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- FidoTerm 4a
- Tom Jennings
- Box 77731
- San Francisco
- CA 94107 USA
-
- FidoTerm is shareware; for the $12 registration fee you get a nice
- printed manual that describes how it all works, and the innards of
- the script language.
-
- But for now I'll tell you what you need to know to operate it:
-
- RUNNING FIDOTERM
-
- FT <options> <enter>
-
- By default, FT will use COM1 (or for the FOSSIL version, whatever you have
- set up for "port 1") for communicating, presumably with a modem (though it
- doesn't insist on that).
-
- You can change this with command line options: /1 /2 /3 or /4 will select
- the port you want.
-
- FIDOTERM.SCR
-
- That's all well and fine, but a bit annoying to remember to do everytime.
- The real way to do it is with FidoTerm's startup script file, "FIDOTERM.SCR".
- In this simply put the commands you want FT to run when you start it -- OOPS!
- well if you don't have a manual, here's a few examples:
-
- &b= 9600
- ioport 2
-
- &B is the baud rate register; here we're setting it to 9600 instead of FT's
- default of 1200. (You can still change it at any time with the appropriate
- command within FidoTerm.) 'ioport' specifies the serial port to use. (The
- command line option overrides this.)
-
- FidoTerm will hunt down this script file; put it in the PATH where you put
- your programs, or in the subdirectory or diskette you run FT.EXE from.
-