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- (Hey, he took out that nasty preamble!)
-
- Hey everyone,
-
- We intend for this to be a really short-lived test version. So if you
- encounter problems, be really upfront about reporting them in the
- BINKLEY conference or to your nearest Bink tester if you know one.
-
- We hope this version (and the subsequent release version) serves you
- well.
-
-
- Regards,
-
- The BinkleyTerm Development and Testing Team.
-
-
-
- Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.59a from 2.59
- --------------------------------------
-
- Change another int to short in unread message detection logic.
- This fixes one of the problems with the 32-bit OS/2 and NT versions.
-
- Hammer out some of the dents in the dialout handshake logic.
-
- Use putch for WRITE_ANSI in OS/2 version. This fixes another
- problem of the 32-bit OS/2 version.
-
- DoubleDOS detection now looks for NetWare shell first. If there's
- a NetWare shell, we don't look for DDOS. NetWare-DOS users with
- VLM should now work. The NetWare test will make a DDOS system stop
- task switching. If we find DDOS we'll turn it back on (we hope).
- DDOS and NetWare users should confirm that this works.
-
- Some minor changes from Arjen Lentz integrated into Hydra. Code is
- now in sync with HydraCom 1.08, according to Arjen.
-
- Aftercall timeout adjusted so we don't sit there for an eon and
- a half when the modem isn't talking.
-
- Tweaks for 32-bit OS/2 sound support.
-
- Take the '*' out of the ident line on the called-side. This will
- get some of the aggravation out of people's EMSI logic (including
- ours!)
-
- Change the FAX code to handle Class 2 modems that don't assert
- DCD while receiving the data stream. Now Vince's PPI modem can
- receive a FAX!
-
- This is sad: update the copyright notice to 1994. Sad because I
- have three "update copyright notice" notes in here. At least we
- can see the light at the end of the tunnel now...
-
- Allow settable transmit and receive buffers in OS/2 version, using
- environment variables TBUF and RBUF, respectively.
-
- Minor fixes to MAXFILES.IDX handling.
-
- Add Hydra to upload menu. Hydra uploads were already enabled, we
- just hadn't put them in the menu.
-
- Change external mail setting from a mask of modem type to equal
- modem type, to keep use of modem type consistent everywhere.
-
-
-
- Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.59 from 2.58
- -------------------------------------
-
- Take out the MilqueToast conditionals. Milq was a good idea and
- we wish it had really come to term. Maybe sometime soon we'll
- get to try this again.
-
- Fix the famous 7200 problem.
-
- Add ability to have "external mail sessions". This is accomplished
- using "ExtSession mask programname". (mask) should be a hex mask
- which corresponds to a "modem type" in the nodelist. When Bink
- attempts to "call" a system, it will use the external mail facility
- if the modem type masked with the mask is nonzero. Bink will then
- turn off everything and, for every file to send to this system, it
- will call "programname full-address tasknumber filename". When Bink
- regains control it will look for a file in the current directory
- named "programname.tasknumber". If this file exists it will continue
- the mail session; if this file does not exist it will interpret this
- as a session failure and will handle it like any other session
- failure (bad flags, etc). When the session ends, one way or the
- other, Bink will restart itself and proceed.
-
- By way of example: using my nodelist compiler, let's say I define
- my point 2 as having modem flag 64 (0x40). With a private list, I
- could do this by putting a "UGATE" flag on the node, then with
- XLAXNODE, "MODEMTRANS 7 UGATE". I then put
-
- extsession 40 points
-
- in BINKLEY.CFG and create points.bat as follows:
-
- echo %0 %1 %2 %3 >> points.log
- if "%1%" == "1:343/491.2@fidonet" copy %3 m:\point2
- if errorlevel 1 goto end
- touch points.%2%
- :end
-
- The result: all sessions with my .2 put the mail into m:\point2.
-
- Note that this mechanism is designed mostly for callout. However,
- you can poll for mail by creating a dummy packet and "sending" it,
- and your batch file can copy files into your inbound.
-
-
- Fix problem with exiting on FAX result code. Turned out we weren't
- saving the modem result code for the uucp exit comparison!!
-
- Change DOS C compiler from Visual C++ 1.0 to Visual C++ 1.5. This
- probably won't affect the generated code much, but it does allow
- me to build for all platforms on my Windows NT system.
-
- Support for an additional set of baudrates, afforded by an
- extension in Ray Gwinn's X00 driver (and hopefully soon to be
- supported by some other FOSSIL drivers), as below:
-
- Function 1Eh - Extended line control initialization.
-
- This function is intended to exactly emulate the PS/2's BIOS INT
- 14 services, function 4. Some or all of the functions provided
- here are duplicated by other X00 functions.
-
- Input: AH = 1Eh
-
- AL = Break, Where:
- = 00h, No break and/or turn off break
- = 01h, Start send of break.
-
- BH = Parity, where:
- = 00h, No parity
- = 01h, Odd parity
- = 02h, Even parity
- = 03h, Mark parity (always 1)
- = 04h, Space parity (always 0)
-
- BL = Stop bits, where:
- = 00h, One stop bit
- = 01h, Two stop bits for 6, 7 and 8 bit word
- length, 1 and 1/2 stop bits for 5 bit
- word length.
-
- CH = Word length, where:
- = 00h, 5 bits
- = 01h, 6 bits
- = 02h, 7 bits
- = 03h, 8 bits
-
- CL = Baud rate, where:
- = 00h, 110 baud
- = 01h, 150 baud
- = 02h, 300 baud
- = 03h, 600 baud
- = 04h, 1200 baud
- = 05h, 2400 baud
- = 06h, 4800 baud
- = 07h, 9600 baud
- = 08h, 19200 baud
- = 80h, 28800 baud
- = 81h, 38400 baud
- = 82h, 57600 baud
- = 83h, 76800 baud (really sets 115200)
- = 84h, 115200 baud
-
- DX = Port number
-
- Output: AX = Port status (see function 03h)
-
- If locked at X00 load time, the appropriate parameters of this
- function are ignored.
-
- Once function 1Eh has been used, function 0 will no longer set the
- baud rate. A deinit/init sequence will reenable function 0 to set
- the baud rate. Also, CL set to 0FFh in function 1Eh will NOT
- change the baud rate, but WILL reenable function 0 to change the
- baud rate. This is to allow a fossil app that is aware of this
- function to coexist with a less-aware fossil app, where the
- lesser app will work with the higher baudrates without knowing
- that it is doing so.
-
- Using this change, BinkleyTerm can support up to 115200 baud. But
- because it's not formally into a standard yet, we need to tell Bink
- to do this. This is accomplished by putting "ExtBaudRates" into
- BINKLEY.CFG. Only do this if your FOSSIL supports this function, or
- you will regret it! PUT THIS LINE IN YOUR CONFIG FILE BEFORE ANY
- LINE THAT DEALS WITH BAUD RATES!!!!!
-
- Add time to dialout interval to deal with the elapsed time of
- incoming traffic. This helps make sure we don't dial out right
- on the heels of a call.
-
- Did some tinkering with the Win32 async code and now have been
- able to repeatedly call into a NT Bink, hit ESC and get to the
- MaxNT alpha I have, and log into the BBS!!!!
-
- Add a config to define connect suffixes for which MNP filter
- can be disabled. "NoFilter /Arq" will disable MNP filtering
- for any "Connect xxxxx/arq". Up to 16 of these suffixes can
- be defined, one per line. Note that if you have a lot of strings
- starting with /ARQ, you only need the /ARQ line.
-
- Now that we have a kinder, gentler way of starting a session
- without MNP filtering, make it sit on the line longer waiting
- for it to settle. This helps with some missed session negotiation
- problems I saw.
-
- Doc fix: FORCEXIT doesn't work without a flags directory. The
- original description is wrong.
-
- Add an extended FORCEXIT capability: if there is a flags dir,
- Bink will look there for files of the form BTEXIT??.??. Then, if
- a file matching the task number in the extension is found, Bink
- will exit using the hex errorlevel specified in the filename.
- By way of example, BTEXIT10.B0 will make a Bink with tasknumber
- 176 exit with errorlevel 16. BTEXIT20.00 will make a Bink with
- no task number exit with errorlevel 32.
-
- Add ability to externally force rescan by putting BTRESCAN.??
- in the flags directory. To make Bink with tasknumber 64 rescan
- its outbound, put BTRESCAN.40 there.
-
- Zoomed outbound includes age of oldest packet/request/arcmail
- file (in days from current time).
-
- Fix problem with cleanup of mail for aka's in outbound window.
-
- Take some 32-bit fixes from Michael Buenter.
-
- Incoming .REQ files are now automatically renamed to .Rxx, where
- xx is the "task number" in hex.
-
- Task numbers are automatically truncated to 2 hex digits to avoid
- overflow in various processing scenarios.
-
- Unblanking in the non-key case will only happen at end of event,
- or a ring, connect or fax modem response.
-
- "Hydra (mythology), in Greek mythology, nine-headed monster that
- dwelled in a marsh near Lerna, Greece. A menace to all of Argos,
- it had fatally poisonous breath and when one head was severed,
- grew two in its place; its central head was immortal. Hercules,
- sent to kill the serpent as the second of his 12 labors, succeeded
- in slaying it by burning off the eight mortal heads and burying
- the ninth, immortal head under a huge rock. The term hydra is
- commonly applied to any complex situation or problem that
- continually poses compounded difficulties."
-
- "Hydra (mythology)," Microsoft (R) Encarta.
- Copyright (c) 1993 Microsoft Corporation.
- Copyright (c) 1993 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation"
-
- Arjen Lentz' and Joaquim Homrighausen's Hydra protocol is now in
- the sources. Because we had to rev the com support for it, only
- the OS/2 and DOS versions support it at present; in another alpha
- this comment will be changed to reflect support on NT.
-
- Config lines "NoJanus" and "NoHydra" have been added so that either
- protocol can be explicitly disabled. The old JanusOK and JanusBaud
- config lines are augmented by "BiDiOK" and "BiDiBaud", which do the
- same thing -- both the old and new ones control Janus and Hydra.
-
- Add ability to build and send a packet back instead of a .RSP file.
- This is enabled using "pktrsp" in BINKLEY.CFG. Note that you must
- have a flags directory for this feature to operate, as the flags
- directory is the "staging area" for the packet as it is being built.
-
- Add a special after-call modem string, which Bink will send after
- any call, incoming or outgoing, and will wait for some number of
- responses from the modem. This is specified by "aftercall n string"
- in BINKLEY.CFG, where n is the number of responses you expect to
- get back from the modem. For Vince's 14.4K USR DS, we find that
- "aftercall 16 ATI6|" is a cool thing to have; we get modem stats
- after every call, right there in the log.
-
- Various fax modems behave differently with respect to baudrate
- after a fax connection. BinkleyTerm's former behavior was to set
- the baudrate to 19200 (subject to lock) on a fax connection. Now
- Bink will leave the baudrate alone by default after a fax connect
- but will set to a user-specified rate if "FaxBaud nnnnn" is set
- in BINKLEY.CFG.
-
-
-
- Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.58 from 2.57
- -------------------------------------
-
-
- In addition to several changes to the EMSI logic, log any EMSI
- keyword we don't understand. This will be instrumental in
- figuring out why we still occasionally have EMSI parsing problems
- with some D'Bridge systems.
-
- Adopt the costlog stuff and European-style cost calculation that
- Holger Schurig did so long ago and which both Tobias Burchhardt
- and Michael Buenter adopted for their versions. To do this, we
- added a "CostLog <filename>" config command and a "CostUnit"
- command. The European version defaults to 23 for cost unit. We
- default to 2, which seems much more like the US value. The only
- part of the logging which we don't fully support is the error
- stuff. We log errors but we never accumulate any so it always
- says zero.
-
- Since this other cost calculation is a real departure from the
- US per-minute tariff calculation, we left the old calculation as
- the default. The European style is turned on using "EuroCost" in
- BINKLEY.CFG.
-
- We figured it adds value to put this into the history record, so
- we did. New structure is:
-
- typedef struct _history
- {
- short which_day; /* Day number for this record */
- short bbs_calls; /* Number of BBS callers */
- short mail_calls; /* Number of mail calls */
- short calls_made; /* Number of outgoing calls made */
- short connects; /* Number of outbound call successes */
- short files_in; /* Number of files received */
- short files_out; /* Number of files sent */
- short last_caller; /* Type of last call */
- ADDR last_addr; /* Address of last, excl. Domain */
- char last_Domain[32]; /* Domain of last */
- long last_Elapsed; /* Time of last outbound session */
- ADDR next_addr; /* Address of next, excl. Domain */
- char next_Domain[32]; /* Domain of next */
- long callcost; /* Cumulative of call costs */
- long size_in; /* Size of files received */
- long time_in; /* Time of files received */
- long err_in; /* Errors while receiving files */
- long size_out; /* Size of files sent */
- long time_out; /* Time of files sent */
- long err_out; /* Errors while sending files */
- } HISTORY, *HISTORYP;
-
- Add some end-of-session reporting, leveraging the work done to
- make the above work.
-
- Michael Buenter found the obvious thing to do about modem result
- codes: just take what we already have and let the user populate
- the resultcode array. We bow to his wisdom and add the same config
- keywords: "ModemFailure" can be used to define a result string
- from the modem which outgoing dial should consider a failure code;
- "ModemIgnore" to define strings to ignore; "ModemConnect" to
- define the prefix for a modem connect string (the remainder is
- parsed to determine connection speed, etc); "ModemRinging" to
- identify the result code for INCOMING ring; "ModemIncoming" for
- results which the outdialer should interpret as a collision with
- an incoming call; "ModemFax" to identify incoming FAX connect.
- The first prefix match will be taken, so ordering the config lines
- so that the correct match is taken is important!
-
- Bink will default these to the old hardcoded settings if there is
- no user input. The values in BINKLEY.CFG which would produce the
- defaults are:
-
- ModemIgnore RINGING
- ModemIgnore RING RESPONSE
- ModemRinging RING
- ModemConnect CONNECT
- ModemIgnore RRING
- ModemFailure BUSY
- ModemFailure VOICE
- ModemFailure ERROR
- ModemFailure OK
- ModemFailure NO CARRIER
- ModemIncoming NO DIAL
- ModemIgnore DIALING
- ModemFailure NO ANSWER
- ModemIgnore DIAL TONE
- ModemFax +FCO
-
- Change processing of FAX result codes so that you can define a
- FAX using the UUCP stuff and a "ModemFax" line in BINKLEY.CFG. This
- allows the creation of two modes of operation:
-
- 1) Bink receives the fax into a raw file.
-
- ModemFax <fax connection result>
- FaxInDir <fax directory>
-
- This tells Bink that when it sees this result code, it should
- receive the fax into the specified directory.
-
- 2) Bink shells out to external program for fax
-
- ModemFax <fax connection result>
- ExtrnMail <code> <fax connection result>
-
- (optional)
- Extern Spawn
-
- When Bink gets the fax connection result and FaxInDir is not
- set, it will try to find an external mail string and if it
- finds one it will dispatch as specified by the user. Unlike
- 2.56, we'll do this even if DCD hasn't been set (which is the
- usual case between +FCO and CONNECT).
-
- Add 'K' option to zoomed outbound window. This is the same as
- Alt-K in unattended mode -- used to "kill" all mail to a node.
-
- Add 'K' to zoom help and 'Alt-Z' to unattended help.
-
- Add a facility to disable callout to nodes with a particular
- modem type. This is achieved using "ModemTrans xxx" with no
- prefix or suffix in Binkley.Cfg. This allows sharing Bink
- between lines with particular modem types.
-
- Add call and bad call columns to zoomed outbound display.
-
-
-
- Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.57 from 2.56
- -------------------------------------
-
- Reformat source using INDENT. Looks great if your editor supports
- tabstops of 4.
-
- Change all internal baudrate stuff from unsigned short to unsigned
- long so as to better handle new modems.
-
- Add definitions for 57600 baud and 115200 baud for NT and OS/2
- versions. Note that for this to work with the OS/2 version, you
- must have a version of MAXCOMM.DLL which supports 57600 and 115200.
- I think that version 2.2 (which most people have) supports 57600;
- you need version 2.5 or above to support 115200 baud.
-
- Fix bug in BBS code for case where mode wasn't set by user.
-
- Alt-P in unattended mode creates a .CLO file for polling.
-
- Fold in some work from Bill Andrus, including a fix for mixed
- case file extensions. Do the same thing for the Win32 version.
-
- This is sad: update the copyright notice to 1993. Sad because I
- have two "update copyright notice" notes in here. Time to figure
- out what's going to get released and do it...
-
- Finally adopt the Zoom Outbound window code. ALT-Z in unattended
- mode will get you there. Comments welcome on format. Note that
- this is not a BONK replacement nor is this level of functionality
- currently planned. I'd like to hear specific comments from anyone
- who used Michael Buenter's version (on which this is based).
-
- Add support for 32-bitness to the code. The result is a 32-bit
- native NT version and a 32-bit OS/2 2.0 version.
-
- Fold in Michael Buenter's code to receive incoming Fax. Turned
- on by adding a directory spec for fax: "FaxInDir dirname". For
- now we've left the code as is but expect to change to PCX format.
-
- Add a special errorlevel for fax reception. This is per-event,
- specified as "EF=errorlevel" in the event file. In the absence of
- this errorlevel, fax reception will be considered a received mail
- condition for purposes of determining exit errorlevel.
-
- Support for associating sounds with particular events. Right now
- this only works on NT, but we'll expand it. On NT it works as
- follows: 6 new BINKLEY.CFG parameters have been added: "MailSound"
- is the sound that BinkleyTerm will play on a E2 mail exit,
- "FileSound" will be played on a E3 or user-specified mail exit,
- "BBSSound" will be played when BinkleyTerm exits to a BBS,
- "EXTSound" will be played on exit to an external (UUCP) mailer,
- "StartSound" will be played at the start of unattended mode.
- "FAXSound" will be played on a FAX exit.
-
- The parameter looks like this:
-
- StartSound happy.wav
-
- On Vince's machine, this plays the "Happy Happy Joy Joy" song when
- BinkleyTerm starts unattended mode.
-
- The ZModem receiver now will send ZFERR for disk-full situations.
- The transmitter will treat this as an error. The result should be
- that files will no longer be lost in transit due to disk-full.
-
- Add a new event flag, '$'. This flag will cause BinkleyTerm to
- delete all the bad-call files in the outbound areas.
-
- Add file count to outbound window. This option works in
- conjunction with the file size stuff, so if you have "NoSize"
- set, you won't get it.
-
- Because of the amount of real estate in the outbound window,
- we won't display domain information when "NoSize" is off.
-
- Correct the event logic so that the "cleanup" program isn't
- dependent on the "packer" program.
-
- Correct a bug in the Xmodem receiver for when we start to receive
- a file but never open it (this happens when we start up but then
- error out before data is received).
-
- Correct a bug in handling of outbound area when it doesn't exist
- and when we are running points direct instead of using privatenet.
-
- Fix a super ugly bug in YooHoo state tables. I have no idea
- how this one has gotten by us for so long, but it's fixed now.
-
- Fix a REALLY long-standing bug in TeLink timestamps. We were
- low by 10 on the year and high by 1 on the month in the
- TeLink receiver.
-
- State machine code finally compiles with no warnings!
-
- Correct the 8-bit ExtMail check.
-
- Fix bracket-escaping code in EMSI.
-
- Substantial cleanup on EMSI code preparatory to FSM version.
-
- Fix boundary condition in Version 7 nodelist search.
-
- MAYBE we have fixed the "Password override" bug in EMSI.
-
- Open FLO files in Deny-None mode when estimating mail size. This
- helps avoid collisions with Max.
-
-
- Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.56 from 2.55
- -------------------------------------
-
-
- Cleanup to make the sucker compile on Zortech and Borland
- compilers.
-
- Put all the mailers from FTSC product code list into table and
- remove all the packers.
-
- Security improvements for EMSI:
-
- 1) Password mismatch on outgoing call will only be allowed
- on the first AKA. All others will be discarded
-
- 2) Bug fix for remote with no pickup: number of AKA's would
- be set to 1. If all AKA's had been knocked out on password
- errors or curmudgeon mode, this bug allowed the session to
- proceed.
-
- Close a hole in Curmudgeon mode where other domain wasn't known.
-
- Shut down MOVE (Microsoft overlay facility) before swapping out
- and start it up again after swapping back in.
-
- Fix bug in extmail string comparison that made 8-bit characters
- impossible.
-
- Correct problem with 2x outbound sizes caused by outbound called
- "mydomain[0].myzone[0]" (e.g. "OUTBOUND.001").
-
- Support for domain kludging to zone numbers. Lines of the form
- "DomainKludge ZoneNumber DomainName"
- (e.g. "DomainKludge 7 alternet.ftn") will fill in a domain if
- addresses are without domain specification, either from local
- entry or in FidoNet handshaking. These lines must follow the
- "Domain" lines, and if you set a domainkludge without having
- previously defined a domain, it will not be processed. Here is
- an example:
-
- Domain fidonet.org fidonet nodex
- Domain alternet.ftn alternet nodex
- Domain eggnet eggnet nodex
-
- DomainKludge 7 alternet.ftn
- DomainKludge 99 eggnet
-
- REMEMBER, THE DOMAINKLUDGE LINES *MUST* FOLLOW THE DOMAIN LINES!
-
- Increase stack size. This fixed almost every inexplicable problem
- with 2.55.
-
- Fix crash bug with END in pending outbound window when there was
- nothing actually pending.
-
- Remove wrap from outbound window, and limit downward movement to
- list end.
-
- Fix stupid signal stuff in BT.C
-
- Don't disable com port on shell to command prompt in terminal mode.
-
- Set BBS default to "spawn" in OS/2.
-
-
- Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.55 from 2.54
- -------------------------------------
-
-
- Fold in code from Michael Buenter to support using MAXFILES.IDX
- for file request searches. Here is the description in his own
- words:
-
- * OKFile extension:
- Adding
- *path\MAXFILES.IDX
-
- in OKFILES.TXT lets BT search through this database when
- processing file requests.
- This is much faster than seeking through whole a partition
- (and it's more "multitasking friendly", too!).
-
- You will have to add following keywords to your BINKLEY.CFG:
- FileSec n
- KnownSec n (optional)
- ProtSec n (optional)
-
- where n is the following security level:
- 0=Disgrace, 1=Limited, 2=Normal, 3=Worthy, 4=Privil,
- 5=Favored, 6=Extra, 7=Clerk, 8=Asstsysop, 10=Sysop,
- 11=Hidden, -2=Twit
-
- Following line has to be added to your BINKLEY.CFG, too:
- MaxAreas d:\max\area.dat
-
- Each caller will be assigned a "user level" (security)
- depending on their caller level (default, known, prot).
- This security will be compared to the access rights in the
- Maximus file area. If the security is too low, the caller
- will get a password error.
-
- Access to 5000-8000 files is very fast: it takes about _one_
- second on my setup! This won't be very much longer on slower
- systems because the file access time will stay about the same.
-
- There will appear some new entries in the log with details to
- each search if you have LogLevel +/-5 defined in yout setup.
-
- I got many nice comments about this new features. Some people
- have been very happy about the fast file finds even with
- wildcards!
-
- The entire "Connect" line will now be treated as a potential
- external mail string. This allows Bink to shell out to an external
- program for funny FAX modems. OS/2 users, don't forget to use the
- "extern spawn" option and set up a EXTOPT.CMD file!
-
- Add C7 time_t correction to Janus file request logic.
-
- Turn off DEBUG flag in state machine logic. This will make state
- table code (YooHoo, SendSync, RecvSync, all FTS-0001/7/8 code
- including Sealink) MUCH faster.
-
- Clean up EMSI .BSY file stuff.
-
- Minor tweaks to domain stuff (which were needed for the EMSI
- domain code to work right)
-
- Clean up conflict between session elapsed time indicator and
- new task number display in settings window.
-
- "WinSlice" no longer needed for timeslice release in OS/2 DOS box.
-
-
- Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.54 from 2.53
- -------------------------------------
-
- Fix WHATSNEW file to correct documentation error: EXTopt was
- not the name of the option which forced a spawn. EXTern was
- the name of the option.
-
- Correct for differences between C7's ANSI time_t (0 is 12/31/1899)
- and UNIX time (0 is 1/1/1970), where transmitted values in
- file requests, SEAlink block zero, ZMODEM headers, EMSI packets
- are based on UNIX time but RTL is based on ANSI time_t. FYI ...
- the difference is 2209075200L.
-
- As you might have guessed, this means that Microsoft C 7.0 is
- now the standard compiler for BinkleyTerm on DOS. C 6.0 is still
- the standard for the OS/2 version.
-
- Several fixes in EMSI.
-
- Change language from "WaZOO method:" to "Session method:" and
- similar changes elsewhere, to reflect dual WaZOO/EMSI state.
-
- Michael Buenter's fix to the outbound window stuff.
-
- Support '\s' in the language file (btlng change).
-
- If you've defined "TaskNumber", display it along with the
- multitasker name.
-
- Changes to session logic as follows:
-
- 1) Nodelist lookup returns 0 for failure, -1 for curmudgeon
- instead of performing curmudgeon disconnect
-
- 2) FTSC and YooHoo logic now perform curmudgeon disconnect
-
- 3) EMSI mods:
-
- a) KNOWN only set on known address if no pw error
- b) PROT only set on prot address
- c) curmudgeon return or pw error causes aka to be skipped
- d) failure to create flagfile causes aka to be skipped
- e) at end of aka handling, hang up if no aka's remain
-
- DOS version greater than or equal to 10 is considered to be
- the OS/2 DOS box, and if so the "WinSlice" verb can be used to
- release the timeslice to OS/2. We will probably make this the
- default in the next beta, but I want to play it safe this time.
-
-
-
- Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.53 from 2.51
- -------------------------------------
-
- NOEMSI now works on both inbound and outbound sessions.
-
- Script verb "NoEMSI" disables EMSI for the session associated
- with the script.
-
- Consolidate EMSI session logic and WaZOO session logic.
-
- Update copyright notices to 1992 and internal version refs
- to 2.60
-
- Bug fix in file request password checking, courtesy of Scott Dudley.
-
- V6 support will internally truncate oversized nodelists (though
- that code will break when nodelist reaches just under 64K nodes)
-
-
- Changes in BinkleyTerm 2.51 from 2.50
- -------------------------------------
-
- Complete new YooHoo (FTS-0006 handshake) logic. Seems to work
- much better in Belgium.
-
- Don't flush status log prior to spawn if it's not open. This
- gave the OS/2 side fits. Sorry, Bill.
-
- Correction to snoop logic to handle conflict between snoop
- specification in config file and environment variable.
-
- Use terminal mode init for modem hang-up if in terminal mode
- and we have a terminal mode init.
-
- HEY!!! READ THIS!! IT MIGHT BREAK YOUR CURRENT CONFIGURATION!!
- Bink now matches modem types exactly rather than using a bitwise
- AND. This allows lots more modem types, but requires that you
- change your nodelist generation and config stuff (if you're using
- ModemTrans).
-
- Added Ron Bemis' change to allow an external mail exit to be a
- "spawn". This is accomplished by putting "EXTern spawn" in your
- config file. Note: if you enable this option, all external mail
- is spawned. The arguments to EXTMAIL are exactly the same as
- the exit case, so you can find the "errorlevel" from the command
- line if you need it.
-
- Added Ron Bemis' change to allow an external process to force
- BinkleyTerm to exit. This is enabled by putting "ForcExit n" in
- the config file, where (n) is the errorlevel you wish to use on
- exit. Bink will periodically check the flag directory (or the
- directory you're running Bink from if no flag directory) for a
- file called FORCEXIT (or FORCEXIT.xxx if task number is set).
- When it sees the file, it will delete it and exit with the user
- specified errorlevel.
-
- Improved Zmodem transmitter startup (mostly important for
- function requests).
-
- Merged in Tobias Burchhardt's EMSI mods. This includes some
- additional config verbs:
-
- NoEMSI disables EMSI
- MyLocation defines nodelist location \
- MyPhone phone number \ In nodelist
- MyListFlags nodelist flags / format
- MyMaxBaud max baud rate /
- PickUpAll enables all pick ups in EMSI
-
- Example:
-
- MyLocation Redmond, WA
- MyPhone 1-206-868-7581
- MyListFlags CM,XA,V32B,HST
- MyMaxBaud 9600
-
- Logs:
-
- * 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK Bink Beer Consumed Here (1:343/491)
- : 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK Aka: 1:132/491 1:141/491 7:491/0
- * 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK Remote Uses BinkleyTerm 2.51/(UNREGISTERED)
- : 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK SysOp: Vince Perriello from Redmond, WA
- 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK Phone: 1-206-868-7581
- 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK Flags: CM,XA,V32B,V42B,HST,MO
- : 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK Tranx: 294196F9 / ACED66F8
- : 08 Dec 03:52:27 BINK EMSI method: ZedZap
-
- Note: This EMSI logic doesn't handle private nets for points. If
- any of your points will be running this beta, make really sure
- that they all show their point addresses as AKA's. This
- limitation will be fixed soon.
-
- I expect it to take us a while to sort out the implications of
- EMSI. We'll get it down. Hang loose and keep them problem reports
- comin' in!
-
- Merged in Pete Fitzsimmons' improvements to OS/2 comm code and
- additional time_release in areas that had been overlooked. I'm
- told that his multithreaded comm DLL really works great.
-