The LinKT Manual: Context-Menu

## Contextmenus

This menu appears on pressing the right mousebutton when in the QSO window. It offers function which relate to the current mouse position-.

At the QSO-window there are two different menus:

- At the QSO-area ("RX-window") you get a menu to connect, disconnect, to change the settings, and to transfer files . This menu is also reachable by clicking the right mousebutton on a channel at the LinKT main window (the connection list).
- at the editing window ("TX-window") you can insert the X selection (clipboard in M$ terminology).

The context menu at the qso area offers the following items:

## Connect <Alt+C>

This menu item leeds directly to the connect-dialog which is discussed in Chapter ?.

## Disconnect<Alt+D>

Disconnects an established connection and closes the QSO window.

## Preferences <Alt+S>

There are the following folders:

`Settings`
  You can enter a `name` for the station with the given `callsign` (The remote station may enter it itself by using the //NAME remote command). If LinKT was not able to detect the remote station's software type, you can set it here under `software type`. `Type` is similar, but more generic. You can select either terminal, node, mailbox or convers. (The away-function depends on this setting).
  `7plus - Autosave`
    If enabled, all data is scanned for 7plus headers. If a 7plus file is recognized it will be saved automatically.
  `BIN - Autosave`
    Like 7plus autosave above, but for use with the #BIN#-protocol.
  `DIDADIT - autosave`
    Like `BIN autosave` but for binary files, which are transferred using the `#BIN#` successor DIDADIT.
  `recognize 'connected to'`
    If LinKT receives a line starting with "connected to", it !geht davon aus! that the currently connected remote station has established a connection through to another station. It loads the new remote-station's user-data (the setting in this dialog) and changes the call in the statusline. You need to disable this when just monitoring a channel.
  `recognise 'reconnected to'`
    As above, but for `reconnect` message. Reconnects are recognized only if LinKT had received a "connected to" from this station before.
  `automatic passwords`
    LinKT checks the first twenty lines of a connection to see if there is a password prompt. If there is, it will generate the appropriate password (only if the password is known to LinKT !).
  `remote-control`
    This allows you to disable remote-control. If disabled, LinKT does not respond to any //-command.
  `//COMP active`
    Activates or disables Huffman-compression without sending a `//COMP` to the remote station.
  `#HUF# TX active, #HUF# RX active`
    These items are only accessible, if `#HUF# allowed` is enabled. Similar to `//COMP active` the compression is activated or switched off without sending sequences to the remote station. This compression protocol handles the two directions seperatly, so they can be switched independently. The #HUF# protocol has been developed by Andreas Müller, DF8MT, and implemented into his software TOP.
`Remotes`
  Here you may enable or disable any available remote commands individually. The changes are activated when leaving the dialog box by pressing `OK`.
`Password`
  To facilate login to BBSs, nodes, etc, LinKT is able to calculate and send the password automatically. In this dialog you have to select the password system the remote station is using (`PW-Type`). For TNN-Nodes select "BayBox / FlexNet ". If the system allows "randomised" passwords (the password-response is encrypted in random characters), you can select the `length of the response` and the possible `response characters` (the characters LinKT may use to generate the random string). At the field `password` you may enter the password directly or select `search..` to select a file.
`??????`
  Click here to activate the automatic word wrap.

## send File <Alt+F>

On the appearance of the file select-box you can choose the (text-) file to send. LinKT will convert the end-of-line characters (LF->CR) so this is only for pure text-files or 7plus.

## send7plus <Alt+7>

This is for automatically uploading files by 7plus. Just enter the desired target (TO-field), the subject and select the file to send. You can choose if LinKT should send all parts (`all`) or a particular part (`start with`). When entering the suject, you may use macros to show the number of 7plus-parts and the current partnumber. After clicking OK, the transfer will start.

## send AutoBIN <Alt+B>

This is similar to `send file` above, except the transfer will use the #BIN#-protocol.

Note: Do not use this for 7plus parts since it would disable 7plus' error-correction.

## Send DIDADIT

As `send AutoBIN`, but using the new DIDADIT protocol. DIDADIT is able to resume interrupted transfers, is very robust and can be monitored by other station in a consistent manner.

## YAPP-Transfer <Alt-Y>

Similar to the other file transfer protocols, besides this menuitem is for both transmitting and receiving files with YAPP.

## Save Textfile <Alt+T>

Use this to save all received text to your harddisk.

## BoxCheck <Alt+C>

Pops up the BoxCheck window which allows you to select and manipulating messages at a remote bbs. LinKT must have received and decoded a message list before (send a `l` or `check` command to your bbs).

The context menu at the editing window offers the items:

## Send quoted

The current X selection will be sent to the remote station with a "> " in front of each line to identify it as a citation.

## Insert quoted

As `Send quoted` without sending the lines immediately but inserting them into the editing window instead.