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Revised 09-05-87 Universal Line Printer Edition
ZCOMM User Manual 181
X3.64 Dec Oct Hex EBCDIC
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5/14 094 136 5E 5F ^ Circumflex, Up Arrow, Hat
5/15 095 137 5F 6D _ Underscore, Underline[1]
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1. 5/16 Back Arrow on older codes
(C) 1987 Omen Tech Inc Chapter 29 ASCII Code
Revised 09-05-87 Universal Line Printer Edition
ZCOMM User Manual 182
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6/0 096 140 60 79 ` Accent Grave
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7/11 123 173 7B C0 { Left Brace
7/12 124 174 7C 4F | Vertical Bar, Pipe[2]
7/13 125 175 7D D0 } Right Brace, ALTMODE
7/14 126 176 7E 7E ~ Tilde, Squiggle [3]
7/15 127 177 7F 07 ^? DEL, RUBOUT
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2. "Confirm" on some older systems
3. Escape on some older systems
(C) 1987 Omen Tech Inc Chapter 29 Acknowledgments
Revised 09-05-87 Universal Line Printer Edition
ZCOMM User Manual 183
30. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ZCOMM could not have evolved to its current level of power and
refinement without help, advice, and other contributions from many
kindred souls over the years.
Digital Equipment Corporation developed the PDP-8, PDP-10, and PDP-11
computers with which I first learned practical data communications
techniques. Ray Zapp and Bob Chesney used the first forerunners of
Zcomm. Ward Christensen developed the MODEM (XMODEM) file transfer
protocol and the MODEM series programs. Dennis M. Ritchie developed
the C programming language. Leor Zohlman wrote BDS C, the cuspiest C
compiler for CP/M, without which Yam might have been written in Pascal
(if at all). Jack M. Wierda and Roderick W. Hart wrote CMODEM13.C,
the prototype of Zcomm's XMODEM protocol handler. 32 bit CRC code
courtesy Gary S. Brown. Richard Greenlaw wrote SQueeze and UnSQueese,
Huffman compression programs and wildcard filename expansion routine.
Gordon Collett, CDI VP of Engineering, supported the development and
public domain distribution of 8 bit YAM. Microsoft Corporation
developed MS-DOS, providing interesting debugging experiences.
Pacific Northwest Bell regularly provides protocol stress testing.
Bob Richardson, Carl Raff, Scott Lowe, Ken Brassler, authored
documentation describing Compuserve's mysterious A and B protocols.
Jeff Martin, Paul Homchick, Paul Bingman, David Sternlight, Big Red,
and Barefoot John provided encouragement and suggestions. Charles
McGuinness wrote COMSH, which provided some ideas for ZCOMM's script
facility. Stephen Satchell wrote much of the original Cribsheet.
James R. Butler provided numerous suggestions on this Manual.
Numerous script examples shown here were written by Earle Robinson,
author of the ejryam scripts for accessing Compuserve.
The ZCOMM flash-up help file compiler and display program were
originated by Seaquest Software, Pete Mackie President.
The KERMIT protocol was developed by the Columbia University Center
for Computing Activities. KERMIT is available for many systems for
only a nominal fee from Columbia and from various user group
organizations, such as DECUS and SHARE. Columbia University holds the
copyright on the KERMIT protocol. Columbia University does not
warrant in any way the KERMIT software nor the accuracy of any related
documentation, and neither the authors of any KERMIT programs or
documentation nor Columbia University acknowledge any liability
resulting from program or documentation errors.
ZCOMM "m" versions are compiled with the SCO System V Xenix to DOS
Cross Compiler. Other C programs are compiled with Computer
Innovations' C86 and Lattice C.
TurboLearn Script Writer(TM), Cybernetic Data Recovery(TM), Error
Containment(TM), True YMODEM(TM), OverThruster(TM), Password
Guardian(TM), CryptoScript(TM), and TurboDial(TM) are Omen Technology
(C) 1987 Omen Tech Inc Chapter 30 Acknowledgments
Revised 09-05-87 Universal Line Printer Edition
ZCOMM User Manual 184
trademarks. CBBS is a trademark of Ward Christensen and Randy Suess.
CP/M is a trademark of Digital Research. DEC and VT100 are trademarks
of Digital Equipment Corporation. DESQview is a trademark of
Quarterdeck Office Systems. KERMIT is a trademark of Henson
Associates, Inc., creators of The Muppet Show. MS-DOS is a trademark
of Microsoft. TopView is a trademark of IBM. TWX is a trademark of
Teletype Corporation. Unix is a trademark of Western Electric.
This manual is Copyright 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 Omen Technology
Incorporated, All Rights Reserved. It was formatted 9-27-87.
(C) 1987 Omen Tech Inc Chapter 30 Acknowledgments
Revised 09-05-87 Universal Line Printer Edition
ZCOMM User Manual 185
31. CROSS REFERENCE INDEX
(C) 1987 Omen Tech Inc Chapter 98 Acknowledgments
Revised 09-05-87 Universal Line Printer Edition
ZCOMM User Manual 186
99. MISSING CHAPTERS
Chapter 99 is a psuedo chapter number referring to chapters of the
Pro-YAM User Manual[1] that are not included in the ZCOMM line printer
edition.
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1. Supplied with ZCOMM registration.
(C) 1987 Omen Tech Inc Chapter 99 Acknowledgments
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION................................................ 2
2. Collecting Information...................................... 3
2.1 Controlling Information.............................. 4
2.2 Transmitting Information............................. 5
2.3 Other Features....................................... 5
3. ZCOMM REGISTRATION.......................................... 7
4. ZCOMM's Big Brother......................................... 8
5. ROSETTA STONE............................................... 9
6. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY........................................... 14
6.1 Circular Buffer...................................... 14
7. INSTALLING ZCOMM............................................ 16
7.1 Installation from Registration Disk.................. 16
7.2 Installation from ZCOMM*.ARC......................... 17
7.3 Installation Continued............................... 17
8. MODEM INTERFACING........................................... 19
8.1 High Speed Modems.................................... 19
8.2 TELEBIT TrailBlazer.................................. 20
8.3 Microcom SX Series................................... 21
8.4 MultiTech MultiModem 224............................. 21
8.5 Smartmodem 2400...................................... 22
8.6 Smartmodem 1200...................................... 22
8.7 Novation Access 1-2-3................................ 23
8.8 Prometheus ProModem 1200............................. 24
8.9 Racal-Vadic Maxwell 2400V............................ 24
8.10 Standard 103/212..................................... 24
8.11 Data Race BMX........................................ 24
8.12 Strange Modems....................................... 24
8.13 Manual Dialing with Smart Modems..................... 25
8.14 Direct Connection.................................... 25
9. YOUR TELEPHONE DIRECTORY.................................... 26
9.1 Customizing Your Telephone Directory................. 27
10. TUTORIAL INTRODUCTION....................................... 31
10.1 Sample Sessions...................................... 32
11. ACCESSING COMPUTER SYSTEMS.................................. 35
11.1 Dialing.............................................. 35
11.2 Telenet/PC-Pursuit................................... 35
11.3 Tymnet............................................... 36
12. PROTOCOL FILE TRANSFERS..................................... 37
12.1 ZMODEM File/Command Transfers........................ 37
12.2 TRUE YMODEM(TM)...................................... 38
12.3 XMODEM-1k............................................ 39
12.4 XMODEM/CRC........................................... 39
12.5 XMODEM............................................... 40
12.6 WXMODEM (People-Link)................................ 40
12.7 MODEM7 Batch......................................... 40
12.8 Telink/FIDO Batch.................................... 41
12.9 Clink/SEAlink Batch.................................. 41
12.10 XMODEM with OverThruster............................. 42
12.11 Kermit............................................... 42
12.12 Uploading Files to Unix Systems...................... 44
12.13 Downloading Files from Unix Systems.................. 45
12.14 VMS File Transfers................................... 46
12.15 Compuserve File Transfers............................ 46
12.16 BIX File Transfers................................... 47
13. MESSAGE TRANSFERS........................................... 48
13.1 Downloading Messages................................. 48
13.2 XON/XOFF............................................. 48
13.3 DC2/DC4 (^R/^T)...................................... 48
13.4 Data Dump............................................ 49
13.5 Uploading Messages................................... 49
13.6 Paced................................................ 50
13.7 Throttle............................................. 50
13.8 Uploading to IBM Mainframes.......................... 51
13.9 Uploading Messages to Bulletin Boards................ 51
13.10 Fpute................................................ 52
14. FLOW CONTROL................................................ 53
15. RUNNING ZCOMM............................................... 55
15.1 DOS Environment Variables............................ 55
15.2 File Names - Good and Bad............................ 56
16. SPECIAL KEYS................................................ 57
16.1 Special Keys for Protocol Transfers.................. 57
17. MAIN COMMANDS............................................... 59
18. OPTIONS for File Transfers.................................. 107
19. MODES for Data Capture...................................... 111
20. TERM FUNCTION............................................... 121
21. REVIEW FUNCTION............................................. 131
22. NUMERIC PARAMETERS.......................................... 135
23. STRING PARAMETERS........................................... 147
24. CHARACTER ESCAPES........................................... 157
25. TEST CONDITIONS (if, on, while commands).................... 160
26. SOFTWARE COEXISTENCE........................................ 168
27. BACKGROUND OPERATION........................................ 172
28. CROSSTALK-XVI CONVERSION.................................... 174
29. 1968 ASCII CODE............................................. 179
30. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS............................................. 183
31. CROSS REFERENCE INDEX....................................... 185
99. MISSING CHAPTERS............................................ 186