acs@amdahl.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) (01/06/88)
Sorry I've been so silent lately but I've been working on 2.8 (a new features list appears at the end of this posting)--it should be available within the next few weeks. I said in an earlier posting that it would be available around the end of the year and that it would support ZMODEM. Unfortunately, ZMODEM support is *not* included in this release. In its place (and the reason for the delay since I had to back out ZMODEM) is the use of Raw/DeadKeyConvert(). Remember that the keymap is a two-edged sword. While foreign and A500/A2000 keyboards are now correctly supported we must contend with the dead keys; hence some ALT key combinations will no longer simply turn on the high-order bit of the character. Which ALT combinations are affected will depend on your keymap. And now, the features list: * Kermit mode will now handle long packets. * New cmd: KMAXPACK to set kermit mode's maximum packet size. * New cmd: XBEEP ON|OFF - Beep-at-end-of-xfer. * New cmd: XPROTO ASCII|XMODEM|XMODEMCRC|KERMIT. * New cmd: FONT (init only) to set the font that VT100 uses. Only 8-point fonts allowed right now. * New cmds: SENDF and RECF to send/receive based on XPROTO. You still have KS, XS, etc. * New cmd: UNIT x to set the unit of the serial.device to open. You should only use unit 0 until a new serial.device is available. * Will properly handle MoreRows. * Added support for insert/delete character. * Fixed AbortIO() bugs. * Fixed cd (a.k.a. the Lock()) problem. * Fixed bug that caused a 2nd status window to appear. * Extensive changes to 1st menu item. * Removed that extra continue in xmodem.c. * "Nagging requester" bug fixed - *not* an Intuition bug, an ACS bug. * Scrolls properly with scrolling regions. * Displayed filename will not be longer than 15 chars in kermit mode. * Requesters will go to the user's screen instead of WorkBench. * Use the default keymap and Raw/DeadKeyConvert(). * Local-echo would not always echo all characters. Your cursor keys should now move your cursor! -- Tony Sumrall acs@amdahl.com <=> amdahl!acs [ Opinions expressed herein are the author's and should not be construed to reflect the views of Amdahl Corp. ]