Presentation - Zed cache v1.01

Black Crow #02
 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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