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----------------- Additional HyperACCESS/5 Information -------------------
This file contains information regarding aspects of HyperACCESS/5 not in
the manual, including:
o New Features Added in Version 1.1
o How to Change your Modem, Port, or Colors
o File Content and Installation Notes
o OS/2 Diagnostic Utility
o OS/2 Display Speed
o The Use OS/2 Menu and ALT-S
o Caps, Num and Scroll Lock with OS/2
o External Editors and the Review Buffer
o Additional Editing Keys
o Including a Sequence Name and Inputs When Starting
------------------- New Features Added in Version 1.1 ---------------------
Stop computer viruses before they spread!
HyperACCESS/5 not only lets you scan files on your disks for known
viruses, it's the first program available that warns if files you're
downloading happen to carry viruses. For additional information,
please read the enclosed printed pages entitled "Safe Communications."
Zmodem now built right in
For information on this file transfer protocol, press ALT-H twice in
HyperACCESS/5 to reach the Help Index, and select "Zmodem menu."
E-mail added to HyperACCESS/5's host mode
By taking steps described in the file EMAIL.DOC, you can now set up
HyperACCESS/5's Answer mode so that people with passwords can call your
unattended PC to exchange electronic mail with you or other callers.
Extended Hardware Buffering in newer serial ports
To enhance throughput and reliability of OS/2 communications while
maximizing speed of concurrent tasks, HyperACCESS/5 now takes full
advantage of the 16-byte FIFO buffer onboard the NS16550A serial
communications chip in PS/2 Model 50Z, 60, 70, 80 and 386 PCs. For more
information, press ALT-H twice in HyperACCESS/5 to reach the Help Index,
and select "Communications port menu."
Using shared modems on OS/2 networks
HyperACCESS/5 makes it easy to use shared modems over LAN Server
networks, or networks based on LAN Manager. Instead of entering COM1,
COM2, or COM3 on the Port menu, you simply enter \\SERVER\QUEUE, where
SERVER is the name of PC where the modems are located, and QUEUE is the
name of the modem queue. (Your network administrator can provide you
with the actual names to use.) If all modems are busy when HyperACCESS/5
tries to claim one, use of HyperACCESS/5 is suspended until one becomes
available. You may either wait for a modem (you can use other
applications while waiting), or remove the request from the queue, by
using your LAN management software.
NOTE: For LAN use, you need to purchase as many HyperACCESS/5 licenses
as there will be simultaneous users of the program. The number of
modems generally dictates the number of licenses required; one modem
requires one license, two requires two, etc.
Remote execution of OS/2 commands
Answer mode now lets you grant callers direct access to your OS/2
command prompt, so they can use OS/2 commands, utilities, and programs
that use Standard-In/Standard-Out (SI/SO) for keyboard and screen I/O.
To grant such access, use the Privilege menu's last option, to enter
CMD.EXE as the program to run, and "OS/2" as the command callers enter
to run it (see Section 8.10). This lets callers use OS/2 commands that
Answer mode lacks (CHKDSK, ATTRIB, etc.), do remote LAN management
(using NET USE or NET VIEW), or run programs like compilers, linkers, or
grep utilities. While few commercial OS/2 packages can be run remotely
(few use SI/SO), you can write applications specifically for remote use,
by using C or other languages and following certain guidelines; for
details, contact Hilgraeve Product Support.
"Initial settings" removed from the System List
Now, each time you start HyperACCESS/5 it comes up using settings of the
system at the top of the System List, rather than Initial settings,
which has now been eliminated.
-------------- How to Change your Modem, Port, or Colors -----------------
From within HyperACCESS/5, you can easily change the modem, port, or color
selections that you made during installation. In fact, you can change
them for the entire System List at once, for a select group of systems, or
for each system individually. To change the modem, port, or colors for
the entire System List or a select group of systems, follow instructions
in Section 4.5. To change the modem or port used by Answer mode, follow
instructions in Section 8.15.
----------------- File Content and Installation Notes --------------------
When you install HyperACCESS/5, if you specify that only the DOS version,
the OS/2 version, or ESSENTIAL files be installed, certain files on the
original disks are not installed. You can simply copy some of them later,
as you need them, but to retrieve those that are compressed--those with
.BIN extensions--you must use the procedures given here.
To install the DOS version into a directory containing the OS/2 version
(or vice versa), simply run the installation program again, specifying a
NEW directory. Once the installation has completed, copy the following
version-specific files from the new directory to your original
HyperACCESS/5 directory. Once you've copied the necessary files from the
new directory to the old directory, you can delete the new directory.
OS/2 files DOS files
---------- ------------
HA5OS2.EXE HA5DOS.EXE
HP5OS2.EXE HP5DOS.EXE
HE5.EXE HA5.OVL
HA5OS2.ICO
DIAGNOSE.EXE
DIAGNOSE.ICO
To re-install into an existing HyperACCESS/5 directory (without losing
settings you have made since you first installed HyperACCESS/5) make a
backup of the files below and restore them after you finish re-installing.
(For a description of files included with HyperACCESS/5, see Appendix G.)
To save this information: Make a backup of this file:
------------------------- ---------------------------
System list HA5.CFG
Automatic sequences HA5.SEQ
Automatic sequence key assignments HA5.KEY
Answer mode passwords HA5.ANS
System wide preferences HA5.PRF
To retrieve any individual file which was supplied in compressed form
(files with a .BIN extension), re-install HyperACCESS/5 into a new
directory, copy the desired files from that directory to your original
directory, then delete the new directory. For a description of files
included with HyperACCESS/5, see Appendix G.
----------------------- OS/2 Diagnostic Utility --------------------------
The OS/2 version of HyperACCESS/5 has a unique built-in-diagnostic utility
that you can activate when you start HyperACCESS/5 to help Hilgraeve
Technical Support resolve any program errors that you encounter. The
purpose of this utility is to allow you to provide Hilgraeve's Technical
Support Group with complete and accurate information concerning the
operation of HyperACCESS/5. This utility is simple to use, and can
provide many details that would otherwise be impossible to record.
This utility (which consists of the files DIAGNOSE.ICO and DIAGNOSE.EXE)
is copied to your disk by the installation program when you specify that
you want the Non-Essential files. If you need to retrieve these files
from the distribution disks, read the previous section.
To activate this utility, start HA5 with the /D option (i.e. HA5OS2 /D).
When you start HA5 using /D, two things will happen.
First, a subdirectory named DIAGNOSE will be created in the directory
where HyperACCESS/5 was started. Several files from the directory where
HA5 was started from will be copied to DIAGNOSE.
Second, the program named DIAGNOSE will begin running and appear as a
stethoscope icon. DIAGNOSE will record every keystroke that takes place
while you are using HyperACCESS/5, storing them in DIAGNOSE.TXT. In fact,
you can watch it work by clicking your mouse button twice on the icon. If
you do bring DIAGNOSE into the foreground, be careful not to press the ESC
key, as this will shut down DIAGNOSE.
When you exit HyperACCESS/5, DIAGNOSE will also stop, and the DIAGNOSE
directory will contain files that Hilgraeve Technical Support can use to
solve any problem you encountered during that session.
You may want to save the contents of this directory onto a floppy before
starting HyperACCESS/5 with the /D option again. (Each time you use the
/D option, the existing contents of \DIAGNOSE are overwritten.)
------------------------- OS/2 Display Speed -----------------------------
When you run HyperACCESS/5 in a PM window, you may notice that text that
you send or receive never displays faster than a certain speed, even if
you increase your baud rate. This is because NO program run in a PM
window can display scrolled text faster than PM itself can display it.
The maximum speed at which PM can display scrolled text depends on your PC
and monitor, and on whether you use PM's small or large font (small is
faster). It can range from 2,000 bps to 10,000 bps.
To see how fast PM can display on your PC, you can try this simple test:
Select "OS/2 window" from PM 1.2's Desktop Manager, or select "OS/2
windowed command prompt" from PM 1.1's Start Programs menu. In the OS/2
window, enter TYPE and the name of a large text file such as
\HA5\ANSWER.HP. To see what bps rate this is equivalent to, multiply
ANSWER.HP's size (in bytes) by 10, and divide by the time it took to
display (in seconds).
PM's maximum display speed is the best you can expect from any program run
in a PM window. If PM's speed limitation presents a problem in your
application, you may want to run HyperACCESS/5 as a full-screen OS/2
application, which is much faster.
--------------------- The Use OS/2 Menu and ALT-S ------------------------
The Use OS/2 menu lets you define a hot key for switching between
HyperACCESS/5 and other applications started from the Use OS/2 menu. If
you're using OS/2 1.1 or are running full screen applications under OS/2
1.2, the hot key works just as described on page 64 of the manual. If
you're running applications in PM windows under OS/2 1.2, however, the hot
key can only be used to switch TO applications, not to return from them.
------------------ Caps, Num and Scroll Lock with OS/2 -------------------
OS/2 1.1 and 1.2 have a problem (acknowledged by Microsoft and IBM) which
may cause applications running in PM windows to display erroneous status
for the Caps, Num, and Scroll Lock keys. Future versions of OS/2 will
correct this problem.
----------------- External Editors and the Review Buffer -----------------
You have a choice on whether to use HyperACCESS/5's Editor or an external
editor for editing text files and scripts. The Review buffer, however,
always uses the HyperACCESS/5 Editor. (Memory and speed constraints
prohibit using an external editor with the Review buffer.) Please
disregard instructions given in step 3 of Section 6.13.
------------------------ Additional Editing Keys--------------------------
On extended keyboards, there are several new key-combinations which
simplify making entries and editing text files:
KEY ON THE MENUS IN THE EDITOR
________ __________________________ ________________________
CTRL-DEL Deletes entire menu entry Deletes an entire line
CTRL-INS Inserts a menu entry that Inserts the last-selected
was deleted with CTRL-DEL block (same as ALT-O, P)
CTRL-HOME In filename entries, this Moves the cursor to the
puts the cursor at the end upper left-hand corner
of the directory name, so of the Editor screen.
you can enter the name of
another file from the same
directory.
---------- Including a Sequence Name and Inputs When Starting ------------
When you start HyperACCESS/5, you can include the name of an automatic
sequence for it to run by entering HA5DOS or HA5OS2 followed by a sequence
name. However, if you want to type inputs for the sequence to use at the
same time, you must surround the sequence name and inputs with quotation
marks. For example, you might enter HA5DOS "DIAL COMPUSERVE" to start
HyperACCESS/5, run a sequence named DIAL, and pass COMPUSERVE to that
sequence as an input.
----------------------------- End of file --------------------------------