旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 냐컴컴컴컴컴코커旼悶온� 왯� 컴컴컴컴컴컴캐 냐컴컴컴컴컴캐悶� 납납� 냅� 컴컴컴컴컴컴캐 냐컴컴컴컴컴컥켸읕응瑁읕牡� 컴컴컴컴컴컴캐 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 GEnius v1.50 - A revolution in personal telecommunications (c)1991,92 Key Research and Development, Portions (c)1991,92 DSD Software Written by Chris Lautenbach and Derek Snider March 1992 - World Release ------------------------------------------------------------------- A few quick thanks before we begin....... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to TurboPower Software, for saving me hours and hours of work, Borland International, for without the language, obviously, it wouldn't exist. To Rick Di Lorenzo, Reuben Sumner, Ross West, Gavin Peters, Almiro Ricci, Evan Towle, Jeff Wong, Julio Mosquera, and anyone else I missed, for their tireless bashing of the program. Seems to have shaken all the bugs loose. And of course, to the people who've taken the time to register GEnius. ------------------------------------------------------------------- T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S 1.0 ........................................ Introduction 1.1 .................................... Included files 1.2 .................................... System requirements 1.3 .................................... Notes on EMS/XMS memory 1.4 .................................... Upgrading from v1.0 2.0 ........................................ Configuring GEnius v1.5 3.0 ........................................ Terminal mode 3.1 .................................... Terminal mode commands 4.0 ........................................ GEnius features 4.1 .................................... Pulldown menus 4.2 .................................... Dialing directory 4.2.1 .............................. Add an entry 4.2.2 .............................. Edit an entry 4.2.3 .............................. Delete (Kill) an entry 4.2.4 .............................. Dial an entry 4.3 .................................... Macros 4.4 .................................... File transfer 4.5 .................................... Backscroll 4.6 .................................... Doorway mode 4.7 .................................... GEnius script language 5.0 ........................................ The wrap-up 5.1 .................................... Other K-RAD products 5.2 .................................... Copyright acknowledgments ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.0 - Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------- There are MANY features we wanted to add to this release, but fearing we might become as backlogged as some other authors (which we won't name) we decided to release 1.50. Instead of waiting ages to release 2.0, we're going to go with 1.6, 7, 8, 9 etc - and keep you updated all along the way. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome, traveller, to the world of GEnius. We call it personal telecommunications, because there are alot of us who don't need alot of extra features. Just something small and easy to use, for BBS'ing! We're sure that you've used other communications packages, such as Telix(r), and Qmodem(r). We used to use those packages too - but found them too cumbersome, and too 'robust' for our needs. We didn't need a terminal program with 80,000 features - just a reliable one that worked, was small, and fast. So far, we haven't seen one like that, have you? If you need special emulations, internal multitasking, or slow operation - don't look at this program, it doesn't have it. Right now, it's got a dialing directory, a color/tagging/ansi stealing backscroll, more-than-full-featured macro capabilities, ANSI support, the full suite of Xmodem/Ymodem/Zmodem protocols for both uploading and downloading, an upload manager and a full-featured script language. In addition, it looks nice, and is pretty damn fast, if I may say so myself. ******************************************************************* NOTE! THIS PROGRAM IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN, NOR IS IT FREE! ******************************************************************* GEnius is marketed under the shareware concept. You are hereby licensed to evaluate this program for a period of no more than thirty days, after which you should either register it, or discontinue use of it. Many hundreds of hours of work have gone into the development of this software package. If you like it, and use it, please register today. ******************************************************************* End of speech...... now on with the program.... ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.1 - Included files ------------------------------------------------------------------- The following files should be included in this archive: config exe 25376 03-13-92 2:24p - GEnius configuration program convert exe 4766 01-09-92 5:53a - Convert v1.0 to v1.5 fon dir genius exe 109296 03-20-92 1:42a - GEnius main EXE file whatsnew 150 4454 03-20-92 1:26a - What's new since last version genius ovr 159756 03-20-92 1:42a - GEnius main overlay file script1 gsl 236 06-26-91 11:10p - Sample script file script2 gsl 245 01-04-80 12:37a - Sample script file tlxcnvt exe 5536 03-18-92 4:28p - Convert tlx fon dir to GEnius genius cfg 4840 03-20-92 2:43a - GEnius configuration data genius fon 1064 03-20-92 2:42a - GEnius phone directory genius txt XXXXX 03-16-92 1:25a - This manual. The following files will be created by GEnius, if they are not already present: GENIUS.FON KEYLOG.TXT MACROS.DAT GENIUS.LOG ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.2 - System requirements ------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM PC/AT 80286 8mhz or faster * Hard disk Minimum 384k RAM Standard serial port with 8250A/16450 or 16550AFN UART CGA or Monochrome display Optional: Up to 16MB EMS or XMS memory. GEnius will use EMS for disk swapping, overlay management, and backscroll memory if directed to. XMS however, may only be used for backscroll. VGA display, for enhanced (43/50 line) mode. * GEnius WILL run on XT's, but a faster machine is recommended, as is VGA. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.3 - Notes on EMS/XMS memory ------------------------------------------------------------------- Many of GEnius's features, and actually, GEnius itself are capable of utilizing EMS and XMS memory. When EMS or XMS are present, you will find GEnius will operate more quickly in certain areas. These include shelling to DOS, and just general program operation. GEnius uses a system called overlays for memory management, when you have EMS memory, these are loaded into memory (rather than being from loaded off of disk) which increases execution speed many-fold. During shells to DOS, there is an option within GEnius to have it swap it's code to EMS or disk at this time. If you have EMS, code is copied there - and obviously, sending it to EMS would be faster than writing it to your hard disk. If you have a 286 or greater machine with more than 1mb of RAM, then you've got the hardware required for EMS or XMS. All you need now, is a memory manager, such as QEMM-386, or QRAM from Quarterdeck Software. If you have Microsoft MS-DOS v5.0, then you already have a memory manager, EMM386.EXE. See your manuals on how to install these fine products. In addition, for all applications we highly recommend using a software disk cache, like Central Point's PC-Cache (comes with PC-Tools), or Hyperdisk. Both are marvelous products. If you can't afford them, and you have MS-DOS v5.0, you can use SMARTDRV.SYS, the MS-DOS disk cache. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.4 - Upgrading to GEnius v1.5 from a previous version ------------------------------------------------------------------- Basically, you'll need ALL the files from the 1.50 zip file, with the exception of GENIUS.FON. In fact, the file format is different, but I would assume you'd want to convert your old file to the new format. Therefore, I've included CONVERT.EXE to upgrade your FON file to 1.50. Other than that, run CONFIG, and set up your configuration, or just edit the file GENIUS.CFG with your favourite ASCII editor. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.5 - Command line parameters ------------------------------------------------------------------- /R