From: wht@tridom.com (Warren H. Tucker)
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Subject: [comp.unix.sysv386] Prerelease of ECU 3.20 available for ftp
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Date: 9 Apr 1992 06:17:28 GMT
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Archive-name: auto/comp.unix.sysv386/Prerelease-of-ECU-3-20-available-for-ftp

For the next few days, there will be a prerelease of ECU 3.20
available for ftp as ftp.uu.net/ecu31833.tar.Z.

There are several functional enhancements in 3.20, but
it has primarily been a hardening and portability release.
The ISC and SunOS support is better. Several problems with
XENIX support for 3.16 have been addressed.

I do not have time to document all the changes or to do
much hand holding in getting it up and running.  You should
have less difficulty in getting this version going than
previous versions, for sure.  I have tried to update the manual
and READMEs, but I have certainly missed something.

1. new commands (procedure and interactive)
   a.  autorz
   b.  dcdwatch

2. dial command reworked
   a. new sub menu for entry add/edit
   b. phone number size increased from 25 to 40 characters
      (some modems limit input string size to 40 characters total
      excluding AT and trailing CR)
   c. Trailing dollar sign '$' appends ~/.ecu/.credit to dialled number:
      .credit has:
          ,,,167167002
      Home dial 1234 sends to modem
          1234,,,167167002

3. help cmd improved: you can stay in a category and ask
   for help with multiple commands and use F1 to return to
   category menu.

4. Major rework inside to reduce but not eliminate the likelihood
the chances ecu will abnormally terminate when the dial command
needs to change to a new line and the new line is not available.
If the new line is busy (in use by another dialout or login),
the request to change is rejected and the old line is retained,
the program survives.  If the new line is unavailable because
of other reasons (read/write denied [chmod] for instance), ecu still
dies. hopefully this will all be handled by the time of release.

5. Gcc 2.1 has been tested and appears to produce an even smaller
binary than 1.40.  This compiler continues to be the big winnder
in my book, shaming many big-buck commercial efforts.  If you
do not have and use gcc, you are really missing out !!!

What I want from you
--------------------

1. Does it work?  Where bdoes it fall down?
2. Where is the manual or on-line help inaccurate?
3. What else is broken in the SunOS version :-)?  I have had
   only a mediocre async environment to test the SunOS version.
4. Flames, comments, large sacks of unmarked tens and twenties,
   etc. appreciated.

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Warren Tucker, TuckerWare emory!n4hgf!wht or wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US
Hacker Extraordinaire  d' async PADs,  pods,  proteins and protocols
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Warren Tucker, Mountain Park Cartography   n4hgf!wht/wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US
A remote debugging human who appreciates Howard Rourke, Leonard Cohen and PI