Ian, IF I'm understanding your question correctly, the solution is fairly simple: Edit the "dx4win.tcp" file in your "Save" directory (any text editor should work), and move K7AR to the top of that list. Then save. Once you start up DX4WIN, and you're ready to connect to a cluster, simply put your cursor in the cluster window (click, so the window is active) and hit the enter key 3 times. Wham, you'll be at the sign in prompt of K7AR. All you're doing is taking the default answer 3 times, so you need not type a thing. Hope that's what you're after..... 73, Steve In a message dated 1/29/2007 8:52:03 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Resending this now that the server(s) appear to be up again... OK. I need to know which of my many Homer moments is behind this ;). I'm trying to cut down on the number of key strokes required to connect to my local telnet (in this case, K7AR). I brought up the 'edit function keys' window and created a 'BYE' key. That was a no-brainer. But getting into the K7AR (or, I presume, any other) node seems to require a bit more knowledge of rocket science than I currently posses! At first, I tried just replacing 'N3RR' (where did that come from, anyway?) with 'K7AR'. But that got me nowhere. Then, I tried every mutation of the string (contained in the dx4win.tcp file) for K7AR I can imagine. But after getting nowhere with that, either, I'm still having to click on the 'connect' button and scroll through the pop-up list of connections that comes up 'til I find the one for K7AR, click on it, click OK, blah, blah, blah. Surely this isn't the only to do this. What am I missing here? Tnx es 73, Ian, K5ZM www.k5zm.com _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jan 29 22:06:37 2007 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dick Flanagan) Date: Mon Jan 29 22:09:06 2007 Subject: [Dx4win] Problems automating telnet connection In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 06:51 PM 1/29/2007, K5ZM wrote: >But getting into the K7AR (or, I presume, any other) node seems to require a >bit more knowledge of rocket science than I currently posses! At first, I >tried just replacing 'N3RR' (where did that come from, anyway?) with 'K7AR'. >But that got me nowhere. Then, I tried every mutation of the string >(contained in the dx4win.tcp file) for K7AR I can imagine. But after getting >nowhere with that, either, I'm still having to click on the 'connect' button >and scroll through the pop-up list of connections that comes up 'til I find >the one for K7AR, click on it, click OK, blah, blah, blah. > >Surely this isn't the only to do this. What am I missing here? I can't cut it down to one button (or make it fully automatic, alas) but this is what I do to at least minimize the keystrokes. I edit the dx4win.tcp file to place my preferred node (in my case N7TR) at the very beginning of the file, so when Select Internet Address window opens, the cursor is already sitting on it. Then I have one soft key programmed with my call. So the drill is I right click on the Packet window and then select "Internet Connection," hit "OK" on the Select Internet Address window (since N7TR is already selected at the top of the list), hit the soft key with my call sign and then the soft key with SH/DX. Viola! Four clicks and I'm all set. (Three clicks if you don't count the SH/DX.) I would love to have an automatic connection script, but this is about as streamlined as I can get it. 73, Dick -- Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM [EMAIL PROTECTED]
