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Getting started http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/v2.html scrolled off the screen. If you cannot review the "lost" information, you may have to disconnect and call back later to send your mail. Connecting to the online service The first couple of times, most people think that it is very difficult. Soon it becomes a simple routine. On some computers, you just press a key, and that's it. On others, you have to call and press, and watch, while things are happening. Cheap is often a synonym for more work. If you have a dumb modem connected to your personal computer, these are the typical steps that you must take: 1. Start your communications program and set it up, for example, with 28.800 bps, 8 bits word length, 1 stop bit, no parity. (This is a common setup.) Then set the program to "online." 2. Call the desired number. 3. When you hear the tone from the remote modem in the phone, press DATA to get the modems to connect to each other (that is, to start to "handshake"). 4. A front panel indicator may tell you when the connection has been set up. You can start transferring data. With an MS DOS computer, an automatic modem and a powerful program preset for the job, the steps may be as follows: 1. Start the program and display the telephone directory. Select a service from the list by pressing a number. 2. The modem will call automatically to the service. When the connection has been set up, your user identification and password are sent at the prompts for such information. When this is done, you are free to take control. With an MS DOS computer, TAPCIS, and an intelligent modem, you start by selecting forums and services to access on CompuServe. Enter 'o' to upload and download programs, or 'n' to have it fetch new message headers and messages. TAPCIS will dial the number, do the job, and tell you when it's done. Meanwhile, you can go out to look at the moon, or sing a song. Getting started with Procomm Procomm is cheap and a popular communications program for MS DOS computers. We will use the old shareware version as an example here, though there are many better and cheaper alternatives. The program is simple for novices, can automate the work for advanced users and be run on almost any MS DOS computer. Here are some of its features: Press ALT F10 for a pull down window text listing features and commands. Press ALT+D to call a number, update the telephone directory, or select a script file for autologon to a service. Procomm can emulate (pretend to be) different terminal types, like IBM 3101 and DEC VT 100/VT 52. Most services covered in this book may be well served with the setting ANSI.BBS. It let you use both dumb and intelligent Hayes compatible modems. If you have the latter, select numbers from the telephone directory for autologon. If the number is busy, Procomm can call back until you can get through. You can define macros to automate your work. You can have one keystroke send your user identification, another for your password, and a third key to send a sequence of commands. Macros make your communication faster and safer. You can write script files to automate the online work further. You can transfer text files and binary files using automatic error detection/correction protocols, like XMODEM, YMODEM, Telink and Kermit, at speeds from 300 to 19200 bps. Adding 8 of 9 23.11.2009 15:50
Getting started http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/v2.html external protocols like ZMODEM is relatively simple. | Next | Back | Top of page | Index | Expanded index | Register | Search: The Online World resources handbook's text on paper, disk and in any other electronic form is © copyrighted 2000 by Odd de Presno. Updated at November 13, 2000. Feedback please. Illustration by Anne Tove Vestfossen 9 of 9 23.11.2009 15:50
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