



			 The COMMunicationS Diskette

				Originated by

				 R.S. Hafner

				Livermore, CA

			       September, 1985





The following is a breakdown of what is contained on this diskette. Included 

are verbose listings of the various .ARC files and comments on the sub-files 

themselves.  



Executable images---files with a .EXE or .COM extension---will run on the 

Rainbow under MS-DOS, version 2.11.  The .ARC files were produced using the ARC 

utility, version 4.10, which is contained on the UTILS-1 diskette. 



Comments are those of the originator of this diskette and do not necessarily 

reflect the comments, or opinions, of DECUS.  





			       **** AC.ARC ****

			       Version  Unknown



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

AC.EXE           15360  Squeezed   12%     13548  27 Jun 85   1:22a  B0A8



An Area Code finder program written by Marty Smith, AC can be used in several 

different formats:  Enter AC xxx, where xxx is the Area Code or three letter 

state name; enter AC and the two letter state postal abbreviation (i.e., TX for 

Texas, CA for California, etc.); enter the one or two word state name (i.e., AC 

California, AC New*Jersey, etc); or enter AC * for the full list of Area codes, 

state names, and state name abbreviations.  





			      **** DAC.ARC ****

				 Version 1.5



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

DAC.COM          59392  Squeezed   18%     49269  21 Jun 85  11:38p  2781



A Dialer, Address book and Calander utility with features similar to those of 

ALL-IN-ONE, DAC is a menu-driven program that was written by Jeffrey Miller. 

Deceptively easy to use, the heart DAC is an integrated database which is 

created the first time the program is run.  The database, which consists of the 

four files MASTER.DAT, MASTER.IXC, MASTER.IXN and MASTER.IXD, allow DAC to be 

used as an excellent vehicle for communicating person-to-person.  





			    **** DECMINI.ARC ****

				 Version 3.2



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

DECMINI.DOC      42388  Crunched   60%     17249  21 Jun 85  11:57p  E5DE

DECMINI.EXE      44672  Crunched   21%     35429  17 Jun 85   9:55a  BF1F



Also known as `MINITEL,' DECMINI is Tom Jenning's miniature version of `TELINK' 

for the Rainbow.  The .DOCs are great, and the .EXE is probably great, but, 

as of this writing, the full power of DECMINI has yet to be explored by this 

user.  



Note:  According to Guy Stafano Romano of the San Francisco `HELPLINE,' one of 

the earlier versions of DECMINI (Version 3.0(??)) contained a substantial 

number of bugs.  In what little testing of DECMINI this writer has done, 

whatever bugs were there are gone from Version 3.2.  





			     **** DIALER.ARC ****

				  Version of

				2 August 1985



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

DIAL.HLP          1408  Crunched   30%       993  26 Aug 85  11:15p  4F21

FIDO.LIS         35480  Crunched   43%     20868   4 Sep 85   9:48p  15A6

FIDO.NBR          1536  Crunched   10%      1385  26 Aug 85  11:16p  3A55

RBDIALER.COM     19840  Squeezed   10%     17862  26 Aug 85  11:14p  D90F

RBFIDO.LIS        5248  Crunched   37%      3342  26 Aug 85  11:43p  8E2D

RBFIDOS.NBR       1404  Crunched   15%      1196  30 Aug 85  11:40p  A07A



A brand new version of Doug Brantley's Rainbow Dialer program, RBDIALER is an 

extremely useful program.  `Help' is built-in with the automatic inclusion of 

DIAL.HLP (the .HLP and the .COM files MUST be in the same directory), but the 

creation of a default phone number list has been left to the user's discretion.  



On startup, RBDIALER looks for a default file named `DIAL.NBR'.  If the default 

file is not found, the user is asked if he/she wants to create it.  With a `no' 

response, the user is then asked for an alternative filename.  A carriage return 

<CR> brings you to the main menu.  



Helpful Hints:  If you are a general purpose FIDO Board user, rename FIDO.NBR, 

DIAL.NBR. (FIDO.NBR, which was part of the package originally obtained by this 

writer, is a sequential list of the FIDO boards, BBDs 1-40.)   If you are a 

Rainbow specific FIDO Board user, rename RBFIDO.NBR to DIAL.NBR.  (RBFIDO.NBR 

is the RBDIALER equivalent of Rob Elliot's most recent Rainbow 100 Bulletin 

Board listing (see below).  If you want to do mixing and matching, print the 

two .LIS files and create phone lists to your heart's content.  (FIDO.LIS is 

Tom Jenning's 9 August version of all FIDO boards, world-wide; RBFIDO.LIS is 

Rob Elliot's most recent list, in its original format.)  



Additional Note:  The only obvious disadvantage to DIALER is that, after 

exiting, the screen is left in the BOLD text mode.  Use RESETRB or SCREENRB 

(both of which are available on the UTILS-2 Diskette) to reset the screen to 

its normal, default setting.  





			     **** LCTERM.ARC ****

				 Version 3.30



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

LCTERM.EXE       65280  Squeezed   24%     49985  17 Jun 85   2:19p  94CC

LCTERM.MEM       32384  Crunched   61%     12933  16 Jun 85   2:08a  0E56

LCTERM.NEW        1920  Squeezed   24%      1463  16 Jun 85   2:07a  1501



The latest version of Larry Campbell's, excellent terminal emulation program. 

Unique among the public-domain terminal emulators, LCTERM supports both KERMIT 

and XMODEM file transfer protocols, it supports manual and automatic Script 

File processing, and it supports, beginning with Version 3.28, the VT2xx series 

special function keys.  



Note:  Function key binding files created with earlier versions of LCTERM are 

no longer compatible with Versions 3.28 or 3.30.





			     **** LOGIN.ARC ****

			       Version Unknown



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

LOGIN.ASM        10368  Crunched   44%      5873  22 Jun 85   0:18a  D002



Written by Jay Jervey, LOGIN is a `MUST' for communicating with your Rainbow 

remotely.  LOGIN provides protection for your Rainbow by: 1) requiring a 

password before exiting to MS-DOS; 2) not echoing your password; and 3) using 

direct console I/O so Ctrl/C will not break out to MS-DOS.  



For a more complete description, read the introductory statements in LOGIN.ASM.





			    **** MSKERMIT.ARC ****

				 Version 2.26



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

MSKERMIT.DOC    104704  Crunched   52%     50799  28 Jun 85   0:43a  DF8C

MSKERMIT.EXE     73864  Squeezed   63%     27399  28 Jun 85   0:44a  64BD

MSKERMIT.UPD      6016  Crunched   37%      3848  28 Jun 85   0:23a  91E0

MSRBEMAC.INI      1920  Crunched   39%      1182  28 Jun 85   0:29a  7013



KERMIT for MS-DOS....  Between the .DOC and .UPD files, this is one program 

which has been thoroughly documented.  Run MSKERMIT.INI to initialize KERMIT 

for your Rainbow.  





			     **** PHONE.ARC ****

				 Version 1.0



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

PHONE.DOC         3456  Crunched   48%      1811  19 Jun 85  10:47p  4E93

PHONE.EXE        17792  Crunched   33%     12033  19 Jun 85  10:47p  FA3C



PHONE is a very handy, Phone Book Search program which searches a user-defined 

phone book for input entry strings.  The default phone book, normally named 

`PHONE.TXT,' can be created with any standard text editor, and there are 

absolutely no restrictions as to the format of PHONE.TXT.  PHONE supports the 

use of wildcards and, because it makes use of the `Soundex Algorithm,' PHONE 

will find matches even if you (slightly) misspell your entry. 



Note:  Handy though it may be, PHONE is a text string finder, only; PHONE does 

not contain, nor was it intended to contain, any part of an auto-dialer 

program.  





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