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MacLayers Queries

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From: Bill_Chiles
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 17:13
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I decided to try MacLayers, which I only recently learned about, and it
seems to have some problems.  It looks like a really nice package from the
documentation, and maybe I'm just missing the right pointers on the features
I'm looking for.

I'd like to be able to do the following:
   1] Redefine keys, as I can with Kermit, to make the clover key act like
      a meta key.  I've done this in Kermit by customizing it to send escape
      followed by whatever key I've typed with clover.
   2] Save configurations to avoid re-entering phone numbers and
      communication parameters every time I start it up.
   3] Talk directly to the modem to give it commands.
   4] Prefix the calling sequence with modem commands.  Basically, I think
      the phone setting dialog box assumes the program is too whizzy, and it
      doesn't provide for preambles to dialing.  It has one button to turn
      the speaker on and off, but for example, you can't give the modem a
      command yourself to simply lower the speaker volume.  You can inhibit
      call waiting by typing that into the dialing sequence, but you can't
      issue commands that would precede the D or DT command.

Any solutions to these problems would be greatly appreciated.  Without them,
I'm afraid MacLayers is of little use because inhibiting my typing is more
irritating than having a small window when dialing up.

Thanks,
Bill
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Date: Mon,  3 Aug 1992 13:13:59 -0400 
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