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Phone book:
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- Previous releases of the phone book would not clone single phone
book entries correctly.
- The configuration copying routine will now selectively copy
config information to the currently selected phone book entries.
- Dialing lists are now built differently in the phone book:
Shift + 1 click -> Inserts phone book entry into the dialing
list or removes it.
Double-click -> Dials the selected entry immediately
- The phone book encryption/decryption routines are a tad faster
now.
- The program will now prompt twice for a phone book access
password.
- Comment, phone number, user name and password can be much longer
now than they used to be in previous releases.
- The phone book now only contains the configuration information to
differ from the global configuration.
- Previous releases would not save any rate information along with
encrypted phone book files, this has been fixed.
- The configuration copying routine now allows to `drop' parts of
the phone book configuration rather than replacing them with
parts of the global configuration. This feature works in
conjunction with the new phone book file format.
- A new feature has been added: as an option, the program will
immediately start to redial the currently configured dialing list
as soon as the line is hung up or the carrier is lost.
- With several phone numbers mapped to a single phone book entry
previous releases would display incorrect information in the
dialing window concerning the next phone book entry to be
dialled.
Documentation:
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- The program finally includes context-sensitive online help
implemented through amigaguide.library (note: Kickstart 3.0
required). Any window to offer a help text will display it when
the `Help' key is pressed.
- The ARexx interface documentation was entirely rewritten. The
main program documentation was updated and slightly enhanced. Be
sure to reread it!
Text buffer screen and review buffer window:
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- Both the text buffer screen and review buffer window now feature
new and improved scrollers. Scrolling and screen refreshes are
also quite a bit faster now.
- The text searching routine has been enhanced and now works much
faster than in previous releases. It also happens to find
multiple occurences of a string in a single line.
- Improved text buffer handling, reduced memory fragmentation if
running under control of Kickstart 3.0.
- The text buffer will no longer quietly swallow single characters
and will finally correctly wrap lines longer than 80 characters.
- The review buffer window now also sports a search function just
like the text buffer screen, other useful menu items have been
added as well.
File transfers:
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- In previous releases the program would miscalculate the number of
bytes left on a filing device when receiving a file. It would
not take the number of bytes received into account, this has been
fixed.
- In order to transfer files one can simply drag the corresponding
icons on the `term' main window (requires that the `term' window
is opened on the Workbench screen).
- Instead of identifying the type of a file received, the program
will optionally attach a file comment to show the name of the BBS
the file was received from and the time and date when the file
was received.
- In case a file transfer is terminated due to errors the file
transfer window will remain open until explicitely closed.
- The XPR interface will disable the xpr_unlink() routine if the
`override transfer path' option is in effect.
- The XPR interface will no longer sort files to be uploaded by
size and name as most users found this feature annoying. It now
sorts the files only in alphabetical order.
- The file transfer window now correctly displays the names of all
files sent and received.
- The file transfer server was removed as it would not lead to a
performance gain but a performance loss.
- Being particularly imprecise and rather silly the transfer window
no longer displays the transfer efficiency.
Terminal emulation:
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- `term' now finally also runs as a window on the Workbench or any
other public screen (that's what you always wanted, right?). If
running under control of Kickstart 3.0 will attempt to share
screen colours with other applications, making it possible to run
the terminal emulation in eight or sixteen colours if enough
shareable pens are available.
- `term' will refuse to run on a public screen if running under
control of Kickstart 2.x and if the screen font happens to be
proportional-spaced.
- Some minor and some major bugs in the built-in terminal emulation
have been fixed.
- The program distribution now includes the 11 point IBM.font
donated by Bernhard F. Muller. I also hacked an 11 point
GFX.font into existance.
- I was surprised to discover that in previous releases the
terminal emulation server would never get activated as the
conditions which had to be met in order to enable it would very
rarely be met. Since the file transfer server would actually
lead to a performance loss rather than a performance gain I chose
to remove the terminal server along with it. Both may be
implemented in a future release.
- The terminal emulation should work a tad faster now.
Program enhancements:
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- The program now requires diskfont.library to be installed in
order to work correctly.
- The program will ask for a confirmation prior to resetting the
serial device driver while the program is still online. Most
seasoned JR-Comm had trouble to adjust to the fact that the
JR-Comm command `send password' would use the same menu shortcut
as the `term' `release serial device' command.
- The name of the call log file can now be configured completely.
Previous releases would use the call file path and use the name
`term-call.log'.
- The status window now displays the name of the ARexx host port,
the BBS name, phone number, comment and current user name.
- In order to irritate and annoy you, the menu layout has been
changed once again.
- A new feature has been added: the `wait' menu item will
repeatedly send the sequence <Space><Backspace> in order to
simulate terminal input.
- The program now requires a bit more memory than before (program
size has climbed by about 75 KBytes).
- New command line options and tool types have been added, some
have been renamed.
User interface:
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- The program is now much smarter in determining the sizes of the
phone book and file transfer windows.
- The lists used by the phone book and the date panel no longer
look quite so weird if using a proportional-spaced font.
- The main screen text snipping scheme has changed a bit and now
resembles the standard console device snipping. Also supported
is double-clicking on single words in order to snip them.
- The ARexx interface has been entirely rewritten from scratch.
Known problems:
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- Text in italics and boldface can leak into the window borders.
- Elvis is dead.
At the very last minute and at super hyper mega humungous
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pan-galactic really quite large expense:
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- A new and truly excellent tool has been added which allows even
the dimmest fool^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hleast talented user
to patch `term' 3.0 to new and exciting release
versions such as v6.1, v19.1432 or any other silly number you can
imagine provided that it is not a multiple of 34.
Patches the main program, the configuration files and the
documentation, randomly adding phrases such as `Now requires
Kickstart 2.9' and `contains artificial colouring and
preservatives'. Automatically creates all distribution archives,
calls all neighboring BBSes, uploads the files and adds silly
file comments such as `NEW TERM 17.4 RELEASE GET IT' (three
dimness levels supported).
Maintains a check list so you can keep track of all phoney
versions you have created yet. Now you can finally avoid all
those embarassing situations resulting from the fact that you
tried to upload the same patched program twice to one of the
local BBSes.