AMIC PD TERM beta version .58E - Revision notes




    1. VERY Quick reference to revision on .58E

       o CONFIGURATION WINDOW: Some bugs have been removed here,
         while making the code smaller.  Also the program is now
         able to support  31250 Baud  transmitions, although the
         current release does NOT go THAT fast, but the REGISTE-
         RED users version  of Revision F  WILL! We are clocking
         around 18900 Baud on  NULL MODEM 19200 connection,  and
         around 8600 in 9600 HST to  HST connection, and that is
         going to get faster!

       o REVIEW BUFFER: The character  flow processing has been
         modified  quite a bit now.  Although this  can be MUCH
         faster than it is now with large buffers, still one is
         faster than previous releases.  Revision F will have a
         completely modified Review algorithm.

       o WXMODEM: Is it FINALLY fixed? Please, let me know!

       o Registered users will noticed that the script language
         has been fixed, particularly the CAPTURE and CALL com-
         mands of the program.

       o UNARC: Only change here is the shortcut key, it is not
         a duplicated now.

       o PRINT BUFFER: Nobody seems to use this, so, we removed
         this feature from the  program since it saves about 1K
         of code, plus whatever Review Buffer  you have! So, if
         ya had 16K Review buffer, you have now an extra 17K to
         play around!

       o PHONELIB: Cleaned up some code here too.

       o ERROR MESSAGES: Error  messages are not going thru one
         common routine,  giving more consistency  to the error
         messages the user gets from the program.

       o INTRO SCREEN: Hope  you like it!  Just click the mouse
         button, or type a key to abort it.

       o What's best on this release,  for me, is that the code
         has been cleaned  up quite a bit. Mantaining this code
         is getting easier, and that's something we really MUST
         do! :-)

       o LOOK for  Revision F,  REGISTERED USERS!  Yeah, sorry,
         there won't  be REVISION F  for non-registered  users.
         That's if I  don't  find a  MAJOR bug that changes our
         mind about that.



Page 1








    AMIC PD TERM beta version .58D - Revision notes





    1. VERY Quick reference to revision on .58D

       o CONFIGURATION WINDOW: Some little bug in here with the
            operator variable has been fixed. Also tuned up the
            precision of the Fields selector a bit.

       o INSTANT WINDOW: Fixed a problem that caused the window
            to "Dissapear", crashing the system when use trying to
            re-select it again.

       o REVIEW BUFFER: Made some small changes in the Review rou-
            tine, which makes the input flow much faster on large
            Review Buffers. Let me know if it is faster or not!

       o ASCII SET: FINALLY! This is FIXED 100% You should be able
            to use those networks that send strange characters now
            when using the 32-127 ASCII Character set.


       o WXMODEM: I think the problem with WXModem and PLINK is
            fixed. This thing has worked all the time from AMIC to
            AMIC, but since I am not subscribed to PLINK, I can't
            be sure if I am doing it right for them. Hope so! Let
            me know ASAP if not!!!

       o PRESENTATION: Well, hope you like the intro thingie.

       o And some other little thingies here and there, like the
         phone autodial toggle, etc.

























    Page 2





    AMIC PD TERM beta version .58B - Revision notes





    2. VERY Quick reference to revision on .58B


       o CONFIGURATION WINDOW: As far as I know all the configura-
            tion data  is being  written correctly to  the .Config
            file. We added some more Configuration parameters, and
            a MORE Gadget to access them.  This are the definition
            of the Beep Sound,  and to select the use of the whole
            255 ASCII Table, or just  the normal set.  This why ya
            can still use  those IBM  boards with  fancy menus, or
            with networks like PC Pursuit that require the limited
            ASCII Table set.

            You should be able to  RUN AMIC as  many times as  you
            want w/o having a crash created by the program.

            You can change the  operator mode  (to Sum or Rest) by
            clicking the RIGHT Mouse  Button,  a status line is in
            the top right of the  Configuration  window, reporting
            the current status of the Operator.

       o INSTANT WINDOW: Just a minor problem with one of the Fast
            Menu choices... it has been corrected.


       o ASCII SET: There is a  new selection in the SETUP Menu of
            this version, which allows you to select the ASCII Set
            range you want to  get on your screen.   Selecting the
            31-127 Item will insure a clean  screen when connected
            to packet networks like Telenet and TymeNet.  When se-
            lecting the full set (0-255,  ya are able to see those
            fancy IBM borders on some of those ANSI BBS's..


       o SERIAL IO: We have changed the code so that the Serial IO
            Port  priorities  are set  to the value defined in the
            .Config  file, instead of  ZERO as it was done before,
            that will  greately improve  IO performance  on higher
            priorities,  but may deteriorate Multitasking a bit on
            heave file transfers  at high speed,  if this priority
            value is too high..  2 seems to be a  nice balance for
            high performance, without loss of multitasking.


       o TRANSFER WINDOW: It  won't  "vanish"  when this window is
            draged around, as it did on the previous release!







    Page 3