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- From: olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org (Olaf Barthel)
- Message-ID: <olsen.5149@sourcery.mxm.sub.org>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: `term' v2.4a update to be released rsn
- Distribution: world
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
- Date: 7 Nov 92 18:06:18 CET
- Organization: MXM Barthel & Paesler
- Lines: 63
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- During the last few weeks I fixed a couple of particularly nasty bugs in
- `term' v2.4. These include:
-
- - System bell would not work correctly and the bell modes visual and audible were
- swapped.
-
- - The clipboard line and character delay were swapped in the corresponding
- settings menu.
-
- - Changed the way incoming characters are translated; the translation now takes
- place before text is to be printed. This avoids unnecessary side-effects with
- terminal control sequences whose components (such as the control sequence
- introducer) may get changed before they are passed to the parser.
-
- - The XPR interface no longer causes xprzmodem.library and its kin to fail on
- downloads. The corresponding code used to return more data than requested,
- causing rather serious trouble. Far more difficult to find was the bug which
- caused the xprzmodem.library to break down, the cause was the baud rate
- calculation which was wrong. In previous releases, serial write actions would
- not include a carrier signal check, it does now.
-
- - The text output routines no longer snoop around in the RastPort contents but
- rather use the operating system routines now (this is for Kickstart 3.0
- compatibility).
-
- - The headers (password, user name, bbs name, phone number) of encrypted phone
- book entries were not decoded properly. The phonebook files were not corrupt,
- the program only had problems to display them.
-
- - A couple of enhancements have been made in order to support special operating
- system features available under Kickstart 3.0.
-
- - The notorious character-clipping-crash is gone. Honestly.
-
- - Added support for a new baud rate: 600 bps.
-
- - Fixed an Enforcer hit which would occur with text input requesters.
-
- - The program has been recompiled using the SAS/C compiler v6.0, the latest
- includes and linker libraries.
-
- In short, v2.4a is what v2.4 should have been in the first place.
-
- I have heard of problems some users have with the terminal emulation code, especially
- emacs seems to cause trouble again. Unfortunately, the users to report any terminal
- emulation bugs always expect me to know what to do if some obscure application
- messes up the terminal output on the screen. There is no such "Timmy, the magic pixie"
- to whisper in my ear "Look, there is this guy from Columbus, Ohio who hits ^E which
- causes emacs to transmit 'Esc [ 17 ; 13 H'...". If you want a particular terminal
- emulation bug to be fixed, send me a verbatim capture (i.e. turn off the capture
- filter) of the session in which the offending codes would show up and I will try to
- get it working correctly in the next revision.
-
- Oops... I almost forgot to mention that `term' v2.4a will as always be available for
- ftp from ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (134.106.1.9).
-
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