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 Von  : Manfred Recla                       16:43/0       So, 21 Mai 95 18:10
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 Subj : new firmware files - new names ...
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* Crossposted in SYSOP.ZYX
* Crossposted in ZYX-ISDN.BETA
* Crossposted in FIRMWARE.ZYX

Hello to all!


In the next weeks when the new ZyXEL "Elite 2864" and "Supreme 2864"
modems will become available on the market, there we will receive also many
new different firmware data files for the flash eproms.

So it is now "high noon" to manage the names of these new files before they
will be released and nobody will know which is thr right one for his/her
modem ...

In the Elite 2864I manual Jesse Ou-Yang (the author of the manual) and
probably Calvin Ma (the chief developer of the ISDN-part) named the
firmware files as follows:


E2864IE.001   "E2864" = Elite, "I" = ISDN, "E" = EuroISDN (DSS1) D-channel
E2864IG.001    -"-             -"-         "G" = German   (1TR6) D-channel
E2864IA.001    -"-             -"-     "A" = American D-channel, S/T interf.
E2864IU.001    -"-             -"-     "U" = American D-channel, U interface

E2864.001     "E2864" = Elite 2864 (analog only, without ISDN !)

The extension of these firmware data files reflects the release version.
v1.00 will become the first officially released version. All versions
of v0.0x are betatest firmware codes !


There will be also an "S2864" (for "Supreme 2864") and "B2864" (for the
internal PC-card ..) in the future


Because the length of the firmware data files is about 500 KByte it
would be very useful for distribution within ZyXELnet Fileecho "ZYXFIRM"
if these files will be compressed by a popular packer software, eg. PKZIP.
Then the redundancy of these files will become more inefficient, so I
suggest to rename the compressed files as follows:


 E2864IE0.Z01  Elite 2864I, EuroISDN (DSS1 D-channel), v0.01
 E2864IG0.Z01  Elite 2864I, German (1TR6 D-channel),   v0.01
 E2864IA0.Z01  Elite 2864I, American (S/T interface),  v0.01
 E2864IU0.Z01  Elite 2864I, American (U interface),    v0.01
 E2864__0.Z01  Elite 2864   (V.34 only, without ISDN), v0.01

 S2864IE0.Z01  Supreme 2864I, EuroISDN (DSS1 D-channel), v0.01
 S2864IG0.Z01  .... and so on ...
 S2864IA0.Z01
 S2864IU0.Z01
 S2864__0.Z01

 B2864IE0.Z01  Incarnate (= internal PC card) 2864I, EuroISDN (DSS1), v0.01
 B2864IG0.Z01  ... and so on ...
 B2864IA0.Z01
 B2864IU0.Z01
 B2864__0.Z01

 the number left of the period is the major release number, the "Z" of
 the extionsion is for "compressed by PKZIP v2.04g", and right of that
 "packer's fingerprint" is the minor release number !

 The "packer's fingerprint" is used in the same manner as it is used in
 compressed nodelists for FidoNet or ZyXELnet:
 Z = PKZIP
 J = ARJ
 A = ARC
 O = ZOO
 R = RAR


There will be also release notes for these firmware date files which
should be named in a similiar way: "E2864I_1.RLN", or "S2864__1.RLN"
The quick reference guides will be named as "E2864_QR.DOC" or "S2864IQR.PS"


I hope that you agree with these suggestions - or do you have any other
proposals ?




electronic greetings from Vienna
Manfred Recla

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