PK-88 OPERATING MANUAL
PACKET OPERATION
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The PK-88's default (MCON 0) tells your system not to show packets from other stations
while you are connected to any station. This lets you converse without interruption and
confusion caused by the mixture on your screen of everyone else's packets and those of
the distant station to which you're connected.
You might use MCON set to 1 to monitor the Mail List beacons from a PBBS while holding
connected conversations with the distant stations on the channel. Whenever a beacon is
sent, that message is displayed while you are connected to another station. (See previous
sections.)
4.9
Selective Monitoring
The MFROM, MTO and MONITOR commands provide certain monitor features not previously
available in some earlier Packet controllers. You call use these commands in combination to
display or hide traffic to and from any stations or combination of stations as required. You
might want to inhibit display of a busy bulletin board or electronic mail system while you are
monitoring other conversations.
4.9.1
The MFROM Command
MFROM uses arguments to determine how the PK-88 monitors packet channels and dis-
plays information – which stations' packets will be displayed and which stations' packets
will be masked or hidden.
MFROM is set to ALL when you start the PK-88 for the first time.
o
Type
MFROM
to display the ALL|NONE/YES list|NO list status of call signs of stations
from whom packets will or will not be displayed. You can use the abbreviated com-
mand form or mnemonic:
cmd:
mfrom
MFROM all
cmd:
mf
MFROM yes WX1AAA WX2BBB WX3CCC WX4DDD
o
To stop display of all packets type
MFROM NONE
and
MTO NONE
. This has the
same effect as setting MONITOR to 0 (zero).
o
To display packets only from one or more specific stations, type
MFROM YES
(fol-
lowed by a list of calls signs).
Only packets from stations whose call signs are listed after
YES
will be displayed.
MTO
should be
NONE
.
o
To hide or mask packets only from one or more specific stations, type
MFROM NO
(followed by a list of call signs).
Only packets from stations whose call signs are listed after
NO
will not be displayed.
You can add optional SSIDs specified as
-n
after the call sign. If MFROM is set to NO
WX1AAA or YES WX1AAA any combination of WX1AAA WX1AAA-1, WX1AAA-15 will be
matched and processed.
