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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.