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FrontDoor 2.12 Shareware release notes 940302
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IMPORTANT:
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If you have registered FrontDoor 2.11, your registration code will
NOT work with this version of FrontDoor. All registration sites have
received the new registration codes. If you have not yet received it,
please contact the site where you registered 2.11. Once you receive
the new code, use the new FDSETUP (2.12) and enter your registration
code once again.
Please refer to the files in the REGISTER archive for information
about how to obtain your personal registration code.
On with the show, what's the news?
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This release is a maintenance release, intended to fix bugs that were
found in 2.11. Some new features have, however, been added. Apart
from the notice above regarding the registration codes for 2.11, you
should simply unpack all the program files (.EXE and .OVR) on top of
the old ones. If you are upgrading from 2.02/Noncommercial, you must
first obtain FrontDoor 2.11 and follow the upgrade procedures given
in the archive.
The following is a list of fixes and new features:
GLOBAL
- Fixed problem with extended modem responses for 21600, 24000,
26400, and 28800 baudrates.
- Added automatic recognition of CD-ROM drives (controlled by
MSCDEX or similar driver) so that path resolution is not
attempted on such pathnames. If you used NORES just to get
around this problem, you can now stop using it.
FDSETUP
- The "Delay before first call" option has been moved to the
event behavior to allow this to be set for specific events.
- The minimum "Seconds before passing to BBS" has been restored
to 11 as requested by a few users. The default, however, is
still 30.
- Because the modem response handling in the Mailer has been re-
written, you may have to change your Answer Delay setting if
you use the Manual Answer and LDFRS features of the Mailer.
- Added "NoDial" setting to Modem Manager. If the Mailer makes a
match with an entry that has this flag set, the dial attempt is
immediately aborted and the mail bundle is placed on Hold. This
allows you to prevent the Mailer from calling specific systems
based on nodelist flags, baudrates, or specific network
addresses. This is not supported in the Terminal.
- The use of the '|' and '/' characters in modem responses is no
longer required to allow the Mailer to distinguish between,
for example, CONNECT 1200 and CONNECT 12000; nor is the '|'
character required after the "CONNECT 300" definition, if
previously defined as "CONNECT|".
MAILER
- The NOFTSC1 command-line switch and FDOPT option has been
renamed to NOFTS1 to conform with FDSETUP's Security Manager
screen.
- The "Lock Keyboard" (<AltL> or /L: command-line parameter)
function is NO longer case INsensitive, e.g. specifying
"KBDlock" will not unlock the keyboard if it was locked with
"kbdlock".
- The 'v' (lowercase V) character forces the Mailer to lower the
DTR signal and the '^' character forces the Mailer to raise the
DTR signal, when encountered in any of the modem command
strings. The '`' character is translated to a 0.5s pause ('~'
is still a 1.0s pause). This is also supported in the Script
language and the Terminal's initialization string.
- Because of the above changes, the command "SENDNOXLAT" has been
added to the script language. This command will transmit the
specified string untranslated to the modem. Mnemonics (i.e.
<CR>) are still, however, supported by the SENDNOXLAT command.
- The "PROTOCOL:" and "COMPRESSION:" modem responses returned by
some modems are now supported and translated to one-line
messages such as LAPM (for LAP-M), MNP, etc.
- The following new macros have been added to the External
Request Processor and Service Request interface:
=M Same as =F but without a path (the file is always located
in the FrontDoor SYSTEM directory).
=W Translates to "LISTED" or "UNLISTED" depending on whether
or not the remote system was found in your Nodelist
Database. For outbound sessions, =W will always
translated to "LISTED".
=Q Same as =R but without a path (this is only available in
the ERP interface).
=E Same as =T but without a path (this is only available in
the ERP interface).
=Y The current TASK= setting. For the Shareware version,
this will always be '0' (zero).
TERMINAL
<+> - Added support for "Auto Doorway Mode". If enabled, the Terminal
will enter raw keyboard mode upon receipt of the <Esc>[=255h
sequence and exit raw keyboard mode upon receipt of the
<Esc>[=255l sequence. The terminal emulation protocol must be
ANSI for these sequences to be honored by the Terminal.
- The Terminal no longer enables FOSSIL software flow control.
The Ctrl-S (XOFF) and Ctrl-Q (XON) keys will, however, function
as before.
- The ten minute timer, after which the Terminal returns to the
Mailer if it was invoked with <Alt-J>, is now configurable in
the Terminal settings screen in FDSETUP.
- The Terminal Phone Directory would not allow you to add more
than 100 entries. The correct limit is 400 entries.
- The Terminal now includes the complete time elapsed since the
start of a connection as opposed to just minutes and seconds.
- <Alt=> can now be used to toggle the state of "Raw mode". This
means that <Alt=> cannot be transmitted in "Raw mode". This
was added for use in those environments where ScrollLock has a
defined function.
EDITOR
- A new editor macro has been added (~W). It is identical to the
~X (Export to file) macro with the exception that it does not
include the message header information. This can be used with
spell checkers and external conversion and translation
utilities.
<+> - The ability to specify whether or not you want ^A (extended
message information) lines to be included when you export a
message with <AltF2> (or from the Message Survey function) is
now available in the Shareware version.
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Copyright 1994 Joaquim Homrighausen; All rights reserved.
Absolute Solutions
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