




T THE FLASHING CURSOR (SHOULD BE POSITIONED AFTER A COLON [:]) TYPE 
(ALLSIGN) AND PRESS , THIS WILL PLACE YOUR CALLSIGN AT THE TOP OF THE
SCREEN. HE COLON [:] BEFORE THE PARAMETER, OR  OTHER ENTRY PLACES 
IN OMMAND ODE, WHERE THE PERATOR CAN HANGE PARAMETERS OR ISSUE OMMANDS TO
THE YSTEM.  ITHOUT THE COLON [:] AS THE FIRST CHARACTER BEFORE THE FLASHING
CURSOR, ANY ENTRIES WILL BE INTERPRETED AS TEXT TO BE TRANSMITTED AND ON
PRESSING , OR AFTER THE 79TH CHARACTER HAS BEEN TYPED, THE LINE  BE
TRANSMITTED.

HE ASTER OPY ISKETTE COMES WITH THE PROGRAM PERATING PARAMETERS SET, SO
THAT THE BEGINNER CAN JUST TYPE IN THE TIME, DATE AND HIS CALLSIGN ONLY, HE CAN
THEN START TO OPERATE AND WORRY ABOUT "FINE TUNING" THE YSTEM AFTER HE/SHE HAS
GAINED SOME EXPERIENCE. (SEE ).  O NOT FORGET TO  THE CALLSIGN
AND ANY OTHER PARAMETERS YOU HAVE CHANGED, ON YOUR WORKING DISK, OTHERWISE THE
PROGRAM WILL LOAD THE DEFAULT PARAMETERS, AS SET BY THE COPIER.  EMEMBER THAT
THE CASSETTE PORT VERSION DEFAULTS TO -0 SO YOU : 0 (OR JUST :)
WHILST THE >64 DEFAULTS TO -9 THEREFORE WITH THAT VERSION YOU : 9
(P.25).

T FIRST IT IS ADVISEABLE TO JUST READ THE SCREEN AND WATCH THE RECEIVED
PACKETS. Y PRESSING 3 YOU WILL SEE THE FIRST OF THE "RECEIVE BUFFER" SCREENS,
THE SECOND ONE IS 5. OU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE ALL THAT IS HAPPENING ON THE
FREQUENCY AS FAR AS PACKET IS CONCERNED. O RETURN TO THE OPERATING SCREEN
PRESS 1.  F ANY PROBLEMS ARE EXPERIENCED WITH ECEIVE, THEN PERHAPS THE
FOLLOWING MAY HELP. SE PLENTY OF OLUME, (YOU CANNOT HEAR IT AS YOU SHOULD BE
TAKING THE INPUT TO THE MODEM FROM THE EXTENTION SPEAKER, OR IF YOU CAN, IF YOU
HAVE A SEPARATE UDIO OUT FACILITY ON YOUR RIG, LIKE THE  726, MAKE SURE
ENOUGH AUDIO LEVEL COMES OUT OF IT). ET THE SQUELCH TO MINIMUM, YOU COULD ALSO
EXPERIMENT WITH THE REQUENCY NPUT OF THE RANSFER ATH BEFORE THE ODEM (HIGH
OR OW ASS) AND THE QUALIZE-NPUT OF THE 7910 (IN 17).

 SIMPLE WAY TO VERIFY THE FACT THAT YOU ARE TRANSMITTING IS TO USE THE
 PARAMETER AND SET IT VIA A DIGIPEATER. OST STATIONS HAVE THE FACILITY
ENABLED SO SET : ,<IGI STATION CALLSIGN> RESS , YOU SHOULD
SEE  THE FOLLOWING:  VIA <DIGI-TATION ALLSIGN>
          >>>WAS  
EMOVE THE COLON [:] BY PRESSING "BACK ARROW" [<-] ONCE (-64) OR THE  KEY
(-128) THEN PRESS . ACH TIME YOU DO THAT YOU WILL SEE THE FOLLOWING
ON YOUR RECEIVE SCREEN:
<YOUR CALLSIGN>/<DIGI-SATION CALLSIGN> >,,:
<YOUR CALSIGN>/<DIGI-STATION CALLSIGN>* EST>,.:
T IS THE STAR [*] AFTER THE DIGI-STATION'S CALLSIGN THAT TELLS YOU HE HEARD
YOUR PACKET AND COMMAND AND HAS REPEATED IT (DIGIPEATED IT), THEREFORE YOUR
RANSMIT IS . OW YOU ARE READY TO TRY A "REAL" PACKET . OOK FOR A
CALLSIGN THAT YOU RECOGNIZE, OR THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTACT, IN YOUR 
SCREEN (7), THEN TYPE AFTER THE COLON [:] : <STATION'S CALLSIGN> AND PRESS
.  STANDS FOR ONNECT. F ALL IS WELL YOUR STATION WILL TRANSMIT THE
CONNECT CODES AND IF THE STATION CALLED IS AVAILABLE YOU WILL HERE THE "BONG"
OF CONNECTION AND YOU'LL HAVE YOUR FIRST PACKET CONNECT. EMEMBER THAT 3 WILL
ALWAYS SHOW YOU WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE FREQUENCY AND 1 WILL RETURN YOU TO
YOUR CHOSEN PERATING SCREEN.







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4.     5.0

HERE ARE VERY FEW VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN  3.51 AND  5.0. MOST
OF THE CHANGES ARE IN THE HIDDEN SOURCE CODE AND PROGRAMMING.  ORE PORTS AND
HIGHER BAUD RATES WERE MADE POSSIBLE AND INCREASED WORKING SPEED. HE PROGRAM
IS CONTROLLED BY OMMANDS WHICH ARE ISSUED AS LETTERS AT THE COLON, ON THE
PERATING CREEN. HE FAMILIAR CODES AND PRESENTATION HAVE BEEN RETAINED. O
HAVE THE UNCTION KEYS.  S USUAL BEFORE ANY COMMAND CAN BE ACCEPTED A COLON
[:] MUST BE PRESENT   OF THE FLASHING CURSOR. THERWISE, THE PROGRAM
IDENTIFIES THE TEXT TYPED AS TEXT FOR TRANSMIT. N SHORT THE COLON [:]
REPRESENTS A 'S COMMAND ODE AND THE ABSENCE OF IT, A 'S ONVERSE ODE.

OMMAND LETTERS, OR WORDS, MUST BE SEPARATED FROM THE PARAMETER OR OTHER
TEXT BY A SPACE, UNLESS THE COMMAND IS FOLLOWED BY NUMBERS, SUCH AS IN SETTING
THE DATE OR CLOCK WHERE THE SPACE CAN BE DROPPED WITHOUT PROBLEMS. OST OF
THE COMMANDS WILL SELF CORRECT, ON  SCREEN, IF ISSUED WRONG, TO A CERTAIN
EXTENT OF COURSE. HE COMMANDS WITH "", "" QUALIFIERS CAN BE PLACED WITH A
VARIETY OF SHORTCUTS, I.E. :  <RETURN> IS THE SAME AS : ON, OR :CP
ON, OR : , OR :  ETC. LSO, ALTHOUGH THIS IS THE NGLISH VERSION AND
: IS SET TO "" OR "0" (ZERO), :  WILL RETURN AS   AND :
 WILL RETURN AS  , SO THE YSTEM DOES RECOGNISE SOME COMMANDS IN
ERMAN AS WELL.

F A COMMAND IS ISSUED, AT THE COLON [:] WITH NO FOLLOWING TEXT OR PARAMETER,
THEN THE DEFAULT VALUE WILL BE RETURNED, ON SCREEN, FOR THAT COMMAND.  HE
VALUES CAN BE OVERWRITTEN AND NEW DEFAULTS CAN BE PERMED THAT WAY. OR THAT
PURPOSE ALL NUMBERS CAN BE TYPED IN ORDINARY DECIMAL FORM, OR BY PRECEEDING
WITH A "$" (DOLLAR SIGN), IN HEXADECIMAL.  HE COLON CAN BE REMOVED OR REPLACED
WITH THE -EY AS WELL AS THE ACK-RROW KEY (<-). HERE IS  WORDWRAPPING
OF THE TYPED TEXT, SO THERE IS NO NEED FOR LINE-FEEDS, UNLESS REQUIRED.  F THE
COLON [:] IS  REMOVED PRIOR TO TYPING A LINE, THEN THE YSTEM WILL INTERPRET
THE WHOLE LINE AS A "COMMAND GONE WRONG" AND IGNORE IT, AND THEREFORE NO TEXT
WILL BE SENT.

4.1 .

1:  PERATING CREEN OF WHICHEVER ORT IS IN USE AT THE TIME.
2:  EADS THE DISK DIRECTORY AND DISPLAYS IT ON SCREEN.
3:  URRENT ONITOR CREEN OF  THAT IS HAPPENING ON HANNEL (40 OLUMN 64)
4:  OT IN SE.
5:  ECEIVE CREEN UFFER. (NE SCREENFUL CONTINUED FROM 3)(40 OLUMN 64).
6:  ORCES A EACON SEND WITH THE  AND ALL IGN.
7:  IST OF TATIONS EARD DIRECT AND IA IGIPEATERS. ().
8:  OT IN SE.

 1...4  OR OMMODORE  KEY 1...4

HIS WILL TOGGLE BETWEEN THE 4 ISIBLE OPERATING PORTS. HE PORT NUMBER WILL BE
SHOWN ON THE FAR RIGHT OF THE TATUS INE.

SING THE  KEY IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER NORMAL KEYS, SPECIAL ONTROL
CHARACTERS CAN BE PLACED IN THE TANDARD EXT LIST, AND THEREFORE CAUSE THE
TEXT TRANSMITTED BY THE TANDARD EXT IST, TO APPEAR IN A CERTAIN WAY, PRE-SET
BY THE PERATOR. SEFUL IN SETTING THE ELCOME ON ONNECT TECT () OR
SETTING UP  SPECIFIC CALLSIGNS AND  FOR THE ODE ETC. (EE TANDARD
EXTS). HESE HARACTERS ARE ALWAYS PLACED IN THE  EXT IN NVERSE IDEO.


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Y HOLDING THE  KEY AND THEN "HITTING" THE EFT-RROW EY [<-],
THE CURRENT TIME IS PLACED IN THE COMMAND LINE, READY TO BE SENT. LSO BY
"HITTING" THE LUS-IGN KEY (+), THE CURRENT DATE IS PLACED ON THE
COMMAND LINE, READY TO BE SENT. F THE  EY IS PRESSED AND HELD AND THEN
THE BACK ARROW, OR THE PLUS SIGN KEYS ARE PRESSED THEY WILL PLACE A SMALL
INVERTED VIDEO LETTER S AND R RESPECTIVELY. HESE CAN BE SET, FOR INSTANCE AS A
MESSAGE ON DISCONNECT.  F PLACED IN THE  EXT, THEN ON DISCONNECT THE TIME
AND DATE WILL FOLLOW ANY GOODBYE MESSAGE FROM THE OPERATOR. (EFAULT PARAMETER
 SET).   WILL RETURN THE MMEDIATE ORT NUMBER (SET IN  EXT).
 AND URSOR OWN PLACES THE CURSOR IN THE  SCREEN. NY TEXT IN THE 
SCREEN CAN BE THEN RE-TRANSMITTED. LSO USEFUL WHEN USING THE  COMMAND TO
PLACE EQUENCIAL FILES IN THE DRIVE FOR POSSIBLE TRANSMISSION.
OME PROBLEMS MAY BE ENCOUNTERED, THROUGH, IF TRANSMITTED PACKETS, FROM THE
RECEIVE SCREEN, CLASH WITH TRANSMITTED PACKETS FROM THE NORMAL TRANSMIT SCREEN.
ITH PRACTICE THIS CAN BE AVOIDED.

HE  SCREEN CAN BE HALTED BY PRESSING  / AND TO START RECEIVING
AGAIN, THE SAME KEYS ARE PRESSED AGAIN. OR THE DURATION OF THE "PAUSE" AN
INVERTED VIDEO  WILL APPEAR ON THE TATUS INE.  HIS FACILITY IS AVAILABLE
ON ALL 4 OPERATING PORTS INDEPENDENTLY. HEREFORE IF ANY RECEIVED TEXT NEEDS
TO BE SAVED TEMPORARILY IN ORDER TO BE REFERRED TO, THEN THAT PARTICULAR PORT
CAN BE PLACED IN "PAUSE" MODE AND THE SCROLLING OF TEXT ON SCREEN WILL BE
HALTED. HE OTHER 3 PORTS WILL BE OPERATING NORMALLY AND OF COURSE THE 3 AND
5 SCREENS ARE ALWAYS ACTIVE.

 - (MINUS) ISPLAYS AN UNDERLINE.
 = (EQUAL) LEARS THE ACTUAL LINE.

HERE ARE A NUMBER OF CHARACTERS WHICH IF PLACED IN INVERTED VIDEO BY USING THE
 KEY CAN ALTER THE  SCREEN OF A CONNECTED STATION AND 'S OWN 
SCREEN.  ARE MUST BE TAKEN AS SOME OF THESE CONTROL CHARACTERS CAN CAUSE A
CRASH ON SOME TERMINALS AND SHOULD REALLY ONLY BE TRANSMITTED TO OTHER 
USERS ONLY.

HESE HARACTERS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS ARE:

   LEAR CREEN (X ART)                            LEAR INE.
   OUND THE ONG (OW ONE).                \(OUND) URSOR OME.
   LEAR HARACTER.                                  URSOR IGHT.
   EVERSE WRITE .                                 URSOR .
   EVERSE WRITE .                                URSOR EFT.
   ECOND ONG (HIGHER ONE)"                        URSOR ETURN.
   NSERT HARACTER.                         /(LASH)  ACKSLASH.
    (LOSE DISK WRITE SEQ. FILE).

: F YOU SET THESE CHARACTERS, EXCEPT  , IN THE  PARAMETER THEN
YOUR SCREEN WILL REMAIN READABLE, AND YOUR CURSOR WILL  JUMP ALL OVER THE
SCREEN, WHEN THERE ARE BINARY FILE TRANSFERS TAKING PLACE ON CHANNEL. LSO, IF
YOU DO NOT WANT ANY OF THE USER TATIONS TO "RE-ARRANGE" YOUR  SCREEN LAYOUT
WHILST CONNECTED, SET THE SAME CHARACTERS IN .








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TANDARD EXTS CAN BE  INDIVIDUALLY AND DISPLAYED ON YOUR TRANSMIT SCREEN,
EITHER TO BE TRANSMITTED WHEN THE COLON [:] IS NOT THERE, OR FOR YOUR
PERUSAL IF IT IS. HIS IS DONE WITH THE OMMODORE LAG EY <> AND A LETTER
ALLOCATED TO THE TANDARD EXT YOU WISH TO SEE.  IE. <>  WILL DISPLAY THE
"GOODBYE" TANDARD EXT FROM THE DEFAULT PARAMETERS.  HESE WILL BE ACTIVE
REGARDLESS IF  IS "" OR "".

: <>   ILL DISPLAY THE TATION NFORMATION  EXTS, NORMALLY
         AVAILABLE TO THE ODE, BUT IT WILL ALSO SHOW  THE PRE-SET ATHS, IN
         THE ATHFINDER, AND THE  (7) LIST. T SOMETIMES  THE
         ATHFINDER.



  .

HE 1 CREEN (CTIVE ORT).

HE FIRST LINE (OR THE FIRST TWO LINES IN 40 COLUMN MODE) DISPLAYS THE 4
ISIBLE PERATING ORTS. EXT TO IT'S NUMBER (1 TO 4) HE CALLSIGN ASSIGNED TO
THE ORT IS DISPLAYED.  HE CTIVE ORT IS DISPLAYED IN NVERTED IDEO.  F A
SER TATION CONNECTS TO A PORT THEN THE OW TONE ONG SOUNDS (PROVIDING 
IS SET TO 255). HE SAME HAPPENS WHEN THE PERATOR HAS A SUCCESSFUL CONNECTION
ISSUED BY HIM.  O THE RIGHT OF THE CONNECTED PORT THERE WILL BE DISPLAYED THE
CONNECTED TATION'S CALLSIGN. OUR (4) CONNECTIONS CAN TAKE PLACE AT ONCE.  HE
PERATOR CAN CONVERSE WITH ANY OF THE 4 TATIONS BY PRESSING  AND A NUMBER
1 TO 4 TO ACTIVATE THE APPROPRIATE PORT. F THE PERATOR WISHES THEN HE CAN
TURN THE  MODE  AND THEN  BECOMES A   CAPABLE OF
ACCOMODATING 5 STATIONS IN ALL, INCLUDING THE PERATOR.

HE SCREEN IS SPLIT IN TWO. HE DIVISION OF / SCREEN IS LEFT TO THE
INDIVIDUAL PERATOR WITH THE COMMAND : (NUMBER 3 TO 22). EFAULT IS 8.


























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 .


  
   :
  
   :
                                                    
   :                                                    :
----1----2-58---3>ONNECTED TO 0-------19:28---1
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :            :       :  :   :    :  :
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :            :       :  :   :    :  ORT O.
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :            :       :  :   :    :
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :            :       :  :   :    
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :            :       :  :   :
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :            :       :  :   IME (LOCK)
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :            :       :  :
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :            :       :  ISK RIVE TATUS (*)
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :            :       :
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :            :       AMA CTIVE
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :            :
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :            ONNECTED TATION'S ALLSIGN
   :   : : :  :   :      :      :
   :   : : :  :   :      :      URRENT/AST ONNECTION
   :   : : :  :   :      :
   :   : : :  :   :       SET FOR ORT
   :   : : :  :   :
   :   : : :  :   AST RAME RECEIVED FROM THE ONNECTED TATION
   :   : : :  :
   :   : : :  UMBER OF RETRIES.
   :   : : :
   :   : : ONVERSE 
   :   : :
   :   : ONNECTION MADE VIA THE ATHFINDER
   :   :
   :   RAMES TYPED BUT NOT YET TRANSMITTED
   :
   YSTEM TATUS.

(*) HEN  OR  ARE ACTIVE THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF  THAT ARE
READ/WRITTEN ON THE DISKETTE WILL BE DISPLAYED.

HEN THE -/ EY COMBINATION IS PRESSED THE UTPUT TO THE SCREEN IS
HALTED AND AN INVERSED IDEO  APPEARS ON THE STATUS LINE.  HIS IS VALID
FOR THE IDIVIDUAL PORT ONLY, THE OTHER THREE PORTS STAY AS PER NORMAL.  F THE
>64 ARD VERSION IS USED, THEN INSTEAD OF  A DOUBLE  AND INSTEAD OF
 AN  AND  A = (EQUAL SIGN), WILL BE DISPLAYED.

HE NEXT CHARACTER IS THE NUMBER OF OUTSTANDING PACKETS, WHICH INCREASES AS
MORE DATA IS PLACED IN THE  BUFFER  PRIOR TO TRANSMISSION, OR IF THERE ARE MANY
RETRIES BEFORE THE DATA IS ACCEPTED BY THE RECEIVING STATION.  HE NUMBER
INCREASES BY 1  FOR EVERY 256 BYTES OF TEXT RECEIVED IN THE TRANSMIT BUFFER, UP
TO A MAXIMUM OF 9. F THERE IS A LARGER NUMBER OF OUTSTANDING PACKETS FOR
TRANSMISSION THEN THE NUMBER IS REPLACED WITH THE UP-ARROW (^) SYMBOL.




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