




                    DO  EXCEED 79 CHARACTERS, INCLUDING SPACES. HE / IS
                    VITAL FOR OTHER - ODES TO RECOGNIZE AND LIST YOU AS A
                    ODE.
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RESS             

HIS SETS THE ADDRESS FIELD FOR THE EACON. T MAY BE SET SO THAT THE BEACON
CAN BE DIGIPEATED, ALTHOUGH THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED OVER CROWDED FREQUENCIES.
HE SYNTAX FOR THE IGIPEATED  IS :,ID,<DIGICALL><RETURN> WILL
SHOW AS :  VIA <IGIALL>.  HE CONVENTION  OR MAYBE EACON IS USED
RATHER THAN  AS THIS IS SUPPOSE TO INFORM USERS THAT YOUR TATION IS ON AIR
AND AVAILABLE FOR ODE OR MAILBOX OPERATION, NORMALLY UNATTENDED.  F HOWEVER
THE  IS SET TO  AND THE  (EACON EXT) AS DESCRIBED FURTHER ON,
THEN THE BEACON WILL BE PICKED UP BY ANY - ODE AND WILL BE DISPLAYED IN HIS
ODES EARD IST. F, ON THE OTHER HAND, IT IS SET TO EACON OR  THEN IT WILL
NOT.
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RT X               X

HIS PARAMETER DETERMINED FROM WHICH PORT THE BEACON WILL BE TRANSMITTED.
 DUE TO LACK OF MEMORY THIS PARAMETER HAS BEEN ELIMINATED. HE BEACON
WILL NOW BE SENT WITH THE  PARAMETER SET IN  4.


XT                

HIS IS THE TEXT SENT WITH THE BEACON. AXIMUN OF 80 CHARACTERS CAN BE INCLUDED
IN THE , BUT FOR THAT TO BE POSSIBLE, THE SCREEN  BE IN 80 COLUMN
DISPLAY ( ).  HE STATION'S LOCATION, SEPARATE  ORT (IF USED), AND
ODE INFORMATION CAN BE INCLUDED IN THE TEXT.  HERE IS NO NEED TO REPEAT THE
CALLSIGN SET IN  AS THIS WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY SENT AS THE BEACON HEADER
FROM THE  PARAMETER.  O BE RECOGNISED BY OTHER - ODES THE BEACON
TEXT  END WITH THE <ODECALL>/. HE / TELLS THE - ODES THAT CAN HEAR
YOUR SIGNALS, TOGETHER WITH THE  IN THE , THAT THIS IS A - ODE AS
WELL AND THEY LIST IT IN THEIR ODES EARD IST. O CREATE MORE THAN ONE LINE
OF  USING THE 80 CHARACTERS AVAILABLE, PLACE A <><> CHARACTER
AFTER THE END OF  SENTENCE. T APPEARS AS AN INVERTED VIDEO CAPITOL .

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LL X               X

WITCHES THE "GONG" ON, OFF OR SETS THE "DEEP" CONNECT "GONG", AND OR THE LIGHT
"GONG". HE VALUES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
: 0    O ONG AT ALL.
: 64   IGHT "GONG" USED FOR NOTIFICATION .
: 128  EEP "GONG" USED FOR ONNECTION-MADE NOTIFICATION ONLY.
: 255  LL "ONGS" ACTIVE.
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LTER ....       ...

HIS FILTER STOPS VARIOUS SPECIAL CHARACTER-CODES FROM RE-ARRANGING THE
PERATORS CREEN DURING A CONNECTION. F THE STATION CONNECTED SENDS A
< > CHARACTER IT WILL CLEAR THE PERATORS SCREEN, SO THIS CHARACTER IS
INCLUDED IN THE  COMMAND TO STOP STATIONS CONNECTED DOING SO. T WAS
FOUND, AFTER A LOT OF EXPERIMENTATION, THAT THE BEST CHARACTER SET FOR THAT
COMMAND IS < \>. LL THESE APPEAR IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND
INVERTED VIDEO. O SEE WHAT THEY MEAN SEE ONTROL HARACTERS AND THEIR FUNCTION
ON PAGE 14.


ONNECT <CALLSIGN>    <CALLSIGN>

MMEDIATE OMMAND. ILL, ON PRESSING <RETURN>, SEND OUT THE APPROPRIATE CODES
TO INITIATE A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE PERATOR'S STATION AND THE STATION
<CALLSIGN>.  T CAN BE SET TO ATTEMPT THE CONNECTION USING ONE OR MORE
DIGIPEATERS AND 2ND. LEVEL DIGI. XAMPLE : 8,0,0 <RETURN>.
HIS MEANS THAT THE ATTEMPTED CONNECTION TO 8 WILL BE VIA 0 AND 0.
HIS IS 2ND. LEVEL DIGIPEATING, THOUGH, AND THE SUCCESS OF COMPLETING THE
CONNECTION IS GOVERNED BY THE TWO DIGIS BEING ABLE TO "HEAR" ONE ANOTHER 100%.
HE FIRST DIGI  BE ABLE TO "HEAR" THE PERATOR'S STATION'S SIGNALS 100%
AND THE SECOND DIGI OF COURSE  BE ABLE TO HEAR 8. LSO THE SUCCESS OF
CONNECTION DEPENDS ON THE AMOUNT OF RE-TRIES BETWEEN ALL STATIONS INVOLVED IN
THE DIGI-ROUTE, AND FINALLY IN THE NUMBER OF CONNECT TRANSMISSIONS SET IN THE
: PARAMETER OF THE PERATOR'S TATION.
F A : IS ISSUED, BY THE PERATOR, THEN THE YSTEM WILL ATTEMPT A CONNECTION
WITH THE AST CALLSIGN AS SHOWN ON PORT 1.
HIS IS THE ONLY COMMAND WHICH WHEN ISSUED WILL  REPLACE THE COLON [:] AS
THE FIRST CHARACTER ON THE NEXT LINE, IRRESPECTIVE IF : IS SET TO  OR
. F THE ALLSIGN OF THE STATION CALLED IS SET IN THE ATHFINDER, THEN THE
ATH COMMAND WILL BE ACTIVATED AND THE CONNECTION WILL FOLLOW THE ATH SET. 
APITAL LETTER "" WILL APPEAR IN THE STATUS LINE.
F THE >64 ERSION OF THE PROGRAM IS USED, THEN THE HANNEL NUMBER  BE
INCLUDED IN THE ONNECT OMMAND LIKE THIS : 8 2 (NUMBER 2 BEING
THE CHANNEL NUMBER). URTHER INFORMATION IN THE ATHFINDER.


K /          /

T ALLOWS OTHER TATIONS TO CONNECT TO THE PERATOR'S STATION IF SET TO . F
SET TO , NO STATION WILL BE ALLOWED TO COMPLETE A CONNECTION, INSTEAD THEY
WILL RECEIVE A "BUSY" MESSAGE.
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ERS /        /

MMEDIATE OMMAND, WITCHES ON THE HAT ODE OF , DURING WHICH 
STATIONS CONNECTED TO THE PERATOR'S TATION, (UP TO 4), WILL SEE THE MESSAGES
SENT BACK AND FORTH.  WILL RE-TRANSMIT MESSAGES RECEIVED IN ANY PORT TO
ALL THE CONNECTED STATIONS AND WILL PLACE THE PORT NUMBER AND CALLSIGN OF THE
ORIGINATING STATION IN FRONT OF THE MESSAGE LINE. NY MESSAGE TYPED BY THE
PERATOR WILL BE SHOWN WITH  AND 0(ZERO) AS PORT NUMBER. HIS CAN BE
DISCRIBED AS A ROUND-TABLE FACILITY WHERE ALL, 5 IN ALL, STATIONS CAN SEE
EVERYTHING THAT IS TRANSMITTED TO  AND OUT OF IT.  WO OR MORE


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STATIONS  BE CONNECTED BEFORE THIS COMMAND CAN BE ACTIVATED SUCCESSFULY.
 DO  USE   FOR SELF-CONNECTS AS YOU WILL CREATE AN ENDLESS
LOOP WHICH WILL LEAD TO A PROGRAM CRASH. T IS NOT ADVISEABLE FOR TWO 
SERS TO SET   AT THE SAME TIME WHEN CONNECTED TO ONE ANOTHER.
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OM +<CALLSIGN>     +<CALLSIGN>,<CALLSIGN>  OR  -<CALLSIGN>

F IT IS SET TO ANY CALLSIGNS, BY PLACING THE + (PLUS) SIGN AS SHOWN, AND
SEPARATING THE CALLSIGNS BY A ,(COMMA) THEN THE STATION WILL "LISTEN" FOR THOSE
CALLSIGNS  AND THEY WILL BE ABLE TO CONNECT TO THE PERATOR'S STATION. LL
OTHERS WILL RECEIVE A "BUSY" SIGNAL. F A -(MINUS) SIGN IS PLACED IN FRONT OF A
CALLSIGN, THEN THIS STATION  BE EXCLUDED AND WILL  BE ABLE TO CONNECT TO
THE PERATOR'S STATION.  F  IS SET TO  THEN ALL STATIONS WILL BE ABLE
TO CONNECT TO THE PERATOR'S STATION.
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 X                X

 ASTER ECHNIQUE WAS DEVELOPED BY 4. T IS A  PERATION YSTEM
THAT LINITS PACKET COLLISIONS, SPECIALLY UNDER CONDITIONS OF VERY HEAVY CHANNEL
USE. T IS STILL NOT USED IN RITAIN, BUT IT IS IN SE IN ORTH ERMANY.
 INCORPORATES THIS COMMAND AND IS BELIEVED NOW, IN ERSION 5.0, TO BE
ERROR FREE.    ODES AND  ERMINALS WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY
RECOGNIZED.  WILL SWITCH ITSELF TO  MODE AND "" WILL APPEAR ON THE
STATUS LINE. HE DURATION OF THIS "SWITCHED" CONDITION WILL DEPEND ON THE VALUE
SET FOR  IN .  FTER THE INITIAL RECOGNITION AND SWITCHING INTO
, IF NO MORE  PACKETS ARE RECOGNIZED OR IF THE   ODE DOES
NOT RECOGNIZE AND "" , THEN THE YSTEM WILL SWITCH BACK TO STANDARD
OPERATION AFTER  * 10 SECONDS. HE VALUE OF X = 0.......127.
F THE >64 ARD IS USED THEN  MUST BE SET WITH THE HANNEL NUMBER.
HERE IS A DRAWBACK TO  AND THAT IS, IF A ORMAL CONNECT COMES WHILE THE
 ODE IS IN OPERATION,  CAN BE CONSIDERABLY DISRUPTED. SPECIALLY WITH
THE >64 ARD AS  IS BOTH HANNEL AND ORT DEPENDANT, AND A NORMAL
CONNECT WILL NOT BE SYNCHRONIZED IF IT OCCURS TO ANOTHER PORT AND, OR CHANNEL.
HIS WILL CAUSE EXCESSIVE  ON THE FREQUENCY AND THEREFORE IT IS RECOMMENDED
NOT TO USE  UNLESS THE USER IS FAMILIAR WITH IT'S OPERATION AND UNLESS
THERE ARE   ODES AND ERMINALS ON FREQUENCY.
 FROM THE WRITER: HERE WAS AN EXPLANATION ON   PERATION AND WHAT
IT ACTUALLY MEANT, IN THE  NETWORK AWHILE BACK. T WAS DATED  24TH 1992
AND IT WAS A TRANSLATED TRANSCRIPT FROM THE 8TH. OMPUTER ETWORKING ONFERENCE
CTOBER 1989. (PAGE 203-209). HE HEADING WAS      .
BY ETLEF . CHMIDT 4. AYBE IT IS STILL AVAILABLE AND CAN BE DOWNLOADED
FROM YOUR LOCAL . T DOES MAKE INTERESTING READING.
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MMEDIATE OMMAND. T FORCES A DISCONNECTION FROM A CONNECTED STATION ON THE
ACTIVE PORT. HEREFORE ANY STATIONS CONNECTED TO THE OTHER PORTS WILL NOT BE
AFFECTED. ANNOT BE USED TO DISCONNECT A STATION USING THE ODE FACILITY. T
MUST BE ISSUED AS A COMMAND AT THE COLON [:].




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IME X            X

ETS THE TIME WHEN  WILL DISCONNECT FROM THE CURRENT CONNECTION IF 
PACKETS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED WITHIN TIME X. X = 0.......255 * 10 SEC. HIS
FACILITY IS USEFUL IN TIMES OF HEAVY TRAFFIC, , OR EVEN WHEN THE CONNECTED
STATION LEAVES THE FREQUENCY WITHOUT DISCONNECTING FIRST. F SET TO 0(ZERO)
THEN   WILL STAY CONNECTED INDEFINITELY IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT HAS
HAPPENED TO THE OTHER STATION.
 FROM THE WRITER: XPERIENCE HAS SHOWN THAT THE OLD CONCEPT OF 6 MINUTES IS
                       ENOUGH FOR THE LONGER  SET IN THE ATHFINDER. O
                      IN ORDER TO ACCOMODATE THE ODE A  NO LESS THAN
                      15 MINUTES MUST BE IMPEMENTED.
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LLS +<CALLSIGN> OR -<CALLSIGN>

F THIS COMMAND IF SET TO SPECIFIC CALLSIGNS WITH +(PLUS) <CALLSIGN> THEN
THESE CALLSIGNS  WILL BE DIGIPEATED BY . F IT IS SET TO , ALL
CALLSIGNS WILL BE DIGIPEATED. N THE OTHER HAND IF A CALLSIGN IS PRECEEDED
BY -(MINUS), THAT CALLSIGN WILL  BE DIGIPEATED. HIS SHOULD BE USED WITH
CAUTION SO THAT THE PERATOR DOES NOT OFFEND ANYONE. F  IS SET TO
0(ZERO) THEN NO STATION WILL BE ABLE TO USE  AS A DIGIPEATER.  F ANY
STATION IS EXCLUDED IN  WITH A - (MINUS) SIGN IN FRONT OF IT'S CALLSIGN
THEN THAT STATION WILL  BE ABLE TO USE THE  FACILITY OF  EITHER.
XCLUDED STATION'S BEACONS WILL ALSO NOT BE DIGIPEATED.


CH X (=1 OR 2)    X

HIS COMMAND APPLIES  TO THE >64 ARD PERATION.  T SETS THE DEFAULT
SEND HANNEL FROM WHICH THE  AND  WILL BE SENT.  SUALLY TO
INITIATE A CONNECT ON PORTS 2, 3, & 4 THE CHANNEL WILL BE REQUIRED AS WELL.
HE EXEPTION IS PORT 1. F A CONNECT COMMAND IS ISSUED IN PORT 1 THEN THE
HANNEL NUMBER IS NOT NECESSARY AS PORT 1 WILL DEFAULT TO THE CHANNEL THAT WAS
USED LAST.
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PEAT X            X

ELECTS WHICH IGIPEATING FACILITIES  WILL PROVIDE. HE IGIPEATER OR
ODE OR BOTH CAN BE ENABLED WITH THIS COMMAND.  MUST BE SET FOR THE 
OR IGIPEATER TO OPERATE. HE FOLLOWING VALUES CAN BE SET:
 : 0   (IGIPEATER IS SWITCHED ).
 : 64  (O 2ND. LEVEL IGIPEATING ALLOWED, ONLY  OPERATION).
 : 128 (NLY 2ND EVEL IGIPEATING ALLOWED, THE  IS DISABLED).
 : 255 (OTH 2ND. EVEL IGIPEATING AND THE  ARE ACTIVE).

: F DIGIPEAT IS SET WHILE THE PROGRAM IS RUNNING, IT WILL CAUSE THE
PROGRAM TO WARM-START.  HAT IS NECESSARY BECAUSE THE  MANAGEMENT WILL BE
REARRANGED, WHICH MAKES THE COMPLETE INITIALIZATION NECESSARY.  F THE
PARAMETER IS  IN THE DEFAULT PARAMETER SET, THEN IT WILL BE SET WITH THE
ORIGINAL FIRE-UP.





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