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EXIS Inc., Post Office Box 130, West Hill, ON, Canada M1E 4R4
(416)-289-4641 voice, (416)-289-4645 FAX, (416)-439-9399 BBS
Telix Copyright (C) 1986,87,88,89,90,91,92 by Exis Inc.
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January 9, 1992 -- Notes on Telix v4.25:
o The main purpose of the 4.25 release is not to introduce new features
but rather to fix a few bugs, to allow us to make some changes to the
documentation needed to account for changes in our overseas distribu-
tion, and to update our order forms to allow for the new GST value-
added tax on sales in Canada. We are still hard at work on our next
major update of Telix, and most people presently using Telix 3.12 will
not want or need to upgrade to Telix 4.25.
o The Telix Support BBS now has three lines, all running US Robotics HST
Dual Standard modems, which support the standard formats at 300 to
2400 bps, and both HST and v.32 formats at 9600 bps. The base number
for the BBS hunt sequence is 416-439-9399.
o When mailing us an order or inquiry, please note that our address is
in Canada. As of February 1991, postage from the US to Canada is 40
cents. 'F' stamps are not valid to Canada.
o MODEMCFG.EXE, a modem configuration program, is now included with
Telix to make setting up your modem easier. Simply run MODEMCFG and
select your modem brand and model to set up Telix with the proper
strings and initialize the modem's non-volatile ram (if it has any).
o When editing a dialing directory entry you may now use Tab and Shift-
Tab to move up and down in the list of items, instead of being forced
to go forwards only.
o The status line may be cycled on/off directly from Terminal Mode by
pressing Alt-8.
o BRANDTLX previously needed about 320k free memory to run, which was a
lot more than Telix itself needs. It should now run in much less mem-
ory, generally less than 100k free.
o As most people are now using a '101' style keyboard, the default key
layout for the VT102 terminal has been changed to one suitable for
this keyboard. Older versions of Telix by default used a layout better
suited for the older style keyboard. If after installing v4.25 your VT
arrow and function keys don't work as they should, the older layout
can be brought back by entering the following at the DOS prompt:
ren VT102.KEY VT102101.KEY
ren VT102OLD.KEY VT102.KEY
o In an attempt to help users debugging SALT scripts, 4 predefined
'macros' or variables have been set up in CS, the script compiler. The
word __LINE__ will be replaced in the compiled script by an integer
constant representing the current line number in the script. __FILE__
will be replaced by a string constant holding the current filename.
__DATE__ and __TIME__ will be replaced by string constants of the cur-
rent date and time. So for example, a script could have the sequence:
printsc ( "This is file " );
printsc ( __FILE__ );
prints ( " and line number " );
printn ( __LINE__ );
which if compiling TEST.SLT would print something like:
This is file TEST.SLT and line number xx
where 'xx' is the line number that __LINE__ occurred on. Note that
these macros get replaced by whatever they represent right as CS is
compiling the script file, Telix itself knows nothing about them.
o When CTS/RTS hardware handshaking is on by default, but the CTS line
is low at Telix start-up, Telix will now give a message to that ef-
fect, while waiting up to 10 seconds for the signal to come on. During
this time the user may press Space to continue with handshaking on
anyway, or any other key to continue with it off.
o In VT-102/ANSI, if the remote system defined a scrolling region and
the cursor was outside of this region, text in scrolling region would
scroll on a received Line Feed.
o Some new keys (e.g. Alt-\) available with enhanced keyboard were rec-
ognized by Telix, but Telix could not display their names (it showed
only a blank). All show properly now.
o On exit from Telix the border is now reset to black.
o If there was a status line at the top of the screen and it was re-
moved, Telix would lose the use of that line.
o The SALT 'run' function with a parameter of 1 (pause and wait for a
keypress) would not always properly display the prompt.
o Destructive/Non-Destructive Backspace key setting can now be saved to
disk.
o The 'frename' script function would move file being renamed to current
directory, if it was in another directory on the same drive.
o Telix now treats color codes in Avatar exactly as described in George
Stanislav's Avatar specs. Note that Telix only supports Avatar Level
0, not Level 1...
o The inkey() and inkeyw() SALT functions returned negative values for a
few keys (such as Alt-0).
o On a few individual PCs that we know of, Telix's routines to detect an
enhanced keyboard BIOS thought that there was one, when there wasn't,
leading to very strange results. This was more likely caused by misbe-
having keyboard related resident programs, rather than a Telix bug. If
the keyboard is thus completely unrecognized by Telix, the way to get
Telix running is to add the line 'ENHKB=OFF" in the TELIX.CNF file (or
change the existing line with this parameter). Telix now has this op-
tion off by default.
o In ANSI or VT102 mode, the escape code 'ESC [ L', which is used to
scroll lines down, would sometimes clear the first or first few en-
tries in the translate table on systems running in 43 or 50 line mode.
o The Host Mode Remote Shell did not work properly on some systems. The
symptom is the shell just exiting as soon as it was entered.
o Some time ago code was added to emulate (for conformity) a bug in the
MS-DOS ANSI.SYS driver in Telix's own ANSI terminal, but the new code
slightly messed up VT-102 terminal. The ESC[J and ESC[J1 terminal es-
cape sequences would reset part of the current line to Gray on Black
instead of the proper default colors.
Dec 1, 1989 -- Notes on Telix v3.12:
o For the most part, this is a maintenance release of Telix. It has been
some time since the last release, and will be some months more before
the next major release, so we felt it was important to fix the half
dozen or so bugs that have been found, add a few minor features, and
notify users of some changes. While the Telix documentation has been
fully updated to reflect new features, this file lists all changes
from v3.10 up, so if you have printed out the docs from Telix v3.10 or
3.11 you do not have to print them out again.
o We can now take VISA card payments for registrations. You may use your
card with the mail-in form listed in the LICENSE.DOC file or main doc-
umentation, by calling our voice number listed above, or by calling
our support BBS with your modem and answering the online registration
script. We expect to be able to take Mastercard payments shortly after
the new year; please call for availability.
o The number for our support BBS has changed (since April) to 416-439-
8293. Please change your dialing directory entry to the new number, as
the old