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Chapter 2 - Telephone Terminals / Telephone Terminals Reference

Telephone Terminals Functions / Opening and Closing Telephone Terminals

TELOpenTerm

Opens a terminal.

pascal TELErr TELOpenTerm (TELHandle hTEL);

hTEL

A handle to a telephone record.

function result

A result code.

DESCRIPTION

The TELOpenTerm function attempts to open a telephone terminal, using the information contained in the telephone record specified by the hTEL parameter. TELOpenTerm opens the driver associated with the telephone tool specified in the procID field of that record. It also finishes initializing the telephone record by filling in any fields that have not yet been filled in. Note that several applications can open the same terminal.

IMPORTANT

You must call TELOpenTerm before calling any other telephone terminal routines described in this chapter. You can, however, call TELTermMsgHand before opening a terminal.