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Minicom 1.70 uploaded to sunsite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Feb 14 14:16:32 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 19:05:16 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: miquels@drinkel.ow.org (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Minicom 1.70 uploaded to sunsite
Organization: Alcohol diseases R&D
Keywords: Minicom, telecommunictaion, modem, terminal emulation
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.networking
I've uploaded minicom-1.70.tar.gz to sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming.
It will probably be moved to /pub/Linux/apps/comm soon.
Here's the announcement:
Announcing minicom 1.70
A short summary of what minicom is:
Minicom is a DOS (he said Jehowa!) style communications program much
like "Telix". It is full-screen menu driven, has a dialing
directory, supports color, VT102/VT220 and ANSI-BBS emulation,
multiple (per-user and per-port) configuration, x/y/z modem
protocols (external) etc.
Tested platforms:
Linux 1.1.90, SunOS 4.1.3, SCO ODT 3.2
Supported but untested (maybe needs a little tweaking):
DGUX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Coherent, HP/UX, SysVR4, Apollo Domain/OS.
New in minicom 1.70:
o Incorporated the macros and color patches of filip@alpha.med.pitt.edu.
You can now customize the colors minicom uses. And, you can now program
F1-F10 to send arbitrary strings to the remote host. I am planning
to extend this to be able to control minicom itself, but that will
probably be in the next version.
o Fixed ANSI characterset emulation (hosed it in 1.60). Better VT102
emulation, TAB setting, insert mode, origin mode etc. added.
o VT emulation now passes the famous "vttest" program completely.
o Oops.. also hosed VT102 character maps. Now OK again, I can run minicom
inside minicom and still get correct character sets.
o Minicom can use the status line of a terminal for it's own status line.
o The windows library can use the alternative character set of a terminal,
so that you have menus in _real_ boxes on eg a vt320 terminal.
o Includes termcap entries for the Linux console, vt100, vt320 and
xterm terminals that are _correct_ and _complete_.
o Added delays in "runscript" because it was too fast for some systems.
o Stores screen into scroll back buffer on clear screen
o Fixed lots of little bugs and problems (like the wrong entry that
got deleted from the taglist in the dialing directory).
o Dial strings and script names now 31 characters max.
Mike. (miquels@drinkel.ow.org)
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