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- Telemate 3.01 3 January, 1992
- =============
-
- We are now "White River Software", owned by the author. Please support
- the shareware concept so that we can continue to improve and support
- Telemate.
-
- In this release, we add a new dialog manager, Avatar 0+, internal Kermit,
- enhanced script language and a lot of convenient functions such as file
- name tagging, auto redial, keystroke macro sequence and screen saver.
- All of them will make telecommunication more enjoyable.
-
- To upgrade from 2.00 or 2.11, type "UPGRADE TM.CFG" in the DOS prompt
- and delete all *.TMS files.
-
-
- IMPORTANT NOTICE
- ================
-
- . Telemate Version 3.01 is available in the following BBSs as
- TM301-1.ZIP, TM301-2.ZIP and TM301-3.ZIP, or .ARJ's.
-
- H.P Systems: Michigan, USA ---- 313-364-5157 HST/ds
- Late Night BBS: New York, USA ---- 315-592-7300 HST/ds
- PC Connect: Toronto, Canada ---- 416-733-9052 2400
- SouthWest Connect: Chatham, Canada ---- 519-352-7010 HST/ds
- User To User #1: Dallas, USA ---- 214-492-6565 HST/ds
- User To User #2: Dallas, USA ---- 214-492-5695 HAYES V42
-
- And it is file requestable from 1:2202/1 as 'telemate'.
-
- In CompuServe, you can find TM3011.ZIP, TM3012.ZIP and TM3013.ZIP
- in IBMCOM forum Library 3/Comm program.
-
- . Telemate is supported in the following Echo Mail systems:
-
- FidoEcho on Home Plate BBS
- GDNet on Late Night BBS
- ILink on PC Connect
- IntelecNet on PC Connect
- RelayNet on User To User
- SmartNet on PC Connect
-
- . Late Night BBS in New York is now a Telemate support BBS.
-
-
-
- What's new
- ==========
-
- Dial Window
- -----------
-
- . Auto Redial upon carrier lost.
- . Multiple phone line support, similar names are removed from the
- dial list.
- . Select or de-select dial entries with [Spacebar] or mouse click.
- . Strip High Bit, Long Distance, Tag Separater and Initial Guessing
- option in phone directory.
- . Auto Log (previous Auto Open Log) in phone directory will turn on/off
- the log file automatically.
- . Dial bar color selection.
- . Remove (or clear) a dial entry in Dial window.
- . Default COM port in Dial window now uses the current COM port.
- . Default Baud rate (0) in Dial window.
- . Dial Break string, default is "RING^M".
- . Reload phone directory if necessary after DOS shell, can use
- TMPHONE.EXE during the DOS shell.
-
-
- Terminal Window
- ---------------
-
- . Avatar 0+ terminal emulation.
- . Prism terminal emulation.
- . Kermit with 8th-bit encoding and run-length-encoding.
- . 4 more (8 total) external protocols.
- . Select multiple files with [Spacebar] in directory when uploading.
- . Multiple files can now pass to external protocol batch file.
- . BIOS 14h and FOSSIL connection.
- . Space and Mark parity.
- . Xmodem-1K.
- . Xmodem upload uses a 4K read-ahead buffer if you have enough memory.
- . Xmodem download and its variation use the actual name instead of
- "UNKNOWN.$$$" during the download.
- . [Alt S] displays both .SCR and .TMS in the script directory.
- . Finer pacing in measure of 1/20 seconds instead of 1/10.
- . File name guessing accepts digit as starting character.
- . The block fields and the remote system field in the transfer
- window are removed.
- . Quote margin cuts off the quoting message at the margin instead
- of reformatting it.
- . Turn off 16550 FIFO when exit.
-
-
- Edit/View/Back/DOS/Clipboard Window
- -----------------------------------
-
- . Tag [Alt G] file names in the Edit, View and Back window. [Alt G] is
- a lot like [Alt C] but it copies the only file names in the marked text.
- You can select a space (for PCBoard, QBBS, etc), a carriage return
- (for Wildcat, etc) or comma (for GENie, etc) as the tag separater.
- [Shift Alt G] appends instead of copies.
- . Support CUA-like text marking. E.g. Shift-Right will start marking.
- [Ctrl Ins] as [Alt C], [Shift Ins] as [Alt P], and [Ctrl Del] as [Alt U].
- Note: CUA uses [Shift Del] as cut.
- . Clear View window.
- . DOS 5's look in the DOS command window.
- . DEL in DOS command window support /p as the prompt command.
- . INSIDE supports ARJ and ZOO and use /p as pause command.
- . Larger Clipboard.
- . Tag file names and Clear in Clipboard.
-
-
- Macro
- -----
-
- . ^- keystroke simulation macro symbol which generate keystroke
- as if they are typed in from the keyboard.
- . In ^= macro sequence, you can add a ^[ after the ^M if you want
- to hide the DOS command window after executing the command.
- . Redefinable F1, PgUp and PgDn keys.
- . Support for enhanced keyboard, redefinable extra cursor keys.
- . Doorway mode supports enhanced keyboard.
- . Seperation of [Ctrl H] and [Back space].
-
-
- Dialog/Option
- -------------
-
- . Enhanced dialog manager supports hot-key using a single character
- key or an alt key combo. [Tab]/[Shift Tab] will jump to the
- next/previous group. [Up]/[Down] will move to the next/previous item.
- Only one [Enter], instead of two, is needed to activate the default button.
- . Maximum DOS shell. When On, RTS will be dropped if RTS/CTS flow control
- is On. Otherwise, the COM port will be disabled during the DOS shell
- and incoming data will be lost. So this option should be turned on only
- if you use RTS/CTS flow control.
- . Date format now can has 9 values (0-8)
- 0 = MM-DD-YY, 1 = DD-MM-YY, 2 = YY-MM-DD
- 3 = MM/DD/YY, 4 = DD/MM/YY, 5 = YY/MM/DD
- 6 = MM.DD.YY, 7 = DD.MM.YY, 8 = YY.MM.DD
- . Screen saver.
- . Log heading option.
- . External alarm.
- . Reverse mouse left/right button.
- . Image, View and Write directory.
- . Display free memory information in Status window [F1].
- . Default video color for LCD.
- . Save 'Display all information' option in file directory.
- . Able to print to LPT1 or LPT2. Use TMINST.EXE to set the printer port.
- . Add highlite character in menu options.
- . Add /N command line option. It works like /O except that it uses the
- COM port parameters in TM.CFG.
-
-
- Script
- ------
-
- . New SET commands:
- SET AutoStop,Off/On.
- When On, the script will be halted upon carrier lost. This special
- option is reset to Off at the beginning of every script.
- SET MaxDosShell,Off/On
- SET DateFormat,0-8
- SET ScreenSaver,0-99
- SET LogFilter,Off/On
- SET LogHeading,Off/On
- SET ExtAlarm,Off/On
- SET AutoRedial,Off/On
- SET MultiLine,Off/On
- SET Tag,Space/Crlf/Comma
- SET DirTelemate,""
- SET DirDownload,""
- SET DirEdit,""
- SET DirImage,""
- SET DirLog,""
- SET DirScript,""
- SET DirUpload,""
- SET DirView,""
- SET DirWrite,""
-
- . Improved SET command: all SET commands now accept integer as well as
- the token (e.g. 'On','Off','TTY','ANSI' etc). A value of 0 is
- interperted as 'Off', 1 is 'On'. Others are shown as follows:
- SET Connection, Modem(0)/Computer(1)/Fossil(2)/BIOS(3)
- SET Parity, None(0)/Odd(1)/Even(2)/Space(3)/Mark(4)
- SET Terminal, TTY(0)/ANSI(1)/VT52(2)/VT102(3)/AVATAR(4)/PRISM(5)
- SET Tag, Space(0)/Crlf(1)/Comma(2)
-
- . QUERY command: all options that can be set by the SET command can
- be queried by the QUERY command. It returned the corresponding
- string or integer (not token). In addition, the QUERY command
- accept BOARD, PHONE, PASSWORD, TOTAL, LASTCALL and MEMO.
-
- . KEYSTROKE command in the script. This is an equivalent to the keystroke
- macro except it does not need the '^-' symbol.
-
- . CONNECTED reports the BBS # connected
- . LOADMAC, LOADPAD and LOADKEY: Same as LOADFON
- . CONVERTDATE procedure in TOOLBOX3.SCR
- . FILEEXIST supports wildcard
- . DELETE supports wildcard.
- . Adds 'SET AUTOSTOP,ON' in script generated by LEARN
-
- . HOST.SCR is improved so that it detects the correctness of the carrier
- signal and issues the "AT&C1" command when necessary. This is the
- answer to the most asked question of 'why my host script does not
- work?'. It also restores all the options after the host mode is ended.
-
-
- Others
- ------
- . TMINST.EXE can define the base address, the IRQ and interrupt
- number of a COM port.
- . TMPHONE.EXE adds COPY command.
- . TMSTAT.EXE supports an optional TMSTAT.CFG which describes telephone
- rate in details.
- . ROLALARM.EXE as an external alarm.
- . CONVERT.EXE converts PROCOMM+ 1.x, QMODEM 4.2x and TELIX 3.1x phone
- directory to TELEMATE's.
-
-