CompuServe Messages

Gracia, I'm not a real whiz on modem settings. I'm fortunate to live where I have local CIS nodes and the defaults have always worked fine for me. However, I do know that the tilde causes the modem to wait for a bit – I think about half a second. A "|" sends a carriage return. The K is telling the modem to wait for the 'K' in 'OK', and a question mark says to wait for the following character before proceeding. Thus ?K would say, don't go on until you see a K. We have a script sample in the AP docs that tell you what to do to call through Telenet, which might be what you are having to do. The script is "~~|~~|~~@~~D~~?=D1|?@C 614227|". This says wait one second (two ~ marks) send a carriage return, wait another second, send another carriage return, wait another second, send an @ sign, wait another second and send a D, wait another second, then wait for +D1, and then send a carriage return. Then wait for an @, and then send C 614227 and a carriage return. This would bring you to the User ID prompt for which AP (and I assume Whap! as well) is waiting. If you are using a modem that supports it, set it for RTS/CTS, and set the same thing in your preferences. That should take care of the compression, etc. Hope this helps. If not, ask some more, and I'll try again. Or yell for help if I don't know. Betty