Capturing system messages for later printout
Downloading whole files to your system
Downloading part of a .LBR file to your system
Uploading files to this system
Printing while on-line with remote system
:Capturing system messages
     To capture the system messages or a list of the 
files on this system, you must use the XON-XOFF 
protocol.  Be sure that you are set for 8 bit, no 
parity (use <esc>U) before switching to the XON-XOFF 
protocol.
     You should then open a file with the <esc>F 
command followed by a filename.  If you want this 
file to be on drive b:, preceed the name with 
         b:
     The command <esc>R opens the buffer.  When you 
are finished saving material, <esc>W writes the 
buffer to a disk file.  <esc>E will close the buffer 
and write any material remaining in the buffer to 
the disk file.
:Downloading whole files to your system 
     You MUST use modem protocol to download files 
from this system to your system.  This is done with
                    <esc>PM<cr>
     You must also tell this system which file you 
want.  XMODEM is the program which sends files from 
this (or any remote) system to you.  Note that on 
most FOG systems, you will not be able to download 
an entire library disk.
     The first step to downloading is to move to the 
section (drive and user area) where the file you are 
interested in is located.
     Additional details may be obtained by reading 
the XMODEM.HLP file (type HELP XMODEM<cr> at the 
prompt.
     If you wish to download an entire file, you 
start by typing:
            XMODEM S filename.typ<cr>
at the A>.  "filename.typ" should be the EXACT name 
of the file you want to download.
     XMODEM will check to see if it can find the 
file you want and then will compute the time to send 
you the file.  If the sending time is more than 30 
minutes, XMODEM will tell you that it cannot send 
you the file.
     If the sending time is less than 30 minutes, 
XMODEM will tell you how long it will take to send 
the file.  At this point, you must tell AMCALL to 
receive the file.
     To tell your system to receive the file, enter:
                       <ESC>F
AMCALL will respond by asking you for the filename.  
You may enter the same name or you may take this 
opportunity to change the name.
     If you wish to save the file to a disk in your 
B: drive, preceed the filename by the B:.  For 
example:
                 B:filename.typ<cr>
     Now you enter an <ESC>R to tell AMCALL to 
receive the file.  Sit back and wait until the 
transfer is completed and you again see this 
system's prompt.
:Downloading part of a .LBR file to your system 
     You MUST use modem protocol to download files 
from this system to your system.  This is done with
                    <esc>PM<cr>
     You must also tell this system which file you 
want.  XMODEM is the program which sends files from 
this (or any remote) system to you.  Note that on 
most FOG systems, you will not be able to download 
an entire library disk.
     The first step to downloading is to move to the 
section (drive and user area) where the file you are 
interested in is located.
     Additional details may be obtained by reading 
the XMODEM.HLP file (type HELP XMODEM<cr> at the 
prompt.
     If you wish to download a single file which is 
contained within a .LBR file, you start by typing:
         XMODEM L lbrname filename.typ<cr>
at the A>.  The "lbrname" is the name of the .LBR 
file.  The "filename.typ" should be the EXACT name 
of the file you want to download.
     If you are not sure of the correct filename, 
use the type command to view the contents of the  
 .LBR file:
               TYPE filename.LBR<cr>
For more details on this command read the FILES.HLP.
     XMODEM will check to see if it can find the 
file you want and then will compute the time to send 
you the file.  If the sending time is more than 30 
minutes, XMODEM will tell you that it cannot send 
you the file.
     If the sending time is less than 30 minutes, 
XMODEM will tell you how long it will take to send 
the file.  At this point, you must tell AMCALL to 
receive the file.
     To tell your system to receive the file, enter:
                       <ESC>F
AMCALL will respond by asking you for the filename.  
You may enter the same name or you may take this 
opportunity to change the name.
     If you wish to save the file to a disk in your 
B: drive, preceed the filename by the B:.  For 
example:
                 B:filename.typ<cr>
     Now you enter an <ESC>R to tell AMCALL to 
receive the file.  Sit back and wait until the 
transfer is completed and you again see this 
system's prompt.
:Uploading files to this system
     Basically, the difference between uploading and 
downloading is which system is sending and which 
system is receiving.
     You should first set your system to send the 
file with
                       <ESC>F
and then enter the name of the file you wish to 
send.  Remember, if the file is on a disk in your B: 
drive, you will have to preceed the filename with 
the drive designator.
     Next, tell this system to receive the file 
using checksum for error checking with
             XMODEM RC filename.typ<cr>
Again, "filename.typ" is the name of the file you 
are sending.  There is no need to tell this system 
where to put the file as it automatically puts it in 
the UPLOAD.PUB section.
    The final step is to tell your system to 
actually send the file with
                       <esc>T
     Sit back and wait for the transfer to finish.
:Printing while on-line with remote system
     If you have a centronics printer, it is 
possible to print the messages appearing on the 
screen as they appear rather than storing the 
information to a disk file.  The major drawback to 
this is that many printers will print too slowly.  
Since this will slow the transmission, this can 
increase the phone costs.
     At any rate, to do it:
     You must use the ^P at the CP/M prompt to turn 
the printer on.  Since anything which appears on the 
screen after this point will print, it is usually 
best to execute AMCALL and set up the UARTS and the 
protocol and dial the number before turning on the 
printer.
     Use <ESC>Z to "Zip out of AMCALL" to the CP/M 
prompt.  Type ^P and then
                   AMCALL -Z<cr>
to return to AMCALL exactly where you left off.
     If you finish printing and are not ready to 
exit from the remote system, then repeat the <esc>z, 
^P, and AMCALL -z<cr> to turn off the printer.
     You may, of course, repeat these steps as many 
times as you wish.