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PackCom Version 70 is now on PCEVE!
Enhancements include:
A new command ALT-B allows you to send a BREAK signal to the TNC. This signal
is useful for returning to the Command Mode within the TNC. The TNC will
return to the Command Mode regardless of whether it is in the Converse Mode or
Transparent Mode.
The DayTime TNC parameter setting is now allowed at anytime within a Packcom
session. Previously the DayTime command was sent to the TNC only during the
start-up of Packcom. Now by using the command ALT-Y the DayTime parameter
within the TNC can be set at anytime. When using the ALT-Y command the TNC is
automatically put into the Command Mode before issuing the DayTime command.
The Macro Key Functions have been modified to allow keyboard commands (ALT-x)
to be used within the Macro Key Functions. Within Macro Key Maintenance
keyboard commands are designated by the use of an '@'. For example an '@B'
contained within a Macro will generate a BREAK signal over the communication
port.
I have only tested the following keyboard commands within the Macro Key
Functions: @B for BREAK and @Y for SET TNC DAYTIME. All other keyboard
commands are enabled but I just have not gotten around to testing them or
using them yet. Let me know if some keyboard commands do not work or if any
interesting uses for this feature exist.
Example uses for Macros are:
F1 - @B; Command Mode F2 - @BCONV; Converse Mode F3 - @BT;
Transparent Mode Let me know of other good macros, and I will put them
together in the semi documentation here.
Key Word Scanning has been removed from the Configuration Menu and Placed on
its own menu accessed via command ALT-A.
Options 1 and 2 allow the Foreground and Background colors to be easily
changed for Keyboard/Digi Echo Information or for Non-Header Information.
Option 3 allows access to the Key Word's to be Searched for and the
maintenance of there associated colors and special effects.
Option 4 toggles the Key Word Special Effect's on and off. This is to keep
the noise level down if you don't want to here the alarms and beeps. When
Option 4 is toggled off it still allows the Key Word coloring to work.
Option 5 toggles both Key Word Special Effect's and Coloring on and off.
This is used to disable all Key Word Special Effect's and Coloring from
Options 1, 2 and 3. Only coloring specified in the Configuration Parameters
(ALT-I) will be in effect. Also all buffering of data will be disabled and
will flow unimpeded from the TNC to the PC screen.
Option 2, Coloring of Non-Header Information is a new enhancement. Non-Header
data are lines of text (ended by a carriage return) which do not contain the
Greater-Than symbol '>'. These lines of text are USUALLY command responses
returning from the TNC or Packets being receive from a connected station. The
coloring of this information is useful when you are connected to another
station. Your packets will be colored as specified in Option 1, Coloring of
Keyboard/Digi Information and the connected station will be colored as
specified in Option 2, Coloring of Non-Header Information.
Noticed I said Non-Header Information USUALLY contains command responses or
connected station packets, this is not always the case. Sometime extraneous
LF's or CR's are stuck into monitored packets which will be highlighted. But
this is still a useful feature.
Includes fixes for :
Running out of disk space during a file capture no longer causes Packcom to
abend. Packcom now correctly closes the capture file and continue normal
operation without capturing data to disk.
Fixed apparent bug in the Directory Command (ALT-D). Now when a Drive
designator followed by a colon (ex: 'A:') is entered for the DIR MASK, a
directory listing is displayed. Actually there was not a bug in the Directory
Command, it was expecting a fully qualified Directory Mask (ex: 'A:*.*').
This routine has just been modified to append the '*.*' if an inputted
Directory Mask ends with a colon.
When/If Packcom abends and data is being transmitted from the TNC to the
PC via the RS-232 port. The PC will no longer lock up and require a RESET. A
User Written Error Handler has been installed that shuts down the interrupt
driven communication routines and leaves the PC in a stable state.
During a file capture carriage-return/line-feed's (CR/LF) are now correctly
generated.
The Date/Time Stamp generated within Packcom that is displayed on the screen
but not sent to TNC. Has been modified so it will not clobber text that is
being sent to the PC from the TNC. Basically it waits for the TNC to stop
sending, before generating the Date/Time Stamp.
73's Jim WB4ZJV