MSYS Version 1.16 December, 1993 (c) Copyright 1993 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. Support of PACTOR on KAM Plus tncs (ONLY!) has been added. 2. "Attended" Pactor 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 Pactor mode. 4. A new TERM command has been added to permit direct keyboard access to a port. It is expected this will be used to perhaps modify certain TNC or modem parameters. 5. Modem connection to FBB systems for forwarding has been improved. 6. The ability to read messages while listing them has been added. 7. The SR (Send Reply) command has been added in addition to the REPLy command. 8. The BITs of personal messages are updated upon forwarding so if the message is not killed on forwarding, the sysop may determine which bbs the message was forwarded to. 9. The memory leak caused by an incomplete modem forwarding session has been fixed. 10.MUTIL 15 has been updated to properly search R: lines. 11.If a message disappears during forwarding (sysop kill), the connection will be terminated. 12.User passwords have been fixed. 13.A number of changes have been made in the Listing and Reading and SYSOP killing of messages. 14.A SHUTdown command added to "encourage" current users to disconnect prior to a QUIT. 15.A ListCatagories (LC) command has been added to the BBS. 16.A RBid command has been added to insert the received BID/MID number in the R: line. 17.W0RLI compatable message forwarding compression has been added. COMMENTS ABOUT CHANGES One of the major changes in Ver. 1.16 is the addition of PACTOR. MSYS properly interfaces a KAM Plus that has the proper firmware installed. At this point, the firmware provided by MFJ and AEA does not permit positive control of direction of transmission, a most undesireable conditon to inflict on the HF bands. The second major change is the addition of the W0RLI compressed message forwarding protocol. MSYS is currently the only BBS system that is compatable with both the F6FBB and the W0RLI compression protocols. There are three disks in this version. See list of files on each disk below. Disk 1 - MSYS116.EXE self-extracting archive name - Required executable programs and data files Disk 2 - MOPT116.EXE self-extracting archive name - Documentation files and my latest BBSLIST.DAT file Disk 3 - MSYSB116.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.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 new 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 MSYS116 DISK1 (MSYS116.EXE archive) A HLP 125 12-05-93 4:49p B HLP 74 12-05-93 4:49p C HLP 321 12-05-93 4:49p 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 12-05-93 4:49p G HLP 553 12-05-93 4:49p H HLP 155 12-05-93 4:49p HAPNMSYS COM 24,335 03-06-91 6:48p HELP HLP 468 12-05-93 4:49p I HLP 126 12-05-93 4:49p INFO HLP 641 12-05-93 4:58p J HLP 822 12-05-93 4:49p K HLP 621 12-05-93 4:49p L HLP 1,943 12-05-93 4:49p M HLP 475 12-05-93 4:49p MOVEFILE BAT 541 04-19-93 10:50a MSYS DO 1,532 12-05-93 5:35p MSYS EXE 180,919 12-06-93 1:37p MSYS HCL 733 12-05-93 5:03p MSYS OPT 1,124 12-05-93 5:03p MSYS REP 639 12-05-93 5:03p MSYSBBSB DAT 156 12-05-93 5:04p MSYSFWD DEF 1,299 12-05-93 5:03p MSYSHCL DO 11 12-05-93 5:11p MSYSHOLD DAT 208 12-06-93 1:44p MSYSHOST NET 8,962 12-05-93 5:04p MSYSMSGS DAT 23,683 11-30-93 12:23a MSYSPASS MOD 64 03-31-91 11:45p MSYST DOC 5,780 12-05-93 10:20p MSYST EXE 18,794 10-18-93 2:55p MSYSTNC 1 87 05-28-88 7:40p MSYSTNC 2 43 04-29-89 12:25a MSYSTNC 5 128 12-05-93 5:04p MUTIL EXE 51,740 12-05-93 4:04p N HLP 725 12-05-93 4:49p NEWUSER HLP 415 12-05-93 4:49p P HLP 1,041 12-05-93 4:49p R HLP 1,481 12-05-93 4:49p README NOW 9,535 12-06-93 2:50p README SMP 428 11-30-89 10:07p REQDIR HLP 178 12-05-93 4:49p REQFIL HLP 602 12-23-90 8:47p ROUTES DAT 717 07-09-89 10:33p S HLP 1,213 12-05-93 4:49p SCAN440 COM 229 12-05-93 10:11p SCAN735 COM 314 11-27-93 12:02a SCAN757 COM 323 11-26-93 11:58p STAR HLP 226 12-05-93 4:49p STATES DAT 205 04-25-89 8:27p T HLP 318 12-05-93 4:49p U HLP 287 12-05-93 4:49p V HLP 51 12-05-93 4:49p W HLP 212 12-05-93 4:49p WORDLIST 1 459 12-05-93 5:18p X HLP 1,214 12-05-93 4:49p Y HLP 193 12-05-93 4:49p ZIPCODES DAT 1,156 04-25-89 11:48p Directory of MSYS116 DISK2 (MOPT116.EXE archive) BBSLIST DAT 329,565 12-06-93 2:03p 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 MSYS116 DOC 476,711 12-05-93 11:34p MSYSHAPN DOC 7,268 01-04-91 8:41p PAK EXE 12,614 03-02-87 10:27p README NOW 9,535 12-06-93 2:50p USERMAN DOC 59,963 12-04-93 3:24a Directory of MSYS116 DISK3 (MSYSB116.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 148,461 12-06-93 2:20p N7GXP COM 16,907 03-31-91 11:58p README NOW 9,535 12-06-93 2:50p 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