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1. MESSAGES DON T FORWARD 0000 coi esa ls sea ti de e nl 173 HE SYSTEM FORWARDS MESSAGES TO IMPROPER LOCATIONS L73 NOTHING DG ONL THE SCREEN Lita posi dite is he eee o a dl L73 HE SYSTEM COMES UP AND APPEARS TO HANG eos miao siete aa aa a ed 174 SYSTEM REBOOTS AFTER FORWARDING ee erine o a A abe ae a eee ad 174 INPUT BUFFER SPACE LOW tc 42h la e A A ee ued 174 PERFORMANCE HINDS ai geia Ble a a a a a Saeed 174 DEGETE OLD LOG TITLES a A A A AA ete A fe ete A A 174 MEUN K ESS MOD EA e fe O O ed TES A O IAE e TOS De tal 175 EIME a a O a a dy A A a eL 75 ADDITIONAL NOTES oor ti alada id e e a ea ies diia ad L77 OS2 REPORTED PROBLEMS a mrd as e oa a hPa a A L77 MSYS ULLL ITY SUPRORT PROGRAMS siess oas e ie a a a or alee rd 79 MUTEL AEREA Mets E T RS A e tel 79 MUTIL FUNCTION 1 CHANGE MAX NUMBER OF MESSAGES ooooooooooo o 180 MUTIL FUNCTION 2 RESTORE MESSAGES ooooooooooooooooooooooooo s 181 MUTIL FUNCTION 3 PRINT REMOTE SYSOP PHRASE o oooooooooooooo 82 MUTIL FUNCTION 4 CHECK MAIL INDEX FILE INTEGRITY 183 MUTIL FUNCTION 5 TEST SERIAL PORTS ERA EAS AS A eee 184 MUTIL FUNCTION 6 PRINT FORWARDING TREE Ei a ds a Dt 186 MUTIL FUNCTION 7 CONVERT JNOS DOMAIN TXT FILE TO MSYS FORMAT 1 187 MUTIL FUNCTION 8 RUN LOG FILE ANALYZER oo o ocooccococnooooooooooooo 188 MUT IL EUNCILON 9 RUN SETUP PRO
2. pO no8m no8m usa can The scanner command will work only in FP files not MSYSFWD DEF To add a scan file you need to put a line of dashes prior to the command The purpose of the above command is to cause scanning to resume at the end of forwarding In addition to reverse forward to anyone like KP4GE above two things are necessary First a REV file in the FWD directory Second the callsign of the station connecting must appear as an entry in the MSYSFWD DEF Should a sysop never want to forward to the station who will be reversed to a dummy entry such as P6 KP4G 125 Sfwd kp4ge rev E must appear before the station will be reversed to MSYS 1 18 Page 152 MSYS GENERAL INFORMATION BBS ONLY ACCESS Lets say you are running with ports 0 through 3 and want to make port 2 bbs only access with at most 1 connection allowed at a time either another BBS forwarding to you or you forwarding but not both at the same time You also don t want to generate MAIL FOR beacon on port 2 Use the following FB 2 25 turn off mail for beacon port 2 BP 4 port 2 bbs only BM 2 1 max 1 connect port 2 MCF SB no simultaneous forwarding on port 2 Note that BP and MCF both have port masks as arguments CONNECTS FROM NON AMATEUR CALLSIGNS Connects are no longer accepted from non amateur callsigns like PK 232 and NOCALL for example You can still make connection
3. comment Enables comment line from user to SYSOP msgs use Displays total number of active msgs and known user on BBS home Designates home bbs option ABortfwd Aborts forwarding as soon as possible ADDUser Allows sysop to add a user to bbs APpend Used to append a file to a message and other general uses ARChive Puts given BBS in specified sub directory ARP Lists the known callsign IP address ARP add Adds digipeaters to TCP IP stations ARP del Removes TCP IP stations from arp list ATtended Turn HF forwarding on and off AUTODest Add new DESts for known neighbors AUTOHold Hold messages that contain own call in R lines AUTOKi11 Kill all messages after forwarding AUTONode Add new neighbors heard AX25Backoff Provides exponential delay to RNR messages AX25L2V2 Turns on Version 2 of the AX 25 protocol BY PORT BADuser Enables the bad user list BBs Enter the BBS as a local user BBSNode If on and the node is enabled the bbs will appear as a BBSTimeout BDigi BElloff BID BINterval BMaxcon BOOT BPorts BText BUDCalls BUDList MSYS 1 18 node to the network Number of seconds of inactivity on bbs to disconnect user Specifies digipeaters for beacons Turns bells on or off Manipulates bids in the BIDLIST DAT file Nodes Broadcast interval Maximum BBS connects Reboots computer Remote sysop only Used to indicate BBS ports only Specifies one line of beacon text Set or display
4. A Abort P Path to station B Bye PC Call Sign Server C Conference R Read messag D Download S Send Messag G Search file T Talk to SYSOP H Help U Current users I Information V Version J Calls heard W What files K Kill message X Expert Mod L List Messages Y YAPP Command LC List Catagories x Info about command M Message of the day Comment line N Enter name gth The A abort command to the BBS It can be used to abort output from most BBS commands like Download List and Read The Bye command disconnects you from the BBS Use it when you are done The C command enters the user into the Conference Following lines typed will be sent to all stations in the local conference Control ZQ ZQ or EX may be used to exit the conference When a station enters or exits the conference a message noting the event is sent to the stations in the conference Other Conference commands are ZH produces the help text ZU Lists the current BBS users ZA Asks the user on the given channel number to join the conference The CC command allows sending a Carbon Copy of a given message to ther stations Only the originator of the message the destination tation or the SYSOP can do this for a given message Syntax is CC sg call1l BBS1 call2 bbs2 The bbs parts are optional if the alls are users of your system Example cc
5. Character after S gt B P T None x Other BBS type callsign BN PN TN P N xN no bbs given BS PN TN P N x this bbs B PN TN PIN x something else B PN TN P N x For messages going to ZIP Codes Character after S gt B P T None x Other BBS type callsign BN PN N N xN no bbs given B PS N N x this bbs BS PS N N x something else BS PS N N x For messages going to SOMETHING ELSE Character after S gt B P T None x Other BBS type callsign BN PN TN BN xN no bbs given B PS TN BS x this bbs BS BN TN BS x something else B PS TN BS x Messages with second character of type N are forwarded to one place and then killed if AUTOKill is ON the N is changed to F otherwise Messages with second character of type are flooded to all stations that get the sp Messages that come in with an R actually HCA11 MSYS 1 18 cified BBS character gets changed to When sent to all such BBSs The R line found in the message the second line that contains the call of this bbs are automatically held scan is terminated by the first non R line Page 168 Bulletins that arrive with a bid on the S command line are rejected if their BID already exists in the BID file Bulletins are identified as those messages that arrived via the SB command or S non call All messages other than bulletins are always received never rejected If a message i
6. FORWARD CALL callsign ID CALL callsign ID EVERY number AX25 FRACK number AX25 MAXFRAMES number AX25 RETRIES number AX25 CHECK number MONITOR IFRAMES on off MONITOR UFRAMES on off MONITOR SFRAMES on off MONITOR BFRAMES on off MONITOR OUTGOING on off MONITOR PORTS MASK WINDOW number SIZE number number number number WINDOW number BACKGROUND number WINDOW number FOREGROUND number WINDOW number PAGE number WINDOW UNUSED BACKGROUND number WINDOW UNUSED FOREGROUND number WINDOW DISPLAY color monochrome PROCESS processname WINDOW number STACK processname number NOT USED IF USING EXT EXP MEMORY SEE TEXT SYSOP NAME name SYSOP QTH location SYSOP ZIP zip code MAKE MSYS 1 18 Page 10 Notes 1 Items enclosed in square brackets are optional 2 Numbers assumed in decimal unless prefixed by then hex is assumed 3 on off means the word ON or OFF 4 Where more than 1 space is shown 1 or more space are OK 5 Callsign can include SSID number 6 Ordering of the statements is generally not important 7 1f there is an at the beginning of a line it is ignored 8 The BBS alias KANODe Answer and Forward calls must be different calls or SSID s 9 MASK is described on page 24 Output from the execution of SETUP is the file MSYS DEF a binary file and a listing to the display console The listing consists of
7. MSYS 1 18 Page 154 LINK A line of the form LINKED to cal connection by the given callsign RLI systems when a user uses the C c connect to the MSYS BBS LINKED verification if SYSOP call is used Messages sent forwarded A new log file record is being generated ED lsign is recognized as a This occurs with some versions of ommand on the RLI system to to callsign requires SYSOP and killed get logged to MSYS LOG It is identical to the BBS a record except it has BY user exits the bbs by a ny means periodically weekly in place of BBS dis may wish to put an entry in the MSYS1 as the log fi It is generated when a connect timeout B cmd You TODO DAT file to rename MSYS LOG le CAN get very large very fast LOCKUPS If the system ha make sure you don t appropriate AUTOEX that any automatic restarts include that the mail file will be properly not properly indexed MSYS will mos have a diskette MATL BI Messages to your IDCALL and to SYSOI FOR beacon MSYS 1 18 ngs an attempt is made EC BAT file set up to reboot Thus you should A and that you have an It is strongly recommended the MUTIL 4 command to insure indexed If the mail files are likely hang on restart in EACON P are not displayed in the MAIL You will see them on the screen Page 155 MATL BAK To reduce disk read write delays when a
8. MSYS 1 18 Page 115 FORWARDING ON THE MODEM PORT LET S PAUSE FOR A MOMENT DO NOT FORWARD WITH MSYS ON A TELEPHONE LINE UNLESS YOU ARE ABLE TO INITIATE A ERROR CORRECTING CONNECT WITH THE MODEM A NON ERROR CORRECTING CONNECT WILL MAKE YOUR STATION RESPONSIBLE FOR GARBLED JUMBLED AND MESSED UP MESSAGES T ES ALSO DO NOT ATTEMPT FBB COMPATABLE OR COMPRESSED FORWARDING VIA TH MODEM PORT YOU WILL OVERRUN THE AVAILABLE BUFFERS E The FWD DEF file defines the script MSYS uses to establish a forwarding session In the FWD DEF file put a F R or P line followed by the BBS items to forward The format of the F R and P lines are identical except for the letter This format is different from what would be used for packet forwarding and is as follows F callsign phone callword password Sfwd lt call rev gt where is the port number callsign is the call of the station you are forwarding to phone is the string to send to the modem to dial callword is the reply to give to Call and password is the reply to give to Password questions asked by the destination MSYS system Sfwd lt call rev gt is the directory and file which contains the forwarding information Example F1 WA8BXN ATDP555
9. this wil probably help you find at least half of the problems and their solutions yourself Use and Enjoy MSYS 1 18 Page 225 1 102 ltimestring 96 62 31 SPOOL ks 82 done comment 105 EWD REV Lg 82 Sysop lt 82 lt Esc gt gt 12 gt gt 82 2a he 105 BBS home A 79 SAA TLO A 71 ABortfwd ACOUSTIC 97 97 79 69 82 31 102 153 995 31 102 163 165 105 31 COUPLED MODEMS ADDITIONS amp CHANGES 4 ADDUser Alt F1 Alt F2 Alt F3 AMTOR Z n Ppend RChive rchived RP 31 110 ADD E L P X ded ESt Gl GI H ct 0 D R n D LEAR 31 70 70 70 140 NONYMOUS CHECK INS ER CALL 31 118 14 31 messages 55 216 196 32 31 32 32 S27 32 108 132 138 OEXEC UTOHold UTOKill PPrpPrprrprprrrwepo pry pe aN H D c Q 3 0 MSYS 1 18 tic Message Holding BAT 209 32 33 85 168 158 INDI Automa AUTONode AX25 CHECK RACK AX25 F AX25 MAXF tic Password Reply 164 33 138 15 15 RAMES 132 15 AX25 RETRI ES 15 AX25Backoff AX25L2v2 BADuser BBS 217 BBs 33 BBS ALIAS BBS CALL BBS calls BBS ONLY 33 33 33 14 14 ign 58 ACCESS 153 BBSLIS BBSNode BBSTimeout
10. BBS BBSTON TONTS S DAT 191 192 197 34 34 128 BIN 125 128 196 209 BBSTON 196 BDigi 34 BElloff BID 34 BID LIST BIDLIST D BINterval BInterval blank lin BMaxcon BOOT 35 Ports 3 Text 35 UDCall UDCalls UDList UFFERS ulletin USY 35 Bye 71 Er Es TS C script CH 38 CALLSIGN Callsign CALLSRV1 CALLSRV2 S B B B B B B B B DAT 48 192 194 195 34 79 169 NEARLY FULL AT 34 iy OD 138 es 102 Sho 174 5 56 33 35 36 172 Forwarding Logic 54 126 8 37 SERVER server 85 85 85 58 Page 226 CALLSRV3 85 callword 116 Cancel 69 GCC TL CD ROM 85 CGA 63 Change maximum number of messages 180 CHANNEL NUMBERS 153 CHAnsta 36 CHEck 36 Checksum error 113 CHKMAIL 183 CL Bt 36 CLrscrn 36 CMdwindow 36 COLOR 67 CONFIG SYS 85 172 COPy 36 CRetries 36 Ctr1 F2 70 Ctrl F4 60 70 Ctr1 F5 70 Ctrl F6 70 CTS 37 89 DATABASE HELP 122 Database 0 72 122 datagram 131 DBADD 122 ADletter 40 Bug 40 ELEfile 40 elete Old BIDS 198 ELETE OLD LOG FILES 174 UDays 40 USer 40 aview 214 68 ADD 40 133 138 DEL 41 133 138 REP 40 133 138 tination 110 133 EStination NODe 131 Device Errors 153 DFree 41 DIGipeats 41 DIR 129 DIRectory 41 Discard 217 DISconnect 42 Disk Full
11. MSYS 1 18 Page 96 c One way to reasonably ma file for each BBS that y from the BBS that you wi establish the list of B create a file called WB8 not important extension C MSYS FWD directory C MSYS FWD WB8BII FWD allsign nage large ou forward 11 be forwa BS items to BIT EWD F In this EW rding to forward to WB8BII In this fi For example to D REV Files forwarding lists is to create a to The file will take i CS name you would n this case the extensio but to simplify our explanation FWD To help manage the lists n name is the the we will use you would to set up a xample the file will be le you will list all of different BBS and hierarchical addresses you wish to forward If you wish the other station to also be able to poll you for the catagories the file_nam xt must be lt callsign gt REV Example File entry Comments NOT IN THE FILE WB8BII Mail with an BBS of WB8BII KA8Z Mail with an BBS of KA8Z OKIPN Mail with an BBS of OKIPN NEOH Mail with an BBS of NEOH NTSKY Mail with an BBS of NTSKY ALL Mail with an BBS of ALL anything NEOH Mail with a HIERARCHICAL ADDRESS of NEOH OH Mail with an BBS OR HIERARCHICAL ADDRESS of OH OH Mail with a BBS of OH OH Mail with a HIERARCHICAL ADDRESS of OH EU Mail with a
12. n th CW speed b is the baud rate to be used computer and the TNC or the MODI This is the It is STRONGLY such as 4800 EM suggested that with faster modems that a value of 19200 be used to prevent buffer overruns necessary to avoid overruns on a per port Optionally the word NAM be given frequency If MSYS is in Serial protoc If MSYS is in If MSYS is in with PACTOR Characters to For the other form of the PORT statement word SUBPORT is the logical channel number Next comes the word OF 4 the word PORT defining an a definition PORT descript T a terfacing a NI ol NRS or GTOR tal Next comes precede the NAM terfacing a modem Some adjustment followed by some A good description would be the ET ROM matrix Pp H the NAM terfacing a PACTOR or GTOR tnc You may choose to name it PACTOR_20M or GTOR_20M for better description The na in the stat the ctual port i e contains The optional NAME ion RADIOSE E RADIOSP 1200 probably ED bitrate TNCTYP Gl it D specifies the bitrate used by the TNC to the radio If 300 bps is selected in the BBS and perhaps elsewhere E TNC Any YP initialization statements to be sent to the TNC ld be used for a TNC other wou to initialize he NOT For example is a number from 0 to 99
13. XC Toggles the automatic display of msg catagories when you connect to the bbs and are using non expert mode Default for new user is ON XF and XS Commands XF sets fast mode XS sets slow mode Fast mode means that multiple lines are placed in packets for some commands like D R and L Slow mode means one line per packet as it has been the default XF is faster for users with good paths XS is better for users with poor paths or busy channels XR Toggles the automatic asking if you want to reply to a msg after you read it Can be useful if you get a lot of personal mail Default for new user is OFF YD pathname filename YAPP download of the given file Users must start their YAPP function within 30 seconds of issuing the command YU pathname filename YAPP upload of the given file Users can not delete or replac existing files Users must be enabled with user bit 800 to be able to upload files YW List files in the default YAPP directory See section on DOS SET for further details on defaults YW xxx List the contents of the xxx directory under the YAPP directory MSYS 1 18 Page 81 x Putting at the beginning of a line makes it a comment It also suppresses the next command prompt but the system will be waiting for another command is useful to answer the SYSOP if you get a MESSAGE FROM SYSOP lt filename sysop only Causes the commands found in the given file to b
14. MSYS HCL You should create a file called MSYS HCL into which you put lines describing classes of messages you want to eradicate Each line should contain one or more of the following keywords AT TO FROM AGE TITLE TYPE K T EP SYSOP So for example AT ARRL AGE 30 would delete all messages with BBS of ARRL that are over 30 days old If specified the values of AT TO and FROM must match exactly for a message to be deleted TITLE and TYPE if specified must match some part of their corresponding message header fields case is ignored z KEEP can be used to specify a number of msgs that match the other values given that should be saved anyway Example TO ALL AT ARRL TITLE PFB KEEP 2 Would keep the newest two messages to ALL ARRL with PFB somewhere in their title NOTE The value of title given cannot contain blanks DIR is used to specify a Directory you wish to store a message into before killing For Example TITLE CD ROM age 3 DIR FILES HARDWAR Will store any file with CD ROM in the old in the file MSYS HARDWARE The title of the message will be the BID number This will probably require some Sysop editing to change the title to something more meaningful cr PI itle that is over 3 days SYSOP Y has to be specified in any line that you want to delete messages that a
15. ooooooooo ooo V MSYS TNTTTAL INSTALLATION a a id baer a 1 MSYS UPDATE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS oooooooooooooooooo ooo ooo o 3 SETUR CHANGES a san e aan da A A AS iced RA eee ala 3 ADDITIONS e CHANGES tr a a Bie A e dene lowed fe 4 KNOWN PROBLEMS WITH THIS RELEASE oo ooo o o 5 MSY S COMMAND LEN Ess ia sole ie AS RS Oe A ita eS 6 ABBREVIATIONS CONVENTIONS E A A e 7 MSYS DIRECTORY LAYOUT DESCRIPTIONS peter meaa e ii dias 8 MSY Sis OPT E A AS A ARS E AAN oe 18 Es a e ASAS e 10 MASK INFORMATION a a a A A ia 20 BIT PATTERN CRA BU do Ae a Ed BAAR a Oe al Ada 20 DRSI CARD Sii a SES e be ere ee ered Sele e 22 MSYS COMMAND SUMMARY Seay cy A A Ce ee BE OO eG a ES ROE REO it 23 MSYS SYSOP COMMANDS sort e reale so aoe ele el Be Ose bee ele ds a elec a ewe os ee he 31 MSYS BBS USER COMMANDS vases sti la lenta Bible eee ERIE a ee E a Ral lia de 71 REOXXX SERVERS E E A 83 CALLSIGN SERVER ree RN 85 THINGS NEEDED TO MAKE THE CD ROM DATA BASE CALLSIGN SERVERS WORK 85 THINGS NEEDED TO MAKE THE SAM C DATA BASE CALLSIGN SERVER WORK 86 MODEM SUPPORT 4 ues ti ao e Ea 87 MSYS MODEM FORWARDING PROTOCOL pehea pae eona o ee eee eee ee eens 87 INCOMING CALL PROTOCOL tise eed e be eee Hire bE VW ew Gere ee Die be ee 87 MSY S iOPT ETE S 20 tl aie tails A EI Sie tH te ase eles E Ge eee Beer s 89 MSS ODO elise ese al e hit ene wee th atten a ab te she bie ng Te a
16. tains ca the firs th of th This is an ASCII file that con The callsign prefix begins in with the BBS call for the leng routing field begins in byte 9 a tab here Here are some sample entries 4X ISR AS 9M2 MYS AS A USA NA The idea here is that incoming message routing appended to the BBS field to 4X1ABC 4X1XYZ the field woul It is expected in your forward file yo to route the country part ISR to som FORMAT llsign prefixes and routings t byte Comparisons are made e prefix from this file The character can be used to get s for a given bbs will get the hus if someone sent a message d become 4X1XYZ ISR AS u would either have provisio e bbs or the continent par AS to some bbs Thus to route forei have all the continent designators li gn messages you might just ke EU AS NA etc in your forwarding file or you can be more sel have some countries along with the con file The part of the BBS from left forwarding fil forwarding to various countries tha dump all foreign stuff ona single s GaC le is the one that is used ctiv Remember that you can tinent routings in your forward to right that is found in the If you do a lot of direc free to modify the contents of ROUTES just included country prefixes for cou headers pass through my system MSYS 1 18 an be accommodated if you just tation that is easy too Feel DAT as you see fit
17. Turns on or off the displaying of System RR RNR REJ frames MONITOR BFRAMES on off Turns on or off the displaying of Beacon frames Un numbered information MSYS 1 18 Page 15 MONITOR OUTGOING on off Turns on or off the displaying of all outgoing packets MONITOR PORTS MASK Determines which ports will be monitored The rightmost bit of this number corresponds to port 0 the next bit to the left port 1 and so S T WINDOW number SIZI This form of the wi H on Ports with 1 bits are displayed as selected above A value of 13 decimal D in hex would enable ports 0 2 and 3 for example E MASK on page 20 for further details number number number number ndow statement gives the bounds of the window whose number is given after the word WINDOW The four numbers after the word SIZE are th 1 to 25 the lower right column and the lower right row respectively All of the WINDOW statement forms are optional and should be used with great caution WINDOW number BAC WINDOW number FOR These two forms of upper left column 1 to 80 the upper left row KGROUND number EGROUND number the WINDOW statement give the background and foreground colors of the window specified after the word WINDOW The rightmost number is a color number from 0 to 15 for foregrounds and 0 to 7 for backgrounds Black 0 Blue 1 Green 2 Cyan 3 Red 4 MSYS 1 18
18. ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGES You must send a message to a different address than the message which is used to post items to the group Please if you subscribe save these addresses so you can modify your subscription later PLEASE don t send subscribe and unsubscribe messages to the posting address To Subscribe msys request hamnet wariat org lt subject gt subscribe no body text You will get a ack when your subscription is registered To Unsubscribe msys request hamnet wariat org lt subject gt unsubscribe no body text To get help msys request hamnet wariat org lt subject gt help no body text MSYS 1 18 Page iii POSTING ADDRESS msys hamnet wariat org 7 PROBLEMS no8m hamnet wariat org Thanks to Dave WB8APD for setting this up MSYS 1 18 Page iv A Multi User Multi Port Multi Function Amateur Packet Radio BBS By Mike Pechura WA8BXN C Copyright 1994 By HUB COMPUTERS INC All rights reserved Version 1 18 NOVEMBER 1994 MSYS Documentation Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ss ta is a A a a a Ale Ps ai a I TNTERNET GROUP BEING FORMED it E AS d ET MSYS DOCUMENTATION TABLE OF CONTENTS
19. DPorts Allows sysop to selectively disable digipeater DRoute Callsign port digil digi8 DTimedate Displays current date and time DUmpbbs Disconnect any bbs that has connected and uses a command other than S or F DUPcheck Checks R lines for BID checks amp title from call check EDit Screen editor for files EFile Edits the specified fil EMsghdr Edits the header of the specified message number in BBS EUser Edits specified user MSYS 1 18 Page 24 F2 time FBBC FBBG FBBStimes FCall FFile FIle FMsg FOrward FPactor FRAck FREE FSize FTIme FTPgm FUl1dup Q Gl Etmsgotd GMtime GRep HApnstat HCA11 HCLean HEard Help HOLdlevel HOStname HReplace TD list IGnore IMport INitpr PNCheck PNFrack PNRetry PTtl I I I I MSYS 1 18 Number of seconds to continue displaying monitored packets after F2 function key was last pressed Sets the FBB Compatibility mode Sets the FBB forwarding group size Allows specification of hours bbs is full function Finds the logical channel s find file FF DAT C in use by given callsign Converts specified messag number into file name given Searches messages in MAIL BAK for given pattern string Initiates forwarding immediatel Initiates PACTOR or GTOR forwarding Displays or sets time in seconds Deallocates the logical channel Displays the file size for the pathname specified For
20. The other half of reverse forwarding where MSYS would send F gt when it is done forwarding messages to a particular station is enabled with the R in the first line of the forwarding file FO becomes RO WA8BXN When done forwarding MSYS just disconnects and does not send Done MSYS 1 18 Page 102 BE SURE TO INCLUDE MSYS in your forward files for all other stations you forward to so I can send bulletins about MSYS to all of you The list of MSYS operators keeps growing FORWARDING DISPLAY As each of the BBSs to which msgs can be forwarded is scanned for a given bbs you will see it When a message is being forwarded you will see a line that gives its number and the to station and bbs of the message In parenthesis you will see the entry in the forward file that is being used Thus if the forwarding file contained FO WA8BXN WA8BXN 44 and there was a message for K8222Z 44123 being forwarded you would see something like Fwding msg 123 K8Z2Z2Z 44123 44 OSLDX BBS Messages that arrive with BBS of IDCALL get the BBS field changed to This makes them distinctive Messages sent to REQOTH REQDIR and REQFIL are left private if they arrive that way There can only be up to 400 different bbs names in the forwarding file To check this do a LCount on the file MSYS BBS BIDS Messages that are entered on the system addressed to other than what looks like a callsign aut
21. is removed in the leftmost part of the hierarchical address S W1XYZ K1XXX 5 is taken as S W1XYZ K1XXX Thus MSYS 1 18 Page 79 T The T command talk to sysop When a bbs user types T you will get the connect music and then have 60 seconds to type something or they will be put back to the bbs If you do type to them then when you are done with your conversation and do Cd then they will go back to the bbs The keyboard call can still be used for incoming connects note that it is accessible to all stations even on closed bbs ports Outgoing connects are the same as they have always been When an incoming keyboard connect occurs you will automatically be taken to the F1 screen If you wish to prevent users from ringing your bell L set MCON 0 U The U command gives the current users of the bbs plus the number of active messages and users and what they are doing UPload The UPload command To use it the user must be authorized see user flags To do an upload the user types UP on the BBS MSYS will then ask for the file name to be uploaded If no fil upload is terminated If the filename is accepted the user then sends the ASCII file ending with a line that contains onl le name is entered or the file exists in the FILES directory the Ly Z Once the transfer is started it may be aborted by sending a line with A Version The V command gives t
22. other than that the user will see a port identical to a packet port The user should not attempt to control the direction of the link PACTOR LIMITATIONS GTOR LIMITATIONS No YAPP is currently possible on a PACTOR GTOR port You also should not do FBB type compressed forwarding No particular advantage is seen when using the FBB group forwarding DO NOT ENABLE DIGI ON THE PACTOR GTOR PORT PACTOR TROUBLESHOOTING GTOR TROUBLESHOOTING A power supply of ample capacity for your radio is necessary Some problems can be traced back to unstable or minimal power supplies The use of the TERM command to go in and talk to the TNC is valuable The TNC can be interrogated and connects can be established without regard to MSYS settings by using TERM One initially confusing aspect is the use of ECHO OFF MSYS requires echo to be off When in the TERM command mode you may wish to turn echo ON so you can see what you are typing Before you leave the TERM command mode you must remember to again set ECHO to OFF MSYS PACTOR SCANNING MSYS GTOR SCANNING By instituting scanning your HF radio can be made to cover many more frequencies and due to that more area The costs are minimal A TTL to Serial level converter and a serial port is required Although the serial port would be a lot to ask for most of us the port is configured in such a way that there is no need for a
23. 1 18 One is the MSYS MAIL BIN directory that is used to store the compressed messages as they are received and sent and the other is MSYS YAPP which is used to store files that have been transferred via YAPP compressed protocol Please see the MSYS DIRECTORY LAYOUT DESCRIPTION for further details Use DOS commands to make the new sub directories If you are already running MSYS 1 15 no further changes need to be made in the directory structure Increase your FILES statement in CONFIG SYS to files 40 BUFFERS can remain at 20 It is suggested that a program similar to the Quarterdeck Systems VIDRAM ON be run prior to running MSYS to create as much working memory as possible MSYS does not require graphics capability Of course if other background applications require graphics this option is not available VIDRAM works with EGA or VGA video adapters and should not be loaded into upper memory Run MUTIL 9 setup and of course MUTIL 4 before restarting the new version of MSYS MSYS 1 18 Page 3 ADDITIONS CHANGI There have been many changes to MSYS Here are some of the changes 1 One of the major changes in Ver a S some major and many minor 1 18 is the addition of G TOR MSYS properly interfaces a KAM Plus that has the proper firmware installed At w Sca A incoming connects down A new command VAlidmsgtypes which nning of HF radios is supported
24. I have ntries for which I seen message Page 212 The following program may be used to create a BBSLIST DAT file from the BBSTONTS DAT file supplied on distribution disk 10 OPEN BBSTONTS DAT FOR INPUT AS 1 20 OPEN BBSLIST NEW FOR OUTPUT AS 2 30 IF EOF 1 THEN CLOSE END 40 LINE INPUT 1 A 50 I 1 C WHILI I I 1 WEND 60 D MID A 35 6 70 H MIDS A 10 25 90 IF LEFTS D 2 99 THEN 30 100 XS LEFTS CS 1 IF X gt 0 AND X lt 9 THEN 120 110 XS MID C 2 1 IF X gt 0 AND X lt 9 THEN C C 120 PRINT 2 CS TAB 8 HS TAB 74 D 130 GOTO 30 a ti Gl MIDS AS 1 1 lt gt C C MID AS 1 1 T You may use a text editor to extract the program from this file The result of this program is put in a file called BBSLIST NEW It may be renamed to BBSLIST if you don t have one already Or you can merge your file with this one by using the following commands copy BBSLIST DAT BBSLIST NEW TEMP del BBSLIST DAT ren TEMP BBSLIST DAT Then run MUTIL function 20 to sort the file and discard the duplicates from the BBSLIST NEW file MSYS under WINDOWS 3 1 To run MSYS in the background mode with Windows 3 1 you must make a PIF file called MSYS PIF The secret is when you get ready to save the MSYS PIF file show the path as c windows msys pif NOT c msys ms
25. If you use the RUn command and it doesn t work it is clearly you who have made the error Here are the rules for programs you might consider using with the run command if you don t understand these rules or aren t sure your program complies with them don t run it 1 Program must be small I d say under 10K If you get a message that says not enough memory the program is too big 2 Program must be in default MSYS directory 3 Program must be fast If runs much over 1 minute the system will reboot While it is running no packets of any kind will be transmitted 4 Programs should not use any of the standard pre opened files Console I O must be done using ROM BIOS only If you open any files you must close them If you use any memory you must free it If you change anything in the computer you must put it back for the most part 5 Any screen output will be put in a file called POOL The TYpe command may be used to view the file 6 You should write your programs in either assembly language or C Here is an example of a C program that is suitable for framing I mean execution using the RUn command include lt stdio h gt include lt stdlib h gt main int argc char argv int Ty char path path getenv PATH for i 0 i lt argc i cprintf argv d is s n i argv il if path cprintf Path Ss n path exit 1 You didn t expect t
26. It then attempts to open MSYSMOD MSG If the file is found its contents are sent to the modem Next MSYS prompts with Call At this point a human operator would enter their callsign value An MSYS connecting for purposes of forwarding would reply with echo off which disables echoing by the called MSYS system and then the callsign value would be send on a second line MSYS next prompts with Password and expects the password to be entered that corresponds to the previously given call sign These two words are then used to scan the MSYSPASS MOD file to find a match If a match is found the third word on the line in the MSYSPASS MOD file is used as the apparent callsign with which the user will appear to have connected to the system Here is an example of a normal user connecting into MSYS via modem MSYS Modem Interface contents of MSYSMOD MSG Call NO8M Password camping from this point on it looks just like a packet connection was made MSYS 1 18 Page 87 Here is an example of a MSYS system forwarding into another MSYS system via modem MSYS Calling MSYS system MSYS Modem Interface contents of MSYSMOD MSG Call echo off WA8BXN Password BINGO normal packet protocol follows Use ONLY FBBC 0 and XO OFF on modem ports Very Important The use of FBB style forwarding and or compression on the modem port will usually result in buffer overflows and cause serious consequences to the
27. SYS Command Summary 23 SYS DIRECTO SYS GENERAL RY LAYOUT 8 INFORMATION 153 SYS GTOR SCANNING 144 SYS MSG FILE FORMAT 211 SYS Network NODe 131 SYS NODe Forwarding 107 SYS PACTOR SCANNING 144 SYS SYSOP Commands 31 SYS BBS 8 SYS DEF 11 SYS DO 85 101 102 86 108 135 160 200 SYS EXE 8 SYS FWD 53 101 173 209 SYS HCL 129 SYS HRD 172 209 SYS LOG 209 SYS MSG 180 209 SYS OPT 10 172 SYS OPT FILES 89 SYS OTD 203 SYS REP 121 203 SYS RMT 67 163 164 182 204 SYS USR 209 SYS BBSTONTS BI 209 SYS FILES 208 SYS FWD 208 SYS GREPDIR 208 SYS HELP 208 SYS MAIL 208 SYS MAIL BAK 209 Page 229 re ee ise ee Mee SS O ree te SERRE RRR ZE ERR REC ERR ERE RR ERR ERR ERE RE RE REE RZER Z SYS MAIL BIN 209 SYS MSYS FWD 209 SYS MSYS HRD 209 SYS MSYS LOG 209 SYS MSYS MSG 209 SYS MSYS USR 209 SYS MSYSBBSB DAT SYS MSYSHOST NET SYS MSYSPASS DAT SYS YAPPDIR 208 SYSB EXE 157 SYSBBS DAT 94 SYSBBSB DAT 120 SYSFWD DEF 2 53 173 205 SYSHCL DO 130 SYSHOLD DAT 118 SYSHOST NET 58 SYSHOST NEW 187 SYSK OTD 203 SYSMOD MSG 119 SYSMSGS DAT 172 SYSPASS DAT 164 SYSPASS IP 165 SYSPASS MOD 87 SYSTNC 141 142 SYSTNC 161 SYSING Ly 127 207 SYSTNC 2 90 SYSTNC x FILES 9 SYSTODO DAT 66 UTIL 128 172 UT
28. freq Enables the PACTOR scanning routines PWindow number number If given one parameter this command displays the name and window used by the given process number If two numbers are given as parameters the first is the process and the second number is the window number to assign to that process MSYS 1 18 Page 59 Omsg msg This command copies the given message file to a file called OMSG stripping off the R lines and inserting gt at the beginning of each line It then takes you into the editor to edit the file QMSG You may now respond to the quoted messag text adding and deleting lines as desired Editor help is available with Esc HELP When you are done editing save the file Esc SAVE Next go into the bbs and use the REP command to begin replying to the message Instead of typing your reply use the QMSG to include the edited quoted message When it has been read type the Z or EX to signal the end of your message If the command is done from within the bbs by using the form QM the bbs will prompt your entries for sending the message QUIT After you use QUIT command or Ctrl F4 the screen is cleared JK etc information is saved when you do a QUIT and reloaded when BBS is started again RBid on OFF When on will take the received BID MID xxxxxx and insert it in the current R line RDir directoryname REMove specified directory Readbackup numb
29. its arguments that may follow S in se This should preve Defaults are BTPW problems A SE chan text command has been text without the usual Msg from Regenerated messages ar The CONFERENCE is no long 00 new command SHUtdown has been added and advises curren tended G TOR forwarding on HF can be ini keyboard at the same time VHF forwarding is the G TOR Whe t users of impending shut in takes nd nt a added sysop wh sibl r acces been re fixed The bug in MAXBullage has The LU RES bug has been The sysop commands K lt and The TO call the FROM call compared with the bad word fil Changes have been mad E m le i components as flood routes such If a message disappears during fo manual deletion the forwarding terminated If a messag is refused by a FBB solved f 18 58 as USA in rwarding connectio station w ns that have th Cal Bulleti same Bull will e Sam on be held for sysop review for Users will have the opportunity t e ns that have an apparent BID change based on the R duplicat BBS ted from the progress mode n it prevents new tia in n o string of letters as commands in the bbs type SR and related ich will send the given prefix now stored in the mail bak directory from the modem K gt have been implemented a
30. number Specifies maximum size message that can be read or file that can be downloaded If no port number is specified value applies to all ports MCForward MASK Allows you to control Multiple Connections during Forwarding The operand for this command is a port bit mask Default is all 1 s in the mask which allows forwarding to go on as in previous versions If a particular port has its bit set to 0 then forwarding on that port is counted as a BBS connect on that port Thus if you have BMaxcon set to 1 for that port and you are forwarding on that port a BBS connect will not be allowed since you are already using the port Also if there are already BMaxcon BBS connections for that port forwarding will be bypassed for that port Careful use of these commands should reduce the congestion on HF forwarding as you now have complete control over the level of multiconnection for both BBS and forwarding activities combined In the MASK argument you put 1 s in the ports on which you want forwarding to be counted as a BBS connect Using MCF along with BM and BP if you have marked any stations as BBSs allows you to limit a given port toa single BBS connect or forward at a time If you want this on port 0 use the following MCF SFE BM 0 1 BP 01 MCOn number Specifies number of connects allowed to the SYSOP keyboard at one time if MCon 1 only allows an incoming call to the key board to be a
31. t S HAMO HAMCALL 129 The TSR for the j com files is CALL optionally takes one parameter th he default is SRV2 It name of the directory in which you installed th com files If none is given the d F HAMBASE T The TSR for the SAM c files is CA optionally takes one parameter th several j efault is LLSRV3 It name of the directory in which you installed th c files If none is given the d F HAMBASE THINGS NEEDED TO MAKE THE CD ROM DATA BASE CALLS Put the following in your CONFIG SYS and reboot sy LASTDRIVE W DEVICE SONY_CDU SYS D MSCD210 U 1 B 340 M T Run the following before MSYS probably put these AUTOEXEC BAT MSCDEX D MSCD210 M 4 L S V MSCDINFO CALLSRV1 S HAMO HAMCALL 129 Put the following in MSYS DO MSYS 1 18 e several SAM efault is IGN SERVERS WORK stem P V L S 0 statements in Page 85 REQOTH ON Notes You may have to make changes in have different device drivers for your hardware options differently pretty any interrup respond to R Running well on the CD ROM drive and if set REQOTH OFF For all the servers THINGS NE the title must be EDED TO MAKE THE SAM c Put the following in your AUTOEXEC BAT Of course E sam api samapi E sam c C msys callsrv3 exe E sam zal this presuppose
32. to send more data A full RS 232 cable cables that work in some TNCs will not work here Access to a network accomplished by add appropriate line in An example follows NETNode USAGE node from the modem is possible It is ing the capitalized string NETNODE to the the MSYSPASS MOD USE THIS OPTION WITH CAUTION m ETNODE parameter will first be put into wombat poobear WA8BXN NETNODE A user designated with the N the MSYS NETNODE and will network BBS command MSYS 1 18 L have FULL capability to access the packet For such a user to access the BBS he would give the normal Page 92 FORWARDING This is the area of MSYS that requires the most study to properly establish MSYS can forward in any of several ways Standard AX 25 Non compressed FBB non compressed style FBB compressed style RLI compressed style SMTP non compressed Via Modem NON COMPRESSED Via Attended HF GTOR or PACTOR as well as AX 25 PACK To or from a file 0 JM 0 0NnN RA zal H MSYS can forward based on several parameters 1 On hierarchical address of a BBS On a unique flood route 3 On a limited basis to a component of a hierarchical address used as a bulletin distribution area 4 On a limited basis on the TO field as well as the BBS field 5 On ZIP code for NTS messages N MSYS can forward at a sp
33. wordlist 1 wil the sentenc in If the word KILL is added to the line in MSYSHOLD DAT the message will be stored in the mail bak directory and immediately killed example For TO DIRT KILL will kill all messages to DIRT the command be used with care the TITLE option It is suggested that this form of The KILL option does NOT work with MSYS DO MSYS DO is a file which you should create to do all of the SYSOP commands needed to prepare your specific MSYS system This file processed as a series of commands and is far easier to do rather is than manually typing them every time you start MSYS it automatically tries to do a DO command starts file for more information on the possibl When the system See the sample le contents MSYSTODO DAT Timed execution of commands can be done in MSYS You can create a file called MSYSTODO DAT with commands and times they should be done Wild cards can be specified for the times Each line consists of a time given as exactly 8 characters followed by a space and then the command to execute at the given time The wildcard character is and they may only occupy positions in the left part of the time The format of the time is MMDDhhmm where MM is the month number 1 to 12 DD is the day of the month 1 to at most 31 hh is the hour 0 to 23 and mm is the minute 0 to 59 Here are some time examples MMDDhhmm pattern MSYS 1 18 Page
34. 43 41 34 25 lt 36 This means that new nodes heard will not be unless they do actually connect from nodes already in will be recorded or R command in Digipeater s Page 135 The general philosophy I am using is that I only want to attempt to connect to network nodes that I have a good path to the nodes that I br they can handle neighbor NODe table that I can really c at the right time of DEStination node claim they can handle everything they hear oadcast myself I have manually entered thes These are also and the DEStinations they claim using NODe ADD I see littl onnect to a NODe I hear once b nodes into my e sense in saying cause a meteor hit This method does not particular s my NODe knows about because t ly limit the number I jus he nearby nodes t let the nearby nodes worry about finding routes to everything they claim to hear tem serves as frequency to the no Baud UHF backbone f from the network favor nodes primar I have se so that they will My sys E a li des o reque n 145 01 which give access ncy nk from the one isolated NODe on 145 05 LAN to the Ohio 4800 I also serve as an IP switch to and I have adjusted the neighbor NODe qualities to ily TCP IP stations to which I alk directly to each other most than tryi directly system If you want ng to go through my NODe to each oth
35. 59 EMM 177 215 msg 60 UIT 60 70 tT ct ct tg FU FU FU tU ROR H H wn Q w ooo U yg UU tU O MSYS 1 18 R 76 R 76 R 77 R 77 R 77 R lt 76 R gt 76 R 76 RADIOSPEED 12 Radiospeed 89 RBid 60 Dir 60 E 76 eadbackup 60 egister 27 90 EM 76 EMOTE SYSOP 67 163 EMove 60 133 EMove DESt 138 Name 60 NUMBERING MESSAGES 193 EPLACEABLE DIRECTORY NAMES 208 PLACEABLE FILE NAMES 209 Places 60 Ply 77 EQDIR 60 83 EQFIL 60 83 EOMaxfi1l 61 EQOTH 61 83 85 EQxxx SERVERS 83 ES 77 ESPonsetime 61 STore 61 Tries 61 VERSE FORWARD 98 everse forwarding 99 H 76 inetime 62 76 N lt msg gt 76 OUTES DAT FILE FORMAT 212 outing 131 P 76 S 77 Un 62 218 SAM c 85 A A Y w E bd m m SE Sp A E E ES SAMPLES OF MSYS FILES 199 SB 79 SCreensave 63 SE 4 63 SELECTIVE FORWARDING 99 SEnd 63 Page 231 servers NNnNdNNNN bl ab 217 209 209 Z 175 UP 3 etup HUTdown HUtdown 4 190 63 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 217 SLott SMTP SMTP SNow sort Special KISS Parameters SR 7 SSID er 7 STACK STACKS STatu SUspendtrace SYSOP SYsop SYSOP SYSOP SYSOP SYS SYS 162 1
36. Database to disk NODe SEnd Force known network node destination broadcast NPorts mask Ports to which network node broadcasts are made Default is 0 NRCall callsign Sets net work mode callsign It should have an SSID Example NRC WA8BXN 2 NRId mnemonic Sets net NODe mnemonic identifier for network node Example NRI 460406 NTtl number Network node time to live max hops Default is 64 OCInit number Initial obsolescence count for network node Default is 6 OCMin port number Minimum obsolescence to broadcast a destination node in network node broadcast OCM is settable for each port Default 10 OKfrom List of acceptable non calls for originating station Maximum 80 characters Default is WP REQWP MSYS 1 18 Page 57 PAClen port number Specifies maximum number of bytes that are put in a packet before it is sent Possible range of values is 1 to 255 If packets will go through a network node on their way to their destination 236 should be used On HF a value of 40 is generally good PATh callsign Displays information about given user callsign same as P on BBS PC on OFF This command enables or disables the on line Callsign Server PForward callsign Displays information about given BBS callsign same as PF on BBS PIng destination Where destination is either an IP address like 44 70 4 6 ora mnemonic defined in MSYSHOST NET The reply comes in windo
37. Function 17 MERge BBSLIST DAT Files This function takes as its input your current BBSLIST DAT file which it first renames to BBSLIST BAK and another file you specify in the same format as BBSLIST DAT and merges the two files into one called BBSLIST DAT I use this function to merge the BBSLIST DAT file that some of the users of MSYS have sent me This allows me to include in my file some bbs calls that normally would not have been seen in messages passing through my system MUTIL Function 18 Check MSYSNODE DAT Integrity This function performs the following functions MSYSNODE DAT viewing and repair program 0 Printer echo toggle now OFF 1 List active neighbors 2 List all neighbor slots 3 List active known destinations 4 List all known destination slots 5 Data consistency check 6 View given neighbor or destination 99 Exit Any output from the program will be directed to the screen unless th printer has been toggled on MUTIL Function 19 Convert User Files 1 05 amp Before To 1 06 and later Version 1 05 and earlier used a different format for storing user files This utility probably will be of little use to most current users MUTIL Function 20 Sort BBSLIST DAT File MSYS 1 18 Page 197 This utility will sort the callsigns in the BBSLIST DAT file It will sort the bbs callsigns based on number suffix after the number prefix to the number and generate a new file called B
38. Message 153 DOcmdfile 42 Domain txt 187 Ae EXE Hao fw nn UN A Gt al T al wn D D D D D D D D D D D D D D MSYS 1 18 DOS 154 DOS 3 3 177 DOS SET 72 Download 72 Ports 42 Route 42 Route DELete 42 RSI CARDS 22 Timedate 42 Umpbbs 43 UPcheck 43 cho 217 Dit 43 DITFILE EF Command 222 DITVIEW ED Command 221 File 43 Msghdr 43 D OF LINE BELLS 154 T T8 ser 44 ENT LOG 154 PANDED MEMORY 157 TENDED 157 F HAMBASE 85 F1 70 F2 Time 44 F6 70 F8 70 FA 112 FB 111 FBB 117 FBB COMPATIBLE COMPRESSED FORWARDING 112 FBB COMPATIBLE FORWARDING 111 FBB ON THE PHONE 117 FBBC 45 94 FBBStimes 45 FCall 45 FF 111 FFile 45 FIle 45 FILES 172 208 Files related to TCP IP 217 files 40 2 Fix mail index file 192 FMsg 46 FOrward 46 FORWARD CALL 14 137 Forward File Description 94 FORWARDING 93 FORWARDING DISPLAY 103 FORWARDING NOTES 102 H wG 3 gJogogu g Tj ti mi m ed d x lt sccaZ T E Page 227 FORWARDING ON THE MODEM PORT 116 FORWARDING TO JNOS SYSTI FO 112 FRACK 66 FRAck 46 FREE 46 FREQUENT PROBLEMS 172 FS 111 FTIme 46 FTP 206 216 FTP COMMANDS 219 FTPgm 47 FUllduplex 47 F
39. NODI ROUTING H O pa C DI ti RELATED A N O I D SCELLANEOUS T PA GT ONZkK2Z08 24 OVERVIEW HARDWARE COMMENTS ON NI NODE PARAMETERS SUMMARY sse aa e ete a e eS eee ee wee a eed L LOR an eke onani Rie Soe PAC PACT PACT GTOR USER S VIEW W OR IAMTTATTON Guarita n aa Sug ae ie e ate eA ee Se eel L GEOR relat MTSE Aud WON Se uss Ae cates TD AA RATE DD AD A AS L OR FORWAR OR GTOR SE PACTOR TNC PA PACTOR MANUAL MANUAL CONNEC TO ui a aa Sle ref a da ails a E a e E cen L FORWARDING oa Soy oles far a No o id L PAC OR TROUBL ESHOOTING rita a Ole eee A e we al L GTOR TROUBLES PACTOR SCANNING nke Dl e o e R e andi bi a e ld od L MSY S GTOR SCANNING a aieea RA A A Se L MSYS MSYS 1 E AMATEUR RADIO BBS NETWORK escote ie o ire eee ee eed 11 THB MODEM PORT oe sine a A ia 11 ON THE PHONE swe de A A SS A A AR Ee Brose 11 ARAARE SYSTEMS 40000 a a dll 11 US CHECKS DN es ve soins belgie 16d Sel a A a L ACOUSTIC COUPLED MODEMS a a e A A E TE E D Griese Beare wel L RWARDING AND MSY Saa ut e ra ad a ad L BULLETIN FORWARDING LOG Cicas a tape ate a a E E E in E ed L CREATING THE BBSTONTSABIN ELLE oie pee e sede horses E A bie So
40. R MAIL BAK Optional Directory which may contain BACKUP messages ER section for suggestion continued next page EV RD RMT file and is used by MERge Directory which may contain forwarding files the reverse forwarding PASSWO and the command ELP messages including Directory which contains ACTIVE messages FWD See ADVANCED Page 8 continued from previous page EE MATL BIN Directory which contains COMPRESSED messages cat oe PASSWORD Optional Directory which may contain user PASSWORD files gt PUBLIC Optional Directory which may contain uploaded FTP SMTP messages RS YAPP Optional Directory which may contain YAPP files MSYS 1 18 Page 9 MSYS OPT Before MSYS can be used a configuration file MSYS OPT must be created and the program SETUP MUTIL EXE Function 9 must be run to create the file MSYS DEF The file MSYS OPT is a standard ASCII file and may be created with any text editor The basic format of the commands in the file are T PORT number AT number INT number SPEED number NAME description PORT number SUBPORT number OF PORT number NAME description DIGI callsign FROM PORT number TO PORT number AS callsign NUMCHANS number BBS CALL callsign BBS ALIAS callsign KANODe CALL callsign ANSWER CALL callsign
41. This is normally NOT the call you would use This callsign is given to help identify some of the mystery callsigns used for nodes and digipeaters such as MYDIGI JBbscommand gives a list of BBS s that have been heard along with date and time they were heard and the path to them JDigipeat command gives a list of the Digipeaters that have been heard along with the date and time they were heard and the path to them JGateways command gives a list of the Gateways that have been heard along with the date and time they were heard and the path to them JKanodes command gives a list of the KAnodes that have been heard along with the date and time they were heard and the path to them JMsys command List other MSYS systems that have been heard JNetrom command gives a list of the NET ROM nodes that have been heard along with the date and time they were heard the real callsign of the NODe and the path to them most are direct You can specify a port number as an argument to limit the display to just that port For example JK 1 would display the KA Nodes heard on port 1 only The K command is used to kill delete old messages from the system You can kill only those messages that are to or from your station The format of the command is K a space and then the number of the message to delete Multiple message numbers separated by a space may also be killed Example k 123 6789 112
42. You can include the contents of a file in a message you are sending by typing filename at the point you wish to include the file If you want to include the contents of a message file from the MAIL BAK directory type msgnumber at the point you want to include the file Example 1538 You can specify a window number as an argument to the BB command BB 0 will use the top half of the F1 screen for example If you were in the BBS locally and leave it for some reason with it still active and use the BB command you will return to your previous session rather than starting a new one BBSNode ON off If on and the node is enabled the BBS will appear as a node to the network using the alias as the identifier and the BBS call as the call This way connects may be made to the BBS direct from the network BBSTimeout BDigi Number of seconds of inactivity on BBS to disconnect user default 300 seconds Note that when version 2 of the AX 25 LY protocol is enabled no activity for CHEck time does not causes a disconnect digil digi2 digi8 Lets you specify up to 8 digipeaters for beacons id mail btext The list of digipeaters can be different for each port If only a port number is given the digipeater list for that port is cleared Examples bd 4 digil digi2 sets digil and digi2 as digipeaters for port 4 only bd digia digib sets digia and di
43. a connection to the FTP server of the specified system FTP is the File Transfer Protocol used in TCP IP FUllduplex port on OFF Enables full duplex operation in the TNC on selected ports This may be useful for satellite operation or with full duplex repeaters Examples FU ON turns full duplex on for all ports FU 2 OFF turns full duplex off for port 2 GEtmsgotd This command causes the Message of the day file MSYS OTD to be read and displayed The Message of the day is sent to all stations connecting to the BBS You can create and or change this file using the EFile command Keep the contents short See also MEXpert command GMtime hours This sets the GMT offset from the local time The computer can be set for local time GMtime will then offset MSYS time to the proper GMT time If the TImezone GMT option is set MSYS will insert the proper GMT in R lines Mutually exclusive with RLinetime GRep filename search string Will search the given file for the specified pattern displaying lines that contain the given string Case is ignored in the search Wild cards are NOT allowed HApnstat Provides HAPN DRSI interface statistics HCA11 string This command allows you to properly specify your BBS hierarchical callsign This is the callsign put in the R lines of messages as they pass through your system If you don t give this a value your ID callsign will
44. a good idea to then run MUTIL Function 10 to add any new BBS s to the list before running MUTIL Function 13 MUTIL Function 12 Fix Mail Index File xxxx x WARNING This function can DESTROY the mail index file INPUT FILE S MSYS MSG MATIL MSG DAT OUTPUT FILE MSYS MSG T This function allows manual inspection checking and modification of the mail index file It is a utility I wrote to see what destroyed a mail file and perhaps fix it There is one function that may be useful to most SYSOPS that allows you to specify the next messag number to be assigned to incoming messages You may want to do this if you were running some other bbs and want to continue using message numbers from where you left off Personally I would suggest that you don t do this but rather start with the default value 1 But its up to you NOTE Make a copy of your existing MSYS MSG file before using this function NOTE Most of the checking and repair functions have been automated in the CHKMAIL function MUTIL Function 4 DIALOG WITH FUNCTION You are first asked for the name of the MSYS MSG file to modify Enter MSYS message header file name or simply press return for MSYS MSG Normally you will want to just press the return key If the current directory from which you are running MUTIL does not contain the MSYS MSG file that you want to modify you can specify a different path or even a different file
45. all non BBS marked sta tions If off expert non BBS stations it will only be displayed to non ar letter port or B Clears the various J heard lists Letters are HBKDN or G Heard BBSs K Nodes Digi s NetRoms Examples MH clears everything MH D MH D 1 ar string Message ID indica clears all Digi s heard clears tor max Digi s heard on port 1 4 chars to be sent in SID If non blank MIDS will be sent for private messages when forwarding to systems that have IDentifier m number the s the same string in their SID System tuff in when a connect is made to a BBS Allows specification of the minimum free memory as reported by the MEM for which a new connect request will be accepted Default is 32000 disastrous ng Values less than 16000 probably will be A value of 32000 or more is strongly recommended particularly if you are using compressed forwarding Reports number of times forwarding aborted due to missing text file rame ON o ff ON off ON off 1 18 enabl es disab Enable disable monitoring of Beacon UI frames es monitoring of TCP IP packets enabl es disab es monitoring of NetRom packets Page 53 MONIFrame ON off Enable disable monitoring of Information frames MONITor ON off This is the master command for monitoring packets heard If this is set to OF
46. and TNC but this probably won t really help the situation much Dispatches per second is how many times per second each process was given control of the CPU If this goes to zero I d worry a lot Note will only display information for real ports SUspendtrace number Where number is the number of free bytes in the input buffers below which the monitoring is turned off There is 1 buffer of 4096 bytes for each serial port tnc The amount free at any time is given by the STatus command When the fr space gets less than the SU value F2 monitoring is turned off to allow things to get processed more quickly Default value is 2000 bytes Again F2 displays take a lot of time and when the system gets behind it is a good idea to turn off the updating of the display When the fr space in all the buffers goes above the SU value tracing is turned back on unless otherwise suspended This function can be effectively disabled by setting SU to 0 and then it will work as before SYsop ON off If on messages to SYSOP will be included inthe You have messages on the F1 screen display TABs ON off when on tabs are expanded on local display when off a tab shows up as I Default is ON TACk number Transport ack delay in seconds for network node Default is 3 Similar in function to RESPonsetime but for network node MSYS 1 18 Page 64 TBdelay number Transport busy delay in
47. are forwarding to the number SW8XYZ after F is not important Then do a network connect to W8XYZ assuming W8XYZ is in our local dest list W8XYZ forward W8XYZ stuff to this bbs FO W8XYZ SW8XXX connect to node W8XXX which is in our local dest list to busy W8XYZ stuff to forward to this bbs NOTE There should be NO BLANK LINES in this file FORWARDING TO JNOS SYSTEMS E TO forward to a JNOS TCP IP mailbox the file may look like the following FO W8UPD NET may not be needed W8UPD MORE BBS CALLS Another way that also seems to work 0 w8upd SUAKRON Sc msys fwd w8upd rev Please note that some JNOS systems may require you to make the final connect to the ALIAS rather than to the callsign of the bbs There is a command in JNOS that probably should be used mbox jumpstart to permit the JNOS system to start the handshake sequence without awaiting the extra carriage return MSYS 1 18 Page 107 HF FORWARDING HF Forwarding regulations do not allow transmitting 3rd party traffic unless there is a control operator present the station is under remote control or a STA has been issued To aid in compliance with the regulations the ATtended command has been added When set to ON all forwarding is allowed If off ports with radio speed of 300 will forward only those messages in which the from call is the idcall messages that you originate or the to station in the message is t
48. be used There is a maximum of 49 characters for this entry Hint if you run more than one copy of MSYS for some reason and pass messages between the two systems make your HCA11 slightly different on each I might use for example WA8BXN OH USA on one and WA8BXN OH USA NA on the other This will prevent unnecessary holding or deleting see OLdbids of messages validly passed from one system to the other MSYS 1 18 Page 47 HCLean number This command allows you to automatically delete specified messages every day at specified time s MSYS HCL in index If no operand is given HCL shows time in minutes after 00 00 midnight that housecleaning happens If a number is given as an operand it sets the time for housecleaning in minutes after 00 00 midnight HCLean NOW Manually initiates housecleaning HEard number The J heard list recording is turned off if the number of dispatches per second in the last minute is less than the number given Default value is 3100 which j heard recording J Heard list recording takes quite a bit of computation for every packet heard This command was added to speed things up on slower computers you might want to use a value of 10 Help This command lists the names of the available commands with the required part of the command name in capital letters HOLdlevel number Parameter is a number which if the sum of word weights matched in messag xceeds the valu
49. by this station Reads Number of messages read by this station Kills Number of messages killed by this station Forwards Number of messages forwarded to this station MSYS 1 18 The first line of the report gives the period of time covered by the The next section of the report lists stations that were active on the Page 188 NOTE The callsign HCLean indicates activity by the House Cleaning routine The next section lists messages that were read during the period sorted in increasing order of number of reads The meaning of the headings is LAST READ Date the message was last read MSG The number of the message on the bbs TO The TO station callsign of the message BBS The field of the message Count The number of times the message was read Titl The title of the message NOTE Private messages are not shown only bulletins This section is useful to see what interest there is in the various types of messages The next section provides overall counts of various activities MSGINs The number of messages that were sent to the BBS MSGKILLs The number of messages that were killed MSGFWDS The number of messages forwarded by the BBS to other systems Note If a bulletin is forwarded to 4 different systems it counts as 4 forwards MSGREADs Total number of Read commands used on BBS RESTARTS Number of times MSYS was started QUITs Number of times MSY
50. changed fron type to type which indicates they no longer need to be considered for forwarding and as an indication to humans that they have been forwarded everywhere A flood bulletin is considered forwarded everywhere it should go if its bits are set for every BBS it should go to Recall that these bits are set when the message is first received based on the R lines as well as when th mssage is forwarded The bits that must be sent for a bulletin to have been sent everywhere are the result of a logic OR between the bits indicated by the leftmost component of the message s BBS as determined from the BBS file and the bits associated with the leftmost component prefixed with obtained from the MSYS BBS file 6 Non flood bulletins should be marked with type F and perhaps killed if autokill is on the first time they are forwarded 7 The following logic is used to determine which component of the BBS field of a message will be used for forwarding The first step that has success terminates the logic MSYS BBS is searched for a the leftmost component b the leftmost component prefixed with For the remaining component MSYS BBS is searched for c the component d the component prefixed with For example if the BBS is X Y Z MSYS BBS would be searched for a match in this order X N Ka X K N In summary if you wish to forward only flood bulletins with an bbs of OH y
51. continued high quality performance of the system Note To accommodate exchanges with FBB systems use of control characters in the call and or password should not be needed The callsign must be prefixed with a period to turn off echoing from the FBB system Here is an example MSYSFWD DEF file entry F2 K8EIW ATDP5551212 WA8BXN MSYS The F2 could be R2 or P2 to ask for reverse forwarding or to always poll respectively The 2 can be replaced by whatever port number your modem is connected to K8EIW is the call of the bbs we are forwarding to ATDP5551212 is the telephone number to call The P could be replaced by T if tone instead of pulse dialing is desired WA8BXN specifies the callsign value to be give The period says to FBB systems to turn off echoing The actual callsign value used by FBB is just the WA8BXN part MSYS is the password value that will be sent to the FBB system This example is for forwarding to FBB systems When forwarding to a MSYS system the only difference is that the period is NOT used in the callsign field MSYS 1 18 Page 88 MSYS OPT FILES The name of the port MUST be in capitals MODEM Radiospeed must be set to 1200 Port speed must be set to the speed of the modem for a 300 to 4800 baud modem For modems that can lock the port speed it should be set to at least 19 2k for a 9 6 or 14 4k modem Here is an example port 5 at 260 int 5 speed 1920
52. file MSYS 1 18 Page 221 EDITFILE EF Command c Copyright 1994 by HUB COMPUTERS INC he EF command used from the MSYS command mode can be used to edit small text files The file is limited to records each 80 bytes or less in length By default up to 200 records may be in the file This can be modified by giving the maximum number of lines after the file name The intent of this editor is to do little things without having to take down the system to run a more powerful editor These might include editing message texts the forward file etc This isn t a full screen editor but rather a line editor that was influenced in its design by the UNIX editor Plain and simple nothing fancy is found in it To begin editing use the command EF filename when you have the cmd prompt The filename can contain drive and path information If the file does not exist you will be given the option to create one by that name To create a new fil this way use the Append command Type the lines of the new file and then a line with a period at the beginning to exit append mode Then use the commands Write and Quit each followed by the return key and you have created a new file All of the commands can be shortened to the first letter of the command except for the DElete command which requires at least the first two letters Here is information about the edit commands i e a line
53. in memory requirements for each message possible Each message slot costs 138 bytes of memory 100 messages default maximum thus takes 13800 bytes 500 messages would take 69 000 bytes and 2000 messages will take approximately 270 000 bytes even if there weren t that many messages active m e E I run with a 500 message maximum size 400 active messages VALUES I USI have around Normally I DIALOG WITH FUNCTION You are first asked for the name of the MSYS MSG file to modify Enter path to MSYS Mail Index file or just press return to use MSYS MSG Normally you will want to just press the return key If the current directory from which you are running MUTIL does not contain the MSYS MSG file that you want to modify you can specify a different path or even a different file name if you have renamed MSYS MSG for some reason This function will next copy the specified MSYS MSG file to a file called MSYS MSG which can be used to restore MSYS MSG if for some reason this function fails n the Check Mail function function st before this function since Next you are asked if you have ru 4 You should run Check Mail ju attempting to change the maximum number of message slots can produce very interesting and usually bad results if the original MSYS MSG file is corrupt If you respond N then this function terminates and you can then do the Check Mail function If you have just run Check Mail then press Y
54. includes the disk mail ler and postage are as follows U S 5 00 per disk Canada amp Mexico US 7 50 per disk All Others US 10 00 per disk Recent The number of disks may vary from release to releas releases have been one disk to three disks Four disks may be needed in the future You may order several versions at a time I will hold your request until the versions are released This way you get to be the first kid on the block with the new toy When ordering from me please specify which version you already have or which one you want I keep records with the following information for people who order MSYS so you may want to give me this info Also please indicate if you want me to call you collect if it would be helpful to answer questions you send me about MSYS CALL Your callsign This is the key I use to record all your information NAME Where to send the disk to ADDRESS LINE 1 ADDRESS LINE 2 if needed CITY STATE ZIP COUNTRY TELEPHONE If you want me to call you back collect VERSION The version you have now OWED How many you have prepaid COMPUTER Speed memory disk space CPU chip etc TNC Model amp ROM versions DOS Which version BBS BBS callsign to send you msgs IP Your IP address if you have one Mail requests for MSYS on disk to Michael Pechura 10809 Beechwood Drive Kirtland OH 4409
55. instead of pulse dialing is desired WA8BXN specifies the callsign value to be give The period says to FBB systems to turn off echoing The actual callsign value used by FBB is just the WA8BXN part MSYS is the password value that will be sent to the FBB system This example is for forwarding to FBB systems When forwarding to a MSYS system the only difference is that the period is NOT used in the callsign field FORWARDING TO AA4RE SYSTEMS It has been reported that for MSYS to forward to a 4RE bbs via land line the 4RE bbs needs to change the responses in the MESSAGE BB file First change MESSAGE 95 N to Call and MESSAGE 96 N to Password These two changes have been tested between KI7HM MSYS and KD7HP 4RE and are reported to work ok Thankyou Gentlemen MSYS 1 18 Page 117 ANONYMOUS CHECK INS It is possible to set up the modem port to take a call from an anonymous check in As long as all outgoing traffic is held people interested in ham radio awaiting their license or whatever can read and send traffic As long as ALL outgoing anonymous traffic is held there are no legal implications MSYS is designed so that if someone uses the string visit for both the call and the password and if visit is in the MSYSPASS MOD MSYS will allow a check in Here is how the MSYSPASS MOD should be set up VISIT VISIT V1SI V
56. itself with a B and F in the SID it will forward compressed in groups per the FBB style format It should NEVER be specified for the modem port due to the high probability of buffer overflows This command d rmines the maximum number of messages that may be forwarded out in one group using FBB compliant protocol The maximum group size is 5 In FBB systems the maximum group size is 10K bytes and the number of messages proposed in the group for forwarding will be limited by this value MSYS does not have this limitation FBBStimes Port time range Allows specification of hours BBS is full function for each port Default is 0 23 which is all the time The format of the time range is the same as used on the lines in the forwarding file FCall callsign FFil File MSYS This command finds the channel associated with a callsign The single required operand is a callsign without SSID All channels in use by that callsign with any SSID will be displayed giving the Port process number and name and complete callsign with SSID This can be useful when you were in the middle of a conversation with some station and still connected but switched the keyboard to some other process maybe the command processor and now want to get back to that conversation Use the KEyboard command with the appropriate process number to do so filenamepattern starting path
57. manager the following line in your CONFIG SYS file should give satisfactory results DEVICE C QEMM QEMM386 SYS RAM ROM NOTE A WORD OF CAUTION When using QEMM 386 the ST M option in the DEVICE line will cause MSYS to not load properly There may be other options which will also cause grief These suggestions are not necessarily the optimum settings for your system but they have been known to work If you are running QEMM version 7 and are NOT running under DesqView running the command LOADHI LINK before loading MSYS will make additional memory available to MSYS If you are running QEMM and are running under DesqView if you have no other need for graphics you may use the VIDRAM ON command to make additional memory available to MSYS MSYS 1 18 Page 215 SYSOP COMMANDS RELATED TO TCP IP MYIpaddr Takes four integers in the range 0 to 255 It sets the IP address that the system will respond to Example MYI 44 70 4 6 If MYIpaddress is not specified or set to all zeros the TCP IP support will be inactive MYTcpcall Takes a callsign with SSID that will be used when sending arp and TCP IP frames It can be the same as the ID call in most cases TElnet Takes an IP address and optional server number as parameters A symbolic IP address may given to be looked up in the file MSYSHOST NET Default server is 23 This command is used to establ
58. message is received and copied to the MAIL BAK directory subdirectories are automatically created in the MAIL BAK directory 100 messages are backed up in each directory This can substantially reduce the time it takes to make the backup copy of incoming messages because much smaller number of file names must be looked at to add the new file name to the directory The created subdirectory names are of the form MSGxxx where xxx is the message number divided by 100 Thus in MSG025 messages 2500 to 2599 would be found The message RESTore function from the BBS has been modified to understand these changes MAX channels AND PORTS Maximum for MAXCHANS is 50 MSYS OPT Maximum number of ports is 7 numbered 0 to 6 MSYS supports all IRQs 0 15 for serial ports I suggest the use of IRQs 2 3 4 7 on PC class computers and 3 4 5 amp 7 on AT class and above computers Use of 01 amp 6 are not recommended but are supported in the code Due to the use of these interrupts by other hardware devices functions results will generally be bad MEMORY MANAGEMENT Buffer space for logical channels is allocated when the channel is allocated and released when the channel is released The MEM command may or may not change results depending on position of the last user in the memory space If you find that you are seeing MEMORY LOW BUSY messages you probably should investigate the reasons why There are several things
59. number Network node Transport timeout in seconds FRACK for the network Default is 60 seconds TXDelay port number Keyup delay usually in 10 mS increments number given can be between 0 and 255 its best to err on the high side This number is sent to the TNC For more information check your TNC book TXTail port number Keydown delay how long to wait after sending a packet to unkey the transmitter The number can be between 0 and 255 This command should be used with TNC 2 clone TNCs any tnc that uses hardware switches to set baud rate going to radio when on HF Without this parameter the TNC keys up on the transmitter before the complete packet is sent Try a value of 20 as a starting point MSYS 1 18 Page 66 TYpe filename Allows you to type a fil control Z or A to abort Users filename Use spacebar to stop start and a Writes out all users info to formatted ASCII file VAlidmsgtype arg The argument is a list of letters that may follow S in send commands in the bbs Defaults are BTPW VErifysysop ON OFF If on then whenever any variation of the id call is used to connect to the BBS except from the local keyboard then 4 characters from the REMOTE SYSOP phrase must be entered NOTE THIS MAY NEED TO BE SET TO PREVENT UNWANTED ACCESS BY LESS THAN HONEST AB USERS The REMOTE
60. seconds for network node Default is 180 TElnet host id server Takes an IP address or host mnemonic and optional server number as parameters Examples TE 44 70 4 10 te eiw eiw would have to be defined in MSYSHOST NET NOTE To allow Telnet access to your BBS you must modify the entries in your MSYSHOST NET file Basically you must add the call without SSID in square brackets of those stations that are to be allowed BBS access Example 44 70 4 5 eiw K8EIW this IP address would not have access to the BBS 44 70 4 32 k8eiw don this IP address would have access to the BBS Note You can use any case within the do NOT use any SSID s TERM port This command connects the keyboard directly to the port so that you may access a tnc or modem It may be useful for resetting parameters in the modem or tnc There are two F keys that may be used while in this command The F9 key will send a sequence which should take a tnc out of the KISS mode The F10 key exits the term mode When leaving the term mode make sure that tnc s are in the KISS mode or lt PACTOR GTOR STANDBY gt mode Modems should be left in the auto answer mode While in the TERM command the keyboard can not be used for other functions within MSYS F6 key nor will input from the port be visible on the F2 screen There is no recording or sending of included files and there are no plans to a
61. sets the IP address that the system will respond to Example MYI 44 70 4 6 If MYIpaddress is not specified or set to all zeros the TCP IP support will be inactive MYKnode callsign Display or change K node callsign Should have SSID MYTcpcall callsign Display or change a callsign with SSID that will be used when sending ARP and TCP IP frames It should be the same as the network node call in most cases NBdcast port ON off If OFF node broadcasts will not go out on port but the node will otherwise operate on the port assuming it is enabled using NP and other commands NDwindow number Network default window size in frames Default is 4 Note that his has nothing to do with windows on the screen Z E TBbs ON off Enable Disable BBS command in network node NETCon ON off Enable Disable Connect command in network node NETFBBC number NET ROM FBB Compatibility Flag 0 No FBB style forwarding Default 1 Uncompressed FBB forwarding protocol 2 Compressed FBB forwarding protocol This option only has meaning when connected to FBB compatible systems through the network node NETFBBG number Sets maximum number of messages included in a group when forwarded using network 1 5 messages per forward group This option only has meaning when connected to FBB compatible systems through the network node NETFBBStime hourlist Allows spec
62. standard wins out USER BIT SETTINGS 01 Expert user 02 BBS 04 Bad User Bit Disconnect immediately 08 Limited BBS Permits only limited use of the bbs 10 Remote SYSOP status 20 Need to send WP Update 40 Multiline packets XF 80 Prevents use of the S command Users so marked can only read messages 100 Lock user 200 Authorizes use of the Upload command in the bbs 400 Must have user password 800 YAPP Upload authorized 1000 Auto Reply turned on 2000 No Automatic LC in BBS 4000 No You have unread mail message 8000 New User flag NOTE These settings may be added together CAUTION They ADD in HEXADECIMAL 800 200 AOO MSYS 1 18 Page 170 WP SERVER Generation of messages to the white pages master server is included in MSYS This sends the information users give in the N NH NZ and NQ commands to the WP server when it is changed or initially given as well as periodically Note that MSYS does not respond to messages to WP but merely passes them on without modification WP messages are NOT generated for users with any of the following characteristics locked homebbs of bbs system and or baduser The hierarchical address is currently defaulted to NG6IYA fNOCAL CA USA NOAM but may be changed by the MASterserver command KANTRONICS 3 0 EPROM users I am told you wi
63. that you may try to do to relieve the problem The first is to use a upper memory manager to put as many of the TSRs as possible into upper memory If you use Quarterdeck QEMM you should run the OPTIMIZE program When using QEMM you may wish to NOT use DOS HIGH in the CONFIG SYS Another suggestion is to use the Quarterdeck program VIDRAM with the ON switch set VIDRAM will utilize the memory just above the 640K boundary that is normally used for graphics and add it to the available program space MSYS 1 18 Page 156 While the default MINmem is 32000 CAUTION to clea the SAM ON run bytes free with very few busys try another multitasking system either under a If all extended memory configuration 1 to a users you are it can be lowered slightly WITH 3 If MINmem is set too low you do run the risk of a user INCLUDING THE SYSOP logging in and utilizing more memory resources than are available causing immense grief and extra effort multitasking system n up the damaged files A 386 system with 6 active ports and callsign database server using DOS 6 2 QEMM 7 05 with VIDRAM ning under DesqView 2 4 starts out with approximately 100000 It seems to be enough to keep up to 14 channels working If that still isn t enough you may wish to Windows or run MSYS not that fails or you just have a system with no expanded or you need to seriously cons
64. the message will be compared with the contents of the given filenam If any of the words in the file match the message will be held Case is ignored in the test Example TO ALL TEXT WORDLIST 1 would cause all messages going to ALL to be compared with the file WORDLIST 1 Put one phrase or word per line in the file enclosed in either single or double quote marks You may also put a number between 1 and 255 at the beginning of the line before the quoted phrase to assign a weight to the word If no weight is given the word or phrase gets a weight of 255 Here is a sample file of words war 900 send check 50 send 50 check That s it MSYS 1 18 Page 159 found in the title or then the message is held If the sum of the weights of these words message text exceeds HOLdlevel default 0 NOT HOLdlevel is a new SYSOP command Be J J CAUTION war would match an occurrence in the word forWARd in a message Its not a real problem as it just means the message will be held not killed off To resolve that after or both wish to hold end of a sente following dirt an dirty problem you may include a spac ither before or before and after to isolate the specific word you A space will also help catch words at the beginning or nce For example if our bad word is dirt the ll catch the word dirt but not the word The dirty bird s name is dirt
65. the commands available duplicate those nd normally as SYSOP commands An added command WHO gives a of who is on the system and is the same as the new U command in not required from local keyboard Make sure you mark yourself a remote SYSOP even if you won t be one User flag 10 MSYS 1 18 Page 163 AUTOMATIC PASSWORD REPLY Tf you are running a remoted MSYS system you DO go on vacation don t you you may automate that return process by having a file called PASSWORD RMT in your C MSYS FWD directory Likewise this is a convenient way for your neighbor SYSOP to manage your system while you are absent Tf your system receives the password prompt the Usage stats line from a system that you connected to during forwarding or from the Connect commands MSYS will automatically supply the correct response You must have a file with the lt callsign gt RMT in your FWD directory that is the same as the MSYS RMT file on the other system If you were to automatically sysop the WB8BII system you must have a c msys fwd wb8bii rmt file that is identical to the C MSYS MSYS RMT file on WB8BII You may have several c msys fwd lt call gt RMT files to enable you to sysop several systems NOTE If you are using MSYS to remote SYSOP a distant bbs it will respond ONLY ONCE per initial connect For example if you are using MSYS to SYSOP a remote system from the campground your local system wil
66. the header again This allows you to bypass having to press return for all the fields you don t want to change If you place a string of characters that begins with a period after the message number it will be appended to the existing BBS field of the given message Thus if the BBS of message 123 was WA8BXN then EM 123 NTSOH would cause the BBS field of message 123 to become WA8BXN NTSOH If you type a blank for the BID field the Bid is cleared entirely you still need to get rid of the in the type 1 18 Page 43 EUser cmd Last Lines Posta 1990 Path User 8000 2000 800 200 80 20 08 02 callsign Edits user information Also displays the meanings of the possible user flags bits The EUser command will give a display similar to the following eu k8eiw K8EIW is Don located at Cuyahoga Falls OH Last new message 36457 connected Sun Nov 21 23 29 36 1994 on port 1 Flags 1A53 19 1 code 44223 Home BBS WB8BII Last WP Update Jul 15 01 00 03 to K8EIW is lt Local Console gt flags New user No auto LC in bbs 1000 Autoreply YAPP upload authorized 400 User password required File upload authorized 100 Lock user Can t use S cmds 40 Multiline packets XF Need to send WP Update 10 Remote sysop Limited function BBS 04 Bad user BBS 01 Expert user The flags add hexidecimally per character position For example if a us
67. to continue Note that you do NOT press return after either of these letters MSYS 1 18 Page 180 If you responded Y then the function continues telling the current maximum number of messages the current number of active messages and some other information You are then asked for the new maximum number of messages you want This number must be greater or equal to the number of active messages It must also be less than or equal to 2000 If the value you ask for is acceptable the file will be changed to accommodate the new number Next you will be asked to press a key to continue try the return key This pause is put in the function so that you can see any additional messages that were produced before the screen is cleared MUTIL Function 2 Restore Messages MOVED INTO MSYS PROGRAM This function has been moved into the MSYS program with the SYSOP command of REST msg which MUST be done while connected to the bbs MSYS 1 18 Page 181 MUTIL Function 3 Print Remote Sysop Phrase INPUT FILE MSYS RMT OUTPUT FILE S Hardcopy printer output optional This function prints the contents of the MSYS RMT file used for remote sysop verification The output of this function can be just the screen or also to the printer The output consists of printing the content of remote sysop phrase followed by a table that gives the character at each position in the phrase DIAL
68. toa has capabilities for handling it or it may be used s from one LAN to another to redirect messag Create a file call format OLDCALL OLD BBS For example ALL ALLONT ALL messages to 44 NTSOH 1 messages to NTS 2 1 messages com KEK IMPORTANT The algorithm goes made comparing the ed MSYS REP In it place lines with the following NEWCALL NEW BBS NEOH ALL ALLONT become ALL NEOH 44 NTSOH become originaltocall ing in to NTS anything get tocall and bbs swapped There can be no more than 150 lines in this file like this When a message comes in a check is to call and bbs of the message with the first two fields of the records in MSYS REP If a match is found wild cards are allowed in MSY the tocall and bb in MSYS REP have a Gl S REP then the last 2 fields are used to replace s of the message 1 or 2 in the last two fields special meaning 1 means the original to call and 2 means the original bbs Note that wildcards are not expanded in these last 2 fields To support this facility a new command is also added REPlace If an argument of L is specified the current replacement list i s displayed If no argument is given the current contents of MSYS REP are read and stored in memory This is done when MSYS is star after you have edi MSYS 1 18 ted also NOTE You MUST us
69. two parts the original input statements followed by a complete list of all options generated including defaults If any errors are detected the MSYS DEF file will not be created A sample of a MSYS OPT file is found in MSYS OPT on the distribution disk A minimal MSYS OPT file will have similar statements to these port 0 at 3F8 int 4 speed 1200 name 145 01 bbs call wa8bxn 13 answer call wa8bxn 14 sysop name Mike sysop qth Kirtland OH sysop zip 44094 id call wa8bxn make Le EXPLANATION OF EACH STATEMENT TYP PORT number at number INT number SPEED number NAME Description RADIOSPEED TNCtype ALL ON ONE LINE PORT number SUBPORT number OF PORT number NAME description T The PORT statement has the above two variations The number following the word PORT is the port number It must be between 0 and 6 The version containing the word at defines an actual serial interface while the SUBPORT version defines a second logical port for multiport TNCs such as the KPC 4 There must be one PORT statement for each RADIO port to be used AND each MODEM port to be used Assign port numbers beginning with 0 in increments of 1 Following the word AT is the base I O address of the serial port such as 3F8 Following the word INT is the interrupt number for the serial port such as 4 MSYS 1 18 Page 11 h After SPEED
70. want to place a RS 232 LED box in line to verify you are seeing the DSR change be covered such as an adapter to take a when it comes to the radio does not such as Radio T TTL TO RS 232 INTERFACE 1488 1489 version Supply voltages 5V 12V 12V Ground 1488 14 1 7 1489 14 7 RS 232 connector Radio on computer control TS 440 ACC1 serial port connector 1489 1489 Pin 2 XMIT DATA o o gt Pin 3 receive data 1 3 4 6 1488 Pin 6 DSR lt o 3 2 l 2N2222 GX SEIS PTT line From TNC B 33K ohms E Pin 7 Ground Pin 1 ground Note o is a level converting NAND gate The arrow on the emitter of transistor is not shown Power supply design is up to you needed MSYS 1 18 not much current is Page 146 TTL TO RS 232 INTERFACE MAX232 The MAX232 chip allows you to do the same level changes 12vdc I 7805 QS 01 o ea l gnd 1 16 10uF 4 7uF gnd 2 A 10uF 15 3 ground 4 4 Tur 3 gnd 6 10uF 10 o PTT line from TNC DB 25 7 pin 6 DB 25 8 9 o pin 3 of pin 2 ACC port o and o are 7400 NAND gates NOTE JDR 800 538 5005 is advertising a newer version of the MAX232 which requires no capacitors MSYS 1 18 Page 147 For ICOM and Yaesu radios computer to the radio
71. way to determine what the MASK value will be BIT PATTERN CHART To be used for DPorts KPorts MONPorts NPorts and TPorts MASK VALUE PORT NUMBER CONDITION 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 0N O OFF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 All Off 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ON 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ON 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ON 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 ON 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 ON 6 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 ON 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 ON 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 ON 9 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 ON A 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 ON B 0 0 0 0 OL 73 0N C 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 2 ON D 0 0 0 1 0 al 0 2 3 ON E 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 3 ON F 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 3 ON MSYS 1 18 Page 20 When you have more than 4 ports a 2 digit hexadecimal value is required The following table represents the left hand digit for ports 4 5 and 6 MASK VALUE PORT NUMBER CONDITION 6 5 4 1 0N 0 0FF 0 0 0 0 4 5 6 OFF 1 0 0 1 4 ON 2 0 1 0 5 ON 3 0 1 Jl 4 5 ON 4 1 0 0 6 ON 5 1 0 1 4 6 ON 6 an 1 0 5 6 ON 7 1 1 4 5 6 ON For ALL ports to be turned on the MASK value would be 7F and is written as S7F For Ports 0 and 1 on the MASK value would be 3 written as 3 For Ports 2 and 4 on the MASK value would be 14 written as 14 For Ports 3 and 5 on the MASK value would be 28 written as 28 MSYS 1 18 Page 21 DRSI CARDS Minimum things that must be done to use DRSI cards Put HAPNDRSI SYS in root C directory Put HAPNKISS COM where it can b
72. when you are To be on the safe side put ATtended OFF in your MSYS DO file should the system reboot when you aren t present AUTODESt on OFF When on and network node is enabled allows automatic updating of network node destination tables when node broadcasts are heard from neighbor nodes AUTOHold ON off This command specifies what should be done with messages that contain in them R lines with your Hierarchical BBS callsign see HCA command This normally indicates that the message has passed through your system before and probably is in a routing loop Currently such messages are held AUTO Hold ON means to do this If AUTOHold is OFF the messages will not be held MSYS 1 18 Page 32 AUTOKi11 on OFF When on non bulletin messages are automatically killed after they have been forwarded AUTONode on OFF If on and network node is enabled node broadcasts heard from new neighbor nodes are automatically added to the list of neighbor nodes AX25Backoff MASK A 1 bit in a given port position in the mask causes the FRACK value for the port to be multiplied by the retry number to determine how long to wait before retransmitting packets that haven t been acked AX25L2v2 port on OFF AX 25 version 2 protocol Version 2 can be enabled for all ports or specified ports Version 1 the default may be better for HF operation BADuser on OFF When ON the calls in the BUDCall list will be
73. window to a disk file Useful for debugging WSize Specifies coordinates for specified window wW Displays window number in upper left of each window XBatchsize Sets max batch size in bytes for RLI compression XOption If on enables RLI compressed forwarding on port Yapp If on enables YAPP transfers on port MSYS 1 18 Page 29 lt Esc gt Cancel partially typed command Function key usage F1 through F4 Select page to display 0 to 3 respectively F6 Causes the following characters to the next return to be treated as a command even if keyboard currently connected to some other process such as local bbs etc F8 key Used to blank the screen Alt F1 Alt F2 Alt F3 keys work like DOS F1 F2 and F3 commands to retrieve edit last sysop command typed Ctrl1 F2 Suspends activity on the monitor screen F2 Ctrl F4 Terminates MSYS as if QUIT command was used Ctrl F5 Same as the PRocess command Ctrl F6 Assigns keyboard to command processor Gl MOST COMMANDS GIVE INFORMATION ON THEIR USAGE IF YOU TYPE THE COMMAND NAME FOLLOWED BY A QUESTION MARK Example WS MSYS 1 18 Page 30 MSYS SYSOP Commands comment Not really a command as such may be used at the beginning of a line making anything else you type on the line a comment Useful in MSYS DO to temporarily remove commands msgs use Displays total number of active msgs and known users on BBS The number of messages that can be
74. you are also active in TCP IP you should set NRCall and MYTcpcall to be the same thing You MUST use the NPorts Command to enable the ports that you want to be able to access the NODe For example NP 3 would allow access to the NODe on ports 0 and 1 but no others You SHOULD define your network NODe mnemonic identifier using the NRI command You MUST enable the NODe using the NETNode ON command You should probably turn AUTONode and AUTODESt ON and set OCM to 3 This should put your system into full service automatic mode as far as the network NODe is concerned It probably will not be the way you will want to run but its a starting point MSYS 1 18 Page 132 Manual Operations on the Network NODe Database To REMove a DEStination NODe completely use REMove DEStination nodecall To REMove a DEStination for a given neighbor NODe use DESt DELete DEStcall neighborcall To REMove a neighbor NODe and all the DEStination routes through this neighbor NODe use NODe DELete nodecall port To add a new neighbor NODe use NODe ADD nodecall port quality digicalll digicall8 Note The mnemonic identifier for the neighbor NODe will be obtained from the first nodes broadcast heard from the NODe Use of the digipeater calls is optional Although you can specify up to 8 digipeaters rarely will more than 1 or 2 be practical to use To add a new DEStinat
75. you will have to define a keyboard callsign Should you use the network NODe to route TCP IP frames I would say only if you have to The normal IP routing is better than using the network NODe but in those cases where using the network is the only way to reach some distant IP station then do use the network Network node connects are allowed only on those ports enabled by NPorts command Kanode which lists KANodes that have been heard An optional parameter may be given that specifies the port for which the list is desired Justheard which lists stations recently heard Here again a port number may be given as an argument The N command is now described as Netnodes lists destination network nodes known In the network node using the C form of the connect command example C2 WA8BXN will always result in a normal AX 25 connect even if the destination station is a network node The network node does not record information in nodes broadcasts heard on ports that are not enabled for network node use NP command MSYS 1 18 Page 137 NET NODe PARAMETERS SUMMARY PARM Default Comments PQuality port 192 Quality for nodes heard on port BInterval seconds 3600 Nodes Broadcast interval OCMin 1
76. 0 Oxff gt byte bytes byte msg_count protocol batch_size EOL msg_count EOL ids file size EOL bytes batch_size not used in initial tocol is LZH lt C source provided gt nt only there implementation ids The basic i nterchange example bn are BIDs SX 5 bl b2 b3 b4 b5 333333 sY 3 bl b3 b5 Ann DN MSYS 1 18 m is master s or MID if message has no BID is slave Page 114 m SS 26545 m lt sends 26545 byte file gt In the case of any error the station noticing the error must disconnect With more detail of one implementation MB SERVER processing From Sending side MB Scan messages to find batch not larger than max batch size Keep record numbers and cc id in list Send ihave Receive iwant Mark all messages in ihave and not in iwant as forwarded dup bid Pass iwant list to SERVER in file Wait for server acknowledge SERVER Create export file Compress export file Signal MB that compressed file is ready to send MB Send isend send the fil Receive prompt Mark all messages in iwant as forwarded From the receiving side MB Receive ihave Check BIDs in ihave for all non dup BIDs make iwant list Send iwant Receive compressed file Signal SERVER import file available Send prompt SERVER Decompress file import messages
77. 0 Minimum obsolescence to broadcast OCInit 6 Initial obsolescence count WOupdate 1 Worst quality DESt route to record NTtl 64 Network time to live max hops imeout seconds 60 Transport timeout Net FRACK TREtries 3 Transport retries TACK sec 3 Transport ACK delay RESPonsetime TBdelay seconds 180 Transport busy delay NBdcast port ON Enable or disable node broadcasts on a per port basis NDwindow 4 Net default window size frames NETCon ON Enable connect cmd in net NODe NETBbs ON Enable BBS cmd in net NODe NETTalk ON Enable Talk cmd in net NODe NETXBatchsize port Sets max batch size for RLI compression on port NETXOption port OFF If on enables RLI compressed forwarding on port AUTODESt OFF Add new DESts for known neighbors AUTONode OFF Add new neighbors heard NODe SEnd Force known DESt transmission NODe SAve Write net NODe Database to disk NODe REStore Read net NODe Database from disk NODe ADD call port qual digis Adds neighbor NODe NODe REP call port qual digis Changes quality of neighbor NODe NODe DEL call port Deletes neighbor nodes amp its DESts DESt ADD id destcall neighbor call neighborport obs qual Adds new DEStination DESt REP destcall neighborcall neighborport obs quality Changes obs amp quality DESt DEL destcall neighborcall neighborport Deletes DESt through given neighbor REMove DESt callsign Deletes DESt through all neighbors NInfo Gives net NODe status NRCall callsign Sets net NODe callsign NR
78. 0 name MODEM radiospeed 1200 tnctype 2 MSYS DO The CTS option MUST be turned on in the MSYS DO file The following shows the proper command for turning CTS on for port 5 CTS 5 ON The CTS line must be connected in the EIA cable from MSYS to the modem MSYS 1 18 Page 89 MSYSTNC x FILES There are a number of ways to set up the modem Here is a file for a Zoom 2400 baud modem atz reset the modem to the power on defaults atql don t send responses atml speaker will be active until connect ats0 1 answer on one ring The only problem that might show up with these files is that the ats0 1 MUST be last in all the files If it is another location and someone is calling in at the time of the initialization the modem will answer and then ignore all the commands that follow and come up with an improper initialization One 2400 baud modem was found with a unique need Register 27 on a small plug in was found to control the V22 bis routine If 27 was set to one the default then the modem would NOT initiate a V22 bis error correcting connect The factory default was that 27 was set to never make an error correcting connect The line ats27 0 cured the problem AND it was found on a very generic 2400 baud modem that this same register which was not mentioned in the documentation worked the same way Check for register 27 on your 2400 baud modem Here is the MSYS OPT string used wit
79. 0 name PACTOR_80M numchans 15 bbs alias akrbbs bbs call wb8bii id call k8eiw id every 30 forward call wb8bii 1 answer call k8eiw 15 kanode call wb8bii 3 sysop name Don sysop qth Cuyahoga Falls sysop zip 44223 process id window 2 monitor outgoing on window display color window 0 size 11 80 13 Window 6 size 1 23 48 25 make MSYS 1 18 Page 199 hb HOST WB8BII NRI AKRON mya akrbbs HCA WB8BI1 NI NRC WB8BII 1 MYT WB8BII 1 myip 44 70 242 6 monsf on check 0500 TNC PARAM CALLSIGN STUFF EOH OH USA NOAM MSYS DO ET ERS Turn on CTS for Modem and PACTOR ports Set FRACK for ALL ports frack 3 5 Reset FRACK for high speed matrix port resp 1 slot 10 tac CXT txd txd txd txd 35 30 35 5 WNHrR OWN Set Respons paclen 236 maxfr maxfr maxfr 3 4 7 4 maxfr gi WNRo Set maximum packet length PORTS 00 DIGI OFF Set p persist Turn Digipeat func BIN 1800 time slot time txtail and txdelay and maxframes per port tion off NET ROM PARAMET Adds New Neighbors Heard if On ERS Broadcast Interval 30 minutes PORTS 0 KaNod Turned off Enabl Enab Net Default Window Size BBS in NetNode Connect Comand in NetNode K N N N MSYS 1 18 Page 200 t Full Fun
80. 00 bytes long will be forwarded And finally messages with OKIPN and lt I in the title again case ignored will be forwarded The ability to not use a given forwarding possibility until there have been the specified number of forwarding attempts is included so that preference can be given to favored paths while still allowing alternate paths to be automatically used if the favored ones fail Limits on message size have been implemented for those who may forward to mini BBS systems with limited storage capacity MSYS 1 18 Page 100 TO FI New with MSYS 1 18 is the limi example items ALLUS gt AMSAT K EPS OSCAR SATI in the included fil following 1 Th ted abil bulletins based on the TO field as wel ELL SPACI Hi MOON ELD FORWARDING Lity to selective forward ll as the BBS field you have a bbs in your area that specializes in satellite you may wish to have an entry If for right arrow indicates to MSYS that the TO fields ALLUS will be forwarded to that particular BBS The limitation is that there can be only as many different catagories as will fit on one 80 character line You may NOT have two lines of the bbs should probabl LY ELD must be specified for each BBS ALLUS gt If more than one line is needed get everything anyway The TO FI field it may occur with In the abov xamp
81. 10 165 110 ime 63 63 17 FORWARDING 63 63 217 162 137 9 17 154 64 166 157 104 64 S T 64 NAME QTH ZIP 18 18 18 ANAL EM APPEARS TO BE STUCK WHILI FILE 174 Gl IZING FORWARD 174 T 80 TABs TACK TBdel TCP IP Elne elne ERM Lest Fram IME Imez Title TNatime TNC 2 TESTING EM REBOOTS AFTER FORWARDING 64 64 ayy 138 65 55 t 65 t 206 65 166 serial ports 166 65 138 66 216 217 132 137 216 184 es 175 one 65 s Truncated 65 138 167 66 TO FI TOdo TPort Trace Trace ELD FORWARDING 101 66 S 25 IP 66 216 66 66 MSYS 1 18 REtri TRUnca TS 66 TSR 8 TTimeo Tucson Tuscon TXD 1 TXDela XT XTail Ype Type o U 80 UPload 66 138 66 es te 5 ut 66 Amateur Amateur 62 Yr 62 7 66 67 f Message 138 Packet Radio Packet Radio 161 207 66 167 80 USER B USER C USER PASSWORD Users V 80 VISIT VAlidm VAlidm VErify Video VIDRAM visit W 80 W 69 WORLI COMPRESSION WAtch WBackgrnd WColor WForegrnd WHO 6 WHY 6 Wi wi WINDOW Window WINDOW WINDOWS Bda ldcards ldcards IT SETTINGS 170 ommands 71 164 67 118 sg 4 sgtype sysop 67 7 25
82. 1212 swiss normal Sfwd wa8bxn rev NOTE The log in callword and password are converted to UPPER CASE Thus the station you are calling must have UPPER CASE values for your callword and password The station you are calling must be running MSYS 1 11 or higher NOTE The included file in the abov xample will be in the MSYS FWD directory MSYS 1 18 Page 116 FBB ON THE PHONE FBB style forwarding compressed or not should NOT be used on the modem Compresssed forwarding just won t work and the non compressed mode has a high likelyhood of overrunning buffers on long messages because of the continuous transmission stream of a block of messages Therefore the FBBC parameter MUST be set to 0 for the modem port Normal forwarding to and from FBB systems is possible however Use ONLY FBBC 0 and XO OFF on modem ports Very Important Use of control characters in the call and or password should not be needed The callsign must be prefixed with a period to turn off echoing from the FBB system Here is an example forward file entry F2 K8EIW ATDP5551212 WA8BXN MSYS The F2 could be R2 or P2 to ask for reverse forwarding or to always poll respectively The 2 can be replaced by whatever port number your modem is connected to K8EIW is the call of the bbs to which we are forwarding ATDP5551212 is the telephone number to call The P could be replaced by T if tone
83. 16 132 137 216 138 ye Do 138 NODe 131 Parameters Summary 55 138 55 138 55 139 55 139 ime 55 139 55 56 139 56 139 S 232 Connections erial protocol 12 56 138 time to live hsize 56 139 on 139 56 56 55 138 139 92 132 165 165 Sel 6 6 S 5 7 E Gere ioe 37 ITG ete 138 56 132 133 138 133 133 Oly 138 105 133 138 134 138 tore 138 ep STG ipts d 138 out 56 a Sl 6 6 153 6 S 6 Page 230 Ports 57 137 138 Q 75 RCall 57 132 137 138 RId 57 138 RS 12 TS traffic 73 Tel oi 38 NUMCHANS 14 NZ 75 obsolescence 57 OCINTE ST 138 OCMin 57 136 138 OKfrom 57 OS2 REPORTED PROBLEMS 177 OVERVIEW 140 2224242424224 P 75 Packet size 162 PAClen 58 PACTOR 12 140 PACTOR FORWARDING 108 143 PACTOR LIMITATIONS 144 PACTOR MANUAL CONNECTS 142 PACTOR TNC PARAMETERS 141 PACTOR TROUBLESHOOTING 144 PACTOR GTOR SET UP 141 password 9 116 118 163 PASSWORD DIRECTORY 164 PASSWORD RMT 67 164 PATh 58 PC 58 85 PF 76 PForward 58 Ping 58 PMessage 58 poll 99 Port speed 89 POrts 58 Persist 59 162 Quality 59 138 RInt 59 rint forwarding tree 186 rint remote sysop phrase number table 182 inter 198 inter status 197 ROcesses 59 RImsgs 59 n 59 UBLIC 9 Window
84. 160 22227227270 every 10 minutes times that are like 00 10 20 etc for the minutes 222227700 at the beginning of every hour 22221200 at noon every day 22220000 at midnight every day 22210000 at midnight of the 1st 11th and 21st days of each month 22010400 at 4 am the first of every month 01010000 at the beginning of every year You can also specify a day of the week in the DD field in place of the day of the month To do this you would put D in the DD field is from 1 to 7 for Sunday to Saturday Examples 2 D11200 Every Sunday at noon 11D52300 At 11 PM on each Thursday in November That is how the times are set up now here is a complete example of things that could go in MSYSTODO DAT 22220000 nod sav 22221200 nod sav 22010000 log d10000 copy msys usr msysusr bak 222222720 dt This file would save the network node list twice a day make a new log file at the beginning of every month make a backup of the user file every Sunday and display the time and date every 10 minutes MSYSTNC Tf you use any TNC set up files be warned that the program waits 1 sec after each line from the file is sent to the TNC to give it time to think about it NOTE AEA TNCs made after Jan 89 can probably be treated like KPC x TNCs to get them into kiss mode It should no longer be necessary to have a special TNC file for them but if it doesn t work without it it is suggested that the TNC file be use
85. 18 Page 202 K N K AKRU A add AAA E x AAUE x n O W wa8bxn 2 add DRoute w8upd 5 ET ROM NEIGHBORS R K8EIW 1 3 192 K8EIW 2 3 200 KRU2 WB8BII 9 3 200 EIW 11 3 200 KR220 K8 n a ib RLI Compression Option On EP AKR K8EIW 1 K8EIW 1 3 0 230 ARP ROUTING TABLI Gl w8upd 2 44 70 241 1 24 ka8z 4 2 44 70 4 4 k8eiw 4 2 44 70 4 32 2 44 70 4 6 wb8lvp 2 2 44 70 247 3 Default TCP IP ROUT Gl MSYS OTD Update into MSYS with GETM command lt lt lt RADIO CLUB M kkk lt Please try T MSYSK OTD ETING TONIGHT 8 00 PM CITY BUILDING gt gt gt MEDINA Gateway 145 05 lt gt 445 075 gt to to to to NO8M N8ITP KB8AST N8ITP Zip Code Zip Code Zip Code Zip Code MSYS REP NTS 2 1 COMMENTS NOT IN FILE 440 1 NO8M This sends ALL 440xx 44001 1 N8ITP This redirects 44001 44003 1 KB8AST This redirects 44003 4403 1 N8ITP This redirects 4403x 44030 1 KB8AST This redirects 44030 441 1 W8GRG 44107 1 NO8M 46 1 W8LBZ OHNET 1 ALLOH ARL 1 ARRL ALLUSA 1 ALLUS USA 1 ALLUS K8EIW 1 WB8BII WB8COR 1 W8GRG WB8BXN 1 WA8BXN AR RC F O R NOTE THERE mail not specifical or 3x Zip Codes will Zip Code to KB8AST The result of th
86. 25 digipeater arp add W3AAA port NOTE For more on TCP IP refer to The KA9Q Package In the TCP IP related ARP command use 2 routing through the network interface direct then the assuming that K8AAA is a 44 80 1 1 K8AAA Internet Software as the port number for TCP IP connects are rejected if not enough memory or MCON is exceeded MSYS 1 18 Page 220 EDITVIEW ED Command c Copyright 1994 by HUB COMPUTERS INC Commands he ED command used from the MSYS command mode can be used to edit small text files The file is limited to records each 80 bytes or less in length By default up to 200 records may be in the file This can be modified by giving the maximum number of lines after the file name The intent of this editor is to do little things without having to take down the system to run a more powerful editor These might include editing message texts the forward file etc ED is a full window editor it adjusts its operation to fill the window it is run in It must be run in a window that is 80 characters wide Thus using the default window definitions it can be run in the normal command window 0 or you can use the CMdwindow command to first go to window 4 the one you get when you press F4 and then use the ED command You will then be using the entire screen for your editing ED is pretty much a what you see is what you get editor There are two modes of oper
87. 255 to 0 as persistence value Basically the higher the number the more likely the TNC will actually transmit a frame if it has one to transmit when it hears the channel is clear Better overall channel throughput will result if all stations use a moderate value of persistenc 50 to 100 A value of 255 says to transmit as soon as the channel is clear PQuality port number Default is 192 Sets quality for network nodes heard on port PRInt filename Prints a file on printer The argument is the pathname to the file to print Make sure the drive is ready before using this command Make sure the printer is ready and exists before using this command Printing is done to LPT1 via BIOS calls This command will queue up to 25 print requests PRInt with no operands lists the files in the queue PROcesses This command displays for each active process its number program running for that process an integer parameter passed to the process usually a port or channel number the least amount of memory left in the stack for the process labeled SPmin and the window used for output by the process Of particular importance is SPmin if the system does bizarre things If this number is less than say 100 the stack is too small If its a negative number you have problems for sure PRImsgs on OFF Enables printing of all incoming messages as they are received PScan port
88. 3 KM To delete all messages TO you KF Kill messages that have been forwarded sysop only KT Msg to kill NTS traffic you are going to deliver The following K Commands Are SYSOP only K Goes through ALL messages allowing you to kill keep or hold any of them You can also read a given message it must be in the mail bak directory When reading a message this way use the space bar to pause the display MSYS 1 18 Page 73 Ke kills all messages with given BBS only compares the leftmost part of the BBS field the normally visible part of a hierarchical address instead of any part which caused unexpected deletions Example K ARRL K gt lt call gt or K lt lt call gt will kill all messages to or from a callsign or group L The List command lists selected message headers The following formats are available L List messages since you last used the B command LB List bulletins all of them use with care LC List Catagories TO fields LM List messages to or from you List Mine LN List messages with type of N List Not read or forwarded LO Lists msgs older then date given as YYMMDD Ex LO 910204 LT List NTS Traffic messages LL List the last messages Example LL 10 LU Lists unread messages to you L lt callsign List messages from callsign Example L lt
89. 4 You may call me with questions comments at 216 256 1588 A stripped down version of MSYS that supports only the is also available There is no network NODe no amtor BBS functions no tcp ip in this version You can still forward using external network nodes but the bbs is NOT a netrom network node The KANODe is still there All of the BBS functions remain along with modem support Expanded memory is also still supported This version is called MSYSB and is available on a separate disk or on Cleveland Hamnet If want to get this disk from me it is the same price as the others 5 to US addresses 7 50 to Canada and Mexico and 10 to other countries Internet Group being Formed MSYS 1 18 Page ii This deals with a Internet network mailing list You have to have access to Internet mail to participate For those of you who have not experienced a mail list it is a program that runs on a computer connected to the Internet Anyone posting a message to a special address on that computer has that message echoed to all members on a mail list It is essentially a newsgroup limited to those who wish to subscribe A new mail list has been created to help with communications between MSYS sysops It has been created by the same people who brought you the Cleveland Hamnet BBS which is the primary host for MSYS A number of active MSYS sysops will insure that questions get reviewed and suggestions are made
90. 4725 k8eiw wb8bii no8m n alternate syntax for this command is CC msg lt filename Where ilename does not include a file type DIS is automatically ppended This file contains tocalls and optionally BBS of the tations that should get the copies There is one call per line of the file Example CC 3195 lt locals The file LOCALS DIS could contain k8eiw wb8bii NO8M O s m c A f a s MSYS 1 18 Page 71 The Download command is used to read a file stored on the system The format of the command is D filename where filename is the name of the file to download To see what files are available for downloading use W or WN command To get a file from a subdirectory type d lt directory_name gt lt filename gt The G command for grep a Unix utility allows you to search a downloadable file for a specified string of characters printing all lines that contain the string of characters Case is ignored in the comparison No wild cards like or are recognized When you use this command you will be asked for a file name and then a search string For file nam nter the name that you would use if you were downloading th ntire file If you do not give a file name Database 0 will be assumed When the command is used the user will be asked for the file name to search and then the search pattern The default directory FILES will be prefixed to the file name th user gives UN
91. 6 118 67 67 215 STANDARD FOR DATA 114 67 67 Sip 67 68 8 163 8 104 75 16 68 DISPLAY MONOCHROME 2 Sle 213 8 171 PAge W W W W W W WSize X 44 XBatchsize XC 44 P SERVER PEvery Qupdate Record 68 68 68 68 138 69 81 69 7 8l Page 232 XF 44 81 XOption 69 XR 44 81 XS 81 YAPP 3 9 Yapp 69 81 208 YAPP download 81 YAPP upload YD 81 YU 81 YW 81 MSYS 1 18 81 Page 233
92. 9 other number causes a file MSYSTNC to be read for a modem You must specify RADIOSP PORT 2 AT 2 F8 INT3 SP T ED j IN THE PUT YOUR 1 NC DIGI callsi MSYS 1 18 MSYSTNC 1 FILE h YO INTO KISS MOD B gn FROM PORT U WOULD HAV T cal 4800 NAME 145 na m THE i T ry not than a KPC X or a KAM ED if you use TNCTYPI of this speed may be basis description of the port can corresponding radio or a TNC usi with a gt as in ng the NetRom gt MATRIX must be MODEM Pp the NAME must begin me must not exceed 10 the number following the typically 1 for the KPC ement optionally followed by port number of a port statement the word AT in its and description is the same as above lines can also have two additional parameters 300 or shortened prompts are used TNC type 0 is a KPC x or a KAM These parameters or for the file Gl 01 RADIOSPEED 1200 TNCTYPI T bea HAT WOULD nfo section COMMANDS T Pie s number TO PORT n general i number AS callsign Page 12 The DIGI statement defines a digipeater callsign statement type up to callsign is the callsign that would station trying to use the digipeater indicates the port that will indicated the port on which packets digipeater should be numbers will be opt
93. BBS calls RESPonstime Number of seconds to wait before sending out a response RESTor Restores a message from the mail bak directory RETries Displays or sets number of retries before disconnecting REQDIR Enables Disables Request directory server REOFIL Enables Disables Request File server REQMaxfile Used to set a limit on the size of files that may be requested from the REQFIL server REOOTH Enables Disables Request QTH server RLinetime Adjusts the R line time for proper GMT offset RUn Allows you a DOS program with many limitations SCreensave Enables Disables screen saver SEnd Sends a line of text to specified channel SE 1 lt text gt SE Same as above with no Message from Sysop SE 1 lt text gt SHUtdown If on advises users of impending bbs shutdown SLottime Value 0 to 255 SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SNow Enables disables changing screen only during retrace SOrt Will sort up to 200 eighty byte records STatus Displays some status information SUspendtrace Number of free bytes in input buffers below which monitoring is turned off SYsop If on adds to SYSOP messages to You have message count MSYS 1 18 Page 28 TABs Enables Disables tabs in the bbs TACk Transport ACK delay RESPonsetime TBdelay Transport busy delay Elnet Used to establish keyboard to keyboard connection ERminal A command which permits direct keyboard access to port TFrames Send tes
94. BS of a message is KA8Z NEOH OH USA and there is an entry in the WB8BII REV file for file for KA8Z and the path to WB8BII is lost the message will NOT alternate route to the NEOH path MSYS 1 18 Page 125 Bulletin Forwarding Logic New in MSYS 1 18 is the limited ability to forward bulletins based on hierarchical components normally used for specific bbs addressing such as OH or USA By the proper use of the new and symbols it is possible to route bulletins as well as messages to specific bbs s based on specific portions of the given hierarchical address 1 To determine which field of the BBS will be used to forward a message the BBS components are examined from left to right until a component is found in the forward file that matches For purposes of comparison xxx in the forward file will match xxx in any position of the BBS xxx in the forward file will match only the leftmost component of the BBS and xxx in the forward file will match any component but the leftmost part of the BBS Item 7 below gives more detailed logic for determining which component of the BBS is to be used for forwarding 2 A flood bulletin is a bulletin that will be forwarded on its leftmost component to all bbs systems in the forward file that contain either the leftmost component or the leftmost component prefixed with a A non flood bulletin is a bulletin that is forwarded on something other than its leftmost compon
95. BSLIST NEW At the conclusion of this operation it will suggest that you rename the files in the proper manner This utility has been revised in MUTIL 1 16 to operate faster and to permit more BBS calls MUTIL Function 21 Delete Old BIDs and MIDs This function deletes old BIDs MIDs from the file BIDLIST DAT It asks for the number of days worth of bids that should be kept Run it periodically maybe once a week when you do your hard disk backups The bid file can hold up to 6500 entries The more it has the slower it works The maximum number of BIDs in the BID file is settable MUTIL Function 22 Specify Printer File Name The file you specify will be opened and will receive any output that would normally go to the printer Any existing data in the given file will be lost If you want to abort this function simply press return when asked for the file name MSYS 1 18 Page 198 SAMPLES OF MSYS FILES c Copyright 1994 by HUB COMPUTERS INC MSYS OPT port 0 at 3E0 int 7 speed 4800 name 145 01 RADIOSPEED 1200 TNCTYPE port 1 at 2E8 int 7 speed 9600 name 223 68 RADIOSPEED 1200 TNCTYPE port 2 at 3E8 int 7 speed 4800 name 145 05 RADIOSPEED 1200 TNCTYPE port 3 at 2F0 int 7 speed 9600 name gt AKRNODE RADIOSPEED 9600 port 4 at 2F8 int 3 speed 19200 name MODEM RADIOSPEED 1200 TNCTYPE port 5 at 3F8 int 4 speed 960
96. BSs heard and their paths Lists Digipeaters heard and their paths Lists Gateways heard and their paths Lists stations heard and those connected to BBS Lists KA Nodes heard and their paths List other MSYS systems heard Lists NET ROM nodes heard and their paths Lists TCP IP stations and their addresses Assign keyboard to channel number specified Abort specified process number Can be hazardous Allows sysop to selectively disable k NODe Counts number of lines characters and words in file Locks the keyboard OR unLOCKs keyboard if locked This command closes the log file renames it to form of yymmdd LOG and then opens a new log file List known user calls that have connected to BBS Selects BADusers BBSystems EXPert LIMited NEW LOCked RESet XFAst_set NOTE Use only the first 3 letters of the item from the list for xxx Enables Huffman coding on PACTOR connects Advises user of new mail Sets resets making messages private by default Specifies the master White Pages server default is N61YA NOCAL CA USA NOAM AXBullage Used to discard bulletins older than a specified amount AXFOrward Maximum bytes to forward on specific port AxFrames Display or change number of frames sent before ACK rcvd AXRead Specifies maximum size message that can be read or file that can be downloaded CForward Ports where forwarding is counted as bb
97. Brat wound ete y ate Ze 204 MSY SBBOBS DAT TV erase ier oe A AA ial lig ae igs ee A 204 MSYSEWD DEE aa ocala A Aoi nants tates Ke Beh le Ae e 0 a e alta e devote 205 MSYSHOS TANE LS ata Sloe Ble ees Rosa e Ed ce de ae eee lata ies Bh ae de Mes 206 MSESPASO DAD a li A A AT val anv e er leone soe eee se 206 MISS RASO PO Fd eh Sainte ate el is ise E IS NS EE TRES lt r see Utes EEEE eb ETS ex etiabrs soe 206 TY PTCA MSVSING Mea isla GN ot ere eG Garo abet at deb an sg abe en ode Goold anle ele los gabe Sus 207 ABA PRA 2 32 o Sg 2 ate te bb eas tp tenet ela aioe Cites fe Benes ani ei Sue ele Feces eM halk let Re 207 INFORMATION FOR ADVANCED USERS pes elec ic ele ele ee lee ee eee ee ee ele 208 REPLACEABLE DIRECTORY NAMEG secs der Ai iS a 208 MSYS 1 18 Page viii REPLACEABLE FILLE NAMES drena A A A ee 209 MSYS MSG FILE FORMAT FOR THE ADVENTURESOME ONLY 211 ROUTES DAT PILE FORMATS ui Se be a CAR ee re a SS 2102 MSS UNDER WINDOWS Bedia a a de dee iss 213 MSYS UNDER DESOV ER We wai di tet te Wee A Ms nie a ote e 214 SYSOP COMMANDS RELATED TO TCP IP p05 dca SA 216 ETLES REGATED TO TCP IP dere nhe A a AS 217 USER ACCESS LEVEL CHART us eoe a teed a Se E E EN 219 ETP COMMANDO Sha ce wilde Sick dite G ERE eee De es E he EE ER 219 TE ROULING sfo ts hc etesve we a alia
98. D 4 0 172 74 UTIL Function 1 UTIL Function 10 UTIL Function 11 UTIL Function 12 UTIL Function 13 UTIL Function 14 UTIL Function 15 UTIL Function 16 UTIL Function 17 UTIL Function 18 UTIL Function 19 UTIL Function 2 UTIL Function 20 UTIL Function 21 UTIL Function 22 UTIL Function 3 UTIL Function 4 UTIL Function 5 UTIL Function 6 UTIL Function 7 SYS 1 18 209 209 209 173 94 158 187 206 206 92 0 160 180 191 192 192 194 196 196 197 197 197 197 181 197 198 198 182 183 184 186 187 204 r 98 206 209 118 175 209 101 209 218 165 MUTIL Fu MUTIL Fu 188 190 nction 8 nction 9 MUTIL EX Eo al 179 MYAlias MYBbs 5 MYCall MYIpaddr MYKnode MYTcp 5 N 75 NAME 11 NBdcast Dwindow eighbor NODe Bbs Con FBBC FBBG FBBSt Max Node Only Read tRom R tRom S Talk twork XBatc XOpti Yapp EWUser H 75 TREO 5 Node 5 OBEacon OBUlls De 57 De ADD De D De D De R R S S Fl OO FA AA AAA A A A o E J w m m ZZZZZZZZZEZZEZZZZZZZZZZ5Z Z 222242424 L P ss Ms 53 Z Z De ES De SAv De Scr De SEn DETime EMM 6 H Z Z Z2 Z Z EM RD MAT NODE RAMHDR 2224 Zz OTO O O Orr O OLOOTO O O OO DPR Z Py 97y EUR CALLSIGNS 54 4 54 r 331 55 5 2
99. DIRECT_ACCESS ON COMM_HOLD ON DOS_FILES 40 DOS_HIGH ON DOS_UMB ON EMS_HIGH_OS_MAP 96 EMS_LOW_OS_MAP 576 EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT As high as possible IDLE_SENSITIVITY 93 VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION CGA XMS_MEMORY_LIMIT As high as possible XMS_MEMORY_HMA 63 T IF MSYS DOESN T SEEM TO BE WORKING PROPERLY REMOVE ALL EVERY LAST ONE RESIDENT PROGRAMS INCLUDING YOUR ENTIRE CONFIG SYS keeping files 40 and buffers 20 AND AUTOEXEC BAT FILES AND SEE IF IT WORKS THAT WAY IF IT D P OES PUT THINGS BACK IN ONE AT A TIME TO SEE WHERE THE ROBLEM IS MSYS 1 18 Page 178 c MSYS Utility Support Programs Copyright 1994 by HUB COMPUTERS MUTIL EXE INC When you run MUTIL you will get a screen that is similar to MSYS Leoun Dcn BPW FR 0 J3J 0D00N4AS NRO 19 20 21 22 99 Utilities 1 1 Change maximu 8 by WA8BXN C 1994 Hub Computers Inc m number of messages Restore messages from backup directory MAIL BAK Print remote Check Mail in Test serial p Convert JNOS Run log file sysop phrase number table dex file integrity orts Print forwarding tree domain txt to MSYSHOST format analyzer Run SETUP pro Scan message Deletes old e Fix mail inde Process BBSLI Scan BBSTONTS Build list of Printer statu MERge BBSLIST Check MS
100. ES DA STATES DA ROUTES DA OUTPUT FILE BBSTONTS DA This function builds a list of BBS calls and optionally zip codes and the corresponding xx designator to which they should be forwarded If you select processing US BBS calls by state the data found in BBSLIST DAT is scanned for state and zip code The state is identified as being something after a comma in the location field that matches the list of state two letter codes found in the STATES DAT file If only one state is found and it corresponds to the zip code found then the BBS call is automatically assigned to xx where xx is the state abbreviation If either of these pieces of information is missing or they do not match the test fails and you are asked to decide what state the bbs belongs in DIALOG WITH FUNCTION You will be asked if you want to include state routings for ZIPCODES You should reply Y the first time you are creating the BBSTONTS DAT file Otherwise reply N If you delete BBSTONTS DAT for some reason you should reply Y the first time you create a new on If the state of the BBS cannot be automatically determined you will get a screen that looks like this WB82ZS KIRTLAND OH 44094 4 State ZIP check failed Zipstate OH Enter two letter state code then lt Return key gt or press lt Escape key gt then lt Return key gt to ignore or just press lt Return key gt to use OH
101. EStination IP address Consider the follo peaters for the TCP IP oute for IP frames going peat them if it has or known route to the wing fictitious example W9AAA 44 60 1 1 is in Indiana and wishes 44 80 1 1 in Pennsylvania but can t do it reach W8AAA 44 70 1 1 in Ohio who can in to connect to W3AAA directly W9AAA can turn reach W3AAA W9AAA will set up the route to 44 80 1 1 to be W8AAA an MSYS system When attempting to connect to W3AAA using send out a SYN IP frame connect request an IP address of 44 80 1 1 the IP addres hearing this will check its ARP table to se to 44 80 1 1 If the entry is not there broadcast on all the ports enabled for TCP Telnet for example will to callsign W8AAA but with s of W3AAA W8AAA upon e if it knows how to get W8AAA will do an ARP IP W3AAA will respond on one of them and this will put an entry in the ARP table Now when a SYN is heard from W9AAA it will be repeated by W3AAA To use IP ROUTING yourself in MSYS you use adding a given IP address you would put the station you want to use as an IP repeater i belongs with the IP address You can still by W8AAA and thus heard the arp add command When call of the TCP IP n place of the call that use normal AX 25 digipeaters up to 8 to reach the TCP IP station If the path from W8AAA to W3AAA in the abov xample was not following arp entry could be done at W8AAA normal AX
102. F then there will be no monitoring If set to ON then the types of packets selected will be monitored for calls as selected by BUDCalls on the ports set by MONPorts MONOutgoing ON off Enable disable display of outgoing frames MONPorts MASK This command is used to enable or disable monitoring of the various ports on the F2 screen S the section on MASK on how to set the mask for the desired ports MONSframe ON off Enable disable monitoring of Supervisory frames RR RNR REJ MONUframe ON off Enable disable monitoring of unnumbered frames SABM UA DISC DM MONxx Specifies any hex value for PIDs to ignore on screen 2 monitoring Example MONCC ON would enable monitoring of frames with PID of CC Note You must specify exactly two hex digits MSgtrailer ON off If on when a message is read on the BBS except with RN or RE a line is sent at the end of the message indicating its number and who it was from Default is ON MYAlias string Display or change BBS alias callsign Must be 1 to 6 characters no SSID MYBbs callsign Display or change BBS primary callsign Can have SSID MYCall callsign This command displays your keyboard callsign if there is no argument or sets the keyboard callsign used to connect and respond to connects to the call given as an argument including SSID MSYS 1 18 Page 54 MYIpaddr ip addr Takes four integers each in the range 0 to 255 It
103. GRAM 05 Is o a ods ad L90 MUTIL FUNCTION 10 SCAN MESSAGE HEADERS ooooooooooooooooooo 191 MUTIL FUNCTION 11 DELETES OLD ENTRIES desneta en lt lt cnc eed 192 MUTIL FUNCTION 12 FIX MATL INDEX ELLE A ee e ieee oe eee eRe od 192 RENUMBERING MESSAGES ice le Bh se BS ae a Cee Sed 193 MUTIL FUNCTION 13 BBSLIST DAT TO BBSTONTS DAT 194 MUTIL FUNCTION 14 BBSTONTS DAT TO BBSTONTS BIN ooooooooooo o 196 MUTIL FUNCTION 15 BUILD LIST OF ARCHIVED MESSAGES 1 L96 MUTIL FUNCTION 16 PRINTER STATUS A Ee ss lente a o a e o e L97 MUTIL FUNCTION 17 MERGE BBSLIST DAT FILES ooooooooooooooo L97 MUTIL FUNCTION 18 CHECK MSYSNODE DAT INTEGRITY 2 00 arre aed oe d L97 MUTIL EUNCTION 19 CONVERT USER FILES Mts a ir sil L97 MUTILE FUNCTION 20 SORT BBSEIST DAT ELDE eii did L97 MUTIL FUNCTION 21 DELETE OLD BIDS AND MIDS 1 198 MUTIL FUNCTION 22 SPECIFY PRINTER FILE NAME oooooooooooo o 198 SAMPLES OF VMSYi5 ELLE a a iS A A Guise A O TO A ere eel 199 MS YS LOPD EA A AS AR AAA ADA Soe sel AT AI E a del 99 MISS DO Sci A a oe dee A o o eo ua yerbaine 200 MSI Orel TAD oda la a fo Oia SL GO le e da fo SE GS igs e 203 MSTSK OLD nc E Pca E e E ere eS oe a sida 203 Mo Yes RED eb ttre ped gels cae Tie dented A A cee Teal frente ie Ge Res Dire A E EA ENEE See Bre RUAS 203 MSPS s RMIT Si cor Sistemas a oops Seite A ier Sees Ces A arte aay
104. HIERARCHICAL ADDRESS of EU Europe 442 Mail to ZIP CODE 442xx The last entry in the table MUST have a carriage return after it There should be NO blank lines in the file INCLUDING AT THE END OF THE FILE It is suggested that perhaps BBS and in the file ahead of the more general a sale rus To implement these MSYSFWD D EF would look logical connection is lost during a forward cycle the personal mail will be forwarded ahead of the ty tower messages callsign FWD REV Files files like this FO WA8BXN C MSYS FWD WA8BXN FWD MSYS 1 18 hierarchical ALL type entries ntries b In th listed the event at least some of less urgent for ntry in Page 97 The dollar sign at the beginning of the line is very important as it tells MSYS to include the contents of the file defined on that line At the time of the automatic merge or whenever the MERg command is given the contents of the WA8BXN FWD file will be included in the MSYSFWD DEF file to give the final MSYS FWD file The included file may be changed anytime but the results will not take effect until a MERge command has been executed Due to the extra overhead of opening reading and closing the file this should only be used for more than just a few call signs REVERSE FORWARD MSYS can respond with messages to a connected BBS when it gives F g
105. Id mnemonic Sets net NODe mnemonic alias identifier NPorts MASK Ports to which nodes broadcast are made T Natime seconds Transport no activity timeout time C BBS or C bbscallsign Acts like BBS command taking you to the bbs You also now get a connected to message with either of these commands MSYS 1 18 Page 138 A number of Here are th networ Q Only ETRead Max TFBBStime ETFBBC FBBG Gl Gl Gl Gl Zee 22a a2 Gl XOption MSYS 1 18 ounterpart ETXBatchsize BPorts MAXRead BMaxcon FBBStimes FBBC FBBG XBatchsize XOption commands allow setting options for network connections k command names and their AX 25 port related Page 139 PACTOR GTOR OVERVIEW PACTOR operates somewhat like a enhanced AMTOR A series of characters is received and an acknowledgement is sent by the receiving station PACTOR has a full character set that make it look like a typical packet connect In addition it has a number of features that enhance its performance such as dual speeds internal compression and internal memories that enhance reception GTOR is the KANTRONICS implementation using the Golay error correcting code Neither PACTOR nor GTOR share a channel with other users They can not be used for automated forwarding Our own experience utilizing the modes while camping in very poor conditions shows that GTOR is a far superior mode of
106. LESS the DOS SET command has been used for filesdir Thus downloadable files may be pattern searched and in the directory that the sysop chooses to make available The G command is not available when the BBS is in limited service mode The GX command permits search on the directory specified by the DOS SET msys grepdir default is FILES S 25 E ADVANCED USERS SECTION for details The H command will give you a short description of the commands For more information about a particular command type x where x is the letter of the command The I command by itself gives hardware configuration of this system the information displayed comes from HELP INFO HLP For example This system runs on an IBM PC type computer and is written in C It uses TNCs running in KISS mode which allows all the fancy stuff it does Location is Port Huron Michigan TNCs KPC 4 PK 232 Frequency Radio Power Antenna 145 03 MOCOM 70 60 W Isopole at 80 ft 145 09 TR 7400A 30 W Isopole at 30 ft If you have any questions please leave a messag ID gives a list of the ports and digipeaters gateways available MSYS 1 18 Page 72 JH command lists stations recently heard on the various ports and stations that recently connected Use the P command for path to station that have connected at some time For the following commands the sponsor s callsign is given in curly brackets
107. MSYS C Copyright 1994 By HUB COMPUTERS INC All Rights Reserved INTRODUCTION MSYS is a Copyrighted program that I am making available to the amateur radio community free of charge Source code is not generally availa KA NOD ble if you want it you will have to pay dearly for it E and GTOR are trademarks of Kantronics Inc The KANODe component of MSYS is compatible with the Kantronics KA NODe but is comple tely different code from that used in the Kantronics tncs NET ROM is a trademark of SOFTWARE 2000 The network NODe component of MSYS is compatible with NET ROMs but is completely different code from that sold by SOFTWARE 2000 The network NODe component of MSYS is completely different from that KA9Q NOS program and G8BPQ Node software in the IBM is SAM is j comm a trademark of International Business Machines Corp a trademark of RT Systems is a trademark of j comm Inc MSYS is available from the Cleveland Hamnet phone BBS The number is 216 942 6382 It s speed is 1200 to 14 400 baud This is a free BBS you pay for the call MSYS may also appear on other phone BBS s but this is the only one I put it on directly MSYS may also be obtained by anonymous ftp on Internet from coffman csuohio edu 137 148 21 6 system You ma y al lso obtain MSYS from me directly on disk Distribution is on 5 25 inch 360K formatted disks Costs per disk which
108. OG WITH FUNCTION You are asked if you want hard copy output on the printer Respond Y or N as desired SAMPLE OUTPUT Sample phrase 0 S 1 a 2 m 3 Pp 4 1 5 e 6 dre Pp 8 h 9 r 10 a 11 s 12 e 13 USAGE EXAMPLE If you did the Sysop command as a remote user to get sysop privileges and got the following reply Usage stats Users 7 Msgs rcvd 3 Msgs sent 6 Max 12 you would type the following response pp e MSYS 1 18 Page 182 MUTIL Function 4 Check Mail Index File Integrity CHKMATL INPUT FILE S MSYS MSG MAILAMSG DAT OUTPUT FILE S MSYS MSG This function checks the integrity of the Mail index file MSYS MSG It checks for such things as message slots on both the free and active lists loops in either of these lists and active message numbers that do not have text files in the MAIL directory and vice versa It attempts to fix any errors if it can and its generally pretty good at doing it NOTE It will not delete any message text files in the MAIL directory if they don t have active headers They will be reported but you will have to delete them yourself if you really don t want them You probably won t really want them but you decide NOTE This function may be run in a batch file through MUTIL without having to give its function number interactively by running MUTIL 4 SAMPLE NORMAL OUTPUT T CHKMAIL An MSYS Utility to verify mail i
109. P station an entry in the MSYSBBSB DAT file like you would for normal forwarding don t use any SSIDs Also add the callsign of the station in the T line in the forward file after the IP address Example T 44 70 242 6 WB8BII This should be done in the forwarding file for all SMTP forwarding Bulletins are accepted from SMTP a bulletin goes to a non callsign BIDs are made up based on your message number and callsign Hierarchical addresses are added to msgs that come in via SMTP NOTE Since BIDs are not supported in this implementation of SMTP bulletins can either be sent to or received from TCP IP systems but not both ways MSYS will accept lt RCPT TO gt lines in either the format asblc or b a c where c is your bbs call a is the destination stations call and b is the destinations bbs Both of these get transformed into a b on the MSYS message list MSYS 1 18 Page 110 FBB COMPATIBLE FORWARDING MSYS follows the standard established by F6FBB in his version 5 14 and 5 15 of his BBS software As described in the FBB manual once the F letter in the SID System type IDentifier has been detected all command lines must start in the first column with the F character All command lines are terminated by a return CR character When the connection to another bbs using the FBB protocol has been made and the F flag has been received the SID of the local station is sent with
110. POR every x minutes PORT 4 Page 201 Network FBB Compatability Compression On NETFBBC 2 il Network FBB Forward Group Number of Messages NETFBBG 5 E Network RLI Batch Size NETXB 5000 z Network RLI Compression Option On NETXO ON E House Clean at x Minutes after 00 00 HCL 10 7 Heard List turn off point if Dispatches lt HE 10 Ro Initializes Printer before each File Printed 0 NO IN 0 K Makes Messages Private by default MAKEP ON a at E Maximum Bulletin Age MAXB 10 x Allow Connects to SYSOP Keyboard MCON ON x Min Memory for Memory Low Busy Msg MINM 32000 Turns on Message Trailer Function MS on Roo Establishes New User default bits NEW 4040 A Valid Non Call in FROM field OK WP REQWP REQOTH fs S 2 Turns on CallSign Server PC ON REQOTH ON REQDIR ON REQFIL ON Ro Adds Received BID to R line RBid ON hi Screen Save Setting sc 10 k Sets TimeZone TIMezone EST Roo Adjusts GMT offset from local time CHANGE WITH DST ko Mutually exclusive with RLine Time GMtime 5 a Set R line time offset from Local time Mutually E xclusive with GMtime RLinetime 5 Turns on SYSOP Verification VERIFY on te oe ae E E Adjust color of Sysop BBS screen WB 3 1 WF 3 14 ko RLI Batch Size non compressed bytes XB 5000 MSYS 1
111. PTIONAL gt If BBS part is omitted if the station has entered a Home BBS NH command that BBS will be used Otherwise the to station callsign will also be used as the BBS SBID is the Bulletin IDentification Number Valid ONLY for type B OPTIONAL if omitted MSYS will assign if needed Examples SP call bbs haddr SP K8EIW WB8BII Send a pvt msg ST zipcode NTSst ST 44070 NTSOH Send traffic msg SB catagory route SB NEED ALLOH Send a bulletin SR msg SR 12723 or SR 12723 Send reply You will next be asked for a title for the message except for the SR 12723 form After this you type the message keeping all lines less than 80 characters When you are done with the message type Z or EX on a new line Never use SSID s in callsigns ex don t use WA8BXN 2 just use WA8BXN Hierarchical addresses haddr are of the form state country continent Other sub areas may be used by BBS in a particular area such as NEOH OH USA NOAM Generally the bbs will be aware of the full hierarchical address of a bbs from the BBSLIST DAT file When sending personal messages to a distant bbs it is a good idea to put the destination city and state in the title MSYS 1 18 Page 78 If you type A in place of Z when you are done typing a message the message will not be stored Users who send messages to stations without giving any BBS or giving unknow
112. R_HF would be appropriate PACTOR TNC PARAMETERS The following KAM commands must be given to set the KAM into the proper state MYCALL lt YOUR_CALL_HERE gt his is the callsign that will be used on the AIR The BBS call MAY be different Observe your License Class privileges MYPTCALL lt YOUR_CALL gt This is the call that the KAM will respond MYGTCALL lt YOUR_CALL gt to on the air CWPTT ON CWSPEED 20 The MSYSTNC TINCTYPE file for PACTOR should then contain T control c X control c d control c d PBBS 0 The TNC will reset at this point MSYS 1 18 Page 141 For GTOR the MSYSTNC INCTYPE file should contain control c X control c d control c d PBBS 0 The TNC will reset at this point NTFACE TERM FLOW OFF LOW OFF RSUP OFF EY 0 3 E QnZnOHUDVVVAONKH cicis OHW N N o WO a The KAM Plus does not need the PERM command to remember its settings PACTOR MANUAL CONNECTS GTOR MANUAL CONNECTS To connect manually to another PACTOR GTOR station the standard command C callsign is used You will not have keyboard access until the connect is made or fails The standard CD is used to disconnect although if your connect accepts a BYE command or the like that is preferable After the connect is clo
113. S ers must be enabled with user bit 800 es s display Same output as U command nto the NODe as if you had connected to it When in the NODe you can issue SYSOP commands if you need to by putting or in Particularly useful are commands when in the NOD DEStination nodes You c use 4 might be a good o NODETimeout number Number of seconds of ina command prompt to discon minutes NOBEacons mask If a given port is set t or BText beacons MSYS 1 18 front of them as you can in the BBS the NODe DEStination and REMove e to modify neighbor nodes and an optionally specify a window number to ne ctivity on network node or K node at nect user Default is 300 seconds 5 o 1 then there will be no ID mail for Page 56 NOBUlls on OFF When on no bulletins will be forwarded during normal forwarding Useful in clearing backlog of messages particularly during earthquakes and hurricanes NODe ADD nodeid call port quality digil digi2 digi8 Adds neighbor network node using given port and quality Z O oO O 0 EL call port Deletes neighbor nodes amp its DESts NODe REP nodeid call port quality digil digi2 digi8 Changes quality of neighbor network node NODe REStore Read net NODe Database from disk If you are using the network node you would probably put this command in your MSYS DO file NODe SAve Write network node
114. S you should probably make some adjustments in the MSYS OPT file for speeds An overrun is a condition that occurs when the TNC delivers a character to the serial port and the computer does not process the character in time before another character is presented If the second character is presented before the first has been taken out the UART will Signal MSYS that there has been an overrun One possible solution is to use a buffered UART such as the 16550 which MSYS can properly utilize A second choice is to adjust the TNC to computer bit rate The normal thinking is to run the port as fast as possible but it may be useful to actually slow the TNC port to something over the radio speed but less than port maximum Empirical tests have shown that a TNC computer speed of 4800 seems to work well on a 386 25 machine using 8250 non buffered UARTs In any event you may need to adjust the TNC speed of the various ports until you minimize any overruns Modem speeds do need to be at least as fast as the highest speed on the modem and preferably twice as fast To change the speed of a port remember it is necessary to change the value in MSYS OPT then run MUTIL 9 before the changes will take effect MSYS 1 18 Page 172 ABRUP It has been observed that of the FWD or REV files T STOPS IN FORWARDING ANY blank lines in the MSYSFWD DEF or any included in the MSYS FWD file will cause problems Make sure th
115. S on selected ports lt Esc gt Cancel partially typed command MSYS 1 18 Page 69 Function key usage F1 through F4 select page to display 0 t o 3 respec tively F6 causes the following characters to the next return to be treated as a command even if process such as loca F8 key can be used to blan unblank the screen 1 BBS etc Yes k the screen keyboard currently connec Pressing a ted to some other ny other key will A new SYSOP command is also added that allows you to specify the number of minutes af to blank the screen automatically ter last keystroke Alt F1 Alt F2 Alt F3 keys work like DOS Fl F2 and F3 commands to retrieve edit last SYSOP command typed Ctrl F2 suspends activity on the monitor screen normal operation This is probably as close as being able to be implementing scroll the F2 screen that I will Ctrl F4 terminates MSYS as if QUIT command was used Ctrl F5 is the same as the PROcesses command Ctrl F6 assigns keyboard t MOST COMMANDS o command processor GIVE INFORMATION ON THEIR USAGE IF YOU TYP Q MOST COMMANDS GI E COMMAND NAME UESTION MARK Example WS T F2 restores FOLLOWED BY A VE TH T ENT CURR YOU TYPE J MSYS 1 18 Example F RAck VALUE SET IF UST THE COMMAND NAME Page 70 MSYS BBS USER COMMANDS
116. S BBS file contains a number after each BBS that the system knows how to forward to This is the ORing of all the BBS Masks that can be used to forward the particular BBS This is used to determine when bulletins have been sent to all stations that should be getting them when such a bulletin is found it gets its type changed from to so then it is no longer considered for forwarding Within the forward file a timestring line may be placed before any callsign to limit forwarding hours for that callsign or bulletin route The first line as used before limits all times for a bbs entry you forward to The following lines remain in effect until changed by another line When you start another bbs forward entry group the forwarding hour defaults to 0 23 For Example the comments and blank lines would NOT really be in the forward file FO WA8BXN this is the beginning of a forward group 0 16 19 23 don t initiate forwarding during hours of 5 or 6 P M WAB8BXN forward the BBS any time we connect 10 16 22 23 don t forward the following during early evening NTSOH OH 11 4 forward following only in early morning ARRL ALLOH Also remember to be sure to use the MERge command whenever you make ANY changes to the forward files Reverse forwarding of a given message is not possible until there has been at least one normal forwarding either forced manually with the FOrward command or at your forward time
117. S was gracefully shut down using F4 or Quit command Restarts quits is the number of crashes for whatever reason CONNECTS Number of user connects to BBS SYSOP BB cmds The final section of the report gives a list of message numbers that were assigned to messages sent to the system but not killed Normally these message numbers should be active messages on the BBS If they aren t they may be messages to restore since they got lost somehow MSYS 1 18 Page 189 MUTIL Function 9 Run Setup Program INPUT FILE gt MSYS OPT OUTPUT FILE S S MSYS DEF Gl RUN This function sets default initialization parameters IT MUST BI BEFORE YOU CAN RUN MSYS THE FIRST TIME and any time you change MSYS OPT It is documented elsewhere in this document DIALOG WITH FUNCTION You are asked if you want hard copy output on the printer Respond Y or N as desired MSYS 1 18 Page 190 MUTIL Function 10 Scan Message Headers to create add to BBSLIST DAT INPUT FILES MAIL BAK MSG DAT or specified directory BBSLIST DAT if it exists BBSLIST DAT OUTPUT FILE E This program scans backup mail message files that are or were originally found in the MAIL BAK directory to determine what BBS stations have been seen using the R lines added by each BBS as it forwards a message DIALOG WITH FUNCTION You will be asked to give the name of the directory that cont
118. SYSOP phrase is in a file called PASSWORD RMT in your FWD directory that is the same as the MSYS RMT file on the other system Video COLOR MONOCHROME You can change the monitor you want to use while the system is running using COLOR or MONOCHROME as a parameter I ve got both connected to my systems here at the same time so it is meaningful to switch back and for You probably ought to specify the one you see if it works want to use in your MSYS command WAtch chan This comma directions nd allows you for the channel you specify th on rare occasions like to OPT file and not otherwise use this to see all that occurs in both Watching is turned off when the channel is closed or you use the WAtch command a second time for that same chan are not labeled in any way If you WAtch more than o you may wo may have some sid ffec by the process using the probably not this program and will no WBackgrnd number nder which line came from which channel watch a forwarding channel The lines that go to the screen they are just sent to the screen ne channel at a time it will work but Using watch ts like resetting the window being used channel you have selected You should That s a feature of nel t be corrected This command requires two parameters to set back ground color Window and Color The WColors color number should be between 0 and 7 Gives list of color names a
119. The corresponding colors are Magenta 5 Lts Cyan 11 Brown 6 Lt Red 12 Lt Gray 7 Lt Mag 13 Gray 8 Yellow 14 Lt Blue 9 White 15 Lt Green 10 Page 16 WINDOW number PAGE number This statement assigns a window to the specified page 0 3 which corresponds to the Fl F2 F3 and F4 keys WINDOW UNUSED BACKGROUND number WINDOW UNUSED FOREGROUND number These two statements give background and foreground colors to the places on the screen not assigned to any window WINDOW DISPLAY color monochrome This statement selects the kind of display adapter you have COLOR or MONOCHROME If you have a CGA card select COLOR PROCESS processname WINDOW number This statement specifies the window that is to be used for output from the allowable process names Be extremely careful if you use this statement STACK processname number This statement specifies the number of bytes to be allocated for the stack for the allowable process names You probably shouldn t mess with the defaults THIS OPTION IS IGNORED ON A 286 386 equipped with EMM or EMS DISCUSSION First if using extended or expanded memory you have no control over stack size they are all 16K Only when just 640K or less if that is possible regular memory alone is used can adjustments be made to stack sizes Normally these should not be necessary The default values set by MUTIL 9 should be
120. The first line of this screen is the line from BBSLIST DAT that is being considered The next line gives the state that corresponds to the zip code if available The third line gives the guess that can be accepted if you just press return If the guess is good hit return If you want to use a different state type the two letter code for that state and then press return If you want to omit this call from the output file press some non letter key before pressing return Space bar return works well MSYS 1 18 Page 194 In this the stat xample everyone used standardized R the zip code alone to process non US calls If US calls by states zipcodes to the US If you choose to process the presented with screens that BBSLIST DAT file Following cou no comma between the city and the state the other calls if you choose to process non US calls is useful for non US hams that handle all US messages as just going ld not be identified becaus th It would be nice if The guess of OH was made from is r lines When the US calls have been processed you will be asked if you want you have earlier the US calls will chosen not to process be processed with all This feature calls at this point you will be list an entire entry from the this line will be the callsign of the BBS identified from the line Using the call prefixes found in the ROUTES DAT file a guess will be ma
121. WA8BXN L gt callsign List messages to callsign Example L gt WA8BXN L callsign List messages being sent to BBS call Example L WA8BXN L List messages gt given number Example L 827 L List messages from to Example L 50 75 L string Lists messages with given string in title case insensitive L string Lists messages with given string in title case insensitive Examples L Pfb LUID S 1 Modem users Note When asked for msg s to read always use the indicated number of digits Use leading zero s if needed to get the requested number of digits Example for a 5 digit message number 00123 The following are sysop only LF Messages that have been forwarded but not deleted LH Messages marked as Held invisible to all users LY Messages that have been read but not deleted LS Messages with type LSS Messages with type also gives their BIDs LS Messages in range also giving their BIDs LLS Last messages showing BIDs L Bulletins that have been completely forwarded type L Messages that MSYS doesn t know how to route MSYS 1 18 Page 74 The L lt and L gt commands will also take wildcards as arguments Note Messages that are Private are shown only to Sender Addressee or SYSOP Tf the listing from the L command exceeds the page limit you have set with the X command it will permit you to enter the last 2 3 or 4 numbers of the message numbers that yo
122. When you give a file name pattern and optionally a starting path location this command will list all files that match the pattern The following would find all files that have the extension DAT on your C disk FF DAT C The output from this command gives the date time size and complete path names for all files that match the search specification msg filename Converts specified message into a file with name given This command removes the R lines at the beginning of the file it creates If you really want to keep them use an appropriate rename command instead 1 18 Page 45 FMsg pattern string Searches all messages in MAIL BAK directory for given pattern string For example to find messages that refer to hurricanes you might type FM hurricane FOrward callsign This command causes forwarding to begin immediately if it is not currently going on You might want to use this command when you have just entered a new message with an BBS specification that you want sent out now FO with a callsign of a single station begins forwarding to that station This must match the callsign including SSID found on the F R P line in the forward file FRAck number FREE This commands allows you to set or display the number of seconds to wait for an acknowledgment to arrive for a packet that is sent out If it doesn t arrive within the number of seconds specified the packet will be retrans
123. YSNOD Convert user gram kkk headers to create add to BBSLIST DAT ntries from BBSLIST DAT and BBSTONTS DAT files x file can be hazardous to use ST DAT into BBSTONTS DAT file archived messages s DAT files E DAT integrity Sort calls in Delete Old BI Specify file Quit the BBSLIST DAT file DS and MIDS name to use in place of printer Enter number of selection xxx This function has been replaced by the RESTore BBS MSYS 1 18 DAT to build BBSTONTS BIN indexed files 1 05 before lt gt 1 06 and later command in the Page 179 MUTIL Function 1 Change max number of messages Input file s MSYS MSG Output files s MSYS MSG The maximum number determined by the MSYS MSG mail index fil running it checks there is one of 100 messages size of an existing MSYS MSG file size of the file active messages it is used messages that existed when MSYS was last stopped existing MSYS MSG file in MSYS is MSYS starts MSYS MSG file lines of the If there is no then an empty one is created with a capacity This utility function can be used to change the You can increase or decreas You can t make it smaller than the number of The maximum number of active messages has been of messages that can be stored When to see if there is an existing and contains the header TE th increased to 2000 NOTES There is a cost
124. a message that hasn t undergone 25 forwarding attempts will not be reverse forwarded by this entry SELECTIVE FORWARDING Selective forwarding by title contents is limited to ONE selection per route Thus if you have both ARRL LETTER and ARRL PFB in your forward file for a given bbs only bulletins addressed ARRL with LETTER in their titles will be forwarded No other bulletins with ARRL including those with PFB in their titles will be forwarded MSYS 1 18 Page 99 In addition to selective forwarding title comparisons two additional selection criteria may be specified number of forward attempts that must be made before using this path or maximum message size to b forwarded using this path Here som xamples O KAOFPO EOH DX 8M 10 OH 15 KIPN lt 3000 KIPN lt I This set of lines will cause the following to happen All ARRL messages will be forwarded Messages with NEOH will be forwarded if they contain DX upper and or lower case in the title Messages with KQ8M will be forwarded if type is PN and there have been at least 10 forwarding cycles with the message present on the BBS Messages with NEOH will be forwarded if there is 15 somewhere in the title The single quote mark is used to indicate that the number following is not the number of attempts that must be made to forward the message by other means Messages with OKIPN that are less than 30
125. actory rom settings into RAM AT amp B1 Fixed serial port speed AT amp H1 Hardware Clear to Send AT amp R2 Received data hardware RTS flow control ATQ1 Supressed result codes ATS19 5 Inactivity timer set to 5 minutes ATX4 Dial tone detect busy no answer detect etc ATS0 1 Answer on one ring DIP switch positions 1 7 off and 8 on It should be noted that some of the above commands do not exactly follow the Hayes Command set here does not seem to be a problem initializing most modems with one long string as opposed to individual AT commands Use at your own risk READ YOUR MODEM MANUAL MSYS 1 18 Page 91 MOD Hardware flow contr critical modem s port speed connect speed Whe modem and the compu the speed of the modem to the remote person connected checks in with an old 300 baud modem ns at what LE and the modem remai data until its buff CTS control that i before it tells the is necessary Th ol betwee MSYS now hosts full CTS support can be se ter remai er is ful is full computer thr wir EM USAGI n a connect is achieved a AT 4 8 9 6 AND 14 4k n a modem using 9 6k or above is This means that the t to a speed higher than the maximum the speed between th ns at that higher speed no matter what If a person the speed between the computer it was sent as The modem will accept It will then signal the computer via and will await the buffer emptying
126. age or if MSYS is unable to open a file an entry is made in a file EVENT LOG showing the problem and the time of occurrance The intent is to provide a clue should other strange things happen This file may generally be deleted at any time HEADERS To create an ASCII file containing all the active message headers use the following sequence of commands on the bbs X 0 turn off the More message temporarily gt msghdrs this is the name of the file to be created LS 0 or L 0 if you don t want to see the bids gt close the file X 20 restore the More message KEYBOARD When someone connects to your keyboard answer call you will get two musical tune to alert you to the connect Any stations connecting to your keyboard call when you are already connected to another station will get a busy The actual number of connects allowed before busy is given by the SYSOP command MCon MCon 1 for example only allows an incoming call to the keyboard to be answered if there are no other keyboard connections MCon 0 prevents all incoming keyboard requests they get busy MCon N will allow N connections to the keyboard until busy is returned When you type past column 72 you will get a beep for each character Keep those lines less than 80 characters When a station attempts to connect to your keyboard via the several ways possible but is sent a busy the bell will also beep to alert you to this
127. ains the messages to be scanned or to press return to use the MAIL BAK directory directly T NOTE This function may be run from a batch file by using either MUTIL 10 or MUTIL 10 dirname In the first form MUTIL 10 it will be assumed that the input files are in the MAIL BAK directory In the second form MUTIL 10 dirname the files are assumed to be in the given directory name OUTPUT FILE FORMAT The first line of BBSLIST DAT gives the date this function was run to create or add to the file The remaining lines in the file consist of the following fields callsign of bbs location of bbs postal code of bbs number of times this call has been seen Note If you choose to edit this file be sure to keep things in the same columns Also note that the callsigns are lined up using the digit of the callsign The list is sorted by digit in callsign letters after the digit and then letters before the digit pretty much callbook order Calls that do not begin with A K N or W are grouped together at the end of the list with an in the first position in the record non US calls MSYS 1 18 Page 191 MUTIL Function 11 Deletes Old Entries From BBSLIST DAT and BBSTONTS DAT This utility function will prompt the user to determine what the oldest record date you wish to keep in a yymmdd sequence It will then edit the files to delete BBS records older than the specified date It might be
128. andl MSYS 1 18 led automatically EW You will need to change but the bulk of the Page 187 MUTIL Function 8 Run Log File Analyzer INPUT FILE S MSYS LOG MSYS MSG OUTPUT FILE S Printer hard copy optional This program produces a listing of BBS usage DIALOG WITH FUNCTION You are asked if you want hard copy output on the printer Respond Y or N as desired SAMPLE OUTPUT From Wed Mar 01 15 23 48 1989 to Mon May 229 00 57 03 1989 Station Connects Sends Reads Kills Forwards HCLean 0 0 0 27 0 N8UDK 3 1 1 0 12 NT8V 0 1 1 0 0 WA8BXN 4 0 0 1 9 WB8ZZS 168 82 31 24 0 LAST READ MSG TO BBS Count Title May 18 1 TES 1 test Mar 23 7 TES 2 test May 28 2 TES 3 test Mar 02 8073 TES 7 no title MSGINs 84 MSGKILLs 97 MSGFWDs 21 MSGREADs 33 RESTARTs 331 QUITs 311 CONNECTS 175 The following messages were received but not killed 1 2 3 20 21 8073 These should be active messages on your BBS NOTES This data is taken from my test system which uses WB8ZZS as its call Thanks to my wife Ruth Many strange things happen on this system as I am testing new software changes contents of the MSYS LOG file that was read BBS and what they did The headings mean the following Station Callsign of the station Connects Number of times the station connected or the SYSOP used the BB command Sends Number of messages sent
129. at blank lines at the ends of caused during crashes process See Analizing ALL if the included files do NOT contain the file Duplicate message numbers will also cause a halt in the forwarding below MES SAGES DON T FORWARD ALL forwarding is done on process it is possible th criteria for forwarding most item matched in the forward all messages N KB8AST to NO8M If a mess forwarded MSYS will inves determine that all message reason NO8M is not able t forwarded to WA8BXN as a that you not over specify the hierarchical routing the BBS In the hierarchical routing at a bbs will contain 2 or more of the MSYS will only forward based on the left BBS For example let us assume that we EOH to WA8BXN We also forward messages age KB8AST NEOH OH comes in to be tigate the hierarchical routing and s KB8AST go to NO8M If for some o take the message it will NOT be second choice It is therefore imperativ when setting up your forward files with One major advantage of hierarchical routing EVERY bbs in a state or an area You only is that you need not list need to specify the hierar chical component Make sure you execute th FWD files or in the MSYSF will not forward properly NOTE You must have the f bulletins The system forwar Check to make sure that yo have improperly placed the end of the sections
130. ation When you start the editor you are in full screen or edit mode in which changes you make to the screen are also made to the file In this mode you get a line at the bottom of the window that gives such information as the current line number and the name of the file being edited The other mode is command mode in which you give commands to be done by the editor To enter command mode press the Escape key The bottom line will change to Edit Cmd and await your command The command you type will appear on this bottom line To get a list of available commands type Help You should see something that looks like the following Find locates given string Example F wa8bxn Notes Not case sensitive F10 from edit mode is find same string again Insert puts blank line at beginning of file QUIT Abandons edit SAVE Saves file and exits DELete Delete specified of lines from file beginning with current line Return key in edit mode with insert on inserts blank lines a Press a key to return to edit Use of the keypad to move around in the file is what is expected of the labeled keys with the following enhancements If you are somewhere in a line and you press the Home key you go to the beginning of the current line If you are the beginning of the current line and press Home you go to the beginning of the screen If you are at the beginning of the screen pressing Home takes you to the beginning of the
131. ay B gt Relay C gt gt fon c X 10k 10k NANN NANN J e le DTR ground ground MSYS 1 18 Page 151 THE LAST STEP THE TSR Before running MSYS an appropriate SCANTSR program must be run such as SCAN440 COM This is best done in your AUTOEXEC BAT file The SCAN440 COM program is designed to be used with the Kenwood TS 440 Other SCANTSR programs may be found on the distribution disks including programs for the ICOM IC 735 and the Yaesu FT 757 USING OTHER RADIOS As distributed it is set up for a Kenwood TS 440 Source code is provided SCANTSR ASM that can be modified for other radios If you do modify it for some other radio and are sure of your modifications send WA8BXN a copy so that it can be included in future releases The SCANTSR program is called by MSYS when it needs to tell the radio to go to a new frequency It is called as an interrupt passing the control serial port address in DX and the new frequency as a 32 bit number long integer in registers AX and BX AX has the most Significant 16 bits The TSR simply formats whatever command the radio needs to go to the given frequency and then sends that data to the radio using the given control serial port address The control serial port is already initialized EXAMPLE OF FP COMMAND FILE Here is my STEVE file so that when I want to forward to you I just give the command FP STEVE
132. basic information concerning the implementation of the MSYS NODe interface will help in making decisions related to configuration Two terms must be understood by the system administrator SYSOP These terms are neighbor NODe and DEStination NODe A neighbor NODe is a compatible NODe to which there is a direct connection path MSYS does not support use of digipeaters in the path to neighbor nodes Normal AX 25 connections are made to neighbor nodes The data exchanged by these connections consists of a mixture of supervisory and data frames that together support the network operation DEStination nodes are also network nodes and are the nodes listed when one does a Nodes command DEStination nodes are nodes that can be reached through the network either directly if they are also neighbor nodes or indirectly through some neighbor NODe Routing Routing of frames in the network is conceptually fairly simple handling all the details is not Each NODe does a Nodes Broadcast periodically usually every 30 minutes which is a list of nodes that it knows how to route to This may be due to directly hearing a neighbor NODe or by hearing the nodes list from neighbor NODe tha claims to have a route to each NODe it lists in its NODe broadcas Information from the nodes broadcast is maintained by MSYS When it receives a frame that is not for itself MSYS looks to see which neighbor NODe can handle the DEStination indicat
133. bbs The command must be typed exactly as shown backslash Capital S and lower case ysop and then return Usage stats You will then get a line like Users 4 Msgs rcvd 10 Msgs sent 5 Max 8 You MUST respond with the EXACT characters needed before SYSOP privileges will be granted To this you must reply there will be no prompt with the four characters corresponding to the numbers typed in order of characters found in the file MSYS RMT case is important greatest For example if your MSYS RMT file contained MSYS is the then you would type lt space gt e i t which are the corresponding characters the first character is numbered 0 you would type Thus eit Don t forget to count the spaces You should now get a prompt cmd If you are connected via radio you issue Sysop command on bbs to verify SYSOP authority enter 4 letters You then get the next bbs prompt if you give correct letters or not If you hav starting the bbs from the and you will b bbs As a remo correct reply then you may issue any SYSOP command by ne with while still in the bbs So when on the local keyboard you can now type something like em 1234 able to edit message 1234 without having to leave the te SYSOP once you give the right 4 letters you retain SYSOP status until you disconnect To get a list of available commands fou lis the NOTE Sysop is type h Most of
134. board as COM2 This sets the address lines to the address 2f8 By cutting and soldering jumpers between two of the address lines you can re address the board to be 378 In this way you can save the addressing space This is done in this way 2F8 10 1111 1000 ae X becomes yo N 378 VA 0111 1000 Bit 9 Bit 0 By cutting address bit 7 and address bit 6 and crossing them with a jumper you have re addressed the serial card to recognize address 378 You need to cut two traces the traces that lead to finger A23 and A24 Refer to the file IOBUS DOC Finger A23 is soldered via a jumper to the line that used to run from A24 A24 goes to the line that used to run from A23 MSYS 1 18 Page 145 DSR LINE MSYS checks a line in the serial port called the DSR line The DSR line is attached to the PTT line through will tell MSYS when the radio has transmitting will level converters This line transmitted The radio indicate that the scanning must stop The PTT line from the KAM TNC is near TTL levels 0 or 5 volts It must be changed to RS 232 levels 12 or 12 volts This can be done via a level converter When the TTL to RS 232 level converters are discussed We determined that many RS 232 adapters 9 pin plug to a 25 pin socket stop scanning Shack 276 1401 the additional wiring necessary will are improperly wired carrying the DSR line through the adapter you may
135. correct This means that normally there should be no process stack statements in MSYS OPT How to tell when you need to adjust stack sizes If you get unexpected crashes that can t be solved by other means do somewhat frequent process commands when conditions are similar to when crashes occur like when lots of channels are in use when forwarding is happening etc If the SPmin value for any process gets below a few hundred an increase in the stack allocation for that kind of process may be needed In the event SPmin goes to 0 or negative an adjustment is required MSYS 1 18 Page 17 How MUTI curr for done Stac defa that depe that oper unpr SY to adjust stack sizes Get a printed copy of the output from L 9 You will see there a list of the process type names and ent stack sizes for each Add a process stack line in MSYS OPT the one you need to increase Any increases should probably be in 1K increments k sizes should probably not be adjust downward greatly from the ult values even though it appears on most process command lists the SPmin is always very high How much stack space is needed is ndent on the particular activities that are occurring Values appear excessive may be required for infrequently performed ations that if done with small stacks would result in edictable results Can you say CRASH How about HANG SOP NAME name You must use this statement to sp
136. ction Hours BBS PARMS Display Time for F2 Key FBB Compatibility Compression On FBB Compat Compression OFF for MOD AX25 Level Network Connect for BBSs Only 0 1 2 3 to Live Mail for beacons turned off if 1 Count Initial Off permits ALL port MASK Count Min for Broadcast of heard of heard of heard of heard OL 2 3 nodes port nodes por nodes por nodes por in DESt Quality to record AX25 Level 2 function 2 backoff RNR SEE BBS Node broadcast to network O infinite resolves GTOR problem EE N EX STAT EMENT FBB Forward Group Number of Messages N NETFBBS 0 23 a NetNode On NETN ON NETO 0 NOBE 0 NetRom PORTS NPORTS SF Network Time NTL 15 Obsolescenc OCI 6 Obsolescenc OCM 5 pie A Path Quality PQ 0 120 fossa ae Path Quality PQ 1 120 ee ee Path Quality PQ 2 120 ASI ELA Path Quality PQ 3 200 A TCP ON PORTS TPORTS SF Ross E 2 Mi wo 120 es ee SS Kill on Forward OFF AUtokill OFF ES Attended Mode ON AT 1 Arata ta ii Turns on AX25L2 on a co Turns On AX25b F ee ee a BADUSER kudai BUDLISTC E Se Turns on BBSNODE 1 A Hi siz Turns on BID BID 1 A ee OEE f2timer 0 SEE SA FBBC 2 AAA FBBC 4 0 E A AS FBBG 5 AE Forward Time interval fti 10 MSYS 1 18 EM
137. d A good solution to the TNC to kiss problem with MFJ 1270 4 TNC 2 compatibles is to install the JKISS EPROM available from Tucson Amateur Packet Radio The EPROM forces the TNC to ALWAYS be in the KISS mode and no further action by MSYS MSYSTNC file is needed MSYS 1 18 Page 161 Special KISS Parameters There are 4 parameters that may be set either before the TNC is put into the KISS mode with the MSYSTNC x or after by commands from the MSYS DO file They are TXD TXT PPersist SLottime It is probably best to set them in the MSYS DO file so that you have the ability to determine what the value is in your TNC by examining the parameter from the keyboard If MSYS has NOT set the parameter after the TNC has gone into the KISS mode it will show 1 as the value Suggested values are TXD 30 TXT 5 PPersist 64 SLottime 10 Your mileage may vary Packet size Data in packets is limited to 256 bytes Larger amounts of data ina Single packet will be discarded without causing the system to crash MSYS 1 18 Page 162 PASSWORDS There are several PASSWORD types utilized in MSYS First stored Sysop command REMOTE SYSOP there is the remote SYSOP password The phrase for this is in a file called MSYS RMT in the C MSYS directory to you CASE SENSITIVE This command gets you into remote SYSOP mode which allows you to use most of the SYSOP commands through the
138. d restart MSYS At that point the killed message may be added to the list with the ARESTore command from the bbs INPUT BUFFER SPACE LOW This message may occur while watching the F2 screen It refers to how much of the 4K input buffer is full It is not expanded beyond that so the amount of memory that the MEM command returns has no significance INPUT BUFFER SPACE LOW most often indicates a shortage of cpu speed or something unusual that may be using a lot of cpu cycles T PERFORMANCE HINTS Don t let too many messages pile up in MAIL BAK lt DIR gt before you delete them after archiving if you wish so the hard disk doesn t fill up From time to time do a BID command and see how many bids are active If its over 3 or 4 thousand its probably time to run MUTIL function 21 to get rid of the older bids You will get a warning message BID LIST NEARLY FULL when the bid list is about 2 3 full DELETE OLD LOG FILES It is probably wise to put a statement D10000 log in your MSYSTODO DAT file to keep the log file from expanding to extremes It is not uncommon to have a log fil xceed 1 megabyte in a week s time The log statement will convert the MSYS LOG file to a yymmdd log which then can be archived off line MSYS 1 18 Page 174 While you are creating the MSYSTODO DAT file it is also not a bad idea to add a 0001 NODe SAve just to keep your curre
139. dd them TFrames Port Send test frames on a given port each time enter is pressed Use Esc key to terminate TImezone string Allows entry of your time zone Set timezone GMT to all caps to get lower case z on message time R lines TNatime number Network node Transport no activity timeout time in seconds Default is 600 MSYS 1 18 Page 65 TOdo Causes the MSYSTODO DAT file to be scanned immediately doing anything it is time to do and also setting the time of the next thing to do NOTE Be sure to use this command every time you change MSYSTODO DAT while MSYS is running TPorts MASK This number is used the same way as other similar commands When the bit is set to 1 for a given port that port is available for TCP IP use particularly ARP broadcasts Trace25 ON OFF TraceIP ON OFF TS Enables disables traces of AX 25 packets If you set it on you will get more stuff that you can t understand faster than you ever wanted to see it Mainly used for debugging of AX 25 protocol problems Enables disables trace of TCP IP problems Again mainly for debugging purposes REtries number Network node Transport retries Default is 3 TRUncate filename Adds CR LF to files as needed to make lines no longer than 80 characters so it can be edited with ED command HHMMSS TimeSet command sets DOS time to given value must be exactly 6 digits TTimeout
140. de as to what routing should be used for the given call You may then choose to ignore the call to use the routing obtained from the call prefix if any or to type the complete route you desire A sample screen might look like this WB8ZZS Callsign Possible route KIRTLAND OH WB8ZZS USA NA 44094 4 Press lt Escape key gt lt Return key gt to ignore Type desired routing then press lt Return key gt or just press lt Return key gt to use USA NA BBSTONTS DAT FILE FORMAT This is an ASCII file containing in bytes 1 to 9 a BBS call or zipcode left justified possibly with wildcard indicator and the corresponding designator to which messages for that BBS call or zip code should be forwarded beginning in position 10 Example lines 89 NV WB8ZZS OH VK1XX AUS AS NOTE Bulletin routing designator like ARRL should NOT appear in this file NOTE he file is sorted in ascending order using the entire record as key NOTE here should be no duplicates of calls zip codes found in the first 9 bytes of the records MSYS 1 18 Page 195 MUTIL Functio n 14 BBSTONTS DAT to BBSTONTS BIN INPUT FILI OUTPUT FILI Pp BBS BBS ON ON yes S S Ha This function builds an placing the index at th the index the contents DIALOG WITH FUNCTION This function does no B NOT The forma
141. dentifier string exists on the S command line it is used In all other cases a message identifier is generated internally for all non bulletins using the bbs call and message number from the last R line scanned If the message identifier is found in the BID file and the message was not held because of this systems R line the message is not saved but it is acknowledged as being received entirely by sending the gt prompt when the Z is received The processing of internal message identifiers is not indicated in the system identification line MSYS XXXX H If you set MIDchar to something then the character will appear between the H and the For example if you set MIDchar to M then the SID line will be MSYS XXXX HM This will be sent to all stations that connect to the BBS Setting MIDchar to a non null character will also cause the MID to be sent during forwarding if the system to which you are forwarding has MIDchar in its SID MSYS 1 18 Page 169 Here are some combinations of the parameters to do selected processing For no BID mid processing on non bulletins set BIDall OFF To emulate AA4RE MID processing I think set BIDallON MIDchar M To use a MID if provided or generate one otherwise set BIDall ON ACceptmid ON MIDchar M Currently there is still a lot of discussion going on over MIDS Hopefully I have give enough parameters so that MSYS can be used with whatever
142. digital communication with PACTOR as a close second choice HARDWARI Gl MSYS supports only the KAM Plus or KAMs that are upgraded to KAM Plus TNCs The KAM is the only TNC that gives separate commands to allow you to seize the transmit direction and to go into receiving mode Other TNCs provides only toggles that lead to uncertainty about the state of the function being toggled When used with MSYS the KAM Plus can only be used as one port dedicated to PACTOR or GTOR You can not do KISS or access the VHF side of it The CTS line must be present in the RS 232 cable The radio must be capable of PACTOR GTOR operation Some older radios will not switch from transmit to receive fast enough Also some newer ones switching between vfos or modes Additional cooling will probably be necessary In addition a larger than normal power supply may be necessary These are points which should not be overlooked 500 Hertz receive filtering is useful Our own experience has shown excellent results using minimal power into poor antennas when working home 25 watts into a mobile whip is more than adequate to a home station running 100 watts to a dipole over a 400 mile path on 40 meters 24 hours a day MSYS 1 18 Page 140 PACTOR GTOR SET UP The set up change is minimal The name of the port in the MSYS OPT file must begin with PACTOR or GTOR depending on the mode desired For example PACTOR_40 or GTO
143. e the message is held Default is 0 which will hold if any words are matched See Automatic Message Holding HOStname string Sets TCP IP hostname Maximum of 49 characters HReplace ON off This command selects adding to end of existing hierarchical BBS field info from BBSTONTS DAT file if HRep is off or replacing anything past the first part with the information from the BBSTONTS DAT file if HRep is ON Note that if some MSYS knows how to forward from some existing part of the BBS field no changes are made to it ID This command will send out an ID on all the ports immediately You might use it to see if all your radios go into transmit as they should It also will send out the MAIL FOR list The text of the ID is not displayed at this time but is shown once during initialization Nothing is displayed by the automatic IDs sent out on the Fl screen To see what mail is outstanding for local users type ID To really force an ID to be sent type ID MSYS 1 18 Page 48 IGNORE on OFF When on calls in the budcalls list will be ignored IMport filename Imports messages from the given file The file must follow the form of the files in the mail bak directory INitpr on OFF Command allows you to specify if printer should be initialized before each file is printed Set it to ON if you need the initializ ation If you need to press buttons to select draft or letter quality
144. e Dead L HET COMMAND DA A adi A e e ad L CISIONS ABOUT HE NETWORK NODE se uala io ei ed L K NODE QUT CRS TART e til tell e E Slee a ae a a e E a L NUAL OPERATIONS ON THE NETWORK NODE DATABASE ooooooooooo o L POSSIBLE NETWORK NODE SETUP dosie eco pra cerca ra ete ceed L PARMS IN MSYS 18 L03 104 05 107 107 08 108 108 IOBUS TNTERRURES fo NA a O Cub e A ln a ADDRESSING y das a E See wise PL Sie ee ere A da ee DSR LI L TO RS 232 INTERFACE 1488 1489 VERSION oo oooooo 1 E TO RS 232 INTERFACE MAX2 3D Da a a dad NU a Sia A ER A E vot A IS IO ae E utes ene a tp ee cess SCANDE USIN MSYS GE BBS CONNI C 20H0H 0 Q H 10 Hy nN O lt Z O T D Z D H ti G vs Q D ER EA un H M Z 1 AIL B AX CH EMORY FARE EE AIL Bl MANAGEMENT A TT TED A AD AS A LD dts Side Valder ele cube XPAND BD MEMORY USAGE cu att oho ie Gh on as WIRE da aa wee SYS D SYSTO SYSTN UTOMAT IC MESSAGE HOLDING os eoria miini fe anaie lada ese Ue Bier Bene we nerd lola dee Sie D Q A ET PASSWO EMOTE Ge ao gg tn fet zz E Q H D EX DN E p n n FU D o D Z E H ti v
145. e above is that all ZIP coded ly addressed to the 44001 03 go to NO8M This redirects all Zip Code 46xxx to W8LBZ SHOULD BE NO BLANK LINES IN THE MAXIMUM of 150 entries in file MSYS 1 18 FILE Page 203 MSYS RMT PASSWORD TEST PHRASE 0123456789 T This file can be more than 2K in length if you desire If you do much remote sysop activity we STRONGLY urge a long password and utilize MSYS or MSYST as the remote terminal server MSYSBBSB DAT KA8Z NO8M KB8DRN W8GRG WA8BXN 9 NG8P o JU0NRO 16 AD8I 17 W8COK 18 KAOFPO 19 22 WA8DCI 23 K1LT 31 W8UPD Gl NOTE 32 is the MAXIMUM number of BBS s you can forward bulletins to MSYS 1 18 Page 204 FILE CONTENTS F3 kq8m k8eiw 2 c cledx to from with C kq8m 120 to with Busy kq8m R3 ka0fpo k8eiw 2 c cledx to from with C kq8m 1 120 to with Busy c ka0fpo 120 to with Busy MSYSFWD DEF COMMENTS DO NOT INCLUDE COMMENTS IN FILE This is a straight forward out port 1 to a local PBBS Only Messages W8UPD will be forwarded Necessary dashes 5 minimum 79 maximum Forward through an adjacent TheNet nod Connect command given to TheNet node Necessary triggers This extends the wait for connect to 120 seconds seconds after the C KQ8M command was issued This is a forward with a request for Reverse Forward T
146. e callsign database if enabled MSYS 1 18 Page 75 The PF bbs_callsign command can be used to find out if this system knows how to forward mail to a particular BBS what you would enter as bbs in the S command The port number and call of the BBS to which the message would be sent is displayed along with the VIA list used for the connect If NetRom or KA Nodes are used to connect to the BBS to which the message would be forwarded to the fact is noted but the details are not given If this system does not contain the requested BBS in its forward file you get a message that the callsign is unknown Example PF WA8BXN The R command is used to read active messages in the bbs The following are variations of the R command R Reads the given message numbers Ex R 12734 11521 RM Reads your messages Read Mine R catagory Reads the messages in a given TO field Example R SALE R gt callsign Reads msgs with given TO field R lt callsign Reads msgs from given callsign R callsign Reads msgs with given BBS Example ARRL E Read Export This causes the given message s to be isplayed with a S command line followed by title message text nd then EX in place of the normal way messages are displayed f this form of output is saved using the output to file command lt filename you can easily export messages to an ASCII file H lt msg gt Gives complete forwarding information including R ead
147. e cleared and you will converse for channel port will get a message Connection establi the attempt retries out determined by the will get the message Quit converse for ch connect show callsign busy be made Pressing any key before getting When connec the see a line Enter tion is made you shed to callsign RETries value you nnel because no If a In this case the default CALL process window may if this is why the connection could not one of these messages will abort the connect attempt and return you to the current command processor window When you are co you type lines to be sent to the other sta lines typed by the other station you press return To terminate the connec letter d Cd and press return Tf you want to save what you are getting o key thr times and then press return xxx Capture file opened displayed as usual as well as being writte CAPTURE DAT beginning of a in place of the junk abc to JUNK ABC When connection if you type something current capture file will will be saved in the file MOREJUNK XYZ return will alternately suspend and resume lines to disk When you disconnect or ge capture file will be closed Note file name is always CAPTURE DAT These fi line you can also specify default CAPTURE DA using the TYpe command or edited with the could for exampl
148. e connect to some other BB found capture file in one of your own messages explained in more detail for the BBs comma You can also send any file o your keyboard to the station n your system you are conne filename at the beginning of a line Example files stuff would send the file called stuff from the MSYS 1 18 You will get th All lines you receive will be nnected to a station tion and will see Once you begin typing a line it will not be interrupted by lines from the other station until tion type C the n disk press the messag n to the file When you turn capture on with the at the a filename to be used For example you can type start capturing your conversation into the file you have already turned capture on during a like morejunk xyz then the be closed and now your conversation Three followed by the capturing of t disconnected the That the default capture les can be viewed by EFile command You S read a message there after turning on capture and then include the This procedure is nd above as if you typed it on cted to by typing files subdirectory Page 39 DEADletter bbscall This command specifies a BBS call that will be used for private messages entered on your system without BBS and whose home bbs is not known This permits you to forward the messages to a WP server or another station that enjoys tracking down
149. e found to be executed Put DEVICE HAPNDRSI SYS IRQ 7 or whatever interrupt you have the board set up for in CONFIG SYS Reboot system Put PORT 1 AT 0 INT 7 SPEED 1200 NAME DRSI 0 PORT 2 AT 1 INT 7 SPEED 1200 NAME DRSI 1 in MSYS OPT and run MUTIL function 9 Notes Change the port numbers to what is appropriate to your system The ports on the DRSI card are referenced by the numbers after the AT The INT 7 is taken as comments only but INT something is required SPEED of the DRSI ports is really set on the DEVICE HAPNDRSI SYS statement in CONFIG SYS SPEED value given on port statement is more or less only comments NAME must begin with can be something like 145 01 if you prefer iT Tr T T Before you start MSYS you must run HAPNKISS That should get you started For other configurations and options read the appropriate documentation MSYS 1 18 Page 22 keyboard f letters available MSYS COMMAND SUMMARY The following is a SUMMARY of the commands available at the LOCAL or MSYS The commands may be abbreviated to the capital This list does NOT include the BBS commands that are only from the BBS Most LOCAL commands may be executed from the BBS by prefixing them with a Please refer to the MSYS SYSOP sect ion for more detailed explanation of the commands
150. e in a line that comes from the NODe that the connection was not made Thus after we issue the connect command given on the line beginning with one of three things can happen a line from the NODe that matches the string is found and we continue with the script or talk to the BBS a line from the NODe matches a string which means we give up on making the connection or a time out occurs waiting for a match which again means we will give up the connection Example scripts These strings are useful for KA Nodes ANOD issue connect command to ANOD me issue connect to desired call 25 time out after 25 seconds if no match MADE if MADE comes from NODe continue 2 BUSY if BUSY comes from NODe abandon attempt RETRIED if RETRIED comes from NODe abandon attempt For a NET ROM NODe the following would be useful to Failure Busy MSYS 1 18 Page 105 Here is another example of a complete forward file F1 W8XXX W8XXX W5XYZ FO W4XYZ W7XXX C WIXXX to Busy Failure C W4XXX 120 MADI RETRIED BUSY W4XYZ W4XXX F1 W9XXX 2 VIA K9XXX 3 KA9XXX WIXXX W1XXX W3XXX KOXXX E The forward connect script for a given bbs is limited to 25 MSYS 1 18 Page 106 MSYS NODe Forwarding You can forward directly through your own MSYS node assuming it is properly activated Here are som xamples how to do it FO W8XYZ This is the station we
151. e processed as if they were typed from the keyboard This may be used as a message import function if messages are placed in a file A sample is SB ALL ARRL lt W1AW XYZ27 Sample title This is the text of the message It is short EX You can of course have many messages in the file When end of file is found input is taken again from the keyboard gt filename and gt gt filename Both of these commands cause output normally sent to the screen to be also saved in the indicated file Using just one gt causes a new file to be created replacing any existing file by that name Use of two gt before the filename causes output to be appended to the end of the filename given if it exists To terminate writing to the file us ither of these commands without a file name While output is being saved to a file there will be NO PROMPT FOR NEXT COMMAND lt cmd gt To be used for sysop commands while in the BBS see remote sysop or lt cmd gt To be used for sysop commands while in the BBS see remote sysop Either symbol works MSYS 1 18 Page 82 REQxxx SERVERS A set of REQxxx servers are available in the BBS they are REQDIR REQFIL and REQQTH Messages sent to your system to REQanything will be processed If a server is not available for the requested function a reply message will be generated stating that the ser
152. e the REP command ted MSYS REP to make the changes effective Page 121 DATABASE an ELP Commands related to Database manipulation available on MSYS MSYS allows BBS users to input information and search for information in simple data bases The names of the databases are Database 0 through Database 999 These files are located in the normal FILES directory which can be accessed by the D command download on the BBS These files can also be searched by the G command on the BBS To use this command you enter the command G with no operands You will then be asked for the file you want to search Simply pressing return at this point will select Database 0 by default You are then asked for the search string This is a set of characters that when found in lines of the file cause thos lines to be displayed Case is ignored during the search If a selected lin nds with Y then the following line s are also selected for display Data is entered into a data base by sending a message to MSYS with DBADD in the title The text of the message will be added to the indicated Database Database 0 by default A header line is also inserted in the data base telling the station that made the entry long with the date and time Here are som xamples SP MSYS this is a S command issued to the BBS DBADD 3 the message title Database 3 to be used wind damage mentor Ohio lar
153. e who has connected and more importantly how many users are in the user file since it can hold only 500 users currently LU takes an optional argument to list users flagged as BAD EXPert LIMited LOCked XFAst NEW and BBS system Example LU EXP LU RESET clears all new user flags MAKEPrivate ON OFF Sets resets making personal messages private by default MAStersrv hierarchical address Specifies the master WP server default is N61TYA NOCAL CA USA NOAM and probably shouldn t be changed If MAS is set to NONE no WP messages will be sent MAXBullage number This command may be used to discard bulletins older than a specified amount as soon as they are received Default age is 32000 A reasonable value might be 21 days Bulletin age is determined by the date on the last R line found in the bulletin If MAXBullage is set to a negative number bulletins older than the number given in days will be held rather than discarded MSYS 1 18 Page 51 MAXFOrward Port bytes This command permits you to set the largest message size that will be forwarded on a port This may be useful for HF forwarding MAXFrames number Display or change number of frames 1 to 7 sent before waiting for and ACK RR to be received A value of 4 is generally good for VHF ports Use 1 or 2 on HF ports For very good vhf paths and RS 232 wire links 7 may be a good value MAXRead port
154. eard for given port or on all ports if no port number is given JNetrom port Lists NET ROM node beacons heard and their paths for given port or on all ports if no port number is given NOTE for all the J commands These commands give the PBBS systems KANodes and other beacons that have been heard on the ports A BBS is a system that sends out a beacon that contains B after what looks something like a callsign A KANODe is identified by N in its beacon to ID For both of these commands the date time callsign and path are given This pair of commands is useful to identify the PBBS that goes with a given KANODe The Net nodes are also included The real call for such nodes are given in Real NetRoms get the real call in JTcp ip port List TCP IP stations heard and their addresses for given port or on all ports if no port number is given KEyboard chan The KEyboard command allows you to manually reassign the keyboard As a parameter you give the channel number of the process you want to have the keyboard You can get the channel number from the lower right part of the Fl screen To get the keyboard back to the command processor so you can issue this command either press F6 to assign the keyboard to the command processor or press F6 to temporarily send keyboard input to the command process up to and including the next return key When you press a key it is placed in the input buffer of the process to wh
155. ecific time or on timed intervals FILE SETUP There are several files that must be set up for forwarding to happen The first file that needs to be set up is the MSYSFWD DEF This file is the script that MSYS uses to establish the connection to the distant bbs It is also the file that is merged with the specific lists of catagories to be forwarded found in the lt bbs_call gt FWD or lt bbs_call gt REV files Next before any bulletins can be forwarded a file called MSYSBBSB DAT must be created That file consists of a maximum of 32 lines 0 31 starting with a number on each line followed by the callsign of the bbs that you will forward bulletins to Please refer to the example in the distribution MSYS 1 18 Page 93 FORWARD FILE DESCRIPTION NOTE TO FORWARD BULLETINS YOU MUST SET UP MSYSBBS DAT The MSYS forward file MSYSFWD DEF is an ASCII file that can be prepared with any program editor The file consists of groups of lines separated by a line beginning with at least 3 dashes Each group of lines specifies what should be sent to a given BBS along with other information The first line has the following format Position Content 1 F The letter If you substitute R for F FO becomes RO WA8BXN then it enables revers forwarding request PO Forces a reverse forward poll EXCEPT IN FBBC MODE 2 0 6 The port number to use a sin
156. ecify your first name SY SOP QTH location You must use this statement to specify your location SY SOP ZIP postal code You must use this statement to specify your zip or postal code MAKE Use this statement if you want to produce the new MSYS DEF file if there are no errors MSYS 1 18 Page 18 Here port port digi digi digi digi digi digi digi digi kanode call answer Call forward call is a sample MSYS OPT file for you to figure out 1 at 3e8 O at 2 8 bxng from 0 bxng from 1 bxn501 bxn501 bxn370 bxn370 test 4 from from from from from int 4 speed 1200 name int 3 speed 1200 name to 0 as bxng as bxng to 1 0 to 1 to 0 to port port 0 0 T 1 0 as as as to to wa8bxn 3 from 0 to O bbs call wa8bxn 13 sysop name Mike sysop qth Kirtland OH sysop zip 44026 id call wa8bxn window display color make MSYS 1 18 l wa8bxn 1 wa8bxn 14 wa8bxn 12 bxn501 bxn370 bxn501 port las port 1 as 223 70 145 01 bxn370 test 5 Page 19 MASK INFORMATION Several commands require the use of a MASK to determine th xact ports you wish to perform the function For example you You may wish to only permit NetRom connects on port 2 or you may wish to have bbs connects only on port 3 or you may wish to monitor only ports 2 3 and 8 on the F2 screen The MASK is merely a hexadecimal representation of the ports The BIT PATTERN CHART is the
157. ed in the frame and simply passes the frame on to some neighbor NODe EE Data frames while they are inside the network as handled as what are termed datagrams What this means is that during a conversation between two end users there is no guarantee by the network that the data frames will always go by the same path or that they will make it through the network Depending on conditions in the network the path taken by frames can change and at times frames will be arbitrarily discarded The end nodes the ones the users connect to are responsible for error free end to end services While the AX 25 protocol insures that transmission of frame between any two nodes is error free the network protocol establishes error free operation between users MSYS network NODe functions include both the routing of frames within the network as well as the uplink link logic to support the error free end to end services Additionally the TCP IP servers can make use of the network as an alternative to the existing IP routing facilities Connections from the network may be made directly to the BBS through th nhanced NODe command set MSYS 1 18 Page 131 An attempt has been made to make the MSYS network NODe user friendly while still retaining compatibility with other network nodes To this end there is a help command and headings on output generated by various information listing commands Since MSYS is generally r
158. elp move the mail It is not uncommon in a metropolitan area to be forwarding to one bbs while several others are reverse forwarding from you provided the network capacity is available to handle the traffic Also remember to be sure to use the MERge command whenever you make ANY changes to the forward files Reverse forwarding of a given message is not possible until there has been at least one normal forwarding either forced manually with the FOrward command or at your forward time The other half of reverse forwarding where MSYS would send F gt when it is done forwarding messages to a particular station is enabled with the R in the first line of the forwarding file FO becomes RO WA8BXN When done reverse forwarding MSYS just disconnects and does not send RAE dones Reverse forwarding checks if the bbs is currently connected If so MSYS will not request reverse forwarding Reverse forwarding POLL connects and requests reverse forwarding even if you don t have anything yourself to forward can be implemented Simply place P where you had R or F before Thus FO WA8BXN becomes PO WA8BXN A check is made to see if asking for another message to be revers forwarded will overfill the maximum number of messages Reverse forwarding will check if the required number of attempts at forwarding a message have occurred before reverse forwarding Thus if we have OH 25 in the reverse forwarding file
159. end of the xxx FWD or xxx MERge command after every change in the WD DEF file Without doing this the system ile MSYSBBSB DAT to be able to forward ds messages to improper locations ur MSYSFWD DEF or MSYS FWD files do not characters or have imbedded empty lines at These empty lines are often found at the REV files The sys Noth Make sure you set the disp The command is WINDOW DISP WINDOW DISPLAY MONOCHROME MSYS 1 18 tem appears to work but ing is on the screen lay type correctly in the MSYS OPT file LAY COLOR for color monitors or for monochrome monitors Page 173 THE SYSTEM COMES UP AND APPEARS TO HANG This may be caused by a non existent com port Check the lines in your MSYS OPT to make sure the port addresses are correct Also Rerun MUTIL 4 to insure the mail files are properly indexed SYSTEM REBOOTS AFTER FORWARDING This may be caused by having too many entries in your forwarding file Remember you may only have up to 400 different bbs names in your file T T SYSTEM APPEARS TO BE STUCK WHILE ANALIZING FORWARD FIL E This condition may occur after a crash even though MUTIL 4 has been run if there are duplicate message numbers in the list The message number will be shown in Window 6 on the F1 screen To resolve the problem kill the duplicate message with the duplicate number stop MSYS rerun MUTIL 4 an
160. ent in its BBS field An example of a non flood bulletin would be ALLNY NY when passing through the state of Ohio on its way to New York Such a bulletin would be forwarded on its NY component and sent to only one station that handles messages going to NY 3 Each unique component found in the forward file contains an entry in the MSYS BBS file OH OH and OH are considered to be three distinct components Components that begin with cannot be used to flood bulletins Those components in the MSYS BBS file that can be used to flood bulletins will contain a number indicating which BBS forwarding group s they appeared in the particular numbers being derived from the MSYSBBSB DAT file which gives each BBS to which bulletins are forwarded a unique number Components that cannot be used to flood bulletins or are only sent to BBS sytems that are not listed in MSYSBBSB DAT will have zero for the number in the MSYS BBS file 4 Each message has a bits field that is used to keep track of which BBS ssystems have which message either because their R line was inthe message when it was received or because it was forwarded to the BBS Only those BBS systems with entries in MSYSBBSB DAT are recorded MSYS 1 18 Page 126 5 At the beginning of each forward cycle each flood bulletin is inspected to determine if it has been forwarded to all the systems that should get it Bulletins that have gon verywhere ar
161. er to run very Should they be they will still be able to low profile in terms of ge network NODe leav your NODe broadcast the networ relay to anything to reach nodes in the network OFF and connec ma to E one is If you consul parame ters you have MSYS 1 18 the default of 10 set for OCMi s will only send out your own c k to recognize you but not make it think Keep AUTOD ON so that your sys all you need are totally confused about the network operations t with who ever runs your local NODe s Mo they have with some changes r am a good route t most of the normal NetRom nodes to a lower quality value of the time rather unable to connect go through my tting used as a n This means that all This will get you are a good tem will know how Its probably a good idea to set AUTON nually add the calls of the best nearby nodes you can try to st of the in their names Page 136 Miscellaneous Comments on Network NODe If you are low on SSIDs you might consider the following Set the IDCALL to your callsign without any SSID Do not define a BBS Keyboard or K NODe callsign Pick an SSID and use your callsign with it and set as the value for MYTcpcall NRCall and FORWARD call To get to your BBS the network NODe BBS command can be used To talk to your keyboard the BBS T command or network NODe T command can be used If you want to make outgoing calls
162. er This command allows you to read a message in the MAIL BAK directory if it exists Example RE 12345 REMove DESt callsign Deletes specified destination network node through all neighbors REName Oldpathname newpathname Renames a file Both name must be on same drive REPlaces Reads BBS call BBS replace file and stores it in memory Use this command every time you modify the MSYS REP file while MSYS is running REQDIR on OFF Enables Request directory server in the BBS REQFIL on OFF Enables Request File server in the BBS MSYS 1 18 Page 60 REQMaxfi le number Used to set a limit on the size of files that may be requested from the REQFIL server and also the files that will be displayed in REQDIR requests The default is 5000 which is probably too high REQOTH on OFF Enables Request OTH server in the BBS RESPonsetime Where is the number of seconds to wait before sending out a response This is the T2 timer value in the AX 25 spec If you set RESP to 0 it will work the old way always sending out a response to each I frame received as soon as pos sible With non zero values for RESP the responses ar held th latest one replacing any one being held until no I frames have been received for the time given It then sends out act its response RESPonstime Can be set for individual ports RESTore lt argueme
163. er has both File upload and YAPP upload privileges the flag for that position would be A To prevent WP messages from being issued on a particular call such as VISIT set the flag to 100 at a minimum The No Auto LC Autoreply Multiline Packets and Expert User flags can be set by users with the appropriate XC XR XF or X commands In the abov xample the flags 1A53 mean this user has Autoreply turned on YAPP and File upload permitted Multiline packets will be sent is a remote sysop and is a bbs and an expert user F2time number MSYS The number of seconds to continue displaying monitored packets after F2 function key was last pressed The default is 600 seconds 10 minutes Thus 10 minutes after you last press F2 monitoring will be turned off until you press F2 again If you set F2 to 0 this function will be turned off There is a fair amount of overhead in formatting all the information displayed on the F2 screen so on slower systems it is a good idea to allow the display to be suspended when you aren t actively looking at it 1 18 Page 44 FBBCompat port 0 1 or 2 FBBGroupsize 1 5 This command determines the level of compatibility with FBB style forwarding FBBC 0 means MSYS will forward non compressed to all stations as before FBBC 1 means that MSYS detects the F in the SID it will forward non compressed but in FBB style groups FBBC 2 Means that if a station identifies
164. er lines P Read Preview It does a normal read operation but oes not mark the message as having been read so it will show up f you do a LU command N lt msg gt This is like the R command but no headers are printed ust the message text Good for marginal connections when you therwise know the message number you want to read EM Read Export Mine Reads all messages to you in export form N DHOuDrawrnoanHoa ww MSYS 1 18 Page 76 The following R commands are SYSOI RS SYSOP ALL CAPS it gets cha won t continue to show up as RES Read Export Sysop form R It allows you to read you are prompted to message K to kill N a bulletin R Goes through all Reads all mail for SYSOP read all held messages enter H to release as private the held m P only P Note that when you read mail for nged to mail for Sysop so that it a new msg Reads all messages to SYSOP in export After each is to continue to holding the or S to release as sgs using the hold file trying to identify why each was held and allowing you to continue to hold kill or release as private or bulletin ach messag R This is an abbreviated form of the R command and is useful on HF or slow network channels Typically after a screenfull of lines is displayed on your terminal you will be asked More Y es No or Continuous Just
165. es not affect operation and may be fixed in a future release on OFF If you have a CGA adapter and there is a lot of snow during screen changes particularly when changing display pages with F1 F4 and you don t like it set SNow to ON Otherwise leave it off and the display will run faster filename Useful to sort your forward include files in the fwd directory so you can find things there more easily Will sort up to 200 eighty byte records 1 18 Page 63 STatus lt option gt With no option it displays the status of active channels buffer space errors on serial ports and dispatches per second OPTIONS RESET Clears counters sets dispatch values to last minute value Channel Displays only information on active channels Ints Displays information about interrupts received Stats Displays only buffer space errors on serial ports and dispatches per second info T put this one in for my own debugging like some of the other information displays FREE is what is currently free in the buffer used to get characters from the TNC an interrupt driven routine is used LEAST is the smallest amount of space that was available If least is small say less than 100 you ve got some real problems I don t think I ve ever seen it go below 3000 If it is small it means that characters are coming from the TNC faster than they are being processed You might try a lower baud rate between the computer
166. file begins with an IP address that includes the periods but not the square brackets nicknames what commen Following this there is at least one space and or then the list of symbolic names or aliases or ever you want to call them You may place ts on the line by beginning the comments with a pound sign Example entry line for this file 44 70 4 6 bxn mike wa8bxn kirtland oh This line would allow bxn mike or wa8bxn to be used as arguments in the TElnet and FTP commands Note that WA8BXN here just happens to look like a callsign SSID ARP The actual callsign and associated with a particular IP address is determined by address resolution protocol broadcasts These symbolic names you define in this file simply relieve you of having to and type complete IP addresses Nothing more remember nothing less MSYS 1 18 See sample for MSYSHOST NET file Page 217 MSYSPASS DAT This file contains the user names and passwords for FTP users Each line contains 3 or 4 items username password access directory Username is the name the user will use to log in It can be anything for a given user It could be their callsign or something else The password can also be anything If you put as the password in the file for a particular any password given by the user will be accepted The third entry on each line access is a number that says how much access the
167. formance test just an address test MSYS 1 18 Page 185 MUTIL Function 6 Print forwarding tree INPUT FILE MSYS FWD OUTPUT FILE S Printer hard copy optional This function displays your forwarding file in two ways to tell you what callsigns you forward to each bbs you forward to and also to which bbs you forward each callsign DIALOG WITH FUNCTION You are asked if you want hard copy output on the printer Respond Y or N as desired The first part of the output consists of lines like WN7C gt KA8Z WB8BII which means that messages with WN7C are sent to either KA8Z or WB8BII which ever one you can connect to first The second part of the output consists of lines like KA3NVP lt KA3NVP NTSNJ NTSNY NTSPA which means that you forward messages with KA3NVP NTSNJ NTSNY and NTSPA in some part of the BBS field to KA3NVP NOTE To pause the display you must use NumLock S won t work To resume scrolling press any other key Ww MSYS 1 18 Page 186 MUTIL Function 7 Convert JNOS domain txt file to MSYS Format INPUT FILE domain txt OUTPUT FILE MSYSHOST N E DIALOG WITH FUNCTION This utility takes the commonly avail lable JNOS domain txt file and converts it into a format that can be used by MSYS The file will still need to be edited to provide al the name to MSYSHOS NET from MSYSHOST N liases typing will be h
168. frequently during normal operation they are very important files Good for ram disk if you run tcp ip much Read mostly 6 A very strong suggestion would be to put this file on a different disk partition Backup message files tend to get forgotten and expand at a very high rate If they fill up the primary MSYS disk MSYS will no longer be able to accept messages If the MAIL BAK directory is on a different drive the most that can happen when that drive is full is that MSYS just will not make backup copies of the incoming messages al Example 1 Lets move the mail bak directory to the D drive It is appropriate to put the SET command in the AUTOEXEC BAT so that it will happen on a reboot You would put the statement SI MSYS MAIL BAK D MAIL BAK in the AUTOEXEC BAT file MSYS will then look for the mail backup directory on the D drive E CAUTION MUTIL Functions always assume the C MSYS directory path When doing MUTIL functions you MUST specify the changed path MSYS 1 18 Page 209 and have copied You could do the Example 2 Assume you still have a ram disk at the normal contents of BBSTONTS BIN to that dis following DOS command w HE SET MSYS BBSTONTS BIN E BBSTONTS BIN to cause MSYS to read the file from your RAMDISK NOTE With all these changes you can make you can configure a lot in terms of files now Be careful of file si
169. g messages These features act at two separate times first when a message comes in and second during forwarding First let s review the way hierarchical forwarding works With hierarchical forwarding the BBS field can contain more than just the callsign of the BBS that is the DEStination of the message Routing information can also be placed in this field The BBS field thus has the syntax of partl part2 part3 When it is time to forward a message the BBS field is inspected and the leftmost part that is found in the forwarding file is used to forward the message Consider as an example N8PIH MI If N8PIH is found in the forwarding file then it is forwarded that way and the MI part is ignored On the other hand if N8PIH is not found in the forwarding file then if MI is found in the forward file then it is forwarded that way If neither part is found in the forwarding file then the message will not go anywhere Such messages will show up after at least one forwarding attempt after the last time MSYS was started if you do a L command If all messages had both the actual callsign of the DEStination BBS and the appropriate xx part in the BBS field then the forwarding file could be greatly shortened You would need to have the calls of the BBS stations in your state in the forward file along with each of the xx designators for the remaining states If there were say 50 BBS systems in your state then perhaps 99 diffe
170. ge tree down at 615 amp 20 reported by mentor pd no injuries Z normal way to end message The text of this message would be added to Database 3 Now if you search Database 3 for either wind damage or mentor for example you would get to s these lines along with any other lines that have wind damage or mentor in them MSYS 1 18 Page 122 Example of using search command G BBS command to do search File search routine Response from bbs Enter file name or just press return for Database 0 Database 3 Enter search argument Mentor lines from message above displayed gt BBS ready for next command Another example Assume a file had the following lines Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow and every where that Mary went the lamb was sure to go It followed her to school one day If you searched this for snow you would get the following back its fleece was white as snow and every where that Mary went That s a brief outline of what can be done Its simple yet very flexible Let me know of any applications you can think of for these facilities Particular Database numbers can be assigned to different uses Formats for information can be suggested for each different Database MSYS 1 18 Page 123 HIERARCHICAL FORWARDING and MSYS There are several features in MSYS that combined with hierarchical forwarding should almost completely automate routing of incomin
171. gib for all ports bd 5 clears digipeaters for port 5 BElloff ON off On All bells are turned off OFF All bells are sounded p Keyboard connects sound but not other connects BID Manipulates bids in the BIDLIST DAT file The following operands may be specified bidstring Adds given bidstring to bid file bidstring Deletes given bidstring bidstring Tells if given bidstring is present Tells number of active bids mids MSYS 1 18 Page 34 BINterval number Network node broadcast of known destination nodes is made every number seconds BMaxcon port BOOT This command limits the maximum number of connects to the BBS on each port BBS connects are exempted from the limit but count for other users Normal users get a BUSY response when over limit BM 1 allows 1 user per port If a port is marked BBS ONLY see BPorts the BMax value specified limits the number of BBS connects For non BBS only ports the BMax value does not effect number of BBS connects See also the MCF command Boots computer You should have an autoexec bat file set up that runs MUTIL 4 and then MSYS so that after you reboot the computer MSYS will be restarted Note that this is an abrupt termination of MSYS Files are not closed for example The correct reply to the question asked by the boot command is Yes CASE IS IMPORTANT BPorts MASK This command is used to indicate which ports a
172. gle digit 3 A blank 4to N Callsign of BBS with SSID optional N 1 A blank N 2 to Via list of digipeaters Examples FO W1XX V W2XX W1XX 1 R2 WAOXYZ 2 When no nodes are being used this first line is used as if it were a connect command to the desired system When a NODe is used the Via digipeater list will have no effect If a NODe KA NODe or NET ROM is to be used the next set of lines are a script of how to use the NODe s This script may be up to 25 lines long Its format will be described below MSYS 1 18 Page 94 Next comes a list of callsigns of BBS systems that should be forwarded to the system given on the first line the one beginning with F There is one call per line No SSID should be given The callsign of the system given on the first line should normally be given in this list Example forward file that doesn t use any nodes FO W1XX W1XX W2ABC W2XXX FO W1XX V W1XYZ W1XX W2ABC W2XXX FO W1XX V K1XXX W1XXX W1XX W2ABC W2XXX FO W8XXX 12 W8XXX WA8XXX K7XXX Note In the previous example we try three different paths to connect to W1XX If we get the messages forwarded the first way the other connections will not be attempted FO W1XX 01 04 12 21 23 This will forward during the times indicated W1XX Use of this line is optional but if used W2ABC must begin with a If you wish to W2XXX temporarily not forward to a station or if A you wi
173. h TOF1 being substituted for TOF2 the users MSYS 1 18 The substitution is transparent to Page 13 NUMCHANS number NUMCHANS is used to specify the number of logical channels that will be allocated Each connection while connected uses one logical channel When the KANODe is being used a second logical channel is used for outgoing connects Each logical channel requires about 7K of memory when in use They are available for reuse when a station disconnects BBS CALL callsign This statement gives the callsign that can be connected to for the BBS The callsign can contain an SSID This statement is also optional if omitted stations will not be able to connect to the BBS unless a BBS alias is given BBS ALIAS callsign This statement gives the callsign that can be connected to for the BBS The callsign can contain an SSID This statement is also optional if omitted stations will not be able to connect to the BBS unless a BBS CALL is given T KANODE CALL callsign This statement gives the callsign of the KANODe which is similar to the KANODe provided in the Kantronics tncs The callsign can and probably should contain an SSID This statement is optional if omitted stations will not be able to connect to the KANODe ANSWER CALL callsign This statement gives the callsign that can be connected to by stations wanting to talk to the SYSOP It is also used as the callsign when the Co
174. h a V32 bis Zoom modem which is able to connect from 300 to 14 4k with automatic fallback port 5 at 260 int 5 speed 19200 name MODEM radiospeed 1200 tnctype 2 Here is the MSYSTNC 2 file that then sets it up EZ Pes ira reset Atel sig seeks load factory defaults atlas speaker volume low AEE GT eri DCD follows carrier at amp d2 DTR signal setting o teeing eke no responses atmis ni speaker on until carrier ats0 1 answer in one ring This may or may not work with your modem A book and a whole bushel basket of experimentation may be necessary Without the book for your modem your work will be cut out for you MSYS 1 18 Page 90 One of the HAYES commands is AT amp V This command will permit you to see the setup for the different registers in your modem The following is the display from a working Hayes Ultra 96 modem ACTIVE PROFILE B16 B1 B41 B60 EO L1 M1 N1 Q1 T V1 WO X4 YO C1 amp D2 G0 amp J0 amp K3 05 amp RO amp S2 amp T4 amp U0 X0 amp Y0 s00 001 S01 000 S02 043 S03 013 S04 010 S05 008 S06 002 S07 099 s08 002 S09 006 s10 014 S11 095 s12 050 S18 000 S25 005 S26 001 S36 007 S37 009 38 020 S44 003 46 002 S48 007 S49 008 S50 250 S97 030 It has been reported to us that the following string works well with the US Robotics Sportster modem AT amp F amp B1L amp H1L amp ER2Q1M1S19 2X4S0 1 The detail the individual commands is as follows AT amp F Load f
175. h cache in EXTENDED memory NOEMM Disables Expanded Memory NOEXMEM Disables Extended Memory Example MSYS NOHEARD Starts MSYS but will not log any stations it hears MSYS NONODE Starts MSYS without the NETNODe feature MSYS NORAMHDRS Starts MSYS and stores all headers on disk not in RAM MSYS NOEMM Starts MSYS and forces MSYS to use EXTENDED memory if any MSYS Starts MSYS permitting it to use EXPANDED memory if any and all other features that have been optioned MSYS has the ability to determine if there is an EXTENDED or EXPANDED memory manager in use It will attempt to use the EXPANDED memory unless the NOEMM option is specified in which case it will attempt to use the EXTENDED memory MSYS now requires about 2 MBytes of upper memory While MSYS may be run on an 8088 or 8086 system much better performance will be achieved by using a 286 or higher system MSYS 1 18 Page 6 ABBREVIATI Just a word about this manual ONS CONVENTIONS Most commands are not case sensitive with the notable exception of the Sysop command Many commands may be abbreviated In this manual minimum abbreviation with the UP the command word in lower case be typed as addu or ADDU or results Where there is an argu CASE will be the default Fore PC on OFF the call server
176. he station you would directly connect to for forwarding HF reverse forwarding is also inhibited if ATtended is OFF Note that the regulations appear to allow you to receive messages unattended So if you don t have a STA for HF turn AT OFF when you aren t there and remember to turn it ON when you are To be on the safe side put ATtended OFF in your MSYS DO file should the system reboot when you aren t present PACTOR FORWARDING GTOR FORWARDING The commands for PACTOR and GTOR are essentially the same with the obvious difference in the mode of the TNC Automated forwarding should not be done using PACTOR GTOR However reverse forwarding can move traffic off a remote PBBS A MSYSFWD DEF like file is made with a filename of your choice This will serve as a manual forwarding file The following is an example of a pactor forward file Filename NO8M PAC pO no8m wa8bxn wb8bii k8eiw Only callsigns or routes can be in this list You can NOT have the Sfilename ext type of include file The above causes a connect to NO8M and sends traffic for the three listed PBBS stations A reverse forward prompt then results in traffic for the connecting station to be reverse forwarded MSYS 1 18 Page 108 When you wish to manually forward enter the following command from the sysop keyboard FP filename ext or in the previous example FP NO8M PAC MSYS then acts on your file and forward
177. he ARP entries MSYS 1 18 Page 31 ARP ADD callsign port ip address digil digi2 digi8 Allows you to manually add or put it in MSYS DO a station and up to eight digipeaters to the ARP list Periods are optional in the IP address Examples arp add WA8BXN 0 44 70 4 8 NO8M arp add N8HSP 2 44 70 4 10 WB8COR 5 WB8APD You can put a and a number after the IP address For example you can say arp add W3AAA 1 44 80 1 1 24 K8AAA This says that any IP frames going to an IP address with 44 80 1 in the left 24 bits should go to W3AAA through K8AAA as a digi Thus the number after the is the number of significant bits to keep in comparisons ARP DELete callsign Removes a single entry from the ARP table Example ARP DEL K8EIW ARP REP callsign port ip addr digil digi2 digi8 Replaces existing arp entry for given callsign with new information specified ATtended ON off When set to ON all forwarding is allowed If off ports with radio speed of 300 will forward only those messages in which the from call is the idcall messages that you originate or the to station in the message is the station you would directly connect to for forwarding HF reverse forwarding is also inhibited if ATtended is OFF Note that the regulations appear to allow you to receive messages unattended So if you don t have a STA for HF turn AT OFF when you aren t there and remember to turn it ON
178. he version of this software and date and time MSYS was started W The W command lists the available files for downloading Examples W Lists all files in C MSYS FILES W Dirl Lists all files in the Dirl subdirectory of C MSYS FILES Dirl The directory list provided includes the dates amp sizes of the files MSYS 1 18 Page 80 X Command can be used to set or reset Expert status and also to set the number of lines sent before pausing during an R command If no argument is given X simply toggles and displays the new Expert status When Expert status is set the initial connect messages are replaced by a compatibility identifier line MSYS 1 14 BFH and the command prompt is simply gt If a number is given after X this is the number of lines to display for a R command before asking More To continue displaying the current message when More is sent press return To abort the message type N and then return This facility has been added to prevent a long message from scrolling off your screen faster than you can read it Experiment with different values until you find one that pleases you To not use this facility set the number of lines to zero Examples X 20 pause after every 20 lines X O don t pause ever When you get More in R cmd output as a result of using X cmd to set lines between pauses you can type C for continue without any more stops
179. his example shows how to use the include file KAOFPO REV The rev extension indicates ka0fpo may reverse forward from this system Sc msys fwd ka0fpo rev f1 wa8dce 125 This indicates that WA8DCE will never Sc msys fwd wa8dce rev be forwarded to but will reverse SSS gt forward all messages MSYS 1 18 Page 205 MSYSHOST NET 44 70 4 4 ka8z ka8z 4 ka8z ampr org Tom Barnes canton ka8z 44 70 4 6 wa8bxn wa8bxn wa8bxn ampr org Mike Pechura lake county wa8bxn 44 70 245 2 kb7yw kb7yw kb7yw ampr org Fred Peachman brookfield wb8lvp NOTE ALL ENTRIES FOR EACH HOST MUST BE ON ONE LINE MSYSPASS DAT guest 3 c msys public anonymous 3 c msys public ka8z tom 7 c msys public mike wa8bxn 7 c msys public fred kb7yw 7 c msys public The format is call pass privilege base directory And is used for FTP access to the system MSYSPASS IP wa8bxn apple wa8bxn terry n8hsp n8hsp fred kb7yw kb7yw swiss normal no8m The format is call pass callsign and is used for Telnet access to the bbs MSYS 1 18 Page 206 Typical MSYSTNC 1 AEA PK 232 VHF OFF HB 300 AWLEN 8 PARITY 0 CONMODE TRAN RACE OFF ssall off AWHDLC ON ESTART OR HOST ON CONSULT YOUR TNC MANUAL NOTE The MSYSTNC x files are associated with the corresponding nctype x specified in the MSYS OPT file The above file COULD be amed MSYSTNC 2 depending on your config
180. his to do anything useful I hope MSYS 1 18 Page 62 SCE nsave number If the number given is zero which is the default the screen will not be blanked automatically The method used to blank the screen will work with all display cards the screen content is saved and then blanks are written to the screen When you press a key to unblank the screen you will always get to screen 1 the one you get with the F1 key lt chan gt lt message gt Parameters are an active channel number and the text of the message to send The text is prefixed with MESSAGE FROM SYSOP AT id callsign Use this to give helpful hints to users you see that are in trouble with the commands they are trying to use If you wish to NOT send the MESSAGE FROM verbage use the form SE lt chan gt lt message gt SHUTdown on OFF When on will send shutdown in progress message to users Does NOT affect bbs connects or forwarding Forwarding should be ABorted and incoming bbs connects and network connects should be DISConnected on a per channel basis SLottime port value SMTP SNow Sort MSYS Sends the given value 0 to 255 to the TNC This value is used in conjunction with PPersist For more information consult your TNC manual Allows local access to the SMTP server mainly for test purposes The data channel port number for SMTP transfers is not correctly displayed It do
181. ich the keyboard is logically connected Initially this is the command process When you give certain commands such as BB PB C the keyboard will be assigned to the new process created for the command When the process is terminated the keyboard is automatically assigned back to the command scheduler KILLproc process Abort specified process number Can be hazardous Never use this command to kill a permanent process Better yet just don t use this command Process numbers can be viewed using the PROcess command MSYS 1 18 Page 50 KPorts MASK This command allows you to selectively disable the K node on any ports A one bit for a given port number enables the K node on that port LCount filename This command counts the number of lines characters and words in a given file Note This is NOT the LC command found in the bbs LOCKkbd This command locks the keyboard so that any keys pressed ar ignored I put it in for two reasons First I am getting RF into my keyboard from HF radios and it generates random characters Second my 3 year old son sometimes likes to press the keys To unlock the keyboard simply type lock again no CR needed this time When unlocking the keyboard lock must be all LOWER case LOGclose This command closes the log file renames it to form of yymmdd LOG and then opens a new log file Caution Do NOT use more than once per day LUsers Use this command to se
182. ider your MSYS If you reduce the maximum number of messages MUTIL smaller number you will increase the available memory for You may choose to limit the number of active channels If experiencing low memory probl disabl size of the conference feature Whil Lems you may also wish to le it is possible to reduce th the various memory stacks used by MSYS extreme care is needed to avoid serious consequences S further Another B version does not provide all details the section on STACKS for alternative is to provide a minimum service system by running the small version of MSYS which is distributed as MSYSB EXE The L the fancy NODE OR TCP IP features but is will function quite nicely as a stand alone BBS working behind or along side of other network switches the packet community is the fact that this version will not show up in a NetRom node list You will still disks for all of the documentation version MSYS wi is avai that replaces the big MSYS EXE EXPANDED MEMO Probably the major loss to need the main distribution MSYSB EXE is the executable 11 automatically detect if either RY USAGI E EXTENDED or EXPANDED memory lable If sufficient EXPANDED memory is present at least 320K must be available to be used then all stacks will be around 16000 bytes and come fr
183. ification of hours BBS is full function when accessed through the network Default is 0 23 which is all the time Hour list has same format as that used in the lines in the forwarding file NETNode ON OFF Enables the Network Node MSYS 1 18 Page 55 NETOnly on OFF This command is used to can connect to the BBS v indicate if BBSs only or any stations ia the network If ON only BBSs are allowed to connect via the network If OFF then any station can connect to BBS via network NETRead number Specifies maximum size message that can be read or file that can be downloaded when conne NETTalk ON off Enable 1 NEWUser number Allows you to set the in EUuser command for the b choose to make new users board bad users unti NETXBatchsize cted to the BBS through the network Talk command in the network node itial user flags for all new users s it position meanings Thus you can limited or I suppose for a closed 1 they identify themselves somehow Sets the number of uncompressed bytes available for RLI compressed forwarding vi NETYapp on OFF Enables YAPP Yet Anothe through the network Us to be able to upload fil NInfo Gives network node statu from in the network node NNode window This command takes you 1 a the network port r Packet Protocol used for binary file transfer between user and BBS for connections made to the BB
184. ildcards can be used CRetries number Sets number of retries that there will be for forward connect attempt This value should probably be less than RETries MSYS 1 18 Page 36 C script filename In addition to the usual C form like C0 there is now a connect command in which you do not specify a port number with the C nor do you give the call of the station to which you want to connect but rather give the name of a file that contains a connect script to reach that station The files must be in the FWD directory and can have any name The connect script is the same format used in the forward file except that the first line begins with C rather the other letters used in the forward file You can thus use the command C HOME in which case in the FWD directory you would have a file called HOME An example of the contents of this file is c0 wa8bxn olvgn 120 to c akron 180 to c cle220 300 to This example can be interpreted as follows In the first line the C means this is a connect script port 0 is to be used for the initial connect and the ultimate destination is WA8BXN The second line says to make a connect to OLVGN which is a network node The following lines are commands sent to the node the lines are times to wait for responses and the to lines indicate the responses to look for that indicate success See the descriptions for forwarding scripts for more
185. in cases where the two BBB s get out of sync and message titles text are being interpreted as commands DUPcheck arg EDit MSYS 0 Disables R line BID checks title from call check 1 Holds messages that fails these checks filename Screen editor for files Escape gets to command mode do help for command list See section on EDITVIEW later in this document for more information EFile filename This command is used to edit an ASCII file with re cords lt 80 bytes in length At least one operand is required which is the pathname to the file you want to edit A second operand may optionally be given that gives the size of the work area in lines to be allocated default is 200 S the separat documentation for EDITFILE for more information on the editor EMsghdr msg This command allows you to edit the fields of a message header One operand is required which is the message number to edit This command also automatically sets the message length to the actual size of the associated message file This is useful when you have replaced a message file with some other file as described above This command is also useful to change the status of messages to ALL or others that have not been marked as being read but actually have been so that they don t appear in the MAIL FOR list sent out with each ID If you press Esc when editing you will skip the current and remaining fields and see
186. information on these various options Another simple example of what you could put in a connect script file is CO WA8BXN WABBXN V TOMSYS That s th ntire file it is a simple way to put the digipeater TOMSYS needed to reach the destination station WA8BXN CTS port on OFF Allows specification for each port if hardware handshaking should be used with the TNC or Modem If on MSYS will suspend sending data to the TNC or Modem when Clear to Send is not true This will be quite useful with AEA TNCs which have problems when MSYS sends packets too rapidly to them Also useful with most Modems Make sure you have the proper wires in the cable between the computer and TNC or Modem and that you have your TNC or Modem configured properly if you try to use this option MSYS 1 18 Page 37 C callsign Via digil digi2 digi8 This command is used to connect to another station The letter C must be followed by a digit indicating the port number to be used for the connection This is followed by a space Next comes an optional window number to be used for the conversation Next comes the callsign of the station you want to connect to with SSID if needed Following this can come Via and a list of digipeaters to use separated by commas Examples cl wlxxx CO w2xxx v k2xxx c2 k3xxx 2 v n4xxx 3 a5xxx MSYS 1 18 Page 38 When you issue this command the screen to be used for conversation will b
187. ion for a given neighbor NODe use DESt ADD destid destcall neighborcall neighborport obs quality Notes The neighbor NODe callsign must be defined before any DEStinations can be added for it destid or alias for the DEStination is optional obs is the obsolescence count 0 locks the DESt in for the NODe Po change the quality of an existing neighbor NODe use NODe REPlace callsign port newquality digil digi8 To change the obsolescence count and quality of a DEStination through some neighbor NODe use DESt REPlace DEStcall neighborcall neighborport newobs newquality MSYS 1 18 Page 133 A NI One Possible Network NODe Setup ETNode can be run in a moderate mode that is somewhere between fully automatic and low profile Here is some basic info that chould be used Computer is an old original IBM PC 4 77 MHz clock 640 K ram two 10 M hard drives 4 serial cards and a printer card Port Freg 0 223 7 High profile 150 W beam at 80 ft aimed west 1 145 01 Quite high profile 200 W omni ant at 90 ft 2 145 05 Low profile 10 W omni ant at 60 ft 3 80M 4 40M 5 20M 6 serial connection to another computer Nearby existing NetRom nodes Port Call Distance O WB8CQR 10 15 Miles 1 WB8CQR 1 15 1 K8EIW 1 45 1 W8QLY 75 1 W3LIF 80 2 KB8AST 1 25 Nearby NOS stations using NetRom interface Port Call Distance 1 N8HSP 4 10 1 WB8LYJ 4 15 Al
188. ional AS callsign in the digipeater list when the packet is sent out the TO port the first callsign is assumed examples omitted the following DIGI MYDIGI DIGI MYDIGI DIGI W1XX 3 FROM 0 FROM 1 FROM 0 This would allow the either port 0 or 1 heard on DIGI MYGATE E FROM 0 DIGI MYGATE FROM 1 This pair woul callsign MYGATE the same Repeat this of 25 times as desired The first be used in the VIA list by a The port number following FROM ng this call The TO port number having this the first callsign as output on For a normal digipeater the two port for a gateway they will be different The specifies a replacement for the first callsign If Consider a total be usi i e no change TO 0 TO 1 to 0 callsign MYDIGI to be used in the via list on The packet is retransmitted on the same port was The call W1XX 3 can also be used to digipeat on port 0 TO 1 TO 0 d define a gateway between ports 0 and 1 with the used in both directions DIGI TOF1 FROM 0 TO 1 AS TOF2 DIGI TOF2 FROM 1 TO 0 AS TOF1 This interesting pair allows TOF1 to be used as a gateway digipeater call on port 0 no effect if used on port 1 When the packet is repeated it will have TOF2 in the digipeater list where TOF1 originally was The opposite is true on port 1 When TOF2 is used as a digipeater call the packet is repeated on port 0 wit
189. ish keyboard to keyboard connection with a TCP IP station Examples TE 44 70 4 10 te hsp hsp would have to be defined in MSYSHOST NET TElnet operates much like C normally used to connect to AX 25 stations Cd is used to disconnect TPorts Takes a port mask value as an argument This number is used the same way as in the other similar commands each port corresponds to a port port 0 is the rightmost bit and when the bit is set to 1 for a given port that port is available for TCP IP use particularly ARP broadcasts ARP Used without an argument lists the known callsign IP address correspondence determined by TElnet connects An optional argument CLEAR may be used to erase all of the ARP entries EVER Takes a host id as an argument it can be either an IP address in the square brackets or a symbolic IP address It establishes a connection to the FTP server of the specified system FTP is the File Transfer Protocol used in TCP IP MSYS 1 18 Page 216 SMTP Allows local access to the SMTP server mainly for test purposes Note The following servers are currently implemented in MSYS 7 9 21 23 25 87 MSYSHOST NET This MSYS around it tab character is EF Echo BBS Discard Telnet Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Local keyboard Files related to TCP IP an ASCII file you create with an editor such as the command Each line in the
190. isit Visit VISIT visit visit VISIT other calls follow By having all the various combinations of case a anonymous check in does not have to worry about the case that is used Now it is CRITICAL that MSYSHOLD DAT have the lines connected vlsit and from v1sit All anonymous traffic will be held It can then be routinely deleted or readdressed by the sysop with the sysop s call being used for the sending party It is also necessary to use the EU VISIT command to add the user to your system Here is what the file will look like when done VISIT is VISITOR located at VISITOR Last new message 19485 Last connected Fri Mar 19 23 10 57 1994 on port 5 Flags 0140 Lines 20 Postal code VISITOR Home BBS NO8M Last WP Update Mar 10 08 41 01 1994 Path to VISIT is Direct Other calls than VISIT can be used however MSYS is programmed to disallow changes to the VISIT callsign s information An anonymous check in can not go in and change V1SIT s home PBBS name etc Also please note that the FLAGS for V1SIT are set at 140 to prevent erroneous WP messages from being generated MSYS 1 18 Page 118 It helps to have a help file that tells the anonymous users something about how to get help Here is an example MSYSMOD MSG KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK Welcome to the NCARC MSYS Modem Port KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK For information on the sy
191. l forwarded if it has an BBS of ALLUS You may the following example ALLUS gt AMSAT K WW gt AMSAT K EPS OSCAR SATI EPS OSCAR SATI ELL SI ELL SPACI M This sysop command is automatical PAC ry MOON MOON ERge lly done at may be executed by the Sysop whil in progress cycle copies it to MSYS FWD BBSs that can be forwarded to le MSYS is running it will execute at the beginning of the The command causes MSYS to read the expanding any include file is also produced MSYS BBS that is a sorted list of al including thi TO OSCAR will only be E however have a line for ALLUS and a second one for WW as in the startup of MSYS and If forwarding is next forward EF file and filename A 11 possible like ARRL 44 MSYSFWD DI files ngs etc A MSYSFWD DEF and or the include files command IN THE BBS MSYS 1 18 ny changes you make to your forward fil followed by use of the M les must be done to ERge Page 101 FORWARDING NOTES Make sure you don t have any blank lines in your various forward files MSYSFWD DEF and the files in the FWD directory Executing Commands From Within the Forwarding File In the forwarding file at the beginning of a set of forwarding lines i e at the beginning of the file or after a line you can place any sysop command s by simply putting in front of them The MSY
192. l of these stations are usually reliable connections Other NetRom nodes are usually heard but are not always reliable During band openings many more are heard some are reliable during the band opening MSYS 1 18 Page 134 Here are the n file OCM 3 NRI 460406 NRC WA8BXN 2 NPorts 47 PQuality 100 NODe REStore AUTONode OFF AUTODESt ON NETNode ON E NODE RELAT twork NODe rela ED PARMS in MSYS DO ted parameters I have in my MSYS DO Transmit DESt nodes heard that have obsolescence counts 3 to 6 Right 3 bytes of my IP address 44 70 4 6 expressed in hex quite useful this way Callsign net NODe responds to TCP IP callsign Network NODe uses ports 0 1 2 and 6 Default port quality 100 A low val nodes not manually entered that connect to mine MYTcpcall Read saved NOD in neighbor lists during band openings for example automatically added to my NODe E DEStination NODe broadcasts my neighbor table MUST be the same as only lue assigned to file when MSYS starts Do NOT record NODe broadcasts from nodes not already nable network NODe Here is the output I get from the JN Sysop command the NODe Port Neighbor NODe Call Quality 1 AKR K8EIW 1 179 1 CLE1 WB8CQOR 1 180 O CLE220 WB8CQR 10 180 2 PRYTWP KB8AST 1 192 1 YNG W8QLY 180 MSYS 1 18 DESts Heard 66 23 67 23 67 23 2 23 7 23
193. l respond to the Usage statement the first time If you disconnect from the remote bbs and drop back to a node then reconnect to the remote system your local MSYS will NOT respond to the Usage statement You must disconnect completely and then re establish the connection to the remote system for the automatic password response to be given This is done to help prevent repeated automatic attempts to decipher the password USER PASSWORDS A third form of password protection is the USER password If the bits for USER password have been set for a user then you must have a PASSWORD DIRECTORY The directory will contain a file for each user with ONLY the callsign as the file name There are NO SSID s or extensions used The sample directory and file name would look like this C MSYS PASSWORD N8UDK At a minimum N8UDK s user bits would be set to 400 If a user has their flag bits set with the 400 bit on when they connect they will get the Usage stats message line and must give the proper 4 characters just like a SYSOP would The password file fora user must be in the PASSWORD directory and has a filename of the user s call no SSID no file extension A fourth password is the one used by the FTP function of TCP IP It is more fully described under the heading of MSYSPASS DAT MSYS 1 18 Page 164 A fifth password file that is should be used is the MSYSPASS IP This file list
194. les directory Now stations can log in with WA8BXN MIKE and do anything in MSYS FILES WA8BXN and any directories found in this directory If you set up ANONYMOUS 1 MSYS FILES then the user ANONYMOUS can read anything put in the WA8BXN subdirectory of FILES as well as in FILES itself but not write or otherwise change anything The rest of your files should be pretty well protected FTP COMMANDS When you use the FTP command to connect to another system you can type HELP to get a list of the supported commands They currently include CD dirname To move around in the directory structure CD with no arguments gives the current directory DELE filename To delete given fil DIR filespec gives a directory listing GET filename downloads a the given file MKDIR makes a directory PUT filename uploads the given file Syntax is put localfilename remotefilenam If the optional localfile name is omitted it is assumed to be the same as the remote file nam PWD gives the current directory QUIT disconnects RMDIR dirnam removes the given directory FTP function will give an estimate on the number of bytes transferred during GET and PUT commands MSYS 1 18 Page 219 IP Routing What does this mean Its sort of like digi world If a TCP IP user sets you up aS ar to a particular IP address MSYS will now re can get through an ARP request broadcast a D
195. less 220 BD ET VAL RW ED COMMAND ot MATa es e ohn bie tote cause Bute 221 EDITETEE EE COMMAND ie a ada amp Piha e Mae Blake elie 222 EPILOGoe aes 5 Reese death ee BES A Be eS OE ica RE OBE ERE EOS 225 INDEX a faethe Sa ences cad Ue Jot eee ies a Segoe he le eta Ee eee ea ae ete E A ees eee E 226 MSYS 1 18 Page ix MSYS INITIAL INSTALLATION Copyright 1994 by HUB COMPUTERS INC 1 Installation of MSYS is not particularly difficult but you should follow the following steps in order E 2 If you are upgrading from MSYS 1 17 please see the UPDATI Instructions 3 Make a backup copy of the distribution disk You can copy the entire disk with Diskcopy 4 Make a default directory on your hard disk I call mine MSYS Use the command md c msys 5 NOTE You may use any drive letter All references to the C drive apply to your selected drive 6 Go to the default directory cd c msys 7 Make required sub directories md c msys mail md c msys files md c msys help md c msys mail bak md c msys mail bin 8 Move the file MSYS118 exe into the c MSYS directory 9 Un arc the distribution disk by running the program MSYS118 EXE 10 To move the help files to the help sub directory Type MOVEFILE 11 NOTE REQUIRED FILE C MSYS HELP MSYSMSGS DAT This file contains a number of the messages used by MSYS 12 Change Directory t
196. ll have to make a TNC setup file and include the following INTFACE KISS RESE You may also need to include a line with one or more control c characters before these two lines in your file Later versions of the KPC series seem to work OK with no MSYSTNC file MSYS 1 18 Page 171 FREQU NT PROBLEMS AND NOTES FROM THE AUTHOR IMPORTANT You must use the new version of MUTIL with this version of MSYS i e run setup function 9 It is probably also a good idea to delete MSYS HRD when going to a different version of MSYS or changing the port statements in MSYS OPT You MUST also use the new MSYSMSGS DAT file in the HELP directory If you have problems getting MSYS going here are some things to try that have helped many who have called 1 Make sure you have FILES 40 and BUFFERS 20 in CONFIG SYS Try adding STACKS 0 0 to CONFIG SYS Get rid of anything resident check AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS Run MUTIL 4 do this EVERY time you start MSYS Simplify MSYS OPT as much as possible remove all PORT statements 6 Delete your MSYS DO file after making a backup Ow WN These items should get you to the point where MSYS will work From here try putting things back and see what causes failure OVERRUNS FRAMING ERRORS On occasion it may be useful to do an ST S command to see the status of your ports If you find that you have OVERRUN
197. ll look at ALL messages coming in for The lines bel l only apply For this use lin Therefore a BBS is all DAT FILI Gl of your system 1 holds any messages bigger than 2500 bytes Page 158 you will FROM WA8BXN PORT 2 holds messages from WA8BXN that come in on port 2 CONNECTED W8XYZ holds a messages sent by connected user station W8XYZ AT MSYS holds all messages with MSYS TEXT BADWORDS DAT holds all messages that have any words found in BADWORDS DAT file BBS AT ALL Note the difference between FROM and CONNECTED FROM is the from call for the message often supplied after lt in the S command while CONNECTED is the call of the station connected to the bbs sending the message In the abov xample a message sent to ALLUS from a local USER would be held but would NOT be held if entered from a connected BBS NOTE Held messages are visible only to the SYSOP They are killable only by SYSOP A message will be sent to a user not a BBS that the message has been held and made invisible for SYSOP review The user at that point has no further ability to deal with that message Other options on the lines in MSYSHOLD DAT at the beginning of the line makes it into a comment TEXT filename operand When specified if other tests are met the text and title of
198. lo MSYS 1 18 we have attempted to show the PER CASE letters with the balance of For example the command ADDUser may adduser or ADDUSER with the same ment shown as on OFF the UPPER xample in the case of the command okup defaults to OFF Page 7 MSYS DIR ECTORY LAYOUT DI ESCRIPTION The following chart is the recommended organization for your directories a nd files NOTE Some of th f iles ar reated at time S Cc of installation and others are operating files that MSYS creates nd PASS IP PASS DAT HCL HCL DO OPT OTD REP RMT DO while operating C MSYS Contains all of the MSYS operating programs a configuration files MSYS EXE MSYS MSG BIDLIST DAT MSYS MUTIL EXE MSYS BBS MSYSPASS MOD MSYS ROUTES DAT MSYS DEF MSYSBBSB DAT MSYS STATES DAT MSYS FWD MSYSTODO DAT MSYS ZIPCODES DAT MSYS HRD MSYSHOLD DAT MSYS CALLSRV3 EXE MSYS LOG 4 MSYSFWD DEF MSYS MSYS BBS MSYS USR MSYSHOST NET MSYS BBSTONTS BIN MSYSNODE DAT BADWORDS DAT MSYS BBSTONTS DAT MSGLIST DAT MSYSTNC 1 MSYS Files marked with a are Distribution files US MSYS 1 18 ELP Directory which contains HI MSYSMSGS DAT are created by MUTIL or MSYS are SYSOP created files files
199. lude properly The temporary fix is for you to manually disconnect the data channel session A second problem can occur when a message has come into a MSYS system with garbage characters generally via a FBB or a telephone modem forwarding session and if the first and only character of a line happens to be a control A If that message is then forwarded out using RLI protocol the forward session will abort The obvious cure is for sysops to review and edit as necessary messages that contain extraneous characters FBB style forwarding generally is not affected by this problem If you find a problem not listed above please document as carefully as possible outlining all the conditions that can cause the problem before advising the author Of course the condition must be repeatable for it to be found Messages that say It doesn t work are not helpful Likewise if you find errors in the documentation please advise so that proper changes can be made Thankyou for your cooperation MSYS 1 18 Page 5 MSYS COMMAND LINE The MSYS command typed at the DOS prompt may have several switches or modifiers NOHEARD Disables JK JM JD JG JB and JT recording Saves 26 880 bytes NONODE Disables network node saves 28 104 bytes NORAMHDRS Stores message headers on disk only saves 136 bytes per possible message This can be quite slow if you have lots of msgs and no disk cache Could be useful on 286 systems wit
200. m will respond to MYKnode Display or change K NODe callsign MYTcpcall Callsign used when sending arp and TCP IP frames NBdcast Enables Node Broadcasts on a per port basis NDwindow Net default window size frames 1 7 NETBbs Enable BBS cmd in net NODe NETCon Enable connect cmd in net NODe NETFbbstime Allows specification of hours NET is full function NETFBBC NET ROM FBB Compatibility O No FBB Compatibility Default 1 FBB Non Compressed Compatibility 2 FBB Compression Compatibility NETFBBG NetRom FBB forwarding group size 0 5 NETMaxfwd Maximum message size to forward through network NETNode Enable the Net Nod NETOnly If on only BBSs can connect to bbs via network NETRead Specifies maximum size message that can be read or file that can be downloaded through the Netnode NETTalk Enable Talk cmd in net NODe NETXBatchsize Sets Max batch size for RLI compression on network NETXOption If on enables RLI compressed forwarding on network NETYapp If on allows YAPP transfers via network NEWUser Allows you to set the initial user flags NInfo Gives net NODe status NNode Takes you into the NODe as if you were connected to it NOBEacons If a given port is set to 1 then there will be no ID mail for or BText beacons NOBUlls When on no bulletins will be forwarded during normal forwarding NODe SEnd SAve REStore ADD REP DEL NODETimeout Number of seconds of inactivity on network node NPorts Ports to which nodes broadcas
201. mber n to the specified frequency This frequency need not be in the scan list Using this form of the command also disables scanning The frequency can be given either in MHz 7 0991 for example or KHz 7099 1 This form of the command is useful before making a manual connect using the C command or initiating manual PACTOR or GTOR forwarding using the FP command Note that this command can be imbedded in the forward file ps 2 3541 2 for example To resume scanning use PS 2 ON either manually or at the end of the forward file If you have enough memory you can run the SCANDEF program described below using a command like RUN SCANDEF PORT3 while MSYS is running To see the output after the program runs type TY SPOOL The RUN command will redirect any screen output to a file called SPOOL You can read that file to determine the program s output Then use the PS 3 ON command to load the new frequency specifications This could all be done as a remote Sysop MSYS 1 18 Page 150 ADDING ANTENNAS RTS and DTR outputs from the serial port are set by the antenna number as follows Ant RTS DTR 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 3 1 1 V l l Transistors are 2N2222 types gt Relays can be 12 or 5 volts gt Relay A gt You can add a manual override switch LED indicators etc c 10k NES RTS e ground V V gt gt gt Rel
202. me PBBS to forward what you wanted You would add the pretend call to your home MSYSFWD DEF like this 125 Sfwd n08m rev This would cause the home MSYS to keep all the traffic that you wanted for the acoustic system and was listed in the NO8M REV listed as PN or BS and ready to forward into the remote system Make sure you add the pretend call to the MSYSBBSB DAT if you will be forwarding bulletins MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON USAGE If you have a user who ties up a RF port for hours reading each and every message you may benefit by having him start up a MSYS check in on the phone port and get each and every messag automatically In that way the user can read the stuff off line at their own computer ON R LINES he above user may then try to automatically forward messages out on that phone MSYS that was set up This will add a new R line that will be unknown to your network You can either begin supporting each and every PBBS that comes and goes or demand that the station send their message with NO R line and that they send their messages manually REQUEST Please forward problems concerns and hints to Steve NO8M NO8M NEOH OH USA NA MSYS 1 18 Page 120 This feature is us It can be used to specific bbs that P MSYS REH CALLSIGN BBS REPLACEMENT ed to change the routing or direction of a message redirect traffic for a certain ZIP code
203. me is different from what you have set the time to be in DOS put the following in AUTOEXEC BAT and reboot SET TZ EST5 Obviously set it to YOUR time zone One more thing the time can and does often get hosed up around the first of April and the end of October because of certain software language routines that attempt to account for the change in Daylight Savings time Not to worry too much because it will eventually make itself right with maybe a little help from you MSYS 1 18 Page 175 You should also be aware that you may set your computer to local time with the TS hhmmss command and set the time that MSYS uses to GMT by use of the GMtime xx command where xx is your offset from GMT in hours As an alternative you can set your computer to local time and utilize the RLinetime command to insert the proper GMT time with the Z in the R line MSYS 1 18 Page 176 ADDITIONAL NOTES Paccom ROM version 1 1 5 may work better than 1 1 662 Tf you are using DOS 3 3 you may need to put STACKS 0 0 in your config sys file Home BBS replacement occurs only if BBS is blank or the call of your bbs Note If you run into problems with newer versions of QEMM and MSYS try turning off the stealth option in QEMM OS2 REPORTED PROBLEMS E Reference a message from N8LJL N8ITP OH USA NA To All users of OS2 2 1 GA A problem has been found when using Com 3 or C
204. mitted The retry count for the channel will also be incremented Making this parameter to small will congest the channel and cause unwarranted disconnects The default is 6 seconds If in doubt error on the high side port number optional All IP and IP through netrom frame retry timing uses a dynamic FRACK value chan This command allows you to immediately release an allocated channel The process using the channel will see this as a disconnect This command will not be needed very often Disconnecting which frees the channel will automatically occur after the CHEck interval has expired with no activity Sometimes unpredictable results can occur with this command It is best to permit the DISC command do it s thing FSize filename This command can be used to determine the size of a disk file One operand is required which is the pathname to the file you want the size of It may include a drive specification and directory paths in addition to the file name Wild cards are not allowed Be sure the drive containing the file is ready before using this command FTIme number This command sets the time in minutes after the hour that forwarding will start If time is negative number such as 5 then you will forward every 5 minutes MSYS 1 18 Page 46 FTPgm host id Takes a host id as an argument it can be either an IP address in the square brackets or a symbolic IP address It establishes
205. mode for example that you don t want cleared before each file set it to OFF IPNCheck number Inactivity timeout in seconds for TCP IP connections default 600 IPNFrack numbe IPNRetry numbe Retries f IPTtl number Sets TCP TCP IP fr is 16 JBbs port Lists BBS if no por JDigipeat por r Retry timer in seconds for TCP IP connections default 30 r or TCP IP connections default 5 IP time to live value This is the number of times a ame will get relayed before it gets discarded Default s heard and their paths for given port or on all ports t number is given t Lists Digipeaters heard and their paths for given port or on all ports if callsigns JGateways por no port number is given JD command screens out invalid t Lists Gateways heard and their paths for given port or on all ports if JHeard port Lists sta command g the ports no port number is given tions heard and those connected to BBS or PBBS This ives a list of the last 10 stations that were heard on or connected to the BBS or PBBS If a port number is given only stations heard on that port are listed An asterisk after a callsign indicates that the station was heard through a digipeater MSYS 1 18 Page 49 JKanodes port Lists KANode beacons heard and their paths for given port or on all ports if no port number is given JMsys port Lists other MSYS systems beacons h
206. n BBS are warned of the fact Use SB to send bulletins ST to send traffic etc All messages sent to a specific callsign will be treated as if you used SP send private To make messages to a specific callsign readable by everyone use SB instead of just S Or make it to a non callsign such as ALL If you are sending a bulletin that may also be entered on other BBS use the form SB lt to gt lt bbs gt lt BID gt so that a proper BID will be assigned command The ST Command will NOT add a BID to messages Notes about the BBS Automatic generation of BBS field for S command in BBS The SR lt msg gt command functions identical to the REPLy lt msg gt If the S command contains an BBS entry it is left untouched If there is no BBS as a parameter for the S command the following happens If the to station is found in the user file then th home bbs of that station is substituted for the given BBS the to station is not a known user then the to station callsign is placed in the BBS field T Any messages entered into the system with no BBS that don t get a BBS from the user file will have for the BBS Only messages with second type character of N will cause the user file to be searched for BBS Thus bulletins will never get their to call sign typically ALL looked up in the user fil In the bbs if a S command has an SSID in the BBS filed it e
207. n interrupt or normal port address The memory required is under 1k The port does not need an interrupt due to it never needing to read data Data is sent to the radio but there is no need to read data from it It is possible to build a simple interface to allow the computer to choose one of four antenna lines MSYS 1 18 Page 144 IOBUS DOC A separate file is included with the MSYS archive that documents what lines on a serial card are used for what purpose You may want to review that file as it will be referred to often It will also help to have documentation for the board you are using INTERRUPTS You can give it a interrupt if you can spare one You will be wasting it though as it is not used If you can not spare an interrupt the first thing to do is to insure that no interrupt is enabled on the card You may have to cut traces set switches or do whatever you need to do to make sure the interrupt is not enabled In most cards you have two switches that connect either INT 3 or INT 4 to the electronics on the card In some older cards this is done with a jumper In both cases turning the switches off or pulling the interrupt jumper will cause it to be disabled There may be an instance where a interrupt is hard wired to the electronics You will need to cut that trace using a knife or a hand held rotary grinder ADDRESSING You will need to set the address jumpers or switches to address the
208. n of To callsign FROM wildcard representation of From callsign AT wildcard representation of BBS SIZE number that is size of message CONNECTED exact callsign of sending station less SSID PORT inbound port number that message is from BID This is useful for trapping known improper BIDs ITLE If used this should be the last parameter on the line EXT Names file which contains list of bad words Normally ARRL bulletins have BIDs begin with don t that AT ARRL BI Note star ts wit If the value given for TITLE message and all other specifications ar held There is one other parameter that can be specified only the 1 BBS All lines ABOVE the holdin a letter D h a digit etters to messag defined as entries be Example SIZE 2500 MSYS 1 18 g criteria s en as low BI have a bid usually begi probably don t have the righ Ds automa n wi tered by a NON BBS station tation that transmitted a the BBS line will Comment app similar to ly assigned to bul to hold bulletins tical th a digit t bid low the BBS y to users NOT IN MSYSHOLD ARLPO37 SO we could use met th These bids letins that that is a wildcard specification that matches anything that is found any where in the title of a will be ine wil messag a line containing the line BBS wi
209. name if you have renamed MSYS MSG for some reason MSYS 1 18 Page 192 To change the number that will be assigned to the next message us the following procedure Select F8 Manual changes Select F5 Change Next Enter new value for next message number to be used Select F10 Return to previous menu Select F9 Save changes and quit RENUMBERING MESSAGES All active messages may be renumbered using MUTIL function 12 You should renumber your messages when you reach about message number 64000 As message numbers increase above this they will wrap around back to 0 if you don t use this function Some of the L command options will not work properly if newer messages have numbers smaller than older ones To renumber the messages go through the following steps 1 Start the MUTIL program 2 Type 12 and return 3 Press return to accept use of MSYS MSG 4 Press F8 for manual changes 5 Press F6 for Renumber messages 6 Type new starting message number 1 is good then press return Press F10 to return to previous menu Press F9 to save changes Press return to go back to main menu Type 99 and return to exit O WON It should be noted that any files in the mail bin directory should also be deleted when renumbering messages MSYS 1 18 Page 193 MUTIL Function 13 BBSLIST DAT to BBSTONTS DAT INPUT FILES BBSLIST DAT ZIPCOD
210. nd the are now also sed in the forwarding syntax to partially accommodate the misguided useage of specific hierarchical stead of ALLUS from housecleaning or n will now be ith the FS response the message will be held for sysop evaluation titles as active bulletins from the lsign will be held for sysop review for duplication lines ion o delet as well a Sysops may kill any read messag k response if autoreply is enab MSYS will do an automatic MERGE a 20 E not do a merge if forwarding is in progress led t the ini lied to message ly to them with a a rep s repl tial startup It will but will initiate one at the beginning of the next forward cycle 21 RTime has been added to Z time in the R line while run Restored messages are now a MUTIL 7 has been added to MSYSHOST NET format The A command 22 23 file wi nab t ni local he proper reporting of time in the bbs ng convert JNOS styl 11 still aliases but is does save a MSYS 1 18 lso stored in the mail bak directory le domain txt files to need editing to add lot of retyping Page 4 KNOWN PROBLEMS WITH THIS RELEASE The author is aware of several problems with this release that may be addressed in future releases as time permits One concerns FTP sessions between JNOS and MSYS The sessions do not conc
211. nd their numbers MSYS 1 18 Page 67 WForegrnd number This command requires two parameters to set fore ground color Window and Color The color number should be between 0 and 15 WHO Displays current users and messages Window Use of this command is a good way to see what numbers mean in the various window definition commands WHY msg This command will search for the words in wordfile or hold file in the given message Useful when you do a LH and want to see why the message was held WPAge number number This command requires two parameters to set page number Window and Page The page number must currently be between 0 and 3 B i asically this command defines what page a window will appear n Example WPA 5 3 would assign window 5 to page 3 the one you see when you press the F4 key This example assignment by the way will not be particularly useful WPEvery number Specifies the number of days between sending out WP information for users who haven t changed their information Default is 60 days WOupdate number Worst quality network node destination node route to record Default is one WRecord number Window record sends all output to a disk file The first time use the command for a given window it begins recording everything sent to that window in a file called window dat where N is the window number The second time you use the command for the same window it turns off
212. ndex integrity MSYS Mail Index Checker head 0 free 1 next 2 Reading Index file There are 100 total message headers Pass 1 No cycles detected No headers on both lists All headers accounted for No message files without headers All active headers have files Press a key to continue COMMENTS I would strongly suggest you run this function EVERY time MSYS crashes for any reason it should not crash often if at all To be on the safe side many MSYS SYSOPs always run it when they start MSYS MSYS 1 18 Page 183 INPUT FILE OUTPUT FILI MUTIL Function 5 Test serial ports This function provides a very basic test of serial interfaces designed mostly for your machine operation DIALOG WITH FUNCTION After a table is displayed that lists the normal addresses for serial cards and corresponding interrupts you will be asked if your ma has an 8086 8088 CPU chip in it system respond Y machine respond with N to see if you got the addresses int numbers rig It is not intended to be a brutal test of their If its a basic PC XT compatibl If you have an AT 80286 or higher level If you have an 8088 8086 based system class then it will look for ints from 2 3 4 and 7 If you sa 8088 8086 installed valid response might be see if there might be a AT class and above 7 Depending on your response Y it will look for ints from 3 4 5 certain interru
213. ng The search is from the current line on in the file Case is NOT important If a match is found the line is displayed and that line becomes the current line If no match is found the current line remains unchanged Help displays the list of commands Insert is like Append except that the new lines are placed BEFORE the current line Near displays the contents of the file 5 lines before and 4 lines after the current line which remains unchanged Print with no operands displays the current line Give 1 operand it displays the line with that number Given 2 operands separated with a blank or comma it displays from the first to the second line number The current line number remains unchanged Quit is used to exit the editor after the file has been written Top makes the first line numbered 0 the current line and displays Tt Up decrements the current line number by the number given or 1 MSYS 1 18 Page 223 View displays the current line and the 9 lines that follow it The current line remains unchanged Write causes the file to be written to disk with any changes that have been made F is used to search again for the same search string give with last use of Find To start the editor type EFile filepathname of lines max Examples ef msys fwd 250 ef mail msg25 dat efile a fl c MSYS 1 18 Page 224 Epilog Notes on sending me messages with questions
214. nnect command is used The callsign can and maybe should contain an SSID This statement should not be omitted FORWARD CALL callsign This statement gives the callsign used when the BBS is forwarding It can and probably should contain and SSID This statement should not be omitted if the BBS is to do forwarding MSYS 1 18 Page 14 ID CALL callsign This statement gives the callsign that will be used for identification purposes It must be your actual amateur callsign and should NOT have an SSID specified This statement MUST be used ID EVERY number This statement specifies the number of minutes between IDs The list of stations for which there is mail is generated with every ID AX25 FRACK number Number is the number of seconds to wait before retransmitting a packet All of the AX25 statement forms are optional AX25 MAXFRAMES number Number specifies the maximum number of frames that can be outstanding before waiting for an ACK Must be between 1 and 7 AX25 RETRIES number This is the number of retries that will be made before abandoning a connection AX25 CHECK number If there is no activity on a logical channel for this number of seconds there will be an automatic disconnect MONITOR IFRAMES on off Turns on or off the displaying of Information frames SABM DISC UA All forms of the MONITOR statement are optional MONITOR SFRAMES on off Gl
215. nswered if there are no other keyboard connections MCOn 0 prevents all incoming keyboard requests MDir directoryname Makes specified directory MEMory Displays amount of memory free This number may not include the amount of memory available in the holes created by stations disconnecting MSYS 1 18 Page 52 MERge MEXpe MHcle MIDch MINme MISsi MONB MONCC MONCF MSYS This command reads MSYSFWD DEF and copies it to MSYS FWD expanding any include files filename A new file is also produced MSYS BBS that is a sorted list of all possible BBSs that can be forwarded to etc This command was added for 2 reasons previously if there were any include fi including things like ARRL 44 les in the MSYS FWD files they did not get read when a PF command was used and secondly the new file is needed for hierarchical hierarchical route only is used for forwarding and the contents L forwarding The leftmost part of the of the new fil were need d for efficient processing So the bottom line is rename your existing MSYS FWD file to MSYSFWD DEF and then u se th MERge command Any future changes you make to your forward file must be done to MSYSFWD DEF followed by use of the MERge command include fi rt on OFF les Its called MERge because it merges in the If on the message of the day will be displayed to
216. nt gt Restores a message from the MAIL BAK dir to the ive mail directory specified by the arguement IT DOES NOT maintain the old number but assigns a new MESSAGE number T WILL maintain the original BID if any Pos sible arguements msg restores a given message number msg msg restores all messges in given range of numbers Missing restores messages that exist in MAIL directory but don t have headers NOTE This command may now be done as a SYSOP command OR from within the BBS BBS Example REST 12345 RETries number Displays or sets number of retries before disconnecting A value of 5 is good for VHF 10 can be used on HF MSYS 1 18 Page 61 RLinetime Given number of hours are added to the computer clock to generate date time in R lines added to messages Used to correct R line time to Z time MSYS remains on local computer time Mutually exclusive with GMTimeoffset RUn programname Allows you a DOS program with many limitations For those of you who have asked for some sort of DOS shell capability you may recall I have said it can t be done But some of you said all you needed to do was output 8 bits to some port or something like that Well if you have something VERY SIMPLE and VERY SMALL and very QUICK here is something that should work for you Note You must follow all of the rules given here or very strange things might happen for which I claim no responsibility
217. nt node list in case of a reboot Periodically weekly you should also do the following 1 Delete old BIDs using MUTIL 21 2 Delete old backup messages after running Mutil 10 3 Delete all files in the mail bin directory while MSYS is NOT running Here are some suggestions from users of MSYS that they claim work Use at your own risk To cure the problem of certain TNCs that don t transmit properly on HF use radiospeed of 1200 in place of 300 in MSYS OPT I can t imagine how this could help but someone says it did for them they weren t using MFJ TNCs which seem to have this kind of problem One thing you might want to try if you are having problems with a TNC on HF is to get a copy of KA9Q s net exe program and see if you can use its AX 25 connect command with your TNC on HF If that fails as well the problem definitely is in the TNC MFJ KISS MOD Ld To put a MFJ TNC in kiss mode try this in your MSYSTNC file ax off parity 0 awlen 8 conmode trans kiss on restart If you are just bringing up MSYS for the first time and experienc crashes when mail is forwarded to you or the size of BIDLIST DAT is O bytes do the following to solve the problem Shut down MSYS quit delete BIDLIST DAT start MSYS shut it down the DOS DIR command should now show a size of 130000 for BIDLIST DAT You should now be ready for normal operation TIMI E If you find that the displayed ti
218. number makes that line the current line and also displays it Makes the current line more than it is now If is omitted then the current line is incremented by one Same as except current line number is decremented lt ESCAPE gt Using the Escape key followed by the Return key abandons edit with no changes made to the file unless you used the Write command yourself lt RETURN gt Pressing the Return key alone displays the next line and makes it the current line Append enters input mode placing the following lines of input AFTER the current line A line beginning with a period terminates append mode Bottom makes the last line the current line and displays it MSYS 1 18 Page 222 Change can be used to replace part of the current line The first non blank character after the command is the quote character The operands are quote character string to replace quote character replacement string quote character For example C YXZ abc would replace XYZ in the current line with abc The line is printed after it is displayed DElete can be used to delete the current line If a number is specified as an operand it is the number of lines to delete beginning with the current line Down moves the current line down the number of lines specified or 1 if none is specified Find uses the first non blank character after the command word as the beginning of the search stri
219. o SAMPLES Edit the file C MSYS SAMPLES MSYS OPT with your favorite program editor See documentation on MSYS OPT for details After editing move MSYS OPT file to the default directory 13 RUN MUTIL EXE Function 9 to create C MSYS MSYS DEF from your edited MSYS OPT MSYS 1 18 Page 1 14 Make sure you have at least files 40 buffers 20 in your config sys file in the root directory of your boot disk Don t forget to reboot after changing this 15 Using any ASCII editor create MSYSFWD DEF If you don t know what to put it in now put the following to be replaced later FO WA8BXN WA8BXN 16 Type MSYS and it should begin to run 17 Type MERge You can ignore any messages about MSYSBBSB DAT at this time SPECIAL NOT If you have a color monitor or any kind of a color card the default is OK If you have a monochrome monitor that uses and RCA phono pin plug then you are using a Color Graphics Adapter interface card and the default should be OK If you can do the command MODE MONO this is a DOS command and not get any error messages and the computer continues to work you probably have a monochrome TTL interface card You will need to specify WINDOW DISPLAY MONOCHROME in the MSYS OPT file Gl MSYS 1 18 Page 2 MSYS UPDATI Gl INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS SETUP CHANGES There are two new directories that are required to update MSYS Ver 1 13 to Ver
220. om 4 on IRQ 2 on ISA System Boards When a DOS Session is opened with access to a port using IRQ 2 the program may come up initially and work fine but when you switch back to the DeskTop and return to the DOS Session the screen data will not update This is most common on ProComm Version 2 01 It appears that the interrupt control portion of the program is losing it brains as to where IRQ 2 is assigned IBM is currently working on the problem Hopefully a resolution will not be too far down the road This problem has existed since the advent of OS2 2 0 GA It will only affect those users who are trying to run more than 2 com ports and require access to IRQ 2 There is indeed an interrupt conflict but all is not lost Refer to pages 376 380 in the OS2 manual with particular note to page 378 and the DOS settings on 379 The book missed a point that will be important In config sys and an explanation of what they do DEVICE C OS2 MOUSE SYS SERIAL COM1 DEVICE C OS2 COM SYS 3 3e8 5 DEVICE C OS2 MDOS VCOM SYS 3 3e8 5 The second line sets up COM3 address 3e8 to IRQ5 for OS 2 sessions The THIRD line does the same for DOS programs running under OS 2 I recommend using IRQ5 for COM3 unless you have an LPT2 printer attached MSYS 1 18 Page 177 Here are the DOS settings KOTS is currently using in OS 2 with MSYS COMM_
221. om expanded memory This should free up about 50K or so of memory as shown by the M connect ion will require less memory Real expanded memory boards processor will give better performance expanded memory Expanded memory is used message NOTE MSYS 1 EM command Also each new If you hav xpanded memory and don t want it used start MSYS using MSYS NOEMM that could be used with an 8086 8088 faster than simulating if present to contain the headers Now you can have 2000 msgs on your system and memory to spare Be warned that with this many active msgs things will slow down If you have problems running expanded memory try using a different EMM program 18 Page 157 MSYS can a need to ut lso run usi ng EXT END ilize a EXT END ED memory as well ED memory manager such as HIM Of course EM SYS or QEMM 7 0 or perhaps any one of several other quality memory manager programs on the market If you have EXTEND it used start MSYS using MSYS NOEXMEM AUTOMATIC MESSAGE HOLDING If you create a file call characteristics of messages to hold au ED memory and do not want Led MSYSHOLD DAT you can specify tomatically using parameters similar to those used in the house cleaning file The available parameters are TO wildcard representatio
222. omatically get a BID generated for them Mail forwarded to BBSs identifying with either MBL or get the BID included in the S command line BIDs may also be added to the message R line with the RB on command MSYS 1 18 Page 103 Wildcards Wildcards where you Can use have been enhanced to allow more than just using Based upon the recommendations of AA4RE and others the following have been implemented T Matches 0 or more occurrences of anything a z A Z 0 9 a z A Z 0 9 a f A F 0 9 hex digits EZ gt A Z S lt gt any one of those characters but I don t have any guesses as to why this group was included any one character the escape character the next character must match exactly beginning of group abc matches a b or c Examples 9v1A2q matches 95 matches anything 5 characters long beginning with 95 WK 6 matches anything starting with W6 or K6 case is important 95 H matches any 5 digit number beginning with 95 MISSING TEXT TO Message If the text for a message is not available when it is being forwarded the forwarding is aborted instead of sending out a missing text message for the text The STatus command will now indicate how many times this has occurred and the last message number for which it happened In addition an entry will be made in the event log file The MISsing command may also be used to determine ho
223. omputer MSYS then gains the advantage of a fast reliable connection to the adjacent nodes Forwarding may be accomplished by connecting to the RS 232 connected TNC or matrix using normal script files When using the NetRom Serial protocol remember the gt character in the port statement SMTP The filename include capability that is currently in the BBS S command is also usable in SMTP with the PRompt command Both of these are available only from the local keyboard Typing other than Y N C A or RETURN in response to More in the BBS is taken as a new command MSYS 1 18 Page 165 STACK Requirement NOTE NOT USED WITH EXPANDED OR EXTENDED MEMORY The stack space needed by the forward process has increased The following line can be put in MSYS OPT This may not be necessary STACK FORWARD 8000 A smaller value maybe 7000 might work Try it if you want If the system randomly crashed make it 8000 TERM TERM is Sysop command which allows the Sysop to directly access the hardware connected to a port It is extremely limited in what it can do It is designed to allow you to interrogate and test port hardware The syntax for this command is ERM where is the port number TERM permits direct keyboard access to the port for issuing commands to a modem or perhaps a TNC The screen will show what is received from the hardware The keyboard inpu
224. on the bbs is set by the Mutil Function 1 program The maximum number of users is 500 home ON off If On causes bbs field of messages for registered users of the system to be replaced with the home BBS they gave with the NH command the way it has been done in the past If Off the BBS field is not modified ABortfwd Aborts forwarding as soon as possible not always immediately You may want to DISC the channel forwarding is using particularly if its trying to connect to speed things up ADDUser callsign Adds a user callsign to the user file without that station having to connect to the BBS This can be useful in conjunction with the automatic BBS generation After the new user has been added you automatically will EUsers for the callsign at which time you can fill in the desired fields APpend Sourcefile Destfil This command causes the source file to be appended to the destination file This command may be used to append a file to a message file among other more general uses ARChive BBS filename This command will concatenate all current msgs with BBS given to FILES filename No compression is done Example ARC RLIBBS RLINOTES MSGS This assumes you have a RLINOTES subdirectory in the FILES directory ARP Lists known callsign IP address correspondence used for TCP IP connects ARP stands for Address Resolution Protocol ARP CLEAR Erase all of t
225. onse to this command The information includes the Port number used the call of the station connected to and a status byte in hex CHEck number Number of 1 second intervals of no activity to disconnect if Version 1 of the AX 25 protocol is in use or to send an RR Poll if Version 2 is enables see AX25L command To see what value is currently set give the command with no parameters CL B number Allows you to set the border color used on all screens Use the WC command to see the color list Default color is black for the border Any of the 16 color numbers 0 15 may be used CLrscrn number Clear window number given or use to clear all windows If no parameter is given then the command processor window is cleared CMdwindow number This command is used to change which window is used by the command processor The default command window is number 0 which by default is the upper half of display page 0 This command is useful when you want a larger window to type a file for example to be used by some command The new window is cleared automatically by this command You will then get the cmd prompt page 0 F1 page 1 F2 etc A good windowk to use is 4 CM 4 which is the one you see when you press F4 COPy Sourcepathname Destpathname include drive if needed The copy command copies the specified files and will return an error message if it isn t able to copy all the records Directories and w
226. otocol utilized for the transfer of compressed messages is an extension to the standard FBB protocol Compressed forwarding is validated by the presence of the letter B in the SID MSYS 1 14 BFHM In the case of compressed forwarding the proposal line begins with a FA FA means that the transfer will be an ASCII compressed messag The proposal to send a message is in the form FA P WA8BXN WB8BII K8EIW 12345_WA8BXN 6789 Compressed message transfer is done in a binary mode which is derived from the YAPP protocol All transfers consist of a header a block of data an end of message and a checksum Each transfer is equivalent to the transfer of one message of the standard protocol but is not followed by a control Z The end of file specifier is defined by the transmission of a EOT character followed by a 1 byte checksum MSYS 1 18 Page 112 Format of the header for a compressed messag lt SOH gt 1 byte 01 hex Length of the header 1 byte Length from the title Title of the message 1 to 80 bytes lt NUL gt 1 byte 00 hex Offset 1 to 6 bytes lt NUL gt 1 byte 00 hex To follow the FBB format the title of the message is transmitted in ASCII not compressed The offset is also transmitted in ASCII and specifies the offset at which the data should be inserted in the file in case of a fragmented file A data block contains from one to 256 bytes It begins by two bytes which specify the fo
227. ou would have an entry of OH in your lt bbsl1l gt REV file If you wish to forward messages with a hierarchical address of lt bbs2 gt 0H and not bulletins OH you would have an entry of OH in the lt bbs3 gt REV file If you wish to forward both bulletins OH and messages lt bbs gt OH the proper entry in the lt bbs4 gt REV file would be OH MSYS 1 18 Page 127 Creating This file contains binary data text editor Mutil function BBSTONTS DAT and produces as O BBSTONTS DAT you run a functi MUTIL which takes as its input BBSLIST DAT the BBSTONTS BIN file and cannot easily be created with a utput BBSTONTS BIN on called BBSTONTS 14 takes as its input a file called To create function 13 in BBSLIST DAT is created and or updated using data from message headers that have passed through your system and or AD8 used to use messages as input I BBS lists Function 10 of MUTIL is function 11 uses AD8I lists as input Lets look at a picture of these files and programs MSYS 1 18 Message files from MATL BAK V MUTIL function 10 l BBSLIST DAT file MUTIL function 13 lt Other standard STA ZIP V ROU BBSTONTS DAT file l MUTIL function 14 V BBSTONTS BIN fil ES DA CODES DAT ES DAT files Page 128 HOUSECLEANING HCL command
228. press re or category or C to display all number of lines per screen is set EPly The REP1y command is used to turn for next screenfull N to quit reading this message the rest without pausing The by the X command generate a reply to a message without having to do a S command The advantage of using the MSYS E Ply command is that it will usual often with proper H route from the R eing replied to You can use either EPly msg example REP 1234 or ly msg example REP 1234 J Jona Hd E i P P I second form the original titl n the first form you will have to supply the title a title is automatically generated of the form RE Messages that passed through SMTP systems y pick up the correct BBS lines in the message In the will probably not generate th The will perform the same function msg original title with RE 1 18 SR command can be substituted for the REPLy command If you put a period after the a title will automatically be made by preceeding the correct reply address and Page 77 S command Format Sx tocall bbs BID Where x is message type P private B bulletin T traffic If the x is omitted and the MAkePRivate is on the message will automatically be made a type SP Tocall is DEStination callsign without number SSID bbs is DEStination BBS again without any number O
229. pt handlers will It is ht chine e PC y not and be ou will then be asked for the address of the serial card you wish to check The answer you give must be in HEXADECIMAL is easily fooled if you interface If there seems to be a will be ma d your seria Li 3F8 for example A simple check is mad serial port at the address you specify specify the address of some other kind of I O the newer UART chips If the test fails when you select interna loopback try the external loopback option This requires a connector that will connect pins 2 amp 3 together in place of the you would normally connect External loopback can be used to te all types of UART chips Next you will next be asked for a baud rate to test at Here yo give a decimal number as an answer It probably doesn t make mu difference what you give Don t try 0 I usually test at 12 baud MSYS 1 18 Page A e to It device at the address you gave a quick check tOo sS if it looks like an 8250 UART chip is used in nterface Internal loop back tests cannot be done with TNC st u ch 00 184 Now its your turn to type characters As indicated press Esc to terminate the test Normal response should be something like Had IRO 4 1 time s A received If you press the letter A key If interrupts aren t working you would see Received A without interrupt NOTE This is not a per
230. qgqggcq qu GQ WHWHHHHHWHHH c i iet n AN Page 228 LINKED 155 LL 74 LLS 4 74 LM 74 LN 74 LO 74 LOADHI LINK 215 Local keyboard 217 LOCKkbd 51 LOCKUPS 155 log file analyzer 188 LOGclose 51 LT 74 LU 74 LUsers 51 LY 74 7 75 AIL 8 208 AIL BEACON 155 Zoom 90 NBframe NCC 53 NCF 53 IFrame DEM SUPPORT 87 23 54 ITor 54 ITOR BE RAMES 15 ITO N N N NITOR IF N NITO N R R R R RAMES 15 OUTGOING 16 PORTS 16 ITOR SE NPorts NSframe NUframe Nxx 54 RAMES 15 NOCHROME 67 NOutgoing 54 54 54 54 AIL BAK 8 61 156 209 AIL BIN 9 209 AKEPrivate 51 167 ASK 66 ASK INFORMATION 20 ASterserver 171 AStersrv 51 AX 156 ax hops 57 AXBullag 51 AXCHANS 156 AXFrames 52 aximum number of messages 180 AXRead 52 CForward 52 CON 80 COn 52 Dix 52 EMory 52 EMORY LOW BUSY 156 EMORY MANAGEMENT 156 ERE 2r 53 98 101 197 EXpert 53 FJ KISS MODE 175 Hclear 53 IDchar 53 INmem 53 ISsing 53 ISSING TEXT TO Message 104 ODE MONO 2 ODEM 12 89 odem Hayes Ultra 96 91 US Robotics Sportster 91 SEZEEZXZSSESXZSSSXHXZSSS3BEZS3BSESZESSSSSSSSGS MSYS 1 18 ASS AS AS Se pe SS IS A AS IS Pee ee ee ee ZSZEZXEZXZESHEZZEZZKESXZEZXS SIS ore 165 Sgtrailer 54 SYS COMMAND LINE 6
231. re BBS ONLY connects A One in the corresponding bit position makes a port BBS ONLY For example BP 5 would only allow BBS connects on ports 0 and 2 The default is no BBS only ports If you do use this command to make BBS only ports you better be sure to mark all the BBS stations that you want to forward to you on BBS only ports with user flag of 2 BText port text Lets you specify 1 line of up to 80 characters of your own beacon text Can be different for each port Use with great restraint BUDCalls callsignl callsign2 callsign10 Set or display the list of calls with SSID to be monitored or ignored This command is used in conjunction with the BUDLIST or BADuser commands As operands you give a list of callsigns with SSIDs that are to be monitored or ignored The calls should be separated by blanks To list the current setting of BUDCalls type the command with no operands Examples bude wlxx w2xx 1 w2xx budcalls K9XXX budc Note there can be up to 10 calls MSYS 1 18 Page 35 BUDList on OFF To enable only those packets with calls in the BUDCalls list to be monitored use the command BUDL ON To monitor packets for all calls use the command BUDL off OFF is the default setting CHAnstat channel Displays status of a logical channel whose number is given This command requires an active channel number as a parameter Information about the channel will be displayed in resp
232. re to the idcall of the BBS Thus to delete all read messages including one to you you could have a line TYPE PY SYSOP Y The following line deletes read messages except those to you TYPE PY MSYS 1 18 Page 129 The effects of these lines can be far reaching For example if you put in the line KEEP 5 Then it will delete all but the 5 newest messages All this action takes place when you type HCLean NOW or at a time specified as a numeric parameter to HCLean HCL 120 would cause it to happen at 02 00 number given is minutes after 00 00 midnight to begin housecleaning Please note that BID is NOT one of the items that is used to select messages to be killed in the MSYS HCL file MSYS HCL file as an example t arrl age 21 t okipn age 10 a o panet age 3 type o mods age 3 type dir files mods alloh age 10 type allbbs age 7 type amsat age 7 title schedule dir files amsat amsat age 7 type midnet age 3 type arrl title pfb keep 1 type arrl title dx keep 1 type at arrl title kep keep 1 type title sale age 2 type title need age 3 type age 35 type py keep 1 type pf keep 2 type tn age 21 type pn age 60 to sysop age 7 type voyyy ttp At the end of housecleaning the file MSYSHCL DO is done as a DO file if it exists MSYS 1 18 Page 130 MSYS NETWORK NODe INTRODUCTION Some
233. recording for that window Using the command with no operands displays the status of recording NOTE This function produces a lot of disk output quickly It can fill up your disk It also slows down the system a fair amount due to all the disk writes This command was added for debugging purposes and should not be used as a general purpose capture command You can determine the window numbers by using the W command MSYS 1 18 Page 68 WSize number number number number number Specifies coordinates for specified window This command requires 5 parameters The first is the window being defined The remaining parameters are two pairs of numbers giving the upper left and lower right corners of the window The pair is column number 1 80 then row number 1 to 25 Overlapping windows may produce amusing results To specify window 3 as being the ntire screen the following command may be used WS 3 1 1 80 25 Use of this command is the easiest way to find out which window is which It displays the window number of each window in the upper left hand corner of that window XBatchsize port Sets number of bytes of uncompressed data per batch for RLI compression on port The value defaults to 0 which means only one message will be forwarded per batch XOption port on OFF If on enables RLI compressed forwarding on port Yapp port on OFF Enables use of Yapp binary file transfer between users and the BB
234. rent entries would be sufficient in your forward file ignoring for the moment bulletin routes like ARRL NOTE that the limit of 400 different calls in the forward file is more than sufficient Messages that are going to a BBS in your state get routed as specified in your forwarding file those going to another state get routed to the BBS you have set up in the forwarding file to get stuff for that state You could include a few explicit calls for BBS systems in nearby states that you route directly to if you want to override the normal path for messages going to that state if you so desire Now for the second part the action taken by MSYS when a new messag arrives When a message comes in MSYS looks at the BBS field If it is absent then if the to callsign field contains something that MSYS knows the routing for the to field is copied to the BBS field Otherwise the BBS field is set to and the message won t go anywhere It will show up as noted above in a L command MSYS 1 18 Page 124 For forwarding NTS traffic MSYS uses a file called BBSTONTS BIN that contains BBS callsigns and the states they belong in this information comes from several sources more on this later Next MSYS inspects the BBS field to determine if it knows how to forward what is in the given BBS field If some part of the possibly hierarchical specification is found in the forwarding file it is left alone and will be for
235. rithm uses 3 pieces of information to determine the TR to assign the destination callsign the bbs and appropriate the character after the S in the Send command The to callsign is classified as one of the following 0 Looks like a real callsign 1 A zipcode 5 digits 2 something else like ALL for example The bbs is classified as one of the following 0 Looks like a real callsign 1 none specified 2 Call of this bbs 3 something else The character after the S in the s command is classified as 0 B as in SB for send bulletin 1 P as in SP for send private 2 T as in ST for send traffic 3 none as in just plain S 4 something else SW for send weather bulletin for example The following message types are generated BN For bulletins going to a specific bbs these are forwarded to a single station that handles that bbs PN For private messages TN For NTS traffic xN For Sx where x is an something else N For individual non private messages BS For bulletins going with route like ARRL PS For private bulletins going with route x For bulletins sent with Sx x is something else Note P N below means that the type will be N is MAKEPrivate is off PN if MAKEPivate is ON default TR Values Assigned to Messages MSYS 1 18 Page 167 For messages going to Callsigns
236. rmat lt STX gt 1 byte 02 hex Number of data 1 byte 00 to FF hex 00 if length 256 bytes Data bytes 1 to 256 bytes The last data block is followed by the end of transmission character EOT and the checksum in the format lt EOT gt 1 byte 04 hex Checksum 1 byte 00 to FF hex The checksum is equal to the sum of all the data bytes of the transmitted file modulo 256 8 bits and then two s complemented The checking of the checksum is very simple The sum of the data from the file and the checksum received modulo 256 anded with FF shall be equal to zero In case of a checksum error the message is not accepted and the system sends the comment Checksum error and issues a disconnect request The transmission sequence is repeated for each message in the group MSYS 1 18 Page 113 WORLI STANDARD FOR DATA COMPRESSION DURING THE IN THE AMATEUR RADIO BBS NETWORK ihave iwant variable batch size protocol Feature letter X commands SS SX SY LZH compression FORWARDING OF MESSAGES Command Def initions and BNF description N protocol batch_size file _size msg_count id ids byte bytes ihave iwant isend SS For ihave Protocol and Default pro For iwant SY means wa sx sy INTEGER size 32 bits TBD N N lt 0 25 gt BID MID EOL id ids id lt 0x0
237. s n SA Ego E eh ote E RO RN O RS Maal cue RID SD e o e siete Svc do se olla SN oe O oe wiles Suisse Aes ds oF SLO n ti m yo U U OVERRU RUPT MSYS 1 1 153 153 153 153 162 163 163 164 164 165 STOPS IN PFORWARDING gt A A dl 145 145 145 146 146 147 E ULTBTTY PROGRAM a enis aca ea a od L TURNING ET ONL AND OEP ete a e A A AA AA AA e fe E eel eae ADDING ANTE HES LAST STEP THE TOR a a e A dl R 49 150 151 152 152 153 153 53 54 154 154 154 154 L55 L55 155 156 156 156 157 158 L60 L60 161 62 65 166 66 166 L67 L67 L70 171 NICES 3 0 EPROM USERS Scar e ie ie end L PROBLEMS AND NOTES FROM THE AUTHOR ooooooooooooooooo o L NS ERAMING ERRORS aa ie lees esta E Sipe a e a os epia ans Ye orie E R ea lada e a a L 71 72 72 173
238. s connects COn Number of connects allowed to sysop keyboard Dir Creates given directory EMory Display amount of memory free ERge Reads MSYSFWD DEF and copies it to MSYS FWD EXpert If on display the message of the day Hclear Clears various J heard lists IDchar Message ID indicator max 4 chars INmem Allows specification of the minimum free memory ISsing Reports number of times forwarding aborted due to missing text file ONBframe Enable disable monitoring of Beacon UI frames ONCC Enables disables monitoring of TCP IP packets ONCF Enables disables monitoring of NetRom packets ONIFrame Enable disable monitoring of Information frames ONITor Enable disable monitoring of incoming frames SYS 1 18 Page 26 MONOutgoing Enable disable display of outgoing frames MONPorts Select which ports to monitor MASK MONSFrame Enable disable monitoring of Supervisory frames MONUFrame Enable disable monitoring of Un numbered frames MONXxx Enable disable monitoring of PIDs on screen F2 monitoring MSgtrailer Enable disable message trailer on messages read from bbs MYAlias Display or change bbs alias callsign MYBbs Display or change bbs primary callsign MYCall Display or change Call Answer callsign MYIpaddr Sets IP address that the syste
239. s that c data base on your E drive Put the following in MSYS DO REQQTH ON PC ON ts to give to the drive anyway EQOTH queries but only enable the PC command on the BBS the above statements if you CD ROM drive or set up the without interrupts works you are like me you don t have If you don t want to less than 39 characters DATA BASE CALLSIGN SERVER WORK fike This installs the SAM API interface This installs the MSYS interface to SAM c you have already installed the SAM MSYS now supports the SAM optional County data base as well MSYS 1 18 Page 86 MODEM SUPPORT MSYS will support one or more modem ports The modems must be capable of supporting true carrier detect CD operation Both the CTS and the DTR line must be connected MSYS modem forwarding protocol When MSYS attempts to forward to another BBS the following protocol is used for the initial logon When MSYS sees the other system send Call or Callsign it will respond with two lines The first is echo off and the second is the callsign indicated in the forward file Next when it sees Password or Password it responds with a line that is the password from the forward file It then proceeds using the normal packet protocol lines Incoming Call Protocol When carrier is detected from the modem MSYS sends the line MSYS Modem Interface c Copyright 1994 Hub Computers Inc
240. s the call and password and callsign for Telnet users If this file is not present when a station makes a Telnet connect to the bbs rather than asking for login and password it will simply ask for callsign which will be used without further verification A sixth password file is utilized for modem access Discussion of the modem passwords used in the MSYSPASS MOD file can be found in the documentation in the MODEM section TheNet NetRom RS 232 Connections RS 232 Connections of ports to TNCs running NetRom and TheNet should use gt as the first character in the name given in the port statement in MSYS OPT To connect the computer to a single TNC per computer port a straight through cable is used with a minimum of pins 2 3 and 7 At the TNC end pins 10 and 23 must be jumpered DO NOT CONNECT PINS 10 or 23 at the computer end In a NetRom TheNet equipped TNC the connection between pins 10 and 23 switches the TNC interface from a normal ASCII terminal interface to one that sends NetRom Serial protocol In a multiple TNC connection using the standard diode matrix interconnect the computer may be connected if you reverse pins 2 amp 3 and pins 5 amp 20 at the computer connection Using MSYS into a matrix with NetRom or TheNet equipped TNCs can have great advantages on a backbone system The TNCs handle traffic on the backbone not going to from the MSYS system without any load being placed on the MSYS c
241. s to non call signs COMMAND Command lines beginning with on the BBS are ignored they sometimes come from KA Nodes CHANNEL NUMBERS The channel numbers use a rotational assignment rather than always starting from 0 DEVICE ERRORS Device errors are trapped by MSYS you would previously get the Abort Retry Ignore message The first occurrence of the error is given a response of retry the second ignore This will normally be caught by particular function being performed which will terminate with an error message but MSYS should continue operation DISK FULL MESSAGE If the disk is full when a message is sent to the system it will give a message to the connection station that the disk is full and then disconnect MSYS 1 18 Page 153 DOS If you are using MSDOS 3 3 you may need to put STACKS 0 0 in your config sys file MSYS has been run under MSDOS 5 0 and MSDOS 6 0 as well as DRDOS 6 0 with no known problems or special commands other than FILES 40 and BUFFERS 20 With MSDOS 5 0 and MSDOS 6 0 you may chose to use SMARTDRV EXE instead of the buffers statement It all depends on your personal preference and RAM CRAM END OF LINE BELLS When you type past column 72 you will get a beep for each character Keep those lines less than 80 characters EVENT LOG In the event that a problem arises with forwarding of a mess
242. s via the PACTOR GTOR port MSYS can have a normal forwarding session in progress at the same time as it is forwarding via PACTOR GTOR DO NOT ENABLE DIGI ON YOUR PACTOR GTOR PORT DON T FORGET TO ENABLE CW ID IN YOUR PACTOR GTOR TNC MSYS does not yet support the new Kantronics TOR mode automatic switching MSYS 1 18 Page 109 SMTP FORWARDING Sample entry in MSYSFWD DEF T 44 70 241 1 DO NOT USE DOTS IN THE ADDRESS W8UPD T Note that no port number is specified it does an arp if needed Also note no digis put them in the arp table if you have to have them No nodes Just T and the IP address of the DEStination station as shown This corresponds to the line like F0 W8UPD Next comes the BBS values to send to this station There can be more than one Then th that ends this entry The same forward file is used for both normal forwarding and tcp ip stuff I have also made some changes to the SMTP command After you use it if you type PRompt it will prompt you for To enter call bbs Reply to just hit return if you like the default given Subject this is in the body of the text not the title Then you enter your text and end with not Z as instructed The result is a message that contains all the fancy extra lines often found in tcp ip messages Bulletins may be forwarded using SMTP IMPORTANT SEE NOTE BELOW O do so you must assign the SMT
243. se Braid ete ong ae As deren Ba Bopha bi 89 MSY STINGS ETE Ss A a euch ehh Biel a had hime a Bika eels 90 MODEM USAGE AT 4 87 9 6 AND ML Kio iaa 92 NETNODE USAGE ee pida neoa A A A A A SE es 92 FORWARDING rors a A a ee abe a is ty ici 93 ETE SETUP Sude A A AS AR DS LAA e Che Be 93 FORWARD ETE DESCRIPTION A A A eN AA A 94 CABLSTGN EWD REV ETLES 4 a al Dae SAAS 97 REVERSE FORWARD oes kecronan a e a 98 SELECTIVE FORWARDING ren id A AE EE A A te 99 TO gt FIELD FORWARDUING td tt dd a A e s 101 MERGE da a it e di ts lali Date 101 FORWARD TENG NOTES A A elo del Die hele Loe e 102 FORWARDING DISPLAY A a SS 103 MSYS 1 18 Page v MISSING TEX NODE SCRIPTS MSYS NODE FORWARDING ce a a ie a eh Bw a Tia as ol FORWARDING TO HF FORWARDING PACTOR FORWAR GTOR FO SMTP FO FBB FBB RWARD EN Gis trat a ie A A E AA fee ee o Sag ee el RWAR DIN IAS eens eee ek ES hae Cee O DEA A Ripe Hee em mae teel 11 COMPATIBLE COMPATIBLE WORLI STANDAR D FOR DATA COMPRESSION DURING THE FORWARDING OF H MESSAGES IN T FORWARDING ON FBB FORWARDING TO ANONYMO MISCELLANEOUS MSYS REP CALLSIGN DATABASE HELP HIERARCHICAL FO w w n A FU E D Q Z Z H HOUSECLEANING BASI E MSYS HCL MSYS NETWORK
244. sed there is a short delay about 10 seconds where you again lose keyboard access MSYS 1 18 Page 142 PACTOR FORWARDING GTOR FORWARDING Automated forwarding should not be done using PACTOR GTOR because of the HF attended rules However reverse forwarding can move traffic off a remote PBBS A MSYSFWD DEF like file is made with a filename of your choice This will serve as a manual forwarding file You can not have the filename ext type of include file The following is an example p0 no8m wa8bxn wb8bii k8eiw The above causes a connect to NO8M and sends traffic for the three listed PBBS stations A reverse forward prompt then results in traffic for the connecting station to be reverse forwarded The following is another example pO no8m home wife wa8bxn wb8bii k8eiw no8m oh The above file connects to NO8M from a remote version of the NO8M PBBS It sends traffic for stations who use the home NO8M to the HOME route It sends traffic for KA8ZVV to her computer which is attached via a RS 232 cable The other forwarding is standard When you wish to forward you utilize the following command FP filename ext MSYS then acts on your file and forwards via the PACTOR or GTOR port MSYS 1 18 Page 143 USER S VIEW WHEN CONNECTED When connected to a MSYS PACTOR GTOR port the user may be confused by the fact that the link direction is controlled by MSYS However
245. sh to have bulletins not marked as forwarded unless they are polled use 25 In the list of callsigns given indicating what BBS s msgs can be forwarded to a particular BBS if a second entry is typed on the line then the second entry must match some part of a message title to allow it to be forwarded For example F1 W1XX ARRL DX ARRL will be forwarded only if DX appears in their title Case of letters is ignored in the comparison MSYS 1 18 Page 95 You can use in the forward file If you have NTS then all msgs with NTS as the first 3 characters of the BBS will be forwarded For example F1 W1XX NTS used alone is treated specially Only messages that have been on the BBS for more than about 2 days will be forwarded This gives time for them to be forwarded by other specified connections IMPORTANT NOTE In the forwarding file use of for the BBS names cannot be the first call and the first bbs in the list of BBB s that can be forwarded to through the given bbs MUST begin with a letter Example FO WA8BXN lt won t work WA8BXN FO WA8BXN 44 lt won t work WA8BXN FO WA8BXN WA8BXN lt will work Note is a wild card character If you want to put NEOH as an entry in your forward file you will have to use NEOH the is an escape character that says the character that follows must match exactly and is not treated as a wildcard character as it normally would be
246. should probably not us a RAMDISK that of the normal 640K address space A A oa NOTE You are not limited to using RAMDISKS in specifying the disk and or directory to be used for the above directories You could specify floppy and or hard disks as well To establish a separate directory that is GReppable use the DOS SET command similar to this SET MSYS GREPDIR C MSYS GREP Don t forget to create the C MSYS GREP directory MSYS 1 18 Page 208 REPLACEABLE FILE NAMES You can also replace the following file names of files normally found in the MSYS default directory Judicious choices can speed up operation and or let you make use of multiple disk drives Poor choices can be a disaster Default File Set This DOS Name Parameter to replace Notes MAIL BAK MSYS MAIL BAK 6 MAIL BIN MSYS MAIL BIN BBSTONTS BIN MSYS BBSTONTS BIN 1 MSYS FWD MSYS MSYS FWD 2 MSYS HRD MSYS MSYS HRD 3 MSYS LOG MSYS MSYS LOG 3 MSYS MSG MSYS MSYS MSG 4 MSYS USR MSYS MSYS USR 4 MSYSHOST NE MSYS MSYSHOST NE 5 MSYSBBSB DAT MSYS MSYSBBSB DAT 2 MSYSPASS DAT MSYS MSYSPASS DAT 5 Notes 1 Very good candidate for ram disk read only 2 Good to put on ram disk if you are careful 3 These can be made NUL if you don t want them 4 If you like to live very dangerously consider putting them on ram disk Otherwise keep them on hard disk Updated
247. sizes To get the size of a file use the FSize command described below Names of directories ar nclosed in lt gt If no argument is given you will get a directory for the current default directory normally C MSYS To list some other directory give the path to that directory and a file name of Other file specifications can be given for a selective directory list If you include a drive specification in the pathname be sure th drive is ready before using this command Examples dir mail Gir aa dir files c MSYS 1 18 Page 41 DISconnect channel This command can be used to force a disconnect on the specified active channel If the channel you specify was in the process of disconnecting when you use this command then the channel will be immediately disconnected Otherwise the channel will begin disconnecting when you use this command Use it a second time for that channel if you want to speed up the disconnect The disconnect command can be useful when you want to shut down the system Another good use is force a disconnect from the bbs you are forwarding to after you have used the ABort command to abort forwarding The disconnect command also will properly terminate a modem or a pactor connection DOcmdfile filename This command is used to execute the sysop commands found in the specified file A command file will contain the same things you would normally type as commands To execute a command file
248. stem use I To a list of messages on the board use the command L 0 To see what is in the download section use the command W Use D FILES LST and D README DOC for information on how to get those files A MSYS User s Manual is available and how to get it is in the file USERMAN INF Please DO use this modem port for downloading the LONG files I have here we have PART 97 of the FCC Regulations and other very long files that are inappropriate for downloading by a RF link If you are interested in amateur radio and how to get your license leave me a message SP NO8M or SP SYSOP and I will get you in touch with someone that can help HAS end of MSYSMOD MSG Anonymous use of the port will be in direct proportion to the advertising that is done outside of amateur circles If you make up fliers and distribute them you will see port usage rise MSYS 1 18 Page 119 ACOUSTIC COUPLED MODEMS There are times that you may want to utilize an acoustically coupled modem port This might be needed when you want to forward automatically from a pay phone The MSYSFWD DEF line in this set up would read like this RO NO8M ATX1D callword password SFWD NO8M REV A callword and password that is a unique pretend user is set up If the callword and password were BOZO and CLOWN the following line could be used in your MSYSPASS MOD BOZO CLOWN NO8M The pretend callsign NO8M would then be set up on the ho
249. suggestions etc I do try to respond to your personal messages Keep in mind I do get quite a few at times If you want an answer from the author you need to send the question to the author personally contain demands add this feature or correct this bug immediately and put out a new release or I won t use your program Messages that generally are saved in the bit bucket For a free program please be considerate Try to put just one thought question in each message If you bundle up a whole bunch I don t respond until I can address all your issues If you send follow up messages please giv a sentence or two summary of the problem so that I may understand what you are talking about Just saying I tried what you suggested and it still doesn t work anything else to try doesn t give me much of a clue about the situation Although you may have only one problem you are dealing with and can easily remember its entire history I don t have that luxury here If you find what you think is a bug please try to tell me how to reproduce it what you are seeing and what you think should be happening The harder the problem takes me to work on it and respond When you run into any sort of problem simplify everything as much as possible statements from config sys autoexec bat msys opt and msys do that are not essential to reproduce the bug Believe me the longer it Remove al
250. t If you wish another bbs to be able to REVERSE FORWARD i e connect TO you and pull the messages listed rename the file to lt callsign gt REV This will permit MSYS then to examine the file and to forward any messages and bulletins to the other bbs upon request Don t forget before any bulletins can be forwarded to the other bbs it must be assigned a number in the MSYSBBSB DAT file So you may want to set up your forward file as follows file MSYSFWD DEF FO W8XYZ Sc msys fwd w8xyz rev FO K8XXX Sfwd k8xxx dat The file C MSYS W8XYZ REV could look like this W8XYZ ARRL ALLUS The file C MSYS FWD K8XXX DAT could look like this K8XXX K9XYZ ARRL With thes xample files reverse forwarding would be enabled for W8XYZ but not K8XXX Recall that lines in the forward file MSYSFWD DEF cause the given file to be included at that point MSYS 1 18 Page 98 When you run the MERge command the contents of the C MSYS FWD W8XYZ REV file will be added to the contents of the MSYSFWD DEF file to get a combined file listing the routing to W8XYZ and all of the types of messages to be forwarded Because the fil is in the FWD directory and because it has a REV extension if W8XYZ should connect to you your station will reverse forward or send those items in response to a poll as well Reverse forwarding is very beneficial to a busy hub bbs as it will h
251. t NRCall callsign Sets net NODe callsign NRId mnemonic Sets net NODe mnemonic identifier NTtl Network time to live max hops OCInit Initial obsolescence count OCMin Minimum obsolescence to broadcast OKfrom Specifies which non callsigns in from field MSYS 1 18 Page 27 PAClen Specifies maximum number of bytes that are put in a packet PATh Display information about given user callsign PC Enables disables callsign serverPForward Display information about given BBS callsign PForward Shows the forwarding path for messages bbs Ping Determines Round Trip Time to destination PMessage Prints specified messag Ports Display information about ports PPersist Aggressiveness value 255 to 0 PQuality Quality for nodes heard on port PRInt Prints a file on printer PROcesses Display status of processes PRTmsgs Enables disables printing of messages PScan Enables Pactor Scan PWindow Sets window to be used by a process Omsg Copies msg into editor for reply QUIT Terminates execution of MSYS gracefully more or less Also done with Ctrl F4 RBid Adds received BID MID to R Line RDir Removes the given directory REadbackup Allows you to read a message from the MAIL BAK directory REMove DESt callsign Deletes DESt through all neighbors REName Oldpathname newpathname must both be on same drive REPlaces Replaces incoming
252. t frames TImezone Allows entry of your time zone TNatime Transport no activity timeout time TOdo Causes the MSYSTODO DAT file to be scanned immediately TPorts Enables disables ports for TCP IP Trace25 Enables disables trace of AX 25 state changes TraceIP Enables disables trace of TCP IP state changes REtries Transport retries TRUncate filename Adds CR LF to files as needed TS hhmmss TimeSet command sets DOS time to given value must be exactly 6 digits TTimeout Transport timeout Net FRACK TXDelay Transmit Delay time value 0 to 255 TXTail Transmit Tail value 0 to 255 TYpe Allows you to type a file Users lt file_name gt Writes out all users to file lt file_name gt VAlidmsgtype Permits control over second character in message type VErifysysop Enables Disables Sysop verification when connected to BBS Video Displays or changes video monitor in use WAtch Toggles watching of specified channel number WBackgrnd Sets background color for specified window WColors Gives list of colors and their numbers WForegrnd Sets foreground color for specified window WHO Displays current users messages WHY Displays why message was held Window Displays current window definitions WPAge Sets page number to display specified window WPEver y Specifies the number of days between sending out WP information WOupdate Worst quality DESt route to record WRecord Window record which sends all output from specified
253. t if in doubt make a copy of the MSYS USR file if you wish DESt ADD id destcall neighborcall neighborport obs quality Adds new network destination node which is routed through given neighborcall using specified port The obsolescence count and quality values are stored as well DESt REP id destcall neighborcall neighborport obs quality Changes obs and quality for specified destination node MSYS 1 18 Page 40 DEL id destcall neighborcall neighborport Deletes route to specified destination node through given neighbor When all routes have been deleted the destination itself is also removed from the network node tables S also the REMove command DFree driveletter Displays the number of bytes free on a disk If no operands are given the space is for the default disk normally C If a letter is given as a parameter the number of free bytes will be given for that drive Be sure the drive is ready before using this command If its not and you get the DOS error message type I for ignore DIGipeaters This command displays the list of digipeater definitions and related information The output of this command is the same as using the ID command in the BBS DIRectory path Displays directory for path specified Example DIR mail This command displays a sorted directory listing Only the names of the files or directories are given not the
254. t of should be made to edit the result then process h he NOT The file BBSTON and BBSLIST DAT are NOT on a diskette if desir the normal MSYS directo MUTIL Function This function will loo MAIL BAK format and co result is a file of all BBS for every message t use the grep function o string of characters in message when I think to one time Then your archive diskettes K K MSYS 1 18 S DAT S BIN index of the calls in the BBSTONTS DAT file e beginning of the BBSTONTS BIN file After of BBSTONTS DAT is copied to BBSTONTS BIN require any keyboard input e resulting file is such that no attemp it With care BBSTONTS DAT may be edi ed by this function ted and S BIN is used by MSYS The files BBSTONTS DAT used directly used by MSYS and may be stored ed when MSYS is running I just keep them in ry 15 Build List of Archived Messages at messages found in a given directory in nstruct a file of the message headers The your messages like doing a L command on the hat has passed through your system You can n it to find messages with some particular their header lin I use it to find a myself I remember there was a message about nowing the message number you can go back to and extract the complete text Page 196 MUTIL Function 16 Printer Status This function provides a very simple printer test to see if its connected and can be initialized MUTIL
255. t will be sent to the hardware The F9 key will take most TNCs out of the KISS mode so that you may communicate with the TNC command processor DON T FORGET TO PUT THE TNC BACK INTO THE KISS MODE BEFORE EXITING In a similar fashion when accessing the PACTOR GTOR port the same rule applies leave the TNC in the proper mod lt PACTOR STANDBY gt lt GTOR STANDBY gt before exiting The term mode can also be used to access the modem however none of the MSYS capture or include features are available To properly exit the dumb terminal mode depress the F10 key FO can be used to take a TNC out of the KISS mode When used with a KISS TNC not much be accomplished The TNC can be taken out of KISS mode adjusted and reset to KISS but automated events within the system may lead to undesired and unpredictable results There is no recording sending of files etc and there is no plan to add them F10 will end the TERM session TESTING You can connect two MSYS systems together through their serial ports by the use of a NULL MODEM MSYS 1 18 Page 166 You can also connect a loopback by connecting pins 2 and 3 on the same serial port This will allow you to see what the system is doing without being on the air TITLES TRUNCATED Titles of messages are truncated after 37 characters T TYPE OF MESSAG the TR field The algo
256. te of the radio s ter interface tarthour lasthour It contains the KHz 14 235 or 14235 for example the time to ncy listening for a connect attempt in seconds the first hour to scan this frequency and frequency Only the frequency is antenna 0 Tf you give any parameter beyond left of it n this PORT1 DEF it might be called if port 1 is TSR D2 port 378 speed 4800 393271 3737 1 10 1 0 8 313171 10 1 20 23 7169 6 7174 1 This would scan 3632 1 and the two 40 meter frequencies all day 3737 1 would be scanned from 8 PM to 8 AM only listening 10 seconds before going on Note that thes to the next scan frequency and using antenna 1 MSYS 1 18 frequencies ar NOT appropriate for PACTOR Operation Page 149 TURNING IT ON AND OFF To enable scanning type or better yet put in MSYS DO PS n ON where n is the PACTOR GTOR port Repeat this for each additional port This command reads the appropriate PORTn BIN file storing the frequency parameters in memory and begins scanning To disable scanning type PS n OFF where n again is the port number The PS command with no operands gives basic information about PACTOR scanning such as which ports are enabled current frequency and number of frequencies being scanned PS with a port number as a parameter gives a listing of the frequencies scanned on the given port The command PS n freq will tune the radio on the given port nu
257. the first proposal The proposal may look something like this FB P WA8BXN WB8BII K8EIW 12345 WA8BXN 765 F gt Where FB Type of command proposal P Type of message P personal B bulletin WAB8BXN Sender From field WB8BII BBS of recipient BBS K8EIW Recipient To field 12345_WA8BXN BID or MID 765 Size of message in bytes F gt End of proposal In the case of multiple message proposals the FB line is sent for each message proposed followed by one F gt Upon receiving the proposals the other BBS will accept or reject the message with the command line FS where means No already have that message means Yes send the messag assumed by MSYS to be No message being forwarded by another system The FS line must have as many signs as FB lines in the proposal Each message is sent with the title on the first line the text and a control Z in the last line There are NO blank lines between messages When the other BBS has received all the messages in the group it acknowledges by sending its proposal and the direction of forwarding is reversed If the receiving bbs has no further messages to send it responds with a FF This line must NOT be followed by a F gt MSYS 1 18 Page 111 If the sending BBS has no further messages it responds with a FO and then disconnects FBB COMPATIBLE COMPRESSED FORWARDING T The pr
258. the following circuit may be used from the RS 232 Pin 2 XMIT DATA Radio Serial Input Center of 1 8 plug for ICOM Pin 3 of mini DIN for Yaesu 10 K Ohms PE Bees AG yoo 2N2222 etc BON V E Ground MSYS 1 18 Page 148 You now need to set up the files that will be necessary SCANDEF will access a ASCII file called PORTn DEF and run SCANDEF modify the scanner the delay on each fr that will be used a The n in PORTn DE your port is to be F SCANDEF UTILITY PROGRAM You need to It will also define the scanning frequencies nd the time that the frequency will be sca number 6 quency before moving to another one the antenna nned is a number you supply to define the por If you would call the file PORT6 DEF At least 4 lines ar are TSR xx where PORT yyy where port SPEED 2zzz where compu freq delay antenna s The last line type may be repeated up to 25 times frequency in MHz or spend on this freque the antenna number the last hour to sca required start hour frequency 0 Here is an the PACTOR port 0 3 Defaults for the other values are 5 seconds and last hour 23 you must specify all parameters to the example file required in the PORTn DEF file In order they xx is the interrupt number of the scan TSR usually D2 yyy is the hex address of the control serial zzzz is the baud ra
259. the list of calls with SSID to be monitored For selective monitoring of BUDCalls Page 23 CH CHAnstat CHEck CL B CLrscrn Attempt to connect to station via digi list given on port Displays status of a logical channel whose number is given Number of 1 second intervals of no activity to disconnect Change border color Clear window number given or for clear all windows CMdwindow Specifies the window to be used for commands CM 4 COPy sourcepathname destpathname include drive if needed CONferenc Used to enable disable conference function in BBS CTS Allows specification for each port if hardware hand shaking should be used CRetries Sets number of retries for forward connect attempt Cscript Another form of the Connect command DEADletter Used as default for unknown BBS DEBug Used to display or modify memory DELEfile Specifies file name to delet DELUDays Specifies the number of days after which a user that has not connected will automatically be deleted from the system DELUSer Deletes a user from the user list DESt ADD REP DEL Adds replaces or deletes destinations in nodelist DFree Displays amount of disk space free DIGipeats Displays digipeater gateway list DIRectory Displays directory for path specified Example DIR mail DISconnec Forces a disconnect on logical channel specified DOcmdfile To execute a command file
260. totally ignored by the system Such stations will not be able to connect to the system in any way AX 25 or TCP IP and will not be digipeated Do NOT use SSIDs in this list so that the listed calls can be used to match any incoming SSID the station may use Try to avoid using this facility unless really necessary as it does add some overhead in the processing of every packet received Hopefully stations that misbehave will realize that they can be turned off and not persist in their activity The BADuser command is more inclusive than the Bad User Bit which can be set for a given user Setting the bad user bit only prevents that user from using the BBS There is relatively little overhead in supporting the bad user bit since it is only checked when connects attempts to the BBS are made Putting calls in the BUDCall list and turning on BADuser has a lot of overhead since every incoming packet has to be compared with each call in the BUDCall list BBs window Enter the BBS as a local user this command gets you into the BBS as if you had connected to the BBS with a few minor differences Of course while you are using the BBS other stations can still connect as usual When in the BBS you use the BBS command set A B C D G H 1 J K L M N P R S U V W X Y If you use the L command you will see all messages including the private ones Likewise you can Read and Kill all private messages MSYS 1 18 Page 33
261. type DO followed by the command file name Example DO cmds dat DPorts MASK A one in the mask for a given port permits digipeat on that port DRoute callsign port digil digi8 DRoute DELete The first form of this command allows you to specify the TCP IP station to which IP frames are routed by default Default Route You specify as parameters the callsign of that station with SSID and the port number used to reach that station Optionally up to 8 digipeaters can also be specified to be used to reach that station The second form of this command allows you to turn off default routing of IP frames If you do have a default route specified then all incoming IP frames that are not otherwise handled by existing ARP table entries will be sent to the default station This station will also be used for any server functions you initiate telnet for example to IP addresses that are not currently in your ARP table Care must be taken in deciding if this command is appropriate to use in your particular situation DTimedate This command displays what the computer thinks the current date and time is The time can be changed with the TS command To change the date you must exit MSYS and use the DOS date command MSYS 1 18 Page 42 DUmpbbs ON off Disconnect any BBS that has connected and uses a command other than S or F A BBS is defined as a station that sends a SID line This is useful
262. u wish to read Upon completion of the displaying of the desired messages it will continue with the listing of messages The M command may be used to display the Message of the day Normally this message if not empty is displayed when you connect unless you have selected Expert mode X for more info on Expert mode If you have selected Expert mode using the M command is the only way to see any Message of the day If there is no message of the day you will simply get the next command prompt The message of the day will advise you of new features and other important information Example M N command can be used to register your name or QTH You should enter both of these To enter your name type N your name Example N Mike To enter your OTH use the command NQ your qth Example NQ Kirtland OH To enter your ZIP or Postal Code use NZ code Example NZ 44026 Po enter the primary BBS that you look for your mail on use NH callsign Example NH WA8BXN The P command can be used to find the path last used by a station to connect to this system The format is P callsign Example P W1AW The information given comes from the station s use of the N commands and information recorded by the system Try the P command with your own call to check the information the system has about you PC lt callsign gt Will return the callsign information from th
263. ubdirectory names may be given if needed don t include the leading An BBS can be specified in the title as described for REQDIR above Example SP REOFIL WA8BXN mods kam 1 mods kam 2 OT MSYS 1 18 Page 83 The REQOTH server responds with callbook information for calls given in the title Currently only US hams are in the callbook file Calls must be separated by blanks An BBS may be specified as described above Example SP REQOOTH WA8BXN nt8v no8m K8EIW AZ MSYS 1 18 Page 84 CALLSIGN SERVER are thr servers The callbook server has split out of MSYS Ther available one for the Buckmaster CD ROM one for database and one for the j com disk files Note command has been removed from MSYS In its place name of the file or directory in case of j com fi when you start the appropriate call server TSR To use either the Buckmaster CD ROM callsign files available from j com and SAM c RT Systems you appropriate TSR program before starting MSYS Onc accessing the call server is the same as it has be using either the PC command in the BBS or sending REQOOTH the bbs call The TSR for the CD ROM files is CAL optionally takes one pararmeter th the RT Systems SAM that the CAllfile you specify the les to be used or those must load the e this is done en in the past a message to LSRV1 It name of the callsign file If none is given
264. un at an attended site a Talk command is available to allow users to talk to the Sysop directly from the network Basic Decisions About the Network NODe The really big question is should you enable the network NODe functions of MSYS Fortunately you have more options than just yes or no So perhaps the question should be reworded as should you run the NODe in full feature fully automated mode The answer for most stations will be NO The answer in your particular case will depend on the capabilities of your station and the locations of other compatible nodes If you run a high profile station already wide coverage as a digi K NODe and have compatible network nodes at reasonable distances from you maybe at least 30 miles away then you may fill a need by running with everything enabled On the other hand if the only way you can talk to anything is through a digipeater even when the batteries in your ht are fully charged and on a hazy day you can still see the antennas of at least five network nodes all still forwarding the same frame they received 2 years ago then may I suggest you run in a very controlled minimal mode Make friends not enemies through thes nhancements to MSYS Network NODe Quickstart This section tells the minimal things you must do to get the NODe up and running in some probably not optimal fashion You MUST define your network NODe callsign using the NRC command If
265. unction key usage 30 70 FWD 208 fwd directory 102 o EDS Etmsgotd 47 Ty 63 time 47 T2 P 208 GRep 47 grepdir 72 GTOR 12 140 GTOR FORWARDING 108 143 GTOR LIMITATIONS 144 GTOR MANUAL CONNECTS 142 GTOR TROUBLESHOOTING 144 GX 72 H 72 HApnstat 47 HARDWARE 140 HCA11 47 168 HCL 129 HCLean 48 189 HEADERS 154 HEard 48 ELP 8 208 HF Forwarding 108 Hierarchical 110 HIERARCHICAL FORWARDING 124 Hierarchical parsing 125 HOLdlevel 48 160 HOStname 48 HReplace 48 Te 71 2 ID 48 72 ID CALL 15 ID EVERY 15 IGNORE 49 IMport 49 Gl MS 107 E 000000 KK Es R R sal MSYS 1 18 Z p itpr 49 UT BUFFER SPACE LOW 174 65 Routing 220 PNCheck 49 PNFrack 49 PNRetry 49 PTtl 49 ROs 156 AST com 85 Bbs 49 73 Digipeat 49 73 teways 49 73 H 73 Heard 49 Kanodes 50 73 KISS EPROM 161 Msys 50 73 trom 50 73 Tcp ip 50 theard 137 73 ES K lt 74 K gt 74 KQ 74 KAM Plus 140 KANODE CALL 14 KANTRONICS 3 0 EPROM 171 KEYBOARD 154 KEyboard 50 KF 73 KILL 160 Kill 73 KILLproc 50 KM 73 KPorts MASK 51 KT 73 L 74 L 74 LS 74 LS 74 LS 74 L lt 74 L gt 74 L 74 L 74 LB 74 LC 74 LCount 51 103 LF 74 LH 74 Z Y U U Q 03 Z 0 NRaagaagngqgdqg
266. unknown souls DEBug This command is primarily used during development of MSYS Its results will change from release to release and are not further documented Although it should not do any damage it will probably be of little use to the normal Sysop DELEfile pathname This command is used to delete a file You must give as a parameter a single file path name with or without wildcards The parameter can contain a drive specification and or directory names for the given file Example DELE mail bin DELUDays number Specifies the number of days after which a user that has not connected will automatically be deleted from the systenm Default is 100 days Locked users s bit list in EUser cmd BBS call signs and bad users are not automatically deleted DELUSer callsign This command removes a user call from the BBS user list The callsign given as a parameter must match the a call seen on the list produced by LUsers exactly including case Use this command to REMove users that haven t been active lately when you are getting near the capacity of the list currently 500 users The last time a given station connected to the BBS may be obtained by using the P command while in the BBS If you give for the callsign as in DELUS then most user entries that contain garbage callsigns or for the user s name This option is pretty safe to use bu
267. uration Only the Kantronics NCs are fixed at MSYSTNC 0 HBd NOTE Consult your TNC manual to properly specify the proper parameters for your tnc to put it into the KISS mode The TNC 2 clones such as the MFJ 1270B or 1274 may benefit greatly by using the JKISS EPROM which forces the tnc to be in the KISS mode all the time The JKISS file is included on the distribution disk or is available as an EPROM from the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio organization MSYS 1 18 Page 207 INFORMATION FOR ADVANCED USERS REPLACEABLE DIRECTORY NAMES Beginning in MSYS 1 04 you can specify alternate directory names to be used by MSYS in place of the standard ones by using appropriate DOS set commands The directory names that can be replaced and their default values are Default Set DOS variable Dir Name to replace FILES MSYS FILES FWD MSYS FWD GREP MSYS GREPDIR HELP MSYS HELP MAIL MSYS MATL YAPP MSYS YAPPDIR As an example assume you have a RAM disk at drive E and have set up a directory called HELP on E and copied the normal help files to this directory You can then issue the following DOS command before starting MSYS set MSYS HELP E HELP and now MSYS will get the help files from the E HELP directory NOTE You mus are easily los takes space ou be very careful in using a RAMDISK since its contents Also you
268. user will have to your system 1 means can only read files 3 means read and write but not replace or delete and 7 means read write replace and delete You shouldn t set 7 for any user Since the passwords given by a user can be monitored by others The last item which should always be given is the root directory that the user will have They may never go closer to the real root than what you give here Here are som xamples anonymous 1 files This allows user anonymous to read any files in MSYS FILES and any of its subdirectories Any password can begiven for this user Anonymous with for the password is an expected Standard entry for TCP IP systems to give access to totally public files Include it in your system apple runtime 3 This allows user apple who must give password runtime read write access to your entire disk DEFAULT DIRECTORY IS THE REAL ROOT DIRECTORY MSYS 1 18 Page 218 USER ACCESS level chart Level 1 CD DIR GET PWD QUIT Level 3 PUT MKDIR Level 7 PUT to replace existing file DELE RMDIR If you are going to allow level 7 access i e can do everything I would suggest you also assign a directory that doesn t allow access to any needed files For example you might set up the following entry in the MSYSPASS DAT file WA8BXN MIKE 7 MSYS FILES WA8BXN You will have to create a directory WA8BXN in the fi
269. ver is not available The servers named above are enabled by new commands of the same names That is using REQDIR ON will enable the REQDIR server etc Enabling the REQOTH server also requires that a file name containing the Buckmaster CD ROM ASCII callbook file normally S HAMO HAMCALL 129 be specified with the CAllfile command The REQDIR server responds with a message to the requester containing either the FILES directory listing or specified FILES directory subdirectories given in the message title An BBS to which the message is to be returned may optionally be given in the title if the reply is to go to a bbs other than the one at which the original message was entered Examples SP REODIR WA8BXN blank title S would return a listing of the FILES directory to the bbs used to originate this message SP REQDIR WA8BXN NT8V title Z would return a listing of the FILES directory to the sending station NT8V Subdirectories may be given in the title proceeded by a slash and separated with blanks The optional BBS may also be specified Example SP REQDIR WA8BXN MODS PGMS BASIC nz The file REQDIR HLP included on the distribution disk should be placed in the HELP directory The file REQFIL HLP should be placed in the FILES directory The REQFIL server responds by sending the requested file The fil name is specified in the title of the message S
270. w 2 where the connect and disconnect messages appear and gives the round trip time in seconds PMessage message This will print the given message If you have MAIL BAK as a directory then the file MAIL BAK MSG DAT will be printed This will look nice If you don t then MAIL MSG DAT will be printed This will be only the message text This command just makes it easier to print a message than using the PRInt command POrts port ON OFF Various information is given by this command if no operands are specified Interesting to look at but may not be very useful POrt can have operand on off When off a port will not respond to the id callsign with any SSID and will no longer digipeat or be usable from the KANODe BBS will not id unless you use it Id will be very short if it has to id no text for the UI frame If you call a station with the port off this will still work because incoming packets from that station don t include a connect packet If you give a PO port with no operand the port will be turned off The POrts command will take a single parameter ON or OFF in addition to an optional port number With just the single parameter all ports are turned on or off Useful when you want to shut down the system PO OFF allows the current users to finish while preventing further connects MSYS 1 18 Page 58 PPersist port value Sends number given to TNC
271. w many times this occurred without generating all of the other STatus output MSYS 1 18 Page 104 NODe Scripts The script consists of several sets of lines The first line begins with followed immediately by the call and Via digipeater list if needed of the NODe to initially connect to The port that will be used is taken from the digit after the F on the first line in the group If the connection is established to the NODe the following sets of lines are used to talk to the first NODe and possibly other nodes called through it Each set of lines for a given NODe begins with a line that has a period in position one The following characters on the line are sent to the NODe as a command The next line in the set is optional and if used has in the first position Following this is the number of seconds to wait before abandoning use of this NODe If this line is not given then 60 seconds will be assumed The next line is required and begins with in the first position The following characters are what are looked for in lines that come from the NODe to indicate that connection has been established to the station called another NODe or the desired BBS An exact match to the characters given on the line including case must be found somewhere in a line received to continue Next come two lines beginning with in the first position These lines contain strings of characters that if found anywher
272. ward time File Transfer Protocol Reads and displays Message of the Sets GMT offset hours from local Y to retransmit a packet specified Used on the specified ports if set to ON day file time for BBS use Will search the given file for the specified pattern Displays HAPN DRSI statistics Allows you to properly specify your bbs hierarchical callsign Lists the names of Parameter is a matched in messag xc This command automatically del tes specified messages The J heard list recording is turned off if gt Dispatches the commands number which if ds th the sum of word weights Hosts id name TCP IP Selects adding or replace Forces transmission of an ID immediately Calls in budcalls list will to end of existi value the message is held ng hierarchical BBS field also mail for not be monitored Imports messages from given filename Allows you to specify if printer should be initialized before each file is printed Inactivity timeout in seconds Retry timer in seconds Retries default 5 TCP IP Time to live Page 25 Cy O Ya yq Ep Cy cy K K K L L L L L L KK SS zZ A E E A EES ZSZHEHXEZE Z Bbs Digipeat Gateways Heard Kanodes Msys Netrom Tcp ip Eyboard ILLproc Ports Count OCKkbd OGclose Users U Xxx Zhuf Allnew AKEPrivat AStersrv Lists P B
273. warded by that matching specification If no match is found in the forwarding file then the BBSTONTS BIN file is searched to find some part of the given BBS field If a match is found the corresponding NTSxx is appended to the existing BBS field Thus MSYS will attempt to lookup the right state to send th message to Assuming the state is found then forwarding will take place as described above see the N8PIH MI example If no part of the BBS field can be recognized then the message will not be sent out but will show up when you do a L command as described above The BBSTONTS BIN look up will also handle zip codes given in the BBS field making 12345 into 12345 xx as is appropriate Thus far we hav xamined what happens when in the process of automating forwarding In th vent the proper routing cannot be determined by MSYS then you will have to use the Sysop EM edit message command to manually add the appropriate xx designation assuming you can guess it somehow If you are lucky the originator put useful information in the title of the message or may have hidden it in the text of the message Maybe the callbook will be of some use to you Or maybe you can just force it in the opposite direction from which it arrived IMPORTANT Hierarchical parsing is left to right It needs to be emphasized that MSYS will forward on the leftmost element matched in the BBS ONLY For example if the B
274. ys pif Try using the variable 130 for background and 110 for foreground to give the best results for timesharing MSYS 1 18 Page 213 MSYS under DesqView To run MSYS under DesqView 386 Version 2 4 on a 386 or a 486 machine try these values in the Add Program AP setup O for Other F1 to specify Program Information PROGRAM NAME MSYS Keys To Use MS or your choice Memory Size as big as you can make it try 620K Program C MSYS MSYS EXE be sure to specify proper drive and sub directory Directory C MSYS Writes text directly to screen Y Displays graphics information N Virtualize text graphics Y N T Y Uses serial ports Y N 1 2 Y Requires floppy diskette N F1 for advanced options Starting Height 25 Starting Row 0 Starting Width 80 Starting Column 0 Close on exit Y N blank Uses its own colors Y Allow Close Window command Y Runs in background Y N blank Uses math coprocessor Y Keyboard conflict 0 F 0 Share CPU when foreground Y Share EGA when foreground zoomed Y Can be swapped out Y N blank Protection level 0 3 0 To run MSYS under DesqView on a 386 machine try these values in the performance section foreground 3 background 2 common memory 15 dos buffer for ems 5 optimize communications Y allow swapping of programs N manage printer contention N MSYS 1 18 Page 214 If you choose to use QEMM as your memory
275. zes when thinking about where to put things MSYS LOG grows endlessly as does the MAIL BAK directory These two are VERY good candidates for another drive so as to NOT accidentally run out of disk space and bring the bbs to a humbled state NOTE The programs in MUTIL assume the files are where they should be and totally ignore any replacements you may have made of file names and or directory names NOTE If you are not absolutely sure of what you are doing don t do anything with these facilities NOTE Before you try any of this MAKE BACKUPS OF EVERYTHING MSYS 1 18 Page 210 MSYS MSG FILE FORMAT For the adventuresome only If you know what you are doing this will make some sense to you int head slot number of head of active list int free slot number of head of free list int next next message number to be assigned Each slot has the following definition struct msghdrdef nsigned mmsgnr nsigned char mmsgtype 3 nt mmsgsize nsigned char mmsgto 7 nsigned char mmsgfrom 7 nsigned char mmsgatbbs 39 nsigned char mmsgdate 7 nsigned char mmsgtitle 40 ong mmsgbits nsigned char mmhbbs 8 nsigned char mmsgtries nsigned char mmsgbid 15 nt mmsglink Se ee E AAA oe G r Note word alignment is forced for all ints amp longs MSYS 1 18 Page 211 ROUT ES E DAT FILE B

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