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MxLight Version 1.95
Operations Manual
Copyright (c) 1993-94 by MX Communications
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
For support, contact:
James E. Fielden
307 E. Oak Hill Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37917
USA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Licensing and Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. GETTING STARTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Starting MxLight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Line Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Configuring MxLight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. USING MXLIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
External Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Status Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
MxLight's Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Hangup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Download & Upload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Clear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Taglines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Doorway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Baud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Configure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
View Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4. FILE TRANSFERS & PROTOCOLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
What is a File Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Supported Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Ascii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Xmodem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1k-Xmodem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1k-XmodemG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Ymodem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
YmodemG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Kermit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Zmodem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
ZedZap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
External Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5. REGISTERING MXLIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
WARRANTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
MxLight 1.95 Copyright (c) 1993-94 by MX Communications Page 2
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1
OVERVIEW
Do you ever get tired of your Terminal program taking up more space
then your operating system. Now communications program's are growing
to 500k to 900k easy. Loaded with so many features that you have
to print out their 500 page + doc's. Features that you will never
use, features that are never needed. Have you been looking for a
good communications program with all the features you need but with
out taking a BIG chunk of your disk space.
MxLight may be what your looking for. Occupying just under 100k of
disk space and requiring around 128k of free memory, MxLight will
run on just about any system with no problem. MxLight is small but
it's not bare, packed with features and runs at lighting speed on
even the slowest computers. Check out the list of features below and
you'll see, everthing you'll need to communicate with anything.
FEATURES
* Ansi,Ansi-BBS,Ansi-Music,Avatar and VT100 terminal emulations.
* Hot key commands to all the functions for quick access.
* Very low disk and memory requriments.
* No slow overlay files to load so it responds quickly.
* Dialing directory with over 200 numbers.
* Phone Book is loaded into RAM for Speed.
* Ansi driver built in so no need for ANSI.SYS to be loaded.
* Full support for Extended Doorway mode.
* TagLine file with as many taglines as you want.
* Send you Name and Password for each number with F1 & F2.
* Handles speeds from 300 to 115200 baud.
* Supports Com1 through Com8.
* Auto Flow Control and status buffering.
* Capture session to file supported with ANSI codes.
* Full Swap to DOS so you can run anything from a shell.
* Ascii, Xmodem, 1k-Xmodem, 1k-XmodemG, Ymodem(tm),
YmodemG, Kermit, Zmodem & ZedZap(8k-Zmodem)
* Support for upto 3 external protocols, without batch files.
* Two-way Split screen Chat mode.
* Auto Zmodem Download and crash recovery.
* View text files at any time in MxLight.
* Back ground ANSI-Music.
* Complete control over all menus and window colors.
* Phone Book Number Tagging.
* Easy Edit Line Editor.
* Choice of Modem Type (Hayes, Courier, Microcom).
* Very Low Price.
MxLight 1.95 Copyright (c) 1993-94 by MX Communications Page 3
LICENSING AND DISTRIBUTION
MxLight is not, nor has it ever been free software. It is copyright
and is distributed as SHAREWARE. You are granted a limited license
to use MxLight for an evaluation period. If you use MxLight and you
like it then you should register it.
Upon registering MxLight, you will receive a serial number and
instructions on how to apply it to your copy of MxLight for it
to become a registered version. See Register.Txt for complete
details on how to register your copy of MxLight.
You are encourged to give copies of MxLight to others so they may
evaluate it as well. MxLight may also be uploaded to bulletin
board systems (BBS's) as long as you do not deleate any of the files
that came with MxLight. SysOp's fell free to add your BBS logo to
the Compressed file discription, but please to not add any files
to the archive it's self. Do not delete, add, or