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BinkleyTerm 2.56 Wide Beta (C) Copyright 1987-92, Bit Bucket Software, Co. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. -------------------------- Well, here it is. It's not a completed product, and even some of the stuff that seems complete is slated for changes or recoding. But you guys wanted it early, you got it early. No promises -- it looks pretty good here but my system isn't your system. In a nutshell, here are the main changes in 2.56 over 2.50: o EMSI session handshaking o Use of MAXCOMM for multithreaaded OS/2 comms o External mail exit can be made into a spawn o Modem CONNECT result code (such as CONNECT 9600/FAX) can be used as an external mail string o MAXFILES.IDX can be used for fast file request lookup o Support for giving away timeslice in OS/2 DOS box There are other things here too. Following are the docs that the beta testers get. Since we haven't revved the docs yet, this is all we can offer you. That's why they call it a "wide beta". READ THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT BEFORE UPDATING YOUR SOFTWARE. THERE ARE SUBTLE OPERATIONAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THIS VERSION AND VERSION 2.50!!! Ask questions in the BINKLEY echo. We'll try to help. Send bug reports to: (DOS) Vince Perriello at 1:343/491@fidonet and (OS/2) Bill Andrus at 1:109/301@fidonet. Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.56 from 2.55 ------------------------------------- Cleanup to make the sucker compile on Zortech and Borland compilers. Put all the mailers from FTSC product code list into table and remove all the packers. Security improvements for EMSI: 1) Password mismatch on outgoing call will only be allowed on the first AKA. All others will be discarded 2) Bug fix for remote with no pickup: number of AKA's would be set to 1. If all AKA's had been knocked out on password errors or curmudgeon mode, this bug allowed the session to proceed. Close a hole in Curmudgeon mode where other domain wasn't known. Shut down MOVE (Microsoft overlay facility) before swapping out and start it up again after swapping back in. Fix bug in extmail string comparison that made 8-bit characters impossible. Correct problem with 2x outbound sizes caused by outbound called "mydomain[0].myzone[0]" (e.g. "OUTBOUND.001"). Support for domain kludging to zone numbers. Lines of the form "DomainKludge ZoneNumber DomainName" (e.g. "DomainKludge 7 alternet.ftn") will fill in a domain if addresses are without domain specification, either from local entry or in FidoNet handshaking. These lines must follow the "Domain" lines, and if you set a domainkludge without having previously defined a domain, it will not be processed. Here is an example: Domain fidonet.org fidonet nodex Domain alternet.ftn alternet nodex Domain eggnet eggnet nodex DomainKludge 7 alternet.ftn DomainKludge 99 eggnet REMEMBER, THE DOMAINKLUDGE LINES *MUST* FOLLOW THE DOMAIN LINES! Increase stack size. This fixed almost every inexplicable problem with 2.55. Fix crash bug with END in pending outbound window when there was nothing actually pending. Remove wrap from outbound window, and limit downward movement to list end. Fix stupid signal stuff in BT.C Don't disable com port on shell to command prompt in terminal mode. Set BBS default to "spawn" in OS/2. Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.55 from 2.54 ------------------------------------- Fold in code from Michael Buenter to support using MAXFILES.IDX for file request searches. Here is the description in his own words: * OKFile extension: Adding *path\MAXFILES.IDX in OKFILES.TXT lets BT search through this database when processing file requests. This is much faster than seeking through whole a partition (and it's more "multitasking friendly", too!). You will have to add following keywords to your BINKLEY.CFG: FileSec n KnownSec n (optional) ProtSec n (optional) where n is the following security level: 0=Disgrace, 1=Limited, 2=Normal, 3=Worthy, 4=Privil, 5=Favored, 6=Extra, 7=Clerk, 8=Asstsysop, 10=Sysop, 11=Hidden, -2=Twit Following line has to be added to your BINKLEY.CFG, too: MaxAreas d:\max\area.dat Each caller will be assigned a "user level" (security) depending on their caller level (default, known, prot). This security will be compared to the access rights in the Maximus file area. If the security is too low, the caller will get a password error. Access to 5000-8000 files is very fast: it takes about _one_ second on my setup! This won't be very much longer on slower systems because the file access time will stay about the same. There will appear some new entries in the log with details to each search if you have LogLevel +/-5 defined in yout setup. I got many nice comments about this new features. Some people have been very happy about the fast file finds even with wildcards! The entire "Connect" line will now be treated as a potential external mail string. This allows Bink to shell out to an external program for funny FAX modems. OS/2 users, don't forget to use the "extern spawn" option and set up a EXTOPT.CMD file! Add C7 time_t correction to Janus file request logic. Turn off DEBUG flag in state machine logic. This will make state table code (YooHoo, SendSync, RecvSync, all FTS-0001/7/8 code including Sealink) MUCH faster. Clean up EMSI .BSY file stuff. Minor tweaks to domain stuff (which were needed for the EMSI domain code to work right) Clean up conflict between session elapsed time indicator and new task number display in settings window. "WinSlice" no longer needed for timeslice release in OS/2 DOS box. Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.54 from 2.53 ------------------------------------- Fix WHATSNEW file to correct documentation error: EXTopt was not the name of the option which forced a spawn. EXTern was the name of the option. Correct for differences between C7's ANSI time_t (0 is 12/31/1899) and UNIX time (0 is 1/1/1970), where transmitted values in file requests, SEAlink block zero, ZMODEM headers, EMSI packets are based on UNIX time but RTL is based on ANSI time_t. FYI ... the difference is 2209075200L. As you might have guessed, this means that Microsoft C 7.0 is now the standard compiler for BinkleyTerm on DOS. C 6.0 is still the standard for the OS/2 version. Several fixes in EMSI. Change language from "WaZOO method:" to "Session method:" and similar changes elsewhere, to reflect dual WaZOO/EMSI state. Michael Buenter's fix to the outbound window stuff. Support '\s' in the language file (btlng change). If you've defined "TaskNumber", display it along with the multitasker name. Changes to session logic as follows: 1) Nodelist lookup returns 0 for failure, -1 for curmudgeon instead of performing curmudgeon disconnect 2) FTSC and YooHoo logic now perform curmudgeon disconnect 3) EMSI mods: a) KNOWN only set on known address if no pw error b) PROT only set on prot address c) curmudgeon return or pw error causes aka to be skipped d) failure to create flagfile causes aka to be skipped e) at end of aka handling, hang up if no aka's remain DOS version greater than or equal to 10 is considered to be the OS/2 DOS box, and if so the "WinSlice" verb can be used to release the timeslice to OS/2. We will probably make this the default in the next beta, but I want to play it safe this time. Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.53 from 2.51 ------------------------------------- NOEMSI now works on both inbound and outbound sessions. Script verb "NoEMSI" disables EMSI for the session associated with the script. Consolidate EMSI session logic and WaZOO session logic. Update copyright notices to 1992 and internal version refs to 2.60 Bug fix in file request password checking, courtesy of Scott Dudley. V6 support will internally truncate oversized nodelists (though that code will break when nodelist reaches just under 64K nodes) Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.51 from 2.50 ------------------------------------- Complete new YooHoo (FTS-0006 handshake) logic. Seems to work much better in Belgium. Don't flush status log prior to spawn if it's not open. This gave the OS/2 side fits. Sorry, Bill. Correction to snoop logic to handle conflict between snoop specification in config file and environment variable. Use terminal mode init for modem hang-up if in terminal mode and we have a terminal mode init. HEY!!! READ THIS!! IT MIGHT BREAK YOUR CURRENT CONFIGURATION!! Bink now matches modem types exactly rather than using a bitwise AND. This allows lots more modem types, but requires that you change your nodelist generation and config stuff (if you're using ModemTrans). Added Ron Bemis' change to allow an external mail exit to be a "spawn". This is accomplished by putting "EXTern spawn" in your config file. Note: if you enable this option, all external mail is spawned. The arguments to EXTMAIL are exactly the same as the exit case, so you can find the "errorlevel" from the command line if you need it. Added Ron Bemis' change to allow an external process to force BinkleyTerm to exit. This is enabled by putting "ForcExit n" in the config file, where (n) is the errorlevel you wish to use on exit. Bink will periodically check the flag directory (or the directory you're running Bink from if no flag directory) for a file called FORCEXIT (or FORCEXIT.xxx if task number is set). When it sees the file, it will delete it and exit with the user specified errorlevel. Improved Zmodem transmitter startup (mostly important for function requests). Merged in Tobias Burchhardt's EMSI mods. This includes some additional config verbs: NoEMSI disables EMSI MyLocation defines nodelist location \ MyPhone phone number \ In nodelist MyListFlags nodelist flags / format MyMaxBaud max baud rate / PickUpAll enables all pick ups in EMSI Example: MyLocation Redmond, WA MyPhone 1-206-868-7581 MyListFlags CM,XA,V32B,HST MyMaxBaud 9600 Logs: * 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK Bink Beer Consumed Here (1:343/491) : 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK Aka: 1:132/491 1:141/491 7:491/0 * 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK Remote Uses BinkleyTerm 2.51/(UNREGISTERED) : 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK SysOp: Vince Perriello from Redmond, WA 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK Phone: 1-206-868-7581 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK Flags: CM,XA,V32B,V42B,HST,MO : 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK Tranx: 294196F9 / ACED66F8 : 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK EMSI method: ZedZap Note: This EMSI logic doesn't handle private nets for points. If any of your points will be running this beta, make really sure that they all show their point addresses as AKA's. This limitation will be fixed soon. I expect it to take us a while to sort out the implications of EMSI. We'll get it down. Hang loose and keep them problem reports comin' in! Merged in Pete Fitzsimmons' improvements to OS/2 comm code and additional time_release in areas that had been overlooked. I'm told that his multithreaded comm DLL really works great.