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- ProComm Outside Environment
- POE 1.0.0
- July 22nd, 1987
-
- Copyright (c) 1987 by Mark Herring
- Donated to the Public Domain
-
-
-
- Before we get started...
-
- I, Mark Herring, have donated POE to the Public
- Domain. This means that you may make as many copies
- of POE as you wish, and that you may give POE to your
- friends.
-
- I COULD have made POE a shareware product, but many
- factors contributed to my decision to donate the
- system to the Public Domain:
-
- If I requested a registration fee, then I
- would HAVE to support my registered users.
- Since it cost you nothing to acquire POE, I
- feel no obligation to SUPPORT it. If you have
- problems with the system, you'll find a
- telephone number at the end of this file
- telling you how to leave messages for me.
- If you send me a message via one of these
- systems, I'll send you back a reply.
-
- I have seen many programs that were released
- as shareware that wouldn't be worth the phone
- bill it took to download them. Some systems
- have been obviously written in only hours, and
- people expect others to send them money for a
- "shoddy" job. If a package is released as
- Shareware, the authors should take their
- system as seriously as if it were sold by
- Microsoft! There are many systems out there
- that qualify for Shareware (ProComm is
- certainly one), while there are many more that
- give the name a black eye.
-
- Finally, if I don't accept money, I also don't
- accept any responsibility for what POE may
- ever do to your system. It's been checked
- for problems, and up until now, none have been
- found. However, if POE chokes on your cache
- and destroys your FAT table, don't come crying
- to me! Caveat Empetor!
-
-
-
- What is POE?
-
- POE is a utility that will let you add external file
- protocols to ProComm or any other telecommunications
- system. POE will also allow you to run up to 15
- different programs from inside ProComm. POE.EXE and
- POE.CFG should reside in your ProComm subdirectory.
-
- Let's face...everyone has their own favorite
- communications system. I believe that ProComm beats
- all of the others hands down, except when it came to
- the newer "external" protocols that are being
- developed. Since I refuse to change to one other
- "inferior" communication programs out there just to
- pickup a new protocol, I wrote POE so I could easily
- call them up with a ProComm-styled interface. I could
- just as easily dropped to DOS and execute the
- protocols, but I'm a consultant by trade, and all
- programmers are lazy to begin with! Hence, I created
- POE. Now, ProComm has it all!
-
- POE is designed to "hook" into ProComm through the
- ALT-A command. Datastorm Technologies designed the
- ALT-A command to interface with your favorite editor.
- We use this key to call up POE instead.
-
- Before you can call up POE using ALT-A, you must
- reconfigure ProComm to execute POE. Here's how to do
- this:
-
- 1. Execute ProComm.
- 2. Press the ALT-S key combination.
- 3. Select option #4 from the menu...GENERAL SETUP.
- 4. Select option #1 from the GENERAL SETUP menu.
- 5. Type POE and press Return.
- 6. Press the [ESC] key.
- 7. Press the [S] key.
- 8. Press the [ESC] key.
-
- There! If POE is sitting in your ProComm directory
- (and assuming that you are too), then pressing ALT-A
- will call up POE!
-
-
-
- Configuring POE.
-
- POE.EXE is distributed with POE.CFG and DSZ.EXE.
- POE.CFG is a configuration file that tells POE what
- transfer protocols are available. POE understands a
- few commands that reside inside the POE.CFG file:
-
-
- COLOR
-
- The COLOR command allows you to change the
- colors that POE displays on the screen.
-
- Format: COLOR {old color no}={new color no}
-
- Color numbers Description
- ------------- -----------
- 0 Black
- 1 Blue
- 2 Green
- 3 Cyan
- 4 Red
- 5 Magenta
- 6 Yellow
- 7 White
-
-
- UP PATH=path name
-
- This command will set the upload path.
- Example: UP PATH=C:\TERM\UP
-
- DL PATH=path name
-
- This command will set the download path.
- Example: DL PATH=C:\TERM\DL
-
- MS PATH=path name
-
- This command will set the path for your
- miscellaneous programs.
- Example: MS PATH=C:\PROGRAMS
-
-
- UP PROTOCOL=protocol description,command[,path name]
-
- UP PROTOCOL describes an upload protocol to
- POE. Example:
-
- UP PROTOCOL=Zmodem upload,DSZ sz !
-
- The ! at the end of the command tells POE to
- ask for additional parameters when this
- protocol is selected.
-
- You may also append a path name that is
- special to this one protocol. If you do use
- a path name, it overrides any path name that
- was setup with UP PATH=.
-
-
- DL PROTOCOL=protocol description,command[,path name]
-
- DL PROTOCOL describes a download protocol to
- POE. Example:
-
- DL PROTOCOL=Zmodem download,DSZ rz !
-
- The ! at the end of the command tells POE to
- ask for additional parameters when this
- protocol is selected.
-
- You may also append a path name that is
- special to this one protocol. If you do use
- a path name, it overrides any path name that
- was setup with UP PATH=.
-
-
- MISC=Program description,command,[path name]
-
- POE can also run external programs outside of
- ProComm. The MISC= command describes these
- programs. For example:
-
- MISC=Directory management,DR,C:\
-
- Notice that this command also uses the path
- name option. The C:\ tells POE that the program
- DR may be found in the root directory.
-
-
-
- Getting to me.
-
- If you find you are having problems with POE, you may
- leave messages for me on the PC-Board Echo Conference
- Systems. We're a system of PC Boards that have begun
- to pass echomail nightly. Feel free to call these
- fine boards listed below and check it out!
-
-
- Most of these systems can be reached via PC-Pursuit:
-
- Unusual Situations, Memphis, TN 901-365-0407
- Sleepy Hollow, Los Angeles, CA 213-859-9334 *
- The Tool Shop, Phoenix, AZ 602-279-2673 *
- Redundant PCB, Salt Lake City, UT 801-487-5339 *
-
- * PC-Pursuitable
-
-
-
-
- If you ever need consulting for ProComm, we're
- available! Reasonable rates quoted upon request.
-
-
-
- ProComm Forever!
-
- Mark Herring
- 1400 Phillips Road
- Memphis, TN 38134
-
-