BCT / FlexNet Info

by Charles Brabham N5PVL

General Info:

The special version of BayComTerm (BCT) distributed with PC-FlexNet is a great program, but has no English docs. Here's a few commands I've found, plus special info for using BCT to monitor a FlexNet node's activity.

BCT Basic Commands:

F1-F6 - Switch Channels.

F9 - Switch windows.  ( Cursor Keys to Scroll )

F10 - Monitor Mode ( Upper windows minimized - Press F1-F6 to Exit. )

CTRL-Home/CTRL-End  - Reposition Upper Bar. ( Resize windows 1 and 2 )

CTRL-Up/CTRL/Dwn  - Reposition Lower Bar. ( Resize windows 2 and 3 )

Alt-X - Quit BCT.

ESCAPE - Command Mode:

 :H - Help

 :CL # - Clear Window #  ( Where # is the Window number 1-3 )

 :O - DOS Shell. EXIT to return to BCT.

 :W (Path/FileName) - Record to file. ( Example:  :W C:\IN\CAPTURE.TXT  )

 :W PRN - Record to Printer.

 :W OFF - Stop Recording ( File or Printer )

 :C  - Connect to 

 :D - Disconnect

 :MH - MHeard List

Control of Monitor Function with FlexNet:

In INIT.BCT, instead of: monitor ON try: monitor 1 15 (For Ports 1 and 15) or: monitor 1 to just monitor Port 1, and so on...

Setting the colors for BCT:

In INIT.BCT, the following line sets the color for attributes 0-12 :


sa_color 0B 1B CF 0A 1B 13 4F 03 07 17 1E 5E 04

Here is a breakdown of the 13 attributes, with the values shown above.

 0  0B ; TX window
 1  1B ; Upper Status Line (USL)
 2  CF ; STOP indicator in USL (SHIFT-TAB or "-")
 3  0A ; RX window
 4  1B ; Lower Status Line - connected call and port number
 5  13 ; Lower Status line - not selected or connected ports
 6  4F ; Lower Status Line - selected port
 7  03 ; Monitor: address field (header)
 8  07 ; Monitor: info field
 9  17 ; Text of help screen
 10 1E ; Highlights on help screen
 11 5E ; Selected highlight on help screen
 12 04 ; CTRL characters (must be different from ATTRIB 0,3,7,8)

The first character is for the Background color, and the second one is for the foreground.

The values 8-F work only in the foreground.
As background colors they cause the colors 0-7 to flash.

Values of color attributes

   0 = Black                   8 = Dark Grey
   1 = Blue                    9 = Light Blue
   2 = Green                   A = Light Green
   3 = Cyan                    B = Light Cyan
   4 = Red                     C = Light Red
   5 = Magenta                 D = Light Magenta
   6 = Brown                   E = Yellow
   7 = White                   F = Light White

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BCT / FlexNet Info

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BCT Basic Commands:

Control of Monitor Function with FlexNet:

Setting the colors for BCT:

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