Well, it is about twice as fast at news gathering. I'm regularly getting 1500cps on my overnight news call to Demon!
[1.31B] Make that 2200cps now! :-)
[1.31B] Fixed the various time problems. All times should now be GMT... It will get us through to October at any rate!
I haven't touched the terminal emulation, except to remove the filter which was killing <CR>s.
[1.31B] I've probably found what was giving Telnet a double echo, but this hasn't been tested.
[1.31B] Fixed the AX25 sessions to work again!
*** THIS VERSION DOES NOT FETCH NEWS BY NUMBER AT ALL!!!! ***
Put all your newsgroups in DemGroup, DemNGroup is ignored.
I think I've fixed all the zero page accessing, I can quite happily run with page zero write protected now, although I occasionally get a strange error if I try to do a hop check...
The main window now echos the commands from Config, Autoexec or dragged in files as they are processed
[By Adam]
Dragging a file to the main window treats it as if it was a set of commands.
[By Adam]
" " " " an ftp window does a "put <filename>"
Changed commands
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[By Geoff]
hash <number>
If number == 1 then a count of the transfer is kept rather than using hashes
New commands
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nntp direct [<on|off>]
Default is off, when on saves incoming news direct to DemNews rather than going via a temporary file. Interestingly, there seems to be practically no difference in throughput between turning direct saving on and using a !Scrap on a RAM disc.
nntp batch [number]
Causes the NNTP to ask ahead for articles so as one is being sent the next is already in the queue and the one after is being looked for. Default is 4, maximum is 16. I haven't done extensive testing to see what is best, but 8 seems to be good.
hop
*** This is flakey ***
Due to the processor bandwidth claimed by TCPIP (98% last time I ran !Useage on it, and that included !Useage itself with most of the rest of the 2%!) this doesn't exactly work well if anything else (like news) is happening as well, but...
hop check <hostname|ip address>
Carries out a route check to the given site, usually.
hop maxttl [<number>]
Set (or read) the maximum ttl for the trace packets
hop maxwait [<number>]
Set the maximum wait time before declaring a trace packet dead
hop queries [<number>]
Number of times to try each intermediate site
WIBNIs from me include reverse name serving, ie send an ip address and get back the site name
I've recieved a new file from Thomas Aeby which isn't included here yet. Basically it allows you to use external programs over a Telnet connection! Thomas now has a Demon account but calls it over the net which saves phone calls from Switzerland. He runs two copies of TCPIP, one connected locally, the other connected over the net... Unfortunately he wrote it for the older TCPIP and I want to try to understand it before updating it and adding it into the main release.
One new command, "credits", shows you who is to blame. I'm sure it misses people out, so shout if you should be there!
New ability, you can run different configurations by adding the Config and AutoExec leaf names to the command line, eg...
*Run <TCPIP$Dir>.!RunImage
is now equivalent to...
*Run <TCPIP$Dir>.!RunImage Config AutoExec
Config and Autoexec remain the default names used. For radio use I also have...
*Run <TCPIP$Dir>.!RunImage ConfigTNC AutoTNC
Which fires me up configured for amateur radio AX25 use...