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CoComm Manual SoftCircuits, Inc.
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CoComm Manual SoftCircuits, Inc.
What Is It?
CoComm is a terminal program that has been designed to make your interaction
with CIS Forums easier, more fun, and more effective.
CoComm does this by addressing three particular areas;
1 - File Transfer
CoComm implements CIS's "Quick B" protocol. This is currently the fastest
protocol that CIS supports; it is an "automatic" protocol - that is, you
don't need to use any menus or control characters in CoComm to initiate
upload or download operations - Simply follow the prompts that CIS presents
to you in the data libraries and the file transfer will be completely
automatic. Quick B really shines when the network is busy. CoComm's file
transfer operations display a full-featured status window during both upload
and download operations, providing a constantly updated display of blocks
transferred, time to go, and other relevant information.
2 - Conferencing
CoComm enhances Conferencing on CIS with the following features:
- A Chat window which;
- Provides full editing... cursor movement, insert, delete char,
delete word, cursor fwd/back by char,
by word, by line.
- Optional Wordwrap with user-settable wrap sensitivity;
- Formal Conferencing line termination capability:
- When wordwrap occurs: "..."
- When you hit c/r: " GA"
- Previous line retransmission;
- Fully sizeable;
- Remembers the size/position you like - and starts that way!
- Can provide fully automatic /sen (private message) operations...
- Mouse-driven!
- By NAME, not job #!
- With color highlight!
- User selectable speech for one or any combination of
- System Messages
- Normal Co Text
- /sen (private) messages
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- User selectable color highlighting for one or any combination of
- The NAME of the person who is talking
- Brackets around the name
- The text contents of the message
- System Messages
- /Sen (private) Messages
- User selectable availability of underlining, boldface, and italics in
normal Conference messages! The ONLY term program to offer this
Amiga Standard capability!
- The capability to search for your freinds - CoComm works with CIS to
locate your friends for you... tell you which channel they're on, if
they're on.
- Automatically sets your Conference "handle" for you
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3 - Normal on-line operations
To Enhance virtually ANY operation you wish to perform while on-line, CoComm
offers the following items;
- A review buffer that;
- Is fully user-configurable:
-- Window Size
-- Window Position
-- Allocated / Deallocated
-- Started / Stopped
-- Showing / Invisible
-- How many lines it handles - from 100 to limit of memory!
- Offers:
-- Save Contents
-- Load Contents
-- Send Contents
-- Live deallocation - Need memory? Temporarily kill Review!
-- Lock Viewing position, or Scroll with new lines when full
-- Operates concurrently with other CoComm windows
-- Has full Intuition scroll capability via gadgets
-- Scrolls via up/dn cursor keys - live!
-- Is 140 columns wide!
-- Is really --------> FAST!
- Smart "Macro Keys" Not really just macro keys, but actually complete
script capability on a key! From a function key, you can:
-- make intution requesters, and select operations on results
-- run timers
-- watch for text strings, case sensitive or not
-- call other keys as subroutines, or directly as jumps
-- generate printer output
-- generate serial port output
-- generate screen output
-- generate output that is the name of the persona talking to
you in co!
-- generate speech output
-- Send control characters
-- Delay selectable amounts
-- Run "backround" timers
-- Start / Stop the capture buffer
-- Start / Stop the printer
-- Load OTHER macro definitions! Unlimited Script capability!
-- Turn the Chat window On / Off
-- Turn the Conferencing mode On/Off
-- Flash the Screen
-- Bring the review buffer window forward
-- Bring the Log and Chat windows forward
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-- Bring the WorkBench Screen forward
-- Force updates to the /sen list controller in CoComm
-- make "Beeps" of controlled duration and tone
-- Transmit files
-- Terminate the program
- CoComm offers a very flexible method for the use and control of
the WorkBench color palette while CoComm is operating; You can even
temporarily select the old workbench colors if you want the while you
do a workbench operation
- Full Communications parameter control;
-- Baud: 300 / 1200 / 2400 / 9600
-- Stop bits
-- Parity
-- Word Length
- Full-featured file requesters; One of the best requesters available in
ANY program;
-- THREE lists! Files, Directorys, and Volumes;
-- Option Sort and SortLock capability
-- Comments with files
-- Fully mouse driven
-- Live scrolling
-- Optional "Assigns" show as Volumes
-- File Delete
- Support for Unusual Screen sizes - this means that CoComm works fine:
-- With "MoreRows" Screens
-- With PAL Screens
-- With Interlace Screens
- CoComm Sleeps - it is a well-behaved system task, and in no way stops
you from doing other things while it is operating.
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CoComm Manual SoftCircuits, Inc.
Enlightened Shareware
CoComm is Shareware; We ask that you send us $15.00 if you like and use the
program.... AND ONLY if you can afford it! If not, well, use it in good
health, don't feel paranoid, and just in general, don't worry about it.
Is there an advantadge to paying that $15.00 ??? Certainly; there are two,
actually. First, and most importantly, we put a lot of work into this, and
we're using it to test the waters, so to speak. If it seems to be a
reasonable way to make software, we'll keep doing it - and that helps the
Amiga community in general, and that helps YOU! Secondly, When you send us
that $15.00, we send you a manual; Written carefully, and formatted for
immediate printing, it contains detailed descriptions of every mode, option,
limitation, and capability in CoComm, as well as the latest version. We ask
that you keep the manual to yourself, as that is one of the motivating
factors for the Shareware contribution.
Future Updates and Revisions
CoComm is in constant use by the person who wrote it - Ben Blish - and that
means that if it misbehaves, it gets fixed. Right away. Then it gets uploaded
to CIS - also right away. So you are assured of a reliable term program, one
that is "live", not just finished, book closed, done, never mind the users
and/or the bugz.
Thanks for taking the time to review this document - try CoComm; you won't
regret it!
Ben Blish, For SoftCircuits, Inc. January, 1988
CoComm/CBB
CoComm comes from:
SoftCircuits, Inc.
701 Nw 13th Street, Suite C4
Boca Raton, Fl
33432
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