elliott@yosemite.steinmetz (08/26/88)
Well, my internship at GE is ending tomorrow, and I'm headed off into
the unknown on an exchange semester with Williams College. So it may
be a while before I get plugged back in to the UseNet.
ATP will continue to grow during this time. File transfer's coming,
and some really neat stuff I'm not at liberty to talk about yet. Those
of you who are interested, stay tuned.
Here's a brief summary of some things which have been added since my
last network posting of the program:
* Segments are searched for more cleverly; unless you give an
absolute pathname ATP first checks /RAM/SEGMENTS, then your current
prefix, and finally its own segments directory.
* The HELP segment checks if it can find the help file it wants in
/RAM/HELP before loading it from disk. This makes it possible to
get significantly faster help, which addresses an issue raised by
some users who have floppies and found the access time a little
slow.
* There was a bug in the state in which ATP left some of the screen
soft switches, which led to temporary (ugly) screen glitches while
/RAM was being accessed; this has been fixed.
* ATP will now approximate the VT100 graphics line-drawing characters
using ASCII, like Kermit does.
* I have added a VTSET segment which allows the user to set whether
the arrow keys should default to sending their Apple ASCII values
or the VT100 cursor key sequences. It will also allow you to choose
which of the VT100 character attributes (bold, underscore, blinking
and reverse) show up as reverse-video. This information can be
stored in the config file.
* Another new segment is WAITCALL. This separates most of the code
used to await incoming phone calls from ATP, so I can fit more in
ATP itself (space there is at a high premium). If you invoke this
segment interactively it lets you choose the four baud rates at
which ATP will accept incoming calls, and the speed of its
inactivity timeout.
* Finally, VIEW is a segment that lets you examine ProDOS files in
several different display formats, including disassembly. You can
search through them for strings, and make changes to the files
contents and lengths if you disable the safeties which by default
prevent such changes. VIEW works remotely, naturally...
Anyway, people who would like to contact me may still do so through
U.S. Mail to the address given in the ATP documentation, or at RPI at
the following addresses:
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Jim Elliott /
/ userE2U7@rpitsmts.BITNET
"Let's try that again, slowly." / userE2U7%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu
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