Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!prism!romeo!cchapman From: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Terminal Beginners tip Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 13:39:39 GMT References: <88320@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Lines: 28 In <88320@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> lavigne@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu (david lavigne) writes: > I didnt see this is the manual and it sure helped me. If >unsolicited tips are inappropriate, please use a low heat on your >flame-throwers. > If you send a text file to the modem before you have actually >dialed anything, then the modem receives this information in command mode. >Thus I was able to use notepad to write all the initialization commands >to put my modem in MNP-5 reliable compressed mode into a file. I then >choose send text and my modem is ready for MNP-5 duty. This allows you >a basic scripting capability for Terminal. I think the commands listed under "Settings - Modem Commands - Originate" are sent to the modem either when you start up the program or when you get ready to make a call. This might be easier than sending a file to the modem. -- Charles H. Chapman (GTRI/MATD) (404) 528-7588 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ************************************************************** * Home of the 1990 National Champion Ga. Tech Yellow Jackets * ************************************************************** uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!msd!cchapman Internet: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu