From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: WANTED-- Baud Bandit 2 features
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 09:47:57 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

>Hi all!
>
>Could someone please email me (or post if you think others would be
>interested), a list of the NEW features in Baud Bandit 2. I currently
>have V1.5 and would like to see if some things have improved or been
>fixed in the new version.
>
>Thanks in advance.

Here are two posts from Portal.  One from Harv Laser, a tester and one from
Greg Cunningham, the programmer of BaudBandit.

FROM HARV ---------------------------------------

As a tester I've been using vairants of Bandit 2 for so long I can't even
remember what Bandit 1.5 looks like... but from my aging memory...

-Kermit protocol added
-new button gadgetry across the drag bar
-right mouse button pull down menus
-sortable phone book which is now unlimited length
-can be iconified into a tiny WorkBench drag bar button
-more configuration options 
-new config fast window menu thing
-more macro keys
-better IBM ANSI emulation
-second font for IBM ANSI can be specified in config screen
-can be set to automatically pop open DiskMaster II upon demand
-can create icons for downloaded files with your choice of icons
-creates a log file of all Bandit 2 activities, saves to disk as it goes
-can be config'd to auto-decompress downloads
and probably a bunch of other stuff I either don't use or can't remember :)

Harv

FROM GREG -----------------------------------------

Joel.

To tell you the truth I'm not even sure if it's enough of an upgrade to be
"needed".  Harv got most of it, but lemme see if I can't add some more.

- A whole new 2.0 style interface
- User configurable menus
- 36 more function keys
- New transfer status with CPS, bytes to go, time left, and more
- Configuration saving with project icons for multiple configurations
- ANSI color remapping
- IBM mode for allowing two sets of config options like fonts, color map,
  color palette, screen mode, and more.
- A different palette for each screen mode
- Only ZModem was rewritten in assembler, it's the only protocol I use :)
- Printer output can be sent to the speech device.
- Configurations now save all window positions, widths, and heights including
  the iconify button, printer and capture on/off status.
- Obnoxious "star trek" sounds when you click on gadgets :)
- Text reader for reading or sending parts of text files
- XON/XOFF "lockups" can abort after a specified time
- Destructive backspace switch for unix... or something

Hmmm, ARexx...

- All of the buttons that couldn't be accessed from ARexx can be now.
- Cursor:  to get/set the cursor position
- Log: Turns on/off then log, or sends a string to the log file.
- Menu: reset or add a menu item.  Works somewhat like DiskMaster
- Wait was changed alot.  It now returns mixed case instead of the uppercase
  only, and ?'s are replaced with the incoming characters.


I guess it really just depends on what you use it for and if any of these
changes are going to benifit you.  I assume there will be some ARexx programs
soon that may be incompatible with the older versions.

Greg

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I hope these lists help.

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