ZX-News #15 19 ноября 1996

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Terminalka - What is a modem. - Macros. Text and Hobeta.

             What is a modem.



           (C) Alexei Mikhailov



          Part Two. Macros.


  Quite often, those who enjoy isdosnoy terminalkoy or 
Macro-Modem'om, utter incomprehensible word MACRO. Like

would, macros are in the best text editors, but you terminalka 
- is not a text editor ...



  Yes, in the terminal programs MACROS
or macros are used for other
purposes, rather than a text editor.


  Imagine this situation: You
friend testing the modem, you need
the tube was placed permanently, but
sometimes happens that the voice and speak
it-would be nice. And so, in order to
Your friend picked up the phone, you dial in
keypad to spell


       "With H & M and t r y b and y" ...


  And so every time. : (But if you make a macro "Pick up the 
handset and press the EXT + one of twenty-six letters of the 
alphabet, for which you have given macro, the program will give 
him a line. Ie instead of having to dial 12 letters, you press 
only two buttons. 


  In Is-Dos'e macros are created in the ordinary
text file, whose name can be specified using the "setapnoy" 
utility "vicomset.com". The file format is as follows: 


                  ----
AHello, John!
BVery nice ...
CSuks Andes mastday


                  ----

  Ie the first letter in a row - the letter macro. In Is-Dos 
can be used as lowercase and uppercase letters as well as some 
of the characters. True, imho, on a daily basis rarely need 
more than fifteen to twenty macros, even taking into account 
"Bibiesnyh. 


  Yes, yes, on the shoulders of macros can be given to navigate 
the bbs-nym menu! 


  Well, in the MMD with macros to work more
convenient. In the program there is a built-in
macro editor which is invoked by
key EXT + cs / letter. You are in the menu
create a macro that looks like this:


           1. Macro Editor

           2. The following macro

           3. Prededuschy macro

           4. Length 31 (63)


  Directly in the editor window you will see that
macro, the letter which you have clicked with
Caps shift, when he went into it. Using paragraphs 2 and 3 can 
be moved between macros in the beginning or end of the alphabet.



  Selecting the "1", you can create a new macro or edit an 
existing. Paragraph "4" indicates which has a maximum length of 
your macro. Length 31 have the usual macros, but if you

this is not enough, you can combine two adjacent macros into 
one, for example, A and B. Then the total length is 63 
characters. 


  If you are working with the system of Maximus,
which is installed, for example, Eldorado, you can use the 
simplest built-in "mylerom. For this purpose there

"Arrow" - UpLoad and "Down Arrow" DownLoad. This sign at the 
end of the macro means that immediately after transmission of 
the macro terminalka automatically goes to sending or receiving 
file. 


  The advantages of such mailer'a obvious.


             We collect the macro:


   bcf =, <Enter>, q, y, 

and the program will download in five msg
qwk-format from the current echo area, since this msg. If you 
are not worth default communication protocol (X-Modem

for Vicomm'a), then to put an arrow
More and "x".


  Oh, if only Comrade. Sergey Usov did so,
to a qwk-packaged format not
five letters, as, for example, the current on
Recently ...



       Part Three. Text and Hobeta.


  After receiving the file, the program, again
automatically save it to disk under
name specified in the menu, "LOG". Each subsequent file MMD 
will record by placing in the name of the figure is one more. 
For example, the first time the file type "Text" will be saved 
as "Text 00.C", the second time under the name "Text 01.C", the 
third, as "Text 02.C "and so on. In principle, the first

six characters of the name can be changed in the menu
"LOG".


  In the attentive reader must be immediately
was a question: "What if the volume
All letters will exceed the 256 sectors, the most affordable in 
the Tr-Dos for a single file? 


  Do not worry, will not exceed ... In SetUp'e
have the option to "Text 16K (64K). You can
themselves set the maximum size of a received text file. 
Moreover, if the length of the text reaches the mark, file is 
automatically written to the disk, ie The program itself splits 
long text files and writes them to disk!



  You may ask why I so often use the word "automatically"? Yes, 
because I want to show how many Macro-Modem easier for you to 
work with bbs in comparison with all other terminal programs.



  Let us return to the length of the file in the format "Text",
or "IBM", as you wish. I recommend to set the size of 16K, 
because then you can read (poredaktirovat) text Tr-Dos'nom any 
text editor. 64K needed mainly to those who love Is-Dos.

Envelope file to the Is-Dos and read on your
health ... By the way, built-in
MMD view'er you can view any
files (and not just text) 256
sectors!


  There. Now for those who do not know that
is the file type "Text" ("IBM"), and that such "Hobeta".


  Since all fidoshnye servers (in particular, Eldorado) are on 
the IBM PC, then format text file when working with them 
pisishny used, ie transmit / receive Text files should be 
WITHOUT ANY Tr-Dos'nogo headlines! Terminalka it myself

cuts, but do not forget to type
"Text".


  While there was no "Hobet" 's, users
pisishnyh bbs had not only the texts,
and basic-files, and code blocks to send the type "Text". And 
in order to run this file to anyone who downloaded it, it was 
necessary to know the parameters of the title. 


  As is known, the file header (element
Catalogue) consists of 16 bytes. Headers
stored in the 0th track of the disk and look
as follows:


    Length of Appointment

    (B)


      8 Filename

      1 Type (Basic, Code, etc.)

      2 Start address

      2 Length

      1 Number of sectors

      1 Number of first sector

      1 Number of tracks


  Before the advent of "Hobet" 's it was necessary
describe the titles of all the transferred files
in a single text file, and then whoever
this download, had a disk-doctor
manually affix the necessary headers
moreover, in hexadecimal. About
it is now suffering fans Is-Dos, which take Tr-Dos'nuyu toy in 
his favorite system, and then envelope it

unloved ... True, in the Is-Dos are already
much easier with this case, since pisihe already have "Hobeta", 
and the header file You can learn to use the utility

"Dehobeta.com".


  The utility creates a disk file with the "cod", which is an 
envelope in the Tr-Dos, as well as with the extension "txt", in 
which given format zagoloka.



  But why all these problems and suffering, if you can right in 
the Tr-Dos'e take a toy and do not use up all the notebooks and 
any other paper, which fell in a field of view, the numbers of 
the form: 


         01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08

         09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10.


  And this is only one file is not important, basic or code!


  To summarize vesheskazannomu. Type Text -
file without a header. With the advent of hobety
no longer any need to pass
this type of toys and other exe / cod-files.
It is used to send text files on the bbs.


  Type "Hobeta" needed to transfer all
the rest. Moreover, TS-dosny title
saved and the file immediately after admission,
You can run.


          To be continued ...

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