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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'