lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (02/08/90)
In <9002090421.AA21699@astro.psu.edu>, antunes@ASTRO.PSU.EDU (Alex Antunes) writes: >Hello. I have been toying around with ATERM off the fish disk. >It doesn't seem to have any directions, and there is little >documentation in the c code. Does anyone out there know if it >can be called from the CLI with one line, that sets it to 1200 baud, >automatically dials the number, etc. As it is now, all I can do is >type "aterm", use the mouse to change the baud rate, hand-type in the >number, etc. Aterm is now (and has been for some time), quite capable of > (I usually use the excellent program handshake, but am looking for a > quick way for only checking email with minimum memory used.) > (Aterm seems to be the lowest memory using term-em around.) Aterm, in its current incarnation (Aterm 7.3 and 7.3.1) is capable of being run with sensible defaults. It uses the preferences serial settings to come up, so you can set that up the way you want it, or you can run it and set up a lot of things, like baud rate, duplex, default protocol, prompt character for ASCII transmit, and the contents of all the function keys, then save that file as 'init.keys'. At load time, Aterm will look for init.keys, and if present in current dir or S:, load it in, ready to go. It has a 'phone book' which can have an associated environment file such that when you tell it to dial an entry, it will load a file in the same way as init.keys. The FKeys are fairly powerful. They can be used to send a string, mainly, but a key can also invoke another FKey, or can load another, named FKey file. You can also have it load another FKey file and invoke any FKey defined in the laoded file (which might, in turn, reload the file that loaded it, etc.) Its window opens to a fixed 640*200, which some folks don't like, but which allows a full 80*24 terminal. It will not let you use the WB, but if you have windows already open (like a CLI), or if you have a CLI 'popper', you can use them along with Aterm, at the same time. Aterm will remain full screen on the WB, but the other windows may be resized. 7.3 is about 50K. 7.3.1 is a variation that has the Kermit protocol removed (I still use 7.3.1 for 99% of my telecomm), and is about 27K in size. 7.3 is available on Compuserve and perhaps on other commercial services. I'll post 7.3.1 to binaries and sources if you'd like. -larry -- Gallium Aresnide is the technology of the future; always has been, always will be. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
antunes@ASTRO.PSU.EDU (Alex Antunes) (02/09/90)
Hello. I have been toying around with ATERM off the fish disk. It doesn't seem to have any directions, and there is little documentation in the c code. Does anyone out there know if it can be called from the CLI with one line, that sets it to 1200 baud, automatically dials the number, etc. As it is now, all I can do is type "aterm", use the mouse to change the baud rate, hand-type in the number, etc. (I usually use the excellent program handshake, but am looking for a quick way for only checking email with minimum memory used.) (Aterm seems to be the lowest memory using term-em around.) ------------ Sandy Antunes "the Waupelani Kid" 'cause that's where I live... antunes@astro.psu.edu Penn State Astronomy Dept --- "once in a lifetime there comes a time... but this ain't it" ---