ProTERM Mac 1.0 was fast and easy to use, but ProTERM Mac 1.2 is even faster and easier, with countless additional features over ProTERM 1.0.

The ProTERM Manual
o The big question, "How do I get started?" Over 400 pages of instructional
text includes a get started tutorial, and the ProTERM new user "Jump Start
Cheat Sheet" helps to get you up and running with ProTERM and
telecommunications right away.
o The ProTERM user manual is designed for fast easy reference: A
comprehensive index and four major parts of the manual define the areas of
specific need and for quick reference:
1 ProTERM, an introduction to telecommunications and ProTERM, startup and
conventions, and a general introduction to communications.
2 The definition and explanation of major features.
3 The definition and explanation of ProTERM's menus.
4 Reference: technical, hardware and installation.
o ProTERM provides the telecommunication tools needed by the novice, the
casual user and expert.
o A "Quick Reference" and a "Get Started -- Cheat Sheet" with all of the
pointers for a quick first call are also included.

ProTERM's Integrated Editor
o ProTERM's text editor is optimized for use in the communications
environment: Create, edit and format messages offline or online, connect
to a service and send your entire message or a selection with a keystroke.
Rework and reformat documents received online using the ProTERM editor
features such as find and replace text, character count, convert special
Mac characters to ASCII characters or vice versa, strip control
characters, and high-bit characters, convert text to uppercase or
lowercase, convert to and from line format and or paragraph format. Even
reformat "quoted-printable" text with a menu command.
o The editor displays ASCII control characters in a visible form, and can
optionally show paragraph markers, white-space and tab-stops. Smart
(typographer or "curly") quotes can be turned on or off or even converted
with a click. Show paragraph markers, white space or set quotes as a
preference to be curly or straight when a new document is opened.
o The ProTERM document windows allow font size changes from 6 to 24 point on
the screen using COMMAND-PLUS or COMMAND-MINUS keys.
o The ProTERM editor performs "on-the-fly" end-line conversion for PC and
UNIX text files as they are opened. Save files to disk in the preferred
file type of Text, Text (PC), Text (UNIX), Macro or Connect List.
o Send a complete or selected portion of an editor document to a service or
a printer, or use the Format Test command to preview how it will look in
its final form as sent or printed. The Format Test feature formats and
prepares the selected work as an ASCII "line document" (a RETURN character
on every line). All formatting, including ProTERM's special dot-command
formatting, and character conversion is performed, and the document is
shown in the exact format just as it would appear if it was sent to a
printer or a service. Symbol conversion (such as copyright, trademark and
more), and text formatting, is automatic.
o Export (copy) all text, or a selection, and save it as a separate file, or
append it to the end of the end of an existing disk file without opening
that file. Text can also be imported from a file on a disk into an open
document without opening that file. Place the cursor at any point in an
open document, and open (insert) a file from disk into the open document
-- The text from the file opens, and is inserted into the current open
document from the point of the cursor position.

Reply Format
Reply> Easily edit and reformat text (like this example) and even upload
Reply> to another computer directly from the editor window.

Window Control Features
o Document window sizes and positions are maintained when windows are
opened, moved, resized and closed. The Window menu provides a list of open
windows and keyboard commands, and allows you to easily hide, zoom, stack
and cycle through open windows front to back or vice versa.

Scrollback and Terminal Window Features
o Reduce long distance and access charges by working offline. Text is saved,
and can be reviewed in the terminal window after it has scrolled out of
view, even if it has been erased from the screen. Limits can be set for
how much text can be saved, and or discarded for each service. Read,
search, print, save, copy and paste text while online or offline.
o The ProTERM terminal window allows font size changes from 6 to 24 point on
the screen using COMMAND-PLUS or COMMAND-MINUS keys, and standard alpha
and numeric text can be displayed in the font of your choice. The terminal
screen can be changed to a size to match your needs. Make the screen very
small and watch general online activity while you are working on another
project, or make the text large, relieve eye strain, sit back and read
with ease. These advantages also allow sight-impaired users to work more
easily with the larger text. Both color and special display attributes
(bold, underline, reverse, flashing), are displayed with supporting
emulations (VT-102 and ANSI-BBS). Individual colors can be customized to
provide the most pleasing look with consideration of your personal
preference, on a particular service, and on your monitor.
o Capture incoming text in ProTERM scrollback, select all or part, copy and
paste to an editor document, edit, print and save it as a file or print it
directly.

New Enhanced Terminal Window and Scrollback Features.
o Saved sessions can be automatically opened when a service is called.
Scrollback preference allows a previously saved scrollback to open
(AutoLoad) as a terminal window as the service is called, and Auto-Save
the scrollback file as the terminal window is closed.
o Its ALIVE! Terminal window attributes are saved, even the "heartbeat" of
flashing ANSI color is still "alive" when the file is reopened.
o Scrollback is fast, and using the scroll box to scroll through the screens
is dynamic or "live" (scrollback text shows in a position relative to the
scroll box as the scroll box is moved.
o Even very large scrollback windows update quickly: scrolling a window both
online and offline is FAST!
o Text search routines can search from the top down (default) or by choice,
bottom to top, in editor and scrollback windows. Search is fast, and
CMND+PERIOD stops the Find action.
o Scrollback text can be deleted from Scrollback files.
o Integrated Chat Mode and Status Bar in Terminal Window.
o Set up each service with a custom size window -- Change terminal and
emulation window by rows, columns and font size.

Connect File Features
o New Feature Allows Multiple Dialing.
- Multiple Phone Numbers can be dialed in rotation for each service.
- To aid calling busy modem pools, place a bullet (OPTION+8) between
dialed phone numbers -- The numbers then dial in rotation until
connected.
o Create special groups of services by placing associated services in their
own folder within the Services folder. These folders appear as "step-out"
menus in the main Connect menu.
o Create dialing lists of the services you wish to call in rotation, and
those services are dialed until they are all called. Select a connect
list, and ProTERM attempts to connect sequentially to each of the services
on the list. Services are shown on a "Previously Connected" list as each
connection is made.
o Uniform Phone Numbers feature allows phone numbers to be entered with area
codes. Local area codes are removed during dialing, and changing to a
different calling area is as simple as changing the local area code in one
field. Calling card numbers, 9+local, and many other calling conventions
are also supported.
o Easy to use callback verification.
o ProTERM maintains, online status information, and can show time connected,
elapsed time and lines of text available for review in terminal window.
o Activity logs can save connect information including date and time of
connections, and names of files transferred to and from a service.
o The names of each service are maintained within the Connect menu for easy
selection. Connect files maintain information about individual services
including name, phone number, speed, format, duplex, emulation, foreground
and background color, transfer options, logon and service macros. Connect
to a service by choosing its name from a menu, or by double-clicking the
connect file while in the Finder.
o Multiple equipment configurations can be defined allowing each service to
have a unique and specific configuration. Set up the service one time,
choose the service by name, and its set to make the connection.

Hardware Support
o ProTERM supports over fifty modem configurations directly: Apple Express
Modem, GeoPort; BOCA Research 14.4Kbps; Hayes Smart modem 300, 1200, 2400,
V9600, Personal 1200, 2400, Optima 144, 288; SupraModem 2400, 2400 PLUS,
SupraFaxModem Plus, v32bis, 144LC, USR HST, Dual Standard; Zoom/Modem MX
2400R, V32turbo and many others (including most "AT" compatible modems).

Check Modem Output
o The Modem Control window allows monitoring of interaction between ProTERM
and your modem. See commands as they are sent to the modem, and monitor
how the modem responds to the commands.
o New Custom Init window, allows you to customize "AT" modem drivers.

New Menu Features
o Menu macro functions allow the definition of new menu commands by placing
links to your own macros in the menus.
o Improved Rebuild Menu feature for Connect and Scripts menus, allow change
a menu or install a new service without relaunch.

Transfer Features
o ProTERM file transfer protocols support Xmodem, Ymodem, Zmodem and Kermit.
MacBinary and Zmodem Resume are also supported. A transfer status window
keeps you informed of the file transfer while in progress.
o Auto-Start Protocols allow hands-off download operations. Tell the remote
service to start sending via Zmodem or Kermit, and ProTERM does the rest.
o ProTERM allows the use of a batch list of file names for use during online
file transfers. Prepare the list using the Batch List command, connect
with the service, and when you are ready to transfer the files, just
select the list. All files on the list are automatically transferred from
wherever they exist in your system.
o Send text files using prompted or timed ASCII uploads. Special Macintosh
symbol characters are automatically converted to ASCII equivalents,
formatting to specific line width, blank line protection and more.

Telnet Support
o ProTERM has network support for Telnet and ADSP (requires TCP/IP
Connection). Multi-session support with appropriate hardware and or
software allows simultaneous online connections with multiple modems or
network connections simultaneously. Select port by adding a comma and the
port number.

Terminal Emulation
o A keyboard emulation map shows which keys to press on your keyboard to
produce keys required by a chosen terminal emulation. Click on a key in
the map to produce the desired keystroke. ProTERM also utilizes extra keys
available on extended keyboards for emulations where required.
o Sophisticated Terminal Emulations including ADDS Viewpoint, ANSI-BBS,
Control Show, DEC VT-52, DEC VT-100, DEC VT-102, Heath H-19, LSI ADM-3a/5,
no emulation, PSE/A2, TeleVideo 910 and allow easy access to most any
service. ANSI-BBS supports color with a color monitor. Emulations allow
use of eight different font sizes from 6 to 24 point.
o Change the DELETE key to function as expected for each service. Choose
send backspace or delete characters, and also process the backspace as a
destructive or nondestructive character.
o Control Show emulation permits a diagnostic display by showing control
characters and high-bit characters in a special visible format. This
feature can also be used to analyze the emulation codes sent by a service.

New Emulation Features
o New ANSI-BBS Doorway keyboard emulation. This emulation (in conjunction
with the ANSI-BBS display emulation provides complete PC Doorway
compatibility, and is much easier to use than a real PC. Unlike a real PC,
there is no need to "toggle" in and out of doorway mode, because the mode
is essentially always enabled when used with ProTERM Mac.

Chat Mode
o Chat Mode allows you to enter text into a separate (storage or buffered)
"Chat Mode" window during online chat (multiple-user conference) sessions
where a press of the RETURN key releases the prepared text into the chat
area. This feature also allows you to efficiently navigate an online
service -- the next needed command can be entered while the service is
processing the current command. Pressing the RETURN key when the prompt
finally arrives releases the command and you can type the next expected
command while waiting for the service to take you to the next prompt.

Change File Types
o The Get Info command displays information about files including creator,
type, the creation and modification dates, times and file size. Change
creator and file type as needed, or use the "Same As" button to match an
existing file.

New Print Features
o Printed documents show identification footers.

Remote Printing
o Remote printing is supported when it is supported by the terminal
emulation. Request the remote service, Pine for example, to print, and the
test is saved to a remote print file. An option to print or save the file
to disk is given during the process.

Print a "Picture" of Almost Any Window
o The Print Window command prints any ProTERM window (except floating
windows), including alert and dialog windows. For example, you can use the
Print Window command to provide a quick-reference map of a keyboard
emulation window.

Preference Settings
o Extensive preference options allow ProTERM to be customized to meet your
personal needs. Select defaults for folders, file transfers, editor
documents and even preferred sounds in response to various program events.
o Extensively customize and individually set ProTERM preferences, including
methods used to connect to a specific server, and how the interface reacts
to the user's input.

New Macro capabilities (include new Internet support):
o Use ProTERM Mac's new Internet support as an Internet Helper Application
for Telnet.
o Used as a helper application for telnet, Internet Config functions,
Command-click URLs.
o Send raw Apple events
o Menu definition macro functions allow you to define new menu commands by
placing links to your own macros in the menus.
o Command Line Interface ability
o Redefine existing menu commands.
o New Macro capabilities:
-Create custom dialog boxes -System Gestalt -Send raw Apple events
-Control of "Macro Running" windoid (WIN_RUNNING)
-Added control of windows (WIN_STATE, WIN_FRAME)

Powerful Macros
o AutoLearn Macros allow automatic logon. Select the AutoLearn command to
watch your keystrokes and learn as you logon to a service. Subsequent
connects to that service are automatic.
o ProTERM macros are relatively small programs that you initiate with a
keystroke, and they allow the complete a series of simple or complex
custom commands. Each service stores its own logon macro as well as ten
short service macros directly accessible from the keyboard while using
that service. Use the service macros to send commands to a service, or to
start more complex macro applications. For example, easily create a
service macro that will print your name online or do any routine you are
now doing manually, use AutoLearn to learn what is being done while you
are doing it, and copy and paste that macro to a service macro, or use the
service macro to link to external macros that print a "sig" file of
several lines of text or other very complex, comprehensive work such as
sending and receiving mail and online messages or perusing a favorite
service.
o ProTERM uses DIRC a powerful macro programming language that allows
development of sophisticated macros applications. DIRC uses a similar
syntax and the commands of the popular C programming language. Full
multi-tasking allows multiple macros to execute simultaneously in one or
more sessions.
o Eighty+ printed pages of the ProTERM manual document macro functions plus
a new online Help file, assist your design and use of ProTERM macros.
Several example macro files are supplied on the ProTERM disk, to
demonstrate interacting with a service, assigning keyboard shortcuts to
menu commands.
o Two Very Good Macro Examples are: AutoTime & Catalogger.
1- Choose Exec from the File menu and choose the macro named AutoTime
from the Macros folder to automatically setting your Macintosh clock
with a dialup server at the National Institute of Time Standards.
2- Also use the Exec command and run Catalogger, a file in the
Contributed folder. Catalogger lists a full catalog of any volume.
These sample macros show the real power available from ProTERM's DIRC
macro language.
o Use macros to add custom keyboard shortcuts to menu commands. Redefine
existing keyboard shortcuts to suit your preferences, or automate several
commands into a single keystroke.
o Create "resident macros" to perform tasks throughout ProTERM. These macros
can be activated by a key press, or an automatic program event (such as a
file transfer).
o Included macro functions can send or receive text to a service or from a
service, insert text into a document, copy text to the clipboard or read
text from the clipboard, play sounds, and even speak (if Macintosh Speech
Manager is installed).
o ProTERM macros support signed 32-bit integers and dynamic string data
types. Strings can be assigned, appended, and compared using standard
algebraic operators for easy macro development.
o ProTERM 1.2 Includes Added support for these Macintosh technologies:
-Macintosh Drag and Drop
-Apple(R) events
-AppleScript
-Notification Manager

Hardware Support
o ProTERM supports Macintosh Plus, SE, Classic, II-family, LC, Portable,
Performa, PowerBook, Centris, Quadra and Power Macintosh Computers with a
minimum of 2MB of RAM and System 6.0.5 or later. Requires a minimum of one
floppy disk drive and a hard disk.