Talk And Mail 1.0

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I. Introduction: Talk&Mail is an AppleTalk communication program for Macintosh. It is simple, easy to use, but has more powerful features than those known to the Unix world. One can initiate communication request from local macintosh with anyone on a remote macintosh running Talk&Mail program, as long as two macintoshes are connected on "AppleTalk Internet". The formidably-sounded "AppleTalk Internet" can be as simple as two macintoshes connected via a single wire (through their modem or printer port), or as extended as thousands of macintoshes connected via ethernet backbone on multi-network, multi-zone extended network (like on university campus or in big corporations). Talk&Mail uses peer-to-peer, two way duplex communication channel, so there is no complicated server to set up. A user only need to take a copy of Talk&Mail, launch it, select a user name so other users on the network can identify him/her, and one is ready to initiate or receive communication services provided by Talk&Mail program. II. Using Talk & Mail: When Talk & Mail starts up, it provides a dialog box for user to enter user name which identifies you (your macintosh) on the network, other macintoshes running Talk & Mail will be able to see your user name on their user list under your macintosh network zone. You can put Talk & Mail in the background so that it will be watching for communication request initiated by other users on the AppleTalk network running Talk & Mail, you will be notified in case there are Talk request or Notification or email/file sent to you by a remote user. If you like to initiate a communication service with a remote user, turn the Talk & Mail to the foreground and use the menus to initiate request: % Talk: Select this menu item to initiate conversation with another macintosh on the network. You will get a list of Mac zones (AppleTalk networks, especially large ones, are usually divided into multiple sub-networks called zones, under each zone, there are list of macintoshes). The zone that your macintosh resides on will be automatically selected. Choose a zone in which the remote user you like to talk to resides (double click on the item), you will get a list of user names which macintoshes are running Talk & Mail. Select the one you want to talk to, a conversation request will be sent to the remote macintosh (which must have Talk & Mail running). The remote user will get notified of your conversation request, he/she has the options of accepting or denying of your request. If remote user accepts your request, a communication channel will be set up, you and the remote user will have two windows pop up on the respective macintosh screens, which allow you to type in your words at the same time read his/her words. There are list of buttons which functions are self explainary.