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!
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Tony Sumrall acs@amdahl.com <=> amdahl!acs
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