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- -- Please notify us if you have a CGA board that gives "snow" or --
- -- "chromablizzard" when "display warpdrive" is given. We are --
- -- considering eliminating snow-removal to increase performance. --
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-
- New ZOO files are being archived with ZOO 2.10 at maximum compression.
- These files require ZOO 2.10 or BOOZ to extract. All manual references
- to LOOZ should be changed to BOOZ to reflect this technology upgrade.
-
- You can customize ZCOMM and GYAM file transfer display colors with the
- GCOLORS program. Use the following command: "gcolors script.t". Gyam and
- ZCOMM can read the resultant file with "source script.t". These operations
- can of course be automated with a script or bound to a function key.
-
- GCOLORS is included in YAMDEMO.ZIP, YAMDEMO.ZOO, ZCOMMEXE.ZIP, and GSZ.ZIP.
-
- The "picture" command generates the same binary screen dump
- generated with the ALT-Z key. This command has been present for
- a long time but never fully made it into the manual.
-
- By popular request, Classic ZCOMM without graphics file transfer display
- has returned in CLASSICZ.ZIP.
-
- TurboDial 2.36: A pattern match timeout of 0 now implies no timeout.
-
- 18.05: The portx command now works with IRQ's up to 15. An example card
- that supports these higher IRQs is the $99 "WinSport II" from Boffin LTD
- 612-894-0595. This card has two NS16550AFN FIFO UARTS and also supports
- MobyBaud (18.432 MHz clock).
-
- The "D" numeric parameter has been removed; its function is provided by
- the optional third argument to the "portx" command.
- portx 3e8,15,57600 speed 200000
- Selects a comm port with a base address of 3e8 using IRQ15 and the 18.432
- MHz clock option on the Boffin Electronics "WinSport II" 2 port serial board.
-
- 18.04: The "handshake ax" command takes the low order 5 bits of the first
- letter of the command (usually "a") and writes them to the 8250/16550 UART
- Modem Control Register. This hack is specific to PCDOS flavors.
- A typical application is "ha ax" which raises Data Terminal Ready (bit 0)
- but turns off Request To Send, useful for interfacing to the Radio Shack
- Micronta Cat. No. 22-182 LCD Digital Multimeter with PC Interface. This
- instrument uses an optical coupler and will not communicate unless DTR is
- ON and RTS is OFF.
-
-
- 18.03: Some problems with ZMODEM-90(Tm) over 7-bit paths were fixed.
- Printer controller mode now passes all characters if vt100 emulation
- is not selected. (Vt220 specs require NULL, XON and XOFF to be filtered.)
- If the ena -8g command is given, all 8 bits are passed to the printer.
- CIS-B+ CRC-16 and 2k blocks now supported.
-
- 18.01: The default phones path is now c:/yam/phones.t for DOS flavors.
- The install batch files have been updated to reflect this change.
- The automatic selection of handshake both on serial ports presenting
- positive CTS has been refined. The display routines now default to
- "display warpdrive". If you still have a CGA that generates snow
- ("chromablizzard") you must uncomment the "display nowarpdrive" command
- in phones.ts.
-
- 17.95: The default built-in DOS phones path is now /yam/phones.t
- instead of /phones.t. As before, it can be overridden with the
- DOS PHONES environment variable or by putsnp.
-
- 17.94: DOS flavors now recognize a wider variety of EGA and VGA boards
- and automatically set "display warpdrive". The term function has been
- revised for better operation at very high speeds esp. with hardware
- handshaking.
-
- The "tcs" command now accepts redefinitions of characters 128-255.
- This allows "graphics drawing characters" to be changed.
-
- 17.93: DOS Pro-YAM flavors now allow the "set" command to bind strings
- or commands to the letter ALT keys ALT-a to ALT-z.
-
- If image or Image (ena -i or ena -I) mode is on, file append
- buffer capture does not search for a CP/M EOF in the file being
- appended to.
-
- 17.92: Giving "display inhibit" followed by "display noinhibit"
- no longer resets Dasher emulation graphics states.
-
- Doorway 2.2 is a shareware remote control program that allows a
- dial-in Yam user to enter keystrokes and view the alphanumeric
- display of the computer Doorway is running on. This
- functionality resembles that provided by PcAnywhere, Carbon
- Copy, et al.
-
- Doorway host mode support has been added. When Yam is run under
- Doorway, doorway redirection is turned off. After executing
- commands in the setup telephone directory entry and the commands
- on the DOS command line, Yam exits before displaying the main
- prompt, restoring the previous Doorway state. DSZ and GSZ
- versions starting Dec 1991 also support Doorway host operation.
-
- 17.90: Corrections to a cursor positioning problem and pN1
- interaction with some display adapters.
-
- 17.89 An interaction between the -c switch and CIS-B downloads
- was removed.
-
- 17.88: A local -c option will now override the sender's -r option.
-
- The ""gcolors" command is now a no-op on flavors without the graphic file
- transfer display. The "dG" test condition evaluates true iff the program
- supports the graphics file transfer display.
-
- A problem with the "display inhibit" command has been fixed.
-
- 17.87: the "xy column row" command has been added to allow convenient
- direct local cursor addressing. Home = 1 1. Example: xy 1 20
-
- Fixed an interaction between FIFO uarts and YMODEM-g termination after all
- files have been sent. Fixed problem of some options being ignored on
- XMODEM and YMODEM downloads. Fixed graphics display problem involving
- more than 40 MB of files.
-
-
- 17.86: A conflict between crash recovery and user specified
- short packets has been corrected.
-
- Pro-YAM, ZCOMM, DSZ.EXE and GSZ now accept the "c" option to
- force incoming files to use a changed file name when a file with
- the same name exists. The receiving program must support this
- new ZMODEM option or file disposition will be undefined.
-
- 17.84: Fix for possible modem i/o lockup with older UART chips.
- Improvements in graphics transfer display.
-
- 17.83: Some fixes in GCOLORS. Coded added to recover from some types
- of defective serial ports.
-
- 17.82: When using printing with DOS (l numeric parameter == 0), printer
- faults generate the "Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail" message. Responding "f"
- to this message a few times will now return control to YAM and cause YAM
- to deselect the printer by setting the l numeric parameter to -1. This
- allows normal operation to proceed if the printer fails. Printing can be
- reenabled by setting the l numeric parameter to 0.
-
- 17.80: Gyam.exe is a new flavor of PCDOS Pro-YAM with full screen
- graphics status display of file transfer data. The amount of
- information displayed depends on the protocol and sending program.
- XMODEM, Compuserve-B, and Kermit download displays make use of data
- supplied by the "estimate" command.
-
- Time of day and call elapsed time are displayed. MODEM status is
- displayed as follows: x = software flow restraint, X = hardware
- flow restraint, L = Loss of carrier detect, H = on Hook.
-
- The display color scheme may be altered with the "gcolors"
- command. The following gives a rather "rad" set of colors:
- gcolors 15,2,12,120,10,6,14,6,31,7,12,2,14,15,15,0,0
- A menu driven companion program "gcolors" will support interactive
- modification of the screen colors.
-
- Setting the l numeric parameter to 0 uses DOS PRN: (stdprn) instead
- of ROM BIOS for printing with the lputp command, l mode, and terminal
- emulation printer controller mode. Doing so may generate "Abort Retry
- Fail" messages from some versions of DOS. DOS 5.0 generates spurious
- "Write Fault" messages with some parallel port adapters. In one instance,
- changing from the parallel port on an AST Advantage board to a recent
- Chinese "AT Multi I/O" board eliminated the DOS error messages.
-
- Wyse 60 printer controller and aux print modes are now supported.
-
- 17.78: The MODEM string parameter has been added to allow ZCOMM to use the
- new advanced dialing scripts (adial) without difficulty. This is initialized
- by the MODEM environment string (if present).
-
- References to the "aprompt" string should read "altprompt".
-
- Keyboard mapping mode is no longer required for ANSI KAM to be effective.
-
- Conference mode transmission now obeys throttle.
-
-
- 17.77: The -I option has been added to the sz and sb commands. The -I
- option causes new versions of VMS rz to store files with the VMS Variable
- length (mrs=510) binary format. The main use of this VMS record format is
- to prevent VMS Kermit programs from altering file contents.
-
- The string parameters altprompt, tmodes, nodename, parity, and speed
- are new to TurboDial 2.35.
- altprompt Prompt string for ALT-2 (similar to mprompt)
- tmodes Default term function modes for f, learn, F-2, t commands
- nodename Unix system node name
- parity string representation of number of bits and parity, e.g. 8n
- speed string representation of speed as set by "speed" command
-
- Usage of the statliner parameter has been improved. If statliner begins
- with a space, it is appended to the status line information. Otherwise
- it is processed for string substitutions and character escapes and
- replaces the right hand side of the status line.
-
- "Handshake slow" is more effective for ZMODEM CRC-32 and MobyTurbo downloads.
-
- pcANYWHERE "A" command has been removed from ZCOMM and Pro-YAM.
-
- 17.74 -n flag added to echo command suppresses cr/lf and reverse video.
- (TurboDial 2.34) Sz -e is more network compatible.
-
- 17.72 Corrected bad CRC calculation on zero length blocks.
-
- 17.71 Corrected incorrect calculation of disk free space on very large
- disk drives.
-
- 17.70 Code changes to improve operation with the Intel SatisFAXtion(Tm)
- modem/fax board.
-