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Telix Copyright (C) 1986,1987,1988 by Exis Inc. and Colin Sampaleanu.
All Rights Reserved.
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Exis Inc., Post Office Box 130, West Hill, Ont. M1E 4R4.
Telix Software Support BBS - 24 hours/day - (416) 284-0682.
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Oct 30, 1988 -- Notes on Telix 3.11:
o This is basically a maintenance release, which fixes a few bugs
that have been discovered over the last few weeks, as follows:
- The numeric keypad was not recognized during string entry.
- If multiple filenames were specified for a batch upload, the
upload directory (if one was defined) was only applied to the
first filename.
- Long Distance Codes did not work properly everywhere.
- The Compuserve Quick B protocol _still_ didn't work properly
on all PCs.
- A few other small glitches...
o The documentation files have not changed from v3.10 to v3.11, so
you do not have to print them (or even download them in the first
place, if you got Telix from a BBS), if you have printed the
v3.10 documentation files.
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Oct 10, 1988 -- Notes on Telix 3.10:
o We are now 'Exis Inc.'. For many reasons, it was definitely time
to incorporate.
o The dialing directory now has a highlight 'scroll-bar', which can
be moved with the up and down arrow keys, as well as the cursor
keys available before. Pressing Space will mark/unmark the cur-
rently highlighted entry. Selecting the 'Dial' function will dial
all the marked entries in sequence. There is no limit to how many
entries may be marked and dialed in this way. A user entered list
of entries may still be dialed in the old fashion with the 'List'
function.
o A 'Strip high bit' field for each entry has been added to the di-
aling directory.
o Telix now support 43 line and 50 line mode, for EGA and VGA
users, respectively, accessed through the Alt-M (Misc. Functions)
menu. The dialing directory and Scroll-Back take advantage of the
larger screen size.
o When prompted for file(s) to upload, you may now specify multiple
filenames separated by spaces. Filenames may include a full
drive/directory path, and may use the DOS wildcard characters, *
and ?. All matching files are sent.
o Zmodem Crash Recovery for both uploads and downloads may be tog-
gled in the 'Protocol settings' page of the Configuration Menu.
This option may be used to resume aborted transfers. For down-
loads, if this option is on and a file to be received already ex-
ists at the receiving end and is shorter than the sender's copy,
only the extra bytes will be sent. For uploads, if this option is
on, Telix will try to tell the other side that files it is send-
ing are to be resumed if they exist.
o An alternate key arrangement for th VT102 terminal emulator may
be used, as described in the Telix manual. This second arrange-
ment is better suited for some keyboards.
o An outgoing translate table may now be defined in the Translate
Table facility (Alt-W).
o An 'Answerback' string may now be defined in the 'Terminal op-
tions' page of the Configuration Menu. If this string is defined,
and CIS B transfers are disabled, it will be sent when an ENQ
(Ctrl-E) character is received from the remote while in terminal
mode.
o The Capture file disk buffer size may be set in the 'General set-
tings' page of the Configuration Menu.
o The descriptions of the copychrs, copystr, curtime, redirect_dos,
and time functions were accidentally left out of the v3.00 sALT
documentation.
o New SALT functions include capture_stat, delchrs, printer,
printsc_trm, strchr, status_wind, usage_stat, vgetchr, vputchr,
vrstrarea, and vsavearea as described in the SALT.DOC file.
o Many new SALT system variables were added.
o The Compuserve B and Scroll-Back problems described in the
BUGS.DOC file included with Telix 3.00 have been fixed.
o The Auto-baud detect, which could be toggled on or off in v3.00
but was not implemented, has been put in. Do not have this fea-
ture on if you are using an MNP or other error correcting modem,
as you want Telix and the modem to both stay at the baud rate di-
aled at.
o Many little bugs and glitches have been fixed (including a couple
in the Host Mode script file).
o The documentation has been cleaned up.
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July 1, 1988 -- New features in Telix v3.0 include:
o SALT script language. This is a full programing language built
into Telix that allows user named functions and local and global
variables. SALT includes looping and conditional statements such
as 'if', 'for', 'while', 'do...while',, 'break', and 'continue',
as well as over 125 built-in functions dealing with input/out to
the screen, comm port, and disk files, and well as many other
tasks.
o DEC VT102 and VT52 terminal emulation is supported. Terminal keys
may be freely edited/changed.
o Zmodem protocol support added internally. This is a super-reli-
able and very fast protocol.
o Compuserve Quick B protocol support added internally. This is a
fast protocol for use with Compuserve.
o Xmodem-1k-g and Ymodem-g protocol support added internally. These
variations are for use with high-speed modems or high-speed error
free links.
o Up to 4 external protocols may be added and integrate into the
standard protocol selection menu.
o The dialing directory has been much enhanced. It is now variable
sized and may hold up to 1000 entries. New fields for each entry
include last call date, total calls, default terminal type, de-
fault protocol type, local echo on/off, add line feeds on/off,
backspace interpretation (destructive/non-destructive), backspace
key swapping on/off, dialing prefix number to use, and password.
o Hardware handshaking is supported. This is mainly used with high-
speed modems and links, to prevent data overflows. Both CTS/RTS
and DSR/DTR hardware handshaking are supported.
o A status line has been added. Its use is optional, and it may be
placed at either the bottom or the top of the terminal screen.
o A translate table facility has been added. You may define and
save more than one translate table, and load each as needed.
o The scroll back buffer size can now be increased 64 Kilobytes,
allowing you to review from 30-100 pages of info that was previ-
ously displayed on the terminal screen (if the 64k maximum size
is used).
o A Usage Log facility has been added. When turned on, this keeps
track of successful connections to remote services, and of what
files are transferred.
o Telix now supports baud rates up to 115200 bps. Obviously some
computers (slow ones) can not handle speeds that high.
o Up to 8 comm port may be defined. For each port, the interrupt
request number and port address to use may be specified.
o Keyboard macros may be assigned to any key and most key combina-
tions.
o Telix is now contained in one large file instead of an EXE file
and a separate OVL file. Overlays are still used to save memory
however, but if you have extra ram in the form of EMS (or have a
lot of free main memory), overlays are loaded into it for faster
access.
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Exis Inc., Post Office Box 130, West Hill, Ont. M1E 4R4.
Telix Software Support BBS - 24 hours/day - (416) 284-0682.
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