Communicate‚Ñ¢ for the Macintosh brings the whole world to your computer with the click of a mouse. With Communicate Lite and a modem, you can have access to thousands of files, programs and games, countless Computerized Bulletin Boards (BBS), and much, much more.
About this Demo
This is a demonstration version of Communicate Lite. The Save, Save As, Open, and Session Directory commands are disabled. The application is fully functional in every other way.
By purchasing Communicate Lite, you will receive additional tools, including the Mark/Space ZMODEM Tool, as well as a 64 page manual with a tutorial, reference, index, and table of contents.
What is Communicate?
Communicate is an innovative new application from Mark/Space Softworks which gives you easy, instant access to all of the communications tools in your toolbox. Using Communicate, you can easily access one of each of the three fundamental types of Communications Tools and connect to your favorite BBS, another Macintosh running Communicate, or even a Macintosh workstation on a network.
What is the Communications Toolbox?
Most communications applications share certain functions - making and maintaining connections, emulating a terminal, and transferring files using common protocols. A traditional product is able to connect to a single type of device, emulate a few popular terminals, and supports a few file transfer protocols. An application that supports the communications toolbox can support as many connection types, terminal emulations, and file transfer protocols as there are tools available.
What are Communications Toolbox Tools?
Communications Toolbox Tools are special files which allow your Macintosh to emulate, transfer material, and connect to remote computers. There are three main kinds of tools in the Communications Toolbox:
1. Connection Tools: These establish a basic connection between two (or more) computers. When you install Communicate, the Apple Modem Tool will be installed into the Extensions folder of your System folder.
2. Terminal Emulation Tools: These allow your Macintosh to emulate a terminal supported by the system to which it is connected. When you install Communicate, the VT102 tool will be installed into the Extensions folder of your System folder.
3. File Transfer Tools: These allow your Macintosh to transfer files over a phone line or other connection. When you install Communicate, the XMODEM tool will be installed in the Extensions folder of your System folder.
A basic set of tools is included with this demo. Many more are available from Apple, Mark/Space and other vendors. For example, there are several tools that support connections via TCP, a popular networking standard.
Balloon Help
Use Balloon Help to learn about items on the screen. Balloon help is available for menu titles, menu items, and the contents of dialog boxes and windows.
 
To use Balloon Help, choose Show Balloons from the "?" menu. Then point to items on the screen to see help balloons about them.
 
Topical Help
Where balloon help is designed to answer questions such as “What is this?”, topical help is designed to answer questions like “How do I do it?” or “Why would I want to do that?”.
To display the help window, either select Help… from the Apple menu, press command-?, or press the help key (found on extended keyboards.)
Technical Support
The philosophy at Mark/Space Softworks is to be as helpful to you as we possibly can to assure that you use and enjoy Communicate to the fullest extent possible. To that end, we have spent a lot of time preparing comprehensive, easy to read documentation, built in thorough Balloon and On-Line Help and established several different ways for you to reach us. Should you have a question, comment, suggestion or other feedback we would be happy to hear from you. Here’s how to reach us:
Internet: mspace@netcom.com
AppleLink: MARKSPACE
America Online: MARKSPACE
CompuServe: 73244,3333
(408) 293-7299
(408) 293-7298 fax
(408) 293-7290 bbs
Mark/Space also has information available via anonymous ftp to ftp.netcom.com in the pub/mspace directory.