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- PANTHER COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE version 2.00
- (c) Black Cat Software Factory 1992/3
-
- Thank you for using PANTHER, formerly issued and known as COSWORTH.
-
- This program is FREEWARE which means that Black Cat Software Factory
- make no charge for the use of this software but that we retain
- copyright on it. Detailed copyright information can be found within
- the PANTHER.DOC file.
-
- Although no charges are made for the use of this program, we are still
- keen to hear from users, satisfied or otherwise! Whichever camp you
- find yourself in, we would be pleased to hear from you. You can
- contact the Black Cat Software Factory on ALMAC bulletin board in
- Scotland on 0324-665371 (Running PC Board BBS software, up to 14400
- baud, 8-N-1, 24 hours a day) where a dedicated PANTHER conference
- exists. Alternatively, problems can be addressed to
- mike.dickson@almac.co.uk for those of you with Internet access.
-
- Any bug reports (or even praise!) are most welcome. Please remember to
- specify your hardware and software set up, what operating system you
- are running under and, if possible, the contents of your CONFIG.SYS
- and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.
-
- Thanks once again for using PANTHER - I hope you enjoy it.
-
- Mike Dickson (mike.dickson@almac.co.uk) Black Cat Software Factory
- 10 Stoneybank Terrace
- Musselburgh
- Midlothian
- SCOTLAND
- EH21 6NL
-
-
- UPDATE NOTES FOR EXISTING USERS OF COSWORTH/PANTHER
- ---------------------------------------------------
-
- Thanks for sticking with us for version 2.00. This version contains
- numerous improvements to version 1.xx listed as follows;
-
- - Internal protocols; Xmodem/XmodemCRC, Xmodem1K, Xmodem1KG, Ymodem,
- YmodemG, Zmodem (including automatic downloads) and Kermit.
-
- - Hugely expanded script language including sounds control
- IF..THEN..ELSE..ENDIFF, WHILE..WEND and REPEAT..UNTIL conditional
- clauses, GOTO..LABEL structures, the ability to run *any* DOS command
- or program, unconditional script halting, warning boxes, message
- boxes, log file messages, printer control, macro control (which gives
- the script the ability to control any aspect of PANTHER the user
- wishes it to have), the ability to link from one script file to
- another automatically, assorted emulations of internal DOS commands
- and assorted functions to be used in conjunction with the conditional
- aspects of the language including question boxes, tests for time of
- day or day of the week, file presence/absence, screen contents and
- present macro execution.
- There is also a script tracing facility allowing you to track the
- logic of your script file as it is executed.
-
- - Hugely improved keystroke macro system including control, arrow,
- function and ALT+ key emulations and the ability to run a sepcific
- macro from the command line.
-
- - Machine independent timing.
-
- - Scroll back buffer which automatically adjusts to the amount of
- memory available as well as the ability to automatically dump the
- buffer to disk after connection.
-
- - Internal file lists for automatic transmission
-
- - Complete IEMSI support including an internal IEMSI packet editor.
-
- - VT52 and AVATAR emulations.
-
- - Configurable serial ports with the ability to modify the address,
- IRQ line and interrupt number.
-
- - (Binary) Colour screen snapshots and an internal snapshot viewer.
-
- - Enormously improved and intelligent timeslicing for running under
- any of Windows 3.x, DESQview 2.xx, DoubleDOS, VMiX 2.xx, MultiDos
- Plus 4.xx, DOS 5.0 Task Switcher, TaskView, TopView, OmniView,
- Windows NT (who?) and (of course) the one and only OS/2 2.x.
-
- - More informative directory displays.
-
- - Script 'overwriting' to allow automatic relearning of existing
- script files.
-
- - A 'Raw logging' capture system which catches all characters
- received, together with four internal emulation viewers.
-
- To install PANTHER over an existing version 1.xx installation of
- COSWORTH, simply copy the PANTHER.EXE file over your existing
- COSWORTH.EXE one and rename all COSWORTH.* files to PANTHER.* - that's
- all you have to do. Any changes to the configuration based on the new
- features within version 2.00 can be handled as normal through
- PANTHER's configuration menus. The dialling directory structure has
- changed for version 2.00. PANTHER automatically detects this and
- updates your dialling directory to the new format for you.
-
- Other than that, it's just a matter of reading the docs. ;-)
-