From: stefanb@rama.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker)
Subject: Term 2.1 is out!
Organization: RBI - RWTH Aachen
Date: 14 Apr 92 11:25:42 GMT

Hi!
Term 2.1 has been released on Monday 13-Apr-1992. I have uploaded the
distribution files on the following FTP servers:

 ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.112.31] /pub/amiga/comm
 amiga.physik.unizh.ch [130.60.80.80] /pub/amiga/new (maybe moved to ../comm)

     term_2.1_international_1.zom  International version, Disk 1
     term_2.1_international_2.zom  International version, Disk 2
     term_2.1_deutsch_1.zom        German version, Disk 1
     term_2.1_deutsch_2.zom        German version, Disk 2

--------------------------- Changes ----------------------------------
================================== term ===================================
===========================================================================
             A Gift-Ware telecommunications program written by
         Olaf Barthel,  copyright 1990-92 by Olaf Barthel & MXM,
                           All rights reserved.

   No  guarantee of any kind is given that the program(s) described in this
document are 100% reliable.  You are using this material on your own risk.


=========================== Disk layout changes ===========================
===========================================================================
`term'  and  the accompanying material has grown so large that I decided to
split  the  distribution  and to put it on two disks (I may also distribute
new  `term' releases on high-density floppy disks in the future).  Disk one
(this  disk) contains the basic files, libraries and programs to run `term'
successfully.   Disk  two  holds  the  source  codes  to  the  program  and
additional programs, utilities and example ARexx script files.


=================== Changes bug fixes and enhancements ====================
===========================================================================
- New  menu  item  `Flush receive buffer' clears the contents of the serial
  device buffer.

- `term'  will no longer release the serial device driver when dropping the
  DTR signal (avoids trouble with getty and the like).

- The  transfer routines now treat timeouts in a much more tolerant way, so
  even the A2232 serial.drive should be able to cope with `term'.

- A new button `Pass xON/xOFF' has been added to the `Preferences/Transfer'
  menu  which  if enabled will cause `term' to pass the xON/xOFF characters
  through to the modem rather than swallowing them.

- In  the  previous  revisions  the  resume transfer function was seriously
  damaged, it has been fixed in the current release.

- The file requester now remembers wildcard patterns between calls.

- Optical  and visual responses to bell characters are now handled entirely
  asynchronously,  it  is  also  possible  to  use the system DisplayBeep()
  routine instead of the builtin signal routines now.

- The  transfer  status  display  could crash the machine in case more than
  100% of data were received.

- The  ARexx  command  to  hang  up the line will now properly drop the DTR
  signal if selected in the preferences settings.

- The  double-buffered  file  access  routines  will  now  run  at the same
  priority as the `term' main process.

- If  the key combination to simulate a the left mouse button being pressed
  is  used  it  will  no  longer  cause  `term' to emit cursor  positioning
  events.

- The  program  will not prompt for confirmation of actions such as leaving
  term  or  clearing  the  buffer if a shift key is held down when the menu
  item is selected.

- To  stop  `term'  from  believing  that  the  modem message `RINGING' was
  equivalent to the `RING' message, all modem messages except for `CONNECT'
  will  be postfixed with a <CR> character.  Consequently, the modem has to
  supply a <CR> character after sending a message.

- The  dialing routine will wait a bit longer now before closing its window
  after  having  received  modem  messages  such as `RING', `VOICE' and `NO
  DIALTONE'.

- In  monochrome  mode,  the  dialing  panel could accidentally use a wrong
  colouring scheme.

- The  middle mouse button now performs Xerox style text clipping (similiar
  to the actions following `shift+left mouse button').

- The program will no longer quietly discard text transferred shortly after
  the `CONNECT' message caused it to reset its configuration.

- The  information  window  opened  on startup will be closed as soon as an
  ARexx command is executed.

- If  no  configuration  has  been specified yet, the program will read its
  serial default settings from the ENV:sys/serial.prefs file.

- The XPR transfer window, the dialing window and the status line have been
  redesigned.

- The telephone directory now supports selective sorting.

- The  telephone  directory file encryption routines introduced in revision
  2.0  had  more  or  less serious problems with passwords shorter than six
  characters:   the  key  saved  with  the  directory  file  would  not  be
  encrypted.

- The contents of the fast macro list can be moved and rearranged now.

- `term' will no longer reset the serial driver if running in shared access
  mode.   Doing  so  could  cause  other  users of the driver to lose their
  IORequests.

- Support for the key codes control+@, control+space and shift+tab has been
  added.

- If  the  dialing  window  is  closed  by  clicking on the close gadget or
  selecting  the  `Quit' menu entry, the program will reopen the phone book
  control panel.

- An  ancient  bug  has  been  fixed:   ARexx  commands such as `write' and
  `command' will no longer `eat' blank spaces.

- Just  like  in the old days, the phone book control panel can be operated
  using keyboard control again.

- The  colour selection used in the eight and sixteen colour modes has been
  changed for better readability.

- The  redial  delay is no longer fixed to multiple minutes.  Although this
  requires  your  phone  book configuration to be changed, the redial delay
  can now be adjusted in steps of ten seconds.

- By public request, the VT102 printer control codes have been implemented.

- The  implementation of the beep signal sound routines has been changed to
  cause the audio.device driver to be opened shortly before the sound is to
  be  played  rather  than having it opened at  program  startup.  The  new
  method  has  the  advantage  that  the sound channel is less likely to be
  stolen by another application.

- A  couple  of  terminal  emulation  bugs  have  been fixed, including the
  mysterious  `insert  line'  problem  (Emacs,  JOVE,  etc.) and the scroll
  region code which would sometimes refuse to scroll the last region line.
--------------------------- Changes ----------------------------------

	Stefan

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