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Hello Gary, term has online help via HelpButton, only if you have the amigaguide files. You should read them just to honour olsons effort. If you don't have them, here is the clip of the node "Script recording": ————————–Script recording————————— `term' offers a feature called `Script recording' which lets you record incoming data sent by a BBS or a remote host and your response to it, i.e. the text you typed, such as login name and password. The recorded data can then be saved to an ARexx script file which can be used as an auto-login script. In order to record a script you can either use the dialing panel button labeled Start recording on connection or the menu item Record. Once `term' is recording terminal output and your input the status display will show Recording or Rec.line, depending on the text entrymode. By default `term' will only record single keystrokes, which makes it difficult to enter whole words. If you want `term' to remember the entire line of text you are about to enter either use the Record line menu item or press the shift+return key combination: the status willchange to Rec.line. To return to keystroke recording just press the return key or select the Record line menu item/press shift+return again. `term' only remembers the last ten characters sent and a maximum of 256 characters you can enter per line. If you enter more than this number of characters older keystrokes will be discarded. When you are finished recording the script select the Record line menu item. A file requester will ask you for the file name to save the script under. If the file is successfully saved you may be asked whether you want the script file to be used as a login script for the currently active phonebook entry. The script file generated will consist of ARexx commands `term' understands, mostly TIMEOUT, WAIT and SEND. The text to be waited forand to be sent is given in standard `term' command sequence notation. For more information consult the chapter entitled Command_sequences. The `term' ARexx interface documentation provides the necessary background to explain how the script commands work, it should also give you hints how to customize the recorded scripts. Caution: scripts recorded by `term' usually need additional editing, don't expect a script to work right away. You may want to change the timeout values, remove extra characters and input. – yours truly * Derek *