ZED_cache v1.01 help
(C) 1998 DENIS DMITRIEV
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Attention!
Before leaving ZED-a (or on-
press reset :) it is necessary
exit to the main menu, since only in
at this moment all recorded data is reset
are flushed from the cache to disk. If this is not the case
do, you only risk losing everything
what is written in
ZED-e letters, zayuyuka-
files you have added and other information
mation, which should have ended up on
disk during operation
ZED-a. According to the same
reason, I do not recommend it while working with
mail disk, replace it with another
(before exiting to the main menu), otherwise you can
It's great to ruin your wheels ;)
The cache driver uses memory above
48k up to 1MB for disk cache, and work
melts withconfigurations Pentagon 512k, Profi
1Mb, Scorpion 1Mb (8th memory bank not touched
turns out),ATM 512k.
Nevertheless, already with 128k memory,
there is a clear gain in the speed of tossin-
ha/reading mail compared to the original
nom ZED. With a large amount of memory (above
256k), after tossing the mail will already be on-
is located in the cache memory, and when reading it
the disk practically does not touch, accordingly
Actually, work with mail goes faster
(by the way, this is where turbo mode doesn’t hurt
- reading comes from memory, but ZED is all
Equally, each message takes quite a long time to re-
cooks). On the other hand, if after
mail tossing to exit ZED, then the cache will be dis-
collapses, and when reading mail there will be no
What's the difference between 128k memory?
or 1MB...
Just in case, I’ll tell you about one thing...
joy that appeared after connecting
Cache values to ZEDy - ZED stopped reversing
attention to the lack of free disk space
places. I don’t know what this is connected with, theoretically
Technically this shouldn't have happened.
Therefore, when tossing mail, I advise you to have
for every 1000 mail sectors ~250 sec-
tori of free space+ a little more on
unforeseen expenses (letter writing,
etc).
That's about all that can be said
about this creation - the cache driver. Created
it was due to the terrible laziness of the auto-
ra - well, I was too lazy to wait 20-30 minutes until
the mail is protossed... (and it’s a pity for the disks -
the zero track almost sawed through -
Xia). Although now it’s already 2-3 minutes of laziness
wait, at least write a tosser ;) By the way, when you-
bore utilities from the main menu, loading them
is a little slower than before, so
like they are during the first boot
are placed in the cache. But when these
utilities almost like ramdisk turns out ;)
In general, if you have any questions, suggestions,
claims, riots, etc., then
you can try writing here:
Denis Dmitriev 2:461/110.5@fidonet.org
(Dismaster/X-Project)
Every noticed glitch is diligently addressed.
washed and removed if possible
(or is supplemented with the opposite value)
cheniya ;)However, according to the good old tradition,
I notice that you can use
cache driver is at your own risk,
and therefore I do not take responsibility
ty for undocumented glitches, murder
mail, material and moral damages,
loss of valuables and furniture, as well as
unfavorable weather conditions during
using this product ;) Moreover,
Moreover, you risk twice as much, because
the author of ZED also does not give any guarantees
to his successful work ;))))))
May 5, 1998
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MAX> I really like to have an idea
a little information about the program before it
will be downloaded to your computer. Therefore, I decided
but sacrifice some disk space
tion and combine all help`s into one text
for preliminary familiarization with the user
guys with this softie.
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ADDRESS BOOK
Addresses and network names of your friends, with
with whom you often correspond, you can
You can place it in your address book. Book
stored on the system disk, and can be
used for quick data entry ad-
resata when entering or editing a entry
writing dexterity. It will be enough for this
enter only the address, the name will be inserted into
title automatically.
Note: ZED always looks for address
book on the system disk, but if you can’t find
dits her - says nothing. If you have
a system with two drives is no good
won't cause any problems. If with one, then
you will have to either copy the address book
gu (file zed.book.C) to a zip disk, or
Bo change floppy disks while entering the address.
When launched from the Address operation menu
book you will be taken to the entered list menu
names and addresses.
To edit an existing entry
just place the cursor on it and
press Enter. If you want to delete an entry,
then in the name field you need to enter an empty string
(for example, clear the field using SS-E).If you press EDIT (SC-1) then in front of you
a menu will appear containing all the necessary
operations for forming an address book.
--- Append new record
Add a new entry to the list. Before
a window appears for you to enter data,
after that a new task appears in the list
writing
--- Sort user list
Sort the list by name in alphabetical order
okay.
--- Save and quit
Write down the list and exit to the main menu.
--- Exit without saving
Exit without recording the latest changes.
ECHO AREA MANAGERGenerally speaking, ZED automatically creates
list of echo areas in the tossing process.
However, it is often necessary, for example,
write a new letter to the echo area of the
there is no paradise at the moment, or
thread is the address of the uplink for any area.
Your manager can easily do this for you.
echo areas.
List of echo areas created by management
jerome, is recorded on the system disk and
is read before each operation tossin-
ha, automatically entering the list of regions
their message database. Those. in other words -
this is a resident list, each area from
which is created even if
in processed .PKT messages to this
there is no lusty.
The manager is launched from the main menu
when selecting the Areas list operation. At the same time
a menu appears in front of you containing
list of echo areas. This list must include
There are actually two areas - .NETMAIL
- an area for personal messages, and
.PERSONAL - for copies of messages addressed to
in your name. The rest can be entered
manually or imported from the su-index
existing message database automatically.
For each echo area, the ad-
res uplink through whichyou get
this echo conference, and one of the four va-
highest addresses - AKA, which will be used
van, if you write something in this
echo area.
Using the menu you can view
list of echo areas. By pressing Enter you will be taken to
give it to the record editing window, in which
you can change it
* Name of the area. You can enter
custom name for areas
.NETMAIL and .PERSONAL, but for other fields
Please enter the correct name
tion, since the tosser will disassemble the device
sent mail using exactly this name
echo conferences.
* Uplink address. Enter your address here
your boss or uplink through whom you
receive this echo conference, and through
which will be forwarded everything you
write there.
* AKA number (from those installed in the settings)
kah system) to be used
as the sender's address for .PKT, and as a
military addressin messages for this
conferences.
If you have a single uplink and
single address, then for all areas
you must indicate the same thing. For the region
ty .PERSONAL you don’t have to specify anything at all -
vat, because you won't be able to write anything in
this area, just respond from it. B
in the latter case the answer is automatic
falls into the area from which it was
the letter was copied, and, accordingly, everything
settings are taken from there.
If you are in the list of echo areas
press EDIT (CS-1), then you will see
whole menu, including all management operations
ra. Namely:
--- Append new record
Add a new entry to the list. When
then the editing window appears in front of you
entry where you can enter everything
manual data. After finishing editing
a new entry appears in the list with
entered data.
--- Import areas list Import conference list from
existing postal database. When choosing this
operation you will be prompted by email
disk from which all echo data
regions and addresses will be transferred to the list
juice If any of those available in the postal
database areas are already included in the list - they
will be ignored.
--- Sort areas list
Sorting the list. List of trash areas
listed by name in alphabetical order -
ke.
--- Save and quit
Save changes and exit.
--- Exit without saving
Exit without saving.
To remove an entry from the list you must
call the post editor by pressing Enter, and
remove the name of the echo area (for example,
pressing SS-E). An entry with an empty volume name
The file will be deleted.QUICK START
Launch ZED. After initialization and
loading libraries will appear in front of you
splash screen, and ZED will be there for a few seconds
wait for any key to be pressed. After that
a window will appear where you must indicate the current
current time and date. Clock and calendar will be
displayed on the right side of the top page
tusstrok.
After entering the date, you will see
main menu screen. All menu operations are
are described in detail in this documentation.
At the bottom of the screen in all modes the information is visible.
formational status line. In normal
state it shows information about the program
frame. In reader mode, information is displayed here
information about messages in the current echo
areas.
On the right side of the bottom the status line is
statistics of the current operation are displayed
(flashing symbols) and information about co-
keyboard:
ENG - standard English layout.
RUS- keyboard in Russian mode.
GRP - keyboard in graphic mode.
In the statistics section may appear
numbers reflecting the progress of the process, or
messages:
RD - the process of reading from disk;
WRT - the process of writing to disk;
SWP - loading overlay;
CUT - indicated if the readable
The reader does not fit the message into memory
entirely, and ZED splits it into two parts
for sequential viewing.
EXT - the CS-SS sequence is pressed and
ZED is waiting for an extended command to be entered.
--- So...
Let's assume that you have an address in FI
BEFORE. What do you need to do to start using
call ZED?
--- 1. Agree with the boss or uplink
about the format of postal parcels.
It is necessary, firstly, that those coming
the packages sent to you were unpacked (pkunzip
We haven’t written it for spec yet). Vo-
secondly, the size of the unpacked .PKT file
must not exceed 65534 bytes - max.
Small file size for TR-DOS.
--- 2. Agree with the boss or uplink
about vehicles.
If you receive mail with your feet :) i.e.
follow her with a floppy disk and beer - try -
There are no lems at all. The same as if
you are a point on your own node.
If you want to receive mail via
really, using a modem, then here
It will be a bit of a stretch for your uplink and
strain yourself. Mailer for Sinclair I
I haven’t seen it, so it seems to me the most
easy way - use terminal
program with some z-modem or x-
modem file transfer protocol. In this
In this case, your uplink needs to be configured
its system so that it copies
mail that has arrived to you within reach of the termi-
I found a place and picked up the mail sent
by you.--- 3. Configure ZED
To do this, select in the main menu
operation"ZED Settings"and set:
1. User name - your name. Usually enters-
There are two words - first and last name. Required
in Latin letters. This name will be used
name in the From field of your emails and for
search for personal letters.
2. Main addresses - your network address.
3. Host and Mail drive - drives, incl.
which will contain floppy disks with system
my ZED and with mail. If your computer
there is only one drive - specify in both
cases a:
4. Type of keyboard layout used
created on your computer.
After this, the system is ready for operation.
Write down the arrivals to a mail disk.PKT
files. They must be of type `C` and their name
must consist only of hexadecimal
new numbers.
Launch the tosser (Mail tosser from the main
new menu). After the tosser has opened
retries incoming mail - you can launch the
der (Mail reader).
There are always two echo areas:
.NETMAIL - area of personal correspondence, and
.PERSONAL - copies of letters from conferences,
addressed to your name. Others with
requirements will be created automatically in
tossing process.
If you wrote something, then your letter
will be written to a standard .PKT file and
will appear in the appropriate mail section -
le. If you are not satisfied with something in your
letter - you can delete or edit
Rotate it (see the description of the reader commands).
The output file has type`P`and the first sym-
ox name - `L`. Three numbers after the symbol
`L` correspond to the number of the uplink node, which
to whom the .PKT file is addressed. After that you
you can simply send this file to the uplink,
indicating that it is a standard .PKT file.
COLOR SETTING
ZED allows you to change the colors of all organi-
new management. The third one is for this purpose.
setup operation section.
When selecting the color adjustment operation
a screen with samples appears in front of you and
names of all ZED controls. Next
there is an arrow, moving which
you can install this or that organ
management and its part. Color Changes
will occur for the selected organ.
Arrows are used to move
keys CS-6,CS-7 (arrows). To change
ink colors - o, r keys. To change
background colors - q,a. Attributes of intensity and
flickering is also established periodically
ki.
FULL SCREEN TEXTEDITOR
--- Contents
Editing and recording a message
Inserting a text file
Editing message header
Editor control keys
--- Editing and recording a message
The editor works in a window of 18 lines by 64
symbol. The input occurs in the position mi-
blinking cursor, while the current line
expands and the character you enter is placed
to the vacant place. Upon reaching
right border of the text editing window
automatically reformats to fit width
windows.
Used to move the cursor
arrows. To turn pages - press
Vichy CS-2 and CS-3. To delete a line -
SS-E. To delete a characterCS-9 or CS-0.
Switch keyboard to Russian language
you can press EXT,2 to standard mode
- EXT,1.
After finishing editing or editing
Then press EDIT (CS-1). while in front of
You will see a menu containing operations:
* Save message - write a message,
* Drop message - drop message,
* Continue editing - continue editing
tion.
To select an operation, just press
highlighted letter. (THE KEYBOARD
MUST BE IN MAIN MODE -
EXT,1). Simply pressing Enter is equivalent to
Save Message operations.
The recorded message appears on your email.
on the disk as a separate .PKT file.
The file has the extension `P` and its name begins
is found with the symbol `L`, which is recognized
com local .PKT file. Three digits, followed by
The ones following the `L` symbol indicate the numbernode of your uplink that will need
send this file.
--- Inserting a text file
You can insert arbitrary text
new file to the cursor position. In this case the file
must exist on your mail dis-
ke.
Place the cursor on the desired line and
press EXT,f. A window will appear in front of you with
requesting a file name. Enter a name and press
press Enter.
If the file is too large, it will
trimmed to the edge available for the buffer
memory editing. In general, I am this re-
I haven’t tested the bench much, so be careful
Avoid inserting files larger than 5
kilobyte
If in the inserted file the symbol is not
the line translation is LF (OxOA), then
the inserted text will be written unchanged.
If CR (OxOD) - then all line breaks
will be replaced with spaces, and the text will be written
is sewn in a continuous mass.--- Editing the message header
Sometimes there is a need to change
fields in the message header. For this purpose
Just press EXT,h while in the mode
full screen editor. At the same time, you
you drop into the title editing window,
where you can re-enter or edit
enter any fields. More about editing
For the title, see the reader description.
--- Editor control keys
CS-1 - output.
CS-2 - page up.
CS-3 - page down.
CS-5 - cursor to the left.
CS-6 - cursor down.
CS-7 - cursor up.
CS-8 - cursor to the right.CS-9 - deleting the character under the cursor or
splicing lines.
CS-0 - deleting the character in front of the cursor.
SS-Q - cursor to the beginning of the line.
SS-W - cursor to the end of the line.
SS-E - deleting a line.
Enter - new line.
EXT,f - insert a text file starting from
current line.
EXT,h - edit the message title.
UUE SECTION EXTRACTOR
The extractor is used to remove sections
UU-encoded files from the mail database.
(See the description of UUEncoder for an understanding of the
Go, what is UUE).
During operation, the extractor is inspected
witsindexes of all echo areas of the mail
database and analyzes each message for
subject to the appearance of UUE section signs.
A sign is the presence of the line "section
N" from the first position.
If such a string is found, the extractor
analyzes the section number and file name, co-
held in this line, and places all
the text of the original message to a file that has
name
These are the names that UUDecoder understands
ZED. Output files are created on the same
mail disk, the same as the mail database. If
the file being created already exists - leaving
the old one is crying.
KEY FEATURES OF ZED * Full-featured mail editor,
supporting all traditional functions
FTN editors:
- quick viewing of the list of letters and quick
switching echo areas;
- all possible types of responses to a message;
- quoting and header templates;
- viewing kludges;
- recording a message and inserting text, re-
editing and deleting what has already been recorded
messages;
- color highlighting of sections of the letter;
- viewing messages up to 16-20 ki-
lobyte;
- automatic text formatting when
input and viewing with saving quotation and
color highlights;
* Tosser that allows you to hold mail
database in the form of source .PKT files, which
will save disk space.
A standard disk contains an average of 200
400 letters, which is quite acceptable for daily use
a lot of traffic.* Sorting by date of writing and linking
writing letters by topic within the echo
areas.
* Remembering the pointer of the last other
tannoy letter for each echo area.
* Weekend local emails are received
immediately in the form of standard ones, ready for
sending .PKT files.
* Supports up to four bosses - uplinks,
with automatic routing of response messages
tions through the appropriate address.
* Personal echo area where you copy
links to messages addressed to
to you. Reply from this area automatically
falls into the desired echo area.
* Configurable list of echo areas.
*Automatic removal option
read .PKT files.
* UUEncoder, automatically splitting
encoded file into blocks of 100 lines and
placing it directly into the selected
echo area as ready to send
.PKT file. Possibility of automatic
conversionto a HOBETA format file in pro-
coding process.
* UUDecoder, allowing automatic
extract encrypted blocks from mail
bases. Files are automatically recognized
HOBETA format and are recorded ready for
using TR-DOS format.
* Address book.
* Customize colors, templates, everything
tal.
* In addition - a full set of ASCII characters
fishing, three keyboard modes, windowed inter-
face, text mode 64x25.
EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS
* ZX Spectrum compatible computer. ZED
tested on all specs available to me and on
all emulators.
* 48 kilobytes of RAM. More
no need - ZED only uses 48 kilo-
byte.
* At least one TR-DOS drive. Better EU-
either two, or a hard drive with two TR-DOS times
things to do, but it’s quite possiblelive on one
disk drive.
Files contained on the system
ZED disk
--- Executable files
zed С - the main ZED module.
zed.addr С - address book manager.
zed.amgr С - echo area manager.
zed.edit С - full-screen editor.
zed.help С - help.
zed.pkt С - operations with .PKT files.
zed.read С - reader.
zed.sort С - sorting and linking.
zed.tossC - tosser.
zed.tune С - settings.
zed.uuen С - UUEncoder.
zed.uude С - UUDecoder.
*.sys С - loaded libraries.
--- Information files
zed.face С - screensaver in SCREEN$ format.
zed.kbd1 С - keyboard layout YTSUKEN
zed.kbd2 С - YAVERT keyboard layout
zed.menu С - ZED main menu.
hlp.* C - help text files.
--- Files created automatically
zed.area С - list of echo areas.
zed.book С - address book.
zed.sets С - settings and settings.
REINITIALIZATION OF MAIL DISK
In the process of real work it is rarely possible to
to avoid mistakes. No one is guaranteed
for example, from an unexpected power outage
Tania, or partial corruption of data on the disk
in case of failures.
The operation of reinitializing the mail dis-
which allows you to prepare previously processed
a new floppy disk for the repeated tossing operation.
This most often helps with corrupted indexes
postal base.
During the reinitialization process, they are deleted
all previously built indexes, all files with
extension `P` is renamed to `C`,
after which the compaction process starts
data on disk.
After reinitialization you can again
run the tosser, which will re-build
all indexes.
TERMINALZED uses standard ASCII set
characters plus Cyrillic alphabet in alternative
encoding The symbol table corresponds
adopted for IBM compatible computers,
which ensures almost complete
receptivity of texts.
In accordance with FIDO standards, in
table, the symbol H (0x8D) is replaced by the Latin
symbol H (0x48), p (0xE0) in Latin
English character p (0x70).
All commands using ASCII-
characters must be typed in basic mode
layouts (EXT,1). Current mode is always
visible on the right side of the bottom status bar.
The keyboard can operate in three modes
max: standard, Russian and graphic.
Switching is carried out via EXT-
digit (1,2,3). Common to all modes
Viature commands and keyboard layout
in all modes are given below.
General control/edit keys
CS-1 - cancel or exit
CS-2 - page up
CS-3 - page down
CS-5 - cursor to the left
CS-6 - cursor down
CS-7 - cursor up
CS-8 - cursor to the right
CS-9 - deleting the character under the cursor
CS-0 - deleting the character before the cursor
SS-Q - cursor to the beginning of the line
SS-W - cursor to the end of the line
SS-E - deleting a line
Additional keys
q - up one position/line
a - down one position/line
w - page up/back
s - page down/forward
Keyboard mode
EXT,1 - main English layout
keyboards
EXT,2 - Russian-language keyboard layout
ry. In this mode, the keyboard operates in
depending on what is set in the settings
mode: YTSUKEN or YAVERTY (see below)
EXT,3 - pseudographics input mode
Russian keyboard mode YTSUKEN.
The first character is the original key,
the second is the symbol obtained jointly
pressing with Symbol Shift, the third is the main one
printable character.
Русский режим клавиатуры ЯВЕРТЫ
Псевдографический режим клавиатуры
Псевдографика в режиме Symbol Shift
Что нового в текущей версии?
--- Версия 1.02/Beta
- Еще один глюк в тоссере с именами эх
исправлен.- A similar glitch with importing eh into
area manager.
--- Version 1.01/Beta
- Exit via Quit jumps to tr-dos.
- Fixed a glitch in the tosser, due to which
rogo conferences with similar names are valid
went into one.
- Fixed a glitch with entering AKA in the setup.
It was not possible to enter an empty string.
- Fixed a glitch with entering the uplink address
in the list of echo areas.
- Fixed entry into the address field of the jujukalka.
- Maximum size of the uploaded file
increased to ~45 kg.
--- Version 1.0/Beta
- The very first version in the world :)Deleting read packages
ZED can automatically analyze,
which of the .PKT files of the mail database are already
read by you, and delete half of the disk
fully read mail files.
In the process of work, information is viewed
dex of the mail database, the indexes are analyzed
current message for each echo
areas. This creates a list of .PKT
files that you have read in full,
which are then deleted from the disk. When
this is the current letter in each area on
in any case it is considered not yet read-
nom.
After removing read packages
The contents of the disk are compacted.
After this you can, for example, write
newly received mail to this disk and
start the tosser. New messages will be up to
added to existing ones. At the same time, everything indicated
The contents of current messages will be saved.
If you then run the operation
sorting, then only
new, unread messages.Questions and answers
I foresee that questions will arise...
much more. It just seems to me that these
questions will arise first.
--- How to find out which echo the letter came from
to a personal echo?
Click in the reader EXT, p. On the screen
Cludges letters will appear. The most
the first line of text will contain the name
conference, if the letter is not
fishing
--- How to reply with netmail?
Click EXT,o in the reader (answer in another
echo - areas). In the menu that appears, select
those area .NETMAIL.
--- How to create a message archive?
Login to the Echo Areas Manager
list in the main menu). Click EDIT(CS-1),
Append new record. Enter the name of the archive-
no region. To place a letter in the archive -
new area use EXT,f in the reader
(Forward). I would like to note that the archived
the section will appear in the reader only after checking
singa.
--- How to connect to FIDO?
See the section about FIDO in this
documentation. In general, everyone has their own
way. :)
--- Is it possible to work with zed having one dis-
driver?
Yes, you can. You just have to every now and then
change floppy disks. I can give you one more useful
nal advice. If you want to read and write
without changing floppy disks ten times - copy-
there are two files on the zip disk - zed.edit and
zed.read. Start from the system disk
you launch the reader, change the disk to
new and calmly read and write.
--- How to write a letter to the echo area, which
isn't on the list?
Create an area in the echo manager
Areas list, insert a blank
disk into the mail drive, run tos-
ser, in order to create a list of areas
tey. Log in to the reader and write a letter.
--- Can I use ZED with a node-
what's your address?
Who's stopping? ZED - full-fledged editor-
torus The only limitation is its tosser
cannot support downlinks.
--- Is it possible to change the area titles
.NETMAIL and .PERSONAL?
It's possible. Use the echo manager
Areas list.
--- Is it possible to get rid of the initial
tags with the author's face?
Hmmm... easy. Just delete the file
zed.face from the system disk.READER
--- Contents
Launch
Reading messages
Input message
Reply to message
Write the current message to disk
Deleting a message
Using the address book
Reader control keys
--- Launch
Readeractivated when selecting from
main menu of the Mail Reader operation. Immediately
after loading the reader appears on the screen
window requesting a mail floppy disk. If you
you have two disk drives, and you have installed
figuration zip drive b: - simple
insert the disk with the mail database there. If
you have a system with one disk drive - place-
remove the system disk to a mail disk, or, if necessary,
is your mail located on the system
disk - just press Enter.
ZED will try to find on the mail drive
message database indexes created by toss
rum If he fails, you return
go to the main menu. If you succeed - for-
loads a list of echo areas into memory,
available on the disk, and you enter the mode
viewing letters where the letter is installed and
echo area where you stopped
the last time, or the first letter from the region
ty .NETMAIL.
--- Reading messages
The title is always displayed at the top of the screen.
wok of the current message, where you can see
enter the following fields:
* current echo section in the window title,
* date of writing the message in the right hour
title,
* From: - the author of the letter and his network ad-
res,
* That: - the recipient and his address, if any -
xia,
* Subj: - subject of the letter,
* if you have performed the linking operation,
then on the right side of the title window can
one or two arrows will appear that
talk about the position of the letter in the chain of communication
Zey.
To move to another echo area from
available, you need to press EXT. At the same time,
A menu will appear in front of you with a list of all
available conferences, the number of messages
tion in each andnumber of unread
messages, including the current one. Just choose-
choose the desired area using the keys
q,a,w,s or arrows and press Enter. For
To cancel the selection, press EDIT (CS-1).
To quickly view the contents of the echo
area, press EXT,l. This will cause
run menu with a list of messages in the current
echo areas. The fields From, Then are visible in the list
and Subj. For control use the same
commands as in the previous case.
ATTENTION! IN NO EVENT CHANGE THE
PRODUCT DISKETTE IN THE PROCESS OF VIEWING AND RE-
EMAIL DACTING, THIS MAY RESULT IN
IRREVERSIBLE DATA CORRUPTION.
If you want to replace the mail disk -
that - exit to the main menu by pressing EDIT
(CS-1) and start the reader again.
--- Entering a message
To enter a new message into the current one
echo area press EXT,i. Immediately after
This will take you to the editing window.
the title of your letter. From and
date of creation of the letterare installed auto-
mathematically using your config
walkie-talkies and are not editable.
The From field is automatically written
"All" if you are writing a letter to the conference
tion, and an empty line - if in .NETMAIL. you
you can edit this field as you wish
desire. If you enter a message into
.NETMAIL authorities, then you must also specify the
address of the addressee in the corresponding
le.
When entering an address, generally accepted rules apply.
for FTN editors, the abbreviation agreement
niyah. The full address is calculated from your
address (AKA) set for the current
conference using the entered
data. For example:
My address: 2:5010/14.7
Introduced | Result
---------------+--------------
.1 | 2:5010/14.1
32 | 2:5010/32
77.7 | 2:5010/77.7
5030/1 | 2:5030/1
5020/88.8 | 2:5020/88.8
1:543/16.7895 | 1:543/16.7895 Полностью
| введенные
2:50/343 | 2:50/343 адреса.
После заполнения поля Subj вы попадаете
в окно редактирования текста. При этом в
текст автоматически вставляются все шабло-
ны приветствий-прощаний и технические по-
ля, такие как Origin и Tearline, которые
также доступны для редактирования.
--- Reply to message
The following response options are available:
messages:
* simple answer in the same echo section with
quotation addressed to the author of the current
messages,
* response-comment addressed to
satu messages,
* response in another echo section,
* forwarding a letter - creating a copy
letters with notes about the original position
writing a letter in the echo area of your choice from
your name.
See the description of the control keys below. B
for each answer option you also get
to the title editing window with already
complete, but accessible for editing
fields.--- Write the current message to disk
If you want to save the current message
Writing in a text file on disk is easy
press EXT,s. The letter will be saved to
current mail drive named saved.n,
where n is the number of the recorded letter. Numbers-
tion of letters end-to-end within one disk.
At the beginning of the file is written in text
format all the information from the header. Re-
water lines in the text - one character LF
(OxOA).
--- Deleting a message
You can delete anything you wrote
message. To do this, use the keys
EXT,d. In this case, a confirmation request is displayed.
waiting, and after that the .PKT letter file
physically removed from the disk. Index
the link to this letter is not destroyed,
by installing this letter in the reader you will see
message "Message deleted".
--- Using the address book
You can use the data from the address-
book when editing the title in
.NETMAIL areas. This feature allows
Instead of manually entering the recipient's name,
just indicate his address. The name will fit into the
heads automatically. To do this:
* the file with addresses must be located on
current disk,
* the recipient name field must be empty
(you can use SS-E to clean
input fields).
READER CONTROL KEYS
--- View messages
q,a,CS-7,CS-6 - line of text up -
down.
w,s,CS-2,CS-3 - text page up -
down.
o,p,CS-5,CS-8 - previous - next
message.
d - switch parts of the message. Works
if the message does not fit into the memory of the
face.
+ (SS-k) - next letter in the chain
subj.
- (SS-j) - the previous message in the thread.
It only works if an operation has been performed
tion Link after mail tossing.
--- Switching
EXT, and is a list of available echo areas. On
a menu appears on the screen from which you can
You can select the desired echo conference. Cancel
select - Edit (CS-1).
EXT,l - list of messages in the current echo
areas. the menu that appears shows
fields From, That, Subj. You can choose the one you need
message by pressing enter. Cancel - CS-1.EXT,with - enable/disable display of kludges.
--- Operations
EXT,i - write a new letter in the current one
echo areas (conferences).
EXT,q - reply to the current letter.
EXT,о - reply to the current message in another
goy echo area. The same operation allows
reply to a letter from their echo area netmay-
scrap If you are answering from personal
section, the letter will be automatically placed
inserted into the desired active echo area.
EXT,g - comment on the current message.
Similar to EXT,q, but the letter is not addressed
to the author, but to the addressee.
EXT,f - forward. The current letter is placed
to the echo area you select and is suppliednotes about the original.
EXT,e - edit the current message.
EXT,d - delete the current message. Yup-
Only local messages are reported.
EXT,s - write the current message to the
current mail disk. Messages are recorded -
with names saved.0, saved.1, etc.
Numbering within the disk.
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS
The ZED setup procedure is available from
main menu (Type ZED settings). Herself
The setting function is a 3-way
page notepad with three bookmarks. Pe-
Notepad pages are switched
keys CS2, CS-3. Exit to main menu
can be done using the EDIT key (CS-1).
All settings are recorded on the system
disk to the zed.sets file. ZED is looking for this file
when it starts, and if it finds it, read it
extracts all settings from it and saves it inresident memory throughout
work session. If this file does not exist, it is
is created automatically, and into it
default settings are recorded.
SORTING AND LINKING
Sorting and linking operations are not
mandatory. They are simply for convenience.
presentation of information in the message database
scheniya.
--- Sorting
After mail tossing, the messages are located
are listed in the database in the order of their appearance during
viewing .PKT files with a tosser. In other words
by you - in random order. Read this
the base is inconvenient, because often the answer to some
or the letter appears before the letter itself
ma. In order to provide a database of messages
in chronological order you can
use the sort operation.
Select the Sort and link operation from
main menu, and then Sort from the appeared-
Xia menu. A message will appear on the screen with
mail disk request.If you have one
disk drive... (oh God, how tired I am...
say the same thing for the fifth time)... then change it
system floppy disk to mail diskette. If two -
just insert the mail floppy according to
corresponding drive.
ZED reviews built by tosser
index sequentially for each echo
partition and builds a new index according to
tion with the dates of creation of messages. When
This uses the "sorting by" algorithm
place", which made it possible to abandon the use
use of additional disk
space.
Sorting takes place taking into account already
letters you read within one
echo section. Those. only multi-sorted
a lot of unread letters.
--- Binding
It is often interesting to follow
dialogue within one topic (Subj). You can-
You can easily do this if you use
are involved in the linking operation.
Select the Sort operation from the main menu
and link and then - Link. ZED view all
indices,will analyze the topics in each con-
preferences, and will collect letters under the same
topics into related chains. After that in
reader you can see on the right side
header arrow links to previous or
the next letter in the chain, if such
exist. Movement along chains in the reader
carried out using the "+" and "-" keys.
TIME AND DATE
ZED includes a clock and a calendar
donation necessary for dating again
created letters. You enter the current time
name and date when logging into ZED, and also have
the opportunity to change or clarify these data -
nye in the process of work.
The time value is entered in 24-hour
format. Date value in Number format
Month-Year.
The calendar and clock are always displayed in
top right corner of the screen. Clock meaning
updated every 2 seconds. Calendar
correctly controls the transition to new
day, new year, and even a century :). Correct
nuances related to
leap year, including the 400th year
cycle.The clock and calendar are naturally synchronized
equipped with a timer. Almost everything
TR-DOS disk operations prohibit interruptions
Vania, causing the timer to move shamelessly.
Therefore, I strongly recommend correcting
watch after any long disco
operations such as tossing, sorting
ka, etc.
TEMPLATES
Templates are mainly used for
forming a new letter. Templates can
contain macros (characters starting with
%) which, when substituted into a letter, replace
are based on information from the source letter,
from the settings.
There are two mandatory technical
template. This is Origin (information about the source)
nick of letter) and Tearline ("cut line",
symbolizing the end of the information part
letters). In Origin, it is best to specify your
information about the name of your postal station
or organization. In Tearline most often
indicates the name of the program that created
message.
Besides youyou can according to your taste
create templates that will be used
us when creating a new message, or sending
you believe in what exists. Template text length
must not exceed 128 characters.
To change the template text, you need to select
Select the desired line in the menu and press Enter.
At the same time, in the editing window, the lower hour-
A flashing cursor appears on the screen and you
you can edit the text. To return to
The menu is served by the EDIT key (CS-1).
* Greetings
Greetings. The template text will be
be included in all created messages in
their very beginning.
* Signature
Signature. The template will be inserted into
all messages at the very end, before the technical
ical strings Tearline and Origin.
* Normal answer
Note for normal answer to
letter. Will be inserted after the hello
in response to a letter in the current conference
rents (EXT,q in the reader).
* Comment message
Note for comment. Will
inserted after the greeting in the body of the letter
- comment (EXT,g in the reader).
* Answer then another area
Note to reply to another echo
areas. Will be inserted after hello
tions and before other notes (for
EXT,o in the reader).
* Forward header Header template for forwarding. Will
inserted at the very beginning of the created letter
(EXT,f in the reader).
In all templates except Origin and
Tearline can be used as follows
macros:
%D - Date of creation of the current message. Those.
the letter you are replying to.
%A - Name of the echo area you are from
answer.
%J - Subject - subject of the current letter.
%S1 - Your first name (from User name to
system settings).
%S2 - Your middle name (apparently your last name).
%F1 - First name in the field From current
letters.
%F2 - Second name in the field From current
letters. Replaced with an empty string in case
due to absence.
%T1 - The first name in the field That of the current entry
ma.
%T2 - The second name in the field That of the current entry
ma.
TOSSER
The tosser is intended for preparing
obtained .PKT files for operations pre-
motrennym in ZED. Tosser does not create a separate
new message database, but builds an index to the already
available real .PKT files.When you start the tosser, a
A window appears asking for a mail floppy disk.
If you have a system with one disk drive -
Replace the system floppy disk with a mail diskette.
If with two - just insert the postal
disk to the appropriate drive. After
pressing Enter begins the tossing process.
Tosser views the contents of the mail
floppy disk howling for new ones, not yet
indexed .PKT files, i.e. fi-
fishing in whose name there are only
hexadecimal digit characters (0-
9,ABCDEF), and which are of type `C`. Having found
such a file tosser reads its header,
and checks the recipient's suitability, i.e.
looks through all your addresses, installed-
in the settings, and compares them with the address
recipient's information contained in the .PKT file.
If at least one of the addresses is suitable -
The indexing process begins.
Next, the tosser is sequentially examined
reads the contents of the .PKT file and tries to
determine the relevance of each message
one of the available echo areas. If
does not find suitable areas - automatic
creates them personally. You can prepare in advance
get a list of the echo areas you need
using Area manager functions from main
menu. The echoes listed in this list
areas will bebe on the list
product base always.
In the mail database list, be sure to include
There are two areas - .NETMAIL - area
for personal messages, and .PERSONAL - about-
pocket for copies of letters addressed to va-
your name.
During the tossing process, the tosser is renamed
produces processed .PKT files with the extension
`C` to `P` and writes to the same mail
disk all indexes. The file AREAS.C contains
list of all echo sections included in
disk mail database. ECHO files.??.? pre-
constitute the actual index. Total
The totality of all listed files is
mail database (hereinafter referred to simply as mail)
tow base).
Although I tried to optimize as much as possible
Manage disk space usage
property, it is obvious that the index files are some
they take that place. Therefore, in beating
do not record any collisions on the
The current disk contains more than 400 kilobytes of mail.
You can use the same
floppy disk to accommodate the newly arrived
mail. In this case, the tosser will simply increase
remove the index without touching it earlierindexed mail. If you have
modest traffic, you can generally use
to create the only mail floppy disk, time
from time to time using the delete operation
read packages and adding to it
newly received.
During the tossing process, the screen displays
information about the current message and
statistics on the number of viewed pa-
kets, total number of letters, number
personal and personal messages. After
ZED tossing ends automatically
returns to the main menu.
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
Setting the system configuration is
the first thing you should do when starting out is
chat with ZED. Here are the main
network and technical characteristics of your
systems.
* User name
Your name, which will be used in
the From field of the messages you wrote, and
also for copying personal letters
fromecho conferences. This name must be entered
necessarily in Latin characters, in
sequence first name, last name. Use
use your real name, transliterate
bathroom in English letters, because rules
many echo conferences are not allowed
use of pseudonyms.
* Main address
Your network address.
* AKA 1 ... AKA 3
Up to three additional addresses (AKA -
Also Known As). Only used in
in case you have more than one boss -
uplink. One address must match
one uplink. For each echo area you
you can specify one of the ad-words entered here
res.
* Host drive, Mail drive
Drives for system and mail
disks. If you have a system with onedisco
water - you must indicate in both cases
a:, otherwise it is better to use drive a:
for the system drive and b: for the mail drive.
* Keyboard layout
Keyboard layout. ZED provides
There are two types of keyboards that work in
Russian mode - YTSUKEN and YAVERTY. First
option corresponds to the standard layout
dark typewriter keyboard, second
allows you to interpret Latin letters
and match them with similar Russian-
skies. The first layout is set by EU-
Do you have Russian on your keyboard?
letters in the YTSUKEN sequence. Second
- if Russian letters are not printed. (See
Keyboard section for more details
acquaintance with layouts).
When moving to another settings section
(CS-2,CS-3) or exit to the main menu
(EDIT, CS-1) all settings are written to
disk to the zed.sets file.
UUDecoder
UUDecoder allows you to restorebinary
nal file from UUE - ASCII encoded
file (See description of UUEncoder for understanding -
knowledge of what UUE is).
UUE encoded files must be found
be located on the mail disk, and have an expanded
tion `U`. Last three characters of name
must indicate the number of the section located-
in the file. Those. in one file there should be
only one coded sec-
tion. For example
File 1.U
File 2.U
...
File 23.U
File 24.U
Immediately after launching UUDecoder in front of you
A window will appear asking for a mail drive.
Insert a disk with UUE sections, and click
Enter.
ZED will view the contents of the disk, analyze
Zizes all existing `U` files. At the same time
will be calculatedapproximate size you-
source binary file and verified the
Coding density. All files for cat
If there are all the necessary sections will be
included in the menu from which you can
select the desired file.
After selecting a file, its decoding begins.
roving. The resulting file is written
to the same disk as the original UUE files.
Checksums during decoding process
are not controlled.
At the beginning of decoding, the
the file's belonging to HOBETA is verified
format (See description of UUEncoder for understanding
mania of what HOBETA is). If found
the HOBETA file is destroyed, it is automatically converted
the header parameters of the received
binary file according to the header
com HOBETA. If the file is not in HOBETA format,
then the resulting file will have the same name,
that both the encoded one and the symbol of its type
will match the first character of the race
extension of the encoded file.
UUEncoder
--- Contents What is UUE?
What is HOBETA?
UUEncoder ZED
Working with UUEncoder
--- What is UUE?
UUE conversion allows you to convert
any binary file in ASCII format, provided
suitable, for example, for subsequent shipment
ki by email. To use
The UUE of the encoded file needs to be returned
converting it to binary format.
During the encoding process, every input three
byte using bit shifts of the conversion
are stored in four bytes, each of which
then the value 32 is added (pro-
bel), and thus at the exit from each
three binary bytes equals four bytes
ASCII.
The resulting stream is converted to strings
characters.First character of each line
denotes the number of binary bytes in
line. The received text is divided into sec.
tions, for each of which it is calculated
checksum. It is also calculated
total checksum for the entire file
lu.
The encoded file may contain empty
lines. When converted back they
will simply be ignored.
--- What is HOBETA?
In general, HOBETA is a well-known program
for reading and writing TR-DOS disks on IBM-
compatible computers. File format,
obtained on IBM from TR-DOS files of this
program, has become the de facto standard for
sharing ZX Spectrum files via electronic
ny networks.
The HOBETA file contains at the beginning a 17-byte
header that allows adequate restoration
insert TR-DOS file no matter how
converted HOBETA file name. Heading
has the following structure:
TR-DOS file name, 8 bytes
file type, 1 byte
start address, 2 bytes
length in bytes, 2 bytes
reserve byte. always 0.
number of sectors, 1 byte
checksum, 2 bytes
The checksum is calculated according to this itself -
this title, and it is by this that it is determined
the file belongs to the HOBETA format.
ZED supports automatic conversion
converting encoded files into HOBETA format and
back, so you most likely don't have
there will be problems with conversions to
real spec.
--- UUEncoder ZED UUEncoder ZED allows you to automatically
place the encoded file in the desired echo
area for further sending to the network.
In this case, the text received by UUE is automatically
ki is divided into sections of 100 lines.
Each section is placed in a separate message
tion that has a unique MSGID parameter.
All received messages are grouped into
one .PKT file, which is in the database index
messages are not included.
The output file, as usual, is of type `P`,
the first character of the name `L`, as a sign of lo-
cable package, and the uplink node number -
recipient, immediately after `L`.
For each section and the file as a whole, calculations
checksums are generated, which corresponds
Complies with all UUE coding standards.
The resulting code has been tested on everyone
available at my disposal UU-
decoders. No problems with decoding
nothing arose.
--- Working with UUEncoder
Prepare the file you want to publish
rejoice, and burn it to a zip disk. Please note that the encoder uses
le length of the file in bytes for encoding, and
not a size field in sectors. Therefore these
the parameters in the file header should
match.
Launch the encoder from the menu: PKT Tools ->
UUEncode binary file. Will appear before you
menu with a list of echo areas to which you
you can put the file. This list is taken
not from the postal database index, but from the list
echo area manager. If you need an echo
area is not in the list - you must use
be called the echo area manager for her
creation (Areas list in the main menu).
After selecting the desired echo area in front of you
the data entry window for coding appears
nia. You must specify:
* Hobeta?
If `Y` is specified here then the file before
encoding will be converted to format
HOBETA. If N - the file will be encoded in
the form in which it is stored on disk. B
in the latter case, the recipient will not be able to
restore the correct TR-DOS name and old
tovyfile address, so this option
Moeno should only be used in cases where
when these parameters have no meaning.
* File
Filename TR-DOS. You must enter co-
Correct TR-DOS file name. The file must be
walk on the mail disk. If ZED it
does not detect - a message about
error. The file name must contain the symbol
extensions in 9th position. If the name is less
8 characters long - remaining space
filled with spaces.
* Fake name
Filename to be used
as a result when decoding into
IBM-compatible systems. This name should
have no more than 8 characters in the name and 3 in
separated by an extension point. In most
In most cases, ZED itself converts the name TR-
DOS into a valid format and pastes into it
field, so you just have to click
Enter.
*Then
Field That: the message header that
will be used for each generation
the message being sent.
* Address
Recipient's address. Only used
in case of sending a vile via netmail, i.e. in
.NETMAIL area.
* Subject
Subject for the header of the letter. By default
The line from the Fake field is inserted here
name, but it's better to enter a few words here
to explain what is in the code
file. When generating messages,
Edit this line in the Subject field will be
insert a section counter in the form [x/y],
where x is the number of the current section, y is the general
number of sections.
To cancel coding, just press
EDIT (CS-1) being in the first or last
there is no input field.If you press Enter while in the last
field - encoding and generation will begin
.PKT file. The number of the generated section is displayed
appears in the bottom status line.
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