[Dx4win] Problems automating telnet connection

[Dick Flanagan]

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
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Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM
k7vc at arrl.org