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This file contains important information about each release of PTerm,
please read it carefully before running PTerm as much of the
information pertains to known bugs and limitations for each release.
04bp15:
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o Added support for the (ALT-GR) characters on international
keyboards. Thanks to Henry Gessau for modifying my keyboard
input routine to handle this addition. I have been using it
for well over a month now and it has not introduced any
problems on my non-international keyboard. If the any of the
international users out there find problems, please let me
know.
o Other small non-visible bug fixes.
04bp13:
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o The YModem upload bug has been fixed! Well, I hope it has. I
tested by uploading some files to about 4 systems (including
CIS), and all went well. I even uploaded a 1.7 Meg
uncompressed executable, with the final throughput being 1610
cps at 14.4K baud, not too bad. On compressed files, I was
getting about 1060 cps. If you experience any strangeness with
the YModem uploading, please let me know!
o The problems with the communications setup dialog have been
fixed, sorry for the inconvience!
o The problem where the capture path would get clobbered after
canceling out of the Open Capture file dialog has been fixed.
o If, after hitting ALT-X to exit PTerm, you were to hit ALT-X
again (while PTerm is deintializing the Modem), you would more
than likely crash PTerm -- this has been fixed...
o You can now send a break signal by pressing CTRL-BREAK. I set
the duration of the break to 250 milliseconds (1/4 second), if
that turns out to be a problem please let me know and I will
tweak it some...
o Read the section in PTERM.TXT called "Sound" for information
on the new wav file feature of PTerm.
All other bugs and limitations listed below for 04bp10 still apply!
04bp10:
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I am releasing this version with a several known bugs, and I'm sure many
more unknown bugs. Many of the bugs which were present in the first two
releases have been killed, but I am sure there are more, including these:
o YModem uploading is broken. I have been delaying this release for
sometime while I try to fix this bug. I am very close, but did not
want to delay this release any longer with this being the only
major [known] bug left. Downloading has worked great for me
however. When I get the uploading fixed, I will release a patch
version -- hopefully not too long after I make this release.
o *Very* young and untested CIS Quick-B code has been included in
this version PTerm. I have had a couple of sucessful downloads
with this code, but have not even attempted an upload. This code
will get better in future releases, for now you should probably
pretend its not there (unless you like experimenting).
o ANSI aupport may still be a bit weak. I have come to find out
that it will be nearly (if not completely) impossible to fully
implement VT100/220 emulation while PTerm remains a console
application. As such, this will be the last _major_ release of
PTerm as a console application -- PTerm will be going full GUI at
some point in the future. I will continue to make patch releases
of this version however. But, don't expect the VT100 support in
the console version to get much better. ANSI color support seems
to work great, but when calling Unix boxes with VT100 emulation
PTerm can get baffled pretty quickly.
Well, them's the major ones I have found so far. Please report others
to me as necessary.
Some 'features' to watch out for:
o The TELNET support is still VERY young, and several facets are
still being worked out. Please report any problems you have with
this! If you really need a solid telnet for NT, get WinQVT for
Windows NT.
o Once PTERM quits, it closes the serial port, and if the modem on
this serial port is currently connected to somewhere, that
connection will be lost (since closing the serial port drops
DTR). You may be able to prevent this by setting your modem to
always hold DTR high, but this will have the side effect of
preventing ALT-H from hanging up the connection. Note that if you
try to exit PTerm while on line, PTerm will ask if you want to
hang up and exit, if you say no you are left online and PTerm does
not exit.