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--- EasyTerm Help --EasyTerm is (c) Copyright 1997, P. Lutus. All Rights Reserved. EasyTerm is CareWare.

Please visit the CareWare Home Page at http://www.arachnoi d.com/careware, and the EasyTerm Home Page at http://www.arachnoid.com/easyterm. If you are using Notepad to read this file, be sure that Word Wrap is turned on. Use Edit ... Word Wrap to accomplish this. EasyTerm is an advanced terminal emulator for Windows 95/NT. It supports the DEC VT100 protocol and ANSI colors, keyboard macros, logging, and variable-size dis play. EasyTerm remembers all your choices between sessions, including 26 keyboar d macros. EasyTerm supports the standard Telnet protocol, and also permits sessions with m any other protocols for system support work. EasyTerm's performance has been ver ified with all standard UNIX terminal applications. These instructions assume you have installed TCP/IP capabilities on the machine that will host EasyTerm. TCP/IP installation is beyond the scope of this documen t, please see your network administrator for assistance with this. --- INSTALLATION --Download the EasyTerm ZIP file, unZIP it, and install it in a convenient directo ry. Make sure this help file is included in that directory. If EasyTerm will not run, it is usually because of the absence of one or more DL L (Dynamic Linking Library) files. Here are two particular DLL files required by EasyTerm that may not be on your system: MFC42.DLL WININET.DLL These files can be obtained at the EasyTerm Home Page http://www.arachnoid.com/e asyterm. --- OPERATION --These instructions assume your system has network access and TCP/IP sockets serv ices installed. If your system has a working Web browser and/or you can visit th e Internet, then these conditions have been met. VERY IMPORTANT: If you find the EasyTerm display hard for you to read, simply ma ximize the application. EasyTerm's display stretches to accommodate the availabl e space -- maximizing the application allows for a large, easy-to-read display. Also you can change the display's number of rows and columns to increase readabi lity or increase the amount of data displayed in one screen (more about this bel ow). Connecting is very simple. Run EasyTerm and press the leftmost toolbar button (o r select Connect ... New Connection from the menu). In the "Host" location, type the name of a site that supports telnet. In "Port," choose a protocol. In most cases, the default Telnet port is correct, but you may use the drop-down list to select another, or you may type in a numerical port for nonstandard port number s. Here is an example. Suppose you want an up-to-date weather forecast. The Univers

ity of Michigan has an excellent weather service, both on the Web and by way of Telnet. In this example, we will get local weather. Click the "Connect" toolbar button (at the far left) or select menu item Connect ... New Connection. For "Host," type "madlab.sprl.umich.edu" and for "port", ty pe in the number 3000 (this service uses a nonstandard port number). Click "OK" and (assuming your system has Internet access) you will see the Unive rsity of Michigan weather screen (this example was conducted in October 1997): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------* University of Michigan * * WEATHER UNDERGROUND * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------* * * comments: ldm@cirrus.sprl.umich.edu * * * * This information available on the web at http://www.wunderground.com and * * telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com * * telnet downwind.sprl.umich.edu 3000 * * * * With Help from: The National Science Foundation supported Unidata Project * * University Corporation for Atmospheric Research * * Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000 * * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------* This service is for educational and research purposes only. * * Commercial, for-profit users should contact * * info@rainmaker.wunderground.com to acquire their own data feed. * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Press Return for menu, or enter 3 letter forecast city code:

At this point, if you know the three-letter code for the airport nearest you, yo u can type it in and you will see a current weather report. -- What is ECHO? -In this example, you may notice that you cannot see the characters you are typin g. This is because the service does not "echo" your typed characters back to you r terminal. To solve this problem, simply click the ear symbol on the toolbar. N otice that the status bar (bottom of the application display) shows "Local Echo ON." You can turn echo off and on by pressing the echo button repeatedly -- try it. Sometimes you will see two of each character you type - this is because the serv ice is echoing your characters and you have selected local echo as well. For thi s case, turn off local echo by pressing the ear symbol. After you have typed in a host and port, it is saved for you on a menu list for fast access. Simply choose menu item "Connect" and select your host from the li st. If you connect to a particular host on more than one port, each connection i s saved separately. -- Copying and Saving There are many ways to copy your EasyTerm data to other Windows programs. You ca n simply copy the screen contents to the Windows clipboard using the toolbar but

ton or the menu command Edit ... Copy Screen (but don't use Ctrl+C - this key ha s a special meaning to UNIX systems and therefore is reserved for this in EasyTe rm). You can save a file containing the displayed screen contents - simply press the "Save Screen as File" toolbar button or menu command. You can also record your e ntire session in a log file - choose the "Session Logging" toolbar button or men u command. -- Session Logging -In Session Logging, you choose a file name and decide whether to overwrite a fil e or append new information to its contents. You can pause while recording or st op the recording. The Session Logging dialog may be left on display as the sessi on progresses - it will provide status information and the number of characters recorded. The "traffic light" in the dialog shows the logging status at a glance . Red means the log file is closed, green means the file is open and recording i s taking place, and yellow means a recording has been paused. If you have space on your display, you may choose to leave the dialog open and r efer to it. If you don't have room, simply close the dialog. When you need it, j ust press the toolbar button to make it visible and check the status. EasyTerm will remember the location you choose for your log file between uses of the program, and will warn you if you are about to overwrite an earlier log. -- Printing EasyTerm will preview and print the current screen contents. This is just a conv enience, for quickly making a record of the display. Simply select File ... Prin t Preview or File ... Print. Remember to switch display colors to black letters on a white background in orde r to print (unless you like stressing your printer and using lots of ink). You s witch colors by pressing the "Reverse Colors" toolbar button. -- Keyboard Macros -EasyTerm will remember 26 keyboard macros, accessible with the keys Alt-A to Alt -Z. To invoke the macro editor, choose Edit ... Keyboard Macros or the toolbar b utton. To choose a macro, use the dropdown list to select a letter between A and Z. Typ e in your macro using these rules: 1. To add a carriage return to your entry, type Ctrl-Enter, or type \r. 2. You can add many kinds of non-printing characters to your text such as tabs, formfeeds, and others. Here is a complete list: String Meaning \a \b \f \n \r \t \v \nnn \xnn Bell Backspace Formfeed Linefeed Carriage Return Horizontal Tab Vertical Tab Character number in octal notation Character number in Hexadecimal notation

The "nnn" in the list above are to be replaced with the appropriate numerical di gits. Finally, if you want to use the reverse-slash character itself, simply type it t wice - "\\". Remember this when typing in macros and testing them: if you are not logged on y ou must turn on local echo in order to see the macros on the display. Local echo is toggled with the "ear" toolbar button. Also, when you are done typing your macros, you must click the main terminal dis play to test and use them. You can leave the macro editor on display, but you mu st "change focus" to the main window to see the result. The macro list is saved for you between program sessions, and can be edited at a ny time. -- Program Setup Click the "Setup" toolbar button to see a display of properties. All your proper ty choices are saved between program uses. Here is a description of each: Local Echo enables and disables a local display of transmitted characters, just like the toolbar button. Bold Text changes from standard weight to Bold. Bold may be desirable to increas e display readability, but on some low-end systems it distorts the font presenta tion. In general, it works better on large displays. Wrap to Screen causes a local wrap to screen. This option is not usually needed, because the host Telnet server usually inquires about screen size and then prev ents characters from exceeding the screen size. Reverse Color switches the basic screen colors. This control does not affect the ANSI color display, only the foreground and background colors. There is a toolb ar button for this purpose also. Line endings - pretty much self-explanatory. In some cases a host may require pa irs of LF/CR, sometimes not. And the local program may not receive the linefeed/ carriage return pair it requires from some sources. Delete key. The two standard delete keys are available here (you would think the y would finally decide which one to use). One of these two keys is mapped to the "Backspace" keyboard key. Display size. This is a powerful feature that increases or decreases the number of rows and columns in the display without increasing its size. Also, EasyTerm's display window automatically adjusts itself as you increase or decrease the siz e of the Windows window. These two properties are independent. Connection Timeout. Using this property, you can increase or decrease the amount of time EasyTerm waits to get a connection. -- Use of services other than Telnet -EasyTerm is an easy way to learn a lot about TCP/IP protocols, because in princi ple, it supports them all. In some cases you will have to remember about local echo and adding a local Line

feed character. An example is "Whois," the Internet's master database of site op erators and addresses. For "Whois, you should use local echo and add a carriage return to incoming lines. You might as well also turn on logging, because a typi cal Whois entry will exceed the size of the display. "Whois" does not prompt you for an entry - you simply log on to "rs.internic.net " (for non-military hosts) and type the name of the host you are interested in. Also, "Whois" delivers one search result and then logs off - you must log back o n for each inquiry. You may also find it interesting to try SMTP and POP3, the routing and user-inte rface mail servers on most host systems. Understanding these protocols can solve any number of e-mail mysteries. -- Invoking EasyTerm from the Command Line or a Shortcut -EasyTerm may be invoked from a DOS shell or a shortcut, with a specified host an d protocol on the command line. On program activation, the specified connection is made. The protocol may be specified as a port number or name. In these exampl es -easyterm hostname easyterm hostname:telnet easyterm hostname:23 -- all three invocations would produce the same result, because if you omit a pr otocol, telnet is assumed. You may use any port number or any of the port names specified in EasyTerm. These two examples -easyterm hostname:smtp easyterm hostname:25 also produce the same result. -- Transferring prorgam data -EasyTerm keeps its program data in a file named "easyterm.ini" located in the ap plication directory. If you transfer this file to another machine, that copy of EasyTerm will have all the settings and macros of the original. This makes cloni ng EasyTerm as easy as such a thing would be under Linux/Unix. -- Using EasyTerm with a proxy server -To use EasyTerm with a proxy server, simply enter the name of the desired host f ollowed by the required proxy port: easyterm hostname:proxyport. For the number of your system's proxy port, see your network administrator.

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