[7405] in SIPB bug reports
ytalk 3.1.1 installed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Fri Oct 29 20:57:14 1999
Message-Id: <199910300057.UAA37534@smoke-screen.mit.edu>
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 20:57:08 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
I upgraded ytalk for irix, sun, linux3, and netbsd. For older
platforms I left the old binaries unchanged.
The source for the old version, plus the binaries it built are tarred
up as /mit/sipb/src/ytalk-3.0.tgz, in case we need to back out.
The new features (from the release documentation) are:
+ Configuration through GNU Autoconf, no more Imakefiles or Makefiles
to edit "to suit your system".
+ Aliases: you can now alias hosts, usernames, and full addresses,
by defining aliases in your ~/.ytalkrc:
- "alias nick@ longusername@"
will replace any "nick@anyhost" with "longusername@anyhost".
- "alias @short @longhostname"
will replace any user@short with "user@longhostname".
- "alias nick username@hostname"
will replace "nick" with "username@hostname".
+ Support for virtual hosts and multiple aliases; you can choose the
interface (IP address) to use in either of 3 ways:
- using the "-h hostname_or_ip" command-line option
- setting the environment variable LOCALHOST to the hostname or
IP address
- putting the line "localhost my-hostname-or-ip" in ~/.ytalkrc
+ Command-line option "-Y" lets you require CAPS on all y/n answers,
so you don't answer "yes" just because you happen to type a 'y' in
the middle of conversation.
Add "turn caps on" to your ~/.ytalkrc to have this by default.
+ Command-line option "-i" to turn off trying to catch new incoming
talk requests (just get the usual message from talk_daemon instead).
Add "turn noinvite on" to your ~/.ytalkrc to do this by default.
+ Added "Kill all unconnected" (k) to the main menu; if you're trying
to ring some more people, and want to give up, just press ESC k.
+ You can now choose between three possibilities for auto-rering:
no rerings at all ("turn rering off"), prompt for rerings
("turn rerings on" and "turn prompt-rering on"), and fully
automatic rerings ("turn rerings on" and "turn prompt-rering off").
Both rerings and prompting are on by default.
+ YTalk attempts not to clears the screen when it exists if the
other end ^C'd, so you get to see the end of the conversation even
if you weren't paying attention.
Depending on your terminal definitions, this may not work unless
you take out the escape sequences that clear the screen, from the
'te' termcap entry, and/or from the rmcup terminfo entry.
There's also a lot of bug fixes.
-Camilla
