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VT100 (2.6/jrbii.2) Enhancements
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This program was originally created by Dave Wecker,
I've only made the following changes...
The source will be available in a later archive, after
I clean it up a bit...
1. Iconify added - this allows the user to click on a gadget in the
VT100 window which will cause VT100 to become an "ICON". VT100
will continue to execute (so that downloads, etc may continue to
progress).
NOTE: if VT100 returns the error: Can't open Read device, this
means that you are already running VT100 (you cannot currently
have two VT100's running simultaneously since there is only
one serial device).
2. A bug was fixed. When the escape sequence to change the screen
width from 80->132 or 132->80 was followed immediately by another
escape sequence, the second sequence was missed.
3. A credit/info window was added so that people who wish to verbally
abuse me may do so. This can be brought up by selecting the "About
VT100" MenuItem, or "Right Amiga ?". To get rid of this window,
just depth arrange it to the back.
4. Miscellaneous bells/whistles added.
VT100 (2.6/jrbii.1) Enhancements
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1. SWAP bug fixed.
2. CHOP bug squashed - when xmodem receiving ARCed file, the file
should not be chopped. So this version turns AUTO-CHOP off
when a filename with the extension of arc (file.arc) is specified
as the file to receive.
3. Full 132 column support (overscan used, therefore you must have
version 1.2 of the AmigaDOS operating system.)
4. Added menu features:
a) all menu items now have a command sequence (Right Amiga something)
to execute them.
b) menu items have been added for the following:
SCREEN TO BACK - Does exactly what the dark screen depth
arrangement gadget would do (moves the
VT100 screen to rear). RAMIGA [ is the
command sequence for this MenuItem.
SCREEN TO FRONT - Does exactly what the light screen depth
arrangement gadget would do (moves the
VT100 screen to front). RAMIGA ] is the
command sequence for this MenuItem.
(LAMIGA N and LAMIGA M will also toggle you
between screens)
SCREEN WIDTH - selects 80 column mode or 132 column mode.
RAMIGA 8 will select the 80 column mode and RAMIGA 1 will
select the 132 column mode, if you don't like using the
mouse.
HOLD SCREEN - send ^S and ^Q alternatively to the host to
signify HOLD SCREEN ON (XOFF) and HOLD SCREEN OFF (XON).
You can use ^S HS on and ^Q HS off or RAMIGA / to toggle
HS on and off.
QUIT VT100! - will cause VT100 to terminate. RAMIGA Q
will also activate this function.
5. HOLD SCREEN and CAPS LOCK is now signaled on the top line of the
screen so that it is easy to tell the state of those conditions.
CAPS LOCK is only really useful for those to lazy to look at the
keyboard like me. (These were the only useful LED's on the VT220
keyboard).
Other Changes:
Note: I have tried to keep everything (command sequences, menus, script
files, etc. compatible with version 2.6 VT100 so that upgrading??? to
this version will be as painless as possible...
1. Screen Appearance - this has been changed in the following ways:
The title bar is no longer in existence (I didn't like the
clipping).
a) The CloseWindow gadget is still there, however you
cannot see it. Clicking on it will still terminate VT100. (The
Title BAR shows up at initialization to remind users of the
closegadget's location.
b) The window depth arrangement gadgets have been replaced by the
"SCREEN TO BACK" (RAMIGA [) and SCREEN TO FRONT (RAMIGA ]) menu
items. (LAMIGA N and LAMIGA M will also toggle you between screens)
The depth adjustment was rather cumbersome anyway, since you had to
pull the window down to get to the screen depth gadget before you
could do anything.
2. The SCREEN field is no longer used by VT100, a custom screen is
ALWAYS opened since we need overscan to implement full 132 column
mode. This field is still allowed in the init file to maintain
compatibility with earlier versions.
TO USE:
execute the EXE-ME file in the archive, this copies the
appropriate files into your fonts directory. Or, if you do
not wish to copy them into your fonts directory, you
can just assign fonts: to wherever you put the font files.
The font directory must have the following tree in this case:
yourfont (dir)
j132.font
j132 (dir)
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*** IMPORTANT NOTE: to fit full 132 columns on the screen, you
may have to go into preferences and move your whole screen to
the left a bit so that it will show up on the screen, otherwise
I'll be writing stuff to the inside of your monitor case...
(If you don't do this only 128 will fit on the screen!!!)
in preferences:
change :
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John Barshinger
plink:jrbii | bix:jrbii | Usenet: barsh@stsci.edu