Free software BY Project Software & Development, Inc. This software is furnished for free and may be used and copied as desired. This software or any other copies thereof may be provided or otherwise made available to any other person. No title to and ownership of the software is hereby transferred or allowed. The information in this software is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by PROJECT SOFTWARE AND DEVELOPMENT, INC. PROJECT SOFTWARE assumes no responsibility for the use or reliability of this software on any equipment whatsoever. Project Software & Development, Inc. 14 Story St. Cambridge, Ma. 02138 617-661-1444 Program: PHONE Author: Robin Miller / Gary Larsen Date: Fall 1984 Description: PHONE is a utility which allows you to talk to other users on your system. Once PHONE is started, the screen of the VT100 (only terminal supported) is split into two viewports. After you dial someone, what you type is displayed in the top viewport and what the other user types is displayed in the bottom viewport. At the current time, only two users can talk at the same time. When your phone conversation is complete, typing CTRL/Z returns you to the command prompt (%) where you can exit by typing either another CTRL/Z or by typing EXIT and the return key. Command line format: PHONE [phone-command] You may specify a command as part of the PHONE command line, or you may enter it at the command prompt (%). Additional information available: ANSWER Characters DIAL DIRECTORY EXIT HELP REJECT SCROLL VIEWPORT NOTE: The PHONE utility is taskbuilt /PR:0 because it does a write-break through QIO to the terminal you want to talk to. Our catchall task allows non-privileged users to run certain privileged tasks such as PHONE, USERS, and WHO. If you don't have this capability then you may want to modify PHONE so it can be run by non-privileged users. This would be done by removing the /PR:0 switch from the taskbuild command file, and by changing the IO.WBT function in module DIAL.MAC to an IO.WLB function. Also note that the phone task must be activated by the command line "RUN PHONE/TASK=PHOTnn" where "nn" is your terminal number. The above restriction actually only applies to RSX-11M. On M+, simply install the privileged version of PHONE for it to operate properly. This is because on M+, all tasks are started with the task name "taskTnn" where on RSX-11M, the first task starts up under the task name "...PHO" which causes a problem since the phone program uses the terminal number from the task name.