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- INTRODUCTION TO PIBTERM v3.0
- ============================
-
- PibTerm is a terminal emulation and host communications program written
- in Turbo Pascal for the IBM PC and compatibles.
-
- Features of PibTerm include:
-
- 1. Several different terminal emulation methods:
-
- -- DEC VT52
- -- DEC VT100 (large subset)
- -- BBS ANSI (ANSI.SYS color graphics and music)
- -- Dumb glass TTY
- -- Dumb glass TTY in split-screen mode
-
- 2. The ability to act as a host program (mini BBS).
-
- 3. Ring buffered, interrupt driven, serial I/O.
-
- 4. A number of popular file transfer methods:
-
- -- Xmodem Checksum and CRC
- -- Modem7 batch with either Checksum or Crc
- -- Ymodem (YAM)
- -- Telink
- -- Ascii with XON/XOFF
- -- Auto_download for Bob Mahoney's EXEC PC BBS.
- -- CompuServe B Protocol
- -- Kermit
-
- 5. Telephone dialing directory.
-
- 6. Session logging/capture to printer and/or disk.
-
- 7. On-screen editing (block mode) for use with mainframes.
-
- 8. Menu-driven commands.
-
- 9. Macro-key definition for constructing terminal keypad
- emulations or holding other often-used text sequences.
-
- 10. Escapes to the operating system (and return from DOS)
- within a PibTerm session.
-
- 11. Built-in file and directory manipulation, including
- directory display, file display, file copying, file erasure.
-
- 12. Screen dumps to a file.
-
- 13. Customizable modem support.
-
- 14. Automatic change of baud rate to the proper one with
- smart modems like the Hayes 1200 and USR Courier.
-
- 15. Built-in phone area code directory.
-
- 16. Dialing session and total session time elapsed counters.
-
- 17. Internal line capture buffer which may be viewed at
- any time.
-
- 18. Script files for constructing sequences of commonly used
- commands, especially useful for generating auto-logon scripts.
-
- For those who have used version 2.0 of PibTerm, you will find that
- most (if not all) of the bugs you encountered have been fixed in
- version 3.0. In addition, version 3.0 allows more flexibility in
- color selection, provides faster and more reliable file transfers,
- adds the Kermit file transfer protocol, improves the VT100 emulation,
- adds a backscroll buffer, simplifies dialing, provides a reasonably
- general script facility, and more. You can get an idea of the magnitude
- of the enhancements by considering that the document for version 3.0 is
- over twice as long as that for version 2.0.
-
-
- FILES TO GET
- ============
-
- The two files PIBT3EP1.ARC and PIBT3EP2.ARC contain the executable version,
- documentation, and required configuration files for PibTerm.
-
- The four files PIBT3SP1.ARC, PIBT3SP2.ARC, PIBT3SP3.ARC, and PIBT3SP4.ARC
- contain the complete source code (34000+ lines of Turbo Pascal) for PibTerm.
- You do NOT need the source files to run PibTerm, only the files in the
- PIBT3EP1.ARC and PIBT3EP2.ARC archives.
-
- All six files were created using the ARC430.EXE program. You will need
- that program (or a later version) to extract files from the .ARC archives.
-
-
- Phil Burns
- October, 1985
-
- . You will need
- that program (or a later version) to extract files from the .ARC archiv