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- SZSUP - Szmodem supplemental utilities package
- By Scott M. Baker
-
- NOTE: This is PART 2 of the szmodem distribution package. To use szmodem
- you will need PART 1 as well. The filename for part 1 of the package is
- name SZMODxxx.ZIP where xxx is the version number. Example: SZMOD160.ZIP.
-
-
- What is in the SZSUP package?
-
-
- SZMOD286.EXE - (no longer included - the szmodem contained in
- SZMODxxx.ZIP is now 286+ only)
-
- SZTELIX.ARJ - Contains a sample setup for the Telix communications
- program.
-
- SZMAX.ARJ - Contains a sample setup for use with the Maxiumus
- bbs software.
-
- SZMODEM.TRV - This has SZModem's trivia bank for the internal
- trivia game.
-
- ROCK&POP.TRV - This file includes an alternate set of trivia questions
- provided by Michael Crosson of the Carrier Detect
- Journal. Rename it to SZMODEM.TRV if you wish to use
- it.
-
- APPLYCFG.EXE - This is a small utility which allows you to automatically
- apply a SZCFG.DAT file to an SZMODEM.EXE file without
- using szconfig.exe.
-
- LOGANA.EXE - Log Analizer for SZMODEM.LOG. Pretty wimpy capabilities
- at this stage, but it does provide some useful
- information.
-
- APPLYCFG
- --------
-
- For those of you who have a reason to use APPLYCFG, it can be
- a nice convenience. For those of you who don't need it, ignore it.
- APPLYCFG is a utility that will apply a saved SZCFG.DAT to a
- SZMODEM.EXE file automatically. It can be run from a batch file without
- problem. Why would you want to do this? Here are a few reasons:
-
- 1) My reason. I am constantly re-compiling szmodem with changes
- and it got to be a real pain to have to re-enter all of
- my configuration data. So what I did was save the data to
- a SZCFG.DAT file once I had it set just right. Then whenever
- I re-compile, I run a batch file to apply the SZCFG.DAT to the
- newly compiled SZMODEM.EXE.
-
- 2) Page Hours. You could set up two SZCFG.DAT files. Lets call
- them SZCFG1.DAT and SZCFG2.DAT. In SZCFG1.DAT, you enable
- paging while in SZCFG2.DAT, you disable it. Then, by setting
- up an "event" with your bbs or front-end, you can automatically
- apply SZCFG1 when you want to be pageable and SZCFG2 when
- you don't.
-
- 3) Different protocol options. Suppose you want to have two
- entries for szmodem on your bbs with different options. Similar
- to #2 above, you could create two configuration files and
- then apply them when needed to change your options. It beats
- having to specify all of the settings on the command line.
-
- If you want to make multiple SZCFG files, you'll have to rename
- them when you run SZCONFIG.EXE because SZCONFIG.EXE will only read or
- write the file SZCFG.DAT. (i.e. you'd have to rename SZCFG1.DAT to
- SZCFG.DAT and then back again after you were done).
-
- APPLYCFG can accept up to two parameters:
-
- First Parameter: The name of the SZCFG file to apply
- Second Parameter: The name of the SZMODEM.EXE file to apply
-
- For example,
-
- APPLYCFG SZCFG1.DAT d:\protocols\szmodem.exe
-
- APPLYCFG is basically a utility I wrote for myself (reason #1
- above), but if you need it, it can be pretty useful.
-
- SZTelix - A telix configuration
- -------------------------------
-
- This file includes a sample configuration for use with the Telix
- terminal program. The .ZIP includes two batch files and a .DOC file
- describing how to set up szmodem under telix. Please read that .DOC
- file for more information.
-
-
- SZMOD286 - The 286 version
- --------------------------
-
- (no longer included)
-
- SZMODEM.TRV - trivia file
- -------------------------
-
- This file is described in detail in SZMODEM.DOC (supplied with the
- first archive) so I won't go into it much here.
-
- LOGANA.EXE - Log analizer
- -------------------------
- This is the first version of the log analizer and therefore it is
- a bit lacking in features, but it does provide some information. The log
- analizer will read SZMODEM.LOG by default, but it can be forced to read
- in a different filename by using the first parameters (i.e. LOGANA
- \protocols\szmodem.log).
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