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INTRODUCTION TO PIBTERM v3.0
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PibTerm is a terminal emulation and host communications program written
in Turbo Pascal for the IBM PC and compatibles.
Features of PibTerm include:
1. Several different terminal emulation methods:
-- DEC VT52
-- DEC VT100 (large subset)
-- BBS ANSI (ANSI.SYS color graphics and music)
-- Dumb glass TTY
-- Dumb glass TTY in split-screen mode
2. The ability to act as a host program (mini BBS).
3. Ring buffered, interrupt driven, serial I/O.
4. A number of popular file transfer methods:
-- Xmodem Checksum and CRC
-- Modem7 batch with either Checksum or Crc
-- Ymodem (YAM)
-- Telink
-- Ascii with XON/XOFF
-- Auto_download for Bob Mahoney's EXEC PC BBS.
-- CompuServe B Protocol
-- Kermit
5. Telephone dialing directory.
6. Session logging/capture to printer and/or disk.
7. On-screen editing (block mode) for use with mainframes.
8. Menu-driven commands.
9. Macro-key definition for constructing terminal keypad
emulations or holding other often-used text sequences.
10. Escapes to the operating system (and return from DOS)
within a PibTerm session.
11. Built-in file and directory manipulation, including
directory display, file display, file copying, file erasure.
12. Screen dumps to a file.
13. Customizable modem support.
14. Automatic change of baud rate to the proper one with
smart modems like the Hayes 1200 and USR Courier.
15. Built-in phone area code directory.
16. Dialing session and total session time elapsed counters.
17. Internal line capture buffer which may be viewed at
any time.
18. Script files for constructing sequences of commonly used
commands, especially useful for generating auto-logon scripts.
For those who have used version 2.0 of PibTerm, you will find that
most (if not all) of the bugs you encountered have been fixed in
version 3.0. In addition, version 3.0 allows more flexibility in
color selection, provides faster and more reliable file transfers,
adds the Kermit file transfer protocol, improves the VT100 emulation,
adds a backscroll buffer, simplifies dialing, provides a reasonably
general script facility, and more. You can get an idea of the magnitude
of the enhancements by considering that the document for version 3.0 is
over twice as long as that for version 2.0.
FILES TO GET
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The two files PIBT3EP1.ARC and PIBT3EP2.ARC contain the executable version,
documentation, and required configuration files for PibTerm.
The four files PIBT3SP1.ARC, PIBT3SP2.ARC, PIBT3SP3.ARC, and PIBT3SP4.ARC
contain the complete source code (34000+ lines of Turbo Pascal) for PibTerm.
You do NOT need the source files to run PibTerm, only the files in the
PIBT3EP1.ARC and PIBT3EP2.ARC archives.
All six files were created using the ARC430.EXE program. You will need
that program (or a later version) to extract files from the .ARC archives.
Phil Burns
October, 1985
. You will need
that program (or a later version) to extract files from the .ARC archiv