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- Chapter 1 Introduction
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- What is AceComm?
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- AceComm is a communications program especially designed for today's high speed
- modems. AceComm provides a default setup that is ready to run with most Hayes
- compatible modems. The AceComm package contains a modem install utility, that
- will install most Hayes compatible modems into AceComm.
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- AceComm supports a macro driven keyboard which features complete key
- redefinition. AceComm's macro language provides the user a powerful interface
- to the AceComm internal functions, as well as many computer services.
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- AceComm's terminal area provides a key driven and or menu driven interface.
- With AceComm's key-redef and macro language, complete control over any complex
- task is just a key press away.
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- AceComm supports user definable menus. Menus that can be made to display and
- offer user definable functions. Menus that are available as popup menus at any
- time from the terminal area.
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- AceComm supports an internal point mail system which uses the EMSI handshake
- protocol.
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- A time (event) scheduler supports the point mail system and any other automated
- process the user wants to define. The scheduler is capable of beginning and
- ending events as they come around on the clock.
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- An automatic script generating function can record complex on line sessions
- to script files needing little to know editing.
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- Intelligent Auto Log On Technology (tm) is capable of automating log on.
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- QUICK START
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- QUICK START INSTRUCTIONS FOR AceComm & Utilities
- Last revised 1/16/94
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- Distribution DISK
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- The AceComm package is distributed in a compressed format. The compression
- utility used with AceComm is the current version of LHA (this writing LHA213).
- AceComm package and sub-packages are compressed as SelF eXtracting "SFX"
- files. This means the compressed file "ARCHIVE" uses an .EXE file extension.
- This SFX format allows you the user to simply type the name of an archive. The
- archive's SFX code will execute, and extract the files to their un-compressed
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- Electronic Distribution
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- Many BBS systems will store the distributed SFX file inside an archive envelope
- of their default archive. The AceComm BBS provides the AceComm package in ARJ
- and ZIP format. SFX files as described above are appropriately renamed and
- contained inside the main package, as regular compressed files.
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- INSTALL.BAT
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- The easiest way to AceComm is to just run INSTALL.BAT. The batch file will run
- ACTL.EXE. ACTL.EXE assembles ACE.CTL into ACE.PRM. ACE.CTL is an ascii
- control file that can be edited with any text editor or created later with the
- PRM2CTL.EXE utility (included). ACTL creates sub directories defined inside
- ACE.CTL. Directories defined in the default setup are CAP, FON, FILES, KTS,
- SCR, and MAIL. INSTALL.BAT copies FON files into FON, KTS files into KTS, DOC
- files into a DOC sub directories. INSTALL.BAT then runs ACE.EXE All setup data
- can be configured from inside AceComm. Install.bat will get you up and
- running, you may need to set the com port to match that of your modem.
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- AceComm (tm)
- AceComm version 1.81
- Copyright (c) 1991-1994 by MGP Software.
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