//tak********************************************************************** This file contains a list of features in QmodemPro for v1.5 ONLY ÷÷ TAKnet Information Service Fort Wayne, Indiana ÷÷ ÷÷ Tuesday; June 15, 1993 ÷÷ //tak********************************************************************** QmodemPro v1.50 Note: see 'ripinfo.txt' for more complete information on RIP RIP information To enable conection to BBS systems making use of the new RIPscrip graphical emulation you must set the Terminal Emulation for that dialing directory entry to RIPscrip. Everything else is automatic. Once in graphics mode you can return to text mode by pressing Alt Z to get the familiar QmodemPro Menu Bar. If you intend to make use of RIPscrip you must set up a directory to store ICONS which are a part of the RIP emulation. To do so, invoke the QmodemPro Config option by pressing Alt Z followed by C for Config. Then select the Path Definitions choice and fill in an appropriate path to hold your ICON files. This may be a path similar to C:\QMPRO\ICONS\ After entering a path, exit QmodemPro and create the directory on your disk. Copy ICONS.EXE from your QMPRO home directory to this new ICONS directory and execute it there to extract the .ICN files. After doing so you can erase ICONS.EXE to save space. The balance of this file is a new feature list. - Added full support for RIPscrip graphics including mouse support from remote. To activate RIP set the terminal emulation for the terminal or any dialing directory entry to RIP. Note that RIP makes use of EGA graphics and may not be used on systems without EGA capability. Attention DESQview users. QmodemPro fully utilizes the DESQview mouse API to allow the mouse to be active in multiple re-sized DESQview windows. However, the DESQview mopuse API does not provide a method of switching to EGA graphics mode and continuing to make use of the mouse. If you intend to make use of the mouse in RIP emulation you must either leave DESQview and run QmodemPro from DOS or use DESQview/X which fully supports switching to a grphical mouse cursor. We regret this situation, and are working with Quarterdeck Office Systems for an alternative solution. QmodemPro switches from text to graphics mode automatically when triggered by a RIP-capable host, and can be manually switched back by pressing the menu key, Alt Z. This switch is very quick except when running under Windows. When Windows is detected, the RIP switching between text and graphics takes a little longer because it has to write the graphics screen contents to a file and then restore it when it switches back. Non-windows users will not experience this disk write delay. - Quicklearn fully supports recording of RIP screens including mouse clicks, for playback. Two new Script commands have been added, RIPKEY and RIPMOUSE. RIPKEY [character] This is the HOTKEY character of a Rip Button if one exists on the graphics screen. During playback, it will simulate pressing the hotkey for that character and the button will execute. RIPMOUSE [X coord] [Y coord] This records the position of the mouse pointer when the mouse is clicked on a mouse button or mouse region. During playback, it will simulate moving the mouse pointer to the x,y coordinates specified and clicking the left mouse button. - Fixed a long-standing bug in the Script processor when it had to deal with WAITFOR commands that used expanded Ctrl character sequences. It was possible for Quicklearn to Record a Script that it could not play back correctly. I found this when dealing with the new RIP script commands above. - A red dashed box appears on the screen when a RIP ICON Load command is received but does not exist in your ICONS directory. - The button support in RIP mode acts just like Windows and QmPro Dialogs. Holding the mouse button down and moving off the button, will "unclick", and moving back on the button will "re-click" it. If you release the mouse button when it is "unclicked", the command is ignored. - Changes were made to the FAX code and timing to allow it to operate better with a wider variety of FAX modems. - Changed the Fax code to allow a ^L Formfeed character to eject a page and start a new one. The ^L -MUST- be the only character on the line and be in column 1 of the document. If either of these fail then the page will not eject. - Added remote/local printer support to VT100, VT102, VT220 and VT320. The new commands now supported include ESC[4i, ESC[5i, ESC[0i, ESC[?1i, ESC[?4i, ESC[?5i, ESC[?19h, ESC[?19l, ESC[?18h, ESC[?18l. - Fixed a bug in the VTxxx emulation color code ESC[0m to reset the correct color. - Made a fix to the VT100+ emulations to ignore some of the VT52 commands that would not be trapped normally. - Minor bug fix to the ESC T command in Wyse50 emulation. If this was done on the last line, the screen would scroll up one line when it shouldn't. - Fixed an annoyance (not really a bug) in Zmodem Download where it would flush the incoming buffer after the transfer and there was a chance that the BBS had sent info after the transfer that you wouldn't see. - Fixed Alt+K so it was QuickLearn'able. It was not recording the DEVICE command in the learned script. - Added support for the Doorway Remote Printer redirection in ANSI and RIP modes. Redirection prints to the defined printer (or file) as defined in Config/Files/Filename/Printer ID. - Made a minor change to the Ymodem/G Upload process to catch the first "G" from a remote a little quicker. Should save 3-5 seconds in the startup phase. - Added a "/NOLOGO" command line option. This will skip the ANSI logo and delay when QmPro is loaded. - Corrected a problem with the Shell to DOS code. If a system has a 16550 and it was enabled in the Device config, after a Shell it was not being re-enabled. This also affected some external protocols. - Users who are connecting to the J&L NCS Int14 Servers can now use the ArtiCom Interface for correct connections. J&L use a slight variation of the Int14 standard, and with a small change to the ArtiCom, it works for both systems. - Included the new RPI software V.42bis and MNP5 support for those 2400 baud modems that can take advantage of it. This requires the V42.DRV file to be located in the same directory as QMPRO.EXE. - Included support for NCSI/ACSý network interface. This is a slight variation to the NASI/NACS code. - Fixed the problem with the CIS B+ downloads not switching to the Default DL Directory automatically. - Fixed a script STRING bug in script processing. If a master script called a nested script used the STRING command many times, the duplicate definitions were not caught and caused the string table to overflow. Now, when a nested script uses the STRING command, if the string already exists it is cleared. If it doesn't, it is added to the String table. //tak**********************************************************************