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New Features of ONE TO ONE Since Version 1.0
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Version 2.3 Enhancements
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* COM3 and COM4 support
ONE TO ONE now supports COM1 - COM4.
* Avatex Modem Support
Avatex modems don't allow any leading spaces in a dialed phone number.
All "white space" characters are now stripped out of phone numbers before
the number is sent to the modem.
* More Solid Startups & Aborts
The communications code has been modified to be more reliable during file
transfer starts and aborts.
* Cursor Scan Line Fix For Monochrome Displays
In previous versions of ONE TO ONE, the cursor size was set for CGA cards
and caused the cursor to appear in the middle of the character on
monochrome display adapters. Monochrome cursors are now handled properly.
* Recompiled In Microsoft C 5.0
A slight speed increase was gained through Microsoft's optimization.
Version 2.2 Enhancements
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* Bug Fix
A minor bug was discovered in a pop-up window. It has been squashed.
Version 2.1 Enhancements
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* Fast Video Output
Video routines were re-written in assembler for speed.
Version 2.0 Enhancements
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* Smooth Typing During File Transfers
It was hard to do. You'll appreciate the difference this makes!
* CTRL Characters Can Send Messages
The CTRL characters can have messages mapped to them. This means that
you could set up CTRL-S to send "Send the file in 10 seconds, OK?", for
example. This is a very powerful and nice feature that was added after
recognizing that I frequently typed the same messages in my conversations.
I have mine set up so that when I want to greet someone, I press CTRL-G
and it prints a welcoming message. Use your imagination. It's fun.
You can edit the messages associated with the CTRL keys with the new Keys
pull-down menu.
* Larger Phone Directory
The phone directory has been expanded to hold 100 entries. Also, you may
now print the phone directory to the printer.
* Redial Last Number
ALT-R will redial the last number that was dialed from the directory.
* End Of Message Indicator
If you want to indicate that you've finished a thought and are waiting
for a reply, press CTRL-ENTER. The other user will get the following...
A "space", A smiley face, A Carriage Return. All you will see is a CR.
You don't have to use this if you don't want to. (Another use for it
might be to show that something you've typed was meant to be said with
a grin.)
* Save The Dividing Bar Position
After changing the position of the dividing bar to suit your taste (use
the "Screen" pull down menu), select 'Save OPTIONS.121' from the "Files"
menu. Then, every time you run ONE TO ONE, the dividing bar will appear
at the saved location.
* Edit Modem Initialization String
In version 1.0 you had to erase OPTIONS.121 and start over. Now you can
pull down the "Modem" menu and select 'Edit Modem Initialization'. The
edited initialization string will is saved for future use.
* Save Current Communications Parameters
After changing parameters ('Alt-P' or the "Modem" pull-down menu), pull
down the "Files" menu and select 'Save OPTIONS.121'. The parameters will
be saved for future use.
* Change Monitor Types
The "Screen" pull-down menu has a new selection called 'Change Monitor
Types'. You can use this option to select one of the three color schemes
that ONE TO ONE handles. (In the old days, you had to erase OPTIONS.121
and start over again to reconfigure your screen.)
* Select Dialing Mode
The "Phone" pull-down menu has a new choice called 'Select Dialing Mode'.
With it, you can select between Pulse or TouchTone service. (This was
another one of those things that required starting over again in the
previous release, version 1.0)
* Command Line Arguments
You can dial a directory listing upon starting ONE TO ONE by adding the
listing number to dial after the 121 at the DOS prompt.
Example: "121 87" would run ONE TO ONE and immediately dial directory
entry number 87.
Also, you can type "121 A" and your modem will be put in Auto-Answer mode
upon entering ONE TO ONE. (upper or lower case 'A' will work)
* Go From Data To Voice
The Phone pull-down menu has a new entry. This will do the same thing as
though you had pressed ALT-H in terminal mode. You and your friend should
pick up your phones before doing this. I personally will always just
pressed ALT-H but I put it in here for the sake of consistency.
* Print Directory
In the Dialing Directory you can press P to print your directory listing
to your printer.
* Environment Variable "121PATH"
In order to support networking I have changed the code so that it looks
for an envirnment variable called 121PATH whenever it tries to load or
save ONE TO ONE system files. The use of the 121PATH environment variable
is optional. Don't read anymore about this feature unless you are a
"power user".
How this benifits people running Local Area Networks...
They can have 121.EXE in a public directory. They can keep their phone
directory, options file, and CTRLTEXT file in a personal directory.
Whenever they run ONE TO ONE it will look to wherever 121PATH points
to load the configuration files. This way, there need only be ONE copy
of ONE TO ONE on the network. Everybody can have their own seperate
configuration files. (NOTE: this does not affect downloading files.)
How this benefits Everyone...
If you set 121PATH to point to your ONE TO ONE subdirectory, you can run
ONE TO ONE from any subdirectory on your hard disk and it will
automatically find all of its set-up files. This means that you can
change directories to the subdirectory where you want your files to be
downloaded and then run ONE TO ONE from there. With version 1.0 you
had to ALT-Z to DOS and change directories and then type EXIT. That
was handy but this is even better.
* New File Names
The phone directory has used to be named "121PHONE.DIR" but now it is
called PHONEDIR.121. This was done so that all of the ONE TO ONE config-
uration files would end with the extension ".121" Note that the file
that holds the CTRLTEXT information is written to the disk as
"CTRLTEXT.121".
* Fixed Share A File
You are now taken back to terminal mode upon leaving Share A File.
Version 1.0 left you in menu mode.