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- ICEX Revision History
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- 1.0
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- First release of the new ICEX, child of ICPR.
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- 1.1 Released in beginning of January, 1988
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- This was a quick fix to some nasty glitches in 1.0.
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- 2.01 Released on Friday, May 27th, 1988
- ==== ----------------------------------
- This is the next major release. It fixes a couple of bugs
- found in 1.1, namely the com port bugs and baud rate bugs.
- It also incorporates many many new features as requested by
- the many users of ICEX. The changes and additions are too
- numerous to mention. I have decided to use a 2 digit minor
- revision number because revisions will be put out more often.
-
- 2.02 Released on Tuesday, May 31st, 1988
- ==== -----------------------------------
- This is a bug fix. It fixes a couple of bugs, namely
- the Direct Connect Dialer works now, and [K]illing the first
- entry of any dialing directory is safe to do now. The
- documents have been updated and revised. Another fix is that
- the '-i' command line switch now works. You can now [A]dd an
- entry to a dialer, and then [E]dit it without ICEX locking up.
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- 2.03 Released on Friday, June 3rd, 1988
- ==== ----------------------------------
- Bugs fixed:
- 1) Exiting a BBS dialer back into the city dialer and
- then hitting [D] by accident, followed by an <ESC> to
- abort the mistake results in a very undesirable effect,
- it deletes the 'last-connected' city from the list!
- It's a bizarre combination, but I found it. This bug
- has been fixed and it will no longer delete when it is
- not supposed to.
- 2) Baud rate conflicts are handled with more finese
- 3) Dialing a Direct-Connect exception in the City dialer
- and receiving as BUSY caused the next city to be
- dialed incorrectly. In fixing the Direct connect
- dialer in 2.02, this error cropped up in 2.02.
- Ironic, eh? This is fixed now.
- 4) Some folks were having problems with ICEX thinking
- it was connected to a city when it actually was not
- and also having the Terminal not function at all.
- The cure was to go into ICEX, enter the terminal and
- hit the F3 key. This has been fixed.
-
- Additions:
- 1) Automatic baud detect added for smoother interface
- with calling programs.
- 2) ICEX is now smart enough to decipher the garbled
- responses given by PcPursuit, so the user can read
- them.
- 3) ICEXGEN now supports user's choice of 1200 or 2400
- baud script generation. You should create both
- scripts. It will look at your config file for the
- Parity, Data, and Stop bits, so set these appropriately.
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- 2.04 Released on February 12, 1989
- ==== ----------------------------------
- Additions/fixes:
- 1) ICEX now works nicely with ALT-J under Procomm+,
- and also ALT-R in Qmodem will now work okay with
- ICEX. It restores the original calling program's
- comm port settings.
- 2) Editing dialer entries now repsonds to line editing
- keys (INS,DEL,Home,End,Left & Right arrows, BKSP/DEL).
- The INS key is a toggle for insert mode.
- 3) Much improved baud and modem settings detection.
- It now reads the com port settings directly and is
- transparent to the user.
- 4) ICEX now IDLE's the modem to return it to Hayes mode
- when disconnecting from a city as a courtesy to the
- next user of that city's modem.
- 5) Command switch to force monochrome output.
- 6) Command switch to force ICEX to ignore carrier detection
- results.
- 7) Command switch to cause ICEX to run in AUTOMATIC mode.
- 8) Faster Exit once connected to a BBS in ICEX.
- 9) Confirm added to [K]ill, dialer option.
- 10) Correct function keys assigned to modem parameters
- inside the terminal (they were goofed up before).
- 11) Better timing when sending out commands. Some folks
- were having the problem with ICEX sending commands
- out too fast and things were goofing up. This has
- been fixed.
- 12) The BBS Dialer Entry from the main menu has been changed.
- It will now present you with a list of cities with their
- corresponding mnemonic which you can select with the
- arrow keys and enter key.
- 13) ICEX now supports sending a SET command to the connected
- city PAD so that Zmodem tranfers perform better.
- 14) When a city or BBS dial gives an invalid non-fatal response
- to ICEX when dialing, ICEX will sound five short beeps to
- let you know something goofed up with Telenet and then it
- will continue dialing with the next entry in the queue.
- 15) If you are already connected to a city when you go into the
- city dialer and tell it to beign dialing, then ICEX will
- disconnect from the current city and then begin dialing.
- 16) Directory structures have been changed and the numeric
- accounting information has been dropped. Only the time and
- date of connect have been preserved.
- 17) Auto script chaining ability has been incorporated into
- ICEX for Procomm+ support.
- 18) Improved ICEXGEN utility.
- 19) Support for up to 38400 baud now provided.
- 20) Ability to edit Direct Connect entries, apparently this
- was goofed up.
- 21) Many more 'little' things too numerous to mention....
- 22) Changed support BBS to The Right Place, GAATL-476-2607
- since it is easier to get through and allows me better
- interaction with registered users.
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- 2.05 Released on March 2, 1989 (Bug fix for 2.04)
- ==== ------------------------------------------------
- Fixes: These bugs were swatted in 2.04 with this release.
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- 1) When dialing a BBS, if line noise caused the dialing
- to abort (you get the '*' back), then ICEX got confused.
- ICEX is smarter now.
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- 2) The BBS dialing directories are now being updated and
- a connect alarm is sounded.
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- 3) ICEX got confused when it received the 'ANSWER TONE'
- response from the R/V mode but did not get the 'ONLINE'
- message. It is smarter now and attempts to handle this
- case.
-
- 4) ICEX makes sure that the 'Support Path' you declare in the
- user configuration really exists. In 2.04, if it didn't
- then ICEX would crash with a runtime error.
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- 5) If your configuration file is corrupt, ICEX recognizes
- this and forces you to make a new one. In 2.04, ICEX
- would crash with a runtime error if the .cfg file was
- corrupt.
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- 6) ICEX now performs heap checking and will exit with
- a nice message instead of crashing. In 2.04 when
- there was not enough memory to allocate for dialing
- directories, it would ungracefully crash.
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- 7) ICEX is now smart enough to know that it shouldn't
- issue a SET sequence upon connection to a DFA.
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- 8) The City seek-and-reconnect algorithm has been polished.
- In 2.04, when you re-entered ICEX to dial the next BBS
- after finishing with the current, ICEX would try to
- determine which city it was currently connected to.
- This was done by disconnecting from the city, reading the
- response, and re-connecting. If ICEX missed the
- reconnection then it went ahead and assumed it was
- re-connected. Now if it misses, it will retry until it
- re-establishes the connection. It is quick enough that
- it does not miss very often.
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- 9) Minor swats and updates to ICEXGEN.
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- 10) Fixes to registered user's functions.
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- 11) Other assorted minor modifications.
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