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- Here is a list of some of the new features and enhancements in the
- commercial release of Qmodem 5.0:
-
- ■ Housekeeping: A few small problems reported by our users in previous
- versions of the program have been fixed, and many program routines
- have been improved and fine-tuned. Log entries have been enhanced
- and, in some cases improved for consistency and clarity of meaning.
- The host mode and script language have also been fine-tuned. The help
- file has been updated to be consistent with these changes and
- improvements.
-
- ■ QModem 5.0 now includes Off-Line Xpress (A $40 value!). This
- QWK-mail compatible reader is suitable for use with the Tomcat,
- QMail, MarkMail and other QWK-compatible mail doors found on many
- Bulletin Board Systems.
-
- ■ The name of the setup program QINSTALL has been changed to QSM. A new
- QINSTALL.EXE unpacks the program from the distribution diskettes and
- installs it to your hard drive.
-
- ■ The QModem EDITor (QMEDIT) is now a standalone program. This is an
- easy-to-use ASCII text editor, suitable for creating scripts, batch
- files, and other files which require plain ASCII text. Its commands
- are compatible with the familiar Wordstar(tm) program.
-
- ■ The Alt-V "View" command now allows you to configure your own file
- listing utility as opposed to the default Qmodem editor QMEDIT.
-
- ■ If the modem is using CTS/RTS flow control, optimum shells to DOS will
- lower the RTS line so incoming data will not be lost during the shell.
-
- ■ There is a new toggle under Alt-N/V/T called Display Nulls. This
- fixes a problem when using all emulations where it looked like extra
- spaces were being displayed. This also allows the ASCII Download to
- capture all incoming characters in the data stream if Display Nulls
- is set to ON.
-
- ■ DEBUG_H and DEBUG_A emulations now display the NULL character regardless
- of the state of the new Display Nulls toggle.
-
- ■ Added 3 new fields to the dial directory entries.
-
- Key File The name of a .KEY file to be loaded
- Emulation The emulation to use when calling
- Com Port The Com Port to use, 1..8 or "C" for Current Port
-
- With these new fields, the "O"ther Screens toggle now rotates through
- 3 different views.
-
- ■ Several new "@" macros have been added to the Alt-J keyboard
- reassignment function and added Alt-W Wide View to Keyboard editor.
- Here is the list of new "@" macros:
-
- @UPLOAD - Invokes the PgUp Upload function
- @DOWNLOAD - Invokes the PgDn Download function
- @ADDLF - Invokes the AddLF function (Old ShiftTab)
- @MENU - Invokes the HOME Menu
- @SCROLLBACK - Invokes the UpArrow Scrollback function
- @CAPTURE - invokes the Ctrl-Home Capture File function
- @BREAK - invokes the Ctrl-End BREAK function
-
- These codes can be placed in any of the 91 programmable macro keys now
- defined in Alt-J, and allow the user to configure these program
- functions to his/her own preference. These programmable keys can also
- be referenced by name in the Qmodem script language, and will execute
- the attached function during a script.
-
- Here is a list of programmable keys:
-
- Normal Shift Ctrl Alt Keypad
- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
- F1 SF1 CF1 AF1 PAD0
- F2 SF2 CF2 AF2 PAD1
- F3 SF3 CF3 AF3 PAD2
- F4 SF4 CF4 AF4 PAD3
- F5 SF5 CF5 AF5 PAD4
- F6 SF6 CF6 AF6 PAD5
- F7 SF7 CF7 AF7 PAD6
- F8 SF8 CF8 AF8 PAD7
- F9 SF9 CF9 AF9 PAD8
- F10 SF10 CF10 AF10 PAD9
- F11 SF11 CF11 AF11 PAD.
- F12 SF12 CF12 AF12 PAD/
- PAD*
- Grey 101 Keys Univeral Keys PAD-
- ------------- ------------------------------- PAD+
- GREYINS TAB CTRLHOME UP PADENTER
- GREYDEL SHIFTTAB CTRLEND DOWN
- GREYHOME BKSP CTRLPGUP LEFT
- GREYEND INS CTRLPGDN RIGHT
- GREYPGUP DEL CTRLBKSP HOME
- GREYPGDN ENTER END
- GREYUP
- GREYDOWN
- GREYLEFT
- GREYRIGHT
-
- ■ Alt-M ANSI MUSIC support in Qmodem has been replaced with a hot key
- which loads the Mail Reader program Off-Line Xpress.
-