ADIX is a general purpose communication software facilitating asynchronous communication over serial ports of the computer. Using RADIX, the User can communicate between systems

  • connected through direct connection
  • connected through dial-up MODEMS
  • connected over networks through PAO interface.

Terminal Emulation: RADIX provides terminal emulation. This implies that RADIX enables the terminal to send out the characters typed on the keyboard through the serial port. Characters that arrive at the serial port are also displayed on the screen.

Fully-Automated Dialling: The User can maintain up to 500 entries of names and addresses for dialling the remote systems in an on-line address book. The User can ask RADIX to dial any one of these numbers to connect his computer to the remote computer. It will automatically re-dial several times if a number is busy.

Reliable File Transfer: RADIX supports file transfer facilities between two computers in an interactive mode. The User can choose any of the standard protocols supported by RADIX to achieve the transfer.

As the protocols are widely available, it is not mandatory to have RADIX running at the remote end. Any software supporting these standard protocols can be used to transfer files.

Raw Send and Capture: RADIX also provides raw send and capture facilities without any kind of error detection and correction. This allows the User to send files to remote systems or get files from remote systems which do not have any other file transfer protocol supported by RADIX.

Background Daemon: RADIX Background mode runs as a server daemon monitoring the calls received from the remote users on the configured serial port. When a call is sensed, a menu is displayed to the remote user, using which, various services, for example Mail, File transfer etc., can be accessed.

Screen/Non-Screen Mode operations: RADIX foreground mode has its own screen where each character typed from the keyboard is processed before it is transmitted. Also, each character received is processed before it is displayed on the screen. This may be a disadvantage when the User wants to access screen-based applications on remote hosts. In order to facilitate access to such screen-based applications, RADIX allows the User to work in the non-screen mode avoiding any character processing.