QuickDOC Logins for FTS2000

Here are Jay Daly's suggestions for all QuickDOC logins, using the FTS2000 number:

• If you've have no trouble with the FTS2000 login, then you just continue as you have been doing.
• If you have had rejections, however, try editing your FTS2000 files with an ASCII editor (such as EDLIN or EDIT or E (for IBMDOS) or use WordPerfect or Word in the Text or ASCII format) with the following information as a basis for making the changes:
  • FTS2000.CMD is the Shareware ProComm 2.4.2 file ;
  • FTS2000.ASP is the ProComm Plus file;
  • both edits begin at the "SIGNON:" prompt;
  • the semicolon (;) tells ProComm not to read or act upon what comes after,
  • so you don't have to include lines that begin with ; except as comments):

**For PCPlus**
SIGNON:
TRANSMIT "^M"
WAITFOR "gin:" 5
IF NOT WAITFOR
GOTO SIGNON
ENDIF
TRANSMIT "nopass^M"
; change from "nlmmed^M"
; WAITFOR "word:" <_ no more password prompt
NLM:
; TRANSMIT "medlars^M" <_ so no password
WAITFOR "TER LOGIN" 10
IF NOT WAITFOR
..., etc., as before

After you've made these changes in your FTS2000 files (in the \quickdoc directory, .asp for PCPlus, .cmd for Shareware ProComm 2.4.2), start up QuickDOC and press for Configuration.

Choose FTS2000 as your Primary Telecomm, and then accept the values all the way through to the QD Main Menu. You will then have the new FTS2000 "nopass" option as your Primary Telecomm access (QD won't rewrite your changes, except for phone numbers and COM ports, etc.), but do make sure you press all the way through to the Main Menu. These choices will be added as Configuration Options in the future if this becomes the common method of access.

If you have questions or comments about these changes, please contact Jay Daly at: QuickDOC, 45A Mason Terrace, Brookline, MA 02146, Fax: 617 734-3154, Phone: (617)734-0918, email: jay@bih.harvard.edu

(This article was adapted from DOC it!,number 12, September 1995, the DOCLINE newsletter published by the Southwest Region of the NN/LM.)