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MSYS Version 1.18 December, 1994
(c) Copyright 1994 HUB Computers, Inc. All rights reserved.
The MSYS programs and related files may be copied for amateur
use provided no fee is charged. Commercial use is prohibited.
There have been many changes to MSYS, some major and many minor.
Here are some of the "major" changes:
1. One of the major changes in Ver. 1.18 is the addition of G-TOR.
MSYS properly interfaces a KAM Plus that has the proper firmware
installed.
2. "Attended" G-TOR forwarding on HF can be initiated from the
keyboard at the same time VHF forwarding is in progress.
3. Scanning of HF radios is supported in the G-TOR mode.
4. A new command SHUtdown has been added. When on, it prevents new
incoming connects, and advises current users of impending shut
down.
5. A new command VAlidmsgtypes which takes a string of letters as
its arguments that may follow S in send commands in the bbs.
Defaults are BTPW. This should prevent type "SR" and related
problems.
6. A SE- chan# text command has been added which will send the given
text without the usual "Msg from sysop" prefix.
7. Regenerated messages are now stored in the mail.bak directory.
8. The CONFERENCE is no longer accessible from the modem.
9. The bug in MAXBullage has been resolved.
10. The LU RESET bug has been fixed.
11. The sysop commands K< and K> have been implemented.
12. The "TO" call, the "FROM" call and the "@BBS" are now also
compared with the bad word file if it is used.
13. Changes have been made in the forwarding syntax to partially
accommodate the misguided useage of specific hierarchical
components as flood routes, such as USA instead of ALLUS
14. If a message disappears during forwarding, (from housecleaning or
manual deletion), the forwarding connection will now be
terminated.
15. If a message is refused by a FBB station with the FS = response,
the message will be held for sysop evaluation.
16. Bulletins that have the same titles as active bulletins from the
same callsign will be held for sysop review for duplication.
17. Bulletins that have an apparent BID change based on the R: lines
will be held for sysop review for duplication.
18. Users will have the opportunity to delete a replied to message.
19. Sysops may kill any read message as well as reply to them with a
"k" response if autoreply is enabled.
20. MSYS will do an automatic MERGE at the initial startup. It will
not do a merge if forwarding is in progress, but will initiate
one at the beginning of the next forward cycle.
21. A command RTime has been added to enable the proper reporting of
"Z" time in the R: line while running local time in the bbs.
22. Restored messages are now also stored in the mail.bak directory.
23. MUTIL 7 has been added to convert JNOS-style domain.txt files to
MSYSHOST.NET format. The file will still need editing to add
aliases, but is does save a lot of retyping.
24. The bbs commands to deal with held messages (r*, R+, R-) have been
enhanced.
There are three disks in this version. See list of files on
each disk below.
Disk 1 - MSYS118.EXE self-extracting archive name -
Required executable programs and data files
Disk 2 - MOPT118.EXE self-extracting archive name -
Documentation files and my latest BBSLIST.DAT file
Disk 3 - MSYSB118.EXE self-expanding archive name -
BBS only version of MSYS (no netnode or TCP/IP,
saves 100K memory) and various contributed support files
Cost per disk (360K 5.25 inch only):
To US Addresses: $ 5 per disk
To Canada and Mexico $ 7.50 per disk (US dollars)
All others $10.00 per disk (US dollars)
These prices all include the disk, mailer and postage (air mail to
addresses not in Canada, Mexico, or US).
I do not take Visa/Mastercard etc (do you?). No CODs either!
Send requests for disks to
Michael Pechura
10809 Beechwood Drive
Chesterland, OH 44026
Be sure to give your name, call, and complete address, and what
version and disk(s) you want. All disks are 5.25 inch 360K
disks.
The MSYS files are available on internet via anonymous FTP at
coffman.cba.csuohio.edu [137.148.21.6] You can send me mail on internet
using map@cis.csuohio.edu
The MSYS release files are available on Cleveland Hamnet telephone BBS.
Telephone number is 216-942-6382. If you make use of
this facility you might consider sending the Sysop (Dave, WB8APD) a
buck or two to support that excellent system. Baud rate has been
increased to support up to 14,400 bps now.
Special thanks go to Don, K8EIW, who did an excellent job in
rewriting the MSYS Manual. Thanks also to Steve, NO8M, for a user
manual. These two have also been very helpful in testing out
over a hundred versions of MSYS since the last release.
A couple of important notes
---------------------------
It is not clear that compressed forwarding is legal in the US.
It is up to you to decide if you want to do it. The support
for extended memory should be used only if you can't provide
expanded memory as the extended memory is noticeably slower and
doesn't give quite as much free memory as expanded memory will.
Also note that the call server drivers have not yet been updated
to new formats for some of the files.
In the future I see a windows version of MSYS that will not be
as memory restricted as the current version is. To run a windows
version you will of course need a machine capable of running
windows or OS/2. The current version of MSYS will continue to be
supported but there probably won't be many new things added.
Mainly bugs will be corrected (a number of them still exist in
the TCP/IP area I am sure).
73 - Mike WA8BXN
File contents of the 3 disks (note: actual file sizes may be a little
different):
Directory of MSYS118 DISK1 (MSYS118.EXE archive)
A HLP 125 11-21-94 10:58a
B HLP 74 11-21-94 10:58a
C HLP 321 11-21-94 10:58a
CALLSRV1 EXE 14,720 01-10-92 12:35a
CALLSRV2 EXE 14,592 01-10-92 12:37a
CALLSRV3 EXE 15,097 10-20-93 10:35p
D HLP 291 11-21-94 10:58a
G HLP 553 11-21-94 10:58a
H HLP 155 11-21-94 10:58a
HAPNMSYS COM 24,335 03-06-91 6:48p
HELP HLP 468 11-21-94 10:58a
HLIMITED HLP 312 11-21-94 10:58a
I HLP 126 11-21-94 10:59a
INFO HLP 581 11-21-94 10:59a
J HLP 822 11-21-94 10:59a
K HLP 621 11-21-94 10:59a
L HLP 1,996 11-21-94 10:59a
M HLP 475 11-21-94 10:59a
MOVEFILE BAT 510 11-30-94 12:12a
MSYS DO 1,750 11-29-94 11:08a
MSYS EXE 186,225 11-21-94 11:23a
MSYS HCL 733 11-29-94 11:09a
MSYS OPT 1,240 11-29-94 11:09a
MSYS REP 697 11-29-94 11:10a
MSYSBBSB DAT 177 11-29-94 11:10a
MSYSFWD DEF 946 11-29-94 11:10a
MSYSHCL DO 11 11-29-94 11:10a
MSYSHOLD DAT 298 11-29-94 11:16a
MSYSHOST NET 8,962 11-29-94 11:11a
MSYSMSGS DAT 30,706 10-13-94 11:02p
MSYSPASS MOD 64 03-31-91 11:45p
MSYSTNC 1 25 11-29-94 11:12a
MSYSTNC 2 87 05-28-88 7:40p
MSYSTNC 3 43 04-29-89 12:25a
MSYSTNC 5 164 11-29-94 11:12a
MSYSTNC 6 171 11-29-94 11:12a
MUTIL EXE 51,710 11-01-94 12:53p
N HLP 764 11-21-94 10:59a
NEWUSER HLP 415 11-21-94 10:59a
P HLP 1,041 11-21-94 10:59a
R HLP 1,530 11-21-94 10:59a
README NOW
README SMP 428 11-30-89 10:07p
REQDIR HLP 178 11-21-94 10:59a
REQFIL HLP 602 12-23-90 8:47p
ROUTES DAT 717 07-09-89 10:33p
S HLP 1,213 11-21-94 10:59a
SCAN440 COM 229 12-05-93 10:11p
SCAN735 COM 314 11-27-93 12:02a
SCAN757 COM 323 11-26-93 11:58p
SCANDEF EXE 13,215 11-13-93 11:36p
STAR HLP 226 11-21-94 10:59a
STATES DAT 205 04-25-89 8:27p
T HLP 318 11-21-94 10:59a
U HLP 287 11-21-94 10:59a
V HLP 51 11-21-94 10:59a
W HLP 212 11-21-94 10:59a
WORDLIST 1 996 11-29-94 11:19a
X HLP 1,284 11-21-94 10:59a
Y HLP 193 11-21-94 10:59a
ZIPCODES DAT 1,156 04-25-89 11:48p
Directory of MSYS118 DISK2 (MOPT118.EXE archive)
BBSLIST DAT 434,280 10-29-94 9:39p
IOBUS DOC 2,123 11-28-90 11:44p
JKISS DOC 596 02-06-92 12:39p
JKISS ROM 2,048 02-06-92 10:13a
MS400 MOD 1,437 01-01-91 5:54p
MSYS118 DOC 503,221 11-22-94 12:40a
MSYST DOC 7,379 11-30-94 11:30p
MSYST EXE 21,639 11-30-94 11:34p
MSYSHAPN DOC 7,268 01-04-91 8:41p
PAK EXE 12,614 03-02-87 10:27p
README NOW
USERMAN DOC 54,064 11-29-94 12:12a
Directory of MSYS118 DISK3 (MSYSB118.EXE archive)
BBSTONTS BIN 93,899 12-06-93 2:07p
BBSTONTS DAT 177,828 12-06-93 2:07p
CALLSRV0 C 1,280 01-10-92 12:33a
G8ASO LST 18,635 12-06-93 2:12p
KA8YHA COM 41,328 01-01-91 6:05p
KA8YHA-1 COM 41,935 04-05-91 2:05p
KA8YHA-2 EXE 4,243 09-23-91 1:58p
MSYSB EXE 153,594 11-21-94 11:15a
N7GXP COM 16,907 03-31-91 11:58p
README NOW
SCAN440 ASM 4,996 12-05-93 10:10p
SCAN735 ASM 7,823 11-27-93 12:02a
SCAN757 ASM 7,594 11-26-93 11:58p
W8GRG COM 8,350 01-04-91 1:07p
WB0OIZ COM 17,408 01-03-91 11:46p