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- Phonebook:
- ----------
-
- - The phonebook has been enhanced and partly redesigned and now features a
- print option.
-
- - The settings and program options have been redistributed which makes it
- necessary to convert phonebook and configuration files.
-
- - The smooth scrolling option was broken and has been fixed.
-
-
- Terminal emulation:
- -------------------
-
- - The terminal emulation setup is once again saved along with the
- configuration.
-
- - The terminal window size setup no longer uses hard-coded values, such as
- 80 ╫ 24 and 80 ╫ 25 but rather allows to adjust the number colums and
- lines.
-
- - The terminal input processing would not properly strip the high order bit
- if this feature was enabled in the modem settings.
-
- - The terminal window setup could easily trash the display, Enforcer hits
- were also a common sight with the previous window setup which would try
- to update the menu strip before it was even created.
-
- - On request the builtin terminal emulation handles the text processing and
- output on the schedule of a different task.
-
- - The `Mono' terminal mode used to trust the optimized scrolling routines
- that they would not pass invalid parameters to it. As such behaviour did
- in fact lead to serious crashes, it has been changed.
-
- - Certain incompatibilities with VMS tools have been fixed. Some tools
- would pass `empty' control sequences the terminal parser would refuse to
- interpret.
-
- - The data flow parser has been entirely rewritten and should consume less
- processing time now.
-
-
- Clipboard:
- ----------
-
- - The clipboard support routines now make sure that clipboard.device is
- loaded and in memory in order to avoid having to load it every time it is
- invoked.
-
- - The character snapping routines could accidentally try to set up a window
- area larger than the user had selected in the terminal setup.
-
- - The notorious character snapping crash is gone.
-
- - Pastes from the clipboard can now be enclosed in user-definable prefix
- and suffix strings.
-
-
- File transfer:
- --------------
-
- - The file transfer window has been redesigned. On request the general
- text display and processing is now handled on the schedule of a different
- task.
-
- - The entire file transfer process now creates a list of all the files to
- transfer before the transfer is started rather than trying to find all
- files while transferring.
-
- - As future XPR libraries may set the file protection bits of files
- received `term' no longer sets them to a fixed pattern set but rather
- updates them.
-
- - The calls to the XPR routine XProtocolHostMon() were not quite following
- the specs, now they do.
-
- - I have added another safety layer to the XPR and XEM client routines. I
- hope that the stack context save/restore action does not eat up too much
- time.
-
-
- User-interface:
- ---------------
-
- - The user interface layout routines now finally know how to get along with
- weird font sizes.
-
- - The `Select...' buttons have been replaced with fancy imagery.
-
- - New command-line options and tool type keywords have been added which
- make it possible to preset the serial device driver and device unit to be
- used, overriding the default configuration.
-
- - `term' will take advantage of new operating system features available
- under Workbench and Kickstart 3.0 (A4000, etc.).
-
- - In the previous releases the display mode selection list as displayed by
- the screen control panel would only display a fixed number of items.
- Starting with this release the entire list of available and applicable
- screen modes is displayed.
-
-
- Program enhancements:
- ---------------------
-
- - User-definable character translation tables have been added.
-
- - Similar to function key assignments the cursor keys can receive
- user-defined control sequence assignments now.
-
- - The program notices and remembers changes to the configuration,
- phonebook, etc. and notifies the user before it is terminated if any
- changes have not been saved yet.
-
- - Starting with this release, Kickstart 2.04 and Workbench 2.04 are
- required to run the program.
-
-
- Bug fixes:
- ----------
-
- - A bug in the routine to scan the menu strip for a certain entry would
- most certainly lead to Enforcer hits and crashes.
-
- - All known Enforcer hits (one, to be accurate) in the rates settings panel
- have been fixed.
-
- - The IFF-ILBM saving routines have been entirely rewritten.
-
- - The days of the week as included in the call log files were wrong and
- sometimes even corrupt, this has been fixed.
-