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PackCom Version 73 is now on PCEVE!
Enhancements include:
Added new command ALT-Q, which allows you to toggle the Keyboard Input
Queueing Mode between LINE MODE and CHAR MODE.
LINE MODE is the normal Keyboard Input Mode in PackCom, which allows editing
of data and resending of data as needed. CHAR MODE is a new Keyboard Input
Mode that allows data entered to be passed immediately from the Keyboard Input
area to the TNC/RTTY Terminal Unit. CHAR MODE is intended mainly for RTTY
operation, since RTTY in its normal mode is sent data as it is entered into
the terminal.
Once in the CHAR MODE all editing functions supported in the LINE MODE are
lost, except for the BACKSPACE for erasing chars on the end of a line being
entered. Any other editing commands that are allowed in LINE MODE will result
in an error beep.
Data type in while in the CHAR MODE is still buffered in the Keyboard Input
Buffer and is available with the use of CNTL-PGUP and CNTL-PGDN keys for
editing and resending.
I envision this feature being used for RTTY in this manner:
- While you are receiving data in a QSO
- You can buffer up data to be send, by being in the LINE MODE (up to 254
chars of data can be buffered this way)
- when you want to begin sending the data, two methods are available:
- Enter a Carriage Return as normal
- Or enter command ALT-Q to toggle into the CHAR MODE. The previously
entered data will immediately begin to be transmitted and any other
keyboard input entered will immediately be transmitted.
CHAR MODE will stay invoked until another ALT-Q is entered or until a
CNTL-PGUP or CNTL-PGDN is entered to scroll the Keyboard Input Buffer. A line
of data entered both in the LINE MODE and the CHAR MODE will have been entered
into two separate lines within the Keyboard Input Buffer. The scroll
functions CNTL-PGUP and CNTL-PGDN will splice these separate lines back
together if the Keyboard Input Buffer is scrolled back to the first line of
the input data.
Includes fixes for :
Improvements have been made to prevent multiple colors on a single incoming
packet. Hopefully this will fix this problem for good.
73's Jim WB4ZJV