Category : BBS Programs+Doors
Archive   : RIPTM154.ZIP
Filename : WHATSNEW.DOC

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³ VERSION HISTORY! ³°
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³ Copyright (c) 1992-93, TeleGrafix Communications, Inc. ³°
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 Fixed a bug that appeared only when upgrading to a new copy
of RIPterm. In previous versions, the modem initialization
string, baud rate and other comm parameters would be reset
to "stock" RIPterm settings. In other words, whatever
comm settings you had setup in your older version of RIPterm
would be forgotten and overwritten with some "defaults"
that RIPterm thought were more appropriate. This no longer
happens and RIPterm will preserve your older configuration.

 Fixed a couple of glitches with Mouse Buttons that use the
Hot Icon mode of the RIP_BUTTON command. In prior versions,
the Hot Icon wasn't properly displayed without the INVERT
flag present. Now it does. Also, when INVERT is enabled,
the button's label would be inverted as it should be but
when INVERT was not present, the labels were still being
inverted when they shouldn't have been. Now corrected.
Also corrected in this bug fix were some other minor
glitches relating to radio buttons and checkbox buttons
when they were used without the INVERT flag being present.
In all cases, a radio button or checkbox button must have
some kind of way of inverting the button or presenting
an alternative image of the button. Now, if a button is
a radio button or a checkbox button, then INVERT is assumed
unless it is a hot icon button where the alternate icon is
used for the selected button image.

 Fixed a bug where BBS sub-directories weren't automatically
created upon dialing the system the first time. This only
happened under certain situations, depending on the type of
modem you owned.

 Cleaned up some timing problems with Zmodem and Ymodem (batch)
uploads and downloads. We have been working closely with the
authors of the File Transfer Protocol routines and think that
we now have a very stable set of transfer protocols. Sorry
about the past instabilities.

 Fixed a couple of bugs with the remote definition of text variables.
One of the bugs would always put a question mark in the data field
when asking you to fill-in a text variable. Another bug would
corrupt the dialog box when the question was entirely blank. Both
are now fixed.

 Added support for a new RIPscrip command: Poly-Line

 Supported the full modes of the RIP_VIEWPORT command for defining
graphical display viewports for RIPscrip graphics primitives.

 Corrected a bug with RIPterm's ASCII Upload feature. In previous
versions, ASCII upload didn't look for its upload files in the
Upload Directory - they were always assumed to be in the current
directory. This is no longer the case and ASCII uploads operate
as you would expect them to - looking up files in the appropriate
upload directory.

 Fixed a one-pixel glitch on the download window where one of
the fields was off by a pixel. It annoyed me, ok!

 Fixed a bug with the Scrolling Popup Menu routines. Under some
circumstances, these operations could cause RIPterm to freak out
and the mouse to move around all-by-itself and do weird things.
Turned out to be a low-level problem with one of the graphics
routines that drew the popup menu. This bug also existed in
RIPaint and was fixed simultaneously.

 Improved the appearance of the Pull Down menus a bit with a tad
more beveling .

 Fixed a problem where if you accessed the pull-down menu by the
keyboard (ie, F10=menu) and you choose an option like the Dialing
Directory, Hangup, Download File, etc., RIPterm will no longer
return to the Pull Down menu immediately upon completion of the
command. This was best exemplified with the Dialing Directory.
If you got a connection, you would be popped back into the pull
down menu and wouldn't see anything. You would have to hit the
ESCAPE key twice to get out of the menus before you would see
any of the text from the Host. This is now no longer the case.

 Fixed a problem when RIPterm senses the Fonts or Icon Files are
in the wrong directory, where RIPterm would not preserve the
correct file date/time on the newly copied file(s). This could
affect the RIP_FILE_QUERY command where the BBS can ask RIPterm
if it has a certain file, and if so, what the date/time of the
file is. Since the date/time was incorrect on the file, it could
frequently be unneccessarily downloaded from the Host.

 The RIPscrip Auto-Sensing command contains a Vendor Code indicating
which Manufacturer's terminal is responding. The valid Vendor
codes are:

0 - Generic RIPscrip terminal (manufacturer unknown)
1 - RIPterm (from TeleGrafix Communications, Inc.)
2 - Qmodem Pro (from Mustang Software, Inc.)

These codes are contained in the return string sent to the Host
when RIPterm detects an version number query command. The format
of the return string is: RIPSCRIP0153xy where "x" is the Vendor
Code (0-2) and the "y" is the manufacturer's version code. The
"0153" indicates the version number of the RIPscrip specification
without decimal points (eg, v1.53 would be 0153). In v1.53.00 of
RIPterm, the software was incorrectly responding as Vendor Code
#2 (same as Qmodem Pro). This is now corrected to the proper value
of "1". (eg, RIPSCRIP015311) where our Revision Code is "1" and our
Vendor Code is "1".

 Resolved a bug with the external Font Files (.CHR files). When the
User unZIP's RIPterm, the Icon and Font files could be placed in
the incorrect location if the user didn't extract the archive with
sub-directory information. When this happens, RIPterm would ask
the user if he wants to move the files to the proper directories.
The Icon Files (.ICN, .HIC and .MSK files) are moved to the ICONS\
directory and the .CHR files should be moved to the FONTS\ directory.
The Bug that existed in the last release tried to move the .CHR
files over to the FONTS\ directory BEFORE the directory was created.
The second time you ran RIPterm, the directory would exist and the
files would be moved over properly.

 Resolved a glitch with the Upload/Download directories. If you did
not place a backslash on the end of the path, RIPterm would not
properly store the files that you downloaded. In fact, the files
would disappear as if by magic. RIPterm now automatically places
a backslash on the end for you and even capitalizes the path for you.
Isn't technology wonderful?

 Fixed a minor bug with the RIP_ENTER_BLOCK_MODE command where if
you actually attempt to do a batch file transfer (more than one file)
the progress meter at the bottom of the Block Transfer window would
not get cleared from one file to the next (ie, Reset).

 Enhanced the operation of the Button Command when used with Radio
Buttons or Checkbox Groups and when the button is initially drawn
as "selected". In previous versions, any Host Command string was
not automatically processed. Due to popular demand, it is processed
immediately (and possibly transmitted to the Host).

 Fixed a bug with the RIP_DEFINE command. If the text variable to
be defined was flagged to be saved to the database, it would not;
it was saved to an internal "volatile" memory table which only
exists until RIPterm exits. If you tried to define a text variable
and tell it NOT to save to the database (putting it in the table
intentionally), then it WOULD get saved to the database. This
obviously backwards way of doing things is now rectified and the
variables will be saved to either the database or the internal
memory table as they should.

 Fixed another bug with RIPscrip processing - If a CTRL-A or CTRL-B
was received, RIPterm would attempt to process it as a RIPscrip
command. Even if the following character wasn't a vertical bar (|)
then the CTRL-A or CTRL-B would get gobbled (not displayed) and
the next character would get ignored. Now, the CTRL-A or CTRL-B
are displayed as well as the second character.




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 Fixed a bug with Mouse Buttons that would (when clicked) mess
up the sunken attribute by extending the bevel one pixel wider
in all directions (inward). This had the net effect that when
you click on a Mouse Button, its bevel would get thicker and
would thus not appear the way it should when you release the
mouse on the button (release).

 Resolved a bug with the $RTW$ text variable where the Text Window
WRAP/CHOP setting wasn't being preserved when you do a Restore
Text Window command.

 If RIPterm senses that it is upgraded to a newer version, the
first time that RIPterm loads it will display the "About Box"
to inform you of any alterations in the software (if any).

 The file transfer protocols now yield an alarm sound in the
event of a transfer error - in addition to a pop-up message
window. This gives you an audible clue that something went
wrong.

 Added the ability to disable all alarm sounds and other various
forms of beeping and general noise. You can now make RIPterm
completely silent if you wish by turning OFF Alarm Sounds and
Disabling Beeps.

 Altered the hangup code so that if a hangup operation fails,
not only will it display "Hangup Failed", but it will also
beep your terminal to indicate some kind of error occured.

 Fixed the RIPTERM.FNT file to display the proper characters
for ASCII characters 9, 10 and 13. In prior versions of
RIPterm, these characters appeared as blank spaces. In this
version, they appear as a circle, reversed circle and a
single-stem musical note.

 Resolved a bug where a vertical bar (|) occuring in a text
portion of a RIPscrip sequence (even if it was preceded with
a backslash escaping character), the remainder of the line of
RIP code would be "discarded" as illegal RIPscrip code, and
the last portion of the text parameter would be discarded.

 Improved the look & feel of a number of the pop-up window boxes
in RIPterm.

 Added a "Expand Blank Line" option to the ASCII File Upload
Settings dialog box. If enabled (the default), any blank lines
that are ASCII uploaded will be expanded to a space so that
things like Email Editors and things won't interpret the data
as a blank line (and re-prompt the user with a command prompt).
In some cases however, this is undesirable; in cases like these,
simply turn this option off and no space padding will be added
on blank lines.

 Re-designed the Modem Options dialog box. Many options in there
now adhere to the "pop-down" menu concept for the COM Port, Baud,
Data Bits, Parity and Stop Bits settings making the dialog box
a lot less clutterd and much easier to work with and understand.

 Modified the RIP_ENTER_BLOCK mode. The format of the RIPscrip
command used to be:

!|9 protocol:2 filetype:2 reserved:2 [filename] <>

The block mode was modified to allow for both downloads and now
automated uploading. The protocol field was previously a 2-digit
MegaNum parameter. It is now a 1-digit MegaNum parameter, and
a mode field (1 digit) was added in front of the protocol field
as in the following syntax:

!|9 mode:1 protocol:1 filetype:2 reserved:2 [filename] <>

A mode value of 0 indicates download block mode. A value of 1
indicates an upload. When in upload mode, the filename field IS
required, and multiple files can be specified if the protocol
field indicates a batch type protocol.

If Data Security in RIPterm is enabled and an "upload" type block
request is received, RIPterm will prompt the user if he wishes
to approve the upload. If the user denies the upload, RIPterm
will send 10 CAN characters to the host separated by 1/10th
second pauses to abort any file transfer protocol that may be
active on the host end.

 Added six new graphical fonts to RIPterm. The new fonts, and
their font-id numbers are as follows:

05 - Script Font
06 - Simplex Font
07 - Triplex Script Font
08 - Complex Font
09 - European Font
0A - Bold Font (outline font)

These font-id numbers can be used in conjunction with the
RIP_FONT_STYLE command to set different graphical fonts in RIPscrip.

 Externalized the RIPterm graphical fonts. All fonts are contained
in external disk-based font files. This serves three purposes:

1) All fonts are now easily editable with any available
Borland BGI font editor.
2) RIPterm now requires approximately 40k less memory to
operate, since the fonts are no longer embedded into
the RIPTERM.EXE file.
3) It makes the addition of more fonts easier in the future.

 Added upload and download sub-directory support. All files that
are uploaded will be searched for in the designated upload
directory, and the same applies for downloads with the download
directory. If no directory has been specified, then uploads and
downloads will be directed to the current sub-directory that
RIPterm is using (unless otherwise specified).

 Modified the dialing directory so that it clears the screen
before dialing a system, thus removing any log-off screens
from previously called systems that might still be on the
screen (leaving RIPterm in a "fresh" state for the next BBS).

 Fixed "Icon Sub-directories" with Mouse Buttons that use
Icon Files for the button image. In previous versions,
if the desired Icon file wasn't in the ICONS\ sub-directory,
it wouldn't be loaded for the button image and consequently,
the button wouldn't be created (ie, no clickable button).

 Added an option to lower DTR upon exit of RIPterm. Normally,
RIPterm would leave DTR enabled when RIPterm exits, or when
changing to another COM port. This new option will lower
DTR when a COM port is closed or when RIPterm exits, provided
you are not already online and indicate to RIPterm not to hangup.
If you instruct RIPterm not to hangup, DTR will remain active
(high).

 Added enhanced Doorway (tm) support. RIPterm's Doorway mode has
been significantly enhanced to support the advanced features of
Printer Re-direction and Special Character Overides. In addition,
the ANSI sequences to enable/disable Doorway mode are supported
along with the ANSI sequences to print strings. If a printer
is not configured, RIPterm will instruct Doorway that it does
not support printer re-direction. RIPterm should be fully
100% doorway compatible in all modes. As a point worth mentioning,
RIPterm v1.53 is the first commercial terminal program to ever
support the full Doorway interface totally!

 Added Session Logging to the Printer. You may now toggle the
printer ON via ALT-P and any ASCII/ANSI text that appears over
the modem will be printed as well as displayed on the user's
screen. When session printing is enabled, a field on the
status line changes to reflect that printing is active.
Clicking on this field will toggle the printer off.

 You can now specify which LPT port your printer is connected
to in the General Setup dialog box. You may choose from LPT1
through LPT3 or set it to 0 for no printer attached. If you
specify not to use a printer, choosing any Print options from
within RIPterm will instruct you that there is no printer
attached and will refuse to attempt printing.

 Text parameters of RIPscrip commands may now be up to 1024 bytes
in length instead of the previous 256 byte limit.

 A bug existed in previous version of RIPterm that would prevent
a line of text from being displayed if an exclamation point (!)
appeared in column #1.

 Modified the Enter Block Transfer mode to change the RIPscrip
command level to 9 instead of 10. This was done for technical
reasons and has been adopted into the RIPscrip Protocol
Specification. For the time being, RIPterm will recognize the
level-10 flavor of the Enter Block Transfer mode as well as the
level-9 version. The level-10 variety was left in for
compatibility reasons and will be phased out in a future release.
Level-10 commands have been entirely eliminated in the RIPscrip
specification.

 Made it so that if Data Security is enabled, whenever you try
to run an application via its text variable name, you are
prompted if you truly wish to run the application. If Data
Security is disabled, the application will execute immediately.

 The VT-100 Character Set functions (G0 and G1) were not being
reset when the user manually cleared his screen. They do now.

 14 new text variables have been added bringing RIPterm up to
a grand total of 103 built-in text variables. The new text
variables are:

TWH ... Current text window's height
TWW ... Current text window's width
TWX0 ... Upper-left X coordinate of text window
TWY0 ... Upper-left Y coordinate of text window
TWX1 ... Lower-right X coordinate of text window
TWY1 ... Lower-right Y coordinate of text window
TWWIN ... Returns YES if text window active, otherwise NO
TWFONT ... Current System Font number in use or 0 for none
CURX ... Returns the current X cursor coordinate
CURY ... Returns the current Y cursor coordinate
CURSOR ... Returns YES if the cursor is visible, otherwise NO
SAVEALL ... Performs the following: SAVE STW SCB and SMF
RESTOREALL ... Performs the following: RESTORE RTW RCB and RMF
RESET ... Resets the screen (like ALT-R in RIPterm)
ALARM ... An alarm sound - same as aborted file transfers
PHASER ... A descending frequency phaser-like sound
REVPHASER ... The same as PHASER except it is the reverse sound

 All ANSI sequences supported by RIPterm are now documented in
Appendix B of the RIPTERM.DOC file for reference purposes.

 Modified Kermit file transfers so that if you perform an upload
operation of a binary file over a 7-bit connection, the file
will transfer correctly. In prior versions, the file would
become garbled due to the nature of the connection.

 Repaired the incompatibilities with Custom Color Palettes on
particular hardware combinations. Under some circumstances,
RIPterm would freak out the video system whenever a custom
color palette was encountered.

 Added a feature to the file transfer protocols such that
if a file by the same name already exists, it will manipulate
the filename such that it doesn't overwrite the previously
saved file. For example, TEST.TXT might be converted to
TEST.TX0, TEST.TX1, all the way up to TEST.999 for the 1000th
download of TEST.TXT. If Zmodem Crash Recovery is enabled,
then this option will not apply when using Zmodem. If
Crash Recovery is disabled, then Zmodem will utilize this
feature.

 Added a new option - Zmodem Recovery which controls whether
Zmodem should utilize Crash Recovery or not. This is part
of your RIPterm setup.

 Enhanced the External Application function, allowing a
particular application entry to be linked to a particular
file extension. With this, you can automatically fire off
an application whenever a file with the appropriate file
extension is downloaded! Viewing .GIF files the moment they
are downloaded is but one application of this feature.

 Modified the Printer Output routines so that when text is
printed, both a carriage return and a line feed would be
output to the printer, not just a line feed. On printers
like Epsons, this didn't seem to be a big deal, but on
most popular Laser Printers, it is a problem [was].

 Significantly re-structured the pull-down menus to be easier
to understand and to find things.

 Added a General Setup dialog box which allows you to edit
many setup-related options in RIPterm from one central location.
No more having to set a bunch of options in the pull-down
menus.

 Enhanced the DOS Shell function. DOS shells will now swap
nearly 100% of all RIPterm data out of conventional (640k)
memory into either EMS, XMS or to disk if all else fails.
RIPterm will only leave a 5.5k footprint in conventional
memory giving you nearly all of your memory back to MS-DOS
when you shell. While you are shelled to DOS, RIPterm will
ignore any incoming data over the modem.

 Added an External pull-down menu. You may install local
applications from within this menu which you can then
execute quickly and easily from within RIPterm.

 Added ten new text variables: $APP0$ through $APP9$. These
variables will execute applications #0 - 9. You can use this
from within keystroke macros or from within Host Commands to
fire off a local DOS application while still online.

 Modified the file transfer protocols so that they intelligently
handle Carrier Detect. In prior versions, if CD was low, the
file protocols would think that the connection was lost and it
would abort the transfer. Now, if CD is high before the
transfer starts, it will monitor carrier to check for a lost
connection. If CD is low before the transfer begins, then
RIPterm will ignore the status of Carrier Detect throughout
the duration of the transfer.

 If RIPterm was out of memory, initiating a file transfer
would result in an aborted transfer due to lack of memory.
This should no longer happen.

 Modified the file transfer routines so that if all memory in
RIPterm is exhausted, a file upload/download will no longer
abort from lack of memory. To gain the necessary memory
(approximately 1.5k), RIPterm will discard the oldest lines
of text in the scrollback buffer until the memory request
can be satisfied.

 Altered the About Box for RIPterm. The About Box now is
physically part of the RIPTERM.EXE file rather than the
Help system.



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 Added Dialing Prefix and Suffixes. You may now have three
separate Dialing Prefixes and three separate Dialing Suffixes
to choose from for different telephone environments.

 Altered to Dialing Directory Editor. All fields are now pop-up
data fields instead of a lot of tiny radio buttons which are
more confusing looking. Also added support for dialing prefix
and suffix in the editor.

 Enhanced the look and feel of all pop-up menus, pull-down menus,
dialing window and the file transfer windows. Much more
professional looking.

 Changed some of the low-level file I/O code in RIPterm to some
faster routines. Icons should display faster (a bit) and windows,
when closed, should appear a little faster.

 Redesigned RIPterm's internal memory structure. By first
appearance, it will seem that RIPterm requires more memory than
it used to. However, after prolonged use of RIPterm in the
same session, you will find that it no longer runs out of memory
as often, or freak out when memory runs low. These problems
were due to Memory Fragmentation errors.

 Fixed a bug with the scrollback buffer that would blank out the
bottom line of the window when you hit the UP-ARROW key to scroll
up.

 Resolved a number of functional problems with the low-level
communications system of RIPterm. Characters were being lost
with high speed modems with RTS/CTS enabled. This should now
be resolved for you high-speed modem junkies.

 Zmodem file transfers were having timing difficulties. Now
resolved. You should notice Zmodem uploads work excellent
now and Zmodem downloads are also much more reliable.

 Fixed a number of bugs with VT-100/ANSI cursor positioning
with regard to the VT-100 vertical scrolling margins. Also,
some glitches existed when the status bar was on/off that
didn't appear in prior releases.

 RIPterm now auto-senses if you are using it on a MicroChannel
machine, and if so auto-patches the I/O Addresses and the
IRQ values for COM3-4 which are different.

 The RIPTERM.FNT file is now considerably smaller (about 1/4 its
original size).

 Fixed the bug which freaked out RIPterm when you execute the
"Built-in variables" option from the DATA pull-down menu.

 The options that list out the text variables did not display
properly unless CR/LF was enabled. This is now corrected and
they should display properly regardless of your CR/LF setting.

 RIPterm will now restore the setting of the Scroll-Lock key
when it exits to DOS. The status of the key is reset to
whatever the setting was when RIPterm booted up.

 Added a visual error recovery notation on the progress bar of
the file transfer window. You can now visually see how far
the protocol had to "back up".

 Added four new text variables:

$HKEYON$ ... Enable Button Hotkeys

This option enables button hotkeys. Any Button that is
created by a BBS that has a hotkey will be activated
if you hit the corresponding key on your keyboard.
This will light-up the Scroll-Lock key on your
keyboard indicating that Button Hotkey mode is ON.


$HKEYOFF$ ... Disable Button Hotkeys

This option disables button hotkeys. Any Button that
is created by a BBS that has a hotkey associated with
it, will not be activated even if the user hits that
key on his keyboard. The only way to activate a
button in this mode is with the mouse. The
Scroll-Lock key on your keyboard will go dim,
indicating that Button Hotkey Mode is disabled.


$TABON$ ... Enable TAB to execute mouse fields

When this variable is processed, you can use the TAB
key to navigate through the Mouse/Button fields on
your screen. In this mode, you can access the fields
without a mouse. The side- effect is that the TAB key
cannot be used directly with the Host.


$TABOFF$ ... Disable TAB to execute mouse fields

When this variable is processed, you cannot use the TAB
key to navigate throug the Mouse/Button fields on your
screen. In this mode, whenever the TAB key is hit, it
is sent directly to the Host as a TAB character. Any
fields that are already hilighted when this variable
is received will be de-hilighted.


 Tech Note: The Clipboard is now auto-allocated upon RIPterm bootup
to a fixed size of 64k. If you load an Icon but instruct RIPterm
not to put it on the clipboard, it will still load even if the
icon is up to 64k in size.

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 VT-102 compatible operation. RIPterm now adheres to ANSI SCO/UNIX
VT-102 compatibility.

 Bugs were fixed with VT-102 tab stops and tab handling

 In VT-102 mode, backspaces are now non-destructive.

 Added several VT-102 commands:

ESC [ @ ..... Insert characters
ESC [ P ..... Delete characters
ESC [ L ..... Insert lines
ESC [ M ..... Delete lines
ESC [ Z ..... Move cursor backward tab stops

 Fixed a number of bugs with ANSI clear-screen/area commands.

 ANSI clear screen (ESC [ 2 J) commands now properly reset the screen
to the proper display attribute.

 Scrolling the screen will clear the bottom line to the proper display
attributes.

 Supports VT-102 character sets G0 and G1 (US, UK or Special Sets)

 A couple of bugs were fixed in this version pertaining to one-line
text windows. Two oddities were happening when in this mode:

1) when the window "scrolls", portions of the previous
line would remain at the top of the text window, and
2) if the window was set to "CHOP" mode (i.e., NO WRAP),
and you hit the far-right of the window, characters
that you type would appear outside the text window
off to the right (potentially disturbing graphics).

 Another bug was fixed with the 80x43 and 91x43 fonts with the
status bar. If the status bar is OFF and the cursor is underneath
where the status bar would normally be, and then the status bar
is enabled, the status bar would be disturbed by the cursor or
the text. In other words, the status bar would get freaked out.

 More sophisticated Save Screen and Restore Screen macros were
added in this version. There are now text variables for
$SAVE0$ - $SAVE9$ and $RESTORE0$ - $RESTORE9$. This gives you
ten different simultaneously saved graphics screens. When you
restore one of these screens using RESTORE0-9, the temporary
files are immediately deleted when restored. This is different
than the $RESTORE$ variable which leaves the screen file on the
hard disk even after the restoration is complete. This allows
for multiple restores to occur without having to re-save the
screen each time. The SAVE0 through SAVE9 commands save their
graphical data to files RIPTERM0.SAV through RIPTERM9.SAV.

 When RIPterm boots up and shuts down, it will delete any
temporary files created by the text variable commands. The
files that will be removed are:

RIPFIELD.SAV ... Saved Mouse Fields
SCRAPBUF.SAV ... Saved Clipboard
RIPTERM.SAV ... Saved graphics screen ($SAVE$)
RIPTERM0.SAV ... Saved graphics screen ($SAVE0$)
: :
RIPTERM9.SAV ... Saved graphics screen ($SAVE9$)

 A new option is available to the RIPterm user: Button hotkey
release mode. This allows the user to determine whether his
keystrokes should be checked with the BBS buttons or not for
activation. In other words, if the BBS places a button on
the screen like this:

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...where the hotkey for the button is "E", simply pressing the
"E" key on your keyboard would normally activate this button.
This may not be desirable if you're trying to send a message to
another user with the letter "E" in it. Now, there's a way
around this: Hotkey Release Mode.

Hotkey Release mode is linked to your SCROLL-LOCK key on your
keyboard. If Scroll Lock is lit, then hotkeys are processed.
If it is not lit, then the character will be sent to the BBS
directly, bypassing any button hotkeys. If you set this option
from within the pull-down menus, then the option can be
permanently saved to the RIPterm setup. Simply toggling the
option with the Scroll Lock key directly will not be automatically
saved to your setup (even if you perform a "Save Setup").

 When you initially install RIPterm, and if a dialing directory
file is present, RIPterm will scan the file and make sure that
all of the entries in it are set to the proper COM port that
you specified when you originally installed RIPterm. Also, the
Baud Rate will be set appropriately.

 When running RIPterm for the first time, entering a "0" for the
COM port (presumably to return to DOS) no longer reboots your
PC (whoops). This also applies to the Baud Rate installation
option.

 Fixed a bug where the Numeric Keypad would not produce numeric
digits in the normal terminal window. This bug was fixed a long
time ago but in some internal restructuring of RIPterm, it managed
to creep back into the software. Sorry folks.

 Added a new feature into one of the RIPscrip commands allowing
the Host to ask the terminal to inform it when the user clicks
the mouse somewhere on the screen. This could be greatly used
by software manufacturers who wish to make interactive programs
like Games or other such things that take advantage of the Mouse
remotely. Imagine playing a space game with your ship in the
middle of the screen, and clicking elsewhere in the space-map
and having your ship turn and head toward where you click!
For the technical minded, these changes were made to the RIP_QUERY
command. Two new flags were added to this:

1) Tell the Host if the user clicks in the graphics window
2) Tell the Host if the user clicks in the text window

 This version corrects a problem with "local RIP file playback"
options. In prior versions, this mode would slowly gobble up
file handles until there are none left. At that point, subsequent
Playback was not possible unless you exit RIPterm and re-run it.

 Resolved a bug where Local RIP playback was not functioning
properly when used in a Mouse or Button Host Command.

 Cleared up a bug with Full/Duplex toggling. When you toggled
this option ON or OFF, the status bar was not properly updated.

 Added a number of new text variables:

$VT102ON$ ... Turn VT-102 mode ON
$VT102OFF$ ... Turn VT-102 mode OFF
$DWAYON$ ... Turn Doorway Mode ON
$DWAYOFF$ ... Turn Doorway Mode OFF
$STW$ ... Saves text window layout
$RTW$ ... Restores text window layout
$COFF$ ... Disable text cursor
$CON$ ... Enable (display) text cursor
$STW$ ... Saves the text window information
$RTW$ ... Restores text window orientation

 Added two new text variables: $SAVE$ and $RESTORE$. The SAVE
variable will completely save the contents of the entire graphics
screen to a disk file called RIPTERM.SAV. No Mouse Fields, Text
Window locations or Clipboard data are saved - just the graphics
screen. The entire 640x350 region is saved to disk. The RESTORE
command will read the saved file in from disk and restore the
graphics as they were originally saved. If you wish to save the
entire state of the RIPterm system, use the following text variables
all at the same time (spaces are added for clarity):

$SAVE$ $STW$ $SCB$ $SMF$
\ \ \ \
\ \ \ --- Save Mouse Fields
\ \ \
\ \ ------- Save ClipBoard
\ \
\ ----------- Save Text Window
\
--------------- Save Graphics Screen

And to restore the entire context of a graphics environment, use
the following text variables:

$RESTORE$ $STW$ $SCB$ $SMF$
\ \ \ \
\ \ \ --- Restore Mouse Fields
\ \ \
\ \ ------- Restore ClipBoard
\ \
\ ----------- Restore Text Window
\
------------------ Restore Graphics Screen

 Text output speed has been vastly improved. This only pertains to
text that is viewed in the Text Window (i.e., ASCII and ANSI text
that comes from the BBS, not graphical text messages in various
fonts). In raw performance benchmarks we have determined some
statistics for these new printing routines. In a test conducted
of 100,000 characters being printed (without any scrolling),
RIPterm consistently outperformed the old printing method by
the following times:

Font New Time Old Time Speed Ratio
-------------------------------------------------------
80x43 5 seconds 32 seconds 6.40 to 1
80x25 7 seconds 53 seconds 7.57 to 1
91x43 18 seconds 42 seconds 2.33 to 1
91x25 27 seconds 69 seconds 2.56 to 1
40x25 12 seconds 78 seconds 6.50 to 1
===================
AVERAGE: 5.07 to 1

 New "Port Baud Lock" feature. This option, available from the
Modem Options dialog box allows you to "lock" that baud rate
that the modem will use to whatever is defined in your Setup
(or in your dialing directory entries). Even if the modem
connects with a "CONNECT xxxx" where "xxxx" is lower than this
"locked" baud rate, RIPterm will not adjust its baud rate
downward. The reason for this is many high speed modems with
MNP or v.42 bis compression schemes require that the modem-to-
computer baud rate be higher than the actual connection speed.
Some modems will indicate the connection speed between the
two modems, and others will return the speed between the modem
and the PC. If you have a normal 2400 baud modem, you will
not need to activate this option. This option is only of
use if you have a high speed, error correcting or data compressing
modem.

NOTE: This option is part of the RIPterm setup.

 Dialing the modem now takes special care of the Carrier Detect
signal. If the CD signal is low (indicating no connection),
then if the CD signal goes high during the dialing process,
RIPterm will announce a successful connection and switch to
the Terminal screen. If the CD signal is high when dialing
occurs, its status is ignored for the duration of the dialing
process and RIPterm will wait only for a CONNECT XXXX, BUSY,
VOICE, NO DIALTONE or ERROR messages. This added intelligence
should aid RIPterm users unfamiliar with modems who have their
CD settings wrong on their terminal (i.e., AT &C0). The proper
setting is AT &C1 ... for "true carrier detect" results.

 A new RIPTERM.PCX logo file has been included with this release.
Some said that our prior logo screen wasn't adequate, so we made
a new one.

 Added a new option to the pull-down menus: VT-102 MODE.
When in this mode, several keys on your keyboard react as if RIPterm
were a VT-102 compatible keyboard. When this mode is active, the
following keys will transmit the indicated piece of text:

F1 ... ESC [ M
F2 ... ESC [ N
F3 ... ESC [ O
F4 ... ESC [ P
F5 ... ESC [ Q
F6 ... ESC [ R
F7 ... ESC [ S
F8 ... ESC [ T
F9 ... ESC [ U
F10 ... ESC [ V
PGUP ... ESC [ I
PGDN ... ESC [ G
HOME ... ESC [ H
END ... ESC [ F
INSERT ... ESC [ L
CURSOR UP ... ESC [ A
CURSOR DN ... ESC [ B
CURSOR LEFT ... ESC [ C
CURSOR RIGHT ... ESC [ D

In addition, many ANSI escape sequences function slightly differently
than in normal ANSI mode. When in this mode, RIPterm tries to act
like a VT-102 compatible terminal.

 Made the "Offline" field in the status bar bring up the dialing
directory, not the manual dialing dialog box.

 Resolved a bug with the Auto-Sensing RIPscrip option. If the
auto-sensing ANSI command was received and the cursor was still
in column #1, it would not respond with any return sequence.

 Resolved a bug with the Hangup command which would apparently
freeze-up RIPterm, but in fact, was actually taking an abnormally
long time to disconnect (roughly 1800 seconds).

 Modified RIPterm so that RTS/CTS is by default, "ON". Hardware
flow control of modem data is critically important in a graphical
terminal so that data is not lost while graphics commands are
being executed. If CTS is "low", then this mode is automatically
disabled for you.

 Resolved a bug with the "Restore Mouse Fields" text variable and
the "local RIP playback" variable when used in Mouse Fields or
Buttons. This would cause the Host Command string to be improperly
processed.


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This is a very major new release with a great many enhancements and
other features that were not present in prior versions. The
following is a summary of what's new in v1.50.00:

 RIPterm no longer requires a Mouse!

 You can now access the pull-down menus via the keyboard by
hitting the F10 key. You may navigate through the menus
with the arrow keys and tapping on the desired item
to activate it.

 You may now access ANY mouse field in a RIPscrip menu
without the mouse by using the TAB or SHIFT-TAB keys to
hilight the field you want to execute. Once the desired
field is hilighted, simply tap the key to activate
the mouse field. If you wish to un-hilight any mouse field,
simply tap the Escape key.

 System Font ability (change your Text fonts). This mode
allows you to choose what size text you wish to use under
normal text environments. You have five separate Fonts to
choose from:

80x43 (default)
80x25 (normal DOS screen size)
40x25 (low-res font)
91x43 (get more columns of text at once)
91x25 (get more columns of text at once)

This new "System Fonts" ability allows you to custom tailor
how RIPterm will display normal text to you when in a full-
screen text mode interface. The BBS can overide this mode
under circumstances where your text interface is not full-
screen. Whenever your screen is "reset" by the BBS (i.e.,
it is zoomed to full-screen mode), your default System Font
will once again be re-activated.

 Built-in text variable system for Keystroke Macros, amd for
BBS/RIPterm information exchange. This mode allows RIPterm
to become intelligent. It does this by storing information
in a local database file (RIPTERM.DB) for future retrieval.
Every piece of information that is stored in this database
file is associated with a text variabe "name". Each name
is from 3-12 characters in length. The data that is
associated with the text variable can be from 0-60 characters
in length. Any data that is stored in the database file is
saved indefinitely until either you, or the BBS alters it in
some way. For high-speed retrieval of text variable data,
the database is automatically indexed for you. An index is
like "sorting" something alphabetically so that you can find
a piece of information quickly. In the event that the index
becomes corrupt due to loss of power or something of that
nature, RIPterm will automatically re-build the index file
for you. See the section of the RIPterm documentation on
Text Variables in Keystroke Macros for many new details about
how to take advantage of this powerful feature.

 A new "pull-down" menu has been added (DATA). Under this
menu, you can create (or modify) text variables, view the
contents of "pre-defined" text variables (e.g., $DATE$,
$TIME$, etc). Also, you can view the contents of your
Text Variable database.

 Popup List ability in keystroke macros. Allow your keystroke
macros to do different things depending on a choice you make
when you execute the macro. Pop-up lists are easy to create
and can be extremely useful when you need a macro to apply
to more than one type of situation online.

 Doorway mode for Marshall Dudley's DOORWAY access program.
Just type ALT-= (alt-equal sign) to enter doorway mode.
When in this mode, any special keystrokes you type are sent
to the BBS in a special way that any "doorway compatible"
package can use. In this mode, the BBS can actually take
advantage of ALT keys, Function keys, Arrow Keys, or various
other keystrokes. Only BBS software that directly supports
Doorway Mode can take advantage of this feature. This mode
is predominantly used when accessing "Door" features of many
popular BBS packages (like PC-Board, Wildcat, Synchronet BBS,
and many others).

 Support for a 101-key enhanced AT-keyboard in Doorway Mode.
Do not use this option if you do not have a 101-key keyboard.
If RIPterm freezes up on you when you go into this mode,
reboot your computer and run RIPterm with the -E parameter to
disable 101-key support (i.e., RIPTERM -E).

 RIPterm now auto-senses if a connection exists when you run
the software. If a connection already exists, RIPterm does
not send the modem initialization string, but simply taps
to the BBS to (ideally) re-display the current menu,
or at least some kind of prompt.

 RIPterm can auto-sense RIPscrip with the ANSI sequence
[! ... it will return "RIPSCRIP015005" (the RIPscrip
version number, i.e., "v01.50.05"). This will only occur
if the BBS you call can support RIPscrip "auto-sensing".

 A new boot-up mode (/O) to say you're already online.

 Completely rewritten text-scrolling code! Scrolling
text is approximately 10 times faster than in prior versions
of RIPterm. Callers at 2400 baud will notice that scrolling
is faster than the modem. Higher speed callers will still
notice that scrolling isn't as fast in a text-mode terminal
program, but that the scrolling is still much MUCH faster.
Scrolling speed is now limited by the speed of your computer,
and the type of Video Board you have. 16-bit video cards will
have faster scrolling than 8-bit cards. We can't get much
faster with the scrolling speed, due to hardware performance
issues. Future versions of RIPterm could very well auto-detect
your video card, and if you have an accelerated VGA card, it
might be able to improve performance still further.

 Re-engineered File Transfer Protocols. You now have access
to the following protocols:

Xmodem (checksum) Xmodem (CRC)
Xmodem-1K Xmodem-1K (G)
Ymodem (batch) Ymodem-G
Zmodem Kermit
ASCII

NOTE: Zmodem now supports crash recovery

 File transfer protocols now check to see if the connection
with the BBS has been lost. If so, it aborts the transfer.

 File transfer protocols now allow you to abort a transfer by
tapping the key.

 Better support for flow control handshaking. RTS/CTS
support has been added for better high-speed performance.
Also, XON/XOFF flow control options are enhanced for more
reliable operation. Use RTS/CTS flow control with high-
speed modems for the best performance of your modem.

 Baud Rates up to 115,200 are now supported. 4800 baud
now exists as a choice too.

 The Modem Options dialog box has been restructured to be
less confusing, and more pleasing to the eye.

 Help system has been overhauled (type F1 to see). You can
now use the arrow keys to navigate through the Help System's
keywords to hilight the desired keyword in the specified
direction. You no longer have to TAB endlessly through
numerous keywords to get to the one you want. Also, the
Help Table of Contents has been totally re-designed to be
easier to use.

 Scrolling up/down one line in the scollback buffer no
longer trims spaces from the beginning of printed lines.
This gives an accurate representation of what the text
looked like. Note that ANSI cursor movement commands can
make the scrollback buffer look different than what you see
on the screen.

 Carriage Return (CR) and Line Feed (LF) characters are now
handled properly.

 Cursor wrapping no longer occurs on column #80, but at column
81. This became evident with large ANSI pictures becoming
screwed up due to premature Cursor wrapping.

 A complete dialing directory system has been added in this
version of RIPterm. You may have up to 100 separate systems
in a particular dialing directory file (e.g., RIPTERM.PHO).
You may have as many directory files as you wish. The Dialing
Directory has a great many features to make your life easier.
See the section in RIPTERM.DOC on "Dialing Directories" for
more information on the available features.

 The "Dialing Window" has been overhauled to display what
system you are currently dialing. In addition, you may alter
the "Redial time" from within this window by clicking on the
increment/decrement buttons next to the timer. This allows
you to increase or decrease the available redial timeout without
having to edit your setup manually. Also, a DELETE button has
been added allowing you to remove an entry from the list of
Systems you are dialing. This would be useful if you were
dialing several systems and you decide that you do not wish
to dial one of the systems anymore.

 Ability to keep Icons in separate subdirectories for different
systems. Specify which system's icons go where in the
dialing directory. If you do not specify which sub-directory
Icons will be stored in, the default ICONS\ sub-directory will
be used. If the BBS you are connected to instructs RIPterm to
load an Icon, it will first check that system's directory. If
the Icon is not located there, it will check the ICONS\
directory for the file. This allows a BBS to "overide" default
Icons with ones of their own design, thus preventing one BBS
from over-writing Icons from another system inadvertantly.

 New command line options for specifying alternate Setup files,
alternate dialing directory files, and to automatically dial
an entry in the dialing directory upon bootup. Type
"RIPTERM ?" for more details or see RIPTERM.DOC for a more
elaborate description on these features.

 Re-engineered internal memory management. RIPterm now uses
memory more efficiently than in previous versions.

 Auto Download feature for BBS'es that can take advantage of
it. This allows protocols like Xmodem to auto-download
like Zmodem does.

 Zmodem auto-downloads will now "erase" the Zmodem transfer
header before actually beginning the download.

 New Block Protocol option - This is for use on RIPscrip
BBS'es where an error-free transmission of Icons or RIP
scenes is desired. RIPterm accomplishes this transfer of
information with its built-in file transfer protocols.

 Progress Indicator on any upload/download that supports
Batch Transfer (i.e., Ymodem, Ymodem-G, Kermit and Zmodem).

 Option to use DTR to hangup the modem instead of the less
efficient +++ ATH method. If for some reason, DTR fails to
hangup the modem, the normal +++ ATH method will be used to
disconnect. If the modem still has not terminated the
connection, the message "Hangup Failed" will be displayed to
alert you that you are still online.

 Support for many new ANSI escape code sequences (some VT-102
and VT-52 features now supported). The new ANSI codes
processed are:

þ Underline mode now supported in "display attributes"
þ Blink mode now displays as BOLD (bright)
þ Invert Video mode now acts properly
þ Tab Stops are fully supported now
þ Scrolling regions now supported
þ Device Status Reports
þ Extended Save/Restore cursor (ESC 7, ESC 8) added
þ Reset Terminal Emulation command (ESC c)
þ Device Attribute Report (ESC Z)
þ Cursor UP/DOWN with scrolling (ESC D, ESC M, ESC E)

 DOS Shell mode spruced up a bit - now displays a modified
DOS Prompt to indicate you are inside a DOS Shell.

 New Intro screen mode. You may now view a .PCX file upon
bootup in place of the standard logo screen. If the file
RIPTERM.PCX is present in your RIPterm directory, it will be
loaded. A Brief copyright message will be shown at the
bottom of the screen. .PCX logo files must be 16-color
EGA images in a resolution of 640x350. The Copyright
Message is displayed from scan lines 300-349.

 A new RIPTERM.RES (resource) file is included with RIPterm.
This file contains many of the frequently used graphical
images that are used internally in RIPterm. BBS Icons
are NOT stored in this file.

 Local RIPscrip file playback ability. The host can now
transfer a .RIP file to your system, and then later on
instruct your system to play it back locally. Graphics
playback is lightning fast in this mode.

 You can now automatically display a RIPscrip scene file
upon bootup of RIPterm if you wish. Use the -R parameter
when booting up RIPterm to execute a RIPscrip file. For
example, if you wanted to load RIPterm and display the
RIPscrip file MYSCREEN.RIP, issue the folling command:

ripterm -rMYSCREEN.RIP

If you omit the .RIP extension, it will be added for you
automatically. .RIP files by default, are checked in the
ICONS\ sub-directory.

 New option to disable Beeps has been added for situations
where you want peace and quiet.

 Status Bar has been re-designed. It is now shorter, thus
allowing a full 80x24 screen when in certain System Font
modes. In addition, you can now "click" on fields in the
status bar and the appropriate command will be executed.
Some status bar fields do different things in different
modes. If you are Online somewhere, and you click on the
"Online" field, it will ask you if you wish to Hangup.
If you are Offline, and you click on "Offline", it will
bring up the dialing directory automatically. If you are
currently logging a session to disk, the filename will be
displayed on that Status Bar. Clicking on this field will
allow you to close the Log File.

 You may now "Pause" a log-file temporarily.

 Data Security mode has been added to prevent unauthorized
queries from your local Database by Host Systems. This
mode was added so that as the user have control on what
types of information a BBS can ask your terminal.

 You may now execute a local .RIP file from within a keystroke
macro quickly and easily. The .RIP file that is loaded will
be located in whatever Icons sub-directory is designated for
the system you are currently connected to. If it cannot find
the file in that directory, or you are not currently online,
it will load the file from the ICONS\ sub-directory.

 You may now alter the Base-I/O address of your Serial Ports.
This becomes quite useful in situations where you have an
oddball Serial Port configuration where IRQ (interrupt)
settings just won't cut it. This is quite useful for things
like DigiBoards, or other multi-port boards. Consult your
Serial Port card's documentation for details about various
addresses it may use.

 A dialing directory conversion utility has been included with
this release of RIPterm allowing you to convert Telix or
TeleMate dialing directory files to RIPterm format. This
utility will auto-detect what type of directory file you
specify, and will convert the first 100 non-blank entries
into the specified RIPterm directory file. Both Telix and
TeleMate allow up to 1000 entries in their dialing directory.
RIPterm allows up to 100 entries.


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³ Version 1.01.01 ... Released 01/05/93 ³
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This minor release altered none of the functionality of RIPterm
itself. This release solely altered the name of the company who
wrote the software to "TeleGrafix Communications, Inc."


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³ Version 1.01.00 ... Released 10/23/92 ³
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This version added many significant features to the RIPterm
software. Of the many features included are the following:

 Log-to-disk ability

 Custom IRQ settings

 Auto-Answer mode

 New File Transfer Protocols were added:

Zmodem
Ymodem
Xmodem-1K

 Auto-initiating Zmodem downloads

 Shell to DOS ability

 Upload ASCII files with optional Line/Character pacing

 EMS/XMS/overlay support to maximize memory efficiency


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³ Version 1.00.00 ... Released 09/10/92 ³
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This is the first official Public release of RIPterm as a Freeware
software package. Several features were added that were not in
previous Beta copies.


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³ Version 0.99.31 (Beta) ... Released 02/15/92 ³
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A number of changes were made in this first Beta revision. Among
those worth mentioning are:

 Support for the revised Mouse Region portion of the RIPscrip
protocol. It now has the ability to set the text window to
full screen and clear the screen when a mouse region is
clicked. This provides for a simplified installation on a
BBS that has many areas that cannot support RIPscrip.

 More Streamlined clickable buttons, simple dialog boxes and
Information windows. In all of these cases, the buttons on
these windows are now "visibly" clickable and support default
choices when is pressed. In addition, tapping
at any of these menus now operates properly rather than
selecting "YES" all the time.

 The "Reset All Windows" RIPscrip command would not clear the
last few scan lines of the graphics display. This would
occasionally leave remaining graphics data on the screen when
it shouldn't be there. Now fixed.

 When dialing the modem with the auto re-dialer, tapping a key
would display a message in the message window in the incorrect
font, size and color. Now fixed.


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³ Version 0.99.30 (Beta) ... Released 08/28/92 ³
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This was the initial Beta release of RIPterm.