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