Description ----------CCLINK and CCLINKjr monitor and display the status of your modem and serial port right

on your Windows desktop. For you internal modem users, CCLINK is invaluable since your modem does not have any status lights, but CCLINK does! CCLINK also allows you to talk to your modem and send command strings to it. CCLINKjr only monitors your serial ports, but you can run multiple instances of it monitoring many ports at once. Think of the fun! How to run CCLINK: -----------------1. Use Program Manager's File/New option to create a new program item called CCLINK or CCLINKjr. That's it! 2. If you like, you can set CCLINK.INI options to customize startup options. Check out the sample CCLINK.INI that's included. It must be in your Windows or Windows for Workgroups directory. Enhancements and General Operation ---------------------------------CCLINK can input AT commands to your modem ports at speeds of 1200, 2400, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, and 115K bps. There are menu options for configuring your modem. The "Modem Stuff..." option allows you to use modem reset strings and will accept carriage-return terminated strings from a CCLINK.INI file. Default reset strings are used if the CCLINK.INI is unavailable or only provides one string. The "Send AT command" option will send these strings to the serial port. When choosing to send both strings at once, there is a hard-coded one-second delay between sending the first and second strings. CCLINK's AT-INPUT allows easy toggling between the AT Command and Monitor modes. The OPTIONS menu allows you to turn terminal echo (duplex) on or off, lower DTR or RTS for test purposes, switch between monitoring parallel and serial ports, and toggling the "Always On Top" option. Check it out! CCLINK will inform the user when the COM port is busy or being used. If Windows reports that the COM port does not exist, CCLINK will let you know. Occasionally, CCLINK may report data errors and report an error number inside of a message box. These are the following values that may be reported, and you may want to record the value for troubleshooting: 01 02 04 08 10 20 40 80 100 200 400 /* /* /* /* /* /* /* /* /* /* /* Receive Queue overflow Receive Overrun Error Receive Parity Error Receive Framing error Break Detected CTS Timeout DSR Timeout Carrier Timeout Transmit Queue is full LPTx Timeout LPTx I/O Error */ */ */ */ */ */ */ */ */ */ */

800 /* LPTx Device not selected 1000 /* LPTx Out-Of-Paper 8000 /* Requested mode unsupported

*/ */ */

A value of 18 is two errors: error 10 and error 8 together. COMMENTS -------1. 'M' is displayed if CCLINK is Monitoring the port; 'I' appears if it is currently able to input commands. The bps rate only appears when AT INPUT ('I') is set. 2. Double letters will appear if modem ECHO (ATE1) and Duplex are both on. Either turn off Duplex in the OPTIONS menu or turn off modem echo (ATE0). 3. Carriage returns and control characters appear as vertical bars sometimes. CCLINK cannot send control characters or the escape key to the modem port. Working on it! 4. After more than 10 lines appear in the AT Window, the next user input will clear the window. When maximized, this value is set to 40 lines. This can be configured in CCLINK.INI, but changing it is not recommended. 5. You can dial out to bulletin boards, but you should properly configure the modem first, especially at very high speeds. On rare occasions, CCLINK may lose control of the modem and you may have to turn CCLINK OFF and then ON or re-select INPUT AT Commands so that CCLINK can reinitialize the port. You should configure the modem for hardware flow control (AT&K3 or AT\Q3). 6. Outputting text to the AT Window flashes so the user knows they are inputting to the port. This flickering will be eliminated in future releases. 7. CCLINK briefly opens and closes an unused serial port when intially brought up. This is required, especially for Windows for Workgroups 3.11 compatiblity CCLINK uses standard Windows communication function calls in order to light the send (SD) and receive (RD) lights, and it should have little effect on your application's performance.