chapter 2 operating CoMa 2.0 CoMa's window 2.1 select button 'info' 2.2 select buttons for 8 fax pages 2.3 pop-up-menue for the fax window 2.4 select button 'text' 2.5 select button 'load IMG' 2.6 select button 'record', 'play' and 'take off' 2.7 select button 'print' 2.7.1 to install GDOS 2.8 modification close of active fax page 2.9 select button 'turn' 2.10 select button 'load fax' 2.11 'send folder' 2.12 select button 'receive' 2.13 automatically receiving with CoMa 2.14 receiving fax pages manually 2.15 select button 'send' 2.16 fax number organisation 2.17 management of received fax pages 2.18 send serial and time delayed fax 2.19 updates 2.20 help button 2.21 operating CoMa via command lines 2.22 development library 2.23 dial only 2.24 polling (calling fax pages) 2.25 HSMODEM 2.26 how to install HSMODEM 2.27 keywords for the cover sheet 2.28 faxgraphics and path adjustment 2.29 Fax Jobs with CoMa 2.30 The creation of a fax job 2.31 Job administration 2.32 The Pop-Up-Menu "Jobs" 2.33 Mergin of GDOS-Character codes 2.34 The Clipboard 2.0 The working window CoMa You will see a GEM window with several operating elements after the call-up of the programme CoMa or the menu input "CoMa" in the first pull-down menu desk. Your name is already displayed in the top line as well as the sending identification which every fax will receive as first line. The address and the relevant fax number is entered already if you have activated an entry in the customer and supplier file at our office software. This will be displayed on the top text page which you can send on its own or with other fax pages according to your preferences. Perhaps in the position of the address field of a normal DIN A 4 standard letter. Exactly underneath is the entry field for the fax number. At the bottom you will find the information how to interrupt a fax transmission without delay. Press the control key and the right shift key together, or if there is still no CONNECT use the keys "undo" or "Esc"! The second dial command (chapter 1.9) is send to the modem with the button "no dialling" and the fax transmission proceeds without dialling a telephone number. This functions only if your partner has got a combi fax on the telephone line or a modem that can receive fax. The right side of the working window contains a number of choice buttons which branch out various functions or window dialogues. We have described the select button "parameter" in chapter 1 already, this button opens the dialogue box for the home position. Every select button will be explained at length in this chapter. You can leave the window like all GEM windows by clicking the close button on the left corner of the head line. 2.1 select button "Info" You recall a dialogbox with information about our company and the number of the CoMa version with this button. You can enter the registration key here in order to create a fully functioning programme from the shareware/cripple ware version. Chapter 2.17 will explain again the creation of the registered version or an update. The dialogbox also shows you the existing free memory. You can change the display of the helplines and error messages from English to German with the button "Deutsche Meldungen". The original default setting is English. 2.2 select button for 8 fax pages Before we talk about different formats which you can send with CoMA we will explain the meaning of the buttons 1 to 8 below the address. CoMa can display in a pre-view 8 fax pages in one GEM window each. All 8 pages are shown at the same time. We should not forget to mention two principle problems. 1. Size of the screen! You can only display the view in the 12% zoom in a 14" monitor, it is impossible to get physically more onto the screen. 2. Not enough RAM (computer memory) You can only display 4 pages with a 4 MB memory. A 200 dpi DIN A4 page needs good 600 kB memory. If the fax pages are smaller than A4 more pages can be displayed. It makes no difference if the first page to be send is a 1st Word Document (or any other ASCII-text) or the second a IMG-graphic or the third page a fax file. You can mix all 8 pages as you wish. Should it happen that you want to send more than 8 pages you have to bypass via the folder in which you copy all pages you want to send. You cannot pre-view here. A dark grey select button shows the activated window. The orders explained further down are "Save IMG" and "Print" which will only work for the activated window. You can close a fax window by clicking the closing button top left or with a click on the alternate key + left mouse button onto the number button. 2.3 Pop-Up-Menu for the fax window All the functions for the fax window are together in a special pop-up-menu. So you can chose a zoom factor for every window. You find the following commands and functions here: Call up the main dialog change zoom factor change kontrast turn the window about 180' open the text editor load and save the clipboard save the page as IMG file print this page save as Hufman fax file The last function helps you to make a high compressed Hufman fax file out of a low compressed IMG file. You can get a 200kB file out of a 600kB file! You will need this function if you want to send more than 8 fax pages in a folder if one or more pages are IMG or ASCII files. Now you can convert these files into Hufman fax files, put them in a folder together and send them. You can have 99 faxfiles in this folder. 2.4 select button "text" If you want to send a short fax message you do not have to call up a different programme but you can edit the message in the dialogbox selected with this button. You can type the text like in every other texteditor. The editor window has a pop-up-menu where you find the standard functions for an editor. If you mix your text with a grafic logo you have to create a default text with keywords for the faxnumber, the name of the client or the time. The keywords available now can be found in chapter 2.27. The words are broken up extentrically at the moment though (we are still working on it). It is unavoudable to rework the line break to the next line by hand . You can go into the next line via the return key or with the arrow key. If you want to store the text you can do this with the key "save" and re-read it again with "load". If you want to leave the editor use the key "enter" the top page will be displayed immediately. If you have adjusted to 100% zoom factor only part of the page will be displayed on a 14" monitor. Switch to 25 or 12% (keys "+" and "-" from the number block) and the page will be displayed as an overview. Should you wish to shift the display you can do so via the 'shifters' in the right and left screen corners. This is easier with our shift function. Hold down the left mouse key and you will see a little hand appearing on the screen. As long as you hold down the key you can shift the screen contents in all directions. You do not have to additionally 'grab' with the mouse because the integrated mouse speeder takes care that you move across the whole page with one movement. It is possible to reduce the page with the function 'zoom'. You are able to view the whole width of a page even on a screen with 640x400 points. If you then adjust the zoom factor to 25% in the window 'parameter' you will be able to view a complete A4 page on the screen. Once you viewed the fax page you can recall the hidden main dialogue box with a click of the right mouse key onto the faxwindow or the F10 key in order to start the function send. 2.5 Select buttons 'Load IMG' If you activate the function with a click of the button the file select box appears and you can enter the name and the path for the pixel graphic. Select the Pixel graphic with a double click and it will be displayed on the screen and is ready to fax. The screen layout is ten times faster compared to a fax file. Fax files are codes according to the Hufmann process and have to be decoded before display. You are able to copy the active IMG page with ctrl + C key into the clipboard and you can recall it again with ctrl + V. The same route applies for copying a graphic from the graphic programme into the active CoMa window. File select is extremely easy with file select box 'Selectric' by Stefan Radermacher. You can select several files in one go with this soft ware. CoMa loads the fax pages into a GEM window then. Some customers requested the possibility to load a received fax into the graphic programme in oder to process it there. A newly received fax can be stored as Pixel graphic in IMG format with 'save IMG' or via the function 'load IMG. If you want to translate a Fax file into a IMG file you can do this with the function "Save IMG" which you find in the pop-up-menue of the active fax window. 2.6 select button "record", "play" and take off" You can use a relevant modem as answering machine with CoMa Voice. Calls will be automatically differentiated and the digital answer machine will be activated. answering text for 7 time tracks are available. This function is only available at additional cost at the moment and only supports the Zyxel Modem and the Creatix LC144VF, what has a very good price. The standard version of CoMa encludes all voice function as a demo. You can record only ten seconds. Chapter 3 tells you all about CoMa Voice. 2.7 print faxpages CoMa contains a print routine in order to print the received fax after reading. Because of the problem between various print commands for different printers we have implemented a direct print for the most popular print standards. For HP desk jet, HP laserjet and all compatibles who understand the standard PCL 2 to 5. The desk jet is an ink jet printer which manages very good print results on the right paper with a resolve of 300 dpl. The laserjet is a laser printer which is available as emulation on nearly all laser printers. Befor printing you have to make some adjustments. The button "parameter" in the main window has the function "printer" whitch calls up the printer parameter box. Lets explain these printers first of all a bit more. HP desk jet and laserjet If one takes a close look at the process of the GEM print routine one has to notice that the output rate is not very desirable. Furthermore, the HP printers contain a nasty error in constraining the computer in a strict sequence after switch on. You are not able to switch on all components via a central switch. This problem as well as the low out put rate can be eliminated by activating the button 'HP direct' The printer interface will be called up directly and the switch on error of the printer will be eliminated as well as the output rate increased by factor 5 to 10. Should there be a system in the futur that serves the printer port efficiently you only have to deactivate the button 'HP direct' and switch on 'hp laser/desk jet'. You'll have to follow this path as well if the interface is positioned at a different hardware address in a future Atari computer. The hardware addresses of the interface are identical for the 260 ST of the first generation to the new Falcon at the moment. Perforation Jump It can happen that one A4 page is distributed on 2 pages if you have set the perforation jump on the HP desk jet via DIP switch. In order to avoid this it is recommended to activate this button. The perforation is then switched off via software but will remain installed as hardware. No centronics check This button is only interesting for owners of the ATARI laser printer. Should you own such a printer you have to activate this button if you have not installed the delivered Diabolo Emulator. Otherwise there will be no print outs but the error message 'printer not ready'. GDOS print routines It would be extremely tiresome to programme for all sorts of printers for a small accessory print routine. It is also not necessary because of the so called GDOS (graphic device operating system). All drivers (not bound in the actual operating system) for monitor, keys and printer are found here. It would not be sensible to inflate the operating system with all printer drivers. We show in chapter 2.71 in easy steps how a GDOS should look like. Unfortunately the installation of a well function ng GDOS is not trivial. It also reminds us on the nearly forgotten process of MS-DOS times, in which the user was pushed to the border of insanity when creating CONFIG.SYS and last not least a wear off of the 3 keys control, alternate and delete (it is still driving users insane these days. keyword OS/2 and COM3 + COMA4l). Full page In the lower border of the dialogue box you will see a button which adapts the print to the size of the printer resolve. A fax is transmitted in 200 dpl (old computers 100 dpl). The fax page will be reduced if your output device operates with 300 dpl, but this enhances the quality. The fax page will be re-calculated accordingly if you prefer to print a full A4 page and activate the button 'full page'. The print out will be a bit coarser (a basic problem if increasing a pixel graphic). file select button (A.\INCOMING) You have the possibility to name a fax file directly in order to print it. The file select box in which to select the required file appears via a click on the large select button (pre-set file path INCOMING) All pages on one fax will be printed if the file name differs only in the extension. Another condition is that the extension is numbered continuously. That means: filename.F01, filename F02, filename F03 etc. If you select the print and start at filename.f01 all 3 pages will be printed consecutively. 600dpi If you activate this button your are able to print a fax page in exelent quality on a HP Laserjet 4P (or compatible) with 600 dpi. Every pixel is multiplied by 3. Your print will look much better than as a re-calculated 300 dpi print! Print immed. (immediate print after receive) All pages of a received fax will be printed immediately after receive if you activate this button. If you use your Atari as a fax machine you will see immediately after your return who has send faxes to you. If several pages are received all will be printed immediately. Condition for this is that th pages differ only through the extension. 2.7.1 Install GDOS Every GDOS contains three parts. Firstly the programme GDOS.PRG, or a similar GDOS programme (AMCGDOS.PRG, NVDI.PRG, etc.) This programme has to be located in the Auto-folder in the boot partition of the hard disc or on the starting disc. The top level of this boot drive contains a file called ASSIGN.SYS. The path for the folder "GEMSYS" is located here as well and all device driver registered in GDOS have to be contained here, this applies to the device driver for your printer as well. The file in our example is in the top level of drive A. Very often the driver is delivered with a printer if you have bought your ATARI from a specialist shop. There are a multitude of public domain disks around, equipped with a collection of such GDOS drivers. If you do not posses a driver for your printer contact your specialist (or us), unless it is a very unusual model we try to help. If you are in possession of a driver you will have to enter it with a texteditor in the ASSIG.SYS file. The set No has to be either 21, 22 or 23, and the name of the driver has to be entered according to shown example. You then save the edited file ASSIGN.SYS. The driver now has to be copied into the file GEMSYS. You have to perform a cold start in order for the computer to recognise the changes (switch computer of and on again). 2.8 changing the close of the active fax page If you are working with a 14" monitor you can only see a small part of an A4 page during display in scale 1 monitor pixel = 1 fax pixel. In order to be able to see nearly the full width of a page we have installed a zoom function which reduces or enlarges the fax. You can activate this function with the keys "=" and "-", always assuming a loaded fax. You can reduce the active window in 4 steps. Size 100%, 50%, 25% and 12% are available in "Parameter". If you own a large monitor the step 50% shows the full page. 12% gives only a rough overview, you can not read the text. 2.9 Selection button "turn" 180O It is possible to receive a fax page which has been inserted "upside down" into the fax machine. Such fax is difficult to read and the function "turn" solves this problem, the content of the transmitted page will be turned by 180O. 2.10 select button "load fax" There are drivers for several existing programmes which store pages in Qfax format (Hufman coding). Normally these drivers are supplied together with the programmes. CoMa is able to send these files via fax of course. We have not designed another fax format on purpose in order not to extend the existing confusion on the market, though not all competitors agree with us there. This means you can load old Qfax pages and send them with CoMa (this obviously works also the other way round, but we do not hope this is necessary). You can use all drivers with Qfax format to construct a fax page. We are offering our programme helps for fax drivers because Qfax will not be developed any further, which means that new software products can be supplied with fax drivers. These helps are in folder DEVELOP on the diskette. It is preferable though to develop a driver which designs IMG-files. These are lo ded faster with CoMa. If you select this function the integrated file selection box appears. Here you can select the drive, the folder and the data file you want to load. The fax page is displayed in a window on your screen. The first of the 8 select button is marked grey if you have not opened a window for fax pages yet. If you want to store a further page without overwriting the first page you have to activate the second button. An empty window will be displayed which can then be filled with a fax page. This function is made simpler if you have got SELECTRIC as selection box installed. You can select several files and load them with this. The pop-up-menue ofevery fax window gives You the possibility to convert a Hufman fax page into a IMG file (Save IMG?). Of course, you can also go the other way around and change a IMG file into a high compressed Hufman file (Save F.0?)! 2.11 "folder transmission" The last select button is slightly larger than the previously described function buttons. The name of the folder is displayed in the select button used last for sending a complete fax-folder. Sometimes it is necessary to send more than 8 fax pages together. To make this possible the pages have to be in a file. The numbering of the pages has to be continuous, EXAMPLE.F01, SAMPLE.F02, TEST.F03 a.s.o. If you want to send the same fax pages very often it makes sense to create a special folder for this. Should you then wish to send such a folder click the button "send folder". The file selection box appears and you can select the required folder and leave the selection box via ok. The name of the requested folder has to be displayed with the selection button. If the path name is very long it is only possible to read the end of the name. If a folder is send you always have the possibility to send a top page as well. Type the necessary text into the dialogbox and leave with "ok". The top page will be displayed in a window immediately. The main selection box will be in the background, which means it is not visible any more. You can transfer the box to the front again with a click of the right mouse button or by clicking F10. If you now select "send" the top page will be send first and afterwards directly the contents of the folder. If you do not want to send a top page just close the window with the text before sending. 2.12 Select button "receive" Receiving an incoming fax is possible by clicking on this function. This can be done manual via clicking on receive or automatically. We have to dampen the joy about receiving automatically right at the beginning. 1. The computer has to be adjusted with an electronic devise at the first bell sign. A 24 hour stand by is neither economical nor ecological, not to mention the ageing process due to continuos use. Unfortunately the start of the Atari computer can take a little bit longer than a calling fax machine is willing to wait. Perhaps you have to switch off all programmes in the auto-file and all the accessories. All this is no problem if you have our computer switch WAKE_UP and the boot-programme MAKE_BOOT. Both work together with CoMa and your computer is switched off after a fax has been received! If you want to use your computer fax with only one telefon line you should work with a voice modem like a Zyxel or a Creatix LC144VF! These modem can work with CoMa as Fax and answering maschine and they can recognize if a fax or a voice call has to be recorded. For more details see chapter 3! 2.13. Automatical reception with CoMa We will give you a few tips to enable a stable usage should you have the necessary hardware to receive calls automatically. To ensure that the starting time of the computers remains short you have to make sure that all accessories and programmes in the file AUTO are switched off. Helpful are programmes like XBOOT or others with which the ACCs and Auto folder programmes can be configurated. Therefore make sure that only CoMa as ACC is active. Also take care that a number above O has been entered into the programme window for "lift after X rings". Otherwise nothing goes! Furthermore the ring-indicator line in the cable between modem and computer has to be connected. If you use the computer switch WAKE_UP the serial cable is connected through WAKE_UP and keeps the computer working while data is flowing. 2.14 Manual reception of fax pages. It is easiest to receive a manual fax if the telephone has been slipped through the modem. Should you then hear the typical sound of a fax transmission after lifting the telephone receiver please call the ACC CoMa and press the button receive. You have to enter a O into "lift after X rings" for the manual reception, otherwise the modem will let CoMa receive automatically and the caller will just hear the beeps. And if you are unlucky he calls off already before you have taken over the call by pressing Esc, Undo or Ctrl + right shift key. Another advise. Some fax machines or modems do not send a sound called fax calling tone as long as the maschine itself don't hear anything. This sounds as if nobody is on the line. Press receive all the same and let CoMa deal with the fax parameter. Now CoMa will let the Modem receive, take over the telephone line, receive the pages and store them (and perhaps print them automatically). Programme part receive contains a novelty for fax programmes which we would not want to omit to mention. The incoming pages are build up on the screen line by line. You will see immediately what is coming in. When you have stored your fax you will normally have read it already and you do not have to access another programme part. The pages will be printed automatically if the button "print-immed" has been activated in the parameter adjustment. 2.15 Select button "send" After you have loaded one or more fax pages you only have to click on "send". The modem will dial and negotiate the transmission parameters and start with the transmission immediately. There are no waiting times with CoMa until the fax pages have been coded for transmission, all this is done without time delay in the back ground during the transmission. The comment line shows you during transmission the Baud-rate and the resolve. The identification of the other fax machine is also displayed. At the end of the transmission you see here if an error has occurred. Error messages are kept in clear text and explain themselves. You can adjust in the window "INFO" if you want to receive these messages in German or English. 2.16 Fax number administration CoMa contains a file in which the fax numbers can be stored, independently of our office software First Million. This file is a text file and compatible to fax number file of QFax. Should you already own a FAXNUM.INF you can use this immediately. There are two buttons in the CoMA GEM window for the use of the number administration. Numbers Click once on this button and you receive a window in which all fax numbers are sorted in alphabetical order. You take over the name and number into the CoMa window with a double click on a name and you can start the fax. This list contains an auto-search module as well. Just type the first letter after opening the window and the first name with this letter will be activated. Type another letter and the selection continues. Should you have made a mistake press the ESC key and you will be at the beginning of the selection. You can start again. Insert This button is necessary if you want to add a new number into the list. First type the name and the fax number into the necessary fields. Pay attention to the way of writing to ensure proper Surname/Christian name order. Click on insert and the data will be in your fax list. We have decided against automatical insertion of new fax numbers on purpose because it very often leads to doubles, for instance if you use a known number not via the list but by hand. In order for the list to sort according to surnames you have to input the surname first. Between surname and christian name the sign "smaller than" will be put. If you call on this name for a fax CoMa will automatically turn it around again. delete of data Should you need to delete entrants in your list you do not have to use a text edit because this will also be done from CoMa. Call via the "numberlist" the list of fax number and mark the ones for deletion with a single click of the left mouse button. Afterwards press keys "Ctrl" and "Delete" simultaneously and the entry has gone. Edit With the help of this function you can make a comment for this number and show it in the number list. 2.17 Administration of received fax pages If you receive faxes automatically with CoMa they will be stored with the relevant ID in the folder INCOMING. If you used the option print immediately you can remove the pages from the printer and read them. The alternative to this existed by searching the file incoming for new fax pages. This was more and more complicated depending on how much data existed already. This procedure belongs now to the past, CoMa organises all incoming fax in a separate window which you can access via the button "calls". Should a new fax have arrived after the last "call" which have not been read yet the button will flicker. Faxes called for reading already will be ticked before entry. You can delete entries which are read and printed and not needed anymore easily. Make sure that not only the advise in the window is deleted but also the fax data on the hard disc. Locate your mouse indicator on the open window "calls" and click the right mouse button. You will then see the pop-up-menu "calls" with several entries. Select "delete" and all lines marked with the mouse click will be deleted (or type Control + Delete Key together). But be careful, deletion applies to the file itself as well. With the entry "select all" you can mark all entries for deletion. The entry "play new" refers to the calls which are entered by the voice-module. In fact of the name of the sender of a fax is much more intresting then his telphonnumber we buildt in the function "Edit". Every entry in the calls list can be edited now. If the telephonnumber of the sender is stored in the numbers list CoMa automatically writes his name into the calls list! 2.18 Serial fax and time delayed fax The cost of a telephone call is much cheeper at night time. To make you able to send a fax at night without waiting at your computer you can use the function "Serial Fax" in the pop-up-menue of a fax window. At first load the fax pages to send into a window. Now klick the number in the number list and call the pop-up-menue "numbers". Here you find the function "Serial Fax". You will get the following window where you can give in the date and the time. To send the same fax to more then one receiver you must only activate the numbers by klicking on them with holding down the SHIFT key. If one of the receiver is busy CoMa puts this number at the end of the list and tries it again. The number of the retries depends on what you have writen into the field "dial repeats" in the fax parameter window. 2.19 update Programmes with a sensible support will be continuously developed further. CoMa does not make every user happy either. Nearly every day we receive calls and please with regard to programme functions. If we like those ideas, which we have not implemented to our lack of imagination, we start to translate them immediately. Result: the programme you bought 4 weeks ago is not the latest standard. You will have to order an update from your dealer. This can be very expensive. You will not have this problem with CoMa so very often. You can change every actual shareware version into a licensed CoMa version with the registration key received from us. This works till a large step in the development has occurred, or the programme has been extensively further developed. Unfortunately, we as well have to earn money with the development of our products. The first update fee will be necessary from version 1.80, sorry. After you have absorbed CoMa all you have to do is to enter the personal date into the registration window and the matching key, ready. From version 1.80 you do not have to registrate newly. It is sufficient to change the new programme COMA.APP (COMA.ACC) against the old one and you are able to enjoy the new functions. But keep this warning: Make a savety copie of the old CoMa version before you copie the new one onto your harddisk. The button "edit registration" will start the text editor and you can fill in a order form for the registration key. choose the right form: Deutsch/Commonwealth/Rest of the world. The shown dialogue box has to be entered only for the first registration. 2.20 help button The main key order have been inserted into a window which can be accessed via the "help" button. 2.21 using CoMa via command line You can control CoMa with command line-orders from version 1.40. Here are the already implemented commands. If you are missing commands or return-codes contact us. -n name name1 set -n2 name name2 set -fn faxnumber faxnumber set -op path path for file outgoing set -nd no dialling -sd send -to take over existing call -rv receive-call This is only a selection of the implemented commands. Should you be interested in these functions read the text-file COM_LINE.TXT in folder DEVELOP. Example take over-existing call comma-to-rv Example receive-call coma-rv Example top page and folder send coma-nl L Mustermann -fn 1234/5678 -op F,\fax\example\sd 2.22 Development library We have taken great care to optimise the working speed for the creation of fax files. After you have worked for some time with CoMa you will note that this has been achieved quite well. In order to enable other programmers to develop in their own programmes the same fast routines you will find development helps for drivers in the folder DEVELOP. You can design your own driver according to the shown examples there. We would be happy if many programmers make use of this offer. We would be overjoyed though if programmers could use printer driver for there programmes who can create IMG files with 200 dpl resolve. CoMa will work in highest performance with such files. Reason It is not very sensible to create fax files coded according to the Hufman version. Much more effective are pixel graphics in GEM-IMG format, which are created with 200 dpl. These files are much faster displayed on the monitor. CoMa is creating the coding for the fax page anyway during the transmission. Perhaps one should negotiate this standard. 2.23 dial only This function explains itself. You can change your modem here to a dial automate. enter the desired telephone number and press button "dial only" and your modem starts dialling. This works best when you have slipped your telephone through the modem line. As soon as the connection answers you can induce your modem to disconnect by pressing Esc or Ctrl + left shift key. The call will then be transferred to your telephone receiver and yo can start talking. You can also use the fax number administration as a telephone book. You should mark the entries which are only telephone numbers with a special sign. This helps to clarify. 2.24 polling This is a function which was supported so far by Zyxel Modem and does not function in the firmware 6.10 and 6.11. This will be changed nearly immediately when modem according to the new standard Class 2.0 are available. This command is defined in this fax standard. This function enables you to call fax pages from radio stations, official departments and companies. You can get the weather forecast and the actual weather chart, some radio stations send the latest top 20 list a.s.o. A lot of companies will probably change to polling for special advertisements and not send automatically a fax to all customers. This saves a lot of cost for companies and the much abused customer saves fax paper. For this to function you have to enter the relevant call command for polling into the parameter. The shown example is for the Zyxel modem with the firmware 6.00 Of course you can use CoMa the other way around. There is a path you can create for polling from your computer. The path for your own faxmailbox can be fixed in the field "Send Poll". 2.25 HSMODEM The programme diskette contains an auto-folder with a part of the serial drive HSMODAO2 by Harun Scheutzow. We included only the absolute necessary part of the extensive programme package so as not to confuse the less technical interested customer. The complete package contains more drivers for hardware extensions, detailed descriptions of the individual drivers, documentation for programmers and a setter-programme for configuration of the driver. You can receive the package from every good mailbox as HSMODAO2.LZH or directlz from Harun Scheutzow by sending a formated 3.5" blank disk with stamped addressed envelope or against payment of DM10. Mousenet: Harun Scheutzow Internet. Harun_Scheutzow B.maus.de (Please do not send mails larger than 16kByte due to the limitations of the mouse net) Address: Harun Scheutzow, Dresdener Strasse 83 D-10179 Berlin, Germany. This package contains serial drivers. There is an individual driver for every port or every port building block. The user therefore has got the trouble with choosing the matching drivers, but also the advantage to load ony drivers he needs. It has become necessary to use a serial driver because of the necessary data transfer rate for the voice part >19200 Baud. The operating system has got no routines available for this. Furthermore is the operating system routine in TOS.3.06 unfortunately still erroneous. Main part is the programme DRVIN.PRG, which has to be in the auto-file of every computer. The driver module for the used interface has to be loaded depending on the existing port. ST, STE, Mega ST: MFP.PRG Mega STE: MFP.PRG + SCC.PRG TT: MFP.PRG, SCC.PRG, MFP_TT.PRG Falcon: SCC.PRG 2.26 How to install HSMODEM in the auto-folder Please select the correct driver according to the type of computer. Please pay special attention to the order of the programme in the auto-file. The main programme DRVIN.PRG should be at the far back (but in front of the drivers) due to reasons of speed. DRVIN.PRG and the drivers should be located in the front of programmes installed in the auto-folder which are to be used by the drivers. Otherwise there will be error messages or nice little explosions. It is easy to identify the sequence with the TOS from version 2.0 or a relevant shell by having the output of the index unsorted. The necessary entry can be found in the pulldown menu "extras" of the ATARI desktop. For older versions of TOS all programmes have to be copied from the folder AUTO into a different index to ensure that the auto-folder is empty. Afterwards the programmes are to be copied back into the desired index. operation diagram for installation This paragraph describes the installation under TOS and MagiC! shortly and hopefully understandably. This should be taken as programme and "worked" from front to back. 1. Should you have a programme in \AUTO\ folder that uses the serial interface you have to copy it out. 2. Remove installed patch programmes from the \AUTO\ for the serial interface, like RS23ENC, TURBOCTS,SERIALFX. 3. Choose the drivers you need from this package. First copy DRVIN.PRG into the \AUTO\folder, then copy the chosen driver afterwards. The sequence of the drivers is not important. The installation is now finished. Boot the computer new and call up the programme or acessory CoMa. The entry "HSModem" should appear in the fax parameterbox, this means the installation was successful. We would like to say thank you to Harun for providing the HSMODEM free of charge. Without this the voice module from CoMa would not have been possible on 8-MHz computers as well as the back ground procession for fax. 2.27 Keywords for the texteditor With the function "text" you can call up a text editor that is included in CoMa. It is possible to load and save text files. CoMa gives you the possiblity to place the name, the faxnumber and some other information on this form as you like it. There are special keywords that have to be placed in the text. the first name in the numberlist the second name in the numberlist faxnumber from the numberlist actual day taken from the computer system month year hour minute second number of pages to send You can place the keywords wherever you want in the text. Make shure that the text is not mixed with your letterhead grafik. You should make a file called DEFAULT.TXT where you place the keywords as you need them. This file will be used as default text for the text editor. 2.28 graphiclogo and adjusting the path CoMa lets you install 4 header and footer graphics for the cover sheet. The header can be used as letterhead, the footer may be as sign under the text. You can use the editor in CoMa to create the text, or you use another text editor and load the text with "load 1WP". The graphic and the text will be mixed and displayed at once. Of course you have to leave enough place at the head of the text, so that text and graphic are not mixed together! If you use the editor in CoMa you can use the keywords shown in chapter 2.27 to create a letter just as you like it and as it is necessary for your graphic. If you save this text as DEFAULT.TXT and make "Save Parameter" CoMa will always take this text file if you open the editor! To adjust the path for the graphics you have to go to the main window in CoMa. With a click on the button "header" or "footer" you open the shown pop-up-menu. To load a new graphic use the function "new" beside the slot you want to use. You see the file-select-box of your computer. Adjust the path to the logo and the new logo will be displayed at once! 2.29 Fax Jobs with CoMa Chapter 2.17 explained our serial fax function. It was possible to send the same fax page to a selected number of people at a selected time. Very often though, one would like to send differing fax at various times to a selected number of people. So far it was necessary for this to work on each fax separately. This meant of course one had to wait every time for the computer to finish the transaction. For customer who wanted to use CoMa for business purposes it meant they had to physically sit at there computers after 6 pm in order to take advantage of the cheaper telephone rates. Altogether not a very satisfying solution. Therefore we extended CoMa with another easy to apply job administration. This extension can also be applied for the network. It does not matter which kind of net, Midi for Ataris or Appletalk for the Mac. CoMa is then installed in the server and a fax job will be overplayed in the appropriate folder. And because CoMa checks this folder once every five minutes for fax jobs the job is done within 60 seconds if no time delay is asked for. 2.30 Creation of a fax job The creation of a job starts with the selection of a fax number from the fax number a directory (shift+F10). After this you write or load the required fax page(s), activate the window in which the fax page can be seen and call up the Pop-Up-Menu "IMAGE". A dialog box will appear in which you can set the time and date at which the job is supposed to be transmitted. Leave the box with "OK" and CoMa saves the fax page(s) in a special file under the name of the receiver. Systems with limited space for data names (8 signs for Atari) shorten the name to the first 8 letters. CoMa includes a text date in this file as well which includes all necessary data for this job. This text file has to have the name SENDINFO.TXT otherwise Coma can not evaluate it. NAME:Hartmann