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- ---- PAX V 3.00 ----
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- A resident terminal program
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- Property of
- G.G.Rajendra Kumar - VU2ZAP
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- New features marked with an "*"
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- NOTE:
- PAX.COM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE
- ENTIRE RISK OF USING THIS UTILITY IS ASSUMED BY YOU. IN NO
- EVENT WILL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER
- ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM. BY
- USING THIS UTILITY, YOU AGREE TO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS.
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- Pax is a resident terminal program written in assembly
- with a view towards keeping the code size small and occupy as
- little RAM as possible. PAX can be loaded into high memory with
- a suitable memory manager.
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- To install PAX, copy pax to a directory on your hard
- disk which is in the path. Run PAX on the command line. If all
- goes well you will get a message that PAX has been installed.
- The Install message also announces the Hot-Key to start up the
- program.
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- You can invoke the terminal program by pressing the
- default Hot-Key which is ALT-F10 or by running PAX for the
- second time on the DOS command line. After you get the PAX
- window on the screen, try and see which color combination looks
- the best on your screen. To do this press F8 repeatedly, it will
- take you through the three available combination of colors.
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- Next set up the communications port parameters for PAX.
- Press F6 for set up. Change the parameters if you want any other
- than the default or just press ENTER to keep the default values.
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- If you have two modems connected to your PC, press F7 to
- enable modem 2 and so a new setup. Now modem 1 and 2 can have
- different port parameters if required. Pressing F7 will quickly
- switch between the two modems.
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- If you want to change the hot key from the default ones,
- press F9 and choose your favorite combination.
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- After you are through with the above steps, save all the
- parameters to the file PAX.COM by pressing F10. The next time
- you start your computer and load PAX, all parameters that are
- now selected will come on as default.
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- These parameters are saved to PAX.COM as default:
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- 1> PORT parameters, BAUD|PARITY|STOP|WORD|PORT|PRINTER|IRQ
- 2> Screen COLORS
- 3> HOT-KEY
- 4> BRAG buffers contents
- 5> Review buffer size
- 6> ESC key checking <See Note 2>
- 7> Capture path
- 8> Receive buffer size
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- Pax window header displays
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- 1> Version
- 2> Serial port number
- 3> Baud
- 4> Capture file name (if ON)
- 5> Printer (if ON)
- 6> Review buffer size remaining (R:#####) normally
- or Captured bytes (C:#####) while in capture mode
- or Byte sent (F:#####) while in file send mode
- See Note 1.
- 7> ESC (if ESC key checking is enabled)
- 8> Hot key
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- FUNCTION KEYS:
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- F1 Help, No help is available on line. Type on DOS command
- line PAX /H to get a help screen. This has been done to
- keep the RAM usage to a minimum.
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- F2 Capture. PAX will automatically open a file in the
- present directory or in the capture directory specified
- with ALT-F4 called PAX-FILE.1 for the first file
- and PAX-FILE.2 for the second and on till PAX-FILE.999.
- It will not overwrite any file captured earlier but make
- a file with an unused extension number. Capture writes
- to this file all data received. Capture file can be
- closed by pressing F2 again Note: Capture will not
- continue when the PAX window is closed. A time stamp
- is recorded at the start of capture file. Time is taken
- from the system clock.
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- F3 Send. Send the contents of an text file. Create a file
- that you want to transmit in a text editor. All text
- characters will be transmitted with the exception of
- line feeds. Press any key while sending to abort the
- file send. Pressing return or specifying a directory
- shows you the directory. Use up/down to select a file
- and press enter to send. Maximum files in a directory
- is 176.
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- F4 Start the printer. This enables printing, all characters
- received will be sent to the printer. If the printer is
- not ready then an error message will be displayed. PAX
- will also alert you quickly when the paper is over in
- the printer. A time stamp is printed at the start of
- printer. Time is taken from the system clock.
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- F5 Clear screen. Clears the send and receive windows.
- Press enter again to see the command prompt.
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- F6 Setup port parameters. These parameters affect the
- computer to modem communication. After reading your
- modem manual change any of the defaults that suit your
- modem. Press ESC or enter no value to keep the default.
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- F7 Toggle modem stream. PAX can be separately configured
- for two different ports or modems. This key will toggle
- between the two settings.
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- F8 Change color. Pressing F8 will change the default screen
- colors. Only three color combinations are available.
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- F9 Change Hot-Key. Hot key combination can be changed to
- suit your taste. Almost any key or a combination of the
- ALT, CTRL, Left-Shift or Right Shift keys can be used.
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- F10 Save defaults. All Port parameters colors, hot-key and
- Brag buffers will be saved back to the PAX.COM as
- defaults.
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- SHIFT-F1-F10
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- Enter or edit 10 brag buffers. Each buffer holds 64
- characters.
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- CTRL-F1-F10
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- Send brag buffers.
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- ALT-F1 Set date and time from system clock.
- Format DA YYMMDDMMHHSS.
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- ALT-F2 Send ASCII text file named PAX.INI. Use this to
- initialize your modem.
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- ALT-F3 Save review buffer to a file named PAX.SAV in current
- directory or the capture directory if specified.
- If the file already exists then PAX will append the
- contents of the current screen buffer to the file
- PAX.SAV. After saving the buffer is cleared.
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- ALT-F4 Set PATH for capture files, if no path is set then
- current directory is used. Path name must be legal
- and exist, no backslash at th end of the path please.
- Capture path is saved to default with F10.
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- ALT-F5 Sends a Date/time stamp. Format [DD/MM/YY HH:MM:SS]
- Time is taken from the system clock. *
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- ALT-F6 Resend the last line typed. Stores up to 78 characters
- or ends with <ENTER>. *
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- Review mode:
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- Pressing Up/Dn keys will invoke the review mode. This
- mode displays the received data which scrolled off the screen.
- The amount of data stored is changeable by command line options.
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- Review mode keys:
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- Up Dn Left Right PgUp PgDn Home and End keys serves to move the
- data on the screen. Insert will save data in buffer to PAX.SAV
- in the corrent directory OR in directory specified by capture
- path and clear the buffer. Delete will clear data.
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- When the data in the buffer overflows, PAX overwrites
- the oldest data on the buffer.
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- Syntax & command line parameters:
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- Pax /option /option ....
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- /I = Install - Install pax in memory, don't pop-up on install
- (useful for autoexec.bat)
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- /U = Uninstall - Remove pax from memory
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- /? = Syntax
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- /H = Help
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- /M#= Modem stream number 1 or 2
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- /C#= Serial port number 1 to 4
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- /R#= Set buffer size to # - change size of review buffer
- Min:2000 Max:22000 Default:4000
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- /B#= Set buffer size to # - change size of receive buffer
- Min:200 Max:22000 Default:750
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- /K*= Set hot key. Any key or with ALT,LSHift,RSHift and
- CTL may be used. e.g /K ALT+F11 OR /K F11
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- /E = Enable/Disable ESC key Checking (AMT3 or similar users?)
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- Setting the review buffer size larger will enable you
- to store more data for review. It will result in PAX occupying
- more ram. You can change the default value only on the command
- line and save it with F10.
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- Example:PAX /m1 /c2 /r20480 /KF11 /i /E
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- PAX -c 2 -r 20480 -k F11 -i -E
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- (Install on COM2 with review buffer size at 20K bytes, set hot
- key to F11 and do not pop-up on install. Do not check ESC key.)
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- Technical notes:
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- PAX is an interrupt driven terminal program. Due to this
- terminal speeds of 9600 baud may be used even on the slowest
- 8086 compatible machines.
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- PAX invokes itself when opportunity exists during DOS
- FREE or TIMER interrupt. PAX will not POP-UP during disk, bios
- or print screen operations. PAX also does not POP-UP if it finds
- it unsafe to POP-UP when a program is running in the foreground.
- Avoid invoking PAX while disk operations are taking place. PAX
- releases the COM port interrupt when the window is closed.
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- All of PAX's code is written in assembly language. PAX
- distributed program is encrypted, compression will not help. PAX
- uses direct write to the screen memory. PAX supports any video
- page that is available in your machine. PAX does not support the
- special screen modes of 132 columns. In the modes that have more
- than 25 ROWS, pax will appear only on 25 ROWS and so is usable
- in these modes BUT does not make full use of the screen. PAX
- will not POP-UP in graphic modes. If you experience any SNOW
- while pax is running, it is due to the older CGA adaptors. There
- is no remedy in PAX for this, you may contemplate changing your
- display card to a current one.
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- NOTE:
- For those of you using AMT units OR any firmware that
- requires ESC key to be sent to TNC, use /E option on the
- command line to disable ESC key checking. Use F10 to save
- this setting to PAX.COM. Using /E option again will reset
- this option.
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- Thanks for suggestions to:
- W3BNR S79DW SV8QG PA3FUA G3NYK DL9HAZ SM7SYX ZL2AMD
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- You have permission to distribute PAX.COM with README.PAX, they
- must be together and unmodified. For non-profit purposes only.
- Any non-amateur radio use must be negotiated with the author.
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- Comments & Contributions (10 US$ maximum) welcome !
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- NOTICE: Commercial users write for details of license.
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- travels!
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- G.G.Rajendra Kumar VU2ZAP
- 44/10 Race course road,
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