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Telemate 4.00 5 January, 1993 ================================= Telemate 4.00 is now available in the following BBSs as TM400-1.ZIP, TM400-2.ZIP, TM400-3.ZIP, TM400-4.ZIP and TMALARM.ZIP or .ARJ's. Land of the Gypsy's Oregon, USA ---- 503-297-0626 14400 V32bis Late Night BBS (*) New York, USA ---- 315-564-5700 14400 HST/ds PC Connect (*) Toronto, Canada ---- 416-733-9052 2400 User To User #1 Dallas, USA ---- 214-492-6565 14400 HST/ds User To User #2 Dallas, USA ---- 214-492-5695 9600 V32 (*) Real name logon only. "Telemate Telemate" logon not supported. In CompuServe, you will find TM4001.ZIP, TM4002.ZIP, TM4003.ZIP and TM4004.ZIP in IBMCOM forum Library 3/Comm program. The phone directory SUPPORT.FON is added so that you can access our support BBS and distribute sites easier. How to Register =============== You can now register Telemate with your credit card through the Public (Software) Library at 1-800-2424-775 or 1-713-524-6394 (order only please) or write to Public (Software) Library P.O. Box 35705 Houston, TX 77235-5705 USA For cheque or money order registration, please send it to White River Software P.O.Box 73031 Limeridge Mall Postal Outlet Hamilton, Ont. L9A 5H7 Canada (This is a new address. Mail sent to the old address will be forward automatically.) CompuServe users can register Telemate and GIFLink through CompuServe's new shareware registration service. Please go to the SWREG forum and search for TELEMATE and GIFLink. For a limited time, we accept competitive upgrade for Boyan, Procomm, Procomm Plus, Qmodem and Telix. Please refer to the order form for details. Distribution Sites ================== Thank you for many generous sysops, we are expanding our distribution network. On most distribution sites, you can simply log on with the user name 'Telemate Telemate' and the password 'telemate'. Then you will be able to download the Telemate files at the first call. You can also F'REQ from them with the magic name 'TELEMATE'. The following distirbution sites are listed in the phone directory SUPPORT.FON. ----- DISTRIBUTE SITE ----- Coastline File Exchange (310)396-6011 14400 V32bis Egghead's Place (313)537-5704 14400 V32bis/HST Jesus Is Lord BBS (803)776-0323 9600 V32bis The Bloom County (313)582-0888 14400 V32bis The Freq Shop BBS (616)629-4354 14400 V32bis/HST The Agency BBS (803)821-2745 14400 V32bis The Hideaway! (517)569-2332 14400 V32bis The Quantum BBS (410)239-8379 14400 V32bis ----- FIDONET F'REQ ----- Land of the Gypsy's Fido 1:105/18 The Agency BBS Fido 1:372/51 The Bloom County Fido 1:2410/400 The Freq Shop BBS Fido 1:2201/29 The Hideaway! Fido 1:2330/4 The Quantum BBS Fido 1:261/1098 Installing a new Telemate ========================= The following steps show how to install Telemate on the C drive of your hard disk drive. You can use any other drive by substituting the letter of your drive in place of C in the example below. 1) Make a subdirectory for the Telemate files by typing MD \TM. 2) Change to the Telemate directory by typing CD \TM. 3) Copy all Telemate files to C:\TM. 4) Start the installation program TMINST.EXE and set up your Telemate. Now you are ready to run Telemate TM.EXE. Upgrading from v3.xx ==================== Upgrading from v3.xx is sample, you can replace the following files with the new ones TM.EXE the main program TM.OVL the main program (overlay) TM.RES the resource file TM.HLP the help file HOST.SCR the host script (inside HOST.EXE) HCONFIG.SCR the host configuration script (inside HOST.EXE) Compiled files .TMS from v3.01 or higher is binary compatible with version 4.00. There is no need to re-compile them. If you want to use the new GIFLink X/Y/Zmodem/QuickB protocol driver with viewing capability during transmission, you should also copy GIFLINK.EXE the main GIFLink program GIFLINK.DOC the document GIFZ-U.BAT the upload batch file for GIFLink's Zmodem GIFZ-D.BAT the download batch file for GIFLink's Zmodem GIF-QB.BAT the upload and download batch file for QuickB TM.CFG the new TM.CFG with GIFLink defined Introducing GIFLink =================== In this release, we introduce GIFLink - a X/Y/Zmodem/QuickB protocol driver that displays transmitting GIF images in stunning SuperVGA graphics! It is the first protocol driver that uses full screen computer graphics in SuperVGA mode. GIFLink is distributed with Telemate as the 4th package and it is also available as a stand-alone Shareware. Telemate registered users are entitled to a special discount for GIFLink registration. . When transfering GIF files, GIFLink shows the GIF images in the optimal size so that the full image always fits in the screen. It also displays a number of useful information such as COM port, baud rate, estimated transfer time, average cps, image resolutions, etc. . GIFLink supports most of the popular file transfer protocols such as Zmodem, Batch Ymodem, Ymodem-G, Ymodem, Xmodem and CompuServe QuickB. If the files being transmitted are not GIF images, GIFLink will work just like a normal protocol driver. So GIFLink will transmit any files, not just GIF images. . Not only can GIFLink shows the GIF images while you are transmitting them, it has a special VIEW mode so that you can look at the received GIF images in a slideshow format or preview the images you are going to sent. . Almost all SuperVGA adapters and VESA compatible adapters are supported in 256 color mode or 64 grey-scale level up to 1024x768. Standard VGA is also allowed in 16 grey-scale level. . GIFLink supports connection through its own COM interrupt routine, FOSSIL driver or BIOS INT 14H, 16550 FIFO, non-standard COM port address and IRQ, slow handshake and many more options. . GIFLink provides direct Telemate support and optionally reads TM.CFG and writes TM.USE. Most DSZ environment variables are accepted as well. What's new in Telemate ====================== . Quick dial: Pressing [Ins] in the dial window replaces the dial list with the entry under the dial bar and starts dialing. . When it is dialing, the [Ins] key inserts the entry under the dial bar to the end of the dial list. This allows you to easily add entries to the dial list without stopping the dialing process. . Quick search in the Dial window no longer needs the [Ctrl] key. For example, pressing the [D] key now jumps to the next entry that start with a 'D'. . The phone entry dialog allows an external protocol to be defined as the default protocol. . VT102 now have an improved transparent print routine. . VT102 supports <esc>[<ascii code>g, a non-standard code that display <ascii code> as the ASCII character. . Select multiple files with [Spacebar] in MULTIPLE directories when uploading. . In the file dialog, the whole file name field is erased if the first input character is '\'. This allows you to input a full path name quickly. . Zmodem download adds a Skip function. If you select the Skip button after you press [Esc], the current file is skipped and the next file begins immediately without interrupting the download process. . A date check is added to Zmodem recovery. A file with a different date (e.g. a QWK mail package) will not be resumed but will be renamed. . New entries in the DSZ.LOG are imported to TM.USE automatically after an external protocol is called and the SUCCESS variable in TMScript reports the correct status. . Backspace is stripped from the log file when the Log Filter is on. . The first 2 characters are used in the guessed initial if the person's name has only one word. . The default TM.CFG now have CTS/RTS flow control turned on and have GIFLink set up as protocol 'F' for Zmodem and 'Q' for CIS QuickB. . More DesqView friendly, Telemate will give up control to the multitasker when it is idle. . Host script allows open and close system. . RTS/CTS is now ON by default in TM.CFG What's fixed ============ . The /N option did not work if /T is used as well. . When the dial list was deleted, a random number appeared in the dial list. . A closed log file was not saved into disk until the user exited Telemate. . Ymodem-G did not send files smaller than 1024 bytes. . DOS command window did not allow ASCII 128-255 characters. . Space was not allowed in the password macro. . Set AddLineFeed did not work in script. . Query LastCall did not return the actual date of the last call. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Telemate 3.10 2 August, 1992 ================================ What's new ========== . The command line switch /W (Windows Compatibility option) is added to provide high speed transmission under Windows. By default, Telemate does not use the transmit interrupt when running under Windows because the transmit interrupt may lock up some machines completely. With this switch, both transmit and receive interrupts are used. It can be added to the TELEMATE.PIF if Telemate can run with it under Windows. . Smart Quoting: [Alt Q] now reformats a normal paragraph and truncates an already quoted message. . A percentage indicator is added to the transfer window. . The dial list is rearranged after a successful connection or aborted by the user, so that the next-to-be-dialed entry is placed at the beginning of the dial list. . A Clear screen option is added to the phone directory so that you can clear the terminal window at log on. . The phone directory dialog is rearranged. A 'Default' option is added to dial prefix and suffix in the phone directory dialog. This should help those who are not aware there is a prefix pointer and a suffix pointer in the phone directory. . The communication dialog is rearranged. . A Yes/No dialog is added for the Clear [Alt N] command in the Back window. . The Save option dialog is removed. The option will be saved to the same configuration file. . In the file dialog, only the file name part is replaced with the first alphanumeric character. Previously, the full file name is erased. . If there is no TMCFG environment variable and the TM.CFG cannot be found in the current directory, Telemate will attempt to load the configuration file from the same directory that contains TM.EXE. . The message "Problem opening resource file" is shown if you are using an out-dated resource file. . A random factor is added to the ending screen in the evaluation version so that it can be more eye-catching. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Telemate 3.02 23 June, 1992 ============================== What's new ========== . Windows 3.1 compatible, the mouse pointer in a window now works correctly. . For Microsoft mouse, speed control is left to the mouse driver. The speed option in the mouse dialog has no effect on Microsoft mouse. . Add quick search in dial window, e.g. [Ctrl D] jump to the entry. starting with the letter 'D'. . Quote [Alt Q] now reformats the paragraph instead of truncating it. . Add ^G as [DEL] in Wordstar convention. . In the file dialog, the default file name is now replaced with the first alphanumeric character. Previously, a [Ctrl Y] is required to erase the default file name. . For MouseSystem, it now checks the IRQ number and allows using COM1 and COM3, or COM2 and COM4 together as long as the IRQ is different. . The CONNECT string is now put in the backscroll window. . BUSY4 is changed to "NO DIAL", some modems use "NO DIAL TONE", some use "NO DIALTONE". . DIALPREFIX1 is changed to "AT DT". Many users were not aware that there is a prefix pointer in the phone directory. . The auto-download sequence for HSLink external protocol is changed to "HS*^BR". . TMINST.EXE now sets the interrupt number according to the IRQ number automatically, unless specified differently. . TMINST.EXE now change the prefix and suffix in TM.FON if a different default prefix/suffix is chosen. . TMPHONE.EXE now updates the saved dial list in TM.CFG. . TMPHONE.EXE now only prints non-blank entries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Telemate 3.01 3 January, 1992 ================================ What's new ========== Dial Window ----------- . Auto Redial upon carrier lost. . Multiple phone line support, similar names are removed from the dial list. . Select or de-select dial entries with [Spacebar] or mouse click. . Strip High Bit, Long Distance, Tag Separater and Initial Guessing option in phone directory. . Auto Log (previous Auto Open Log) in phone directory will turn on/off the log file automatically. . Dial bar color selection. . Remove (or clear) a dial entry in Dial window. . Default COM port in Dial window now uses the current COM port. . Default Baud rate (0) in Dial window. . Dial Break string, default is "RING^M". . Reload phone directory if necessary after DOS shell, can use TMPHONE.EXE during the DOS shell. Terminal Window --------------- . Avatar 0+ terminal emulation. . Prism terminal emulation. . Kermit with 8th-bit encoding and run-length-encoding. . 4 more (8 total) external protocols. . Select multiple files with [Spacebar] in directory when uploading. . Multiple files can now pass to external protocol batch file. . BIOS 14h and FOSSIL connection. . Space and Mark parity. . Xmodem-1K. . Xmodem upload uses a 4K read-ahead buffer if you have enough memory. . Xmodem download and its variation use the actual name instead of "UNKNOWN.$$$" during the download. . [Alt S] displays both .SCR and .TMS in the script directory. . Finer pacing in measure of 1/20 seconds instead of 1/10. . File name guessing accepts digit as starting character. . The block fields and the remote system field in the transfer window are removed. . Quote margin cuts off the quoting message at the margin instead of reformatting it. . Turn off 16550 FIFO when exit. Edit/View/Back/DOS/Clipboard Window ----------------------------------- . Tag [Alt G] file names in the Edit, View and Back window. [Alt G] is a lot like [Alt C] but it copies the only file names in the marked text. You can select a space (for PCBoard, QBBS, etc), a carriage return (for Wildcat, etc) or comma (for GENie, etc) as the tag separater. [Shift Alt G] appends instead of copies. . Support CUA-like text marking. E.g. Shift-Right will start marking. [Ctrl Ins] as [Alt C], [Shift Ins] as [Alt P], and [Ctrl Del] as [Alt U]. Note: CUA uses [Shift Del] as cut. . Clear View window. . DOS 5's look in the DOS command window. . DEL in DOS command window support /p as the prompt command. . INSIDE supports ARJ and ZOO and use /p as pause command. . Larger Clipboard. . Tag file names and Clear in Clipboard. Macro ----- . ^- keystroke simulation macro symbol which generate keystroke as if they are typed in from the keyboard. . In ^= macro sequence, you can add a ^[ after the ^M if you want to hide the DOS command window after executing the command. . Redefinable F1, PgUp and PgDn keys. . Support for enhanced keyboard, redefinable extra cursor keys. . Doorway mode supports enhanced keyboard. . Seperation of [Ctrl H] and [Back space]. Dialog/Option ------------- . Enhanced dialog manager supports hot-key using a single character key or an alt key combo. [Tab]/[Shift Tab] will jump to the next/previous group. [Up]/[Down] will move to the next/previous item. Only one [Enter], instead of two, is needed to activate the default button. . Maximum DOS shell. When On, RTS will be dropped if RTS/CTS flow control is On. Otherwise, the COM port will be disabled during the DOS shell and incoming data will be lost. So this option should be turned on only if you use RTS/CTS flow control. . Date format now can has 9 values (0-8) 0 = MM-DD-YY, 1 = DD-MM-YY, 2 = YY-MM-DD 3 = MM/DD/YY, 4 = DD/MM/YY, 5 = YY/MM/DD 6 = MM.DD.YY, 7 = DD.MM.YY, 8 = YY.MM.DD . Screen saver. . Log heading option. . External alarm. . Reverse mouse left/right button. . Image, View and Write directory. . Display free memory information in Status window [F1]. . Default video color for LCD. . Save 'Display all information' option in file directory. . Able to print to LPT1 or LPT2. Use TMINST.EXE to set the printer port. . Add highlite character in menu options. . Add /N command line option. It works like /O except that it uses the COM port parameters in TM.CFG. Script ------ . New SET commands: SET AutoStop,Off/On. When On, the script will be halted upon carrier lost. This special option is reset to Off at the beginning of every script. SET MaxDosShell,Off/On SET DateFormat,0-8 SET ScreenSaver,0-99 SET LogFilter,Off/On SET LogHeading,Off/On SET ExtAlarm,Off/On SET AutoRedial,Off/On SET MultiLine,Off/On SET Tag,Space/Crlf/Comma SET DirTelemate,"" SET DirDownload,"" SET DirEdit,"" SET DirImage,"" SET DirLog,"" SET DirScript,"" SET DirUpload,"" SET DirView,"" SET DirWrite,"" . Improved SET command: all SET commands now accept integer as well as the token (e.g. 'On','Off','TTY','ANSI' etc). A value of 0 is interperted as 'Off', 1 is 'On'. Others are shown as follows: SET Connection, Modem(0)/Computer(1)/Fossil(2)/BIOS(3) SET Parity, None(0)/Odd(1)/Even(2)/Space(3)/Mark(4) SET Terminal, TTY(0)/ANSI(1)/VT52(2)/VT102(3)/AVATAR(4)/PRISM(5) SET Tag, Space(0)/Crlf(1)/Comma(2) . QUERY command: all options that can be set by the SET command can be queried by the QUERY command. It returned the corresponding string or integer (not token). In addition, the QUERY command accept BOARD, PHONE, PASSWORD, TOTAL, LASTCALL and MEMO. . KEYSTROKE command in the script. This is an equivalent to the keystroke macro except it does not need the '^-' symbol. . CONNECTED reports the BBS # connected . LOADMAC, LOADPAD and LOADKEY: Same as LOADFON . CONVERTDATE procedure in TOOLBOX3.SCR . FILEEXIST supports wildcard . DELETE supports wildcard. . Adds 'SET AUTOSTOP,ON' in script generated by LEARN . HOST.SCR is improved so that it detects the correctness of the carrier signal and issues the "AT&C1" command when necessary. This is the answer to the most asked question of 'why my host script does not work?'. It also restores all the options after the host mode is ended.