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- February 24, 1987.
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- Telix v2.12 Copyright (C) 1986,87
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- PTel and Colin Sampaleanu
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- PTel, 276 Guildwood Parkway, Toronto, Ont. M1E 1P9
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- The communications driver in Telix v2.10 did not work in about
- 5% of the machines encountered. This release fixes that problem as
- well as a few other bugs that were reported.
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- February 6, 1987.
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- Telix v2.10 Copyright (c) 1986,87
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- PTel, 276 Guildwood Parkway, Toronto, Ont. M1E 1P9
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- This file describes the changes in Telix since release 1.10, as well
- as any bugs that have been fixed. Changes include:
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- o The SEAlink protocol has been implemented. This is a very fast
- sliding window variation of Xmodem that was developed by System
- Enhancement Associates (SEA). Basically, as long as no errors
- occur, data is being sent continuously during a SEAlink trans-
- fer. Expect a speed increase of 15 to 25% over normal Xmodem.
- Even better, as the baud rate goes up, so the speed increase
- gets larger. The Opus BBS system supports SEAlink as a file
- transfer protocol.
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- o The layout of the dialing directory has been greatly changed.
- It is now controlled by a 'Lotus-style' menu which is much eas-
- ier to use. As well, the layouts of most other menus have been
- slightly changed.
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- o Host Mode now has two access levels, with the second giving the
- user full path access. As well, the remote caller may now shut
- down the Host Mode, if s/he enters the appropriate password.
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- o Ymodem Batch has been added as a file transfer protocol.
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- o Modem7 has been added as a file transfer protocol.
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- o The comm driver has been rewritten and is a lot smarter. When
- you leave Telix it will restore the comm port to EXACTLY the
- sate it found it in. As well, if you exit to a DOS shell while
- in Telix and run a program which modifies the state of the comm
- port, upon returning Telix will automatically re-initialize the
- port to its proper state.
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- o The separate configuration program has been eliminated and re-
- placed by a built in Configuration Menu.
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- o When performing a file transfer on a bbs, Telix will try to
- guess the name of the file you want to transfer, based upon
- your past keystrokes.
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- o Full editing has been implemented whenever a string must be en-
- tered. Use the Left, Right, Ctrl-Left, and Ctrl-Right arrow
- keys to move in the string. Use the Del key to delete chars,
- and the Ins key to toggle Insert/Overstrike mode.
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- o When you press Alt-R to redial a previously entered list of
- numbers, the list is actually displayed and you may edit it at
- will, inserting and deleting entries.
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- o Telix now asks DOS for the date and time format to use when
- displaying date and time respectively.
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- o Many mysterious problems were caused by faulty memory alloca-
- tion routines. These routines have been fixed and the problems
- have gone away.
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- o Some bugs related to the mono text adapter have been fixed.
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- o A rather nasty bug in the Session Log has been fixed. Telix
- would occasionally fill up the disk with the same piece of text
- when writing to the Log.
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- o A few small bugs in Telix's support of ANSI graphics have been
- fixed.
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- October 9, 1986.
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- Telix v1.10
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- Copyright (C) 1986
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- Colin Sampaleanu
- 276 Guildwood Parkway
- Toronto, Ont M1E 1P9
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- This file describes the changes in version 1.10 of Telix, as well as
- the bugs that have been fixed. Changes include:
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- - A MUCH improved manual with no spelling errors, an index, and
- more examples. This is worth printing out.
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- - A split-screen chat mode.
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- - A host mode, including automatic speed detection, file trans-
- fers, a remote dos shell, and operator paging.
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- - An improved redial window.
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- - Multiple dialing directories. You could for example keep a di-
- rectory for each city you call, or have another directory with
- friends' numbers.
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- - More dialing directory editing commands, plus a print directory
- command.
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- - Improved ASCII file transfers that can be configured to your
- needs.
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- - Telink upload implemented (only download was available before).
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- - Telix now works with monochrome text cards. The bug in Telix
- v1.02 that caused the mono card problems has been fixed.
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- - Command line switches to run a script file upon startup, as
- well as some other functions.
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- - Even more powerful script files. While a script file is run-
- ning, the user has complete control. For example, while a
- script is waiting for a string, the user can view the help
- screen, start a file transfer, or initiate any command nor-
- mally available. This also means that if a script goofs up the
- user can correct the problem without having to abort the
- script.
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- - Script files can now be assigned to function keys.
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- - More script commands.
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- - Upload filenames now accept global characters.
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- - An Upload directory.
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- - "Dos command" command. You can now execute a dos command with-
- out having to exit to a dos shell, eg. "list Telix.doc",
- "copy a:*.arc c:", "arc x Telix.arc", etc.
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- - Redial improved to work with more modems.
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- - The Kermit protocol can be configured.
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- - Automatic incoming file renaming for batch transfers. If an in-
- coming file during a Telink or Kermit transfer already exists
- it is automatically renamed.
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- - Screen Image command to save the current screen to a file.
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- - Due to some advanced routines, you should get even less errors
- or problems with noisy phone lines. Telix file transfers how-
- ever, are still the fastest!
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- - Telix now works better with the PCBoard Ymodem protocol. Due to
- a bug in PCBoard, Telix had some problems before.
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