%twk00.hlp TERMINAL EMULATION : Several terminal emulations are available through 'TERMINAL' menu. You simply click on the desired item to, after a quick initialization, select the desired emulation mode. All I/O will then be processed through the appropriate emulator. *END* %twk01.hlp CONNECTING TO A SITE : In the 'COMMANDS' menu, click on PHONEBOOK. A dialog box then appears. In the edit field NUMBER, enter the phone number of the site you want to call. Do not forget to validate the hook switch control and ringtype (TONE if you are connected through an electronic central or PULSE if you are on a rotary dial line). If you now click on the CONFIRM button, all your parameters will be saved to a file ready to be used whenever desired. To immediately start a connection, click on DIAL. *END* %twk02.hlp CREATE A SITE : In the PHONEBOOK, if you want to save the configuration, after entering a filename in the FILE field, click on SAVE. TWinTalk will the show the line settings window to allow you to change the modem type, speed, etc... before you click on the CONFIRM box. TWinTalk will then save the global settings in the (.CFG) filename you supplied. You can create as many dialing sites as you wish. -To start a connection, you just have to double click on a site name in the SITES list box. -When you have clicked on DIAL, or double clicked on a site name, TWinTalk initialize the modem, closes the PHONEBOOK window, and presents you with connection control window. *END* %twk03.hlp COMMUNICATION SETTINGS : In the OPTIONS menu, click on the COMMUNICATIONS item. A dialog box appears. You can now choose the physical and logical line settings. If you do not know what kind of modem you have, you should select one of the HAYES MODEM files as a starting point. Note: 'OFFHOOK' controls whether TwinTalk connects with a remote site (ON) or is used just as a dialer (OFF). If you cannot connect to a remote site, try clicking this on. Also, AUTOMATIC must be selected on the COMMANDS menu to allow dialing. Note: you can use COM3 & COM4 ports only if the addresses of these ports are stored in your BIOS table. WARNING : When using COM3 or COM4 ports, it is not possible to use COM2 port for hardware reasons. *END* %twk04.hlp CONNECTION CONTROL : The connection control windows appears when the modem is in a dialing and a carrier detect state. When carrier is detected, the sinusoidal icon stops moving, and the window closes, leaving you connected to the remote site. If the thumb box should count down to zero, the window disappears, you are off-line, but still connected to the modem. If you hear through the modem speaker the line is BUSY, you can click on CANCEL, but you are again still connected to the modem to dial again if you wish. *END* %twk05.hlp CAPTURE : This function of the 'FILE' menu, allows you to store in a file all the incoming data. You will then be able to examine this file locally (ie READ) at the completion of your session. TWinTalk asks for the file name to which the capture will be done. Two types of capture are available: 1) SCREEN CAPTURE - This functions logs the entire session to a file. 2) SCREEN->FILE - This function opens a capture file in which the 'TEXT' content of the current screen will be stored each time the command SCREEN->FILE is selected. *END* %twk06.hlp READ : Lets you read in local mode (i.e. off-line) a file CAPTURED or a text file. TWinTalk asks for the filename of the file to read. Twintalk then sends the file to the appropriate emulator to interpret it (ANSI, VTxx, etc.). In the Videotex case, TWinTalk stops the interpretation at each end of page, and you have to click on the right scroll arrow to continue the reading. For the other emulators, you may stop the TWinTalk playback when needed by clicking on the PAUSE checkbox. You may also change the speed using the variable speed feature. *END* %twk07.hlp SAVE AS : Saves the current TWinTalk settings in a dialing site file. This command allows you to save under a specified name a special setting (i.e. change of speed, emulator etc.) without accessing the PHONEBOOK. *END* %twk08.hlp PRINT : Prints the screen content on the current selected printer. Note that only VIDEOTEX and PRESTEL emulations allow graphic printing in eight gray levels. In text mode, the printing is done in black on white. In graphic mode, you can choose between POSITIVE or NEGATIVE to lengthen the life of the printer's ink cartridge. SEE Printer setup on the FILES menu to configure your printer! *END* %twk09.hlp COPY : Copy in the scrapbook the screen zone (text or graphic) selected by the mouse or the whole screen if no selection has been made. To select a screen zone, bring the mouse arrow on the top left corner of the virtual rectangle representing the selected zone. Then while depressing the mouse left button, bring the mouse arrow to the bottom right corner of the virtual rectangle. Release the mouse button, the screen zone is selected. PASTE : Allows you to send (on-line), the TEXT content of the scrapbook. It is necessary to be connected, and to have some data available in TEXT format in the scrapbook before PASTE is allowed. TWinTalk replaces the CR LF ending characters of each line of text with the programmed strings (see the Options item in the 'EDIT' menu for specialized requirements). *END* %twk10.hlp AUTOMATIC : When checked, this signals that TWinTalk is running in automatic mode for dialing and carrier detecting. When not checked, (manual mode) you can CONNECT and enter your own HAYES modem commands as desired. (Look at your modem technical references manual for more details.) Example : You call someone you want to send a file to. You decide the file transfer protocol and the line settings, one of you must now enter the ATD command to take control of the line as the "SENDER", while the other enters ATA to put his modem in answer state (e.g. "RECEIVER"). The two modems will connect to each other, and file transfers can now be done... *END* %twk11.hlp KEYBOARD : Draws a keyboard window (if it exists). A double click on a screen string is interpreted by TWinTalk as a command to send (on-line) the string situated at the click position. The mouse left button appends a carriage return to the string. The mouse right button does the same but does not generate the c/r. The string is parsed to look for specific keywords, but also will isolate out contol or special characters (like (){}[] etc.). Remember though, at least one space must precede the selected string. In the Videotex emulations, the string representing keywords (ie SUITE, ENVOI, SOMMAIRE etc...) generates the corresponding function as in VTxx F1 through f16, return, etc...(Also note that ENVOI is sent at the end of a string instead of c/r). Videotex keyboard mapping : TAB..........Repetition Lower Arrow..Suite Upper Arrow..Retour Left Arrow...Correction Right Arrow..Annulation Home.........Sommaire End..........Guide F10..........Connexion/Fin *END* %twk12.hlp COLOR : If you have a color monitor and a graphic card (EGA), COLOR will change the 8 possible colors to 8 gray scale levels. If you have a monochrome graphic configuration, you will be by default in gray mode, and COLOR will put TWinTalk in a maximum contrast mode which will highlight the text not easily readable in gray scale mode. INK AND PAPER COLOR CHOICE : This option is very useful for VTxxx and Teletype because these emulations manage color escape codes themselves and set initialization colors that you may wish to modify. *END* %twk13.hlp ARRANGE : Restores (when possible and necessary) the emulator window to its initial place and original size. This command is only useful in Videotex and Prestel, because these are the only emulations in which you are allowed to move the window. *END* %twk14.hlp CLOCK : By checking this option, you tell to TWinTalk that you want to calculate your connection costs. TWinTalk will ask the price of one minute of connect time and, as soon as the connection is established, will display a window that will show the time elapsed and the approximate cost. *END* %twk15.hlp FONTS : By checking this option, you tell to TWinTalk that you want to use, in ANSI emulation, the IBM (tm) character set rather than the ANSI character set. This is needed on many hosts (servers) and BBS's (Bulletin Board Services). In VTxxx, you can choose between national character sets. *END* %twk16.hlp PROGRAM : This menu gives access to TWinTalk's LEARN mode. You just have to click on LEARN, give a file name, and most of your TWinTalk commands will be saved in a script file (.TWK) as a source text file very close in syntax to that of PASCAL. When you need to end LEARN mode, click again on LEARN to close the file. Then, you can replay the 'scenario' with the EXECUTE command, telling it the filename of any script you want to run. EDIT calls the MS-Windows (tm) text editor Notepad.exe and allows you to modify the script files. You can specify the text editor at your convenience in the Win.ini file in the [TWinTalk] chapter under the form: [TWinTalk] Edit=Notepad.exe *END* %twk17.hlp FILE TRANSFERS : TWinTalk can transmit files with several of the most common file transfer protocols. ASCII, all the 8 bit Christiansen ?MODEM protocols, YMODEM, PDIP (used in SmarTerm tm) and Kermit (v2.29). (The two last can run on 7 as well as 8 bits width communication channels). ZMODEM may be added as an external protocol by adding the following to WIN.INI: PROT1=name-of-dsz.PIF (giving it the name of your PIF file for DSZ). To start a file transfer, SENDING or RECEIVING, you must be connected to another computer and it must have already been instructed that a transfer is to take place. *END* %twk18.hlp USING TWINTALK WITHOUT MOUSE : You can use TWinTalk without a mouse. When TWinTalk detects there is no mouse connected to the computer, it allows you to COPY/PASTE with the keyboard as well as the mouse. CTRL+ARROWS : move the mouse cursor from character to character in the direction showed by the arrow. CTRL+SPACE+ARROWS : do the same displacements as before, but as if the mouse left button was down and do draws a selection rectangle for the COPY command. CTRL+HOME : moves the mouse cursor to the top left corner of the display window. CTRL+END : moves the mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of the display window. *END* %twk19.hlp Vtxxx SETUP : Some parameters of the VT52, VT10x, D2000 and ANSI emulations can be modified : - 132 Columns Set 132 columns width - Invert screen Inverts screen - Auto linefeed Wrap with linefeed - Configurated keybd User keyboard configuration - CR -> CR LF Adds a linefeed to CR - Application arrows Numeric or Application mode - Top margin Sets VT1xx top margin - Bottom margin Sets VT1xx bottom margin - BS sends DEL Sends 7fh in place of 08h *END* %twk20.hlp KEYBOARD SETUP : This option allows you to define the sequences generated by the Function Keys on your keyboard. - To move from panel to panel, use the buttons and . - If a syntax error is detected, the bad strings will be highlighted. - The modifications will only be saved after validation. - To use the configurated keyboard rather than the default keyboard look at VTxxx SETTINGS. *END* %endof-file