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HANDS ON Remote Access UPDATES Page 1
This Product is Shareware, if you continue to use it
Please Register to Legalise your usage
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General Updates:
5.00 June, 1994 Started this section. This is the first
distribution where new users have significant likelihood of
being less skilled. You should expect ongoing 'updates' as we
discover better ways to get new users going. Its likely that
the main changes will NOT provide enhanced help, but will
instead improve the initial setup and automatic telephone
connections.
Software Updates:
Note that some of the utility programs have their own version
number and update information in the matching .DOC file. An
example is HOMNU and MNU.DOC.
5.00 June, 1994 Reworking documentation and internal
messages. The design goal is a more user friendly interface.
Changed the name to HANDS ON. Now includes the telemenu.
Reworked the names below to a generic name wherever
appropriate. The version number reflects a clean break that
is building on previous work.
4.23 1992 Allowed use of 25x80 text pages other than 0.
4.22 Changed the version number to stop people thinking that
version 3.9 was a later version than 3.22!! 4.22 and 3.22 are
the same!
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3.22 Modified the way HOST's private mode works to avoid
problems with CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock. Previously
some PCs experienced a delay of 20 seconds or so while the
BIOS waited for a keyboard interrupt that would never occur
since HOST had disabled all keyboard interrupts. Now the
keyboard interrupt is briefly enabled after any of these keys
has been pressed.
Modified the file transfer status window to report throughput
in characters per second rather than percentage efficiency.
3.21 Added the capability to limit the length of a session
(useful for toll-free numbers).
Increased the buffer size to suit higher speed modems (this
only affects screen refresh time and only at speeds above 2400
bps).
Added to HOSTIN the ability to scan the PC's hardware looking
for installed COM ports and locating the associated IRQ lines
(from IRQ2 to IRQ15 inclusive). This makes it considerably
easier to install for things like internal modems with
non-standard IRQ lines.
3.20 Moved control of host printer redirection into
HOST,HOSTIN, HOSTC (this now makes it possible to install HOST
so that print redirection is off by default).
Corrected a problem that caused \\ to be reduced to just \ and
then to nothing when strings were being edited in HOSTIN.
Added section 0 to HO.DOC to provide a quick path to getting
the package up and running.
Made sending an initial "at&f" to the modem optional in
MODSET.
3.19 Added support for IRQ8-15 for 16-bit I/O cards.
Added HOSTC.EXE to modify HOST parameters during an active
session.
Modified HOSTIN so that it is possible to redirect input into
it, and added a sample response file HOSTIN.RES.
3.18 Corrected a problem with HO failing to detect a loss of
carrier in the middle of a session.
HANDS ON Remote Access UPDATES Page 3
3.17 Improved CTS handshaking for use with V42bis modems.
Increased printer buffer size to cope with faster modems and
longer propagation delays.
Added direct support for external file transfer protocol
programs such as DSZ.
3.16 Modified HOST's ring response code so that the user can
choose to have a string sent direct to the modem instead of
having it "typed".
Added a "private" mode option to HOST to allow the host PC to
run with a dead keyboard and blank screen.
Added HOASK (a program like ASK but with a timeout) to replace
HOKEY.
Modified HOST to cut down memory usage slightly by freeing
environment space. This could be significant for users who
have very large amounts of environment text.
Finally worked out what needed to be done to allow HOST to be
loaded high (by QEMM's LOADHI for example) without hanging
when the host should have been rebooted!
3.15 Modified HOST so that the "reboot on loss of carrier"
option only takes effect if there has been a successful HANDS
ON session at some time in the past (previously the PC would
reboot when the carrier was lost even if HANDS ON had never
been active, which sometimes caused rebooting to occur at
unfortunate moments!).
3.13 Removed the messages about synchronizing the baud rate
and sending the password, and replaced them with a beep so
that line noise does not disturb the screen text so much.
Modified the file transfer timeout process so that HO keeps on
waiting for the transfer to commence until the user presses a
key, rather than just waiting a specified time period. [Note
that this eliminated one parameter from the .HO file.]
3.12 Added a new program, REMOVE, to remove HOST from memory.
Previously this could be done by HOSTIN, but having a separate
program avoided any danger of inadvertently modifying HOST
parameters...
3.11 Added remote printing capability. [Note that this
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required an extra parameter in the .HO file.]
3.10 Changed HO.EXE and GET.EXE so that directories were
created as required during file transfer.
portions Copyright (C) 1994 P. C. Softsmith All rights
reserved
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