Copyright: Zandata 1994, All rights reserved.


EWAN, Emulator Without A good Name

Read me first!

General topcs

About the keyboard

Mouse and mousebuttons.

Using the clipboard

Using the scrollback

Syntax of commandline arguments

The sitelist

Enjoy!

The latest version should be available 24hrs a day, 7 days a week from:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zander/ewan.html	If you like WWW
ftp.lysator.liu.se  /pub/msdos/windows	If you prefer FTP

Peter Zander	<zander@lysator.liu.se>


Readme
Before you start

EWAN is a winsock 1.1 compatible application. To be able to use a winsock application you need a TCP/IP stack. If you use Windows for Workgroups you can use the free beta available from ftp.microsoft.com. If you use Win 3.1 there is a number of commercially available TCP/IP stacks. You can also try the shareware Trumpet winsock. Future versions (4.0) of windows will probably also be bundled with a winsock compatible TCP/IP stack, as does current versions of MS Windows NT.

FTP Software is distributing a "winsock.dll" update for their TCP/IP stack. This DLL will not let you use this program unless their TCP/IP stack is already installed on your machine.

First start-up

The first time you start this program it will scan the disk for available emulation-DLLs and show them in a list box.

Choose "DEC VT100" and press OK.This can be changed later using the menu Options/Change Emulation.... It is important that a emulation DLL is selected. All data presented and sent will in some way pass through this DLL.

Now a dilaog with stored site names will be shown. Since this is the first time you run it will be empty.

Click New. Enter information about the first site and click Ok. Try to connect by double clicking the entry in the list box, or highlight it and press Enter.


Using the keyboard
Keyboard

The only keys redefined by this program is:

End	Brings you to the end of the scrollback buffer and resets "Scroll lock"

PageUp	Set scroll lock and start viewing one page up.

PageDown	Set scroll lock and start viewing one page down.

Scroll Lock	Toggle scroll lock

Arrows	If scroll lock is on it will move you around in buffer. Otherwise send arrow key sequences for current emulation.

F1-F12	Can be redefined. See "Redefining function keys"

A emulation DLL can override this behaviour, like making its own definitions of the function keys.

Redefining function keys

In the menu Options/Function keys... you can make these keys send a sequence of chars and control characters. Control characters like CR is sent when a "^" char is detected. To make a end of line (CR) type "^M".


Mouse and mouse buttons

Marking a block

To mark a block of text, press and hold down the left mouse button. If the cursor is dragged outside the windows boundaries the viewport will start to scroll.

See also:

Copy/Paste

Bringing up the popup menu

If you click the right mouse button, anywhere within the client area a popup version of the main menu will show. This is how you access the menu when the main menu is disabled in the dialog Oprions/Screen....


Copy/Paste

To copy a part off the screen, mark it with the mouse. While marking the scrolling of the window is disabled, but you can make it scroll by dragging the cursor outside the window.

To copy it to the clipboard choose Edit/Copy from the menu or press Ctrl-Ins.

To paste, press Shift-Ins.


Scroll back

The scroll back is a bit different from other terminal programs. If you press Scroll lock it will prevent further scrolling of the screen. But the screen will still be updated, so if the lower part of your screen show the "real" screen and the upper shows the scroll back the lower part might change while you browse through the scroll back.

To make the terminal work as usual press End or Scroll Lock.

Se also:

Using the keyboard


Command line arguments

A site name and port can now be given at start-up. The syntax is:

wterm host port

or

wterm host:port

"Host" refers to a IP address (like 192.165.120.133) or a host name (hobbe.rydnet.lysator.liu.se).

If port number is not given Telnet is assumed. Port is the port number, not the service name.


Site list

You can choose from two site lists in the File/Open... dialog.

The list box will change when you press the radio buttons "Private sitelist" and "Shared sitelist". The directories to hold these lists can be defined under Options/Directories....


Creating a new item in the sitelist

Modifying a sitelist item