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not made within a certain time. When transmitting, however, it will not time
out, and will continue waiting for a connection.
Receiving information with no protocol
If you are receiving information from a remote machine as plain ASCII
characters, e.g. when reading e-mail on a server, you can ‘capture’ this to a
file in order to have a record.
To capture information to a file:
1. Select Capture to file on the Transfer menu and give the file a name.
• If you want the new information to be added to the end of an existing
file, enter the name of the existing file and tick the Append box.
• If you want incoming control characters to be recorded in angled
brackets, e.g. <13> for a carriage return, tick the Debug box.
2. To end the capture, deselect the Capture to file menu option.
Captures are stored as plain text files. You can view a plain text file in Word,
by using More Import text file on the File menu.
If you have problems transferring information with no protocol, try setting
both computers to use a lower Baud rate.
Comms has a function key toolbar which contains a number of buttons you
can ‘program’ to carry out commands. By setting up these buttons to carry out
the commands you use when making connections, you can accelerate and
simplify the process.
To show the function key toolbar:
• Select Show toolbar Function key toolbar on the View menu.
The buttons are labelled F1 to F5; each can be used on its own, or whilst
holding down Shift or Ctrl, making a total of 15 possible combinations.
To assign a command to a function key:
1. Select Function keys on the Tools menu, and enter the ‘command string’
for the key.
2. Use the State line to assign more command strings for function keys when
they are tapped with the Shift or Control key held down. Press OK.
The kinds of command string you can use are as follows:
• Text: put text within quote marks that you want to be able to send to the
remote machine easily. E.g.
‘get mail’
• Script names: put the full path name of a script that you want to be able to
run quickly. E.g. C:\Commsstuff\Scripts\BBS.scr
For more information on scripts, see the Scripts information in the Reference
information for MC 218 on Ericsson Mobile Internet site.
USING THE FUNCTION KEY TOOLBAR
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