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- FASTTERM 1.0
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- Copyright 1990 Gary Burke
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- Released: OCT 20, 1990
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- FASTTERM is a program that if the ext is prg it will
- call the file selector if the ext is tos no selector will be
- allowed.
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- FASTTERM works on color, monochrome, and was written entirely
- in 68000 assembly language.
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- Copyright Information
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- FASTTERM.PRG and the documentation are,
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- Copyright 1990 Gary Burke.
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- All rights reserved.
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- FASTTERM is distributed as SHAREWARE. This means that
- you are allowed to give copies of the program to friends,
- upload it to bulletin boards, etc. If you end up using the
- program, you are expected to become a registered user by sending
- a shareware payment of at least $15.00 to:
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- Gary Burke
- 31 Culver lane
- North Haven, CT 06473
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- In return you will receive a fully functional version of FASTTERM
- and a more complete set of doc's.
- In this version of FASTTERM downloading is disabled sorry but no one
- would care if i disabled upload....
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- If you have suggestions for improving FASTTERM, your
- idears will not be considered if you're not registered.
- I'll try to include any suggestions that seem useful.
- If you have an account on Genie, I can also be reached there,
- address messages to. G.BURKE i can also be reached thought
- hi_tech bbs 203-776-2850
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- FASTTERM may be freely distributed as long as all of the
- mentioned files are included, also as long as none of the
- files are altered in any way.
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- Some notes on FASTTERM
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- These files should be included in the archive.
- FASTTERM.PRG
- FASTDIAL.DAT
- FASTDIAL.PRE
- FASTMODE.DAT
- FASTDEFT.DAT
- FASTTERM.DFT
- SZ.EXE
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- FASTTERM.DFT
- ____________
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- Is used to hold your default setting like baud rate, macros
- exc exc......
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- FASTDIAL.DAT
- ____________
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- Stores all the phone number and auto dialer info bbs name,
- phone, password, user name. The file will hold upto 100 numbers
- that should be more than enough.
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- FASTDIAL.PRE
- ____________
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- This file will store you dial defaults like ATDT or ATDP
- exc....
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- FASTMODE.DAT
- ____________
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- The file fastmode.dat can be edited with any ascii text editor
- you will need to place any commands to initilize your particular
- modem. The file include in the archive should work fine with any
- HST modem. One of the main commands you will have to set, is to
- make sure you modem sends back verbial commands.
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- SZ.EXE
- ______
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- Sz.exe is a edited version of send zmodem, it should be in the
- same directory as fastterm.prg.
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- FASTTERM.PRG
- ____________
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- Most functions should be very easy to figure out, from the main
- menu you can run a ttp, tos, prg with the exec command.
- Flip the screen from back white, to white black.
- Enter term mode, call the autodialer, do disk functions like
- delete files, copy files, type a file to the screen printer, view
- arced files. In one of the future revisions i will add view LZH, and
- more. You can turn the bottom desplay line on off.
- Enter macros exc exc....
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- AUTODIALER
- __________
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- The autodialer there isn't to much to say here just enter your
- phone numbers and save them. Make sure you edit the dialprefix also.
- You may send your user name in term mode by hitting the shift F1
- keys, and the password shift F2.
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- MACROS
- ______
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- There can be up to ten macros just enter them on the line you
- like, to send a macro hit the f[n] keys from term mode.
- you must save your defaults from the main menu so that all the macros
- will be saved, and loaded at bootup.
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- PROTOCALLS
- __________
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- At this time FASTTERM supports
- YMODEM batch
- XMODEM 1k no batch
- FMODEM batch
- YMODEM_G batch no error checking
- SEALINK batch
- CMODEM batch NEW protocall as fast or faster than zmodem
- XMODEM no batch
- ZMODEM batch external at this time
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- With ymodemg i have found that most atari bbs's supporting it are
- not working correctly, so try it if you find it works ok then use it
- ymodemg is the fastest.
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- END
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- I think most of you can figure out the rest, if you need help
- hit the help key in term mode...
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