Short: Send alpha-numeric pages to beepers WHAT IT DOES ============ The CyberPager software allows one to send alpha-numeric pages from one's Amiga. This is accomplished by dialing into an IXO protocol compliant pager central and uploading messages. FEATURES ======== o Aliases file allows for commonly paged people to be refered to by name rather than having to remember cryptic PIN numbers. o Groups file allows one to create "groups" allowing messages to be easily sent to many people working on the same project, in the same department, etc. o Supports multiple pager centrals through a Services configuration file. o Any number of messages can be spooled to disk to be uploaded in a single call to a service. o Automatically breaks long messages up into seperate pages. Individual preferences for maximum message length can be set for each account listed in the aliases file. o Dialer supports multiple modems and knows how to hunt down a free modem in priority order. o Full logging of messages spooled, dialout attempts, etc. o Supports the OwnDevUnit.library method of locking serial devices, making the dialer compatible with mith Amiga UUCP, Welmat, and many major Amiga terminal programs. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS =================== Any Amiga running AmigaDOS 2.0 or higher. A Hayes compatible modem. OwnDevUnit.library v2.1 or higher must be installed (v3.3 is included with this distribution for those that don't already have ODU) Highly recommended: A hard drive A cron program (job scheduler) of some sort, such as CyberCron. HISTORY ======= 1.0 Initial release 1.1 (7/10/93, SpoolPage v0.136, DialIXO v0.219, library v1.23) A bug in the checksum generator manifested itself when talking to services which are more strict about the IXO protocol. Many IXO services accept a space instead of a zero in the checksum. Some, like SkyTell, appear not to. DialIXO now uses zeros per the IXO spec as written by Motorolla. Added a loglevel 4 entry to DialIXO that causes it to log the exact packet being sent to the service when uploading each page. Added a routine to intelligently add characters to the safe buffer (i.e., non-printable characters converted to escaped hex, etc, for display purposes). DialIXO know displays special characters of the IXO protocol, such as ACK, NAK, STX, etc., as text rather than hex escape sequences to make tracing loglevel 5 output easier. 1.2 (7/20/93, SpoolPage v0.136, DialIXO v0.220, library v1.23) Found a bug that affected people running KickStart V37. The wildcard mask DialIXO used to look for spool files would not find any that had a letter in them (i.e., 00000a as opposed to 000009 which would work). This was due to the mask having the alpha range specified in lowercase. V37 has a bug that doesn't uppercase alphabetic letters when a case-insensitive compare is being made. By changing the mask to specify the alphabetics in uppercase, things now work properly on V37 machines. Thanks to Nickey MacDonald for reporting this problem. 1.3 Greg Peck had a problem with the 1stPage service where it was sending out messages before ACKing the page (which the service is not supposed to do). CyberPager would report an "unknown packet" and resend the page. It would then see the ACK from the previous page. The end result was that he was getting each page twice. CyberPager no-longer resends the page on unknown packets, but rather continues to look for an ACK or NAK from the service. Related to this, I changed the log level of the "unknown packet" message to 2 (which is the same level as the "saw NAK, retrying" message) so that people in Greg's position wouldn't have their logfile explode due to the unknown packet messages being dumped into it for every page. 1.4 (2/7/94, SpoolPage v0.140, DialIXO v0.226, library v1.26) David Varley reported that his makes use of the password specification at login time. This is the first time I heard of any system actually making use of this, rather than always using the default '1000000'. I have modified the system to have a password field in the services file. For most systems, simply specifying "1000000" should suffice. Note: this change requires that you modify your services file to include a password field for each service, even if it is just "1000000". 1.5 (10/5/94, SpoolPage v0.144, DialIXO v0.230, library v1.27) Added Use8N1 field to services configuration file. The IXO protocol specification indicates that all IXO TAPs should use 7E1. Some newer services are now using 8N1, however. By setting this flag to "y", DialIXO will dial the service in 8N1 mode, instead of the default 7E1 mode. Note: this change requires that you modify your services file to include a Use8N1 field for each service. For most services, you should simply specify "n" to continue to use 7E1. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 1461 829 43.2% 17-Mar-94 22:01:08 .Product-Info 628 258 58.9% 23-Jun-93 11:16:56 CyberPager.info 157 114 27.3% 06-Jul-93 19:06:56 CyberPager/aliases 10632 6199 41.6% 05-Oct-94 20:57:22 CyberPager/bin/DialIXO 6384 3921 38.5% 05-Oct-94 20:55:10 CyberPager/bin/SpoolPage 2794 1240 55.6% 06-Jul-93 19:16:24 CyberPager/config 17246 7286 57.7% 05-Oct-94 21:12:08 CyberPager/DOCUMENTATION 501 259 48.3% 23-Jun-93 11:27:22 CyberPager/DOCUMENTATION.info 642 352 45.1% 21-Jun-93 22:56:18 CyberPager/groups 4476 2676 40.2% 19-May-93 12:45:28 CyberPager/libs/OwnDevUnit.library 8772 4670 46.7% 05-Oct-94 20:53:08 CyberPager/libs/pager-support.library 628 259 58.7% 23-Jun-93 11:27:22 CyberPager/rexx.info 424 227 46.4% 29-Jun-93 19:14:50 CyberPager/rexx/caw/pagegetty 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CyberPager/source/dialer/errorMsg.c 2821 1137 59.6% 07-Feb-94 19:50:56 CyberPager/source/dialer/main.c 12463 3401 72.7% 05-Oct-94 20:55:50 CyberPager/source/dialer/send.c 12850 3957 69.2% 05-Oct-94 20:56:42 CyberPager/source/dialer/serial.c 1692 717 57.6% 07-Feb-94 19:05:54 CyberPager/source/dialer/smakefile 124 102 17.7% 05-Oct-94 20:57:16 CyberPager/source/dialer/version.o 1150 369 67.9% 15-Jun-93 14:27:52 CyberPager/source/include/clib/pager-support_protos.h 164 126 23.1% 20-Jun-93 10:20:38 CyberPager/source/include/GSTmaker.c 740 381 48.5% 20-Jun-93 10:20:38 CyberPager/source/include/memory.h 1815 659 63.6% 20-Jun-93 10:20:38 CyberPager/source/include/pager.h 395 218 44.8% 05-Oct-94 19:59:08 CyberPager/source/include/pager_lib.h 1508 363 75.9% 23-Jun-93 00:31:50 CyberPager/source/include/pragmas/pager-support_lib.h 95 71 25.2% 06-Jul-93 19:20:38 CyberPager/source/library/.indent.pro 4282 1621 62.1% 07-Feb-94 19:39:22 CyberPager/source/library/aliases.c 4329 1572 63.6% 07-Feb-94 19:39:44 CyberPager/source/library/config.c 167 125 25.1% 13-Jun-93 18:26:16 CyberPager/source/library/GSTmaker.c 3556 1011 71.5% 05-Oct-94 19:58:32 CyberPager/source/library/GSTmaker.h 2006 657 67.2% 07-Feb-94 19:38:52 CyberPager/source/library/handleResource.c 4996 1754 64.8% 07-Feb-94 19:38:44 CyberPager/source/library/LibHandler.c 4857 2082 57.1% 15-Jun-93 14:26:28 CyberPager/source/library/LibHead.a 2008 688 65.7% 07-Feb-94 19:39:08 CyberPager/source/library/lockFile.c 2566 940 63.3% 07-Feb-94 19:39:00 CyberPager/source/library/log.c 839 398 52.5% 13-Jun-93 18:01:40 CyberPager/source/library/memory.h 1042 435 58.2% 15-Jun-93 14:27:26 CyberPager/source/library/pager-support_lib.fd 3301 1405 57.4% 07-Feb-94 19:39:30 CyberPager/source/library/sequence.c 4632 1751 62.1% 05-Oct-94 20:02:36 CyberPager/source/library/services.c 2835 1206 57.4% 07-Feb-94 18:54:52 CyberPager/source/library/smakefile 917 481 47.5% 07-Feb-94 19:39:38 CyberPager/source/library/spool.c 74 68 8.1% 05-Oct-94 20:35:24 CyberPager/source/library/version.i 153 86 43.7% 17-Jun-93 20:46:28 CyberPager/source/makeall 1770 877 50.4% 06-Jul-93 19:25:16 CyberPager/source/README 501 252 49.7% 23-Jun-93 12:05:00 CyberPager/source/README.info 279 176 36.9% 13-Jun-93 18:55:36 CyberPager/source/rexx/debug-ps.cpr 860 387 55.0% 14-Jun-93 18:37:26 CyberPager/source/rexx/MakeTagcall.rexx 95 71 25.2% 06-Jul-93 19:20:34 CyberPager/source/spooler/.indent.pro 2990 1243 58.4% 07-Feb-94 19:53:48 CyberPager/source/spooler/doGroup.c 10449 3338 68.0% 07-Feb-94 19:54:02 CyberPager/source/spooler/doPage.c 207 155 25.1% 07-Feb-94 19:54:46 CyberPager/source/spooler/errorMsg.c 5315 1935 63.5% 07-Feb-94 19:53:22 CyberPager/source/spooler/main.c 1654 699 57.7% 07-Feb-94 18:59:20 CyberPager/source/spooler/smakefile 228 152 33.3% 01-Jul-93 04:39:16 CyberPager/source/spooler/spooler.h 124 104 16.1% 05-Oct-94 20:55:06 CyberPager/source/spooler/version.o 4386 1805 58.8% 17-Jun-93 13:44:32 CyberPager/source/startup/startup.a 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