Most of these questions are answered in the calterm help file, which is built into

calterm. Click the button on the end of the menu in calterm labeled "Help", and you
can search or browse.

In a nutshell:

If you already have a config you want to use, save the config into the c:\Calterm
III folder, along with the calibration file. Then you can locate them quickly.

1. Launch Calterm
2. Click on FILE.
3. Click on OPEN CALIBRATION
4. In the first field of the box that just opened, you need to enter the location
of the config file. This will vary depending on your ECM. If you saved one you want
to use, point calterm to that file.
5. As you did in step 4, do it for step five, but this time you're showing calterm
which cal file you want to open.
6. Click OK.

Calterm will open the calibration file you specified using the config you
specified, unless they are not compatible, in which case it will complain with an
error message. If this occurs, I'd recommend trying a config file already available
to calterm which matches your product (ECM / Engine). For instance, I frequently
use the "Enforcer" ENF config file to open my CM870 cals. You may also see a
message about the config header being different than the calibration version. You
can ignore this.

I bet your next post is going to be:

"OK, I did all that, but it isn't showing me much, like actual parameters or things
I can edit. WTF?"

So I'll go a bit further with the explanation.

Once you open the calibration, and you want to edit the cal params, you need to do
that using a "screen" file which you will create from the window you see now. This
is done by searching for various parameters you're interested in changing, and
applying them to the screen. As follows:

1. Press F1 to open the parameter search box.

2. In the top most field, enter a partial string to search for. For example, "EGR"
without the quotes. Click on SEARCH button next to that field.
3. Below, it will display everything with the characters EGR in the param, and in
the comment if you have that box ticked.
4. Find the ones you want to edit, and click the checkbox next to each one.
5. After finding and selecting some, click on the APPLY button at the bottom of the
search screen.

That will add those params to the editor screen file, where you can now modify
them. Don't forget to save not only the cal file when you're done, but also the
screen file if you don't want to go through the param search everytime. Screen
files are saved by going to the EDITOR menu, and selecting "save screen file". That
way, next time you open your cal, you can go to EDITOR and select "load screen
file", loading your previous work.

Click the image below to see an example of what my screen looks like while I edit
my CM870 Calibration.

A couple more tips:

1. When you change a value, you must hit ENTER to apply it. If you change the value
and then click out of that field, the value will revert and not apply. Successful
changes are shown by the field turning yellow automatically.

2. Not all params are editable. Some are dynamic values which are populated by the
ECM, meaning you can't change them, only read them.

3. Depending on what engine you have, the params are very different. For example, a
CM871 ISX is very different from a CM870 ISX when it comes to the engine
programming. Thus, if you're reading a guide for an engine which is not what you
have, very few if any of the params will apply.

See the help section in calterm... it really will tell you much of this without
having to wait.