Initial-Action Templates - Nortel VT100 Development Manual

2-26 Template files

Initial-action templates

555-9001-316 Standard 1.0 February 1996
position-indicator This entry should be set to 0,0.
@ Identifies that this line is a sleep-descriptor.
num Specifies the number of seconds that the session should sleep. For
example, to wait 25 seconds, you would code the sleep-descriptor as
0,0 @25
Before you can process any information on the host computer using the
VT100 Gateway, you need to set the starting point for each of your terminal
sessions. For example, you may want session 2 to start processing at an
application's main menu, whereas session 5 should start at the system
prompt.
You automatically initialize each terminal session by defining initial-action
templates. Initial-action templates are action templates that specify a
sequence of screen templates that position the terminal session at the desired
location on the host computer whenever TRS is started up.
The initial-action template follows the same format and syntax as defined for
action templates earlier in this chapter. If you must use "*" or "$" characters
in your field-descriptors, put them in quotation marks.
Instead of referencing these action templates in the COMI cell, you specify
initial-action templates in an ASCII file named trs.conf. In addition, the
session numbers defined in the trs.conf file must have a corresponding entry
in a file named vt100.ctl, which assigns a device type for the session. See
Chapter 3 for information on the configuration and syntax of the trs.conf and
vt100.ctl files.