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MSYST
A User Terminal Program
For use with TNC's or Modems
By WA8BXN
(C) Copyright 1993 Hub Computers, Inc.
This program and documentation is shareware. If you find it useful please
send $5 (or more!) to support further development of this program and the
MSYS BBS system. Distribution of this program will be through electronic
means (the Cleveland Hamnet telephone BBS, for example). You may also
provide copies of the program and this documentation file to other
amateur radio operators interested in using it provided no changes are
made to this documentation file nor the program. Make out your check to and
send to:
Michael Pechura
10809 Beechwood Drive
Chesterland, OH 44026
Introduction
------------
This program was written primarily to allow use of the YAPP protocol
provided by MSYS for file (binary or ASCII) uploading and downloading
using either modem or tnc. It includes additional functions that make
it usable as a simple terminal program for general use. It can be used
with most TNC's that can be used with a terminal emulator program as
well as most modems. Basic features include
* YAPP protocol support
* ASCII file capture
* ASCII file transmission
* 800 line scroll back buffer
* DOS Shell to run other programs without exiting MSYST
* Interrupt driven serial I/O with 16,000 byte input buffer
* Support for serial ports at any address and Int 0-7
Installation
------------
MSYST automatically will create a configuration file the first time you
run it. It will ask you questions whose answers will be stored in the
file MSYST.DEF. If you ever want to change any of your selections, all
you have to do is delete MSYST.DEF and run MSYST to go through the
configuration procedure again. The following options are configurable:
* Serial port address
* Interrupt number
* Serial port speed
* Text background color
* Text foreground color
* CTS support (Turn it on unless it causes program to hang)
Usage
-----
For the most part what ever you type at the keyboard is sent to your
modem or TNC. The exceptions to this are the following keys:
F1 - Gives brief help information
F2 - Receive YAPP file after you tell BBS to send the file
F3 - Send YAPP file after you tell BBS to receive the file
F4 - Capture what appears on screen to a file
F5 - Send an ASCII file as if typed
F6 - End capture
F9 - DOS Shell (use exit command to return to MSYST)
Alt/X - Exit MSYST
Arrow keys, Page Up or Down, Home, and End enter scroll back mode.
To exit this mode, press Escape. F1 key (only F key that works when in
scroll back mode) will give help summary. Alt/X will exit scroll mode and
the program as well. While in scroll back mode incoming data is not
displayed but is accumulated in the 16,000 byte input buffer. When you
exit scroll back mode it will be displayed.
Using YAPP Protocol to transfer files
-------------------------------------
Using YAPP is particularly easy when you are using a modem connection to
MSYS. To download a file, type YD and the filename you want MSYS to send.
Then press F2 and give the name you want the file to have on your system.
You must complete this within 30 seconds of sending the YD command to MSYS.
Next sit back and watch the file status be updated as the file is received.
To upload a file using a modem, type YU and the name the file will have
on the MSYS system. When MSYS says its ok to send your file (note that
you have to be specifically enabled to upload files) press F3. Give the
name of the file you want to send and wait for it to be sent.
Using a TNC complicates things a bit because you have to switch your TNC
into transparent mode for the actual data transfer. To receive a file,
do the following:
Type YD followed by the name of the file on MSYS you want
When MSYS says to get ready to receive the file, type ^C to
get back into your TNC's command mode
Type the command for your tnc to get it into transparent mode
(Usually TRANS)
Press F2 and give the name you want the file to have on your system
When the file transfer is complete, excape transparent mode
(usually by typing ^C^C^C) to get back to your
TNC's command mode.
Now type the command to get your TNC in normal conversation
mode (usually CONV or K)
To send a file using a TNC, do the following:
Type YU and the name the file is to have on the MSYS system
When MSYS says its ok to send the file, type ^C to get to
the TNC command mode.
Get the TNC into transparent mode (see above)
Press F3 and enter the name of the file on your system
When the file transfer is complete, follow the instructions above
If there is enough interest and support for this program it will be
improved in the future. Possible enhancements could include VGA support,
compressed data transmission and "smart" interaction with MSYS. And of
course an improved documentation file. At this time I mainly want to
provide a way to use the YAPP additions to MSYS over the phone (most
of the other YAPP programs automate getting a TNC into transparent mode
and thus can't easily be used with modems) and to test the waters to
see what interest and support there may be for this program. Enjoy!