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- CoComm Manual SoftCircuits, Inc.
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- What Is It?
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- CoComm is a terminal program that has been designed to make your interaction
- with CIS Forums easier, more fun, and more effective.
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- CoComm does this by addressing three particular areas;
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- 1 - File Transfer
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- 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.
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- 2 - Conferencing
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- CoComm enhances Conferencing on CIS with the following features:
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- - 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!
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- - Can provide fully automatic /sen (private message) operations...
- - Mouse-driven!
- - By NAME, not job #!
- - With color highlight!
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- - 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
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- - User selectable availability of underlining, boldface, and italics in
- normal Conference messages! The ONLY term program to offer this
- Amiga Standard capability!
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- - 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.
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- - Automatically sets your Conference "handle" for you
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- CoComm Manual SoftCircuits, Inc.
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- 3 - Normal on-line operations
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- To Enhance virtually ANY operation you wish to perform while on-line, CoComm
- offers the following items;
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- - 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!
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- - 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
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- - 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
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- - Full Communications parameter control;
- -- Baud: 300 / 1200 / 2400 / 9600
- -- Stop bits
- -- Parity
- -- Word Length
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- - 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
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- - Support for Unusual Screen sizes - this means that CoComm works fine:
- -- With "MoreRows" Screens
- -- With PAL Screens
- -- With Interlace Screens
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- - 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.
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- Enlightened Shareware
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Future Updates and Revisions
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- 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.
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- Thanks for taking the time to review this document - try CoComm; you won't
- regret it!
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- Ben Blish, For SoftCircuits, Inc. January, 1988
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- CoComm/CBB
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- CoComm comes from:
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- SoftCircuits, Inc.
- 701 Nw 13th Street, Suite C4
- Boca Raton, Fl
- 33432
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