[comp.sys.atari.st] UniTerm 2.0e Dialer Bug

poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) (11/22/88)

If the `Retries' filed in the dialer setup dialog is set to 0 or nothing,
the dialer can not be aborted. Fix by:

	- setting `Retries' to one (this utilizes another bug, that the
          number is actually the total number of tries),
or

	- patch the 2.0e 004 executable:

          Byte (decimal)    2.0e 004             005
          44995             52 (Dec) (34 Hex) -> 53 (Dec) (35 Hex) 
          55917             87       (57    )    93       (5D    )

          This will increase the edit number to five and fix both
          bugs (`Retries' will really mean the number of retries
          not the total number of tries).


	  Sorry for any inconnvience the error may have caused!-- 
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decouty@irisa.UUCP (Bertrand Decouty) (11/24/88)

In article <524@forty2.UUCP> poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) writes:
 [...]
|	- patch the 2.0e 004 executable:
|
                    ^^^^^^^^

 Thank you Simon for telling us how to patch the latest version of uniterm.
But, when you release a new version (and this seems to be very often!),
could you post the new readme file (at least what's new) and where to
obtain this new version?

I have two suggestions for next versions:
	1- send a string in a popup menu entry (today we need to bind a 
	function key for this purpose)

	2- initialization of function keys in a macro file. This could
	avoid re-init these keys when a new major version of uniterm is out.
	(setup files being not compatible).

Last question: Why national characters on the keyboard are not translated 
	into the correct VT220 code? I know this is possible with keyedit 
	(and it works) but it should be best if it was done directly in Uniterm.

In any case, uniterm is a GREAT program.

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