The Online World resources handbook

Automatic communication http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/16.html
Procomm is a general communications programs. Many other programs, like Qmodem
and Telix, have equivalent capabilities.
When writing a script for auto logon to a new service, your first step is to list the
commands that you believe required. Enter them in a text file (as DOS or ASCII text).
Procomm, Qmodem and Telix let you list your favorite online services in a dialing
directory, and tie these entries to your scripts. Press a key to start the appropriate script
file for automatic access to a service.
This simple PROCOMM script used to work for to access my now defunct bulletin
board in Norway. It assumes that your name is Jens Mikkelsen, and that the secret
password is FOXCROOK4. You'll have to change this before testing.
;
;Script file for auto logon to SHS
;
WAITFOR "our FIRST Name? "
PAUSE 1
TRANSMIT "Jens^M"
WAITFOR "our LAST Name? "
PAUSE 1
TRANSMIT "Mikkelsen^M"
WAITFOR "ots will echo)? "
PAUSE 1
TRANSMIT "foxcrook4^M"
WAITFOR "^JMore (Y),N,NS? "
PAUSE 1
TRANSMIT "n^M"
WAITFOR "^JMore (Y),N,NS? "
PAUSE 1
TRANSMIT "n^M"
WAITFOR "R] to Continue? "
PAUSE 1
TRANSMIT "^M"
The commands are different from Trumpet, but easy to understand. Here is an
explanation:
the ";" character at the beginning of a line identifies it as a comment line.
Procomm is to ignore it. We use such lines for notes.
WAITFOR "our FIRST Name? " has Procomm wait for the text string "our FIRST
NAME?." It is a part of the question "What is your first name?"
PAUSE 1 halts the execution of the script file for one second.
TRANSMIT "Jens^M" sends the name "Jens" followed by a RETURN (the code ^M
in Procomm).
WAITFOR "our LAST Name? " makes Procomm wait for the question "What is
your LAST Name?"
The script continues like this. In WAITFOR commands, we use part of the text that is
displayed on our screen once the scrolling stops.
Make sure that the search term is unique. It must not appear elsewhere in the text
coming from the host computer. If it does, your name and password may be sent too
early.
You can call the script HORROR.CMD, and attach it to the entry for my board in
your Procomm phone directory. When you call it the next time, Procomm will execute
the commands in the file and "turn the keyboard over to you" when done.
Macros
$ERYH ZH XVHG D VFULSW WR ORJ RQ DXWRPDWLFDOO\ WR D VHUYLFH :KHQ 3URFRPP JLYHV XV
access to the keyboard again, we must continue manually.
What we want to do online varies. Sometimes, we want to read new messages in
conferences. In other cases, the purpose is to check new programs in the file library. If
we find programs of interest, we may want to download them.
Shorthand macros can help you do this faster and safer. For example, one macro
can take you quickly to a conference for new messages. You can make Procomm start
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