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Welcome to the EazyLink2 User Guide. This is displayed when you have selected the Help > User Guide menu item from the desktop application. You may also have arrived here through our project wiki navigation system. The words EazyLink and Eazylink2 are used interchangeability throughout this document.
This user guide is written for all the Desktop versions of the EazyLink. Where necessary, specific details of desktop operating system features will be mentioned by displaying the OS icon.
This user guide is being written at the moment, while we work on the Beta releases. We anticipate to have this work completed when EazyLink2 has reached final release of V1.0 .
Feedback is most welcome, to help us improve EazyLink
History & Introduction
In 1987, there were many computers, but no established standard to connect them together, unlike today with the internet. The Z88 connected to other computers, using a few commands for data transfer using its own Imp-Export program. BBC and PC Link by Cambridge and the Amiga, Nimbus and QL (just to mention a few) were supported by third parties.
Transferring files using this is reliable, but it is slow, limited in functions, and needed both keyboards, Z88 and the other computer to be used at the same time. Larger memory devices and the use of directories needed more commands. Cambridge bought out PC Link II and Mac Link. These required an additional program for the Z88 which was supplied on a 32K EPROM pack, but unlike Imp-Export, all commands were sent from the PC or Mac.
Eazylink introduced faster transfer, additional commands, character translation was done on the Z88 during the transfer eliminating the need to conversions as a separate operation. It was only supported on the PC running Windows 98 until Windows xp. There were attempts to use it with the Mac, but these were not successful.
Eazylink2 with Imp-Export integration has been completely re-written. Computers running different operating systems, Windows 7 and above, Mac and Linux are supported. Transfer speeds between them and the Z88 are now higher than were achieved before.
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