Apple Newton Internet Enabler User Manual

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Continue choosing commands until you’ve completed the script. (Tap the scroll
arrows at the right side of the slip if you need to look through a long script.)

Here are examples of some ways to use the login script commands:
m To send your user name and password, choose the Send User Name and Send

Password commands, respectively.

Note:

If you want to keep your Internet account more secure, you can exclude

the Send Password command from your script. Replace it with a Prompt
command (for example, “Prompt Enter Password:”). Then when you log in, your
Newton will prompt you to enter your password, rather than send it automatically.
This will make it harder for unauthorized users to access your Internet account.

m To send a Return character, you must add a Send ¶ command to the script; returns

are not sent automatically. Alternatively, you can insert a Send command and then
tap Return on the keyboard. You need a Send ¶ command after most other send
commands (including the Send User Name and Send Password commands).

m To send information to the ISP computer (other than your name or password),

choose the Send command and write in the characters to send.

m If you’re creating a setup for an ISP (or a company intranet) that uses a SecurID

card, be sure to include a Prompt command (for example, “Prompt Enter SecurID
number”) that tells you to enter a SecurID number at the appropriate point in the
login sequence. The SecurID card is a credit card-like device that generates a
unique value, which you enter at login time. The ISP host uses this value to verify
your identity.

m The list of scripting commands for SLIP has two additional choices—Get local IP

address and Get gateway IP address—for SLIP hosts that dynamically assign IP
addresses and print them as part of a welcome message when you log in. These
commands will scan the data being sent by the host and pick up the IP addresses.
Contact your ISP to find out where in the login script they should go.

m The last command in a login script is always the Done command.

Note:

When you insert a Done command in a script, any subsequent commands

disappear. This makes it easy to remove unneeded commands.