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- What's New in Telix for DOS 3.50
- ================================
-
- - Mouse-controlled user interface with pull-down menus, scroll-bars in
- listing windows and in the scroll-back mode, and sending of words or
- characters by a mouse click.
-
- - Selectable language for the user interface, which can also be changed
- during a Telix session.
-
- - Built-in INT14 mode for using Telix within networks (via a modem sharing
- software) or with FOSSIL drivers (e.g. for passive ISDN boards).
-
- - Additional support of higher interrupts (IRQ8 to IRQ15) and higher
- addresses (above $7FFF) for the COM ports.
-
- - Convenient editing and compiling of script files from within Telix via
- Script menu or hotkeys.
-
- - Extended status windows for Zmodem batch file transfers (GSZ/DSZ
- compatible).
-
- - Telix now provides CPU resources for other applications in multi-tasking
- environments (such as Windows, OS/2 etc.).
-
- - Telix will now refuse to be launched more than once (e.g. out of its
- DOS-Shell)
-
- - Reduced the portion of Telix that remains in memory when swapping out
- from about 83k to 15k while in a DOS Shell.
-
- - Zmodem protocol is now the default upon Telix start-up (instead of
- Xmodem).
-
- - Added a command-line switch '?', which doesn't start Telix but
- displays the possible command-line options
-
- - Menu item "Command-line options" in "Help" menu. Hotkey: Ctrl-F1
-
- - Main help screen now also reachable by pressing F1 instead of Alt-Z
-
- - Zmodem: only if more than one file is transferred, a second progress bar
- appears in the up-/download window showing the 'total' bar count of a batch.
- With Zmodem UPload that works each time, with Zmodem DOWNload only, if
- the Zmodem protocol of the host system generates a GSZ/DSZ- or Telix
- v3.50(only!) compatible extended protocol header. Otherwise only one
- progress bar is displayed.
-
- - Telix is now additionally able to locate (and run) the script compiler
- (SALT/SIMPLE) in a preset script directory as well as in the Telix prog
- directory or the directory determined by the TELIX environment setting
- when it is launched from the script menu.
- (CS.EXE -> v1.50, CSS.EXE -> v2.04)
-
- Please note: If running CSS.EXE, CS.EXE has to be placed either in the
- same directory like CSS.EXE or in a directory located by
- the TELIX or the PATH environment settings (or at least in
- the current directory).
-
- - Paging mode adapted to Windows-like handling when mouse cursor is on
- the elevator bar in list windows (scroll-back buffer, dialing directory
- etc.).
-
- - Connect bit rate is now even displayed in terminal screen if dialing when
- using the dialing directory
-
- - Supplemented script menu. Added menu items "Edit", "Compile" and "Abort".
- Selecting "Compile" executes the SALT compiler by default except if the
- file to be compiled has the file extension ".SIM", in that case the SIMPLE
- compiler is called.
-
- - Pressing the left mouse button in ONLINE mode sends out either the character
- or the word under the mouse cursor to the com port. Pressing the right button
- sends a RETURN to the com port (only in online mode). Either sending a word
- or a character can be toggled using the new menu item "Send word" in "Misc."
- menu.
-
- - If monochrome screen mode was selected WHILE INSTALLING TELIX,
- an additional line separates now the main screen area from the menu-line,
- if there is one selected.
-
- What's Fixed
- ============
-
- - Fixed: Zmodem Flow control messages are only displayed now if status line
- is active
-
- - Now ALL keystrokes may be redirected again to a macro, even ALT-5,
- F10, Alt-F9 and Ctrl-F9.
-
- Nevertheless, while a keystroke is redirected to a macro, the function,
- which is normally executed by that (not redirected) key, is still
- able to be executed by selecting the corresponding menu item.
-
- - Zmodem transfer time should now be calculated correctly based on the
- current cps rate and independent of the selected dialing mode (manually
- from terminal screen or using the dialing directory)
-
- - Fixed: stack overflow error in CS.EXE while compiling scripts with
- deep nested if-then-else statements (reported by Phil Crown)
-
- - Script learn mode does now handle CTRL-M value in waitfor(...) command
- Otherwise the sent string was not recognized correctly and totally ignored.
-
-