Miscellaneous - On the ZX networks and not only ...

    On the ZX-networks and not only ...


      (C) Vic at 01.05.97.

   Specifically for the ZX POWER # 2.
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   This article was written just before the release of the 
second magazine and the basis for its

writing was the news about the attempts of Kharkiv programmers 
to create some semblance of a network for example, Moscow or 
ZXNet St. Petersburg Network Spectrum clones.


   I already have emerged
rather unpleasant impression
of the users in such
networks, especially after
I learned that the exchange of mail
at least in the same ZXNet sysops
two nodes must be in
close close
their cars. I aim to
put some automation
work, and will attempt to force start of Spectrum to work with 
mail FIDO, and ultimately to the Internet automatically. 

   The main limitation here
consists only in the amount of foreign
memory. Hence there is a need to connect HD, because the 
information arriving at one session of Mailer's not

fit to any floppy disk, and
still need a place to base
messages of different proprietary information, and speed the 
drive does not seem particularly large (Yes. .. I remembered 
the tape recorder here :-)). 

   Therefore, the purpose of my work now - to ensure the work 
points at Fido with Spectrum-compatible

platforms, and yet to be realized only netmeyla walking and 
getting oh to be implemented after connecting to HDD my 
computer, that is, if you have correctly understood, then in the

beginning we will work through all the favorite drive.

   Now a little about my work.
As is well known e-mail in Fido goes
in packed form (usually
ZIRovanaya), so it became necessary to write the type mentioned 
above unpacker program to unpack this very mail.

Well known that the mail is sent through such a protocol, as 
ZMODEM, therefore, also is working on its implementation. After 
writing these two modules and will e-mail version program.


   At the moment I'm doing
also beta-testing my terminalki and writing user-friendly 
commander (who has seen the Dos Navigator I understand), the 
second part of the work and deprives the currently most of the 
time (well, not I can see the work of IS-DOS'a

or COPIER'a under ZX-WORD). Tell
here are a few words about the possibilities mentioned 
Commander: 

+ Work with the three-letter extension
  reniyami in TRDOS;
+ Support disk MSDOS, TRDOS,

  ISDOS;
+ Support pisishnyh archivers

  (See Dos Navigator);
+ Avtoraspoznovanie archives at

  view or startup files;
+ Built-in viewer (Normalnyy!

  You will not have to create for

  each type of file path to one
  nomu the same viewer as a

  ISDOS example #$%'done -

  I have a file extview.txt

  200 lines and 195 is the way to

  tv.com - wisely, does not it?

  I wonder what @ # $% thought it

  creators?)
+ Built-in editor;
+ Uuencode and uudecode;
+ Support Pentagon 512K. If

  will be a mood, I will do

  support and for others. Ying
  following interesting question, in general, and for
  than to hang extra long
  you to switch the memory

  when I have, for example, additional
  tively memory depends on the 6-m

  and 7 th bits of the port # 7FFD and 99%

  programs work without glitches!

  (One percent is just ka
  tangent to programs for "the rest
  GOVERNMENTAL "). Why was it necessary vydumy
  vat new ports? Another would be to

  # FE memory hang - can

  people would believe in their steepness
  Well, even those programs to
  torye go with me, do not go on

  Scorpion'e and similar

  fun. I would also like spro
  Sit, who offers establishes
  vat sixth bit when working with

  incomplete addressable port

  # 7FFD.Stavte then and 5 to 1

  in fact been altered in the Pentagon

  512K (Turbo) with three

  (Five) chips (not counting

  RU7), and programs such

  advice to them would not go ...
+ Work with IDE-screw through the MIO

  (Scheme by V.M.G.), ie take

  PC-screw and put on Sinclair.

  See pisyukovye files ar
  Khiva, working with him, and then

  carry back to the PC;
+ Startup programs TRDOS drives
+ Support Kempston-mouse and

  only him, but not AY;
+ Screen mode - 512 points (85

  characters) per line;
+ Show descriptions to files

  (Again from the DN!).


   I would also like to note that file sharing on bad lines at
communication Sinclair-Sinclair is in
generally faster than the Sinclair-PC
or PC-PC on some protocols
(XMODEM and YMODEM). I do not know what could it be? Maybe I 
have not seen the normal terminal programs PC? Or they simply 
do not? Here are the top PC-shnyh programs on my observations 
in ascending order saksovosti:


* Yuniksovskie program - Naib
  more correct implementation;
* Maximus BBS;
* Remote Access;
* Tornado BBS;
* WildCat Navigator - MOST do not
  correct implementation of protocols
  fishing, which I saw a prog in

  basically anything ...
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