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Leah,
Welcome to our forum. We'll be glad to help you, but I would suggest that
you save some money by practicing uploads, downloads, etc., in the practice
forum which is free of connect-time charges. Anything you learn to do
there will work on any forum on CIS, and you are learning without running
up your bill! To get there, type GO PRACTICE at any ! prompt.
Now, for some of the problems you mentioned: XModem, YModem, and Zmodem
are 'protocols' that can be used with any physical modem. A protocol is to
modems something like a language is to us. Both modems must be using the
same protocol in order for them to speak to each other. So, you select the
protocol you want to use on your computer, and you also tell CIS to use the
same protocol. When you start to upload a file, CIS will ask you which
protocol to use. Be sure it is the same one you selected from Baud Bandit.
You can use any of the protocols to send either ASCII (text) files, or
binary – anything else.
I don't know if you are wanting to send a message to a forum, such as this
one, or if you want to send a message in easyplex. If it is in Easyplex,
the menu offers choice 3, UPLOAD a message. From there, the menus will
tell you want to do next. After you have sent the message to CIS, they
will ask you what you want to do with it, and you will say SEND, and type
the name and ID number of the person who is to receive it.
I would suggest that, for CompuServe, you go to Library 17 of AmigaUser,
and download WHP19C.LZH. It will let your Amiga collect all of the
messages, Email, and software downloads you want at top speed, and wil then
sign you off to answer everything offline – not costing you anything.
It makes it very easy and automatic to do all the things you do on CIS.
This is not a free program – the one you download is a working demo that
has some very aggravating 'guilt' screens. When you send in your $39.95
registration fee, they make the guilt screens go away. I think you can
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