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Users Manual for A M I P A C 6 . 3 2 Written by OZ4ACF AMIPAC is a SHAREWARE program, so if you like it, and want to use it, you should send, say $30 to: Silvano Funghi (IW0BRH) via COLA di RIENZO, 3 00047 MARINO LAZIALE (RM) ITALY AMIPAC is progammed especialy for AMIGA, to ease radio- amateurs use of packet radio. It is in no way a telefon modem program, but is dedicated to be used with TNC's. Until now it has been tested on Kantronics KPC-2, AEA PK-88/232, KAM and TNC2. Setup files for these are selectable from the scriptfile A.x/AmiPac.parms supplied with this disk. Owners of other makes of TNC's are welcome to experiment and report results. AMIPAC supports PAL as well as NTSC. You also may choose your own language for the calendar. F-keys and pull-down menues may be user defined. - 2 - Connecting your TNC. ==================== To make AMIPAC function properly, you must use hardware handshake. Make sure, that the cabel between your AMIGA and the TNC is connected like this: AMIGA TNC 1 ------------- 1 2 ------------- 2 3 ------------- 3 4 ------------- 4 5 ------------- 5 6 ------------- 6 7 ------------- 7 8 ------------- 8 20 ------------- 20 It is important that the DCD line (pin 8) follows the CONNECT- state of the TNC. Some TNC's, e.g. PK88, has a jumper that default will hold DCD at +12v whenever the TNC is ON. This MUST be changed to make DCD = -12v when in monitor mode. Installing Country. =================== AMIPAC allows you to use your own national keyboard. Click the Text&Tricks-icon an you'll see a small bar named SHORTCUT at top of the screen. Select this by clicking it with the left mouse buttom. Then press the right buttom to display the two pull down menues: AmiPac docs and Country. Now choose which doc you wish to read, or click the item stating YOUR country, and the keymap, font and clock will be copied to the system. This will obviously write to the disk, so do this only to your work-copy. Should your country not be in the selection, edit A.x/AmiPac.clock and Country in the root to set the keymap and calendar as YOU want it! AMIPAC now contains several files which are read when the program is started. These may all be edited by the user to fit his/her needs. This may be done by opening the DMe-icon. The DME editor has three menues for the AMIPAC system files. - 3 - Edit_A.x ======== CLOCK If the Country? menu, opned by the Docs icon and the Shortcut bar does not have YOUR country, or a countr that uses your language, you may select CLOCK to change the names of the days and the months to your own language. ComManDs Commands you may issue that you might need a parameter to be addad. Are not send to the TNC before RETURN is pressed. ComMa+CR (DMe: ComManDs+CR) The commands from this list are, when click- in the menue, send directly to the TNC ter- minated with a CR. CONnections A list of stations that you may call just by clicking a gadget. Edit the list to contain the calls of the station you use to connect! DefaultStrings This file contains the codestring for Funny- mode, alertstring and target call.The use of these strings is explained along with the Misc- menu. Defaultstrings also defines the the device on which you wish to capture and the default names under which the different kinds files are to be captured. (AutoConn, ASCII, UU or YAPP) - 4 - Exit Strings which are send to the TNC on closing AmiPac_full/AmiPac_split by pressing R-Amiga + 'Q' twice. In this way you may set CTEXT, MONITOR mode etc. the way you want them when your Amiga is OFF. E.g. a CTEXT that tells connecting stations to call back later. SeqConnCommand This file contains a series of commands that will be sent to the TNC on autoconnect. Default PARMS defines 0 lines to be read from SeqConnCommand. If this number is al- tered, either in PARMS or by means of Auto- Conn in the Misc-menu, an AutoConnect will be performed. PARMS also defines the time between each command. SendPrivate@.. A list of the amateurs, that you frquently send telexes to. Listed with @ BBS. Now you'll never discover, that you've forgotten someones BBS, just as you are about to send him/her a message. Start Strings which are send to the TNC on opening AmiPac_Full/AmiPac_Split.In this way you may set CTEXT, MONITOR mode etc. the way you want them when your Amiga is ON. Printer(ANSI) Every time the printer is opened from the OPTIONS-menu, the command(s) of this file is send to the printer. It contains a header for the dump being made + a number of ANSI- codes to set the printing mode. To change these, see your AMIGA manual Appendix D. - 5 - Keymap(REBOOT) Should you wish AMIPAC to use a keymap, dif- ferent to the default of the selectet coun- try, you may change it here. Provided this keymap is present in devs/keymaps. If not, you must copy it from the WorkBench or the Extras disk. This change only take effect after reboot. AmiPac_UK In this file you may want to change the ASSIGN'ing of the AmiPac_DATA: device. The Auto-Answer function of the Remote-menu uses AmiPac_DATA: for storing messages. This means that you need a disk named AmiPac_DATA to use Auto-Answer. Should you want Auto-Answer messages stored, e.g. on DF1:, you should edit this line the AmiPac_UK batch-file: Assign AmiPac_DATA: DF1: Parms Used to start up AMIPAC. The only line you should edit, is the one starting with: AmiPac_req_ followed by a number of parameters. These are listed below the command in order of appearence. Some of the parame- ters state the number of active lines, read from the system files listed below. Should you add / delete any lines in these files, you should change the corresponding parame- ter accordingly. - 6 - In this file, you'll also find para- meters to choose default values of: Serial.device, change this to use special port expansions. Baudrate Size of Serial buffer Clock mode 0:USA 1:Europe Lenght of Line Numer of lines read from AmiPac.printer Numer of lines read from AmiPac.start and AmiPac.exit. TNC type (Setup and log) 0:Kantronic 1:TNC2 2:PK88 3:PK232 Numer of lines read from AmiPac.SeqConCommand. Size of CLIPBOARD Area Time between commands in AutoConnect. Default 1000 * 1/50 sec. Announce precautions or not. 0:Novice 1:Expert CBell default. 0:ON 1:OFF BBSenable/DAYTIME 1: BBS enable on startup. 2: DAYTIME > TNC 3: BBS enable + DAYTIME > TNC Disk write buffer Default 16384 bytes. FBB Password mode. 0: 0=OLD FBB PASSWORD MODE 1: [MD2-SECURITY] PASSWORD MODE - 7 - IN ADDITION to the commands sent to the TNC on star- ting AmiPac the TNC type chosen in Parms causes AmiPac to send yet a series of commands to the TNC, specific to the make. They are: Kantronics (Type 0) XFLOW OFF XOFF $00 XON $00 TXFLOW OFF TRFLOW OFF START $00 STOP $00 ECHO OFF CONMODE CONVERSE HEADERLN ON NEWMODE ON PACTIME A 1 CPACTIME NO AUTOLF NO LFADD NO LCOK ON SCREENLEN 0 STREASW 0 CST NO PAR 4 STREAMEV NO - 8 - TNC2 (Type 1) XFLOW OFF XOFF $00 XON $00 TXFLOW OFF TRFLOW OFF START $00 STOP $00 ECHO OFF CONMODE CONVERSE HEADERLN ON NEWMODE ON PACTIME A 1 CPACTIME NO AWLEN 8 CONSTAMP OFF PARITY 0 STREAMSW 0 SCREENLN 0 LFADD NO LCOK ON AUTOLF NO PK88 (Type 2) XFLOW OFF XOFF $00 XON $00 TXFLOW OFF TRFLOW OFF START $00 STOP $00 ECHO OFF CONMODE CONVERSE HEADERLN ON NEWMODE ON PACTIME A 1 CPACTIME NO CHSWITCH $00 ACRDISP $00 ALFDISP $00 ALFPACK OFF CASEDISP $00 - 9 - PPK232 (Type 3) XFLOW NO XOFF $00 XON $00 TXFLOW NO TRFLOW NO START $00 STOP $00 ECHO NO CONMODE CONVERSE HEADERLN ON NEWMODE ON PACTIME A 1 CPACTIME NO CHSWITCH $00 ACRDISP $00 ALFDISP $00 ALFPACK NO CASEDISP $00 DCDCO YES ReHELLO Your own personal greeting which will be sent to any station that issues the correct REMOTE password. See: Using AmiPac Remote. AutoAns If AutoAnswer is enabled from the Remote menu the text in this file will be sent as soon as a connect is detec- ted. Regardless of which station that initiated the con- nection. Also see the Remote paragraph. Of the files mentioned above, StartUp-Sequence naturally is found in the S directory. ALL the other files are to be found in the A.x directory, where you'll find the names listed above, preceeded with the word "AmiPac.". E.g the ConfigTNC-file is really named A.x/AmiPac.ConfigTNC, but I've used this abbrevia- tion throughout this manual for clarity. - 10 - F-keys: ======= F1 - F30 You may define any function key, alone or qualified by either the left or the right Shift key, to send each their online mes- sage. I.e. 30 different messages in all. You may write a text of any lenght in each of these. Greetings to connected stations, log off messages,"QRX - telephone!" or even "XYL-interrupt, call you later!" Filerequesters: =============== AmiPac uses ReqLib filerequester. These nice filereques- ters are very easy to use. Choosing any file transfer from the FILE pull down menu will open a filerequeser. RAM:AmiPac.capt is default (provided you haven't changed it in A.x/AmiPac.defaultstrings) but you may choose any other drive or drawer by the gadges at the bottom of the requester. The left side of the requester shows the directo- ries and files in the current directory, and the right side shows all devices available in the system. Clicking a device will display its contens in the left side of the requester. Should you click, say, DF0:, you'll see the rootdirectory of this disk. This is all quite ordinary, but there are more advan- ced features! To improve the overview, try clicking the Display .info files-gadget in the top-right corner! Read the left window. All .info files are now hidden! Look at the gadget you just used. It has now changed to Hide .info files! Click it again, and the .info files are back. Should you like to hide all files starting with "Ami", click the Hide-gadget, write Ami* into it, and press RETURN. The star (*) indicates a "wildcard", i.e. any string after the Ami is accepted. Putting the star in the front of a string, e.g. *s, will hide all files ENDING with s. The show-gadget works by only showing the files that satisfies the string (with wildcards) written in it. Remember to hit RETURN to make the entered string take effect. When opening a file for ASCII capture, RAM:AmiPac.capt will be default. Should you want to capture to disk, write the name of the device in the Drawer-gadget, or click it in the right window. The filename may be changed in the File-gadget. If you choose to capture to a file, already recorded on the disk, the new captured data will be added to the existing file. - 11 - No old data will be lost! To capture the new file on its own, choose another filename. When ready to capture, click the OK! gadget. In case you regret, you may close the requester by the Forget it-gadget. The Get dir-gadget is used to refresh the left window. This is NOT done automatically if e.g. you delete a file from the DELETE-Kill option of the Options- menu. Using pull-down menues. ======================= There are 10 pull-down menues. Most of the functions you can choose from, can be toggled. I.e. clicking an item in a pull- down menu will open it. Clicking the same item again, will close it. Items not available are ghosted. File ==== Determines direction and mode of filetransfer. 3 different HAM transfer protecols are supported: - ASCII for plain text, 7bt- and 7pl files. - UUCODE for binary files. Clusters of 3 binary bytes combined to 4 ASCII bytes. Makes code approximately 35% longer, but allowes the transmission to go through ANY kind of TNC, BBS, NODE, KANODE or whatever. 8 - bit supporting or not. Your code gets through unharmed! Files are converted immediately when transmitted or received! Directly executable! - YAPP ⌐ This protocol is no longer MS-DOS-only capability! Compatible with WA7MBL and G1NNA BBS. As for UUCODE the conver- tion/deconvertion is done on the fly! In the File-menu the following items are available: Capt. ASCII Enables you to capture an ASCII file Close! ASCII Open it to store messages, you want to keep. Click Capt. ASCII. This will open a filerequester. Default save path will be RAM:amipac.capt. If that iss o.k., click OK, and cap- ture is active. Capture may also be toggled by L-AMIGA + 'C'. - 12 - Send ASCII Send ASCII file. Used to transmit STOP! SEND prewritten messages and files to the connected station. Choose file to send from requester. Is also activa- ted by R-AMIGA and 'S'. Capt. BIN UU Receive UUENCODE'd files. MUST be STOP! Cpt UU used in TRANSPARANT. (See your TNC manual). Default save path will be RAM:AmiPac.prg. May also be toggled by R-AMIGA + 'R'. Send BIN UU Send UUENCODE'd files. Binary file STOP! Snd UU chosen from requester, is converted to UUENCODE form and transmitted as such. Use only TRANSPARANT for this mode. There are two UU-modes to choose from: Standard WIDTH (All lines start with a 'M') Large UU WIDTH (All lines start with an 'Y) Capt. YAPP ⌐ Receive YAPP coded file. Compatible STOP! YAPP R with WA7MBL BBS'es. Now Amiga also exchange files through these! Operated also with R-AMIGA and 'Y'. Default save path is RAM:Amipac.com. Send YAPP ⌐ Sends file in YAPP code. Choose file STOP! YAPP S from requester, and you're YAPP'ing your file along to any WA7MBL BBS or to a YAPP supporting fellow amateur. R-AMIGA and 'J' also does the trick. CREATE a 7BT This opens a requester which lets you choose a file to be converted to 7bit format, used for forwarding bi- nary files. The resulting 7bt-file is stored in RAM: (default set in Default-strings) and may be sent by Send ASCII in the File-menu. Hotkey: R-Amiga and 'U'. - 13 - DECODE a 7bt Opens requester to decode a 7bt- file received from BBS. Executable binary file is default stored in RAM: (See Default-strings). Invoked by R-Amiga and 'V'. Capt. YAPPr⌐ Should a YAPP-download crash due to STOP! YAPPrR a bad link, when you are connected to another Amiga, which has the re- mote function enabled, it may be re- sumed by Capt. YAPPr⌐. Before using this feature you must ask the remote Amiga to resume by typing the name of the file you want, preceeded by a '\'. I.e. If you want a file called 'SSB',you should type \SSB to resume the download. When done, activate Capt. YAPPr⌐ on your own Amiga. Hot- key: R-Amiga and 'N'. Send YAPPr⌐ Should YOU however, be the one with STOP! YAPPrS the remote function enabled, and a connected station crashes on a down- load from you, you may save him the trouble asking for download resume. Activate Send YAPPr⌐ and you'll get a requester that lets you choose the file you wish to resume sending. The connected station then only needs to activate his own Capt. YAPPr⌐. This function, like Capt. YAPPr⌐ ONLY works between two Ami- gas both running AmiPac v. > 4.31! Hotkey: R-Amiga and 'M'. - 14 - FBB YAPP RES Experiencing a link fail near the STOP! FBB RE end of a download of a big file, usually is very annoying, but should you be so lucky to be in YAPP cap- ture from a BBS that runs F6FBB software, it is not that big a cata- strophy. Just reconnect the BBS and "YD" the same file once more, but instead of opening capture with Capt. YAPP ⌐ use FBB bbs Y RESUME. AmiPac will now exchange pointers with the BBS, and the remaining part of the file will be appended to the part that you have already got. Hotkey: R-Amiga and 'Z'. If you want to transfer files with YAPP between 2 Amigas us- ing AmiPac v. > 4.25, one of you, and ONLY ONE of you must enable Remote. Only the station with Remote ON, can initiate the transmission. When transferring with YAPP to/from a WA7MBL, G1NNA or other YAPP supporting BBS's, you should disable AmiPac's Remote function. Be aware that the TNC is ALWAYS in TRANSPARANT during YAPP transfer. Should the TNC slip into CONVERSE , press 'Esc' followed by a 't' and a RETURN, to get back to TRANSPARANT. - 15 - Transfer Status Window ====================== If NOVICE-mode is set in Parms (Default) the top half of the screen will display a Transfer Status Window every time a atransfer is initiated. It may look something like this: TYPE OF TRANSFER -> YAPP CAPTURE: Length of Packet (in bytes).........: 256 State of Transfer...................: Receive Data Bytes left (to do)..................: 17152 Part Transferred (in percent).......: 6.94% Bytes Transferred (done)............: 1280 Transfer rate in Characters/Second..: 45 Equivalent BaudRate.................: 405 Elapsed Minutes from Start..........: 0.5 Estimated Minutes Remaining.........: 7.8 The example above is from a YAPP transfer. In case of an ASCII capture the length of the data to be received is NOT known. In this case, the data fields that should have been calculated on basis of this information, are marked: "Not Available" The Transfer Meter ================== Note the Transfer Meter! The FAT bar at the center of the screen can be observed METERS away from the Amiga. You can now sit in the soft chair in the corner of the room and read while a large file transfer is taking place. A quick glance now and then is enough to see how far things have got. Should you choose Expert Mode in Parms the Transfer Status window will not pop up. The fat Transfer Meter bar however still apears, but ONLY if the transfer size data are available. If the Clock-bar is open, it will show the size of the file to be send/received, and how much is yet to go. - 16 - YAPP transfer data are shown in the clock window: EXAMPLE with fictives: 256¡9¡114400¡35.44%¡56000¡77/708¡4¡71 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \ minutes to end transfer (estimated) | | | | | | | \ minutes elapsed from begin of transfer | | | | | | \ equivalent effective baudrate | | | | | \ speed of transfer in bytes/second | | | | \ bytes already saved on disk or ram (or sent) | | | \ percentage of bytes transferred (send or received) | | \ size of file to be transferred | | | \ state of transfer: 1,2 Start of YAPP receive/send | 4 Send Name | 5 Send Data | 8 Receive Name | 9 Receive Data | \ PKlen of YAPP standard (typically 256 in the middle of transfer) ASCII transfer data in the clock bar look a little different: ASCII - SZ:1307-C/S:26-BD:270-Min:1 | | | | | | | \ minutes elapsed from begin of transfer | | \ equivalent effective baudrate | \ speed of transfer in bytes/second \ bytes already saved on disk or ram (or sent) -Other IMPORTANT points about YAPP TRANSFER: MS-DOS YAPP CANCEL (or make invisible) does not capture the file entirely. With AMIPAC YAPP this doesn't happen. This means, that we got something. Pay attention to pro- tocol messages. 100 % means everything OK. Any other message ad- vice of some occured problem. Consider to transfer files compacted using "archives". Use ARC, ZOO, LHARC, PAK, PAK-IT, WARP, LHWARP, PKAZIP or best LZ. - 17 - Using these we have always some advantages: 1. Sending more than one file in one strike. 2. Sending icons, docs, scriptfiles and executables, makes our archives better in many aspects: Size- and thereby transmissiontime, is reduced. Even sending one file it is better to archive it with a DUMMY-FILE at the end. The DUMMY-FILE name is essential. It should be "ZZ.file". As files are stored in alphabethical order in the archive, this filename will always be the last. We can use always the same!!! Why this ? If a link fails near the end of a transfer, and the tail of file is missing; we still, due the power of some archive pro- grams, have the possibility in some cases to get back the file. In fact only the "dummy" (the last) won't be intact but the rest will be perfect. The size of the dummyfile is not critical, but should be at least 256 characters. Log Files ========== AmiPac keeps two different log files: AmiPac.log and AmiPac.stats . AmiPac.log is opened on the device defined in Default-strings and is updated with callsign, time and date every time a connect is made. You may then use StatLogForma in the Options- menu to catalog AmiPac.log into the genuine logfile SLF.log. Read also SLF.doc. AmiPac.stats keeps track of all file transfers made. It contains information of filename, size, characters/second and the equiva- lent baudrate. AmiPac.stats is aranged in such a way, that you may use the CLI command: SORT AmiPac.stats TO size.stat COLSTART 50 to sort the captured files by size, or: SORT AmiPac.stats TO size.stat COLSTART 62 to sort the captured files by baudrate. - 18 - Splitting and combining ======================= Provided you have chosen the correct TNC type parameter in Parms, AmiPac will when started, send the TNC commands neces- sary for correct file transfer.When a CONNECT is detected AmiPac will force the TNC in TRANSPARANT independant of CONMODE.This is essential for especially the binary file transfer. But don't worry - AmiPac has a built-in keyboard buffer that emulates CONVERSE when typing. Block from files split by SPLIT ASCII in the Options-menu are provided with a special header that states block number and the total number of blocks. When you capture such a series of blocks, append them to the SAME ASCII-capture file.Regardless of the order in which the blocks arrive! Don't bother with removing the BBS's forwarding headers. When ALL blocks are captured, Com- bine ASC: will do the header erasing, sorting and reassembling; leaving the resulting file in RAM: EXACTLY as it originally ap- peared. Executable files treated with SPLIT BINARY also form blocks in RAM: but these are ONLY numbered by the NAME! The blocks themselves are absolutely "naked", so be sure to specify the number in the name of the blocks when you YAPP them. When you receive file blocks with YAPP, you can NOT append them. They MUST be captured under different names, stating the block number. Assume that you receive a file named "Demo" which is in 4 blocks. On the BBS they appear as: DEMO1, DEMO2, DEMO3 and DEMO4. When opening the Capt. YAPP write the DEMOx name in the string gadget at the bottom of the requester. This should end up with the 4 DEMO files in RAM: (or disk if you specified that). Now open a CLI window. Use the CD command to go to the directory or device, to which you captured the blocks. Now it only remains to issue the command: JOIN DEMO1 DEMO2 DEMO3 DEMO4 AS DEMO You should now have DEMO program ready to RUN! - 19 - Baud Rate ========= Set the baudrate of your TNC from this menu. R-AMIGA with one of the following numbers may also be used, to get the corresponding baudrate. "1" 300 baud "2" 1200 baud "3" 2400 baud "4" 4800 baud "5" 9600 baud "6" 19200 baud "7" 38400 baud 57600 Bps +1 (G3RUH!) PRIORITY--> 0 (Yapp?) NO SYSTEMREQ -1 (Normal) The 3 last speed options (19200, 38400 and 57600 baud) have only been tested with a cable connected directly between 2 Amigas. No TNC yet works that fast! When AMIPAC is started the baudrate is read the script- file AmiPac.parms. PRIORITY is used to set the task priority of AmiPac. Default is -1, to let background tasks get a fair chance too, but should you run in to some heavy YAPP trans- fer with high PACLEN values, you should choose '0'. Should you be lucky enough to own, and have license to use, a G3RUH TNC, which runs 9600 baud - ON THE AIR - AmiPac needs all the time it can get to attend that TNC. You should then use PRIORIRY '+1'. NO SYSTEMREQ may be used if you don't want systemrequesters to pop up covering AmiPac's main window. Instead they will appear BEHIND the AmiPac window. If you use this feature, you will find that AmiPac may seem to "hang up" while a requester sits behind the main window, waiting for you to click some gadget before Amipac will be able to resume. Use the front/ back gadgets to get to the requester and click the gadgets needed. Click NO SYSTEMREQ to return to normal mode. - 20 - Misc ==== NewSplit Used to change the BINARY- and ASCII split. When NewSplit is selected, requesters with string gadgets will pop up. Changes made this way, only last until AmiPac is terminated or the Amiga is turned off. See also Splitting and Combining above. Hotkey:R-AMIGA '+'. CW-RTTY Toggles between CW/RTTY and PACKET PACKET! use. Also use R-AMIGA '='. The only difference between these modes is the keyboardbuffer. This is active ONLY in PACKET-mode and is VERY con- venient when typing in TRANSPARANT mode. Unfortunately the keyboardbuf- fer gets in the way in FUNNY-mode and when running a KAM TNC in RTTY, so use it only in these 2 cases. NO TITLE or R-Amiga + 'T', toggles the title- TITLEBAR bar ON / OFF. BYE BYE ends the program. When prompted, REALLY? click REALLY? and the program closes. R-AMIGA 'Q' pressed twice, does the same job. - 21 - AlertStr also activated by R-Amiga '|'. Unless you have chosen Expert Mode in AmiPac.parms, a notice will pop up the FIRST time this options is used, after opening AMIPAC. It looks like this: .......................................................... : : : NOTE: The alertstrings are casesensitive, : : i.e. as all TNC's (that I know), use connectstrings : : in CAPITAL letters, and so must your alertstrings! : : Also, you can not have alertstrings which : : occur in the middle of a line. The strings must be : : at the beginning. This is why PK88 and PK232 owners : : should not use MSTAMP ON, as these TNC's (and pos- : : sibly others) start the line with a DATEstring. : :........................................................: Click Resume and up comes a requester that lets you choose a string, you want the computer to look for in the data coming from the TNC. The typical purpose for this may be, that you want to know, when your local BBS is free. Usually a BBS sends out a specific string when a user logs off, and if you know this string, you can ask AMIPAC to look for it, thus taking the tedious screen-guarding off your "hands". My BBS goes: OZ2BBS>Mail: when a user logs off, so I use this for alertstring. The default string is taken from DefaultStrings, which may be edited from the Edit_Ax-menu of DMe. You are free to enter another string on opening AlertStr, as long as it is 8 - 16 characters long. When the string is entered, you may still regret by clicking Cancel, otherwise click Ok, and your choise is confirmed. Now click Resume. A requester, asking for Target call, now appears. If you click Cancel here, the first string you enter- ed will serve as an alarm only, making the Amiga beep at you, when the string is encountered. Should you on the other hand enter a call in this requester and click Ok!, AMIPAC will automatically connect to this call as soon as the string, that you entered as alertstring, is heard. But this isn't all! If the parameter for lines to read from SeqConnCommand in Parms is NOT set to zero, AmiPac will, immedeately after start up, look for the alertstring. When it - 22 - occurs, a series of commands is issued from the Seq- ConnCommand-file, also editable from DMe's Edit_A.x -menu. In this way, you can ask the BBS to list the files, that you are interested in. You don't even have to be at the keyboard! When an autoconnect has taken place, the AUTOCONN ON message in the menubar is removed. This is to indicate, that you'll have to enter the alertstring and targetcall again, should you need another autoconnect. This is to avoid a neverending repeating of autoconnects. Should you want an autoconnect, WITHOUT editing Parms, set Autoconn in the Misc-menu to the number lines to read from SeqConnCommand. AmiPac will now wait for the alertstring defined in DefaultStrings. PasswBBS Should you have enabeled AMIPAC's remote function (more about this la- ter) a connecting station may acces your Amiga provided he/she knows the password. The default word, which is AmiPacBBS->, may be changed perma- nently by editing DefaultStrings. If you only want a temporary change of password, use this item or R-Amiga + '!', and you'll get a requester in which you may type the new password. Remember to inform people to whom you give the password, that it is CASESENSITIVE, i.e. it matters if or or not capital letters are used. GoTo CMD R-Amiga + '/' performs an RS232 "Send Break", which immedeately for- ces the TNC to CMD mode. Pressing the 'Esc' key has the same effect. ChgSPLIT R-Amiga + '_' changes the size of the splitscreen in steps of 3. 3,6,9 and 12 lines of input field is avail- able. - 23 - SendCLIP This is a shortcut for preparing a text for immediate transmission with ONE keystroke. Switch to backround editor and write your text, CUT it to CLIP, and switch back to the AMIPAC screen. (Use R-Amiga + 'M' or the front/back gadges). Now click SendCLIP or use R-Amiga + '&', and your text is send to TNC; even if capture is open! N.B! This feature ONLY works with an editor that uses Clipboards.device, such as NotePad and TxEd. Should you want to use this feature, you may copy the editor to your WORKDISK. (You did make a back-up copy, didn't you?) You'll have to delete something, to get room for another editor. Either erase DMe, after you have edited the menues as you prefer them, or delete the Docs directory, when you have selected your country, and printed out this manual. Set_FONT AMIPAC is capable of using any font of any size you may have in the FONTS: directory. You may import fonts from other disks, but then you should run FIXFONTS from your Work- Bench disk. First select the font you desi- re from the left column of the Req- lib requester. Then select the size in the right column. Click the OK! gadget to confirm. Hotkey: R-Amiga + 'F'. SOFTSTYLE--> Choose from plain, italics or bold - with or without underline - to make the AMIPAC screen use the style that you prefer. - 24 - Autoconn In the scriptfile Parms the number of lines to be read from SeqConnCom- mand is set to 0, i.e. autoconnect is disabeled. Should you want an au- toconnect without editing PARMS, use R-Amiga + '#' to specify how many lines to send from SeqConnCommand. STATUS/S Informs of the status of the serial- and the parallel ports. Hotkey: R-Amiga + '"'. View a... --> TEXT FILE ASCII OR NOT You might want to read a just captu -red file at once. Or a text file of another disk or that matter. All right! If only the file is closed, you may click this sub-item to get a requester in which you click the file you want to read. The utility programme, that AmiPac uses for the reading, is defined in line 11 of DefaultStrings. PIC GIF COMPRESSED IBM PIC IFF ILBM MODE AMIGA Works on pictures just like the ASCII viewer described above. Choose the GIF format (used mostly by IBM's and clones) or the IFF/ILBM format used by Amiga. DEFAULTS or R-Amiga + '%' will show you how your DefaultStrings are set. To change these, use DMe to edit this menu-file. NO BELL! By this item you may change the YES BELL CBELL setting which default is defi- ned in Parms. This change only lasts as long as AmiPac is running. Hotkey: R-Amiga + '9'. - 25 - FormFile Some people write messages with very long lines. So when you try to edit the message, the right end of the lines are not visible on the screen. FormFile or R-Amiga + '8' will open a requester. A file chosen from this will have LF-characters inserted in lines longer than 80 characters. The corrected file is stored in RAM: Expert Mode Toggels on-screen help texts status Novice Mode windows on/off. xx.ZIP->FILE Used for unpacking .ZIP archives. Currently ONLY works from CLI. xx.ARJ->FILE Opens a requester in which you may point out a newly captured xx.ARJ file for decompression in RAM: FREQUENCY MT Choosing this item will let you mea- sure the frequency of a square wave signal applied to pin 6 of the JOY2 port. DO NOT EXEED 5 VOLTT! (TTL le- vel). On a 68000 machine you may measure up to 25 kHz. 68030 machines equiped with GVP, will work up to 70 kHz. To secure accuracy, Amigas mul- titasking is disabled during the measuring. Make sure that the signal to be measured is present BEFORE calling FREQENCY MT. For a test you may connect a joystick to the port and see how fast you are able to click the FIRE BUTTON. During the measuring, which takes 25 seconds, ALL other activi- ties in the Amiga will stop. They will, however, resume afterwards. No data will be lost! - 26 - Options ======= Send FBB PASSW -> An EASY way to send up to 3 different passwords to a F6FBB BBS. See below in the chapter FBB remote-sysop. DAYTIME->TNC transferes the time of AMIGA's real- time clock to the TNC. Also acces- sible by R-AMIGA and 'D'. SENDcalendar R-Amiga '-', is very suitable for writing date on a message you're sending to a connected station. A date-string is send in the language, chosen from docs/country. PRINTER !ON! Toggles printer on/off line. R-AMIGA PRINTER OFF! and 'P', has the same effect. Colors-PALET Enables you to change AMIPAC's co- lour palette as you like. Hot key: R-AMIGA '*'. The setting is not per- manent untill Save ->PALETTE<- is clicked. DELETE-Kill or R-AMIGA 'K', opens filerequester to delete file(s). MEMORY-avail or R-AMIGA 'A'. Shows the amount of memory in use and free for both chip and fast memory. Save ->PALLETTE<- Saves your color changes to device AmiPac:AmiPac.colors. Use also R-Amiga + '$'. - 27 - SPLIT ASCII Splits large ASCII-files or 7bit files, chosen from requester, into smaller blocks. These are stored in RAM:. The size of each block is de- fault 4500, but may be changed by NewSplit of the Misc menu.Blocks are automatically numbered for later re- assembling. Hotkey: R-Amiga + 'W'. SPLIT BINARY As SPLIT ASCII but for binary files. Blocks have no nubered headers. In- tended for YAPP transfer. Default size of blocks: 20000. May also be changed by NewSplit. Hotkey: R-Amiga + 'E'. COMBINE ASC. Automatically joins ASCII files (text, UUcode and 7bt) that origin- ally were split using the SPLIT ASCII option, see above. All parts must be captured to the same file, appended if you like. The order of the parts does NOT matter! The parts are sortet and the mailbox- and file headers are removed. The resulting file will be stored as specified in DefaultStrings. Hotkey: R-Amiga + 'H'. CRC32->FILE Calculates the checksum of a file chosen from requester. This option is used e.g. to check if a YAPP up- load is correct. If you take the CRC2 before the file is uploaded and download the same file for test, the CRC2's of these 2 files MUST be identical. Even if only ONE bit is changed the CRC32's will be QUITE different. Also use R-Amiga + 'L'. - 28 - FILE ->x.LHA Uses LhArc to compress a file. The resulting archive is stored as FILE- m_LZ.lha on the device chosen for capture in DefaultStrings. If you choose more files,they will all be added to this archive. Remem- ber to rename the archive BEFORE it is transmitted. Choose a describing name ending with '.LHA'. Remember that LZ archives are binary files and may be trans- mittet directly with YAPP. Should you want to forward the archive over the packet net,use 'CREATE a 7bt' in the File-menu to convert to ASCII format. If needed, you may use SPLIT ASCII, to break the 7bt-file in smaller blocks. The size of these blocks is determined by the parame- ter in AmiPac.Parms. R-Amiga + 'B' is hotkey. .LZH-.lha>FILE Reverse function of FILE ->.LHA. Convertes .LZH or .LHA archives back to executeable file(s) in the device assigned for capture in Default- Strings. Also invoked with R-Amiga + 'G'. StatLogForma Used to catalog AmiPac.log into SLF.log on the AmiPac: device. Read also SLF.doc. METEOSCATTER Intended to send beacons by meteo- scatter. Before you enter this mode, you MUST be in CONVERSE or TRANSPA- RANT mode. I.e press 'c' or 't' when in 'cmd:' mode. Then click METEO- SCATTER or press R-Amiga + 'C'. Now fill in the string gadgets in the following 3 requesters, that will prompt you for: Number of bea- cons, delay in seconds between each beacon and finally the beacon text. - 29 - NOTE: There is NO regret! Once the beacontext is accepted, all beacons will be sent before you regain the control of AmiPac! A little trick. If you are connected to an ordinary BBS and you wish to resort for a while to edit a letter, the BBS may disconnect you on timeout while you're "gone". This doesn't happen if you let the METEO- SCATTER send a RETURN to the BBS e.g. every 3 minutes. Video->SPEAK Enables connected stations to actu- SPEAKER OFF ally TALK to you! Use only this mode when in direct QSO, as the speaking slows down AmiPac considerably. Activated by R-Amiga + 'I'. PRINT BKGD FILE Opens a requester to choose a file you want to print out immediately. 7plus « -> XTRACT Should you open an ASCII capture and download a .7pl file among other text files from a BBS, you may have difficulties later on cutting out the .7pl file for decoding. 7plus « ->XTRACT will open a reques- ter in which you may point out the ASCII capture that contains the .7pl file and automatically extract it under the correct name in RAM: ready for decoding. 7plus « -> DECODE Decodes a .7pl file in the device/ directory chosen for capture in Parms. Default RAM: - 30 - ENCODE -> 7plus « Encodes a file to a .7pl file in the device/directory chosen for capture in Parms. Default RAM: Version # ========= This is shown if you click in the "Poster" that appears when you open the Version # in the menu bar. Connects, ComManDs, ComMa+CR, SP @BBS. ====================================== From these menues you can issue your OWN prewritten commands. You'll find room for 21 lines in each menu. If you write more, they are ignored by the program, and will serve as comments only. Use DMe's Edit_Ax to edit the files to meet your own needs. In editing, do not exceed 20 characters in lenght of each line, or problems will occur. Hmm, you know a station CALL over 20 characters long? I.e. "c IW0BRH-15". The commands you enter in the ComManDs-menu will not be suc- ceded with a CR when clicked in a session. This is to allow you to add parameters. Items, cliked from any other menu, are auto- matically terminated with a CR. Remote ====== The Remote menu contains the following commands: Enable Opens the device defined in Default Strings for remote control by a con- nected station. Use hotkey: R-Amiga + 'X'. When opened a short help menu is sent. - 31 - Send DIR Sysops (your) way to send a DIR of the Remote device. Same command as the user may issue by the '^' com- mand. Sysop hotkey: R-Amiga + 'Z'. SendLIST Sysops (your) way to send a LIST of the Remote device. Same command as the user may issue by the '|' com- mand. Sysop hotkey: R-Amiga + '0'. SendINFO Repeats the short remote help menu, that automatically is sent when the Remote function is enabled. enable Dxx You may change the remote device at any time by choosing one of these items. DI0: and DI1: are MSDOS devi- ces that may be used if you are so lucky to have CROSSDOS. Sub-SubDir/ If you want to restrict remote users access to your disk, you may may de- fine a special subdirectory. You may e.g. type: df1:User/files/ in the requester. The directory must exist, and dvicenames MUST end with ':' and directory names with '/'. AutoAnswer Enabeling this item will cause the AutoAnswerText of the A.x directory to be sent any time a connect is de- tected, regardless of who initiated the connection. At the same time a capture file: AmiPac.AutoAnswer.nn" (nn is a number from 1 to 99), is opened on the device: AmiPac_DATA. Either format a disk and rename it: AmiPac_DATA, or use the StartUp- Sequence to Assign another device or directory to that name. - 32 - AutoAnswer always cancels the password of the Remote function if this was enabled first, so if you wish to use Remote after AutoAnswer has been closed, you'll have to re- enable the password by clicking PasswBBS of the Misc menu. Cursiv-Bann BANNER! and CURSIVE Selecting one of these items, will open a string-requester, in which you may type a line that you want to empathize in a direct keyboard QSO. Just for fun! BBBBB AAAA NN NN NN NN EEEEEE RRRRR !! BB BB AA AA NNN NN NNN NN EE RR RR !! BB BB AA AA NNNN NN NNNN NN EE RR RR !! BBBBB AAAAAA NN NNNN NN NNNN EEEE RRRRR !! BB BB AA AA NN NNN NN NNN EE RR RR !! BB BB AA AA NN NN NN NN EE RR RR BBBBB AA AA NN NN NN NN EEEEEE RR RR !! __ _ _ _ __ () __ _ __ / ) ' ) / ' ) ) /\ ( ) ' ) / / ` / / / /--' / ) / ( / /-- (__/ (__/ / \ /__/_ \_/ \/ (___, AMIGA-->IBM Every line in an AMIGA text file ends with a LF character, and every IBM-->AMIGA line in a IBM text file ends with a LF + a CR charcter. This has the ef- fect that IBM files, read on an AMI- GA screen, have 1 blank line inser- tet between every line of text. On the other hand, AMIGA text files, displayed on a IBM compatible machi- ne will be unreadabel, as the lines tend to run 'over the edge' of the screen. Use these items to correct the format of the line ends if you wish to exchange text file with a PC user or BBS! - 33 - Using AmiPac Remote =================== This is the latest option of AmiPac. Before using this mode, read Parms and DefultStrings in A.x. You will probably have to edit both files before you start. In Parms you should define your TNC, to get the correct initialisation when booting up. Choose from Kantronic, TNC2 or AEA TNC's. You may also decide if remote users are to be able to remote control your Amiga by issuing the password. In DefaultStrings you are able to define the above men- tioned password. Default is is 'AmiPacBBS->'. Remember that this password is CASESENSITIVE. So don't confuse upper- or lower case letters. The Remote device may also be changed in DefaultStrings. You can enable Remote to be opened by password, either by the setup of Parms or by PasswBBS in the Misc menu. It is then up to you to inform your friends what the password is. Personally or by CTEXT. A connected user who issues the password will get this small menu: AmiPac Remote: -> ^,|,~,?,Ln,Jn,On,Zn,An,{n,}n,\n,[H]elp > Type Help to get this menu: AmiPac Remote Cmd: -> '^' = DIR, '|' = LIST, '~' = Info&Avail Remote > AmiPac Remote Cmd: -> Lfilename = Verbose LISTING of .LZH/LHA Archive > AmiPac Remote Cmd: -> Jfilename = Verbose LISTING of a .ARJ Archive > AmiPac Remote Cmd: -> Ofilename = Verbose LISTING of a .ZOO Archive > AmiPac Remote Cmd: -> Zfilename = Verbose LISTING of a .ZIP Archive > AmiPac Remote Cmd: -> Afilename = Verbose LISTING of a .ARC Archive > AmiPac Remote Cmd: -> {filename = YAPP DOWNLOAD, }filename = YAPP UPLOAD > AmiPac Remote Cmd: -> \filename = DOWNLOAD WITH AmiPac's YAPP RESUME > ---- -------- ---- ------ AmiPac Remote Cmd: -> '?' = VERSION of REMOTE AmiPac > AmiPac Remote Cmd: -> 'H' = VERBOSE HELP (this Help) > AmiPac Remote Dev./Dir: -> RAM: The device from which these commands will read may be changed in the Remote menu. The first line of the above help menu uses the correspon- ding normal DIR, LIST, INFO and AVAIL AmigaDOS commands from C:, and they work excatly as if they were typed from CLI. The Verbose LISTING options doesn't work quite yet - sorry! - 34 - The next 2 lines informs how to YAPP down a file. To download a file called 'Testfile' the remote user must type: {Testfile and to upload 'CheckFile' the user should type: }CheckFile NOTE: AmiPac does NOT accept upload of a file with a name that already exists on the disk. So if an upload fails, another upload will not be possible unless sysop erases the incomplete file, or a new upload is atempted under a different name. Download however FROM the AmiPacBBS may resumed after a link fail, as the third line in the help menu implies. So if: {Testfile failed, so only part of the file were transfered, the rest may appended if remote user types: \testfile Yapp resume may also be initiated by sysop from the File menu. See paragraph above about this. If you want to transfer files with YAPP between 2 Amigas using AmiPac v. > 4.25, one of you, and ONLY ONE of you may enable Re- Remote. Only the station with Remote ON, can initiate the trans- mission. When transferring with YAPP to/from a WA7MBL, G1NNA or other YAPP supporting BBS's, you should disable AmiPac's Remote function. Be aware that the TNC is ALWAYS in TRANSPARANT during YAPP transfer. Should the TNC slip into CONVERSE, press '6' of the numeric pad, followed by a 't' and a RETURN, to get back to TRANSPARANT. - 35 - Special keys ============ Function keys The function keys of the AMIGA are linked to the files AmiPac.F1......AmiPac.F10. These files are assigned to device Amipac: in the A.x directory. Read ASSIGN'ing AMIPAC about how to assign. Edit these files to hold your own personal on-line text. When using AMIPAC, a strike of a function key, will send whatever you wrote in the corresponding file, to the TNC. This could be your station ID, a log-off message or other messages relevant to your callers. It's up to you. L-AMIGA 'M' These 2 hot keys will probably be the ones you L-AMIGA 'N' will use the most! They are indispensible if you are running a background task, (an editor for example), L-AMIGA 'N' sends the AMIPAC window in the background. L-AMIGA 'M' takes it to the foreground again. TAB Toggles between MD2 and old F6FBB pasword secu- rity system. DEL This key will stop the scroll. This is very use- full when you have issued a "l" command to a BBS. It will give you a chance to write down the numbers og the mes- sages you would like to capture. When the scroll is stopped, the clock-bar (if open) will display: - - - PAUSED SCROLL - - -, as a reminder. No incoming data is lost, but will be displayed as soon as the DEL-key is hit again! HELP Short scrolling HELP text. Numeric Pad =========== The numeric pad contains some preprogrammed commands: '-' = M N Turn off MONITOR mode. '+' = M Y Turn on MONITOR mode. '1','2','3' Opens password string-gadgets for FBB remote- sysops. See FBB remote-sysop below. '4' Sends an "always different" numeric string, derived from the current time and date. Used for unique marking for messages. - 36 - '6' SEND BREAK to TNC. Short cut to get the TNC in command mode. ENTER >>> and RETURN Cursor Keys =========== UP and DOWN Allowes you to scroll between the 90 last issued commands typed from keyboard. Just like the WorkBench or SHELL. FUNNY MODE ========== R-ALT (only available in RTTY-mode), lets you enter a "keyword" for cryptograms. Up to 10 characters long. The default keyword is taken from the first line of the "DefaultStrings" scriptfile. Change it here if you like! (Only CHR$ 32 - 255 are valid).Anything you transmit will be scrambled by this keyword. Only people who knows this keyword, can read your messages. You cannot end a file by typing CTRL-Z in this mode. This character will be scrambled, just like any other. You'll have to return to NORMAL mode, by pressing R-ALT again, before the CTRL-Z can be send. Don't type while awaiting reply! This mode is cursor-position-sensitive, and only decodes recie- ved data correctly when the cursor is in the left-most column. This feature only works in TRANSPARANT MODE and only with plain ASCII text (CHR$ 32 - 126), or you might get decoding errors. ! This is not real HAM spirit, and ! ! even prohibited in most countries. Only ! ! implemented for fun. Use only on closed ! ! circuit. This gimmick should not be ! ! used on packet radio! ! - 37 - FBB remote-sysop. ================= If you want to be remote-sysop of a BBS running FBB software, you must first ask the sysop for a password. This may be up to 255 characters long. You may store up to 3 different passwords in the A.x/ files: FBBpassw_1 FBBpassw_2 FBBpassw_3 These filese may NOT contain ANY Line Feed characters.They may not even be terminated by one. If they do,the MD2 security system will NOT function correctly. The latest security system in F6FBB BBS is called MD2. If you log in as Sysop (SYStem OPerator) you will be prompted with a 10 digit number, e.g: 1736295976 Should you have issued the SYS command, to an F6FBB BBS of an older version, the BBS will send five numbers, e.g.: 3 24 76 122 136 Use the Send FBB PASSW-> item from the Options menu or press numeric pad '1', '2' or '3' for the apropriate password and enter the numbers, separated with spaces, in the string gadget. If you are not sure which system AmiPac is currently using, (de- fined in DefaultStrings ) you may toggle between the two system by pressing the TAB key. At the same time you'll be informed which password mode you are now in. - 38 - The following is cut from F6BBS v 5.14 manual: ***************************************************************************** SYS : Enables remote Sysop mode. A callsign validated as SYSOP is permitted to access any message in any circumstance, but he cannot delete or modify data which do not belong to him. The SYS command will grant him these privileges, together with the ability to enter the root of the DOS directory tree in FBBDOS. The SYS command will return a string of 5 numbers corresponding to the position of a letter in a sentence located in the PASSWD.SYS file. If you send back the 5 letters (without any space) matching the 5 numbers, an OK will be sent out to confirm that the SYSOP mode is granted. 14.4 PASSWD.SYS (SYSTEM). ------------------------- This file is in SYSTEM directory. The first line in this file is the generic password. That is, this password will be used for all sysops that do NOT have a special password of his own. Be adviced to change this to your own, secret password ! The next line is a special password for one special sysop. In this case LA6CU. The two first numbers correspond to the same "security-numbers" in INIT.SRV (check this). So in this case of LA6CU, I will have the security- number 69 before a successful SYS-command, and 1023 after. In the next line the numbers for LA6IM is 123 and 1023. jkshdfkjasdfuweiuryiusdfashdfabsmfzmxncvbiouweqyriuyweruyasjhf LA6CU 69 1023 jkasdhfiuweyiruyasidkasfuiweriuoasdfkjlahsdfjlha LA6IM 123 1023 uiwyejhaskjdfhasdfiuyaiuowyeruakjsdfhkjahfdlkja Each line in PASSWD.SYS can have a maximum of 255 characters. For the first tests with the BBS-program, you will only need the first line. Write whatever you like in it, and have a copy of it an paper. And let nobody else see that paper (hi). ***************************************************************************** - 39 - DELAYED ======= If your BBS is impossible to acces, either becauce it is always busy, or because of too much trafic on the frequency,you may try to connect late et night. You sleep at night? No problem! Click the DELAYED-icon instead of clicking one of the AmiPac-icons! Pick a gadget and go to bed,leaving Amiga to do the rest! At the selected time, AmiPac is started by amipac.parmsdelayed in the A.x-drawer. This file default reads 2 lines from SeqConnCommand Savepath and capture file is RAM:AmiPac.autoCapt. Edit if desired in DefaultStrings. Closing down. ============= There are a few things you should be aware of, when you close down after using AMIPAC. Make sure, that CAPTURE is closed, be- fore you turn off the AMIGA. Otherwise you can't be sure that what you've just captured will be on the disk. Also if you in- tend to leave the TNC and the radio on for MAILDROP (PK-88), you should either: Close AMIPAC by QUIT in the Misc menu; Type R-Amiga + 'Q' ; Use the closegadget in the top left corner, which is active when the menubar is closed, even if it's not visible; Hit the '-' on the numeric pad; before turning off the computer. The reason for this is, that either of these operations will send the command "M N" to the TNC. If you don't do this, the TNC will fill it's buffer with all passing by traffic. When the AMIGA is turned on again, the TNC will empty the buffer into the AMIGA, and you'll have to wait for all this to scroll by, before you'll be able to use AMIPAC. - 40 - AMIPAC Disclaimer. ================== AMIPAC is shareware. If you find this program usefull, please send $30 to: Silvano Funghi via Cola di Rienzo, 3 00047 Marino Laziale (Roma) Italy You may adjust that figure if you feel that it is too high or low. Even if you think that AMIPAC stinks, I would appreciate a nasty (but constructive) letter telling me how I can improve it. Please promote the shareware system by making a contribution to the authors of the shareware products you commonly use.There are many advantages to the shareware system: -- You can receive quality programs at a decent price. Had this been a commercial program, you could expect to pay at least $49.95. -- You can thoroughly examine a shareware program before reimbur- sing the author. Once you've purchased a commercial program, how- ever, you're stuck with it. -- You promote the creation of a number of exciting and diverse programs that would otherwise not reach the public if commercial marketing was the only alternative. Along with your $30, please send your name, address, and the version number of AMIPAC that you are currently using. This is shown if you click in the "Poster" that appear when you open the Version # in the menu bar. AMIPAC is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. By using AMIPAC, you agree to ac- cept the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program. Any liability of Silvano Funghi will be limited exclu- sively to product replacement. - 41 - AMIPAC is freely distributable as long as all of the following conditions are met: 1) All of the files must be included in their original form without additions, deletions, or modifications of any kind. Any such modifications must appear in separate files. 2) All copyright notices must remain intact. 3) AMIPAC may not be sold commercially alone or as a compo- nent in another product. 4) AMIPAC may not appear on shareware or public domain disks for which the consumers are charged more than a nominal disk copying fee of six dollars (US $6) per disk. 5) AMIPAC may not appear on any electronic service which charges more than the basic access fee to download AMIPAC. 6) AMIPAC may not appear on any electronic service that claims copyright to uploaded programs, either alone or as part of a collection. If you would like a variance to any of the above conditions, please contact me for written permission. If there's something else you'd like to see, please let me know! U T I L I T I E S ================= MicroAmipac In BRH's there now are 2 very small versions of AmiPac, MicroAmiPac is only 3140 bytes long and is intended for supervising packet activity in the background, while running other programs. Works with the same settings as AmiPac. 9600-n-1 fixed TNC setup. MicroAmipac4_2, 7328 bytes long, also has an ASCII cap- ture that is appended to RAM:AmiPac.capt. Capture is toggled with the DEL key. - 42 - A M I P A C M A N U A L I N D E X Connecting your TNC. 2 Installing Country. 2 Edit_A.x 2 CLOCK 3 ComManDs 3 ComMa+CR 3 CONnections 3 DefaultStrings 3 Exit 4 SeqConCommand 4 SendPrivate@... 4 Start 4 Printer(ANSI) 4 Keymap(REBOOT) 5 AmiPac_UK 5 Parms 5 ReHELLO 9 AutoAns 9 F-keys 10 Filerequesters: 10 Using pull-down menues. 11 File 11 Capt. ASCII 12 Send ASCII 12 Capt. BIN UU 12 Send BIN UU 12 Capt. YAPP ⌐ 12 Send YAPP ⌐ 12 CREATE a 7bt 12 DECODE a 7bt 13 Capt. YAPP⌐ 13 Send YAPPr⌐ 13 FBB YAPP RES 14 Transfer Status Window 15 The Transfer Meter 15 - 43 - -Other IMPORTANT points about YAPP TRANSFER: 16 Log Files 17 Splitting and combining 18 Baud Rate 19 PRIORITY 19 NO SYSTEMREQ 19 Misc 20 NewSplit 20 CW-RTTY 20 NO TITLE 20 BYE BYE 20 AlertStr 21 PasswBBS 22 GoTo CMD 22 ChgSPLIT 22 SendCLIP 23 Set_FONT 23 SOFTSTYLE--> 23 AutoConn 24 STATUS/S 24 View a ... 24 DEFAULTS 24 NO BELL 24 FormFile 25 ViewFile 25 xx.ZIP->FILE 25 xx.ARJ->FILE 25 FREQUENCY MT 25 Options 26 OFF Clock 26 DAYTIME->TNC 26 SENDcalendar 26 PRINTER !ON! 26 Colors-PALET 26 DELETE-Kill 26 MEMORY-avail 26 Save ->PALLETTE<- 26 SPLIT ASCII 27 SPLIT BINARY 27 COMBINE ASC 27 CRC32 ->FILE 27 FILE ->x.LHA 28 - 44 - .LZH-.lha>FILE 28 StatLogFormat 28 METEOSCATTER 28 Video->SPEAK 29 PRINT BKGD FILE 29 7plus « -> XTRACT 29 7plus « -> DECODE 29 ENCODE -> 7plus « 30 Version # 30 Connects, ComManDs, ComMa+CR, SP @BBS. 30 Remote 30 Enable 30 Send Dir 31 SendList 31 Send Info 31 Enab. Dxx 31 Sub-SubDir/ 31 Auto-Answer 31 Cursiv-Bann 32 AMIGA-->IBM 32 IBM-->AMIGA 32 Using AmiPac Remote 33 Special keys 35 Function keys 35 L-Amiga 'M' 35 DEL 35 HELP 35 Numeric Pad 35 Cursor Keys 36 FUNNY MODE 36 FBB remote-sysop 37 DELAYED 39 Closing down. 39 AMIPAC Disclaimer 40 Utilities 41 - 45 - Send comments about this manual to: OZ4ACF @ OZ6BBS.DNK.EU Peter Havlykke Espegσrdsvej 22B 2880 Bagsvµrd DENMARK tel: (+45) 44 98 37 22 // \X/ AMIPAC WILL LIVE!!!! If there are mistakes in spelling, User dear said he. Remember that my keyboard's bad, don't lay the blame on me! Peter Havlykke (OZ4ACF)