[Dx4win] Problems automating telnet connection

[Joe Giacobello]

Another alternative after you modify the dx4win.tcp file is to hit enter 
successive times when you're in the packet window.  The first enter 
brings up the list with your preferred node at the top and the second 
enter connects you.  After you get a logon greeting, you can hit a 
softkey that sends your logon call.  Just a smidgen less labor.

73, Joe

Dick Flanagan wrote:
> 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
> k7vc at arrl.org
>
>
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