User`s guide

The SLTALink Manager software allows a user to create two links with different
names but the same Remote Identifier. However, when a network dials-out to a PC
with multiple links each with the Remote Identifier, the user has no control over
which link is selected, which could result in undesired behavior.
Link Type
The type of link specifies whether the SLTA-10 is directly connected to the PC
(Local), or if the SLTA-10 is at a different location and must be accessed via a set of
modems (Remote).
Configuring the Modem Line
Clicking on “Configure Line” will cause the selected modem’s property window to
appear. The property window will reflect the options available to the driver of the
modem such as volume control and dial-tone detection.
TAP1 services will handle the structuring of the call based on the Location
Information (see figure 7.4).
SLTA Password
The Password box allows the user to enter the password for a remote SLTA-10
Adapter. Up to eight characters may be entered. If entered, the password will be
sent to the remote SLTA-10 adapter when a connection is made.
The password is not encrypted when stored on the host computer.
Invoking an Application
The SLTALink Manager provides a space to enter the startup application for this
link. This may be a full executable path name, or the name of an application that
can be found in the system’s search path.
Command line arguments may also added
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including the special macros for link connection variables:
%LINKNAME%
Expands to the name of the link, enclosed in quotes.
%DEVNAME%
Expands to the device name used by LONWORKS 32-bit
applications to access the logical device. This serves the same
purpose as %DOSNAME% does for DOS.
%NSSNAME%
Expands to the device name used by LonWorks LNS application,
for SLTA-10s this will be “SLTALONn”.
%DOSNAME%
Expands to the DOS device name for the logical device, provided the
virtual device driver (VDD) is installed, which would be “LONn”.
%ID%
Expands to the remote identifier. This is expressed as either a
quoted ASCII string, or as a series of hexadecimal numbers if the
identifier contains non-ASCII data.
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