On the ZX-networks and not only ...
(C) Vic at 01.05.97.
Specifically for the ZX POWER # 2.
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This article was written just before the release of the
second magazine and the basis for its
writing was the news about the attempts of Kharkiv programmers
to create some semblance of a network for example, Moscow or
ZXNet St. Petersburg Network Spectrum clones.
I already have emerged
rather unpleasant impression
of the users in such
networks, especially after
I learned that the exchange of mail
at least in the same ZXNet sysops
two nodes must be in
close close
their cars. I aim to
put some automation
work, and will attempt to force start of Spectrum to work with
mail FIDO, and ultimately to the Internet automatically.
The main limitation here
consists only in the amount of foreign
memory. Hence there is a need to connect HD, because the
information arriving at one session of Mailer's not
fit to any floppy disk, and
still need a place to base
messages of different proprietary information, and speed the
drive does not seem particularly large (Yes. .. I remembered
the tape recorder here :-)).
Therefore, the purpose of my work now - to ensure the work
points at Fido with Spectrum-compatible
platforms, and yet to be realized only netmeyla walking and
getting oh to be implemented after connecting to HDD my
computer, that is, if you have correctly understood, then in the
beginning we will work through all the favorite drive.
Now a little about my work.
As is well known e-mail in Fido goes
in packed form (usually
ZIRovanaya), so it became necessary to write the type mentioned
above unpacker program to unpack this very mail.
Well known that the mail is sent through such a protocol, as
ZMODEM, therefore, also is working on its implementation. After
writing these two modules and will e-mail version program.
At the moment I'm doing
also beta-testing my terminalki and writing user-friendly
commander (who has seen the Dos Navigator I understand), the
second part of the work and deprives the currently most of the
time (well, not I can see the work of IS-DOS'a
or COPIER'a under ZX-WORD). Tell
here are a few words about the possibilities mentioned
Commander:
+ Work with the three-letter extension
reniyami in TRDOS;
+ Support disk MSDOS, TRDOS,
ISDOS;
+ Support pisishnyh archivers
(See Dos Navigator);
+ Avtoraspoznovanie archives at
view or startup files;
+ Built-in viewer (Normalnyy!
You will not have to create for
each type of file path to one
nomu the same viewer as a
ISDOS example #$%'done -
I have a file extview.txt
200 lines and 195 is the way to
tv.com - wisely, does not it?
I wonder what @ # $% thought it
creators?)
+ Built-in editor;
+ Uuencode and uudecode;
+ Support Pentagon 512K. If
will be a mood, I will do
support and for others. Ying
following interesting question, in general, and for
than to hang extra long
you to switch the memory
when I have, for example, additional
tively memory depends on the 6-m
and 7 th bits of the port # 7FFD and 99%
programs work without glitches!
(One percent is just ka
tangent to programs for "the rest
GOVERNMENTAL "). Why was it necessary vydumy
vat new ports? Another would be to
# FE memory hang - can
people would believe in their steepness
Well, even those programs to
torye go with me, do not go on
Scorpion'e and similar
fun. I would also like spro
Sit, who offers establishes
vat sixth bit when working with
incomplete addressable port
# 7FFD.Stavte then and 5 to 1
in fact been altered in the Pentagon
512K (Turbo) with three
(Five) chips (not counting
RU7), and programs such
advice to them would not go ...
+ Work with IDE-screw through the MIO
(Scheme by V.M.G.), ie take
PC-screw and put on Sinclair.
See pisyukovye files ar
Khiva, working with him, and then
carry back to the PC;
+ Startup programs TRDOS drives
+ Support Kempston-mouse and
only him, but not AY;
+ Screen mode - 512 points (85
characters) per line;
+ Show descriptions to files
(Again from the DN!).
I would also like to note that file sharing on bad lines at
communication Sinclair-Sinclair is in
generally faster than the Sinclair-PC
or PC-PC on some protocols
(XMODEM and YMODEM). I do not know what could it be? Maybe I
have not seen the normal terminal programs PC? Or they simply
do not? Here are the top PC-shnyh programs on my observations
in ascending order saksovosti:
* Yuniksovskie program - Naib
more correct implementation;
* Maximus BBS;
* Remote Access;
* Tornado BBS;
* WildCat Navigator - MOST do not
correct implementation of protocols
fishing, which I saw a prog in
basically anything ...
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