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SZSUP - Szmodem supplemental utilities package
By Scott M. Baker
NOTE: This is PART 2 of the szmodem distribution package. To use szmodem
you will need PART 1 as well. The filename for part 1 of the package is
name SZMODxxx.ZIP where xxx is the version number. Example: SZMOD160.ZIP.
What is in the SZSUP package?
SZMOD286.EXE - This is the 286 version of SZModem. What is the 286
version? Well, I told Turbo Pascal to turn on 286
instructions and this is what it spit out. The 286
version is about 3.5k smaller than the normal version
and should run a bit faster.
SZTELIX.ZIP - Contains a sample setup for the Telix communications
program.
SZMODEM.TRV - This has SZModem's trivia bank for the internal
trivia game.
ROCK&POP.TRV - This file includes an alternate set of trivia questions
provided by Michael Crosson of the Carrier Detect
Journal. Rename it to SZMODEM.TRV if you wish to use
it.
APPLYCFG.EXE - This is a small utility which allows you to automatically
apply a SZCFG.DAT file to an SZMODEM.EXE file without
using szconfig.exe.
LOGANA.EXE - Log Analizer for SZMODEM.LOG. Pretty wimpy capabilities
at this stage, but it does provide some useful
information.
APPLYCFG
--------
For those of you who have a reason to use APPLYCFG, it can be
a nice convenience. For those of you who don't need it, ignore it.
APPLYCFG is a utility that will apply a saved SZCFG.DAT to a
SZMODEM.EXE file automatically. It can be run from a batch file without
problem. Why would you want to do this? Here are a few reasons:
1) My reason. I am constantly re-compiling szmodem with changes
and it got to be a real pain to have to re-enter all of
my configuration data. So what I did was save the data to
a SZCFG.DAT file once I had it set just right. Then whenever
I re-compile, I run a batch file to apply the SZCFG.DAT to the
newly compiled SZMODEM.EXE.
2) Page Hours. You could set up two SZCFG.DAT files. Lets call
them SZCFG1.DAT and SZCFG2.DAT. In SZCFG1.DAT, you enable
paging while in SZCFG2.DAT, you disable it. Then, by setting
up an "event" with your bbs or front-end, you can automatically
apply SZCFG1 when you want to be pageable and SZCFG2 when
you don't.
3) Different protocol options. Suppose you want to have two
entries for szmodem on your bbs with different options. Similar
to #2 above, you could create two configuration files and
then apply them when needed to change your options. It beats
having to specify all of the settings on the command line.
If you want to make multiple SZCFG files, you'll have to rename
them when you run SZCONFIG.EXE because SZCONFIG.EXE will only read or
write the file SZCFG.DAT. (i.e. you'd have to rename SZCFG1.DAT to
SZCFG.DAT and then back again after you were done).
APPLYCFG can accept up to two parameters:
First Parameter: The name of the SZCFG file to apply
Second Parameter: The name of the SZMODEM.EXE file to apply
For example,
APPLYCFG SZCFG1.DAT d:\protocols\szmodem.exe
APPLYCFG is basically a utility I wrote for myself (reason #1
above), but if you need it, it can be pretty useful.
SZTelix - A telix configuration
-------------------------------
This file includes a sample configuration for use with the Telix
terminal program. The .ZIP includes two batch files and a .DOC file
describing how to set up szmodem under telix. Please read that .DOC
file for more information.
SZMOD286 - The 286 version
--------------------------
As stated up above, the 286 version is not much different from the
normal version. It is a little smaller and probably a little faster.
Currently, the async routines are the same for both versions. But, once
I learn a little more about 286 code, I may modify them to give them a
bit of an efficiency gain.
NOTE: To modify SZMOD286.EXE with SZCONFIG, you'll have to
rename it to SZMODEM.EXE since szconfig will only work on that file
name.
SZMODEM.TRV - trivia file
-------------------------
This file is described in detail in SZMODEM.DOC (supplied with the
first archive) so I won't go into it much here.
LOGANA.EXE - Log analizer
-------------------------
This is the first version of the log analizer and therefore it is
a bit lacking in features, but it does provide some information. The log
analizer will read SZMODEM.LOG by default, but it can be forced to read
in a different filename by using the first parameters (i.e. LOGANA
\protocols\szmodem.log).