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NComm 1.8 is a vastly modified and enhanced version of Comm 1.34. It is an
update to NComm 1.01, correcting all the known bugs of the earlier version.
But most importantly; a lot of changes and additions have been made:
1. Main New Features.
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- Scripts. NComm now has an integrated, advanced script language, which -
among other things - enables you to fully automate your online sessions.
Unattended operation is also a possibility. However, decrease of time used
online and thus, online costs, is perhaps the most common utilization of
the power a script language gives you.
- Logfile. By enabling this option, NComm will maintain a log of all
succesful connects. The "Callinfo" utility, which is a standalone
utility, uses this to estimate the phone bill, display statistics, etc.
- NComm now supports the Ymodem file transfer protocol.
- The G & R protocol has been added. This is an auto up/download protocol
for use with the MBBS system. Automatic up/download without
entering filenames and so on is the virtue of this feature.
- Load / save configuration. By saving your personal program settings in
the file NComm.config, those settings will be used as a default for
subsequent sessions. Also, NComm can be set up to load special config
files when connecting to certain hosts.
- Phonebook. Limited only by available memory, the Phonebook allows
easy keeping, editing, sorting, printing and dialling of all your phone
numbers.
2. Display.
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- Both two and eight colour modes are now supported with full ANSI colour
emulation when using eight colours. However, the two colour mode may give
faster screen I/O on some systems.
- The colours used by the program can be easily adjusted with a built-in
colour palette. Each screen mode has its own palette.
- Interlace mode can be toggled from the 'Screen' menu.
- Status line with On-screen 24-hour clock, showing current time and time
used online, respectively. Setup displayed when not online.
- ANSI x3.64 / vt100 emulation has been improved. Most notably, the Clear
Screen and Set Scroll Region commands have been implemented. The cursor
keys also send the proper codes. As a result of this, NComm will now work
with many screen-oriented programs, e.g. full screen editors, games, etc.
- NComm can be set to ignore the ANSI control codes for boldface, italics
and underline. Some bulletin boards tend to overuse these styles.
- The ASCII BELL code can be configured to either flash the screen, make an
audible beep, pop the screen to front, or do all or even none of the above.
- Reset screen function. This function will clear the screen, turn of all
style settings and reset the colors.
- The program will now work in PAL mode even when using Kickstart 1.3.
- The requester for editing macrokeys now gives you an overview of all 20
keys. This makes editing a much easier task than with previous versions of
NComm.
- Dial requester for dialling phone numbers not in the phonebook.
- Modem setup requester. This lets you customize NComm for use with a wide
variety of modems.
- The file requester has been made much better. Eight devices will be
displayed, with non-available devices 'ghosted'. Ten entries and
disk space free will also be displayed. Parent and pattern functions
are available.
3. Translation.
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- Twelve translation modes are available (both 7 and 8 bits); ISO, IBM,
IBN, US7, UK7, GE7, FR7, SP7, IT7, NO7, SF7 and DE7. If you choose the IBM
or the IBN translation, an IBM PC font will be used. All special IBM
characters will be displayed and translated correctly. This is also true
when using ASCII receive/send, if not the "ISO" translation selected.
- The program now uses the current Workbench/CLI/Shell keymap, i.e. NComm
now supports all keyboards supported by Commodore-Amiga.
- Eight bit characters are no longer truncated.
- The "Show HEX chars" option is now made easily available.
- The DEL key can be mapped to the Backspace key and vice versa. Handy
when using host systems which expect a VT terminal. This might be the case
when the remote machine runs Unix, VMS or Tops-20, amongst others.
4. Other changes/new features
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- The program now has a "message upload" facility for uploading mail to
bulletin board systems. This is useful when the message editor on the BBS
does strange things with your message.
- Redial function has been implemented. This makes NComm dial a number
repeatedly until a connection has been established. Alternate phone
numbers for a system can be specified, in which case all numbers will be
tried before starting all over again. It is also possible to set up a dial
queue of several host machines, each of which may have several phone
numbers.
- The serial buffer has been increased from 1K to 4K, in order to reduce
the probability of loss of data when screen I/O is temporarily suspended.
This may be the case when holding down the right mouse button for a long
while, or when printing incoming text.
- NewCli function. By selecting this menu option, NComm will start up a
new CLI on the Workbench screen.
- 7-wire handshaking (RTS/CTS) is now supported.
- 600 baud option has been added.
- The invisible close gadget in the main window has been removed,
as well as the "windowed xmodem" protocol.
- The status window is available from the menu.
5. Known quirks.
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- The ANSI 'blink' command is not fully implemented. Instead the line is
shown in italics.