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    NGLISH RANSLATION OF THE RIGINAL ERMAN EXT: 0.

    NGLISH ANUAL OMPILED BY: 6 (FOR THE IGICOM SER ROUP ).

     DITION EDITED BY: 6. 6/94














                          ANDBOOK   ERS. 5.0



MATEUR ADIO-OMMUNICATION FOR OMMODORE 64 + 128

(ERSION 5.0 6/92)

ONTENTS:

1.      NTRODUCTION                                                  4
2.      NNOVATIONS AND EATURES OF ERSION 5.0                       6
2.1     NPROVEMENTS SINCE ERSION 3.51 (3.60)                        6
2.2      EATURES WHEN USING >64-ARD                       8
3.      IRST TEPS FOR EGINNERS                                    11
3.1     TART-UP WITH THE ODEM ON THE ASSETTE ORT                 11
3.2     TART-UP WITH THE >64-ARD                                11
3.3     MPORTANT ARAMETER NSTALLATION                             11
4.      HE PERATION OF  5.0                                 13
4.1     EYS                                                         13
4.2     HE CREEN AYOUT                                            15
5.      OMMANDS                                                     17
5.1     ENERAL OMMANDS                                             18
5.2     ISKETTE CCESS OMMANDS                                     22
5.3     RINTER ONTROL                                              27
5.4     ACKET ADIO () OMMANDS                                  28
5.5     ONITOR OMMANDS                                             39
5.6     ROGRAM EMOTE ONTROL ACILITY                              42
5.7     TANDARD EXTS                                               43
5.8     ULTI-ONNECT OMMANDS                                       46
5.9     ATH-INDER                                                  47
5.10    HE  ODE                                             51
5.11    SE OF THE SERPORTS                                         52
5.12    OFTWARE QUELCH (ATA-ARRIER-ETECT) ONTROL               53
6.      PPENDIX                                                     54
6.1     RGANIZATIONAL                                               54
6.2     ACKET ADIO ONTROL ODES                                   55
6.3     EPORTS FROM THE PROGRAM                                     56
6.4     ENERATION OF THE /UTOSTART ERSION                    57
6.5     ODEM ECOMMMENDATION                                        58
6.6     HE >64-ARD                                              59
6.7      >   ORDPROCESSOR.                             59















AGE 3                 ANDBOOK >64    ERSION 5.0







1.     

HEN THE WORK, ON  3.51, WAS COMPLETED, IN UGUST 1989, LORI 8
THOUGHT THAT HIS WORK WAS FINISHED AND THE TASK OF PUTTING THE OMMODORE 64
THROUGH ITS PACES ACCOMPLISHED.  HE  CAPACITY, OF THE COMPUTER, WAS
EXHAUSTED AND ANY ALTERATION, ON THE ROUTINES, NO MATTER HOW SMALL, RESULTED
IN LABORIOUS SEARCHING FOR EXTRA  SPACE.

N 1990  WAS LAYED ASIDE, DUE TO THE COMMENCMENT OF THE  ROJECT.
HE IDEA OF A SOFTWARE DRIVEN ETODE AND ERMINAL, FOR THE  AND OMPATIBLES,
MARKED A NEW BEGINNING AND ALL OUR FREE TIME WAS DEDICATED TO THAT PROJECT.

3 ANIEL, ACTUALLY NEVER GAVE UP TRYING TO IMPROVE , SO AGAIN IN
1990 HE MANAGED TO DEVELOPE THE PROGRAM FURTHER.  EMOVING SOME OF THE
"INTERNAL COSMETICS" AND RE-ARRANGING THE COMPLETE  MANAGEMENT, HE CORRECTED
SOME PROBLEMS, WHICH BECAME APPARENT, IN PART OF THE , AS A RESULT THE
PROGRAM'S OPERATING SPEED INCREASED DISTINCTLY.

T WAS THE START-UP OF THE NEW IGIPEATERS IN UNICH,  USING 9600 AUD
RATE, THAT MADE US DEVELOP A SMALL PLUG-IN XPANSION ARD, WHICH FITS INTO THE
SER-ORT OF THE 64 COMPUTER.  HIS ARD, TOGETHER WITH THE MODIFIED OFTWARE
ACCOMODATES MUCH HIGHER BAUD RATES (UP TO 19,200 AUD) AND MADE POSSIBLE THE
OPERATION OF THE HIGHER BAUD DIGIPEATERS.  HE ARD ALSO PROVIDES A TRUE TWO
HANNEL , SO ONE CAN OPERATE 2 ODEMS, WO RADIOS ON 2 DIFFERENT
FREQUENCIES WITH  OMMODORE 64.  OREOVER THE FAMILIAR  OPERATION,
WITH THE ODEM CONNECTED TO THE ASSETTE ORT IS STILL POSSIBLE AND
UNAFFECTED.

OLLOWING FURTHER MODIFICATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS, IN THE PRING OF 1992, THE
WHOLE  EAM, DECIDED THAT THIS NEW VERSION SHOULD NOW BE PRESENTED, ONCE
AGAIN, FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF ADIO MATEURS.

UR THANKS GO TO ORCH, 3, WHO OVER THE YEARS HAS BEEN OUR LIAISON WITH
ALL OUR  FANS.  LSO OUR THANKS TO EINRICH, 8, WHO PERFORMED AS
OUR QUALITY CONTROLLER, IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF  OVER THE YEARS, AND HAS
SPENT A LOT OF HIS SCARCE FREE TIME, RROR EARCHING WITHIN IGICOM AND IN THE
CORRECTION OF THE ANUALS.  HANKS ALSO TO LAF 8 FOR THE 1991 DEVELOPMENT
OF  3.60, IN WHICH CERTAIN ERRORS APPARENT IN 3.51 WERE CORRECTED.

E WISH THAT ALL 64 AND 128 SERS WILL HAVE A LOT OF PLEASURE USING THE NEW
PROGRAM AND WE ARE VERY PLEASED THAT 7 YEARS AFTER THE APPEARANCE OF THE FIRST
VERSION OF  SO MANY PEOPLE STILL SHOW SO MUCH INTEREST IN THE PROGRAM.

                                      EGENSBURG, UNICH, IN UNE 1992

                                      ANIEL,    3
                                      OHANNES,  3
                                      LORI,     8
                                      EINRICH,  8









 ANDBOOK  5.0                                          AGE 4







 

N A OFTWARE NSTRUCTION ANUAL, IT IS DIFFICULT TO CATER TO BOTH THE
BEGINNER AND THE EXPERIENCED USER WHO IS UPDATING FROM THE OLD ERSION.  E
ARE TRYING TO CATER TO BOTH. E DEDICATED HAPTER 2 TO THE ACTUAL DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN 3.51 AND 5.0 AND MADE IT EASY FOR THE SER TO LEARN THOSE.  HE
ACTUAL ANUAL FOR  5.0 STARTS AT HAPTER 3. N THIS THE BEGINNER WILL
BE HELPED ON HIS WAY TO 'S ELEMENTARY FUNCTIONS, BUT UNFORTUNATELY AS
ACKET ADIO ITSELF IS A VERY COMPLEX ODE, THE BEGINNER WILL NEED THE
ASSISTANCE OF AN EXPERIENCED PACKET SER, TO OVERCOME HIS DIFFICULTIES. (ELP
IS AVAILABLE FROM YOUR LOCAL  OPIER, OR FROM ME 6 ON 081-878-6251
MOST EVENINGS AFTER 18.00H.).

EFORE STARTING UP  PLEASE  ., IT CONTAINS THE UP-TO-DATE
DVICE AND ALTERATIONS (ASIC ROGRAM).

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HE OPYRIGHT FOR THE OFTWARE  IS OWNED BY ANIEL OHLER, 3 AND
LORIAN ADHERR 8.  HE OPYRIGHT OF THE ARDWARE (>64-ARD) AND ODEM
) ARE OWNED BY OHANNES NEIP, 3 AND ANIEL OHLER, 3.

HE TRANSLATION TO NGLISH, OF THE RIGINAL ERMAN TEXT IN THIS NSTRUCTION
ANUAL IS OPYRIGHT OF ENIS . ODFREY, 0.

HE COMPILATION OF THIS NSTRUCTION ANUAL, IN IT'S ENTIRETY IS OPYRIGHT OF .
APOUTSIS, 6 (O-ORDINATOR  USER ROUP ..).

LL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED AND IT IS FORBIDDEN TO USE THE OFTWARE, OR ART OF, OR
THIS NSTRUCTION ANUAL, OR ANY PART OF IT, IN SUPPORT, OR AS PART OF A PACKAGE
,OR ON IT'S OWN, IN CONJUCTION WITH OMMERCIAL ENTURES, MATEUR ADIO RELATED
OR OTHERWISE.  MATEUR ADIO PERATORS CAN USE THE OFTWARE AND NSTRUCTION
ANUAL UNDER THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS:

* HE RODUCT IS EXCLUSIVELY FOR USE IN MATEUR ADIO AND IS EXCLUDED FROM ANY
  OMMERCIAL SE.

* HE TATUATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR MATEUR ADIO WILL BE OBSERVED.

* O ALTERATION SHALL BE MADE TO THE OFTWARE, OR THE NSTRUCTION ANUAL,
  WITHOUT THE PREVIOUS WRITTEN CONCENT OF THE OPYRIGHT OLDERS. NDIVIDUAL
  ARAMETER, (PARAMETER FILES), ALTERATION EXCLUDED.

* HE WITCH-ESSAGE OF ALL ROGRAM ARTS, ESPECIALLY THE ADVICE REGARDING
  UTHORS AND THE XCLUSION OF OMMERCIAL PERATION, MAY  BE EMOVED 
  LTERED.

* HE PROGRAM MAY  BE GIVEN "FREE" WITH OMMERCIAL RODUCTS, OR IN SUPPORT
  OF OMMERCIAL PRODUCTS, WITHOUT THE PREVIOUS WRITTEN CONCENT OF THE OPYRIGHT
  OLDERS.

NDER THESE CONDITIONS THE OFTWARE AND ASSOCIATED FILES MAY BE ARBITRARILY
COPIED AND PASSED ON.  HE OFTWARE'S RIGIN SHOULD BE CONTINUALLY INCLUDED.
ONSTRUCTION OF THE HARDWARE IS ONLY FOR  USE.  DVERTISMENT OF THE
OFTWARE AND IT'S SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION, TOGETHER WITH THE ARDWARE,
RELEVANT TO THE ROGRAM, IS ONLY ALLOWED WITH WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE
OPYRIGHT OLDERS.

AGE 5                 ANDBOOK >64 ERSION 5.0







HE UTHORS AND ISTRIBUTORS OF  - OFTWARE - AND ARDWARE CANNOT BE
HELD RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY POSSIBLE DAMAGE, WHICH MAY OCCUR THROUGH
INSTALLATION, OPERATION OR CONSTRUCTION OF THE RODUCTS .



2.         5.0

2.1   MPROVEMENTS SINCE ERSION 3.51 (3.60)

S ALREADY MENTIONED, THIS VERSION HAS NOT ADDED A ULTITUDE OF NEW OMMANDS,
TO THE PREVIOUS ERSION, BUT THROUGH SOME INTERNAL PROGRAM RE-ARRANGING, HIGHER
PERATING PEEDS, MORE AVAILABLE  AND HIGHER AUD ATES HAVE BEEN ACHEIVED.
HE FOLLOWING ARE THE MAIN DIFFERENCES AND IMPROVEMENTS, OVER ERSION 3.51.

*  UPPORT FOR THE >64-ARD:  N ORDER TO OBTAIN HIGHER AUD RATES,
   ADDITIONAL HARDWARE IS REQUIRED.  HIS TAKES AWAY PART OF THE DECODING WORK
   FROM THE 64.   SMALL ARD HAS BEING DESIGNED, WHICH FITS INTO THE SER
   ORT.  T CARRIES A 8530 HIP AND IT'S PERIPHERALS.  T ENABLES TWO MODEMS
   (3 OR 9) TO BE CONNECTED TO THE COMPUTER (FOR 9600 BD.).   SINGLE
   ODEM CAN ALSO BE USED. HE SPEED OF PERATION COULD BE INCREASED UP TO
   19.200 D. VEN AT THAT SPEED HALF-DUPLEX IS POSSIBLE, ON TWO CHANNELS.
   HAT SPEED IS ONLY RELEVANT TO THE 128 COMPUTER THOUGH DUE TO THE SLOWER
   CREEN UTPUT PEED OF THE 64.  N THE DISKETTE THERE ARE TWO VERSIONS OF
   THE PROGRAM, ONE FOR THE FAMILIAR CASSETTE PORT CONNECTION TO THE ODEM,
   OPERATION, AND ONE FOR THE >64-ARD FOR A TRUE TWO CHANNEL GATEWAY.  HIS
   NEW VERSION IS ONLY OPTIONAL, THEREFORE, OPERATION IS POSSIBLE AS
   PREVIOUSLY.

*  YNAMIC  ANAGEMENT, NOW THE WHOLE 64- IS MANAGED.   AND -
   UFFERS GRAB THE  ONLY WHEN IT IS UNCONDITIONALLY IMPORTANT, THEREFORE
   THERE ARE MORE PORTS AND CONSIDERABLY INCREASED SPEED.

*  64 ERSION NOW HAS 20 ORTS, 4 VISIBLE OPERATIONAL AND 16 HIDDEN FOR THE
   ODE. HE 128 ERSION HAS 40 ORTS, 4 VISIBLE PERATIONAL AND 36 TO THE
   ODE.

*  ATH MAY HAVE 37 CALLS TO THE PREVIOUS 8 MAX.

*  OGBOOK UNCTION, TO OVERVIEW ANY CONNECTS, IT RECORDS THE DURATION OF THE
   CONNECTIONS.

*  HE ODE IS  TRANSPARENT: ACKETS WILL BE IGIPEATED 1:1  I.E. LENGTH
   AND  REMAIN AS RECEIVED.

*   IS NOW CORRECTED (ORRESPONDING TO ERSION 3.60) . 31

*  , WHEN ACTIVE, WILL BE PROMPTED ON THE SCREEN, ON THE STATUS LINE WITH
   "".

*   AND  WILL NOW SUPPRESS OUTPUT TO THE SCREEN IN ORDER TO GUARANTEE A
   FASTER ROGRAM ATA RANSFER.

*  HE CREEN UTPUT CAN ALSO BE SUPPRESSED WHEN THE  AND  OMMANDS
   ARE ISSUED TO THE ISKETTE, BY POSITIONING THE URSOR IN THE  WINDOW,
   THEREFORE A MUCH FASTER EQUENTIAL ILE TRANFER IS GUARANTEED.


                      ANDBOOK >64 ERSION 5.0              AGE 6


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