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- KA9Q TCP/IP Software for the Arc.
-
- This now uses the serial port block drivers to work. The Autoexec file has lines for either the internal serial port or one of Hugos dual port cards.
-
- * New command added
- "window terminal internal" makes the system behave as before, using the txt
- based window. This is also the default.
- "window terminal external <driver>" uses a block driver to send the
- information to an external terminal program, eg make driver "pipeb", set up
- Arcterm 7 with "pipea" and there you are, VT102 emulation. It is still a
- single window, but a much better one. Jonathan Naylor has written a new chunk
- of program to do terminal emulation which ought to be capable of turning into
- a dedicated multi channel program. Those of you with PCs might have seen
- TextWin which is a nearly ideal way of doing things, a different window for
- each task/session.
-
- * Alteration to destinations
- The DemNew and DemNG files are now written to <Mail$Dir>.Folder and the !Run
- file has been altered to open the folder and mail.text subdirectories. This
- probably won't work with RO2 as I've used <Mail$Dir> directly!
-
- * Notes
- Read the notes in the block driver archive. If using the pipes to drive a
- terminal, remember to RMEnsure PipeModule somewhere. I'm not convinced by the
- pipe modules action under RO3.1, Hugo said he'd let me have a new version,
- one of us will post it as soon as it is ready.
-
- If you want to test something out offline, you can use the pipe module to
- talk between two incarnations of TCPIP. (Or Arcterm, or any other program
- which uses the drivers!) Just set up one to use pipea and the other pipeb
- (you will need to swap autoexec files of course to get the different configs)
- and bingo...
-
- * Terminals
- Arcterm 7 version 1.44 and above uses the block drivers, David Pilling has a
- version of Hearsay using them, talk to him about upgrades. David is
- David@pilling.demon.co.uk if you didn't know, Hugo is
- altman@cryton.demon.co.uk. For other terminals, pester the author, the block
- driver spec with examples is widely available (and included here).
-
- * Sources
- I haven't included them. I've sent (or am sending depending on time of day!)
- a set to Jonathan who is working on other improvements. The combined results
- will be made available. If anyone else has improvements or alterations done
- to existing source now is a good time to tell us!
-
- * Plans for the future
- DNS has got to be done next. I'm going to try and make it an external
- program, whether I'll succeed is a different matter! If I do, this will give
- a set of hooks which will be able to take other goodies like IRC clients,
- Gopher, etc...
-
- Have Fun
-
- Anthony@kernow.demon.co.uk
-