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//tak**********************************************************************
This file contains a list of features in QmodemPro for v1.5 ONLY
≈≈ TAKnet Information Service Fort Wayne, Indiana ≈≈
≈≈ Tuesday; June 15, 1993 ≈≈
//tak**********************************************************************
QmodemPro v1.50
Note: see 'ripinfo.txt' for more complete information on RIP
RIP information
To enable conection to BBS systems making use of the new RIPscrip
graphical emulation you must set the Terminal Emulation for that
dialing directory entry to RIPscrip. Everything else is automatic.
Once in graphics mode you can return to text mode by pressing Alt Z
to get the familiar QmodemPro Menu Bar.
If you intend to make use of RIPscrip you must set up a directory to
store ICONS which are a part of the RIP emulation. To do so, invoke
the QmodemPro Config option by pressing Alt Z followed by C for
Config. Then select the Path Definitions choice and fill in an
appropriate path to hold your ICON files. This may be a path similar
to C:\QMPRO\ICONS\ After entering a path, exit QmodemPro and
create the directory on your disk. Copy ICONS.EXE from your QMPRO
home directory to this new ICONS directory and execute it there to
extract the .ICN files. After doing so you can erase ICONS.EXE to
save space.
The balance of this file is a new feature list.
- Added full support for RIPscrip graphics including mouse support from
remote. To activate RIP set the terminal emulation for the terminal
or any dialing directory entry to RIP.
Note that RIP makes use of EGA graphics and may not be used on
systems without EGA capability.
Attention DESQview users. QmodemPro fully utilizes the DESQview
mouse API to allow the mouse to be active in multiple re-sized
DESQview windows. However, the DESQview mopuse API does not provide
a method of switching to EGA graphics mode and continuing to make use
of the mouse. If you intend to make use of the mouse in RIP
emulation you must either leave DESQview and run QmodemPro from DOS
or use DESQview/X which fully supports switching to a grphical mouse
cursor. We regret this situation, and are working with Quarterdeck
Office Systems for an alternative solution.
QmodemPro switches from text to graphics mode automatically when
triggered by a RIP-capable host, and can be manually switched back by
pressing the menu key, Alt Z. This switch is very quick except when
running under Windows. When Windows is detected, the RIP switching
between text and graphics takes a little longer because it has to
write the graphics screen contents to a file and then restore it when
it switches back. Non-windows users will not experience this disk
write delay.
- Quicklearn fully supports recording of RIP screens including mouse
clicks, for playback. Two new Script commands have been added,
RIPKEY and RIPMOUSE.
RIPKEY [character] This is the HOTKEY character of a Rip Button
if one exists on the graphics screen. During playback, it will
simulate pressing the hotkey for that character and the button
will execute.
RIPMOUSE [X coord] [Y coord] This records the position of the
mouse pointer when the mouse is clicked on a mouse button or mouse
region. During playback, it will simulate moving the mouse pointer
to the x,y coordinates specified and clicking the left mouse
button.
- Fixed a long-standing bug in the Script processor when it had to deal
with WAITFOR commands that used expanded Ctrl character sequences.
It was possible for Quicklearn to Record a Script that it could not
play back correctly. I found this when dealing with the new RIP
script commands above.
- A red dashed box appears on the screen when a RIP ICON Load command
is received but does not exist in your ICONS directory.
- The button support in RIP mode acts just like Windows and QmPro
Dialogs. Holding the mouse button down and moving off the button,
will "unclick", and moving back on the button will "re-click" it. If
you release the mouse button when it is "unclicked", the command is
ignored.
- Changes were made to the FAX code and timing to allow it to operate
better with a wider variety of FAX modems.
- Changed the Fax code to allow a ^L Formfeed character to eject a page
and start a new one. The ^L -MUST- be the only character on the line
and be in column 1 of the document. If either of these fail then the
page will not eject.
- Added remote/local printer support to VT100, VT102, VT220 and VT320.
The new commands now supported include ESC[4i, ESC[5i, ESC[0i,
ESC[?1i, ESC[?4i, ESC[?5i, ESC[?19h, ESC[?19l, ESC[?18h, ESC[?18l.
- Fixed a bug in the VTxxx emulation color code ESC[0m to reset the
correct color.
- Made a fix to the VT100+ emulations to ignore some of the VT52
commands that would not be trapped normally.
- Minor bug fix to the ESC T command in Wyse50 emulation. If this was
done on the last line, the screen would scroll up one line when it
shouldn't.
- Fixed an annoyance (not really a bug) in Zmodem Download where it
would flush the incoming buffer after the transfer and there was a
chance that the BBS had sent info after the transfer that you
wouldn't see.
- Fixed Alt+K so it was QuickLearn'able. It was not recording the
DEVICE command in the learned script.
- Added support for the Doorway Remote Printer redirection in ANSI and
RIP modes. Redirection prints to the defined printer (or file) as
defined in Config/Files/Filename/Printer ID.
- Made a minor change to the Ymodem/G Upload process to catch the first
"G" from a remote a little quicker. Should save 3-5 seconds in the
startup phase.
- Added a "/NOLOGO" command line option. This will skip the ANSI logo
and delay when QmPro is loaded.
- Corrected a problem with the Shell to DOS code. If a system has a
16550 and it was enabled in the Device config, after a Shell it was
not being re-enabled. This also affected some external protocols.
- Users who are connecting to the J&L NCS Int14 Servers can now use the
ArtiCom Interface for correct connections. J&L use a slight
variation of the Int14 standard, and with a small change to the
ArtiCom, it works for both systems.
- Included the new RPI software V.42bis and MNP5 support for those 2400
baud modems that can take advantage of it. This requires the V42.DRV
file to be located in the same directory as QMPRO.EXE.
- Included support for NCSI/ACS² network interface. This is a slight
variation to the NASI/NACS code.
- Fixed the problem with the CIS B+ downloads not switching to the
Default DL Directory automatically.
- Fixed a script STRING bug in script processing. If a master script
called a nested script used the STRING command many times, the
duplicate definitions were not caught and caused the string table to
overflow. Now, when a nested script uses the STRING command, if the
string already exists it is cleared. If it doesn't, it is added to
the String table.
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