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^hIntroduction to the Final Terminal^n 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. ^hWhat is a terminal program?^n 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! ^hOnline help^n In almost every menu you are able to press F1 to get help for the current menu. If you want to change the help file, you can press E to edit the file directly. To speed things up, you can press F and enter a keyword to find. This function will only search forwards - so if you want to search the entire helpfile, you must press HOME first. I have chosen to use this form of On-line Help, because then the entire manual can be loaded directly from the menus where it is needed. You can run MANUAL.EXE, which will compile all the help files into one big manual without colorcodes, and then you can print it out. In this way you don't have to waste disk space on both help files AND a manual since you can always delete TERMINAT.DOC and run the MANUAL.EXE program later. ^hTERMINAT ?^n will give you a list of all available parameters You are now in terminal mode and have configured the system. If you have not configured Terminate, press Alt-O now. Remember that you can press F1 in any menu where you need more help. ^hEditing input fields^n When you start editing a field/number/string, you can modify the previous contents by first pressing cursor left/right. The field will then change colour and you can append/insert new characters. If you just start typing immediately, the field will be blanked and the cursor placed on position 1. Terminate will always remember the last 16 fields you have typed. That way, if you type something new in a field and want to change it back, just edit the field again and press ^bCURSOR-UP^n or DOWN and you are now able to cycle between the last 16 fields. In every input field where all characters are allowed, you can also press ^bAlt-A^n and the character selector will appear, showing all characters from #0..#255. If you want a return sign, just move to #13 and press return. To see all 16 strings, press ^bAlt-F9^n from terminal mode. The following section outlines all Terminal mode commands and gives some useful tips and tricks. We advise you to read all of this if you are not familiar with modems and communication programs. If you are an advanced user you can probably guess what most functions are used for and settle for the quick reference at Alt-Z and the help lines at the bottom line in the menus. ^hMouse^n The mouse system in Terminate provides some nice features and allows you to move around easily in menus and even start downloading without touching the keyboard. You must have already installed a mouse driver, of course, eg: MOUSE.COM v9.00 (MicroSoft) or LMOUSE.COM v6.10 (LogiTech) or similar. Old mouse drivers may conflict with our communication driver - so if your screen messes up, try turning off the mouse. If that does not work, then try using another mouse driver. Old mouse drivers is also only able to support 80x25,80x43,80x50 and not all the extended 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! ^hSHIFT-ESC^n 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. Costs. Memory left etc. look for yourself. ^hAlt-A^n 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: ^hSmartNote commands^n (Many of these commands are the same as Qedit by SEMWARE) ^bAlt-1^n Uppercase line ^bAlt-2^n Lowercase line ^bAlt-A^n Select character from ASCII-selector ^bAlt-C^n Clear/erase all lines ^bAlt-D^n ^bD^no it for you. Simulate a fast typist ^bAlt-E^n Edit file with the external editor ^bAlt-F^n Search after keyword ^bAlt-G^n Import the last block you grabbed with Alt-K ^bAlt-I^n Import all history strings at cursorline ^bAlt-J^n Jump to DOS ^bAlt-K^n String grabber ^bAlt-L^n Load another note file ^bAlt-R^n Send from cursor position and ^bR^nest of line ^bAlt-S^n ^bS^nend line without carriage return (#13) ^bAlt-T^n Send from position 1 ^bT^no cursor position ^bAlt-U^n Import textfile into cursor position ^bAlt-W^n Send ^bW^nord under cursor ^bAlt-Z^n Turbo Search in all note files ^m┌──────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┤^t Searching for 'YOU' ^m├┐ │ ^nINTERNET ^m│^h Here you can place any command ^byou^h like or just want to r ^m│ │ ^nINTERNET ^m│^h The following lines are only examples of what ^byou^h could s ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h used by default. If ^byou^h want to use another note file with ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h it will be used when ^byou^h are online at that system. ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h In here you can write all the information ^byou^h normally wr ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h several small pieces of papers, which ^byou^h of course cannot ^m│ │^r SMARTNOT ^m│^h ^bYou^h can grab from all places in Terminate, not only in term ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h I hope ^byou^h now understand how useful this feature will be ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h Try and grab something, it does not matter where ^byou^h grab f ^m│ │ ^nSMARTNOT ^m│^h matters that ^byou^h try yourself and see how easy you can grab ^m│ │ ^nCOMPSERV ^m│^h Here ^byou^h can place any command you like or just want to r ^m│ │ ^nCOMPSERV ^m│^h The following lines are only examples of what ^byou^h could s ^m│ └──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘^n 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. ^bCtrl-Enter^n Send line to device with a carriage ^breturn^n (#13) ^bCtrl-Y^n Delete current line ^bCtrl-T^n Delete right word ^bF2^n Add line ^bF4^n Duplicate line ^bF6^n Delete from cursor until end of line ^bAlt-F9^n History strings ^hSmartNote cursor-movement commands^n ^bHome^n Goto start of line ^bEnd^n Goto end of line ^bCtrl-Home^n Goto first screen line ^bCtrl-End^n Goto last screen line ^bCursor Up^n Move 1 line up ^bCursor Down^n Move 1 line down ^bCursor Left^n Move one position left ^bCursor Right^n Move one position right ^bCtrl-Left^n Move one word to the left ^bCtrl-Right^n Move one word to the right ^bPageUp^n Go 1 page down ^bPageDown^n Go 1 page up ^bCtrl-PageUp^n Goto top of file ^bCtrl-PageDown^n Goto bottom of file ^bInsert^n Toggle Insert/Overwrite ^bDelete^n Delete character under cursor ^bBackspace^n Delete character before cursor ^hAlt-B^n (^hShift-CursorUp^n) Scrollback buffer Terminate will save the last incoming screen in a special buffer. The size of this buffer can be set in the configuration and you should decrease it if you are running short of memory. Both text and colours are saved in this buffer. ^hAlt-C^n Clear Screen Clears screen, sets default colours and cleans up. ^hAlt-D^n 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. ^hAlt-E^n Local echo Echo all characters sent to the modem on the screen. Normally this is always turned off. ^hAlt-F^n The File Manager Also calls external utilities and has almost every function that Norton Commander(TM) has - and then a little more :-) ^hAlt-G^n Scripts Scripts will follow in later versions... ^hAlt-H^n 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. ^hAlt-I^n Screen image Will save the current screen in the capture file (default is TERMINAT.CAP). You can define other capture files for each phonebook entry and the current capture file will always be used to save images. ^hAlt-J^n DOS-Shell Calls COMMAND.COM (COMSPEC) and invokes a dos-shell. You can set Terminate up to not swap out memory first. Type ^hEXIT^n to return. ^hAlt-K^n String grabber Grabs any string and saves it in the history strings. You can adjust the grab size by pressing Shift and move cursor keys right, left, up or down. You can use this function EVERYWHERE in Terminate. So if you call a system, and want to remember a phone number: Grab the number, go into the phonebook, add a new entry, edit phone number, press cursor up and recall the grabbed number. This should save you cluttering your desk with thousands of small pieces of paper! ^hAlt-L^n 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. ^hAlt-M^n Miscellaneous functions ^m╒╡^t Miscellaneous functions ^m╞╕ │ ^bM^nodem reset/Init device ^m│ │ ^bA^nnswer call at once ^m│ ├───────────────────────────┤ │ ^b2^n5 lines ^m│ │ ^b3^n0 lines ^m│ │ ^b4^n3/50 lines ^m│ │ ^bV ^nTseng 4000 100x40 ^m│ │ ^bO ^nXGA 132x25 ^m│ │ ^bE ^nReset 80x25 ^m│ ├───────────────────────────┤ │ ^bH^nostmode ^m│ │ ^bF^nax Manager (Alt-F12) ^m│ │ ^bR^nun Download Manager... ^m│ │ ^bK^neyboard lock ^m│ │ ^bB^nlanker (screen) ^m│ │ ^bC^nhoose char to send ^m│ │ ^bS^n-registers (read/write) ^m│ │ ^bT^nerminal mode simulation ^m│ │ ^bL^nist of countries ^m│ │ ^bG^nMT & time zones ^m│ │ ^bP^nrivacy Insurance ^m│ ╘═══════════════════════════╛ ^bM^n First reset device, then allows you to select which init string to send to the modem ^bA^n Pick up phone (send the auto answer string) ^b2^n Switch to 25 lines screen mode ^b3^n Switch to 30 lines screen mode (VGA only) ^b4^n If EGA, then switch to 43 lines; if VGA, then 50 lines ^bV^n Startup screen mode if using custom screen modes ^bO^n Another definable screen mode ^bE^n Mode to use when exiting Terminate and using custom mode ^bH^n Startup hostmode, look in configuration for more information You can also start the hostmode directly: TERMINAT /HOST ^bF^n 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. ^bR^n Run Download Manager ^bK^n Locks keyboard with password ^bB^n Activate the screen blanker ^bC^n Choose a char from the ASCII selector to send directly to port ^bS^n Show/change S-registers in a HAYES(tm) compatible modem. ^bT^n 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. ^bL^n Show list of countries that are directly supported in Terminate. ^bG^n Watch the time all over the world. ^bP^n Privacy Insurance. ^hGreenwich Mean Time^n ^m╒══════════════════════╡^t Greenwich Mean Time (G.M.T.) & time zones ^m╞╕ │ │ │ ^nGreenwich Mean Time ^h23.15.29 ^m│ │ │ │ ^nYour country ^h45 Denmark / Danmark ^m│ │ │ │ ^bTime zones ^m│ │ ^nLowest GMT^h+1 00.15.29 ^m│ │ ^nHighest GMT^h+1 00.15.29 ^m│ │ ^nYour zone GMT^h+1 00.15.29 ^m│ │ │ │^b■^nOther country ^h1 United States / Canada ^m│ │ │ │ ^bTime zones ^m│ │ ^nLowest GMT^h-11 12.15.29 ^m│ │ ^nHighest GMT^h-3 20.15.29 ^m│ │ ^nZone used GMT^h-7 16.15.29 ^m│ │ │ ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ ^bTAB ^nMove between lines ^bC ^nCountry list ^m│ │ ^bLEFT/RIGHT ^nChange GMT time or time zone ^m│ │ ^bUP/DOWN ^nChange country ^m│ ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ ^nThis function does not handle daylight saving time (summer time) ^m│ ╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛^n 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. ^hPrivacy Insurance^n 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. ^hPrevent annoying phonecalls^n 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. ^hPrevent burglary^n 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. ^fWE CAN NOT GUARANTEE OR PROMISE THAT THESE FUNCTIONS GENERATE THE DESIRED RESULTS. USE AT OWN RISK.^n ^hAlt-N^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. ^hAlt-O^n Configuration All the configuration menus. ^hAlt-P^n 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. ^hAlt-Q^n Quit autologin Quits current autologin script. If you see a flashing ^h^fA^n in the statusline then probably Terminate did not logon properly. Try correcting the login scripts in the configuration menus or turn them off. ^hAlt-R^n 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. ^hAlt-S^n Send password If you have called a system, then the password from the phonebook is sent. If that password entry is blank you will be asked to either input a new password directly or send the default password from the current userprofile. ^hAlt-T^n 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. ^hAlt-U^n System information Which multitasker, processor, graphics card, speed index etc... ^hAlt-V^n VISIBLE FAST (tm) access menu This menu allows fast access with the mouse to all functions from just one screen. For access, you can also just click a mouse button in the lower right corner. ^hAlt-W^n Translation editor Handles how characters are changed before they are sent to the remote system or what to change before displaying the character on the screen. This function is mostly used when calling Hosts or systems that cannot handle 8-bit characters. ^m╒═══════════════════════════════════════════╡^t Translation editor ^m╞╕ │ ^nFilename : .XLT ^m│ │ ^bC^nomment : ^hDefault translation tables for terminate ^m│ │ ^b( 0) ( Incoming table ) ^m│ │^h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^m│ │^h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^m│ │^h ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / ^m│ │^h 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? ^m│ │^h @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O ^m│ │^h P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ ^m│ │^h ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o ^m│ │^h p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ ^m│ │^h Ç ü é â ä à å ç ê ë è ï î ì Ä Å ^m│ │^h É æ Æ ô ö ò û ù ÿ Ö Ü ¢ £ ¥ ₧ ƒ ^m│ │^h á í ó ú ñ Ñ ª º ¿ ⌐ ¬ ½ ¼ ¡ « » ^m│ │^h ░ ▒ ▓ │ ┤ ╡ ╢ ╖ ╕ ╣ ║ ╗ ╝ ╜ ╛ ┐ ^m│ │^h └ ┴ ┬ ├ ─ ┼ ╞ ╟ ╚ ╔ ╩ ╦ ╠ ═ ╬ ╧ ^m│ │^h ╨ ╤ ╥ ╙ ╘ ╒ ╓ ╫ ╪ ┘ ┌ █ ▄ ▌ ▐ ▀ ^m│ │^h α ß Γ π Σ σ µ τ Φ Θ Ω δ ∞ φ ε ∩ ^m│ │^h ≡ ± ≥ ≤ ⌠ ⌡ ÷ ≈ ° ∙ · √ ⁿ ² ■ ^m│ │ ^m│ │ ^bR ^nReset ^bL ^nLoad ^bS ^nSave ^bT ^nIncoming/outgoing ^bU ^nASCII/Value ^m│ │ ^bX ^nTranslate a file using this table ^m│ ╘═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛^n ^bC^nomment Since it is important to know what the table is used for it is strongly advised that you enter the description here. ^bR ^nReset Remove all changes and clean the board. ^bL ^nLoad Load a table ^bS ^nSave Save table ^bT ^nIncoming/outgoing A table consists of an incoming and an outgoing table. The incoming is when you receive something from the other end, then this table will be used. The outgoing is when you send something. ^bU ^nASCII/Value Toggle values instead of character apperance. ^bX ^nTranslate a file using this table Translate a complete file using the current table. This can be used if you have files from other non PC's (Amiga, MAC, etc) ^hAlt-Y^n Chat mode If you are connected to another Terminate and press Alt-Y, Terminate will send '**EMSI_CHTF5D4'+#13 to the other end. This is normally used by IEMSI sessions, but a Terminate at the other end will change automatically - even when NOT in IEMSI mode. When you press Alt-Y again to exit chatmode the string '**EMSI_TCH3C60'+#13 will be sent to the other end so both ends exit chat mode. Chatmode works just like a terminal emulation so you can use all other functions while you are chatting, including starting to up/download. ^hAlt-X^n Exit Terminate A function you hopefully only will use once a day :-) If you are online (Carrier detected) you will be asked what to do: E^h^fx^nit, Hangup & exit, or Not exit. You can also turn on a toggle that will ask you if you are sure you want to exit Terminate. ^hAlt-Z^n Quick reference menu Here you can see a short description of all functions - and see which functions are ^hOn^n or ^hOff^n. ^hAlt-=^n Load a keyboard table This key is different on some international keyboards. It is the key next to the ^hBACKSPACE^n. Hold down Alt and press the = (the key to the left of the backspace). Keyboards can be customized in the configuration. You can setup a default keyboard for each terminal emulation, but you can also specify a keyboard file to be loaded for each phonebook entry. ^hCtrl-End^n 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. ^hScrollLock^n Doorway mode This is a special mode (originated by Marshall Dudley) to allow you to send keyboard scan codes, instead of normal ASCII characters. The statusline will be removed so the entire screen can be used. If you need to use a menu, you must first disable Doorway mode, use the menu and then enable Doorway mode again. The reason is that when you press, for example, Alt-O then the scancode for Alt-O is sent and the remote site can use the Alt-O as if that key had been pressed at the remote site. The technical idea behind this Doorway mode is quite simple: If normal ASCII character, then send character; else, if special key, send a ASCII 0, send scancode. ^hPageDown^n Download Here you can select which protocol you want to use for the file transfer. Download means receive files. A file transfer protocol is a way of sending/receiving data between the remote site and ourselves. Zmodem is the best to use for normal users where it is available... ^hPageUp^n Upload When you want to send a file to the remote site, you will have to use a file transfer protocol. First you will be placed in the filemanager. From here you can select a file or files (if the file-protocol allows batch transfers, meaning more than 1 file at the time). Just press ^hRETURN^n on the selected file then the transfer will start. If you are using a batch protocol, lets say Zmodem, then you can select several files by marking the files first. You can select files in both windows. ^bAlt-1..Alt-0 Change different toggles^n These are toggles that can be set permanently in the configuration. ^hAlt-1^n Sound Turns beeps/alarms/alerts on/off ^hAlt-2^n 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. ^hAlt-3^n 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. ^hAlt-4^n 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. ^hAlt-5^n 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. ^hAlt-6^n 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. ^hAlt-7^n 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 this off in the configuration. ^hAlt-8^n 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. ^hAlt-9^n 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. ^hAlt-0^n 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. ^hAlt-F1^n 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: ^bAlt-Z for help^n just Help Information. ^bdsrdtr cd sdrd ctsrtsri^n Modem lights: capital letters mean that the line is high. If cd is in big letters:'CD', then carrier detect on the modem is high (red/on). ^bSystem Name^n Name of the system called or `Manual' if connection was not made via the dialer. ^bCurrent device^n Which device is in use. ^hAlt-F2^n 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: ^bTime^n Current local time ^bOnline time^n Online time in mm:ss format ^bCosts^n How much money you have used this call ^bOnline time^n Online time in hh:mm format ^bSecondary currency^n Show costs in secondary currency ^bCursor position^n Show x,y position of cursor on screen ^hAlt-F3^n 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 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. ^hAlt-F4^n 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. ^hAlt-F5^n File tagger This function will identify possible filenames anywhere on the screen. You can tag the files you want to download so you don't need to write them down on paper. You can also use the scrollback buffer ^hAlt-B^n and tag files from there. ^hAlt-F6^n Tagmenu When you have tagged some files, and selected a protocol at the remote site, then you will normally be asked which files to download. The tagmenu will have stored all the files you want and will then send the filenames, so you will not have to do this manually. The tagmenu has many, many more functions such as tagging from file lists. ^hAlt-F7^n Point system The point system is a system were you can send/get mail or files. It can connect to any other program using a mailer that has EMSI. At the present time: Frontdoor, d'Bridge, Binkley, Portal of Power etc. Note that you will not actually get online to the system, but only connect to the remote mail system. From here you can ^hrequest^n files from that system, without even getting online. You can also write a netmail message directly to sysops. But please, refer to the point manual for more. ^hAlt-F8^n Hostmode For more information about the hostmode, see the section about hostmode or enter hostmode and press F1. ^hAlt-F9^n History strings Here you can edit or send old strings to the modem. Every time you edit a string anywhere in Terminate, the last string will be saved and you can recall old strings in an input field, by pressing Cursor Up/Down. RETURN will edit the strings, and SPACE will send the string to the modem. Here also the description for files is saved when uploading and a FILES.BBS /DESCRIPT.ION file 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. ^hAlt-F10^n CD Audio player If you have an audio CD-ROM, and have installed MSCDEX (Microsoft CD Extension). Then you will be able to play normal music CD's. You can view the start and length of every track on the CD. ^hAlt-F11^n External editor Calls the external editor. This could be Q.EXE (Qedit) or whatever editor you might like to use. ^hAlt-F12^n Fax manager. See the documentation for the fax manager. ^hNETWORK^n To use Terminate on a network drive you must set the file to be shareable. With Novell you can use the FLAG command. ^hFLAG TERMINAT.EXE srw^n, then the file will be set to shareable. On networks that do not support sharing directly (eg Lantastic), you must load SHARE.EXE on the server ONLY. A lot of people think they must load SHARE.EXE on the work stations also. But this is a mistake!!!! SHARE.EXE should only be loaded on machines that allow others to access the hard disk. So if you have a workstation that only accesses the server, you should NEVER waste memory on loading SHARE.EXE. Unfortunately a lot of programmers have misunderstood this idea and demand that SHARE is present. The only problems that occur when running Terminate from several stations at one time is that you cannot write to the same logfile and use the same swapfile. This can be helped by either turning the logfile off or setting an environment variable in your AUTOEXEC.BAT like this: SET NET=1 Then define TERMINA%NET%.LOG. When opening the logfile TERMINA1.LOG will be used. If SET NET=2 then TERMINA2.LOG etc. will be used. Note that Terminate will always replace environment variables with the correct values. The same goes for the swapfile. You can also use different configuration files using this system. TERMINAT /C:TERMINA%NET%.CFG Then TERMINA1.CFG will be used for this station, if SET NET=2 then TERMINA2.CFG will be used. If you are a network administrator then I bet you have had these problems with configuration files many times before, but this should solve any problems that you might get. ^hTerminate Thesaurus^n 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.