Now, when I know what's going on, it doesn't seem so unclear anymore, but I'll give it a try.
First, remove all references to the ACW. I didn't have any problem with this, but refering to USA and CSA might throw some readers off the track.
Secondly, I would scratch the sentences in the headings and replace them with "Step 1", "Step 2" and so on. The point where I went wrong was heading number 3. (Host sends ORD file to Host). For some reason I took this to be some kind of prompting: "Do this now!" All right, I thought, and read on. The next sentence was "Each player know loads the game and gives the order for the upcoming turn." Thinking that this was going to happen after I sent him the "first" ORD-file, it didn't really make any sense to me, and this is where I began to suspect that we hade to send two files forth and back for each turn played. Well, I read it, re-read it, forgot about it for a while and then returned reading it again. After a while I suddenly realized that heading 3 was just that, a heading. Then the puzzle solved itself.
When we where finally ready to start playing it dawned upon me, though, that my opponent had a rather different idea of how to do it, still struggling with his manual. Whatever was the problem at his end, I won't speculate about, but mainly he was confused about when to send the different files and what was their role.
Maybe this isn't so big a deal. Seems other, apparantly more clever people, have figered it out without much trouble. The main reason why I posted regarded the possibility to save mid-order phase, a question now being answered. Great! Now one can start a phase without having to fear OKF (Oberkommando Die Frau), lurking in the background and suddenly shouting "Get off the computer, I have to do some Internet-shopping!"
