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M2ZMODEM 2.12 ============= Introduction ============ M2ZMODEM is a stand alone ZModem file transfer protocol for OS/2. The primary intention is to supply other terminal programs or BBS's with the advanced Zmodem protocol, even if it is possible to use M2ZMODEM as a terminal program too, by invoking the terminal feature in this program. The terminal functions are quite limited, but includes scripting, ZModem AUTO up and download. The scripting ability makes it possible to auto dial, logon and much more. The source is written in Modula-2 and compiled with JPI TopSpeed Modula-2 OS/2-compiler. Installation ============ The program was developed in the IBM OS/2 Extended Edition 1.20 environment, but should work with any OS/2 version. It uses the COM0x.SYS driver delivered with the operating system. Install M2ZMODEM by: * Copy the files into any subdirectory on your harddisk (we use C:\M2ZMODEM here as an example). * If you want to alter the default messages to another language, you should copy the appropriate MSG-file, to M2ZMODEM.MSG. There are different MSG-files included for different languages. They are named "MSG.xxx" there xxx is replaced by a country code. To get swedish messages, you should type "COPY MSG.SV M2ZMODEM.MSG". The default language is english (if you miss "your" language, please contact me and we could work it out). * Add this directory in your PATH and DPATH, either in your CONFIG.SYS file or in a CMD-file (with the command "SET DPATH=%DPATH%C:\M2ZMODEM;"). * Add the line "DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM01.SYS" if you have an AT- compatible system, or "DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM02.SYS" if you have a PS/2 compatible system. * If you run OS/2 1.3 or earlier, and plan to use baudrates higher than 19200 baud, insert the line "IOPL=SETBAUD" or "IOPL=YES" in your CONFIG.SYS. This will only work for standard COM1 and COM2 ports. * If you plan to use the BBS protocol driver, with the SHELL option, you should consider putting "AUTOFAIL=YES" in your CONFIG.SYS (for OS/2 1.2 or later). See more about this below (BBS protocol driver). * Reboot your system. Now you should be ready to run M2ZMODEM. You start the program by typing "M2ZMODEM" at the command prompt. You may give several options on the command line, described below. The program uses the three environment variables "M2Z", "RZ" and "SZ" if they exists. The M2Z variable is always merged to the command line, when M2ZMODEM is started. If you select to send by M2ZMODEM the environment variable "SZ" is also merged to the command line, and if you select receive the variable "RZ" is merged. An example on how to use these environment variables is showed below: SET M2Z=-l COM1 -b 19200 -h SET RZ=C:\DOWNLOAD\ SET SZ=C:\UPLOAD\*.* You may now start a download by just typing "M2ZMODEM -r" on the command line, or start a upload by typing "M2ZMODEM -s". This program will only run in a OS/2 full screen or a Presentation Manager Text window, except for the optional Presentation Manager status window, which only runs with Presentation Manager. Note that the terminal feature performance is decreased when running in a Presentation Manager text window. ZModem file transfer is not affected by this, but the Presentation Manager status window processing does load the file transfer thread a little, which could affect performance when running high speed communications. If you get performance problems, showing by extensive resending while receiving files, even if the communication connection is perfect, you should try to NOT load the PM status window. You should also consider buying an enhanced 16550 UART. If you run OS/2 1.2 there is a potential problem for you. The first COM0x-drivers supplied with the operating system, has com- patibility problems which makes it impossible to use the driver in hardware handshaking mode (the "-h" option). If you have to use hardware handshaking, I recommend you to use the COM0x-driver supplied with OS/2 1.1. There are no conflicts using the OS/2 1.1 driver for OS/2 1.2. If you run OS/2 1.2 or later, the program will automaticly fully use the extended hardware buffering in the 16550 UART, if existing. One potential problem in using the hardware buffering capabilities is that the hardware handshaking has a slower response time, because the driver send up to 16 characters after a hardware handshaking signal. This should not be any big problem, because in the most cases you want to enable the hardware handshaking to communicate with modern high speed modems, with a higher DTE/DCE rate than the link speed. These modems have buffering capabilities, and they usually allow this behaviour. Performance =========== During development special care was taken to manage high speed file transfers in background operation. Performance tests have proved that there are no problems to perform file transfers with about 1700 cps throughput over a 19200 baud connection, from the COM1 device to the COM2 device in background operation (not using the extended hardware buffering). This means that the computer was busy with both receiving and sending during the tests. A 16 Mhz 386/SX computer was used for the performance tests. Disk I/O is internally buffered in blocks of 16 kB. The performance is reduced a lot if the operating system begins to swap memory to the harddisk during a file transfer. This situation is not recommended. Start options ============= When starting the program you may use the following options: -a fn Executes script file specified by "fn". Only valid if you invoke the terminal feature by the "-i" option. -b n Select baudrate specified by "n" (n=decimal value between 110 and 19200, as specified in the COM0x.SYS documentation). If not specified the system default will be used. -c The file transfer will be directly followed by another, do not send ZFIN to close ZModem connection. If not specified the ZFIN header will be sent. -d Suppress checking for carrier loss. If not specified the program will abort if carrier loss is detected. -e env Searchs for the environment variable "env" and merges this to the command line options. It is possible to merge several environment variables into the same command line. By using the OS-command SET, one may simplify the startup options for M2Z. -f n Scan for COMx file handles and select the n'th found for communication (n=decimal 0 < n < 65536). -h Enables hardware handshaking CTS/RTS. Software handshaking by Xon/Xoff is always enabled. -his Enables history logging. Only used in combination with the "-i" option. When enabled, it is possible to scroll backwards to see old lines. This is done by putting the keyboard in ScrollLock-mode, and press the Up-arrow key. This feature creates a file called M2ZMODEM.HIS, that may be inspected after the program is terminated. This option might slow down execution. Default is to disable this option. -i Invokes the on line terminal feature. -l dev Select device specified by "dev" for communication. -n No sound when file transfer complete. Normally a beep is performed before program ends. -o fn Place log information in file specified by "fn". Note that the file "fn" is incremented without any warning, if the file exists. -p n Specifies which translate table to use for the terminal session. The "n" parameter is equal to the COUNTRY parameter specified in the CONFIG.SYS file. If "n" is set to zero, no translation will occur. If this option is not specified the system country code will be used. This option is only acted on if you invoke the terminal feature. Currently only country 001, 046, 047 and 358 is implemented (US/Sweden/Norway/Finland). Other country codes use the USA character set. -pm Loads the Presentation Manager status reporting window. -prot x Specify another file transfer protocol. The default protocol to use is Zmodem, but by specifying this parameter you may select the one indicated by "x". Replace "x" by XMODEM, XMODEM1K, YMODEM, YMODEMB, YMODEMG, YMODEMGB for Xmodem, Xmodem/1K, Ymodem, Ymodem Batch, Ymodem-G or Ymodem- G Batch. By replacing "x" with "BBS" you load a user interface for the remote system (a BBS protocol driver). This is suitable when you want to use M2Z to handle up and downloads in your BBS. -prty x Specifies that the program should execute with priority x, where x is replaced by a decimal value. Current available choices are: 0=Normal priority, 1=Default priority, 2=Time Critical priority. Prty 0 will usually give the best result, if you want to work with other programs in the foreground (this is the lowest priority). Prty 2 will give the M2Zmodem program a very high priority, resulting in good performance in this program, while other programs get very little time to execute. Prty 1 is equal to prty 0 if the baud rate is below 9600 and equal to prty 2 if the baud rate is 9600 or higher. Prty 1 is the default action, but I recommend you to try prty 0 first, and see if you encounter any problems, and in that case you could switch back to prty 1. -q Suppress status messages and keyboard scanning. If not specified status messages will be displayed and keyboard be scanned for operator abort. -r dir Receive files into path specified by "dir". If you want to download into default directory, specify the "-r" option last on the command line, and omit the "dir" parameter. -ren If the file already exists when receiving, the received file will be renamed, with the prefix "1_", "2_" and so on. This is the default action. -res If the file already exists when receiving, it is assumed that the existing file is incomplete, and is incremented by the received file. If the existing file is greater than the received file, the received file is ignored. -s fn Send file(s) specified by "fn". You may use wildcards to specify batch transfers. -skip If the file already exists when receiving, the received file will be skipped. -t Suppress conversion of file names to upper cases. Normally all file names are converted to all lower cases during send, and converted back to all upper cases by the receiver. By specifying this parameter the file names are transfered exactly as they appear in the operating system. -u n Select file handle specified by "n" for communication (n=decimal value 0 <= n < 65536). The options may be placed in any order, but must be separated by spaces and prefixed with the minus sign. Invoking M2ZMODEM from another communication program ==================================================== If you want to execute the program from your own communication program, there are different techniques available for this, depending on how your communication program is written. The problem is how to specify which communication port to use, because some communication programs does not allow other programs to access the same port as the communication program. In any case, the communication program must have the possibility to execute a child process (DosExecPgm), or there is no way to invoke the Zmodem software, if you do not exit the communication program first, and executes Zmodem from the OS/2 command line. If your software has opened the communication device with the SHARE mode field set to DENY NONE, you just invoke Zmodem as you do from the command line, using the "-l" option, by specifying the device name to use. If your software has opened the communication device with the SHARE mode field set to anything else than DENY NONE and has set the INHERITANCE field set to TRUE, you could try to invoke Zmodem by specifying the device handle to use, using the "-u" option. This is only possible if the communication program used makes the device handle available to the user. If your software has opened the communication device with the SHARE mode field set to anything else than DENY NONE and has set the INHERITANCE field set to TRUE, but does not make the device handle available for the user, you could try to invoke Zmodem by using the "-f" option. In most cases you should select "-f 1" option, which makes the Zmodem software scan all available device handles, and locks to the first appropriate device handle for communications. If your communication program only supports one open communication device at the time, this should work fine. If on the other hand, your software supports multiple concurrent open communication devices, it could be hard to know which occurence to use. It is NOT always that way that COM1 is the first occurence and COM2 the second and so on. It is rather so that the first occurence corresponds to the port first opened. If you program first opens COM2 then COM3 and last COM1, these ports will correspond to "-f 1", "-f 2" and "-f 3" respectively. Any device that is compatible with COM0x.SYS may be used. The only restriction is that the device name can not begin with the percent sign ("%COM10" is illegal). When M2ZMODEM exits, the return code is set to: 0 If at least one file was sent/received. 1 If a command line parse error occured. 2 If send or receive failed. Zmodem specifikations ===================== The baudrate is not limited in the software, but the COM0x.SYS drivers currently only supports speeds from 110 up to 19200 bauds. The communication line is always set to 8 databits, no parity and 1 stopbit. The line characteristics is restored to its previous condition when exiting the program (except for the baud rate). Software handshaking with Xon/Xoff is always enabled, and hardware handshaking with CTS/RTS is optionally enabled. The DTR signal is always set and RTS is set, if not used for hardware handshaking. All these parameters are reset to their previous conditions when exiting. All filenames are sent exactly as they appear in the operating- system over the Zmodem protocol (upper and lower cases filenames will be sent). Operating systems not supporting both upper and lower case filenames always send filenames in lower case. When M2Zmodem receives files it will try to determine if the filename is a long filename (if it should permit both upper and lower case filenames). If the received filename contains ANY upper case letter, or if it does not conform to the 8+3 MS-DOS naming convention, it will use the filename exactly as received, otherwise the filename will be converted to all upper case. This means that if you transfer files between two M2Zmodem programs, the filename will be transmitted exactly as it appears in the operating system, except if the filename is ALL lower case, and conforms to the 8+3 format. By specifying the "-t" option, you can disable conversion alltogether, resulting in filenames with all lower case, if it isn't sent by a operating system supporting both upper and lower case filenames. The program will select 32 bit CRC error checking if receiver has indicated this capability. File compression and decryption is not yet implemented in M2ZMODEM. The program escapes control characters as specified in Omen technology documentation. 8th bit escaping and escaping of all control characters is not yet implemented. If a file already exists when receiving, the program may resume the file (increment it), rename the file or skip it. The default action is to rename the file, but this may be altered by the command line options. If the file is renamed this is done by giving the received file name a prefix of "1_", "2_" and so on. Note that if you run on a HPFS-drive it is possible that the new file name, will not conform to the 8+3 standard "old" file name format. And if you on the other hand don't run a HPFS-drive, the file name prefix is truncated to 8 characters. During a file transfer, it is possible to abort the ZModem session by pressing the Escape key (if you are lucky). OTHER FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOLS ============================= The M2ZMODEM program may use other file transfer protocols than the default (and best) Zmodem protocol. By specifying the "-prot" option you may select another. These currently are: XMODEM Xmodem. XMODEM1K Xmodem with optionally 1024 bytes block length. While receiving block length is detected automa- ticly, which means there is no difference between XMODEM and XMODEM1K for receive sessions. YMODEM Ymodem with optionally 1024 bytes block length. This is the same as Xmodem, but the file name, and some other parameters are sent to the receiver. YMODEMB Ymodem batch, is the same as YMODEM, but a batch file transfer protocol, making it possible to send several files in a session. YMODEMG Ymodem-G, is the same as YMODEM, but the protocol does not wait for ACK/NAK between the data blocks. This protocol should only be used with modems using error correction, because it can't recover any transmission errors. YMODEMGB The same as Ymodem-G, but a batch protocol. BBS By specifying this parameter, you put M2Z in server mode (BBS protocol driver). See more about this below. When not using batch protocols, only the FIRST found file, if you specify a wild card file specification, is sent. The Ymodem-G protocol is not recommended for receiving files in high speeds when not running the program in foreground, because this protocol does not support error recovery. There will be a risk of overruns, making the whole transfer abort. Generally the ZModem protocol is the best, and the therefore the effort has been con- centrated on evaluating a good implementation of this protocol. BBS PROTOCOL DRIVER =================== By specifying the option "-prot BBS" you put M2Z in server mode. M2Z will display a menu with available protocols on the remote system, and ask the user to select one of these. Then M2Z will ask for which files to up/download. If the user specified a batch file transfer protocol, it is possible to use wildcards and/or specify multiple files, separated by spaces. After this, the user will be asked to start his/her file transfer proce- dure. This interface is suitable if you want to install M2Z to handle up and downloads in your BBS. The parameters to the "-r" and "-s" options, should only contain valid path names in this case, and NOT filenames (it is not necessary to specify any pathname at all). A path name is terminated with a backslash. An example is showed below: M2ZMODEM -l COM1 -b 19200 -s C:\TXTFILES\ -prot BBS -h This command line will start M2Zmodem for the COM1 device, 19200 baud, and start the BBS protocol driver, and only pick files from the C:\TXTFILES\ directory. Hardware handshaking will be used. M2ZMODEM -l COM1 -b 19200 -r C:\UPLOAD\ -prot BBS This line will start the BBS protocol driver and put all uploaded files in the C:\UPLOAD\ directory. If no action is taken within the BBS protocol driver for about 1 minute, the program is terminated by itself, to prevent a user from hanging the BBS. To pass parameters to the BBS protocol driver, there is an environment string "M2ZBBS" you may set. The string may contain several parameters, separated by spaces, or by ";". Possible parameters are: BAUD.xxx Tells the protocol driver to user the baudrate "xxx" (decimal value) to estimate download time. This parameter does NOT affect the real line characterstics. If this parameter is not specified the protocol driver will read the real baudrate from the device used. If "0" is specified, the parameter is ignored, and the real baudrate will be used. MAX.xxx Sets the download limit. Replace "xxx" with a decimal value. The string "MAX.512000" would set the download limit to 512000 bytes. Default is no dwonload limit. NODIR This option disables listing of selected files, before a download. Only a summary of how many files, and bytes are displayed. Default is to display a directory. PATH.xxx Sets the protocol driver to use the path names in the "xxx" environment string, as download direc- tories. The "xxx"-environment should contain pathnames terminated by a backslash, separated by ";" or space. If specified when starting when a user does an upload, only the first path in "xxx" will be acted on. The environment string "xxx" is only acted on up to the 2048 first characters. SHELL.xx Sets the password to access the SHELL command, to "xx". "xx" may be any string, but only the first 15 characters are checked. The password should NOT contain the ";" character. If the password is set to "YES", no password check is done at all. If the password is set to "NO", the user will not be able to shell at all. Default is to not let the user shell at all. TERM.xxx There "xxx" is a terminal name. Available terminals are: ANSI Sends ANSI-BBS sequences. TTY Does not send any terminal sequences at all, but CR, BS and FF. 0 The same as "TTY" above. 1 The same as "ANSI" above. TIME.xxx There "xxx" is replaced by the amount of time left for the user in seconds. Default is no time limit. Be careful with the SHELL option. Only text applications may be run in the SHELL, and not even all of the text applications runs well in the SHELL. OS/2 commands run well in the SHELL, and some other programs too. If no input or output was made for the last five minutes, the SHELL will be automaticly closed, and you will be returned to the HOST menu. You always close the SHELL manually by pressing the ESC-key twice while in the SHELL. If a program hangs because it was not suitable to run in the SHELL, you should be able to kill this program by pressing the ESC-key. Note that a SHELL user have a lot of power in your system. He/she may delete any files, format disks, change your userlist. If you plan to use the BBS protocol driver, with the SHELL option, you should consider putting "AUTOFAIL=YES" in your CONFIG.SYS (for OS/2 1.2 or later). This will disable the error pop-ups and give a error message instead. This is necessary for the SHELL option, because error pop-ups can't be fetched by the BBS protocol driver. If an hard error occurs while you run the SHELL option, and you have not enabled the AUTOFAIL option, the program will "hang" awaiting response from the "real" keyboard. A setup example is showed below: SET NORMAL=C:\TWIT\;C:\NORMAL\;C:\SECRET\;D:\; SET EXTRA=%NORMAL%D:\EXTRA\; SET SYSOP=%EXTRA%D:\SYSOP\;D:\SECRET\; SET M2ZBBS=TERM.ANSI;MAX.512000;NODIR;PATH.NORMAL M2ZMODEM -l COM1 -b 19200 -prot BBS -s C:\TWIT\; This sequence will load the protocol driver, and the user will be able to download files from the paths specified in the "NORMAL" environment string. If you replace the "PATH.NORMAL" string by "PATH.SYSOP" the user will be able to download files from the paths specified in the "SYSOP" environment string instead. If the argument passed with "PATH." is not valid like "PATH.UNKNOWN", the path specified on the command line will be used, in this example the "C:\TWIT\" path. If no path is specified on the command line, the current directory will be used. The same rules apply to uploads, but only the first path specified will be used. If you load M2Z by: M2ZMODEM -l COM1 -b 19200 -prot BBS -r C:\UPLOAD\ If the "EXTRA" user uploads files, the files will be placed in the "C:\TWIT\" path. If the "UNKNOWN" user uploads a file, it will be placed in the "C:\UPLOAD\" path. Upper or lower cases are not significant. To pass parameters back from the BBS protocol driver, the environment string "M2ZBBSRC" is reserved. Currently no parameters are returned from the BBS protocol driver. Yet another example on how you may use the BBS protocol driver. Suppose you have a door in your BBS-system, that starts the CMD-file M2ZDOOR.CMD and passes the following parameters: %1 Download limit in Kbytes for download passed as a decimal value. %2 Level for the user passed as a decimal value between 1 and 9. Before the BBS is started, the following environment strings are set: SET LEVEL1=C:\DISGRACE\;C:\TWIT\; SET LEVEL2=%LEVEL1%C:\LIMITED\; SET LEVEL3=%LEVEL2%C:\NORMAL\; SET LEVEL4=%LEVEL3%C:\WORTHY\; SET LEVEL5=%LEVEL4%C:\PRIVIL\; SET LEVEL6=%LEVEL5%C:\FAVORED\; SET LEVEL7=%LEVEL6%C:\CLERK\; SET LEVEL8=%LEVEL7%C:\ASSTSYSOP\; SET LEVEL9=%LEVEL8%C:\SYSOP\; The M2ZDOOR.CMD file could now look like: @ECHO OFF SET M2ZBBS=TERM.ANSI;MAX.%1000;PATH.LEVEL%2; M2ZMODEM -l COM1 -b 19200 -prot BBS -s C:\TWIT\; FILE SERVER PROGRAM =================== A simple program to set up a file server is included, called M2ZSERV. It is suitable primary for personal use, when you want to fetch files from your business machine, when you are at home, to just mention an example. It is NOT a full featered BBS, but is much easier to setup. You start the program by typing: M2ZSERV device Replace "device" with the device name you want to set up the server for, like "COM1". You have to put your modem into auto answer, and the cabling must deliver the DCD line correctly (or set to constant high, but it is not recommended). Dropping DTR should result in a hang up, but it is not necessary. When carrier is detected the program will ask for a "Enter" keystroke, and wait for one second to get this keystroke. If the keystroke was not received, the program will alter the baudrate to the next lower, and try again. The program cycles all baudrates around until the "Enter" keystroke is detected (or carrier lost). The baudrates scanned is 19200, 9600, 2400, 1200 and 300 baud. By this scanning, the program should be compatible with any modem supporting auto answer. After the program has fixed for a baudrate, it will ask for username and password, validate them by checking the USERLIST.BBS file, and fetch the user level. The format for USERLIST.BBS is showed by the example file included (each entry MUST be followed by a CR/LF sequence). There are four parameters defined (yet), each terminated by a ";". 1. User name (not case sensitive) 2. Password (case sensitive) 3. User level (not case sensitive) 4. Shell password (case sensitive). If this field contains the word "YES", no password check will be done. If this field contains "NO", the user will not be able to shell at all. All other combi- nations sets the password according to the field. Only the first 15 characters are validated, and the password should not contain the ";" character. Se more about the SHELL option above (BBS protocol driver). 5. Complete callback string. If this is empty, no callback processing will be used. An example: Mikael Wahlgren;secret;Sysop;shellpassword;ATDT1234567 Who knows;my secret;Twit;NO;; The program will ask if the user wants to download, upload or disconnect, and loads the appropriate BBS protocol driver interface. The user will return to this menu after each file transfer request. The user will be able to access directories for download, according to the environment string, complying with the user level you set. If you set the user level to "SYSOP" for an user, the user will be able to access "C:\", "C:\SYSOP\", "C:\EXAMPLE\HELLO", if the environment string "SYSOP" is previously set to: SET SYSOP=C:\;C:\SYSOP\;C:\EXAMPLE\HELLO\; When the user has selected up or download, the M2ZSERV program will execute the M2ZBBS.CMD batch file (by calling "CMD /C M2ZBBS %1 %2"), with the parameters: %1 Operation. "-s" for download and "-r" for upload. %2 User level. By altering the included M2ZBBS.CMD file, you may select different options in the M2ZMODEM BBS protocol driver. The only way to terminate the M2Z HOST mode, is by pressing CTRL- BREAK or CTRL-C when the session is in foreground. TERMINAL FEATURE ================ I simple but fast terminal feature is implemented in the program. It emulates an ANSI terminal, and it is possible to execute scripts (automatic terminal sessions) and upload/download files with the ZModem protocol. The terminal function has built in translate tables for different countries. The correct translate table is automaticly activated by inspecting the COUNTRY-code specified in your CONFIG.SYS file (if no other translate table is specified by the "-p" option). Currently only 001, 046 and 358 country tables are implemented. The terminal session has AUTO ZModem Up/Download capability, which means it detects when you requested a ZModem file transfer from a BBS and automaticly invokes the Up/Download routines. You may also request download or upload manually by pressing the PgDn or PgUp function keys. You may execute a script file by pressing ALT-S and give the file name of the script. The M2ZMODEM script language is a very simple way to automate terminal sessions. The following commands are available: INITIAL "string" Sends "string" to the remote at. RESPOND "await" "string" Whenever "await" is received "string" is sent to the remote. DELAYED RESPOND "await" "string" "n" Whenever "await" is received "string" is sent to the remote, after "n" seconds delay (n=deci- mal value). QUIT "await" Whenever "await" is received the script execution is finishing and you are back to normal terminal operation. EXIT Marks end of script file. With scripting it is possible to perform redial, logon, download, logoff and much more, by just specifying a script file. A sample script file, which will redial a BBS and then logon to the system is showed: INITIAL "ATDT 12345678!" DELAYED RESPOND "BUSY" "ATDT 12345678!" "5" DELAYED RESPOND "NO DIALTONE" "ATDT 12345678!" "5" RESPOND "Press Escape twice to load BBS" "@@" RESPOND "Password: " "secret!" RESPOND "Name: " "My Name!" RESPOND "More (Y/N)" "N" QUIT "Main menu" QUIT "NO CARRIER" EXIT Note that it not is significant in which order you place your script instructions. Each instruction is valid concurrently as long as the script is executed. You abort a script execution by pressing the escape key. In text strings "!" are replaced with <Enter> (03H) and "@" are replaced by <Esc> (1BH). Only the first 100 instructions are acted on. Upper and lower cases are significant. It is still possible to use the terminal functions while executing a script file. By pressing ALT-D you will display the dialling directory. The dialling directory is placed in a file called "M2ZMODEM.DIR", and has the following format: Name;Number;Scriptfile; Mikael Wahlgren;4631196417;AutoDial; . . . Example;123;AutoDial; The first parameter is the name of the entry, the second parameter the phone number to use, and the third parameter is the script file used for dialling. If you select an entry in the dialling directory, the program will load the associated script file, and replace all occurencies of "#" in the script file, by the phone number in the dialling entry, and then execute the script. An example of a dialling script file is included and called AUTODIAL. You exit the terminal session (and the whole program) by pressing ALT-X. Note, that it is impossible to abort the program with CTRL-C if running the terminal session. PRESENTATION MANAGER SUPPORT ============================ There is a limited support for Presentation Manager. By speci- fying the "-pm" option on the command line, you can load a Presen- tation Manager ZModem file transfer status window. This window displays the same information as the PopUp in text windows. It is possible to interface with the communication program, in order to write an own status window, or monitor the file transfer status. This is done by writing a Presentation Manager application, with the file name "M2ZPM.EXE", which opens a named pipe called "\PIPE\M2ZPM" in message mode (as client). The message block is defined like: WORD Message type DWORD Value 1 DWORD Value 2 DB 40 40 character ASCIIZ Possible message types are: 0 Send before each transfer session. This message is sent only once per transmission, even if it is a batch transfer. 1 ASCIIZ contains file name. 2 Value 1 contains file size. 3 ASCIIZ contains file transfer message. 4 Value 1 contains ZModem frame type. 5 Value 1 contains throughput value, Value 2 contains file position, ASCIIZ contains calculated remaining file transfer time. 6 Value 1 contains amount of ZModem errors. The pipe is closed when the M2ZMODEM program exits. Before the pipe is closed, it is reset, to ensure that the client has read all messages. A non working client that won't read the pipe, could prevent M2ZMODEM from exiting successfully. A buffer of 1024 bytes is allocated to the pipe. If the buffer is full, M2ZMODEM won't write any messages to the buffer, until it clears. The client should not assume that the whole message block is always transfered. It is possible that the message is truncated to include only the valid part of the message block. RELEASE LOG =========== - Version 1.00 1989-12-11 ========================== First official release of M2ZMODEM. All previous versions is just test shoots. - Version 1.01 1990-01-06 ========================== All source is packed in the .EXE file and no DLL's are used any more. The status reporting window is altered and irrelevant information removed. Filenames not complying with the 8+3 format is supported. File transfers greater than 64 Kb correctly closed. - Version 1.11 1990-01-09 ========================== Remaining transfer time deisplayed instead of total transfer time. Faster ZModem session shutdown (Over and Out operation improved). Keyboard scanning changed to improve compatibility with other programs calling M2ZMODEM. A DosGetFocus is called before trying to access the keyboard. M2ZMODEM locked if the calling program was blocked awaiting for characters from the keyboard in the previous versions. The VIO is switched to ANSI-mode and the cursor is hidden when M2ZMODEM starts, and restored to its previous state when exiting. - Version 2.00 1990-01-19 ========================== The full power of the 16550 extended hardware buffering is enabled by setting the receive trigger level at 8 characters and transmit buffer load count to 16 characters. See more about this above. The parameters for the COM-port is restored to its previous condi- tion, when exiting the program. This was not done correctly before. A simple terminal feature with scripting ability is implemented. By specifying the "-i" option the program will go on line in ANSI terminal mode. See more about the terminal feature above. The cursor and ANSI state is unaltered when starting the program without parameters. Previously the program put the screen into ANSI off. - Version 2.01 1990-01-20 ========================== The terminal functions are enhanced with break signal, clear screen, help screen. The hang-up command has been altered to both lower DTR and send the AT-command for hang up. The license file system is introduced. The status reporting window is now designed as a "pop-up". The screen is restored to its previous condition when exiting. The colors are selected to be compatible with both color, black/white, monochrome display adapters. When exiting the program, the color attributes are reset, regardless of the condition when entering the program. The log file is now incremented, if it already exists, and not overwritten. Each log record is marked with date and time. - Version 2.02 1990-01-31 ========================== The status window is altered. Instead of showing the block check status, the transfer rate is displayed. The possibility to set environment variables, and refer to these with the "-e" option is added. It is possible to merge several environment variables together at the same command line. The file transfer time estimate is calculated in a smarter way. The current CPS value is used for the calculation, instead of the baudrate. This makes the time estimate more correct for modems with a higher DTE-DCE line speed, than the link speed. - Version 2.03 1990-02-01 ========================== When running at speeds of 9600 baud or higher, or using the default baud rate, the process priority is changed to class 3 (Time Critical). Some minor corrections have been made in the log file. The transfer time is displayed in minutes with only one decimal, to avoid the similarity with the mm:ss format (making you believe it is displaying minutes and seconds). A Presentation Manager status reporting window is now implemented. This is loaded by specifying the "-pm" option. The program may now resume, rename or skip a file, if it already exists on the target system. Which action to take, depends on the command line options. Default is to rename the file. If file modification time was not specified in the ZFILE header, an incorrect (and abnormal) file time was set. This is corrected, and the file time is set to the current time, if not specified. The XModem category file transfer protocols are added. By using the option "-prot" you may select Xmodem, Xmodem/1K, Ymodem, Ymodem- Batch, Ymodem-G or Ymodem-G-Batch. The protocols are called "XMODEM", "XMODEM1K", "YMODEM", "YMODEMB", "YMODEMG" and "YMODEMGB" resp. - Version 2.04, 1990-02-13 =========================== Some minor changes have been made in the log file, in respect to X/Ymodem file transfers. The BBS Protocol Driver is loaded. This is a user interface for those who want to use the M2Z to handle up and download in the BBS. This is loaded by specifying the option "-prot BBS". The Presentation Manager status window program M2ZPM, would cause a hang, if the stream of messages from M2Z was too active. This should now be fixed. If an upload was requested, with a system just echoing back the characters, the system would circle around sending NAKs to itself. This is corrected, and now the system sends ZRQINITs every 10 second. It is now possible to abort transfers by pressing the left mouse button at the "<Abort>" field. Some corrections have been made in the Ymodem protocols. The program is now easily "translatable" to other languages, by putting almost all messages in a message file. Asynchronous write processing has been implemented in the Zmodem protocol, to increase the throughput. A test seemed to indicate that the performance increased a little (but not much). - Version 2.05, 1990-02-19 =========================== The synonyms "0" for "TTY" and "1" for "ANSI" terminals in the BBS interface parameters are added. The parameter "TIME." is added in the BBS interface, and a simple time estimate is displayed before a transfer. The time estimate, does not count with the overhead of different protocols. Hang when unathorized user logged into the M2Z HOST, removed. The remaining time in the file transfer status window is now back to the "mm:ss" format, but now really displays minutes:seconds. New registration information. SHELL function in M2Z HOST program. - Version 2.06, 1990-04-27 =========================== The screen dump fature is altered to append CR/LF at end of each row, to allow text editing. The redisplay feature is added (see "-his" option above). The treatment of upper/lower cases in filenames is altered, to be more automatic. Now M2Zmodem will makes its very best to determ if it is a "long" filename, and if upper/lower case characters should be kept. The only case when M2Zmodem will fail to keep the same format of the filename is if the filename contains ONLY lower case characters and conforms to the 8+3 character old DOS naming conven- tion, in which case the filename will be converted to all upper cases. This conversion may be overrided by the "-t" option. Some cosmetical changes in menus and messages. M2Zmodem now uses window popups. The keyboard handling is altered, to also enable the arrow keys on the numerical part of the keyboard (if not in NumLock mode). The separate arrow keys are treated the same way as before. The SHELL to OS/2 option in the BBS protocol driver is fixed. In previous version, you could get a protection error when exiting the SHELL mode. This should now be fixed. It is now possible to alter the COM parameters (baudrate, parity, data and stop bits) in the terminal session by pressing ALT-P. The mouse is now used in the terminal session. The mouse button 1 (usually the left one) will send the character at the mouse pointer location, to the COM port. Mouse button 2 (usually the right one) will send ANSI escape sequences to the COM port, to position the cursor at the same location as the mouse pointer. It is possible to "drag" the mouse, when the left button is pressed, in order to send a string. - Version 2.07, 1990-05-06 ========================== The external program Os2You (also a MW-product) is used for shelling to OS/2. - Version 2.08, 1990-07-29 ========================== M2ZServ is capable of callback processing. M2Zmodem is altered to not conflict with Os2You if used concur- rently on the same communication port. - Version 2.09, 1990-09-11 ========================== Documentation corrected. Script command INITIATE replaced with INITIAL (only in documentation, have always been INITIAL in program). Dialling directory added. - Version 2.10, 1991-02-17 ========================== Changed compiler. Changed behaviour of some keys, like Ctrl-P, grey Enter. - Version 2.11, 1991-08-26 Changed compiler, and fixed file date. This version is also compatible with PMTERM. Zmodem file transfer now works with named pipes to use the protocol via the asynchronous network gateway implemented by Os2You. Zmodem file transfers would hang in certain situations (ZCRC header). This is now fixed. - Version 2.12, 1992-05-22 Incorporated SetBaud, which now enables baudrates up to 115200 baud. If you are running OS/2 1.3 or lower, insert the line "IOPL=SETBAUD" or "IOPL=YES" in your CONFIG.SYS, and you will now be able to use baudrates up to 115200 bauds. - Planned enhancements ====================== * ASCII upload. * Prestel emulation. * Better redisplay function. GUARANTEE ========= This software is released "as is". I believe it works as described in this documentation, but if it does not, I am not responsible for any harm you may suffer from this. I will try to correct any bugs you report. Even if you register the product this will be true. Important license information ============================= It is illegal (or at least unethical) to patch the program in any way. Any reverse engineering (disassembling or monitoring) is not an approved use of the application. If you register the software with 300 SEK (about $50), you will get a license file and a copy of the most recent version of the program. In this case, you will also get rid of the registration screen during logon. If you use the program on a regular basis, or in commercial use, you must register with minimum the above mentioned sum for each machine running the program. For use in the Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Norway and Denmark), I have the right to refuse registration of a user and prohibit commercial use of the program, if I wish. This will be the case, if the use of the program conflicts with commercial interests related to me. You are encouraged to spread this program (without registration file) to anyone that might be interested. If you want to register, send swedish banknotes, or let bank transfer money to my account (note that you should send all money in swedish currency), or pay by VISA or MC. If you pay by VISA or MC, please complete the ORDER.DOC form and mail or fax it to me. My address is: Mikael Wahlgren Kransen 4E S-416 72 GOTHENBURG Sweden Fax +46 31 196417 Phone +46 31 196074 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS =============== J. R. Louvau's source code TPZSFZ for DOS, was "looked at" while developing this source (which is completely different, and in another language, but the Pascal source gave some useful hints). Joaquim Homrighausen's 32 bits CRC calculation was altered and implemented in this source. Chuck Forsberg, Omen Technology and Telenet developed the ZModem protocol. Jensen & Partners International developed the TopSpeed Modula-2 OS/2 compiler, which is a very powerful development environment for OS/2 programming. TRADEMARKS ========== OS/2 is a trademark of IBM Corporation. PS/2 is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. PC/AT is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Omen is a trademark of Omen Technology Incorporated. 386/SX might be a trademark of Intel Corporation.