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<TITLE>Dialer</TITLE>
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</HEAD><BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="red">
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<H1>TkGoodStuff Dialer</H1>
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<H2> Description </H2>
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Dialer is a stand-alone program that is included in the tkgoodstuff
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distibution. It dials your modem, executes a login script, and
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(optionally) issues a command to set up the network (such as a pppd
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command).
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<P> It USED TO BE that to run Dialer you needed the expectk program,
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but no longer (now Dialer runs on basic tcl/tk). </B>
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<P>
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Dialer expects a Hayes-compatible modem (like nearly all modems sold
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these days).
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</P>
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<P>
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The status of the connection-attempt is presented in a dialog box on
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the screen. You see what number is being dialed, what speed you
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connect at, and the reason for any failure to connect.
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<P>
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All settings are configurable in the Settings window (click the
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"Settings" button). You need to set your modem port and port speed,
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and the phone number (or list of numbers, or a repeat-dialing script)
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you want to dial. Optionally, you can set one or two modem init
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strings and a unix command to execute when successfully connected
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(like pppd). You also can construct a login script. This is all done
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on-line and is self-documenting (use the "Help" menu in the Settings
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window). You save your settings information in a file in the usual
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way (with "Save" in the pull-down "File" menu), and you can have
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different settings stored in different files.
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<P>
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At startup you can indicate your settings file and also a command to
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run right away (the command "Dial" starts the dialing just like
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hitting the "Dial" button. So, to start dialing right away, you issue
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a unix command like this:
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<PRE>
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Dialer /home/markcrim/.DialSettings Dial
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</PRE>
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<P> I use Dialer on my Linux home computer, and I do not have access
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to any other unix platforms with dial-out modems, so I cannot be sure
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this will work on other platforms. But I have heard good things from
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people on various Unix platforms, so it's worth a try.
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