January 5, 1990


This is a small ARexx program for VLT.  It brings up a window on the
VLT or Workbench screen (whichever is appropriate) with gadgets for
auto-dialing a selection of BBS numbers.

I downloaded the original version of this program from the FAUG BBS,
and have modified it extensively, adding features like auto-sizing
(the window will use as many columns as required by the number of
entries in the S:VLT.Phone file, and attempt to make the columns as
evenly-sized as possible), baud-rate setting, and making the program
cleaner and easier to modify.  There are still some ugly spots, but it
works.

The exception is scripts.  The TFL-like format used in S:VLT.Phone
allows you to specify scripts, but due to problems with the current
script implementation in VLT, they don't work.  Willy Langeveld knows
of these problems (in fact, he explained them to me); they will be
corrected in a later revision of the program.  Sections of the code
that I was trying to make work were left in place; perhaps someone
will find this useful.

The VLTStartup.scp file is a native VLT script.  If you start VLT with
this format:

   Run VLTjr REXX:VLTStartup.scp

it will bring up the numbers window when you first enter the program.
Afterwards, it's handy to assign the program to a function key.


Warren Block
BIX: wablock