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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

4018.0. "Looking for an AUTO DIAL term program" by EUCLID::OWEN (I will not instigate revolution) Wed Aug 15 1990 14:58

HELP!  I need a terminal program that automatically dials when you load it!

I'm trying to help my Mom, who has no idea what to do with a computer besides 
turn it on, use my Amiga.

This is what she needs to do... Call a computer she needs for work and send 
the entire screen text output to a printer.  This only needs to work at 300 
baud.  I have an A2000 w/hard drive, an epson LX-800 printer, and a 2400bd 
avatex modem.

What I'd like to do is create a bootable disk with a terminal program that will 
automatically dial a number when you start it up, and that will automatically send 
the screen output continually to the printer.

I've tried JRcomm, which has a 'send to printer' function, but I can't get it 
to dial the number when it loads the initial modem commands.  (ie, I've tried 
to put atdt###-#### as an initial command)  Besides, you can't save the 
'printer on' feature as an initial setup, you have to set it every time you 
want to do it.

Does anyone have any idea what terminal program I can use to do this?

Thanks,
Steve

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4018.1 Almost anything should do... FENRYS::mwm Mike Meyer Wed Aug 15 1990 15:29 25

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4018.1	Almost anything should do...	FENRYS::mwm	Mike Meyer	`Wed Aug 15 1990 15:29`	25
	I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "send the entire screen text output to a printer." If you mean that all text coming in the serial port should be sent to the printer, then almost any terminal program should do the trick. If you mean that she needs to dump the text on the screen to the printer, then I don't know what to do. In any case, you need four common features to do the former. 1) auto-dial. 2) A scripting language. 3) The ability to specify a script to run at startup. 4) an asci capture facility. VLT does this. However, I don't have the docs here, and haven't looked into the new version, but the method is simple, and applies to all terminal emulators with those features: 1) Arrange to start the emulator running said script at boot time, or create an icon (possibly via IconX or your favorite variant) that starts it running the script. 2) Have the script dial the number. 3) Start an ascii capture to prt: You might want to swap #'s 2 & 3. <mike

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "send the entire screen text output
to a printer." If you mean that all text coming in the serial port should
be sent to the printer, then almost any terminal program should do the
trick. If you mean that she needs to dump the text on the screen to the
printer, then I don't know what to do.

In any case, you need four common features to do the former. 1) auto-dial.
2) A scripting language. 3) The ability to specify a script to run at
startup. 4) an asci capture facility.

VLT does this. However, I don't have the docs here, and haven't looked
into the new version, but the method is simple, and applies to all terminal
emulators with those features:

1) Arrange to start the emulator running said script at boot time,
or create an icon (possibly via IconX or your favorite variant) that
starts it running the script.

2) Have the script dial the number.

3) Start an ascii capture to prt:

You might want to swap #'s 2 & 3.

	<mike