SUBJECT:: IMP overlay customization FROM: : Irv Hoff DATE: : 01 June 87 The following notes will help the IMP user to select various user options. The ones that should be quite self-explanatory will not be included in the list. 0103 MSPEED - Use 05 for 1200, 06 for 2400. 0104 HS2400 - Yes if 2400 is your top speed, otherwise no 0105 HS1200 - Yes if 1200 is your top speed, otherwise no 0106 RACAL - Yes if using a Racal-Vadic modem with autodial (The 1200V and 2400V can also use the Hayes 'AT' protocol, but the Racal-Vadic protocol displays additional progress reports.) - No for using the 'AT' protocol 0107 PROMODM - Yes if using the Prometheus ProModem 1200, else No 010A CLEAR - Most computers can clear the CRT with a CTL-Z, if yours does, put a 1Bh (CTL-Z) here. Some use an "ESC-X" (the "X" may be an upper or lower case ASCII character.) Put that character in this location, the ESC will be automatically added if an ASCII character is present. Put a 0 here if you don't know what your termianl needs, it will then scrool 24 blank lines to clear the screen. 010B CLOCK - This value is your clock speed times 10, for more accuracy. A 4 MHz clock would use 40. (Convert to hex if installing via DDT.) This just sets the time for some of the internal delay loops. It can be changed to whatever is needed to make those more ac- curate. 010C BYTDLY - This puts a delay between characters when sending an ASCII file in the terminal mode. 010D CRDLY - This puts a delay after a CRLF when sending an ASCII file in the terminal mode. Sometimes these are used on systems that cannot accept messages at full speed. 010F TCHPUL - Some modems (such as the Racal-Vadic, Prometheus, etc.) can auto-sense if they can touch-tone dial or need to pulse dial. Put a 0 here (do not use '0' which is an ASCII value) if you want your modem to auto-sense what it can use. Else a 'T' or 'P'. 0113 IGNRCTL - Normally set Yes to ignore all control characters not needed for normal operation. Can be toggled with the 'TIG' command if all CTL-characters are needed to use a remote editor, etc. 0114 EXTCHR - This is the local control "lead-in" character when in the terminal mode. Curretnly set to ESC. Some ter- minals don't have ESC or the operator may prefer some other character. Put it here. The characters from 0115h through 011Dh are the local control characters and may easily be changed to suit the operator's preference - if different. 0168 J$STRNGA - This jumps to the 'AT' initialization straing for 1200 bps modems. 0169 J$STRNGB - This jumps to the 'AT' initialization string for 2400 bps modems. If the user wants to develop his own customized initialization string, just change this to jump to your own routine. In writing these routines, you can use J$ILPRT for strings (terminate with a 0 character) for local display, "CALL J$CRLF" for a new line on the CRT, J$SNDSTR to send a string to the modem (end with $), J$SNDCHR to send a single character to the modem and '#' character is a 0.1 second delay. Including ### in the string to the modem would cause a 300 MS. delay, etc. (250 ms. minimum needed after an 'AT' string is completed by a CR before the modem should be given any other duty.) The J$ commands just listed would allow the user to add routines to set parity, stop bits, different initialization strings, etc. ROOM REMAINING -------------- There are 601 characters remaining after the start of the SYSVR LABEL. The routines in the overlay should stop by 0400h. In the case of the I2DP-2 overlay, that would leave an additioanl 223 bytes for any customization the user might add. - Irv Hoff Los Altos Hills, CA (415) 948-2513 PRACSA RCPM (415) 948-2166 voice