡ Login strings ╞╕ │ │ Incoming name questions Incoming password questions │ │ 1 │ PLEASE ENTER YOUR FULL NAME PASSWORD │ │ 2 │ WHAT IS YOUR NAME KODEORD │ │ 3 │ WHAT IS YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME │ │ 4 │ WHAT IS YOUR FIRST NAME │ │ 5 │ ENTER YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME │ │ 6 │ YOUR NAME │ │ 7 │ ENTER YOUR FULL NAME │ │ 8 │ USERNAME │ │ 9 │ NAME : │ │ 10 │ HVAD HEDDER DU │ ╘════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Enter up to 20 questions - that could be a name question or a password question. When you define these strings you will not need a separate script for every system, Terminate will test all strings for a match. In this way you will be pretty sure to always match a string when logging in to any system. The password questions don't depend which name question is used - all password questions will also be checked. - 74 - Mini Scripts ╒══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╡ Mini Scripts ╞╕ │ Login type Login script │ │ Escapes, Name, Password !E!W!N!P │ │ Escapes, Name, Y, Password !E!W!NY!13!P │ │ Escapes, Name, J, Password !E!W!NJ!13!P │ │ Escapes, First, Last name, Password !E!W!F!L!P │ │ Escapes, IEMSI !E │ │ Name, Password !W!N!P │ │ Name, Y, Password !W!NY!13!P │ │ Name, J, Password !W!NJ!13!P │ │ First name, Last name, Password !W!F!L!P │ │ Disable autologin and IEMSI !I │ │ 1 Escape, Name, Password !27!W!N!P │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ !Dx Delay x seconds !E Send escapes !W Wait for name question │ │ !N Send full name !F Send First name !L Send Last name │ │ !P Wait/Send password !I IEMSI off !num (0-255, !13=Return) │ ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Enter up to 16 mini login scripts. Lets explain an example: !E!W!F!L!P First use the auto escape procedure. !W then waits for one of the name questions to arrive, then firstname+return and lastname+return is sent. The !P will then wait for any of the password questions and send the password when the question arrives. Most scripts for normal BBS systems are already defined, so you should only need to choose which script the system will need. The login procedure runs in the background so all other features are available while trying to auto login. - 75 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Users / IEMSI setup ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ There are 10 different user profiles that can be used in 3 ways: When calling systems with the autodialer When calling systems with the pointsystem Setting up users for the hostmode ╒═══════════╤════════════════════════════════╡ Users/IEMSI ╞╕ │ │ │ │ User 1 │■ Bo Bendtsen │ │ User 2 │ Guest │ │ User 3 │ Terminat │ │ User 4 │ │ │ User 5 │ │ │ User 6 │ │ │ User 7 │ │ │ User 8 │ │ │ User 9 │ │ │ User 10 │ │ │ │ │ │ IEMSI │ On │ │ Info time │ 10 │ │ Location │ London, United Kingdom │ │ Phone # │ 42643827 │ │ Prg. Pwd │ Off │ │ Birthday │ 02-Apr-1965 29 years old (10818 days) │ │ Security │ │ │ │ ■ Active user │ ╘═══════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Edit user profiles ╒═══════════╤═══════════════╤════════════════════════╡ User profile ╞╕ │ │ Username │ Bo Bendtsen │ │ User 1 │ Password │ ...... │ │ User 2 │ Prg/host Pwd │ │ │ User 3 │ Address │ 2:231/111.9999 │ │ User 4 │ Comment │ │ │ User 5 │ Host settings │ │ │ User 6 ├───────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ User 7 │ IEMSI Profile (Interactive Elec. Mail Standard Id.) │ │ User 8 ├───────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ User 9 │ Handle │ │ │ User 10 │ Zmodem 8k │ Yes │ │ │ Hot-keys │ Yes │ │ IEMSI │ Quiet │ No │ │ Info time │ Pausing │ Yes │ │ Location │ Editor │ Yes │ │ Phone # │ News │ Yes │ │ Prg. Pwd │ New mail │ Yes │ │ │ New files │ No │ │ │ Screen Clr │ Yes │ │ │ Auto chat │ Yes │ ╘═══════════╧═══════════════╧════════════════════════════════════════╛ - 76 - Username The name of the user to use at logins and to show in the mail session, and for a user calling Terminate in hostmode. Password Default password to send if no password is defined in the phonebook. Maybe you have a lot of places where you use the same password. You may think it does not matter, but you will never be sure who uses or abuses your user record in other places. If you use random passwords it is almost guaranteed that only you, and the persons that have access directly to the hardware will know your password, but ONLY ON THAT SYSTEM. If you use the same password all over, maybe a person that is angry with you could use it to call up and write angry letters to the sysop in your name. Prg/host Pwd Program password can be asked when starting up Terminate to ensure that only you and nobody else uses your machine while you are gone for lunch. This password is also used when this person logs into the hostmode. Smart people could look inside TERMINAT.CFG so it is advised to also set encryption on phonebooks and the configuration file. Address The mailer address is explained in point setup - it is used together with the mailer system. Remember the address for user 1 is your MAIN ADDRESS Comment Any comment you want to remember about this user. Host settings ╒════════════════╤═══════════════╡ Host settings ╞╕ │ Access │ Supervisor │ │ Callback │ No │ │ Dial prefix │ ATDT │ │ Phone number │ │ ╘════════════════╧════════════════════════════════╛ Access Either Supervisor or normal. A supervisor has complete access to your computer. A normal user only has limited access. More info in hostmode. For security reasons a Supervisor must always have a password defined. If there is no password defined in Prg/host Pwd the Supervisor option cannot be turned on. Callback When a user has callback enabled, Terminate will hangup the line and call back the user. If you choose Ask, Terminate will ask online which number to call and dial that number. Dial prefix What prefix to use with this callback record - 77 - Phone number The number to callback User IEMSI settings When you call a system that supports IEMSI logins, you can set these parameters before calling the system: Handle Also known as alias Zmodem 8k When logging on with IEMSI and this function is enabled then a 'ZAP' flag will also be presented in protocol flags, 'ZAP,ZMO,KER' without this enabled only 'ZMO,KER'. When receiving the server package Terminate will test for the 'ZAP' flag in capabilities and then enable the ZedZap (Zmodem 8k) protocol instead of the normal Zmodem. At the present time only RemoteAccess 2.00 (release ver.) will support this. Then when autodownloading ZedZap will be selected. When uploading Terminate will place the menubar on ZedZap to inform you that this protocol is needed. Hot-keys Use hotkey on the system Quiet Turn on/off online messages from other users Pausing Turn the MORE Yes/no etc. prompts on/off Editor Use fullscreen editor News Watch the NEWS bulletins at login New mail Search for new mail at login New files Search for new files at login Screen Clr Allow system to send screen clears Auto chat Allow the fullscreen chatter to be used automatically IEMSI Allow Terminate to try logging on with IEMSI. You can also use a login script with the !I parameter if you do not want to globally turn off IEMSI logins. Info time When a IEMSI connection results, how long you want the information to be shown on screen in 1/10 seconds. You can always recall the window by pressing Alt-F4. Location Your city and country. This will be transferred in the IEMSI and EMSI (mail) sessions. Phone # Your phone number can also be transfered in IEMSI and EMSI sessions. Prg. Pwd (Program password) Ask for password when starting Terminate. All 10 Prg.Pwd can be used. If you forget your password and have set encryption on configuration and phonebooks, just delete the configuration file, then the phonebooks will be decrypted. Birthday - 78 - On many systems that you call for the first time, you will be asked for your birth date. This is done for several reasons: to see how old you are; to be able of sending you a birthday note or to check if you really who you say you are and not someone who has stolen someone else's account. Soon, when you log into a new system Terminate will send the birthday, so you don't have to type it in yourself everytime you log into a new system for the first time. Please note that this is only supported by a few systems like RemoteAccess. Security Prevent unauthorised users (particularly in corporate and network environments) from tampering with approved settings or using unauthorised 'phonebooks. ╒═══════════════════╤═══════════╡ Security ╞╕ │ Configuration │ │ │ Phonebook │ │ │ Point system │ │ │ File manager │ │ │ Screen blanker │ │ │ Security menu │ │ │ System Searcher │ │ │ Encrypt logfile │ │ │ Network lock │ │ ╘═══════════════════╧═══════════════════════╛ Configuration If you enter a password here, then all users will be prompted for this password whenever they press Alt-O. Remember that if YOU forget this password your entire setup will be lost. You must enter a password HERE if you want to protect the following menus: Phonebook Whenever the user wants to use a new phonebook or change anything in an existing phonebook this password must be entered. Point system When pressing Alt-F7 to enter the point system, this password must be known by the user. File manager When pressing Alt-F to enter the file manager, this password must be known by the user. Screen blanker If the screen blanker activates, this password must be entered to defeat it - for example if you leave your machine for an unexpectedly long period. System Searcher - 79 - Protect the Alt-F8 menu with an extra password Security menu If you want users to have access to the configuration, but not to this menu, just enter any password here. - 80 - Encrypt logfile ╒════════════════════════╤═════════════════════════╡ Encrypted logfile ╞╕ │ Secondary logfile │ F:\SYSTEM\LOGFILES\T-USER%NET%.LOG │ │ Password │ SECRET │ │ Decrypt/View logfile │ │ ╘════════════════════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Secondary logfile If you want to keep an extra logfile of the users activity, you can enter the filename in here. If you are on a network like Novell, then the user should only have Create/Write access to this directory where your extra logfiles are located. When you are using a network with several users, you should always have an environment variable for each machine with a number like: SET NET=07. This would create a file called T-USER07.LOG in F:\SYSTEM\LOGFILES. Password If you also want to encrypt this secondary logfile, you can enter a password here. Decrypt/View logfile This extra logfile is written in a database format. If it is encrypted the only way to view it is from this menu. Remember to protect at least the Security Menu with a password as well. Network lock ╒══════╤═════════════════════════════════════════════╡ Network lock ╞╕ │ Lock │ │ │ EXE │ \\DANBBS\SYS\DANBBS\TERMINAT\TERMINAT.EXE │ │ KEY │ \\DANBBS\SYS\DANBBS\TERMINAT\TERMINAT.KEY │ │ CFG │ \\DANBBS\SYS\DANBBS\TERMINAT\TERMINAT.CFG │ ╘══════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Lock Lock TERMINAT.EXE so it only can be started from a path that you define. This is very useful so users cannot move the Terminate files to a local drive and change the configuration. EXE Complete path (or network-path) and filename to TERMINAT.EXE. KEY Complete path (or network-path) and filename to TERMINAT.KEY. With this function you can hide the keyfile anywhere on the network. It is suggested that you rename TERMINAT.KEY to a random filename, like 'ABCDEFGH.IJK' or simular. Then place this file on a network path where the users only have READ access to. CFG Only allow this configuration file to be used with Terminate. - 81 - If you just want to lock the EXE and KEY, just leave this field blank then you still are allowed to use the /C: on the commandline. You can also use environment variabels: SET TERCFG=0001 \\DANBBS\SYS\DANBBS\TERMINAT\TER-%TERCFG%.CFG Would be expanded to \\DANBBS\SYS\DANBBS\TERMINAT\TER-0001.CFG SET TCONFIG=0050 F:\TERMINAT\TER-%TCONFIG%.CFG Would be expanded to F:\TERMINAT\TER-0050.CFG - 82 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ The Pointsystem ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ -=> T H E P O I N T S Y S T E M <=- The EMSI point system is designed mainly for points in fidonet or other similar networks. It can also be used by companies that have a mailer program running such as Frontdoor, Portal of Power, d'Bridge or Binkley >2.50. It now also supports the old standard called YooHoo/2U2. With this system you can, as a point, totally throw away a frontdoor if you are not using another maileditor. As a default it is set up with GECHO and runs in what people call Binkley style. If you are using Frontdoor/Gecho and want to change to Terminate/Gecho, you only need to change Gecho from running in Frontdoor mode to Binkley mode. If you are using Binkley or Portal of Power you can run directly with the same directories. With a mail system you can send and receive packed messages and files without getting online to a BBS system. The only demand is that the system you are calling runs EMSI (Electronic Mail Standard Identification). When using the mail system in Terminate you can throw away your fossil driver (serial device driver) and your nodelist compiler. Terminate can use direct port access and read the uncompiled nodelists with large buffers. Maybe this is a little slower than searching a compiled nodelist BUT normal points normally only call their BOSS (uplink) and get their mail and files from there. With Terminate you will not have to find and setup nodelist compilers and this will save a lot of hard disk space. Fidonet, which we are a part of, is the biggest private network in the whole world. It has thousands and thousands of computers connected throughout the entire world. To understand this system you must understand what a node number looks like. This number is an identification number - so if anyone sends you a message from anywhere in the world. The message will be 'routed' through some other systems before reaching the destination. The best part is that you only call your BOSS and send the message - the rest will be taken care of by the network, so you save the phonebill by not calling long distances. The only thing it costs you is the call to your BOSS, which is normally located in your own city or country. You will also be able to participate in conferences where all messages are public. But you will learn all this if you make contact with a Fidonet sysop near you. BBS's belonging to a network will often have a mailer program answer the phone and decide if the caller is another mailer or a 'human' caller. That is why you have to press ESCAPE and then the system says something like: 'Loading BBS, please wait'. If you are calling with the point system you will be recognized as a mailer, and a mail- session will be started. Mail session ──────────── You dial up and connect The point system tries to handshake (establish EMSI session) Terminate sends all mail-packets/files to system with Zmodem Goes into receive mode and receives mail/files/requested files for you The other end terminates the call, (Terminate will also hangup) The best thing about running this mail system, is that you will start transferring files immediately you have been connected and will not have to - 83 - log on manually and type anything - everything is fully automatic. Most points in fidonet are users that have had modems for a while and have problems paying their phonebill, because they were hanging online on systems quite a lot. Now they can save money because REQUESTING files is much faster and the requests will not appear on their user account under downloads. At our system we allow all points in fidonet to request, but some places you will not be allowed to do this. To understand how the system works you need to understand what a nodenumber looks like. The syntax for a nodenumber in fidonet is Zone:Net/Node.Point. Zone 1 = USA / Canada 2 = Europe / Commonwealth of Independent States 3 = Australia / New Zealand 4 = Latin America 5 = Africa 6 = Asia Many other networks are also using Fidonet Technology and uses normally higher zone numbers. Net The network you are a part of Node The node (BOSS) you belong to Point Your point number at the node Our nodenumber is 2:236/111.0 (or short 2:236/111). A node is a computer that is always available in zone mail hour, at least. This is a time, usually at night, depending on where you are in the world, where you always can expect to reach the node. Most nodes are also BBS systems where normal users can access conferences and write messages to users on other boards, sometimes in other parts of the world. A node will always have point number .0 . The first point a sysop gets will be .1. Our first point is 2:236/111.1. The SysOp decides for himself the point numbers. For each user profile in the setup you can define a nodenumber. Don't get confused about all the different expressions. To test the system, edit user profile 1 (with your name) and enter 2:236/111.9999 as a test number. You are hereby allowed to use that number for test reasons only, please do not abuse the number. Then setup the point system described later and try to call our system at 2:236/111. There are plenty of new words to learn in this world! Poll Poll simply means calling a mail system Request When you request a file from a BBS system, you must know the filename in advance. There is something called MAGIC filenames, that refers to filename alias's. For example, if you request FILES from any system the system should send the entire BBS filelist. Another known alias is ABOUT which will send you a small description of the BBS. If you want the latest Terminate, you can just request TERMINAT from our number. You can also request files from all the areas on a BBS where the SysOp has allowed file requests. If you want the filelist from DAN BBS, you could either request FILES or DANBBS.ARJ. Netmail A netmail is a private message that is only destined for one person. - 84 - The message can be routed through the network but also sent directly. All the SysOps will be able to see your message if you route it through the network, but you can also send the message CRASH which means you dial directly to the system to which the message is addressed. You are not able to send messages directly to other points of course, because they do not have mailers running, but if you want to send to another point, you can call the point's BOSS and then the message will be directed to the point (then the SysOp on that board can read your message.) You can only send crashmail to systems which have a CM flag in the nodelist you are using. The CM flag means that the system can accept crashmail 24 hours a day, that means the phoneline is used only for the computer. Echomail Echomail messages are messages written in a conference. There is a public conference called TERMINATE, in both Fido and EuroLink, where everyone is encouraged to contribute. When you write a message in such a conference the message can be read by anyone that has access to that conference. Every conference has a set of rules that must be followed and which normally are administered by the conference moderator. Hold When things are on hold it means that they are waiting to be picked up. Your BOSS will always place your mail on hold, so you will get it the next time you poll. Snailmail A term used for the normal letters you put in the mailbox. Using a mail system is faster and more convenient for a SysOp than using a fax machine. If you want to send a message to any member of the fido network, you can write the message with crash status, press a button and 1 minute later the guy anywhere in the world has your message. This kind of electronic mail system will take over almost everywhere in the next few years. Nothing else will be faster and why use fax paper when you can do it this way? - 85 - Alt-O,N ╒═══════════════╤═════════════════════════════════════════╡ Point system ╞╕ │ Main address │ 2:236/111.9999 │ │ Boss setup │ │ │ Descriptions │ Yes │ │ Redial tries │ 3 │ │ Dial prefix │ ATDT │ │ Allow ZedZap │ No │ │ Ask device │ No │ │ Pop Simulate │ No │ │ Zone match │ Yes │ │ Handshake │ Auto │ │ Inbound │ I:\ │ │ Outbound │ OUT\ZONE\ │ │ Nodelist 1 │ UTILS\NODELIST.* │ │ Nodelist 2 │ C:\NODELIST\NODELIST.* │ │ Nodelist 3 │ │ │ Password file │ PASSWORD.TXT │ │ Phone convert │ │ │ Modem strings │ │ │ Mail editor │ MAILEDIT.BAT │ │ Import │ GECHO TOSS │ │ Export │ GECHO SCAN PACK │ │ After mail │ │ ╘═══════════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Main address For each user profile you can define a network address (nodenumber/ pointnumber). Choose which address will be your main address when calling other systems. The test number which you are allowed to use is 2:236/111.9999 - that means you are point number 9999 of DAN BBS. Boss setup Terminate will allow you to use 8 different systems. So here you can set up each phone number and other options. Dial If you call Terminate from the command line with /BOSS or /BOSS:0 Terminate will either call every Boss specified in the Point System setup or call the marked systems until you get a connection, depending on what you have selected here. The "dial until connect" option is useful if you have a Boss that has different numbers and you just want to connect to one of these numbers in case the other numbers are busy. ╒═══════════════╤═══════════════════╡ Boss setup ╞╕ │ Boss phone │ 43623990 │ │ Boss Device │ COM1 2400 8N1 │ │ Boss prefix │ ATDT │ │ Boss password │ │ │ Boss synch │ Yes │ │ Boss autodial │ Yes │ ╘═══════════════╧═════════════════════════════════╛ Boss phone - 86 - Terminate does not need to know the nodenumber of your BOSS, you can call to any system, then the outbound directory will be checked and any file that has the same nodenumber as the called system, will be sent. Boss device Which device to use for dialing this Boss. Boss prefix Which string to send to the modem before dialling. This works just as in the phonebook. Boss password Force a password especially for this system, to make sure that you have actually got the right system. If the password does not match on both sides the called system will hang up. When calling a Boss, the password file will not be used and you MUST specify the password you use in this menu. Boss synch When using the Call Boss function your computer's time/date will be synchronized to the same as the Boss's computer. In this way you can always be sure your watch is correct if you have an unstable clock. If your Boss has an unstable clock you should turn this off. Boss autodial When choosing autodial, Terminate will call this Boss and all other Boss's that have autodial enabled. Works only when 2 or more are defined. Descriptions When you send files within the point system and this toggle is on, then Terminate will look in the same directory for a FILES.BBS/DESCRIPT.ION style files. These files contain descriptions of the files. Terminate will grab the descriptions and create a file called NNNNnnnn.BBS where NNNN is the netnumber in hex and nnnn is the nodenumber in hex. (00EC006F.BBS). This file will be transfered after all the other files. Redial tries How many times to try connecting, Terminate will wait `pause' seconds between each call (modem and dailing). Enter a 0 to keep on dialing until connect. Dial prefix Which prefix to use when dialling systems in nodelist or manually. Allow ZedZap Use Zmodem 8k for transfering the mail, if you have any trouble with bad lines, you should not turn this on. Turning ZedZap on will increase the CPS a little. Ask device - 87 - When calling any system, then ask which device to use. Will be used when you dial from outbound, nodelist or manually. Pop Simulate Some people do not like points or other people to filerequest with Terminate, because it is so easy to setup. They might have a program that will test this. So if you are denied filerequest simply because you are using Terminate, enabling this will make the other end think that you are calling with a popular mailer called Portal of Power. Zone match Yes: Compare the Zone number. No : Don't compare the Zone number. Since the chance of getting a call from another person with the same nodenumber is practically zero, you should always set this to No, so if the zonenumber is wrong (0:236/111) the transfer will continue anyway. Handshake With a mailer you can use either EMSI or Yoohoo/2U2, with this option you can force which mail-handshake to use. Inbound The directory where incoming files will be stored Outbound The directory where outgoing files/packets/mail files will be stored. If you have mail for other zones they will be stored in a directory called the old plus the zone in hex. OUT\ZONE -=> OUT\ZONE.016 for zone 27 (16 hex = 27 dec). Terminate will delete empty directories. Nodelist 1 Nodelist 2 Nodelist 3 A nodelist in fidonet is usually called NODELIST.xxx. The xxx is the day number of the release. The nodelist is compiled every week by leading members of fidonet who also provide NODEDIFF files, which contain changes in the nodelist for last week. The current nodelist is (was) NODELIST.092. When you specify a filename called C:\NODELIST\NODELIST.* then the nodelist with the highest day number will be used. If you have a NODELIST.085 and a NODELIST.092 then .092 will be used. You should place a small nodelist first with important numbers of people so they will be found very quickly. When calling a number first the nodelist 1 will be searched, then nodelist 2, then nodelist 3. Password file A file that will be used when dialling systems in the nodelist. The syntax is simple: Nodenumber Password PktPassword on each line 2:236/111 hello PKTsafe That would tell you that you have talked with 2:236/111 and agreed on a password to use at both places. If no PKT password will be inserted directly in the netmail. Phone convert - 88 - ┌──────────────────┤ Phone convert ├┐ │ Strip Add before │ │ 1 39- 0 │ │ 2 │ │ 3 │ │ 4 │ │ 5 │ └───────────────────────────────────┘ In fidonet nodelists, there is a country prefix on all phone numbers. When you call a system in your country you must first remove that information. The international prefix for Danish nodes is 45- so we have to remove the 45- from the phone numbers before dialling. This should already be set up as the default if you had COUNTRY.SYS installed the first time you ran Terminate, so 45-43623990 will be converted into 43623990. You can then also add extra information when stripping. This will only be added before the number if the strip string was found. In Italy they need first to strip 39- then put a 0 in front of the phone numbers. 39-10-3770080 will be converted into 010-3770080. In some places you also need to strip your city code. Remember that 39-10 must be before 39- otherwise only 39- will be stripped. Remember when calling another country the international dial prefix will be used. Modem strings ┌──┤ Nodelist flags/strings ├┐ │ Flag String to send │ │ V32 ATB0^M │ │ HST ATB1^M │ │ V32B ATB0^M │ └────────────────────────────┘ When dialling a number from the nodelist, you can tell Terminate to send special strings to your modem, depending which flags there are in the nodelist. Flags in the nodelists are used for giving you information on the system you are about to call. It will tell you which modem or modem standards the system is using and allow you to configure your own modem before dialling. The example is for a USRobotics Dual Standard modems. Mail editor Setup which program you want to call when pressing Mail editor in the point system. You could send any command and parameters here. Import Which program and parameters to call when you have received mail and want to import it into your mailsystem. Export When you have written some mail and want to export the mail from your mail system and make it ready to be sent to your BOSS or another system. After mail When you receive files or mail with the point system, you can call any external program or batchfile. - 89 - Alt-F7 Using the point system ╒═══════════════╤═════╤╡ Outbound 2:236/111 ╞══════════════╡ Point system ╞╕ │ Call Boss │ │ Node Files Size Flags │ │ Call system │ │ 2:236/3 1 208 ··C···· │ │ Send files │ │ 2:236/111 8 97 ·R····· │ │ File requests │ │ 2:236/111 1 302 ··C···M │ │ Kill mail │ │ │ │ Auto request │ │ │ │ Pick up mail │ Yes │ │ │ Send AKA's │ Yes │ │ │ Zoom mail │ │ │ │ Main address │ │ │ │ Send message │ │ │ │ Change mail │ │ │ │ Mail editor │ │ │ │ Import │ │ │ │ Export │ │ │ ├───────────────┴─────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ ╘═╡ V View logfile ╞═════════════════════════╡ (A)dd time, Timeout in ╞╛ To start up directly in this menu: TERMINAT /POINT The outbound window In the outbound window you will be able to see all packets/files/messages that are waiting to be sent. First the nodenumber that shows which node the files are intended for. Then how many files you are going to send or how many you have requested, the size of the files and some status flags that will show what kind and what do to with the package. Status flags used in other mailers (?UT = Netmail, ?LO flow files) I Immediate flag, force a mailer to start dialling at once and keep on dialling until the package is delivered. (.ILO .IUT) C Crash is almost the same as the Immediate flag, but it will not be sent as fast as Immediate. (.CLO .CUT) H Files are on hold, that means they will not be sent from your system. (.HLO .HUT). F A normal package able to be routed. (.FLO .FUT) D A direct package which cannot be routed (.DLO .DUT) R The package is a filerequest (.REQ) M Unpacked netmail Since you are a point and nobody will call you and you will always call out, there are a lot of flags that you will never need. Terminate will send all files to the system you have called no matter what flag it has, except for files with the Hold flag. Do not get confused about these flags, just think: If the file is not on hold, it will be sent. The filename of a package determines it's destination. A file request package for DAN BBS 236/111 (the zone does not matter) will be a file called: 00EC006F.REQ The 00EC is 236 and the 006F is 111, the numbers are converted from the Hexnumber system (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F). 10 hex = 16 decimal , 000D hex = 13 decimal , FFFF = 65535 The .REQ means filerequest. - 90 - The file is a normal text file with one filename on each line. Like DANBBS.ARJ TERMINAT If there is a password on files you request you can place a !password after the filename. Like: TERMINAT !SECRET (Zoom mail and edit request file) A flow file is a *.CLO *.HLO *.ILO *.FLO *.DLO. Terminate will think that everything other than *.HLO files will be processed. These files are all textfiles which have 1 line for each file you want to send. A flow file for our system could be 00EC006F.CLO. In this textfile all files to be sent will be listed in a special way: ^C:\PRIVATE\HELLO.TXT #C:\TERMINAT\OUT\0000FFE8.TU1 C:\GRAPHICS\GIF\DPG-0125.GIF The ^ means to delete the file after transfer. The # means to truncate (make filesize = 0) the file after transfer (This is used by some tossers to keep the same filename, don't worry about it) Without ^ or # the file is just transferred. The 0000FFE8.TU1 is a mail package created by the mail-tosser program. Gecho is a tosser/scanner/packer that can do this for you. If you want this program you can either filerequest GECHO*.* from 236/111 or go online to DAN BBS and download the archive containing the program, you will also need a good mail editor. Mail packages can be compressed with all kinds of different programs, but currently PKZIP is mostly used because it is faster than most other packers. Call Boss Calls the number you have specified in the configuration (when handshaking Terminate will know the nodenumber (or systems AKA's)) and send all files/ messages/packages. If you start Terminate with: TERMINAT /BOSS Terminate will start up, dial all systems with autodial enabled, then exit Terminate, so you can call Terminate from batch files. If you already have a carrier, you can enter the pointsystem, then the session will be started at once. Call system Call another mailer, either from outbound, a nodelist or manually. The manual dial is only for registered persons. This allows you to send files or request from any system without knowing their nodenumber. You can start Terminate with: TERMINAT /CALL:search-string, the search-string can be a nodenumber or a part of name/system/location. Then Terminate looks in the nodelists and the first match it finds will be polled (called), then Terminate will exit to DOS just like /BOSS. Send files Send files to another system. You will be placed in the file manager and can select files in both windows. When finished you press return and Terminate will create the correct package. If you want to send C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to our system 236/111 Terminate will generate a package in the outbound directory called 00EC006F.CLO which only has one line: C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT. If Descriptions in setup is 'Yes' Terminate will search for descriptions of the files in a file called FILES.BBS or DESCRIPT.ION and create a file called 00EC006F.BBS and append it to the .CLO file. File requests - 91 - The same as send files. Select the system to request from, then you will be placed in the tagmenu, where you can select files from a filelist or enter the names manually. That's it. You call the system, Terminate sends the requests file, you receive the files as they are found and you are allowed to request from that area. It is the system you call that decides limits for how much you can request each time. Kill mail (DELete) Allows you to remove any packet in the outbound window. If it is a flow file and the files were marked for truncation or deletion, you will be asked to confirm first. Auto request { Only in registered version } ╒══════════════════╤═════════════════════════════════════╡ Auto request ╞╕ │ Make autorequest │ ┌─>─┐ # Prefix MaxReq node/searchstring/Pxxx (P12)│ │ Select files │ │ │ 1 1 100 │ │ Edit numbers │ │ │ 2 1 100 │ ├──────────────────┤ │ │ 3 1 100 │ │ Calls : │ │ │ 4 1 100 │ │ Files left : │ │ │ 5 1 100 │ │ │ │ │ 6 1 100 │ │ │ │ │ 7 1 100 │ │ Space = Next │ │ │ 8 1 100 │ │ Esc = Abort │ │ │ 9 1 100 │ │ │ └─<─┘ 10 1 100 │ ╘══════════════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ This function will allow you to enter up to 10 different phone numbers where you want to request files from. This function should only be used together with systems where you either know the SysOp or where anybody can request. Generally this function will allow you to get a lot of files without you having to call manually several times. If you define more files to be leeched than is allowed by a system on one call, then Terminate will keep calling back immediately for the remaining balance each time the remote system throws you off. Don't ever try to request files from BBS's in the mail hours (2-6 in the morning). Most SysOps don't like somebody requesting files when the SysOp expects mail at a specific time, but normally you will just get hung up, if the system expects another to call. Please do not abuse this system and rip off systems. Please ask the SysOp first if he will allow you to request or become a point in fidonet. When editing the numbers to call, you must select the dial prefix and the maximum files to request. If you call a system and get logged off after 5 files, you could assume the system only accepts 5 requests each time you call, but some systems also use max. size or max. time to decide how much or how long a time. You can insert a nodenumber or a search string then the nodelists are searched for a number, but you can also get a number from the phonebook directly by typing: Pxxx where xxx is the entry number in the phonebook. Pick up mail If you turn this option off you can send mail to the remote system without receiving any mail packets. It could be useful if you, for example have been on holiday and there is tons of mail you don't want to read, then you can send a netmail to the SysOp that you want to have your mail deleted. Send AKA's - 92 - Yes: Send all your AKA's (Also Known As). Terminate will check if the nodenumbers in the user profiles are different from 0:0/0 and send them all. If NO then only the primary address will be shown to the remote site. Zoom mail Shows information on the system to be called, mail-session password, and complete dial string. If a request or a flowfile, you are allowed to edit the file. Netmail can be viewed with PKTVIEW or the external lister. If some of the files you request have passwords, then you can edit the .REQ files and enter the password on the same line like this: 'BIGTITS.GIF !secret' (secret=password). Main address Change your main address, without going into the configuration menu. Send message Allows you to write a message to another system. You must know the correct network address of the destination. If the system is listed in the nodelists you will be asked to confirm the name. If the system is not listed you can continue anyway and write the name manually. You now enter the subject of the message. 'Hello Joe, how are you' and then the external editor will be called. Write your message, save it and the message will be placed in the outbound. The filename of an unpacked netmail has the same hexnumber prefix (00EC006F), but it always has .CUT as extension. When sending the message to the system it will be renamed to a Unix time + .PKT before sending. It is not important for you to know these things. Terminate will generate the newest .PKT format called Type 2+, the same as Gecho. Change mail Change destination for a request, netmail or flow file. Also allowing you to put mailpackets or files on hold, so they will be sent later. Mail editor Call the external mail editor. Actually you are not forced to use Terminate as the menu system, but you can also use some batch files normally provided by the tosser or maileditor. Import Call a mailtosser, a program like Gecho that will import new incoming mail. Export After writing messages in a mail system, you should normally always export the messages, before they can be sent. V View logfile Allow you to view the entire logfile. Allows you to scroll through the last mail session. Manual { Only in registered version } If you want to request/send files from/to a system where you don't know - 93 - the nodenumber, but just have the phone number you can use this function. For requests Terminate will generate a MANUMAIL.REQ which will be renamed when you call the next system and sent like a normal request. When sending files Terminate will generate a MANUMAIL.CLO file, which contain all the names of the files to be sent, then when you call the next system they are sent. If you have mail for other systems, delete the file again if you cannot get through to the system. - 94 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Cost management ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ╒═════════════════════╤═╡ Cost management ╞╕ │ Calculate costs │ On │ │ Cost file 1 │ TERMINAT.CST │ │ Cost file 2 │ ALTERNA1.CST │ │ Cost file 3 │ ALTERNA2.CST │ │ Show at connect │ On │ │ Show costs after │ On │ │ Start at once │ Off │ │ Currency string │ kr │ │ Decimalpoint │ 2 │ │ Pay by period │ 0 │ │ Max costs │ 0,00 │ │ Max costs per day │ 0,00 │ │ Cost editor │ │ │ External editor │ │ │ 2. currency string │ USD │ │ 2. currency calc. │ 148 │ │ 2. calculator │ │ ╘═════════════════════╧════════════════════╛ Calculate costs Allow cost calculation. If you do not need any cost calculation at all, simply toggle this off. Cost management will be used when calling from the phonebook, manually, or with the pointsystem. When calling an entry from the phonebook, the costs for that entry will be saved in the entry. When you use manual dialing or the pointsystem for dialling, the costs will be saved inside entry 0 (manual record) in the phonebook. Press Shift+Esc to get current information on which cost amount was selected from the costfile. Cost file 1 Cost file 2 Cost file 3 Name of the cost file: first the utility directory will be searched, then the Terminate directory. You can define 3 different costfiles that can be connected to a device. So in the phonebook you can select a different device which uses another costfile. This is useful in some cases where you use ISDN and normal phonelines on the same machine, for example. Show at connect Show information on costs on screen at connect time. Show costs after When the carrier drops, show information on what the phone company made from your call. If you like to call systems and hate knowing how much poorer you are afterwards, you should surely turn this off... Start at once There should be some kind of international agreement between phone companies so that you do not pay anything before the other end has picked - 95 - up the phone (no charge for busy calls), but since you never know when the phone companies change their policy you should always aim for worst case and just start calculating at once, then when you get the bill you might not hang yourself anyway. Currency string The currency string will normally be grabbed from your COUNTRY.SYS, if you had it installed the first time you ran Terminate (or a $). It will be shown in all menus where costs are mentioned. Decimalpoint The decimal point is important if you want the correct number printed on the screen. 0 1000 1 100,0 2 10,00 3 1,000 Most currencies will use 2 here, but some countries do not use a decimal point. This information is also grabbed from COUNTRY.SYS Pay by period Some phone companies use a rate per minute and some want payment for several minutes in advance. A zero here will make Terminate choose the units/minute mode. This means that every minute the rate will be added to cost used. Any other number will make Terminate act in the period mode. The number here defines how many units to add for each period. How long the period is, is then defined for each cost entry. Max costs After a maximum cost has been exceeded, a window will pop up on screen and ask you if you want to hangup. Enter a 0 if you do not want this option (for example if your company is paying.) Max costs per day If you define an amount here, Terminate will inform you if your daily budget has been was exceeded. This should keep you from spending any more money. Entering a 0 will disable the feature. - 96 - Cost editor ╒═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╡ Cost editor ╞╕ │ Phone # Days:MTWTFSS Hours Costs in units/minute Start Connect │ │──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│ │ 31 ■ 00:00-24:00 0.24 0.00 0.00 │ │ 31 ■■■■■■ 08:00-19:30 0.47 0.00 0.00 │ │ 31 ■■■■■■ 19:30-08:00 0.24 0.00 0.00 │ │ 33 ■ 00:00-24:00 0.24 0.00 0.00 │ │ 33 ■■■■■■ 08:00-19:30 0.47 0.00 0.00 │ │ 33 ■■■■■■ 19:30-08:00 0.24 0.00 0.00 │ │ 42 ■ 00:00-24:00 0.24 0.00 0.00 │ │ 42 ■■■■■■ 08:00-19:30 0.47 0.00 0.00 │ │ 42 ■■■■■■ 19:30-08:00 0.24 0.00 0.00 │ │ 4362 ■ 00:00-24:00 0.19 0.00 0.00 │ │ 4362 ■■■■■■ 08:00-19:30 0.37 0.00 0.00 │ │ 4362 ■■■■■■ 19:30-08:00 0.19 0.00 0.00 │ │ 43 ■ 00:00-24:00 0.24 0.00 0.00 │ │ 43 ■■■■■■ 08:00-19:30 0.47 0.00 0.00 │ │ 43 ■■■■■■ 19:30-08:00 0.24 0.00 0.00 │ │ ALL ■ 00:00-24:00 0.35 0.00 0.00 │ │ ALL ■■■■■■ 08:00-19:30 0.70 0.00 0.00 │ │ ALL ■■■■■■ 19:30-08:00 0.35 0.00 0.00 │ │ │ ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Enter=Edit Days:1234567 A Add Ins/Del L Reload S Save Phone # The cost file is a sequential file that is read from the start and one line forward at a time. When it finds a match it stops looking for more. This means that you must place longer numbers first like this: 1 : 4362 2 : 43 If the number is 4362 it will return entry 1, a 439999 will give entry 2. 1 : 43 2 : 4362 The above setting is wrong, because it will allways return entry 1. Days:MTWTFSS Each cost entry can be defined only to be available on some days in the week. Here in Denmark the complete Sunday is half price. Press 1-7 to toggle monday-sunday. Hours You can also define special hours each day the cost entry will be available. In Denmark we only pay half price after 19:30 and until 8:00 in the morning. Costs in units/minute / Add Y units every X second Enter cost for entry or how many seconds the period lasts. - 97 - Start Some phone companies have some kind of penalty for using the phone and want you to pay a punishment start fee, but you could also use this entry for adjusting the seconds when connecting. Connect When you get the connect using the dialer, voice-calls or mail-calls you can add this value to the start value only when getting the connect. Mostly used for adjusting the phonecalls, but also useful if some services have an additional penalty for calling. External editor Since the internal editor only allows you to edit 500 entries, you can use your external editor instead. If you need to copy several lines or other things it could also be faster to use the external editor. 2. currency string Used for displaying the secondary currency. 2. currency calc. Use a zero to disable this feature. For calculating the secondary currency you need to know how many percent you need to multiply with for getting the value. For calculating you need the latest rate of exchange on the currency you want. Lets say you want to use DKK (Danish Crowns) and USD (US-Dollars) as secondary currency. You need to find out how much you would have to pay for 1000 USD. When this document was written the rate of exchange was: 1000 USD = 6730 DKK. To calculate the value: 1000 USD * 1000 / 6730 DKK = 148 (14,8%) The number you must enter is 148. An other example would be if you want the secondary currency in DKK and the normal currency in USD. You need to find out how much you would have to pay for 1000 DKK. At the present time 1000 DKK = 148 USD. To calculate the value: 1000 DKK * 1000 / 148 USD = 6756 (675,6%) The number you must enter is 6756. 2. calculator Helps you to calculate the above. You just need to know how much you would pay for a 1000 of the secondary currency. - 98 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ The Phonebook ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ -=> T E R M I N A T E P H O N E B O O K <=- TERMINATE indicates which phone directory file is in use. In this example TERMINAT.FON has been loaded. The comment ( Private phonebook ) can be changed in the Other menu. The first ░·░░░░ field is a menubar that indicates where you are in the current phonebook. This will change if you press Cursor Up/Down. The second menubar is controlled by cursor Left/right and will allow you to see almost anything about the current entries on screen. ▌ TERMINAT ( Private phonebook ) ▐ ▌ # Name ░·░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ·░░░░░░░░ Phone Number Baud Comm. ▐ █▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█ 2 3 ─Get newest Terminate here─ ──────────────────────── 19200 8-N-1 4 ▄▄▄▄▄ 5 ████████▄ Line 1 42643827 19200 8-N-1 6 ███▌ ▀████ Line 2 43628230 19200 8-N-1 7 ███ ███▌ Line 3 43627750 19200 8-N-1 8 ███▌ ▐██▌ Line 4 43625880 19200 8-N-1 9 ▐███ ▄███▌ Line 5 43625230 19200 8-N-1 10 ▐████████▀ AN BBS Line 6 43623990 19200 8-N-1 11 ▀▀▀▀ ISDN 7,8 43661070 64000 8-N-1 12 ─────────────────────────── ──────────────────────── 19200 8-N-1 14 █▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀█ ▌ ··<> Ins/Del Add Edit/View Dial Manual Find Tag: Space, +-* All ▐ ▌ Sort Import Phonebook Other Global Save Voicecall Copy Cap Note Warndays ▐ Insert Inserts a new entry at menubar. Delete Delete entry at menubar or all tagged entries. A Add new entry Add a new entry at the bottom of the phonebook. D (RETURN) Dial number(s) Dial the system (or tagged systems) and try to connect. You can use the Quickdial just by typing any number 0..9 to tag several entries. You can also turn this quick dial bar on in the toggles menu. Each number should be seperated by a space: 5 6 7 8 9 10 will tag and start dialing entries 5-10. To use a keyword instead press 0, delete the 0 and type the keyword, systems that match the keyword will then be dialled. - 99 - ╒══════════════╤════════════════════════════════════════════╡ AutoDialer ╞╕ │ Dial start │ 2-Jun-1993 16.23.16 Entries tagged 1 │ │ Attempt │ 2-Jun-1993 16.23.17 Try #1 Aborting in 3 seconds │ ├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ System │ DANBBS Line 1 │ │ Username │ Bo Bendtsen │ │ Phone │ 42643827 │ │ Comment 1 │ Here you can always get the newest │ │ Comment 2 │ updates of Terminate │ │ Password │ ........ │ │ │ Connects 6 Baud 9600 │ │ │ Download kb 53 Upload kb 0 │ │ │ Time used 0.08.47 Costs kr 2,89 │ │ Last attempt │ │ │ Next system │ │ ├──────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Add 15 Untag Edit Retry Space=cycle Return=abort ESC=hangup/abort │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ ATDT42643827 │ ╘╡ Alt-J DOS ╞═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╡ Modem ╞╛ Add 15 seconds Extend dial time by 15 seconds. Remember to set your modem dial time as high as possible (S7=255). Untag entry Untag entry and dial next number. Edit entry Edit this phone entry while dialing. Retry Retry number at once. Space=cycle Call next tagged number or the same number if no tagged entries. Return=abort ESC=hangup/abort Pressing return will start to abort the dialer, but assume that the connection will come through in terminal mode. Pressing ESC will first hangup the call and then abort the auto-dialer. In toggles you can reverse these two keys so they work the other way around. - 100 - M Manual dial Jumps to the manual dial menu, here you can call modem or voice numbers without having them in the phonebook. ╒════════════════════╤══════════════════════════════╡ Manual dialing ╞╕ │ Dial modem number │ 42643827 │ │ Dial voice number │ 42643827 │ │ Search nodelist │ 111 │ │ Nodelist 1 │ UTILS\NODELIST.* │ │ Nodelist 2 │ C:\NODELIST\NODELIST.* │ │ Nodelist 3 │ │ │ Edit manual record │ │ ╘════════════════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Record 0 in all phone books will be used to store the last manual dial you made. So the costs used and other statistics can be kept up to date. Enter the number at Dial modem number / Dial voice number or search for the number in the nodelists. You can also edit the manual record if you want to setup special emulations or keymaps or anything. When you have entered the number in line 1 or 2, press RETURN again for dialing. F Find entry When you start to type a search string, the picture will change in the background to entries that match your search string. You can press Ctrl-Enter to find next match with same search string. The fields that will be compared are: System name, Number, Password and comments 1+2. ╒═══════╡ Speed search ╞╕ │ DAN BBS │ ╘══ Ctrl-Enter = Next ══╛ SPACE Tag/untag Tag/untag entries for dialling, copying, deletion. + Tag all Tag all entries. - Untag all Untag all entries. * Invert all Invert tags. All untagged will be tagged and all tagged will be untagged. - 101 - S Sort menu Here you can sort the entire phonebook or a range. A range indicates which entries to be sorted, start-stop. ╒══════════════╡ Sort menu ╞╕ │ Set Range ( 1-14 ) │ │ Names ascending │ │ Names descending │ │ Numbers ascending │ │ Numbers descending │ │ Most connects │ │ Last called │ │ Comment 1 │ │ Comment 2 │ │ Password │ │ Color │ │ Name to use │ │ Baudrate │ ╘═══════════════════════════╛ I Import Import menu. In this menu you can import phonebooks from other terminal programs and also import BBS-lists, commafiles, nodelists. This menu can also Export your phonebook to a commafile, textfile or printer. ╒════════════════════╡ Import/Export menu ╞╕ │ Import: Telix phonebook 3.1x/3.2x │ │ Import: Qmodem phonebook 4.3x │ │ Import: Qmodem phonebook 5.0x │ │ Import: Qmodem Pro phonebook 1.00 │ │ Import: TeleMate phonebook 3.10/4.00 │ │ Import: FrontDoor user-profiles 2.xx │ │ Import: FrontDoor phonebook 2.xx │ │ Import: Procomm phonebook 2.4.x │ │ Import: PCPLUS phonebook 1.00 │ │ Import: PCPLUS phonebook 2.0x │ │ Import: Procomm+ for Windows 1.00 │ │ Import: Communiqué 2.00 │ │ Import: RenCom Pro 2.00 │ │ Import: Definable BBSlist │ │ Import: Nodelist segment │ │ Import: Find/import nodes from nodelist │ │ Import: Commafile │ │ Export: Commafile │ │ Export: Phonebook to printer/textfile │ │ Export: Userprofiles to textfile │ ╘══════════════════════════════════════════╛ If the import of a phonebook goes wrong and there is suddenly a lot of garbage in the phonebook, just mark all the entries and press DELETE to remove them again. - 102 - BBSlist ╒═════════════════════╤════════════════╡ Import from definable BBSlist ╞╕ │ Start converting │ │ │ Filename │ DK-BBS.TXT │ │ Name start/stop │ 1 24 │ │ Number start/stop │ 26 33 │ │ Baud start/stop │ 35 39 │ │ Comment1 start/stop │ 49 79 │ │ Comment2 start/stop │ 81 108 │ │ Password start/stop │ 0 0 │ ├─────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ If start or stop is 0 field will be skipped │ │ A line starts at 1 and ends at 255, both positions will be included │ ╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ This allows you to import any textfile with any format you might like to specify. The start/stop values is the positions on the lines where the import function will grab the value or string. The baudrate will be grabbed into a string then Terminate will test the 2 first places and assume the following. 12->1200 , 24->2400 , 48->4800 , 96->9600 , 14->14400 , 16->16800 So if the baudrate is grabbed from '14400 HST/V32' then 14400 is used. This was made because some BBS-lists only give you the first 2 numbers of the baudrate, so that more information can be put on the same line. Look in the DK-BBS.TXT file for some examples. Import from nodelists A complete segment can be imported. This could be used to import your fidonet's list of all the nodes in your net. It must be a raw, uncompiled standard fidonet nodelist. Import/Export comma separated files Some database program will be able to import comma delimited files so just export and look in the file. The first line in an exported file will always show the format used in Terminate. Export: Phonebook to printer/textfile Here you can print out all or part of the phonebook. You can also select if you only want tagged entries to be exported. You can limit the export to 80 chars, then only the most important information is exported. Remember if you export to another printer you should choose textfile and enter LPT2 or LPT3. P Change phonebook If you have several phonebooks. It is advisable to use as small a phonebook as possible to save memory. You could import a BBS list or a nodelist segment. And then only copy single entries to your daily phonebook with the copy function. You could also have a phonebook for your private needs and one for your work. Try to divide it up in smaller books to make it easier for you to find the numbers again. You could also separate the groups by giving the entries a different color for each group. O Other functions - 103 - Here you can change the comment for the phonebook, see the totals for the phonebook and a complete cost calculation for one year back. Terminate has one of the most advanced cost calculation features found in any terminal program. Thanks to many users in different countries, it should come very close to your real bill. You can print out (or save in file) a LARGE report, telling you all the information on this page and cost information statistics for every phone entry in the phonebook. You could use this to give to your company to prove you really have used the phone so much if they are paying. ╒═══════════════════╤═════════════════════════════════╡ Other information ╞╕ │ Phonebook comment │ Private phonebook Size: 120kb │ │ Total connects │ 0 │ │ Total time used │ 0.00.00 │ │ Total transfered │ Upload kb: 0 Download kb: 0 │ ├───────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Generate report │ C O S T S T A T I S T I C S │ │ │ │ │ May 1992 │ ┌────────────────────┐ $ 0,00 │ │ June 1992 │ │ Last 2 months │ $ 0,00 │ │ July 1992 │ │ $ 0,00 │ $ 0,00 │ │ August 1992 │ │ Last 3 months │ $ 0,00 │ │ September 1992 │ │ $ 0,00 │ $ 0,00 │ │ October 1992 │ │ Last 6 months │ $ 0,00 │ │ November 1992 │ │ $ 0,00 │ $ 0,00 │ │ December 1992 │ │ Last 9 months │ $ 0,00 │ │ January 1993 │ │ $ 0,00 │ $ 0,00 │ │ February 1993 │ └────────────────────┘ $ 0,00 │ │ March 1993 │ $ 0,00 │ │ April 1993 │ Phonebook $ 0,00 │ │ April 1993 │ Manual+Pointsystem $ 0,00 │ │ │ ────────────────── │ │ Total │ $ 0,00 │ ╘═══════════════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ - 104 - G Global changes The global menu. The functions in this menu can change more than 1 entry at a time. Almost every important function can be changed globally or in a specified range of entries. For example, you could change the baudrate for entries 5 - 10, by changing first the range and then choose change baud. ╒═══════════════════╡ Global edit ╞╕ │ Set Range ( 1-14 ) │ │ Only tagged No │ │ Find/Replace baud │ │ Change baud rates │ │ Change device │ │ Auto login │ │ Download path │ │ Username │ │ Colors │ │ Terminal │ │ Protocol │ │ Dial prefix │ │ Tag entries in range │ │ Strip/Insert '-' in number 3 │ │ Find/Tag │ │ Tag bad phonenumbers │ │ Tag all with password │ │ Copy password to range │ │ Clear last call │ │ Clear costs │ │ Clear time used │ │ Echo=Off, Strip=Off, BS=On │ │ Clear connects │ ╘══════════════════════════════════╛ V Save phonebook Save the phonebook at once. The phonebook is always saved if any changes have been made or any numbers have been dialled. The phonebook is saved whenever you change to a new phonebook or exit Terminate. When saving a phonebook and the backup system is enabled (default), the current .FON will be renamed to .PBK and the new phonebook will be saved as .FON. If the .FON file is missing Terminate will try to load the .PBK file. This function is normally used where you have made a lot of changes and want to be sure nothing can go wrong, eg: in a DOS-shell or anywhere else that could cause the machine to hang. - 105 - L Voicecall Allows you to call human beings. The screen has information on current time, how much time has elapsed and the cost of the call. When the modem has dialled, pick up the real 'phone and press the spacebar. ╒═══════════╤═══════════════════════╡ Voice call ╞╕ │ Human │ Bo Bendtsen │ │ Number │ 4264???? (Ohh now I forgot) │ │ Time │ 16:05:12 │ │ Time used │ 00:05:23 │ │ $ │ 1,25 │ ├───────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Pick up phone then press space. Esc to abort │ │ Delaying in 60 │ │ │ ╘═════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ C Copy menu Copy entries to other places in the phonebook or to another phonebook. T (Alt-L) Edit capture file Capture file. Edit the capture file for the entry under the menubar, if it is specified in the entry. N (Alt-N) Edit note file Notes. Each phonebook entry can have a comment file attached. It will be placed in the same directory as the phonebooks. You can enter any kind of information you like here. W Warn days Will flash all entries which have not been dialled for a set number of days (default 30 days). Useful if you do not want to be deleted by a system. Normally, users records on public BBS's are deleted if they have not called for 1-3 months. Now you can know quickly which entries you need to call to avoid deletion. Alt-J DOS-shell Invokes DOS-shell Alt-X Exit Exit Terminate - 106 - -=> E D I T P H O N E E N T R Y <=- E Edit entry ╒═══════════════════╤═════════════════════════════╡ View/Edit phone entry ╞╕ │ System name │ DAN BBS Line 1 │ │ │ Phone number │ 42643827 │ 1 Local Echo Off │ │ Device │ COM1 19200 8N1 │ 2 StripHigh Off │ │ User profile │ Bo Bendtsen │ 3 Rcvd BS dest On │ │ Password │ │ 4 Color ■ │ │ Opening hours │ 00:00 - 24:00 │ │ │ Terminal │ Avatar/Ansi └────────────────────────┤ │ Dial prefix │ ATDT │ │ Dial suffix │ ^M │ │ Comm. information │ 14400,8N1 │ │ Autologin │ Escapes, Name, Password │ │ Comment 1 │ Hst, v32, only above 9600 │ │ Comment 2 │ ├──────────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ Download path │ I:\ │ │ Keyboard mapping │ .KBD │ │ Translation table │ .XLT │ │ Capture file │ .CAP │ │ Note file │ .NOT │ │ Clear last call │ │ │ Time used/Connect │ Time used: 0.00.00 Connects : 0 │ │ Transfer guess │ Upload kb: 0 Download kb: 0 │ │ Costs used │ Total : 0,00 This month : 0,00 │ ╘═══════════════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Name of the system to call System name Name of the system or person this entry describes Phone number Number to dial to reach the system or person Device For every system you can specify a device. The devices can be set up in the configuration. This is mostly used if you have several modems connected to your system. You can select between all available devices or choose to use the default or current device. If you choose the current device, the Com Port will not be changed at all when dialling. If the default device is chosen, then the startup device will be used. If the device is changed before dialing, then init string for this device will be sent before sending the dial command. For more information, see how to setup a device. User profile Which name and default password should be used for the autologin procedure. If the autologin fails, you can press Alt-N to send the username manually and Alt-S to send the password. Password Used at autologin procedure, if you do not define a separate password for - 107 - each entry, the default password for the active user profile is used. Opening hours Some systems are only open for a limited time during the day or night. You can specify the opening and closing time and then Terminate will warn you and ask if you are sure you want to call anyway. Terminal Choose which kind of emulations the remote end supports. Look at the Help for Terminal Emulation to get more information. Press Alt-T in terminal mode to change. Dial prefix Dial suffix In Terminate you can choose between 6 dial prefixes. 1-5 are normal prefixes and 6 should be used for international calls, but you can also use them for any purpose you find right. Normally 'ATDT' is used for Hayes compatible modems. That starts the modem tone dialling a number. AT is the Hayes `ATtention' that prefixes most commands. If Pulse dialling is needed you would choose ATDP. The suffix is what to send after the number has been sent to the modem. Terminate dials like this: Prefix + Number + Suffix ATDT43623990^M The ^M means Return (ASCII #13), it will be replaced with a #13. Comm. information These fields are only used for information about the remote system - they will not affect communication parameters in any way. So you can specify here if the system is using a bps rate your modem supports even though you perhaps always use 19200 or 38400 in the device. Terminate will insert the connect bps rate at the phone entry every time you call a system (including 7200, 12000, 14400, 16800, 24000, 28800, 64000, 76800,128000) to inform you which bps rate the system last accepted when you called. This feature can be turned off in configuration. Note that there is a big difference in connect bps and the bps (DTE speed) between your modem and computer. DTE-speed DCE-speed DTE-speed Computer ─────────── Modem ────phoneline──── Modem ─────────── Computer (DTE=Data Terminal equipment, DCE=Data communications equipment) Between your computer and the modem, the baudrate depends on which baudrate you specify in the device setup. Depending on which modem you use the modems could transfer data with different baudrates than the serial port. DTE-speed = device baudrate, DCE-speed = phonebook baudrate. Terminate will also recognize baudrate 64000/128000 used with ISDN lines. Autologin Which Autologin script to try after you have connected. You can define your own small login scripts if you call systems that need scripts other than the default scripts. - 108 - Comment 1 Comment 2 Place anything on these lines -used when importing from BBS and nodelists. Download path Which default download path should be used for the phonebook entry. Terminate lets you pre-define 3 different paths, so if you have a download directory for GIF files, you could tell Terminate to download directly into that directory. To change this in terminal mode, press Alt-R Keyboard mapping Load a keyboard file when calling this system. This will allow you to load a keyboard file, where you have defined function keys and other special keys. You can load a keyboard file in terminal mode by pressing Alt-=, (the key to the left of the backspace on international keyboards). Translation table You can also load a translation file when calling a system. It will change incoming and outgoing characters. This is often used with systems only running 7-bit, Unix installation and other host systems. Press Alt-W in terminal mode to create/load/save/reset translation files. Capture file Terminate has a capture file system. If a filename is specified in the entry a capture file will be opened when you connect to that system. You can either remove the filename again by pressing DEL or turn off the Autocapture system in the configuration or press Alt-0 in terminal mode. Pressing Alt-L in that menu will call the external editor and allow you to directly edit/view the capture file. Note file For each entry you can define a note file where you can keep any kind of information. You could save a filelist or a little summary of what the system needs or whatever you like. To edit this note file, you press Alt-N in this menu. This file will be used as the SmartNote if you press Alt-A from terminal mode. Clear last call Every time you call a system, the date and time of the call is saved in the phone entry. Pressing return on this entry removes this date/time - so it then looks as if you have not called that system. Time used/Connects Allows you to edit the number of seconds used online and how many connects you have made to this system. Transfer guess Edit how many kilobytes down/up-loaded to that system. When you use external protocols, Terminate has to guess how much. Terminate first checks how many files and how big the download directory is. It then performs the external transfer, checks again and calculates the - 109 - difference. This can only be a guess, since maybe you are working on a network and delete some files in the meantime in that directory, but that is also why you can manually edit the value if anything goes wrong and you like keeping track of how much you have transferred. Costs used The 1st entry is the total cost of all calls to this system and will be updated after each call if you use the Cost management option. The 2nd entry will also be updated each time you call but, when a new month starts, this amount is placed in the `Last Month Used Account' and the 2nd entry zeroed. Local Echo Echo all characters sent to the modem on screen. Always turned off normally. StripHigh Strip all characters above ASCII 127 on incoming traffic. Should not be used normally. Erase backspace If this option is On, pressing backspace (ASCII 8) will move the cursor 1 back and erase the character; Off will only move the cursor 1 back. Default is On. Color Select the color you want for this phonebook entry. - 110 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ File tagging and tagmenu ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Tagging files is one of the most used features in Terminate. It will save you hundreds of small little notes and allow you to start downloading files faster. The Alt-F5 filetagger will try to identify all possible filenames on screen, then, when you move the cursor up or down, the menubar will jump to the next file it has identified. File tagger keys SPACE Tag or untag file + Tag all files found on screen - Untag all * Tagged files gets untagged and untagged gets tagged (inverse) E Edit tagged name. File tagger cursor movements Up Move up to previous found filename Down Move down to next found filename Right Increase position of menubar by 1 Left Decrease position of menubar by 1 Shift+Right Increase size of menubar by 1 Shift+Left Decrease size of menubar by 1 Shift+Up Decrease found line by 1 Shift+Down Increase found line by 1 When you press escape all tagged files are saved and can now be reached from the tag menu. You can also check an entire file list quickly and then scrollback with Alt-B and tag files from there. Remember that no online remote tagger will react as quickly as doing the tagging locally. - 111 - Tag menu The tag menu will work a little differently depending on if you use the menu from Alt-F6 (download) or Alt-F7 and filerequest. ╒═╡ Tag options ╞══╤═════════════╤═════════════╤═════════════╤═╡ Tag menu ╞╕ │ A Edit tagfile │■DANBBS.ARJ │ │ │ │ │ C Clear all │ │ │ │ │ │ D Delete (■) │ │ │ │ │ │ L Load tagfile │ │ │ │ │ │ S Save tagfile │ │ │ │ │ │ E Edit entry │ │ │ │ │ │ I Import dir │ │ │ │ │ │ F Filelists │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ M Magic G GenTag │ │ │ │ │ │ B Sort U Untag │ │ │ │ │ │ Del Remove entry │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ■=Sent │ │ │ │ │ │ Space │ │ │ │ │ │ Send name+Space │ │ │ │ │ │ Return │ │ │ │ │ │ Send name+Return │ │ │ │ │ │ + All+13 - All+32│ │ │ │ │ │ Esc to exit │ │ │ │ │ │ Tagged files 1 │ │ │ │ │ │ Tagged from: │ │ │ │ │ │ DAN BBS │ │ │ │ │ ╘══════════════════╧═════════════╧═════════════╧═════════════╧═════════════╛ The 'Tagged files' indicates the total of tagged entries. The 'Tagged from:' will show on which system you tagged the file. If you change phonebooks it will not show the correct system. The phonebook has to be loaded to see where you have tagged the files. Call a system or press Alt-D, Esc to load the phonebook. A Edit tagfile Edit any tag file with the external editor. If you have called a system, Terminate will suggest a filename that looks like the system name, but actually you can edit any file from here. C Clear all Clean the screen and throw away all files that you have tagged. D Delete (■) When you send the filename back with one of the functions here, you can clean up the screen. This is useful if you have tagged 50 or more files and have collected the first 10. L Load tagfile Load any textfile into the tag menu. The first word will be grabbed from each line. S Save tagfile - 112 - If you suddenly need to save the tagged files. Lets say you are online and have just tagged 20-30 files and suddenly your mum arrives and you have again forgotten the time because of those damn computers, now you just save the tagfile and when she has left again, you load the tagged files again and call the system and download the rest of the files. E Edit entry Edit manually the entries on screen. I Import dir You can import a local directory with all the files. This option could be useful when uploading, if you have a directory with a lot of files you want to upload to a system, you might be asked to enter the names first with the remote system checking if the file is already present on the remote system. F Filelist The menu will handle all the filelist features in Terminate. A filelist is a large (ASCII) text file. Such lists can be downloaded from almost anywhere, no matter which kind of system you are using. Look at the example DANBBS.TXT file in the FILELIST\ directory if you have any doubts about what a filelist could look like. Remember that whenever you use the internal viewer on a filelist or any other file for that matter that contains filenames, you can tag the files by pressing T and then the filenames are imported into the Tagmenu. You can also change the setup in Alt-O, F, Filelist manager. ┌─┤ Select filelist action ├┐ │ Turbo Search │ │ View filelist │ │ Tag from list │ │ Pack filelists │ │ Unpack filelists │ │ Filemanager │ └───────────────────────────┘ - 113 - Turbo Search This function will quickly and easily search through all your filelists for a wildcard like ????TER1.* (Terminate) or T-???-??.* (manuals). A wildcard search is enabled if your search string contains a * or a ?, otherwise a normal search on your full search string is performed. ┌──────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┤ Searching for '*.LZH' ├┐ │ DANBBS.TXT │ DANBBS.LZH 3104330 23/12-93 001-200 ALL Complete f │ │ DANBBS.TXT │ DANBBS!.LZH 374321 23/12-93 001-200 ALL-XCD Filelist w │ │ DANBBS.TXT │ DAN_7D.LZH 4725 04/01-93 001-200 NEWS News last │ │ DANBBS.TXT │ DAN_14D.LZH 7702 04/01-93 001-200 NEWS News last │ │ DANBBS.TXT │ DAN_30D.LZH 17778 04/01-93 001-200 NEWS News last │ │ DANBBS.TXT │ LISTFIND.LZH 10602 07/12-92 Utility to search in fileli │ │ DANBBS.TXT │ T-CFG10.LZH 23249 23/12-93 Export/Import Terminate con │ │ DANBBS.TXT │ T-CFG11.LZH 23499 23/12-93 Export/Import Terminate con │ │ DANBBS.TXT │ T-CFG12.LZH 23735 23/12-93 Export/Import Terminate con │ │ DANBBS.TXT │ T-CFG13.LZH 23735 23/12-93 Export/Import Terminate con │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ BP7UPG.LZH 4,413 11/03/92 | Upgrade info for BP7 (c │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ ALARM.LZH 10,147 10/14/92 | Source code example for │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ ALLOC.LZH 6,598 03/25/91 | Allocate heap blocks la │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ APINST.LZH 29,597 01/11/94 | APRO 2.0 install progra │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ ASYNC4.LZH 5,200 08/14/92 | Basic Async routines (P │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ BDISK.LZH 9,925 10/29/93 | BIOS floppy read, write │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ BIGED3.LZH 57,290 05/12/93 | BigEd V3 w/ virtual mem │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ BIOSFIX.LZH 1,674 06/09/91 | Adds UART addresses to │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ BIOSPRN.LZH 3,751 09/30/92 | BiosPrinter object for │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ BTREEMAN.LZH 7,595 12/11/92 | Diffs between 2nd and 3 │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ BTVCALC.LZH 2,404 02/10/93 | B-Tree variable record │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ CACHE.LZH 3,144 10/21/92 | Cached PickList object │ │ TURBOPOW.TXT │ CALIBRAT.LZH 8,023 03/28/90 | Program for determining │ └──────────────┴───┤ 2 TURBOPOW.TXT Space=Next Lines 255 ├──┘ View filelist Quick select and view of one filelist. Tag from list You can tag directly from filelists. First you will be asked to select a filelist. Then 'keyword or wildcard'. If you enter a normal DOS wildcard filename like '*.ZIP' all lines will be searched for a .ZIP file, but if you do not enter a wildcard each line in the filelist will be searched for matches. So, if you enter VGA, all lines having the word 'VGA' will be available. The limit is 250 matches. The list can be sorted alphabetically if you like. You can now select from the found matches. Just mark all the files you want with SPACE or press + for marking all files found. - will unmark all and * will toggle all tags. When pressing Esc all files tagged will now be imported into the tag menu (if there is room for them). The tagged lines will also be saved in the download path (or inbound) in a file called FILES.BBS so you have the descriptions. Thus, you will not need the BBS to send you an extra file with the descriptions (if the system does it anyway, just delete the file.) With this option you will never need to spend much online time looking for new files. If you have a high speed modem, just download the filelist, search it manually and tag all the files off-line. Then dial the system and use the tag menu to select the files. - 114 - Pack filelists Pack all the files in the filelist directory into LISTPACK.ZIP, if you define another packer like ARJ then LISTPACK.ARJ will be used. Unpack filelists Unpack all the files in the packed LISTPACK.ZIP. All the list functions will look for LISTPACK and ask if you want to unpack the files first. Filemanager Start up filemanager in the filelist directory for manual processing. M Magic Magic names is a commonly used term in fidonet and means the same as alias. In this way, some systems have aliases for some special files that can be requested from the system. G GenTag Call any external utility you like. Normally this should point to a utility that could generate a TERMINAT.TAG file that could be imported here. B Sort Sort all entries alphabetically. U UnTag Untag the file. Del Remove entry Delete the tagged file. ■=Sent / ■=Request Depending on if you called the tagmenu with Alt-F6 or when file requesting from Alt-F7, the tagged files have different meanings. Download: ■ means that you have already tried to download the file once. Request : ■ means that this file should be requested. Space / Return Download: Send name + Space/Return (ASCII #32/#13). Some systems allow you to enter several filenames on the same line. Let's say you have 3 files you want to download. First press space on the two first files and then press return on the last file: 'FILE1.EXT FILE2.EXT FILE3.EXT'+return. Just as if you typed the line yourself. Request: When you edit an entry the ■ means: YES! request this file, please. You can toggle this entry with the spacebar if you suddenly decide you don't want the file anyway. Press return when you are finished tagging files. If you do not want to request anyway just press Esc. + All+13 - All+32 / +-* Toggle all Download: Pressing + will send all the filenames separated by a return - 115 - (#13). - will do the same thing, but separated with a space (#32) instead. Request: + will select all files to be requested. - will deselect all the files and * will toggle all files. - 116 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ The Filemanager ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ -=> T E R M I N A T E F I L E M A N A G E R <=- The file manager is a complete tool for managing all your DOS command needs. It has the same sort of features as programs like Norton Commander 3.0, QDOS, PCTOOLS, etc. With this you can manage all your needs and a little extra too. Changing directory To change directory, press Cursor Right. To change to the parent directory press Cursor Left. Drive colours The colours are referred to as: Normal, High and Bold. (Default Terminate colours: Normal=Gray, High=Cyan, Bold=Yellow). ╒╡ Terminate Commander ╞═══════════════════════════════════╡ File manager ╞╕ │ Ctrl+drv to change: A B C D E·F·G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z │ │ Mask: *.* Path: C:\ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ The top is used to display which drives are available in your system. colours mean: Drive not present = Normal Drive present = High Current drive = Bold · · Around a letter will show which path is available when pressing the TAB key. Small letters will always be CD-ROM drives (only when MSCDEX loaded). For a FAST change to another available drive, just hold down Ctrl and press the letter of the desired drive. Then the current directory on that drive will become current. Note that you can turn off drives to test in the configuration (general options 1) if some drives are too slow to test, like a CD-ROM or a tape streamer used as a special drive. A and B will always be highlighted even though they may not be available. K Mask Mask is the wildcard mask when reading the files in the current directory. If you use *.EXE or *.GIF only those files will be used. You can also use jokers (?) which only replace 1 character in the mask. P Enter/create path When pressing P you can enter the complete path manually. If you want to create a sub directory you can also use the command. Just enter the new path and you will be asked to confirm creation. (Like: MD MKDIR). The small window below will tell you the size and how much free space is on the current disk. If the drive is a CD-ROM then it will say so and Free - 117 - space will always be 0, since it isn't possible to write to a CD-ROM (at least not yet). Selected/Bytes/transfer time shows the status of files tagged and how long it would take to transfer them via modem, calculated on the CPS (characters per second) - which you can change when pressing T. Normally the maximum bps rate divided by 10 will give you this approximately. ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ Disk size 244.834.304 │ │ Disk free 18.702.336 │ │ Selected 0 │ │ Bytes 0 │ │ Transfer time => 0.00.00 │ └───────────────────────────┘ Below is an example window with directories and files. Any directories will be highlighted and will have <DIR> as size. It will show all information needed about the files in the current path, but you can also choose to have 2 windows at the same time. Press W to toggle windows, then you will not get so much information but you will be able to see and use 2 paths at the same time. Attributes are defined as follows: R = Read Only Nobody can write/delete the file/directory H = Hidden File/Directory is hidden when using the DIR command S = System File/directory is used by DOS or other operating system A = Archive This attribute is normally used to determine if the file should be backed up, but it can be used for other things also. Place the menubar on an entry and press A to change both the attributes on files and directories. The time shown after the attribute information is how long in minutes and seconds it would take to transfer the file with the current CPS. ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Name Date Time Size Attr -=> │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────┤C├┤ │ DOS 17-Mar-93 19:57 <DIR> ---- 0:00 │ │ TERMINAT 17-Mar-93 19:57 <DIR> ---- 0:00 │ │ AUTOEXEC.BAT 3-Apr-93 17:02 1229 ---A 0:00·│ │ COMMAND.COM 9-Apr-91 5:00 47845 ---A 0:24·│ │ CONFIG.SYS 1-Apr-93 17:36 939 ---A 0:00 │ │ COUNTRY.SYS 7-Feb-91 5:48 16992 ---A 0:08 │ │ IO.SYS 9-Apr-91 5:00 33430 RHSA 0:17 │ │ MSDOS.SYS 9-Apr-91 5:00 37394 RHSA 0:19 │ ╘════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ - 118 - ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ <>.\ Directory commands │ │ +-* All Space (Un)Tag │ │ TAB Change to window 2 │ │ T CPS estimate 1920 │ │ Sort Nam/Ext/Date/Siz/No │ │ Copy Dir size │ │ Move View │ │ Rename Edit │ │ Delete File Find │ │ Attributes Windows │ │ Jump to DOS Disk info │ │ Compare menu Extensions │ │ DOS command │ └───────────────────────────┘ Movements Use cursor-up/down keys to move up and down the files/directories. Terminate also uses QUICK-keys, which means you can press ALT-A..ALT-Z To move the menubar to the next file starting with that letter. Left cursor (< An arrow pointing to the left) Will change to the parent directory. If you are in C:\DOS and press left cursor you will be in C:\, nothing will happen if you are already in the ROOT directory. This is much faster than other systems which first want you to move up to a parent or .. dir and press return. Right cursor (> An arrow pointing to the right) If you are positioned on a directory and press right arrow you will change to that directory. The reason why RETURN is not used is because when you upload, RETURN will start the transfer. Please get used to using the arrows, then you will notice how MUCH faster it is to navigate your hard disk. . Reread If you press the period, all drives will be re-tested to see if they are available, including drives which were excluded at configuration. \ Change to root A backslash will change to the ROOT directory on the current drive + Tag all Will tag all files - Untag all Will untag all files * Invert all Invert tags. All tagged files will be untagged and all untagged will be tagged. - 119 - SPACE Tag Tag/untag file under menubar. If you tag a GIF file then the picture information for the file you just tagged will be shown at the bottom line of the current file window. TAB Change window The filemanager can use 2 different paths, and you can switch between the paths by pressing TAB. T Enter CPS Enter CPS (characters per second) to base calculations on with total selected files and for each file. The normal CPS is a little less than your baudrate divided by 10. (19200 = 1920, 14400 = 1440, 2400 = 240). S Sort files Allows you to select how you want the files sorted in the current file window. Nam Filename Ext Extension, then filename Date Newest files at top Siz Biggest files at top No No sort C Copy file(s) (Print textfiles) Copy file at menubar - if any files are tagged they will be copied to another directory. If no files are tagged and the menubar is on a file then you could copy the file to another filename, just like a rename but you will also have the original file. If you are on a network, copying a large file or many files could slow the server down so you can press W while copying to enable the wait function after copying a file. Then Terminate will wait filesize / 100000 seconds between each file (min-max 1-12 sec.). If you need to print the file just enter PRN as destination name or LPT2,LPT3 depending on which port your printer is located. M Move file(s) Move file or files to another file directory, works just like COPY, but then deletes the file afterwards. R Rename file Rename a file or a directory D (DEL) Delete file(s) Delete a file or a directory. You can also press the key called DEL/DELETE. If you try to delete a directory and it is not empty, you will be asked to confirm deletion of the entire directory and all sub-entries, normally called a KILLTREE function. A Change attributes Change attributes (see above) of a directory or a file. - 120 - J DOS-Shell DOS-shell, calls COMMAND.COM (COMSPEC) and lets you execute whatever you like. You can setup how to swap memory out first in the configuration. U Compare paths Compares the 2 paths and tags files either IN or NOT IN the other window. N Send filename When you are online and want to upload some files, you will sometimes be asked to enter the filenames first. This function will send the filename on the current line and a space (in case of several files). Z Tree-size Will calculate the size of the current and all sub-directories. V View file View the file under the menubar. Calls the external lister program. E Edit file Edit the file under the menubar. Call the external editor. F Find file(s) Finds a file. You can enter a wildcard (*,?) filename. The current drive will first be searched, then all available drives. You can press space to skip the current search drive. Return to select file, or abort with ESC. When a file is found, the manager will change to the directory where the file is, tag the file and place the menubar on the file. W Window display style Toggle between 1 window or 2 windows display I Disk information Shows information on all available drives and if any drives are SUBST or remapped by a network. (Resolved path). You will be asked for a minimum free disk space warning value and an update timer, so you can update every x seconds. If you are on a network you can use it to monitor drives - so if the free space remaining on any drive is below the warn value, the size will flash and a beep will sound. X Edit extensions Works almost like Norton Commander. Please look in the file TERMINAT.EXT for more information on how to set this up. Lots of extensions are defined as a default. Let's say you press return on a file called HELLO.TXT. Then the external editor will be called and you can edit the file. You can identify all the files where an extension has been found by the · at the same line as the filename. │ AUTOEXEC.BAT 3-Apr-93 17:02 1229 ---A 0:00·│ \______found - 121 - O DOS-command Here you can enter any command you like. When you then press return the command will be executed. You can enter a !M to swap out memory if this was not already selected in the configuration. But also a !F or !D which will be replaced with the name under the menubar and the current directory. B Both paths Make this window the same path as the other window. The bottom line is all your external utilities which you can setup in the configuration. Look there for help on how to set these up. The programs are called when you press F1..F10 (also F11,F12). If you are located in a mail directory (outbound) with mail files then the address of the file will be calculated and shown in the bottom line of the current file window. Q Quiet Disable / enable the entire left side. Mostly used by blind persons. Fido-style address Terminate will try to calculate the nodenumber of mail-files. However this is not always possible, so sometimes a wrong address can be shown. In most cases it will however show the correct address if you have set in your correct node address in user 1, which is the number that is used for the calculation. F1·Pack F2·Memo F3·Frmt F4·Vir F5·GSet F6·Echo F7·VPic F8·40-L F9·Prn F0·NCD - 122 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ The Fax manager ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ -=> T E R M I N A T E F A X M A N A G E R <=- Introduction to the faxmanager The fax support in Terminate is one of the easiest and at the same time one of the most flexible and powerful fax-programs available. Most programs only allow you to send and receive and perhaps make a few cover pages. Terminate includes many more advanced features than these basic commands. It includes very advanced setup of almost everything, encryption of incoming faxes, incoming control, printing, scheduling and everything else you will need. On top of all this you can control the entire fax part from the command line, making Terminate a very useful tool. The fax manager menu ╒══════════╡ Fax manager ╞╕ │ Receive faxes │ │ Force receive │ │ Polling fax │ │ Send fax │ │ Multi fax │ │ Schedule fax │ │ Convert │ │ View faxes │ │ Print files │ │ File manager │ │ Fax phonebook │ │ View logfile │ │ Encryption menu │ │ Fax configuration │ ╘═════════════════════════╛ - 123 - Receive faxes ╒═════════════╤═════════════════════════════════════╤════╡ Fax receive ╞╕ │ Device │ Async Modem COM2 │ │ │ Chip │ ZyXEL │ │ │ Class │ Class 2 │ │ │ Model │ U1496S V 6.10 P │ │ │ Revision │ U1496S V 6.10 P │ │ │ Station ID │ TERMINATE │ │ ├─────────────┴────┬─────────────────────┬──────────┴──────┬────────────┤ │ Connection speed │ 14400 │ Page │ 1 │ │ Remote ID │ TERMINATE │ Bytes received │ 17055 │ │ Error correction │ Off │ CPS rate │ 1895 │ │ High resolution │ Off │ Online │ 00.09 │ │ Faxes received │ │ │ │ │ File name │ 03120001.APF │ │ │ ├──────────┬───────┴─────────────────────┴─────┬───────────┴────────────┤ │ Fax path │ FAX\IN\ │ To print 1 │ │ Printer │ PRN │ Printing (Paused) │ │ Log │ StartReceive FAX\IN\03120001.APF │ Page of │ ├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Toggle printing │ ├──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Status │ Getting page data │ ╘══════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ This is an example of how it could look when you receive a fax. The receive mode is pretty automatic and you can only press ESC to exit or T to toggle printing. Force receive Pick up phone at once and start answering the fax NOW! Polling fax Send fax ╒══════╡ Send fax menu ╞╕ │ Quick note │ │ File selector │ ╘═══════════════════════╛ Quick note Send a small note fast. You will be asked if you want to delete the old note first (QUICK.TXT). If you answer no the note from last time will be used and you can continue where you left off last time. File selector Use the file selector to send any file you like. You can also edit the file from here. You can use select between PCX,DCX,TIFF,APF and normal text files. They will automatically be converted to fax format before sending. Pick phone entry - 124 - After you have selected quick note or file selector, you will be presented with the quick phonelist selector below. ╒═╡ TERMINAT.FON ╞════════════════════════╡ Pick phone entry ╞╕ │ Enter to select Edit Add Manual number │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ # Name Number │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ 1 TurboPower, Terry Hughes 00 1 719 260 xxxx │ │ 2 DAN BBS fax number 4264xxxx │ ╘═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ A To quickly add a new number. E To edit the entry. M Manually enter TO/NUMBER (will remember last input). ENTER To select entry. Accept fax info ╒═════════════════════════╤════════════════╡ Send information ╞╕ │ Send with cover page │ │ │ Send without cover page │ │ │ To │ TurboPower, Terry Hughes │ │ Number │ 00 1 719 260 xxxx │ │ From │ Bo Bendtsen │ │ Current cover page │ COVER.TXT │ ╘═════════════════════════╧════════════════════════════════════╛ Send with cover page / Send without cover page Transmit the fax with or without cover page. The picture below is an example of how a fax transfer could look like. ╒═════════════╤═════════════════════════════════════╤═══════╡ Fax send ╞╕ │ Device │ Async Modem COM2 │ │ │ Chip │ ZyXEL │ │ │ Class │ Class 2 │ │ │ Model │ U1496S V 6.10 P │ │ │ Revision │ U1496S V 6.10 P │ │ │ Station ID │ TERMINATE │ │ ├─────────────┴────┬─────────────────────┬──────────┴──────┬────────────┤ │ Connection speed │ 9600 │ Page │ 1 │ │ Remote ID │ DAN BBS │ Bytes sent │ 6797 │ │ Error correction │ Off │ CPS rate │ 1359 │ │ High resolution │ Off │ Online │ 00.28 │ │ Faxes received │ │ Progress │ 80% │ │ File name │ FAX\OUT\QUICK.APF │ Costs kr │ 0,21 │ ├──────────┬───────┴─────────────────────┴─────┬───────────┴────────────┤ │ Fax path │ FAX\OUT\ │ │ │ Printer │ │ │ │ Log │ │ │ ├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┤ │ From │ John Smith │ │ To │ Bo Bendtsen 4362xxxx │ │ Subject │ Hello there, how are you │ ├──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Status │ Sending page │ ╘══════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ - 125 - To To-name used in cover page. Number The number to dial From From-name used in cover page, should normally be yours. Current cover page Change current cover page. Multi fax ╒════════════════════╤═════════════════════════╡ Multi fax ╞╕ │ Start multifax │ │ │ Phonelist │ MULTI.LST │ │ File to fax │ MULTIFAX.TXT │ │ Multi cover page │ COVER.TXT │ │ Reset phonelist │ │ │ Cost estimate │ │ ╘════════════════════╧══════════════════════════════════════╛ Start multifax Start sending fax to all numbers in phonelist. Phonelist List of numbers to send the fax to. Examples: You want to buy an apartment or a house! You write a specific list of what you want and what you demand. You look up 5-10 real-estate companies in the phone directory and write in the numbers in this list. You start the multifax and let it handle the rest. After that you should get some phonecalls from some of these companies that have some the things you need. This can be used for almost all purposes, not only houses. You work in a company which every morning sends out faxes to sub-divisions about price changes or news. With this function you could make it automatic. File to fax File to fax to all the numbers. Multi cover page Cover page to use when sending multi-faxes. Reset phonelist - 126 - Remove all control codes from phonelist and allow you to start all over. Cost estimate Calculate approximately how much it will cost to send all faxes. Schedule fax Future feature, will soon be available. Convert Convert a PCX,DCX,TIF or textfile to APF (fax-format) or convert an APF file to PCX/DCX. View faxes View a fax or how any file will look after it was converted to a fax. This function will use the external fax-viewer. Print files Print a fax or any other file using the current printer. File manager Start up the file manager. Fax phonebook Edit the fax phonebook allowing you to check everything or import a phonelist etc. View logfile View logfile with the external or internal viewer. Encryption menu ╒════════════════════╤═══════════════════╡ Encrypt menu ╞╕ │ Password │ │ │ Auto encrypt │ Off │ │ Encrypt any file │ │ │ Decrypt any file │ │ ╘════════════════════╧═══════════════════════════════════╛ Password Password to use for auto encryption. Auto encrypt Encrypt files at once after they are received. If autoprint is enabled the fax will be encrypted after it has been printed. Encrypt any file Encrypt any file with your password. You can for example encrypt a secret file you need to send to a person and give him the password over the - 127 - phone, so you are sure it cannot be read by anyone else. Decrypt any file Decrypt any file with the current password. If you convert/send/print an encrypted file it will automatically be decrypted first. Fax configuration ╒════════════════════╤══════════════════════════╡ Fax configuration ╞╕ │ Auto config │ │ │ Fax device │ Default device │ │ Class │ Detect │ │ Receive class │ Class 2 │ │ Fax BPS rate │ 9600 │ │ Initstring │ ATM1V1X4 │ │ Dial prefix │ ATDT │ │ Error correction │ Off │ │ Local ID │ TERMINATE │ │ Fine resolution │ Off │ │ Ring counter │ 1 │ │ Send retries │ 3 │ │ Retry delay │ 60 │ │ Page width │ 1728 │ │ Page header line │ Page $P of $N, Via Terminate: $D $T, │ │ Pagesize & margins │ Page: 0 Top margin: 0 Left margin: 60 │ │ Incoming control │ Off │ │ Slow init │ On │ │ Filenames & paths │ │ │ Printer setup │ │ ╘════════════════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Auto config Terminate will test which class to use and set default values. The first time you enter the fax menu, this function will be started. Fax device Which device to use whenever a fax is transmitted or received. Remember that many fax modems will not function with higher baudrates than 19200. Class Detect Will use highest class available in modem Class 1 Will force class 1 Class 2 Will force class 2 CAS Will force CAS Receive class When you already got a carrier in the hostmode or pointsystem the faxmodem needs to know which class to use for receiving. Fax bps rate Remember that 12000 and 14400 sometimes can course 2400 fax connect if other end only supports 2400 - 128 - Initstring Normally you do not need to change this string. If you have a faxmodem that does not enable software flow control, you must look in your manual for information on doing this or choose the modem from the list here. Dial prefix Prefix to use for dialing when using command lines or multifax. If you send normal faxes using the phonebook, the prefix from the phonebook will be used. Error correction Some faxmodems have the ability of using error correction (ECM). Do not confuse this with MNP4-5 or v42bis. Terminate will detect if your faxmodem supports fax error correction and select this for you if available. Only turn it on if you are testing. It is most likely that it will not work for both receive and send if this toggle is turned on and your faxmodem does not support it. Local ID Which station ID to present to the other side. A number without spaces or hyphens (-) is the safest thing to use. If you are going to use a name instead. Use only A-Z and a-z. Do never use any international characters. Fine resolution Use FINE or NORMAL when converting/sending faxes. When using fine it will take twice the time to transmit the page, so only use that if you are sending something that needs to be of good quality or for example an application for a job. Ring counter Answer call on this ring number. Send retries How many times to retry if call was busy. Retry delay How many seconds to wait between each retry. Page width The normal width of a fax is 1728 pixels. If you for some reason want to send a fax with a width of 2048 pixels you must be aware that some fax machines will either scale or cut off the part over 1728. Page header line One each faxed page, this line will be the first. It will use the small font from the current fontfile and can be defined just as you like it. The default line is: - 129 - 'Page $P of $N, Via Terminate: $D $T, Sender: $I' And would for example be changed to: 'Page 1 of 2, Via Terminate: 14-Mar-95 18:44, Sender: TERMINATE' The $ strings that can be used are: $D Todays date in DD-MMM-YY format always 9 characters. $T Current time in HH:MM format $P Current page number $N Total number of pages $I Station ID $V Terminate version number $F From-name $R To-name $S Subject Pagesize & margins Use the length 0 in page size to allow endless pages. top/left margins are in pixels/dots. 50 equal appr 1/4 inch (0.6 cm) Incoming control Use INCOMING.CTL for controlling who are allowed to send faxes to you. Read the file for more information. Slow init Some older modems must send the fax commands with 2400 baud. This is most used by 2400/9600-Fax. 2400 baud modems, which can send fax with 9600 baud. Filenames & paths ╒════════════════════╤════════════════════╡ Filenames & paths ╞╕ │ Fax path │ FAX\ │ │ Fax receive path │ FAX\IN\ │ │ Fax transmit path │ FAX\OUT\ │ │ Font │ T-865.FNT │ │ HP LaserJet font │ │ │ CAS PCX Logo file │ LOGO.PCX │ │ Cover page │ COVER.TXT │ │ Fax phonebook │ TERMINAT.FON │ ╘════════════════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════╛ Fax path Where to place all files and utilities used for fax. Many datafiles must be placed in this directory and cannot be moved. Fax receive path Where to receive incoming faxes. Fax transmit path Where to store outgoing faxes. - 130 - Font Which font to use when converting from text. T-437.FNT Codepage 473 : United states T-850.FNT Codepage 850 : Multilingual (Latin I) T-860.FNT Codepage 860 : Portuguese T-863.FNT Codepage 863 : Canadian-French T-865.FNT Codepage 865 : Nordic Terminate will autodetect which codepage you are using and select the correct font for you. If you have not setup your computer for the correct codepage, you should choose the correct font yourself. You can safely delete the fonts you are not using. If your codepage is different from the ones available, then 437 will be selected as default. With the T-FONTED.EXE you can even create a new font or edit the font. HP LaserJet font Use an HP LaserJet font instead and the normal font. It must be a LaserJet font, it cannot be a DeskJet font. It must be bitmapped, not scaleable and the bitmap must not be compressed. Terminate scales each character in the font file to 20x16 if using NORMAL mode and 20x32 if using FINE. You should try using fonts that have a fontsize of 6-10 otherwise it might mess up after scaling. CAS PCX Logo file ┌───────────────────┐ │ Header date/time │ ├───────────────────┤ │ │ │ PCX logo file │ │ │ ├───────────────────┤ │Routing information│ ├───────────────────┤ │ │ │ │ │ Text │ │ │ │ │ └───────────────────┘ Cover page Each fax can have a defined fax cover send as first page. The default COVER.TXT will show you have to simply use this. $D Todays date in DD-MMM-YY format always 9 characters. $T Current time in HH:MM format $I Station ID $V Terminate version number $F From-name $R To-name $S Subject - 131 - Fax phonebook For your fax numbers you can have a seperate phonebook. If you only call a few BBS systems you can have all you phone numbers in the same book. Printer setup ╒════════════════════╤════════════════════════╡ Printer setup ╞╕ │ Printer │ HP Laser Jet III (300 dpi / PCL5) │ │ Printer path │ PRN │ │ Auto print │ Off │ │ Use scaling │ On │ │ Suppress blanks │ Off │ │ Print header │ On │ ╘════════════════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════╛ Printer Select which printer you want to use when printing faxes or other files. The following printers are directly supported: Epson FX (8 pins) Epson LQ (24 pins) HP Laser Jet II (150 dpi / PCL4) HP Laser Jet II (300 dpi / PCL4) HP Laser Jet III (150 dpi / PCL5) HP Laser Jet III (300 dpi / PCL5) Printer path You can specify the filename to use when printing or use PRN,LPT1,LPT2,LPT3 Auto print Print out faxes at once after they are received. Use scaling Scale down faxes to fit page when printing. Suppress blanks Suppress blanks on HP LaserJet printers. Print header Print out a header with date/time etc. on top of each printed page. Fax command line switches Send a fax /FAX /SEND Filename Number-to-dial [To-user] [From-user] Filename is the full path to the file you want to fax. It can be an APF,PCX,DCX,TIFF format. If none of these extensions are used, Terminate will assume it is a DOS ASCII textfile. Number-to-dial cannot have any spaces. To-user and From-User must have the blanks replaced by underscores. - 132 - You cannot use From-user without To-user. The From-user will default to your normal From-user. Examples: /FAX /SEND C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT 4264xxxx /FAX /SEND C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT 4264xxxx Bo_Bendtsen /FAX /SEND C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT 4264xxxx John_Smith Bo_Bendtsen Errorlevels (Look in SENDFAX.BAT for an example of how to use those). 6 Error 5 Busy 4 Data Call 3 Voice Call 2 User abort 1 TimeOut. 0 Ok Receive faxes /FAX /RECEIVE Start up the receive part. With this command you could use Terminate as a fax machine and print out incoming faxes on your laserprinter. Send multifaxes /FAX /MULTI filename file-with-numbers /RESET Start the multifax function. The filename is the file to fax, it can be a APF,PCX,DCX,TIF or a textfile. The file-with-numbers is a list of numbers to call. /RESET will delete control codes first. Examples: /FAX /MULTI MULTIFAX.TXT MULTI.LST /RESET /FAX /MULTI INFO1094.TXT MULTI.LST Convert files /CONVERT filename If the file is an APF fax file then it will get converted to a PCX file. Otherwise everything will be converted to APF. If the extension is not PCX,DCX,TIF then a textfile will be assumed. Examples: /CONVERT C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT (Will create C:\AUTOEXEC.APF) /CONVERT C:\AUTOEXEC.APF (Will create C:\AUTOEXEC.PCX) Print files /PRINT filename When printing any file with this command, the file will first be converted to APF format and then sent to the printer. Do not use this command if you quickly want to print out a textfile. For this you should use: COPY textfile.ext PRN - 133 - - 134 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ CD audio player ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Using the CDROM player allows you to put on some real music while you are downloading or doing other boring stuff. ╒═══════════════════╤══════════════╤═══════════════════════════════════════╕ │ Play │ │Song Start Length Song Start Length │ │ Stop │ ├────┬──────────────┬────┬──────────────┤ │ Resume │ │ 1 │ 00:02 03:17 │ 21 │ │ │ Next │ │ 2 │ 03:19 03:50 │ 22 │ │ │ Previous │ │ 3 │ 07:09 03:58 │ 23 │ │ │ Eject │ │ 4 │ 11:07 02:37 │ 24 │ │ │ Lock CD door │ │ 5 │ 13:45 04:26 │ 25 │ │ ├───────────────────┤ │ 6 │ 18:11 04:08 │ 26 │ │ │ MSCDEX Version │ 2,21 │ 7 │ 22:20 05:01 │ 27 │ │ │ CD in drive │ Yes │ 8 │ 27:22 03:16 │ 28 │ │ │ Door locked │ No │ 9 │ 30:38 02:39 │ 29 │ │ │ Raw and cooked │ Only cooked │ 10 │ 33:17 03:31 │ 30 │ │ │ Data and Audio │ Yes │ 11 │ │ 31 │ │ │ HSG and Red book │ Yes │ 12 │ │ 32 │ │ │ Audiomanipulation │ No │ 13 │ │ 33 │ │ │ Volume size │ 36:49.00 │ 14 │ │ 34 │ │ ├───────────────────┤ │ 15 │ │ 35 │ │ │ Track │ 1 │ 16 │ │ 36 │ │ │ Track start │ 00:02 │ 17 │ │ 37 │ │ │ Total track time │ 03:15 │ 18 │ │ 38 │ │ │ Track time │ 00:30 Index │ 19 │ │ 39 │ │ │ Track time left │ 02:45 │ 20 │ │ 40 │ │ │ Copyrighted track │ Yes └────┘ └────┘ │ ╘═══════════════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ This is a record by a world famous Danish heavy metal band called D.A.D. Play Starts playing from a number and the rest of the album. Stop Stop playing (mute). Resume Resume playing the track where you stopped it. Next Skip rest of track and play the next Previous Play the previous track Eject - 135 - Eject CD from your CDROM. Lock CD door Lock/unlock the CD inside the CDROM, so nobody can borrow the CD. MSCDEX Version MSCDEX.EXE is a program supplied by MicroSoft for making standard calls to CDROMs. MSCDEX means MicroSoft CD extension. You need at least version 2.00 for using this player. CD in drive Did Terminate detect a CD in the drive? Door locked Did you lock the CDROM door? Raw and cooked Does you drive support raw and cooked reading modes? (Uh?) Data and Audio Does your CD support both audio and data tracks? HSG and Red book Does your CDROM support High Sierra May 28th format and the ISO-9660 version of the High Sierra format (Red Book)? Audiomanipulation Does your CDROM support audio channel manipulation? Volume size Total playing time of CD. Track Which track is currently being played. Track start Where on the CD does the track start. Total track time How long the track is. Track time How much of the track has been played. Track time left How much playing time is left of the track. - 136 - Copyrighted track Is the track copyrighted. Index All music CD's have index marks when starting and stopping a track, Terminate will shortly flash the Index indicator when it meets an index. - 137 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ International information ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ International information This part of the manual will have all kind of different international information. We will try to gather as much information as possible and put in here, but please if you have any suggestions for additional information you think could be useful for a lot of people, please contact a registration site. Unit of measurement metre (m) for length kilogram (kg) for weight second (s) for time ampere (A) for current intensity kelvin (K) for absolute temperature (absolute zero -273.15 Celsius) candela (cd) units of luminous intensity mol (mol) for quantity of material The units are defined with the biggest possible accuracy compared to imperishable sizes. For example the metre is defined as the length of the way the light runs in af 1/299792458 second. A second is defined as 919263631770 times the characteristic atomic time for caesium-133 (cesium). To make the daily use more easy the following measurement are used: celsius (C) unit of temperature coulomb (C ) unit of quantity electricity farad (F ) unit of electrical capacity henry (H) unit of electrical inductance hertz (Hz) unit of frequency joule (J ) unit of work or energy liter (l) unit of cubic content lumen (lm) unit of luminous flux lux (lx) unit of illumination newton (N ) unit of force ohm (O_) unit of electrical resistance tesla (T) unit of magnetic inductance volt (V ) unit of electric potential watt (W ) unit of electric power weber (W) unit of magnetic flux Numeric sizes exa (E) 10 18 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 times peta (P) 10 15 1 000 000 000 000 000 times tera (T) 10 12 1 000 000 000 000 times giga (G) 10 9 1 000 000 000 times mega (M) 10 6 1 000 000 times kilo (k) 10 3 1 000 times hecto (h) 10 2 100 times deka (da) 10 1 10 times deci (d) 10 -1 0.1 times - 138 - centi (c) 10 -2 0.01 times milli (m) 10 -3 0.001 times micro (y_) 10 -6 0.000 001 times nano (n) 10 -9 0.000 000 001 times pico (p) 10 -12 0.000 000 000 001 times femto (f) 10 -15 0.000 000 000 000 001 times atto (a) 10 -18 0.000 000 000 000 000 001 times Linear measure The Metric System 1 millimetre (mm) = 0.001 m 1 centimetre (cm) = 0.01 m 1 decimetre (dm) = 0.1 m 1 dekametre (dam) = 10 m 1 hectometre (dam) = 100 m 1 kilometre (km) = 1000 m Old English and American systems 1 inch = 2.54 cm 1 foot (12 inches) = 30.48 cm 1 yard (3 feet) = 91.44 cm 1 fathom (2 yeards) = 1.83 m 1 (statute) mile (1760 yards) = 1.609 km Old Danish measures (The metric was laid down by law in 1977) 1 tomme = 2.615 cm 1 fod (12 tommer) = 31.385 cm 1 alen (2 fod) = 62.771 cm 1 favn (3 alen) = 1.883 m 1 mil (4000 favne) = 7.532 km Old Swedish measures 1 tum = 2.47 cm 1 tvärhand = 8-10 cm 1 fot = 29.7 cm 1 aln = 59.4 cm 1 gutealn = 64 cm 1 famn = 1.78 m 1 kyndelsmil = 1 600 m 1 fjärdingsväg = 2 672 m 1 rast = 5 016 m 1 lantmil = 10 689 m Other 1 geographical mile = 7.532.48 m 1 nautical mile = 1.852 m 1 Swedish mile = 10 km 1 Verst (Russian) = 1066.78 m Square measure The Metric System - 139 - 1 square meter m2 = 10000 cm2 1 are (a) = 100 m2 1 hectare (ha) = 10000 m2 1 square kilometre (km2) = 100 ha Old English and American systems 1 square inch = 6.8406 cm2 1 square foot = 0.0929 m2 1 square yard = 0.8361 m2 1 acre (4840 square yards) = 0.4047 ha Old Danish measures 1 kvadrat-alen = 0.3940 m2 1 t¢nde land (14000 alen) = 0.5516 ha 1 kvadratmil = 56.7383 km2 (10285 5/7 t¢nder land) Cubic measure The Metric System 1 litre (l) = 1000 cm3 1 cubic metre (m3) = 1000 l 1 hectolitre = 100 l English and American system 1 pint UK: = 0.568 l US: = 0.473 l 1 gallon (4 quarts=8 pints) UK: = 4.546 l US: = 3.785 l 1 bushel UK: = 36.37 l US: = 35.24 l 1 cubic foot = 0.0283 m3 1 cubic yard = 0.7646 m3 Old Danish measures 1 pægl = 0.242 l 1 pot (4 pægle) = 0.966 l 1 kubikfod = 0.0309 m3 1 t¢nde = 1.3912 hl Old Swedish measures 1 famn ved = 3.14 m3 1 stor famn ved = 4.22 m3 1 parm hö = 7.15 m3 1 kvadratfot = 882 cm2 1 tunnland = 4936 m2 1 kanna = 2.6 l 1 kappe = 4.6 l 1 fjärding = 18.32 l 1 skäppa = 36.6 l 1 spann = 73.3 l 1 tunna = 146.6 l - 140 - 1 kvarter = 32.7 cl 1 Stop = 1.3 l 1 Fjärding = 15.6 l 1 Ankare = 39.25 l 1 tunna = 125.6 l Weight The Metric System 1 milligram (mg) = 0.001 g 1 centigram (cg) = 0.01 g 1 decigram (dg) = 0.1 g 1 dekagram (dag) = 10 g 1 hectogram (hg) = 100 g 1 kilogram (kg) = 1000 g English and American systems 1 grain (gr) = 0.0648 g 1 ounce (480 grains) (oz) = 28.350 g 1 pound (16 ounces) (lb) = 0.4536 kg 1 hundredweight UK: 112 pounds (cwt) = 50.8 kg US: 100 pounds (cwt) = 45.36 kg 1 long ton UK: 2240 pounds = 1016 kg 1 short ton US: 2000 pounds = 907.18 kg 1 stone (14 lbs) = 6.35 kg Old Danish measures 1 kvint = 5.0 kg 1 lod = 15.625 g 1 pund (100 kvint)(32 lodder) = 500 g 1 lispund (16 pund) = 8 kg 1 centner (100 pund) = 50 kg Old Swedish measures 1 korn = 42.5 mg 1 kvinting = 3.32 g 1 ort = 4.25 g 1 lod = 13.28 g 1 skålpund = 425 g 1 skeppspund = 170 kg 1 bast sill = 24 st sillar (sill is a fish) 1 val sill = 80 st sillar 1 bunt sill = 100 st sillar Temperature Fahrenheit = Celcius * 9 / 5 + 32 Celsius = (Fahrenheit - 32) * 5 / 9 Decimal/Hexadecimal/Binary numeric systems Sometimes it is hard to know how you calculate from one system to another. Small number are easy, but large numbers are much harder. It is important - 141 - to understand how these numbers work if you are doing a little programming yourself. If you don't want to be able of doing things manually, buy a calculator that can convert for you. Decimal-10 Hexadecimal $-16 Binary-2 ────────────────────────────────────────────── 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 10 3 3 11 4 4 100 5 5 101 6 6 110 7 7 111 8 8 1000 9 9 1001 10 A 1010 11 B 1011 12 C 1100 13 D 1101 14 E 1110 15 F 1111 16 10 10000 100 64 1100100 255 FF 1111111 256 100 10000000 1024 400 10000000000 4096 1000 1000000000000 65535 FFFF 1111111111111111 65536 10000 10000000000000000 ────────────────────────────────────────────── To convert from one system to another there are a few tricks you can use. Hexadecimal (hex) -> Binary Example: $12FA -> ? __12FA_ Hex / / | \ / | | \ 0001 0010 1111 1010 Binary Result = 0001001011111010 (You can loose the leading zeroes) Take each hex number and convert to a 4 bit binary number. Then put all together in one long row, strip leading zeroes. That's it, pretty simple. Binary -> Hexadecimal (hex) Example: 1010011110 -> ? Divide into blocks of 4 from behind 1. 1110 2. 1001 1110 3. 10 1001 1110 Add leading zeroes 4. 0010 1001 1110 Convert each block to hex. 5. 2 8+1 8+4+2 Result 6. $29E Decimal -> Hexadecimal - 142 - No easy way, so we 'just' divide. Example: 48 -> ? 47 / 16 = 2 <- 1st number ----- \ 2x16 = 32 | Remainder = 47-32 = 15 | 15 / 1 = 15 = F <- 2nd number | | Result = $2F | | 16^0 1 Example: 32891 -> ? | 16^1 16 \ ---> 16^2 256 32891 / 4096 = 8 <- 1st number 16^3 4096 8x4096 = 32768 16^4 65536 Remainder = 32891-32768 = 123 16^5 1048576 123 / 256 = 0 <- 2nd number / -> 16^6 16777216 0x256 = 0 | . Remainder = 123-0 = 123 ----- / . 123 / 16 = 7 <- 3rd number 7x16 = 112 Remainder = 123-112 = 11 ^ 11 / 1 = 11 = B <- 4th number | | Result = $807B | | Hexadecimal -> Decimal | This way is much faster than the other | way around. | | Example: $1A4F | |||1 | ||16 ___________________________________________ / |256 4096 (A) (F) Calculation: 1 x 4096 + 10 x 256 + 4 x 16 + 15 x 1 = 6735 Decimal -> Binary No easy way, so we 'just' divide. Example: 147 -> ? 147 / 128 = 1 <- 1st number 2^0 1 1x128 = 128 2^1 2 Remainder = 147-128 = 19 2^2 4 19 / 64 = 0 <- 2nd number 2^3 8 19 / 32 = 0 <- 3rd number ---------------> 2^4 16 19 / 16 = 1 <- 4th number 2^5 32 1x16 = 16 2^6 64 Remainder = 19-16 = 3 2^7 128 3 / 8 = 0 <- 5th number 2^8 256 3 / 4 = 0 <- 6th number . 3 / 2 = 1 <- 7th number . 1x2 = 2 Remainder = 3-2 = 1 ^ 1 / 1 = 1 <- 8th number | - 143 - | Result = 10010011 | | Binary -> Decimal | Example: 10110101 -> ? | |||||||1 | ||||||2 | |||||4 | ||||8 | |||16 ---------------------------------- / ||32 |64 128 Calculation: 1x128 + 0x64 + 1x32 + 1x16 + 0x8 + 1x4 + 0x2 + 1x1 = 181 - 144 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ End of manual ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── We think Terminate is the final terminal. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Information about SHAREWARE/LITE/PLUS versions ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SHAREWARE versions: We hope you'll agree and encourage you to share copies of the evaluation version of Terminate with others - but subject to the following limitations: ALL the files in GIVEAWAY\ must be distributed. The individual files must also be complete and unmodified and without the addition of other files. Terminate may not be `bundled' with hardware without written permission from SerWiz Comm. Cost effective licences for Terminate LITE are available for modem manufacturers/distributors: SerWiz Comm Fax +44 171 394 1230 (or nearest registration site) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── LITE versions: The LITE versions are only delivered with modems and hardware. You cannot re-sell LITE versions. Cost effective licences for Terminate LITE are available for modem manufacturers/distributors: SerWiz Comm Fax +44 171 394 1230 (or nearest registration site) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── PLUS versions: PLUS versions are retail software. For more information on buying PLUS versions, please send a fax to: SerWiz Comm Fax +44 171 394 1230 (or nearest registration site) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── PROFESSIONAL versions: Professional versions are only available through T-REGS the electronical registration site or through a local registration site. Succinctly: no one other than SerWiz Comm and the authorised registration sites may charge money for TERMINATE PROFESSIONAL. - 145 - Site licence deals are available from your local registration site or directly from SerWiz Comm. Site licence deals are only authorized when you purchase 50 or more copies. Exceptions could be made under special circumstances, but only if you deal directly with SerWiz Comm. SerWiz Comm Fax +44 171 394 1230 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY IN NO EVENT WILL STRATHRORY SYSTEMS LIMITED, SERWIZ COMM OR ASSOCIATES BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ADDITIONAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS, OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE TERMINATE OR UTILITIES FOR TERMINATE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. Special thanks ────────────── Bjarne Duelund For testing and utility-programming, running DAN BBS Bj¢rn L¢ndahl Information on how the point system should work Carsten Milling Language consultant Colin O'Brien For making the final startup screen Erik Andersen For making GIF source codes for us. Finn Johansen 1000 ideas. (At least) and moral support Gregory P. Smith For making the Avatar/Ansi module Jesper Larsen For all his very good ideas Keld R. Hansen Sourcecodes and information Lars Nyby For making nice tunes Mads Storm Garf, Barp, Gnyf etc. Michael Rochman It is expensive calling from USA Mike Dickson For helping with OS/2, Author of Panther Pia M¢ller For tolerating Bo Bendtsen's endless coding hours Peter Krag-Sander For helping with graphics support (soon!) Preben Eriksen For making Terminate demos Shin Do Juku My martial arts club, Shin Do Ken Kempo (Kungfu) S¢ren Ager Sourcecodes and mailer information Thomas Bj¢rk For ideas, bugfixes, complaints, running DAN BBS TurboPower For making Async professional/Object professional Special thank you to the special Gamma test team: Andreas Streit Host, TerMail, Fax Andy Roberts OS/2 tester. Finally made the Zoom setup with Steve Dietmar Kneidl Organizing the German testers Gerald Himmelein Translating, testing, pushing people around Hans-Georg Joepgen Fixing PS/2 problems Harald Kamm Testing faxmanager, file transfer and much much more Ludger Wilde Testing TerMai, Hostmode, configuration and more Olaf Thormaehlen Pointsystem and emulations Steve Stacher Keeping the conferences clean and probing the mailsystem And all others that have ever tested Terminate. - and lots of other people for supporting this product. We will never claim that all the ideas are our own - the main reason Terminate is so feature-packed is because of all the users (maybe even you?) who have demanded and suggested ever more options and features. - 146 - Trademarks The following trademarks are owned by Strathrory Systems Limited: Terminate Registered Trademark The Final Terminal Trademark TerMail Trademark VISIBLE FAST Trademark T-Fax Trademark The Final Fax Manager Trademark PreScription Trademark T-List Trademark SmartNote Trademark Other names or products containing the word TERMINATE, can only be used with written permission. SerWiz Comm will decide which ideas, conference's etc. which will be allowed to use the name Terminate or contain the word Terminate. All unoffically and local Terminate conferences must obtain a permit before 1. October 1994 to be allowed to continue the use of the trademark. If you are a moderator for a Terminate conference and do not have the permission, please send a fax to SerWiz Comm if you want to apply. Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. The story about the Terminate trademark The Terminate trademark was an idea of Bo Bendtsen when he was beginning to plan his terminal program. He had programmed a little nameless terminal and was looking for a good name. It would have to be related to modems, terminal software or something similar. One day while he was expanding the network of his BBS system, Bo picked up a network terminator (50 ohms ethernet), looked at it and pondered: 'Network terminator. No... YES... that's it: Terminate.' - 147 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Information for blind people ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ The name of this document is BLIND.DOC. It can be found in the DOCS directory of Terminate. This file contains only information for people that cannot see. Because we got a lot of personal requests from blind people, we decided to create a few extra features which will help you to use Terminate even faster and more easily than any other terminal program we know. Most of you use some kind of speech device which only can detect BIOS writes. Terminate will use direct screen writes in menus and BIOS calls in terminal mode. You can choose to use BIOS calls all the time. If you select Blind Support under installation the following will be selected: Sound is turned on giving you a sound when popping up or down a window Key click is turned on giving you a click every time you press a key Only menus will use direct screen writes Cursor will be forced on all the time so your helper can see the cursor All sounds are turned on Passwords will not be hidden No automatic passwords will be generated The Blind Transfer window will be used for transfering files The File Manager will default to only one window Some extra sounds have been added In submenus all the background windows will be removed before showing the new window. With blind support enabled, Terminate will always turn on the cursor so if you have a helper he/she can tell you if the cursor position was wrong and ask me to correct the error. This function also allows you to press CONTROL ENTER and then move the cursor. This will move the cursor position to the first position in the helpline at the bottom of the screen, allowing you faster speech access. If no help is found in a menu, when the menuline selector is used, then a beep will be played: high tone, low tone. To make things easier when transferring files, instead of the normal full screen file transfer menu yours have been cut down to the actual information you need. A sample picture is shown below. This window starts at 1,1 upper left corner and the cursor is placed just before the bytes transferred. The menu looks like the following lines: ╒════════════╡ Blind transfer ╞╕ │ Filename DANBBS.ARJ │ │ Filesize 2153297 │ │ 75% 8192 │ │ CPS │ │ H Hangup No S Skip file │ ╘══════════════════════════════╛ - 148 - Menu finished. Line 1: The name on the file. Line 2: The size of the file. Line 3: How many percent and how many bytes that are transfered. Line 4: Chars per second, speed of transfer. Line 5: S for skipping the rest of file, h for hanging up after transfer. The message reader for Terminate is called TerMail. When starting up this editor you could give the parameter /BLIND to enable special sounds and features. If you call up TerMail from Terminate Alt-F7,L then this parameter will automatically be added if blind support is enabled. In the filemanager you can press Q for Quiet, which will disable the entire left side and make it easier to view the files. list of hot-key in terminate: change configuration (alt-o) s = screen and collors c = communikations setup g = general option t = toggels m = modem and dialing f = filenames and paths p = protocol options e = emulation/keyboard setup h = host settings l = login strings/scripts u = user(iemsi/security n = point system a = cost management r = registration info w = write setup to disk phonebook (alt-d) ins = insert entry del = delete entry a = add entry e = edit/view d = dial numbers m = manual dial f = find s = sort entries i = import p = change phonebooks o = other functions g = global change v = save now l = voice call c = copy or move entries t = edit capture file n = edit note file w = show warndays tagging = space, plus (+), minus (-), stat (*) phonebook edit (alt-d,e) - 149 - s = system name p = phonenumber d = device u = user profile w = password o = opening hours t = terminal x = dial prefix f = dial suffix c = com information a = autologin l = downloadpath n = notefile pointsystem (alt-f7) c = call boss m = call system s = send files r = file request k = kill mail t = auto requests p = pickup mail a = send ak's z = zoom mail e = mail address n = send messager h = change mail l = mail editor i = import x = export ter mail a = areafix d = delete e = edit esc = exit enter = area These features was made with help from many blind persons. In the future our blind contact person will help us to support these features. If you have any special needs, please send a letter to the following person and he will help us doing what you want or need: H.C. Andersen Fregatten 14 5330 Munkebo Denmark Fidonet 2:236/111.101 - 150 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Additional Features when you upgrade to the PROFESSIONAL version ░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ■ Reminder goes away The annoying 'Please consider registering' picture will not be displayed after a random period anymore. ■ Phonebook report You will be able to generate a report containing time used, KB transferred, how much money you have used every month for the last 12 months etc. and a printout of the phonebook, which tells how much each entry has cost you. ■ Manual mail in the Point system, which allows you to send or request files with non-predefined systems. You can then call manually or a number from the phonebook and, when the connection is made and we know which NODE we have on the other end, the MANUMAIL.* will be renamed to the correct filename like 236/111 (DAN BBS) and MANUMAIL.REQ will be renamed to 00EC006F.REQ (00EC=236 006F=111), before the file is sent - otherwise the other system will not accept a filerequest, if it gets the wrong filename. ■ Auto Request, which allows you to specify 10 phonenumbers to try requesting files from. When the files are selected in the Tagmenu, the Raid system will call up the numbers in sequence and try requesting the files. It will keep on requesting until you have all the files demanded or escape. ■ Turn off the opening/closing screens, for faster startup/closedown. ■ Select if you want DAN BBS at the top when creating new phonebooks. ■ Capture keystrokes When you use the capture function, then you can record all keys typed at your keyboard. Type SECRET will capture: [S,83][E,69][C,67][R,82][E,69][T,84]. This gives you first the char pressed and then its ascii value. This will be a very useful feature when debugging scripts, etc. Please do not abuse this feature by stealing your best friends' password! ■ Ask device at startup Some people use several devices. It could be different modems or ISDN- lines. When this function is turned on, Terminate will ask you which device you want at startup. ■ You will be able to simulate Portal of Power when requesting files. ■ You can put security passwords on configuration, phonebook changes, point system, screen blanker and file manager. ■ Create secondary encrypted logfiles. Mostly for network administrators. ■ Network lock. Lock TERMINAT.EXE to a network path, so it cannot be moved. - 151 - Also lock the EXE-file to a certain keyfile which can be placed anywhere. ■ The VISIBLE FAST (tm) access menu, when pressing Alt-V or mouse click in the lower right corner. ■ The SmartNote will have very fast and good searching on Alt-F and Alt-Z. ■ TerMail will write PROFESSIONAL in PID and insert a /Pro in the tearline. ■ Every function in the FAX manager will work ■ All other features that pop up the window saying "Please upgrade" ■ You help support future development of this user-supported program. ■ You are allowed to use the program for more than 21 days. - 152 - ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ░░░░ Licence agreement ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Notice of COPYRIGHT and EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY Under local laws and according to the relevant international conventions, ALL versions of Terminate are copyright 1992-94 of Strathrory Systems Ltd. Worldwide distributor SerWiz Comm All rights reserved. IN NO EVENT WILL STRATHRORY SYSTEMS LIMITED, SERWIZ COMM OR ASSOCIATES BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ADDITIONAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS, OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE TERMINATE OR UTILITIES FOR TERMINATE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. Succintly: By using this program, you agree not to hold Strathrory Systems Limited, SerWiz Comm or associates responsible for anything other than taking up a lot of disk space. SHAREWARE LICENCE SerWiz Comm hereby grants to all a licence terminable at 7 days notice to distribute copies of the Shareware evaluation version of Terminate subject to the following limitations: ALL the files must be distributed. The individual files must also be complete and unmodified and without the addition of other files. Terminate may NEVER be sold or distributed for profit or anticipated profit without the written permission of the worldwide distributor. Terminate may not be `bundled' with hardware without written permission from the worldwide distributor. Cost-effective licences for Terminate LITE are available for modem manufacturers and distributors: fax +44 171 394 1230 Succinctly: no one other than SerWiz Comm and the authorised national Registration Sites may charge money for Terminate. Neither a personalised Key File, Terminate Lite, Terminate Professional, Terminate-f-W, Terminate NT or Terminate OS/2 may be copied (other than for backup purposes) or distributed. OFFER OF LICENCE SerWiz Comm and associates hereby offers you, the reader of this offer, - 153 - a licence to use Terminate for 21 days for evaluation purposes only in return for your agreement to report to SerWiz Comm directly or indirectly any bugs found or suggestions for improvements. If you decline this offer, please do not use Terminate. * -=> P R I Z E D R A W R E G I S T R A T I O N <=- We think Terminate is the final terminal. To encourage you to share copies of this evaluation version of Terminate with others we now have a little incentive for you: Every month beginning 1 January 1994, the Electronic Regsite will send fifty pounds sterling (£50) to some lucky Terminate users! But who is eligible? When people register at the Electronic Regsite we now have the ability to detect the two people who previously copied the distribution files to the person upgrading to Terminate PROFESSIONAL. It is these two previous users (our `distribution team') that qualify for free money! Winners are announced in Terminate Tech Support conferences To join the list of eligible prizewinners, just spread Terminate around - the distribution files they need are in the \GIVEAWAY directory..... You MUST have used your real name upon installation since the prize will be sent to that address - so please make be sure that you filled in the information correctly when you installed Terminate! If you later decide to register and pay for Terminate, this information will be used to generate your personalised Key File. (You can't register Terminate under an alias like Donald Duck). To register for an organisation also give the name of the person using the program. eg: Users Name (title and firm if applicable): Sir Oliver Smith / The Hunting Society