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Get a Handle on the Information Explosion Secure and Control Your Empire with Professional-YAM(TM) Integrated Communications Tools The High Reliability Software Pro-YAM helps collect, control, transmit, and secure information with a minimum of time, hassle, and expense. TurboDial(TM) Scripts and timed Outcall Queue provide reliable, unattended high speed communications during off-peak hours, minimizing CPU and phone charges. Pro-YAM is one of few communications programs that operate properly with network servers and in the background, using DESQview, Topview, Concurrent PC-DOS, or AT&T SimulTask. In addition, developers such as Time Inc's Editorial Technology Group use TurboDial(TM) scripts to write complete menu applications for novice users. 1. Collecting Information Pro-YAM exchanges files with the widest range of computer systems and networks, with documented, public error correcting file transfer protocols. Years of communications experience distilled in Pro-YAM deliver fast, reliable file transfers under difficult conditions. Unsolicited Customer testimonials chronicle accurate file transfers under conditions that confound popular communications programs, thanks to Omen Technology's Cybernetic Data Recovery(TM) compatible logic enhancements and thorough protocol stress testing. + ZMODEM Have you ever tripped over the phone cord when you were within the last 5k of a megabyte file transfer? With ZMODEM, you can resume the transfer from where you were cut off, without wasted time or phone charges! ZMODEM transfers files and commands with a simplified, convenient user interface. Unlike older protocols, only one command or menu choice is needed to transfer files or download commands. ZMODEM provides maximum throughput with full integrity even with timesharing systems, high speed buffered modems, and packet switched networks. ZMODEM throughput set a new record with 14 kilobit/second TrailBlazer modems tested at Telebit Corp. Other advanced features include file translation, selective transfer of updated files, remote file maintenance, and security authentication. ZMODEM supports modern operating systems by preserving exact file contents and modification date, even across multiple time zones. + YMODEM fast batch file transfers preserve the exact file length and creation date. Exclusive Cybernetic Data Recovery(TM) transfers files under conditions that crash other programs. Optional 1024 byte packet length optimizes throughput with timesharing systems and networks. Unix and VMS Source code is included. + XMODEM Pro-YAM supports the ubiquitous Ward Christensen "XMODEM" protocol with Cybernetic Data Recovery(TM) . + XMODEM CRC-16 Few commercial programs support 16 bit CRC, the standard of XMODEM file transfer technology since 1981. CRC-16 guarantees detection of all single and double bit errors, all errors with an odd number of error bits, all burst errors of length 16 or less, 99.9969% of all 17-bit error bursts, and 99.9984 per cent of all possible longer error bursts. Cybernetic Data Recovery(TM) catches and corrects errors that confound other programs. OverThruster(TM) speeds XMODEM downloads from certain timesharing systems. + WXMODEM (Windowed XMODEM) speeds People-Link(TM) timesharing service downloads. + YMODEM-G provides several times the throughput with advanced high speed modems than older protocols such as Crosstalk. + Kermit transfers ASCII and binary files with IBM, CDC, Cray, DEC, ICL, Harris, Honeywell, Pr1me, Tandem, Univac and other mainframes. Kermit is widely supported on micros including Apple ][, Atari, Commodore, and Macintosh. Kermit is necessary to accurately transfer files with many of these systems which do not support XMODEM protocol. + Kermit Sliding Window extension transmits up to 31 unacknowledged packets for faster file transfers with timesharing systems, satellite and packet networks. SuperKermit is the only high throughput download protocol compatible with The Source(TM). + Advanced Kermit Server Access functions provide standardized, error free networking. + X.PC version supports low level flow control, error correction, multiple virtual calls and concurrent data capture. + B Protocol speeds ASCII and binary transfers with the Compuserve Information Service, reducing file transfer costs up to 60 per cent. + OverThruster Speeds XMODEM downloads by cheating. Pro-YAM's protocols are more cost effective than the crude XMODEM protocol support available with other programs, and are more useful than undocumented proprietary protocols. Source code is available for the public domain protocols. Binary and text data can also be captured. Pro-YAM does not limit the length of captured files. Pro-YAM captures text with many choices of parity bit and control character editing. Exclusive Error Containment(TM) minimizes errors caused by line hits. You can scroll and string search YAM's large Full-Time Capture Buffer(TM) to cut and paste captured information. 2. TurboDial(TM) Scripts YAM's TurboDial(TM) script language is the most comprehensive available. The unique ability to act on as many as twenty two possible events at one time permits unattended operation with real world information services. Real Time pattern matches can trigger an immediate response or set flags that can be tested singly or in combination. High level language features include if, while, and on condition. Detailed debugging output and error traceback speed script checkout. Tests for time, carrier detect, parity errors and unprocessed keyboard and modem input give the programmer control of YAM's high speed communications functions. Strings input from the keyboard, disk files, and the modem can be scanned, matched, parsed, and combined. The results can control script execution or be sent to any combination of the local screen, disk file, or modem. File related script commands check disk free space, file existence and length, and apply script subroutines to wild card filenames. User customizable dialing scripts exploit intelligent modems for alternate access numbers, baudrate fallback, and noisy line detection. Pro-YAM's plain text Telephone Directory stores an arbitrary mixture of system names, port numbers, speeds, automatic logins, and message retrieval scripts, saving up to 400kb disk space per 100 entries. YAM's Outcall Queue allows scripts to access information at scheduled intervals. 3. Controlling Information Pro-YAM's Full-Time Capture Buffer(TM) lets you flip back and forth or search, scanning two hundred messages from bulletin boards in a couple of minutes. (It has to be seen to be believed.) To compose a reply, call your favorite editor (the one you've already learned!) as a subroutine without losing your place. Pro-YAM's high speed screen driver makes life easy and pleasant: + Easy on the eyes: YAM fully exploits No Flicker display boards. + Less waiting: up to 450 per cent faster than DOS + VT102, VT100, ANSI, Z19, VT52 and ADM3a terminal emulations support on- line applications, including Unix and VMS full screen editors. + VT100 character graphics and keyboard mapping support "visual" programs. Unlike most "VT100" emulators, Pro-YAM correctly displays EDT, SmartForm, and the "DEC Store" demonstration, even at 9600 baud. Competing programs such as Microsoft Access(TM) fail at a small fraction of that speed. + ANSI KAM and SRM modes allow applications to control keyboard action and character echo. + Many extensions, including extended color control codes + Hardcopy Terminal Emulation previews printer output by converting overprint sequences to bold or underlined characters. + Visual (silent) bell for late night hacking preserves domestic tranquillity + Many parameters are settable, including number of lines and columns, default colors, autowrap, keyboard control enable. Full pathnames, directories, and wildcards support file transfers and utility commands. Output may be redirected to printers or appended to files. Disk files may be listed, paged, copied, renamed, searched, edited, squeezed, encrypted, unsqueezed, and deleted. Accuracy and identity of files transmitted by any means are verified by word count and two types of checksum/CRC's. Matching C Source code is available for many of these functions. 4. Transmitting Information + A rich palette of editing and timing modes permit file and message upload, even to fussy microcomputer Bulletin Boards. + Split screen option allows editing input lines before transmission. + Remote access for file transfers and DOS program execution with baudrate detection and three passworded security levels. + Outcall Queue intersperses scheduled outgoing calls with incoming messages on one modem line. 5. Security Aids + Password Guardian(TM) encrypts passwords and other sensitive information. + Automatically generated unique passwords available for each system called + To protect accounts from access with stolen directory files, master passwords can be stored separately or keyboarded by the user. + Encryption programs protect data files with One-Time keys + Call-Back capability limits remote access to authorized sites + Password and Call-Back protected dial-in remote access front ends local computers with baud rate detection and speed conversion + The Pro-YAM screen driver is resistant to Trojan Horse escape sequences + CryptoScript encrypted scripts- limit dissemination of sensitive access sequences and unauthorized script modifications. 6. Other Features + Pro-YAM uses moderately sized executable files without overlays. Conservative design avoids the frustrating lockups and corrupted disk directories associated with other programs. + "Flash-Up" Tree Structured Help Processor with 140k random access help file + 185 page cross referenced manual with tutorials on installation, file transfer protocol selection, TurboDial(TM) script writing, and Crosstalk(TM) script conversion. + Product support via phone, modem, UUCP, GEnie(TM), and Compuserve Information Service(TM) + Demand Upgrade(TM) gives quick access to updated versions with a simple modem call. Bug fix response time is a few days, not the months or years typical of other vendors. + No Obsolescence: Single Machine license covers all flavors of Pro-YAM, including DG/One and Xenix. + Site and Corporate licenses are available + Interrupt driven COM1-COM8 plus non standard ports, speed to 38kb on PC, XT + Supports Full Duplex and several distinct flavors of "Half Duplex" systems. + Pro-YAM Diagnostic Tools replace Data Line Monitors in 95% of applications. TurboDial scripts generate test stimuli and record results. Especially useful with the DG/One + Downloadable commands may be enabled to allow control by remote computer applications + Real-time status line shows Error Containment, Shift Lock, Num Lock, Column/Row, TOD, elapsed time, comm parameters, carrier detect, clear to send, open files, etc. + 55 Soft keys User defined Break, BS, ESC, Enter, and Function keys can send strings or execute commands, miniscripts, or script files. For example, the backspace key may be programmed to send an arbitrary character to the modem, then locally display a backspace, space, backspace sequence to erase the correct character on the screen. + Logs callers, systems, transfers, and remote commands with time, filename, length, elapsed time, and speed + Written in C with machine language primitives for speed, maintainability, and expandability. + IBM PC, XT, AT, Data General/One, Kaypro 2000, AT&T 6300, Compaq, etc., DOS 2/3, Concurrent PC-DOS 4.1 + Concurrently operates in a window or background with TopView, DESQview, Concurrent PC-DOS, Windows, and AT&T SimulTask. No memory resident lockup gotchas. + Xenix versions allow other work during transfers. + No @#!* Copy Protection + Many more features too numerous to mention here. When people say Professional-YAM is powerful, they mean it. 7. Kudos "Xtalk is not nearly as flexible in its script language as YAM. I do lots of unattended file transfers at night from many different subdirectories on the local machine to various subdirectories on the remote machines. Lots of peculiar things have to happen, e.g., I rename incoming files if a file of the same name already exists, I append incoming data to pre- existing log and data files, and so on. I've never dreamed up anything I couldn't get Yam to do. With Xtalk, I always felt I had to work against the program. With YAM, you work *with* it." -David McCune, The Proteus Group "Can [other programs] handle regular downloading during your prolonged absence, say 3 weeks?" -Earle Robinson "Under circumstances when *any* other program I've used - with the same protocol - would have tossed in the towel, Pro-YAM hangs in there. ... It's not just the protocol that counts...it's the implementation as well. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When the chips are down, and communications become vital, I'll find myself at the command line of Pro- YAM. Every time. ...DaveH" With any other program, I'll nervously go back and check the comm window from time to time. Not with ProYAM. I'll set it to run in the background, enable automatic logoff on completion of transfer, and forget about it. And *know* that unless Ma Bell breaks the line completely, I'm going to end up with good downloads. There is simply no other communications program I've tried that's in a class with ProYAM. And I've tried most of 'em. ...DaveH -Dave Hoagland, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory "That little package gives you diagnostic tools that make a data line monitor necessary only in 5% of the problems you used to use one, and the script facility does nice things for testing." -Stephen Satchell, Infoworld Magazine Author "YAM is really no harder than XTALK, PCTALK or anything else if you stick to the basics ... but then you CAN add incredible power whenever you are ready." -Jim Butler "One thing I liked about the entire program was its documentation. At last I read something that didn't talk down to me and which wasn't over my head. It quickly explained the program to me and gave complete coverage to all its facets." -Mark Stern, OnModem Magazine I use YAM a lot as a "general utility". Specifically, it has the the best "find" I've seen - you can do wildcard filenames, and YAM will scan them all, giving the name and line number of a match. YAM, the commo package I use, supports ^W to be "word backspace" while typing. All these things are like oiling fine machinery, or putting a turbo 286 in your PC - they help PRODUCTIVITY. -Ward Christensen To get more information and a wee taste of Professional-YAM, call Telegodzilla at 503-621-3746 (2400, 1200 and 300 baud). Pro-YAM automatically recognizes your speed. A PC-DOS DEMO VERSION in YAMDEMO.ARC may be downloaded with XMODEM, YMODEM, or Kermit protocols. A companion file YAMHLP.ARC contains the flash-up help processor and help file. The demo version is a nearly complete version of Pro-YAM, that does not write capture files to disk. The demo version supports ZMODEM, XMODEM, WXMODEM, YMODEM, SuperKermit, Compuserve B, TurboDial, and may be freely copied and used. Pro-YAM is also published by the POLYTRON Corporation under the trade name PowerCom. Omen Technology Inc The High Reliability Software VOICE: 503-621-3406 MODEM: 621-3746 17505-V NW Sauvie Island Rd Portland Oregon 97231 Compuserve: 70007,2304 UUCP: ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf Cybernetic Data Recovery(TM), Error Containment(TM), OverThruster(TM), Password Guardian(TM), CryptoScript(TM), and TurboDial(TM) are Omen Technology trademarks.