Inter-Office MemorandumToALTO UsersDateOctober 7, 1977FromTed Strollo and John MelvinLocationPalo AltoSubjectTelenet Mail from ALTOsOrganizationSystems Science LabXEROX Filed on: [MAXC1]ALTOXNET.MEMOA form-driven, BRAVO coupled mechanism for preparing and sendingmessages via the Xerox Telenet is now available. It offers the ALTO user thecapability of sending Telenet messages, TWX or TELEX messages, Telegrams,or Mailgrams. I expect the future DMS ALTO message system to fullysupercede this program which does have some severe limitations. While Iwould like to encourage users to use this to test our Telenet connection atPARC; I want to be up front about the limitations; so, here they are:CAVEATSThe mechanism used to transfer files from the ALTO to MAXC1 (which iswhere the Telenet link resides) is somewhat kludgey. It can fail under obscureconditions. If it does fail, follow the recovery instructions at the end.TWX,TELEX,Telegrams,Mailgrams all cost real dollars. Please use themproperly. The Xerox Telenet service is really a world-wide link of model 35teletypes. Such devices speak only upper case ASCII text and data transmissionreliability is not perfect. It is easy to get carried away with BRAVO, and notrealize that all the fancy font stuff will just get stripped out by this programand the devices.Getting the Necessary FilesIf you get a copy of the file [MAXC1]TELENET.CM and then type@TELENET.CM to the ALTO EXEC, you will get the needed files to yourdisk and you will be sitting in BRAVO looking at a copy of this memo. Youmust have your user.cm properly set up for font 8 per the standard defaults inorder for the image on the screen to look closest to the way it would look on aTELENET terminal. You must also have those standard fonts on your ALTOdisk ([MAXC1]gacha10.al in particular). Your user.cm mustalso have the X.QUIT macro in the [BRAVO] section per the fileXNETSLICEUSER.CM which gets copied to your disc as part of the package.[There is a peculiar { in the macro which has a control s typed after it; if you are good withBRAVO windows, that is perhaps the best way to get the macro into your user.cm].]gp bqr] -qr7B ]qr]-qr7B Xxqr]-q r7BSsr Mr( J Gr3? EPr@ Cr 4 Ar#:$ ?r! >$r,  j/  altoxnet.memoStrolloOctober 10, 1977 9:34 AM