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Terminate start date          : 2. april 1992

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 +  = New feature
 -  = Removed feature
 *  = Changed feature for the better
 !  = Fixed feature
 ?  = Let us know how or if this works
 #  = Information
{+} = Registered feature activated in Professional version only

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* Changed selfextracting archives 0???TER?._XE from LHA/ZIP to RAR and saved
  up to 105000 bytes in the distribution files, both packed/unpacked.

+ IceZmodem, Smodem and vFAST protocol added to default configuration
+ Tagger works inside filelists, press T or Alt-F5
+ Privacy Insurance Alt-M, N, prevents annoying callers and burglary.
+ Alt-F6,F for viewing filelists and tagging directly in any filelist, no
  matter how big it is.
+ Filelist manager. Alt-O,F and Alt-F6,F packing/unpacking/searching in lists
+ Cost calculation now have an additional field called Add Connect. A value
  that only will be added when Terminate gets a carrier.
+ T-CODE.EXE was added in the TMAIL directory, encode/decode UU-files.
+ When overwriting capture files, the old file is renamed to .BAK
+ Nodelist searcher now gives you must more information while searching
+ !25 !30 !43 !50 can now be added on commandline for any external utility
  will make Terminate change screen size before calling program.
+ Forced fax receive was added.
+ Switch for not using high ASCII in menus. Will not work everywhere.
+ Switch for external sound files. Added CONNECT.SND, TRANSFER.SND and
  ABORT.SND in UTILS\. These files are compatible with RemoteAccess.
+ Capture keystrokes, divided into Capture keystrokes/special capture.
+ UTILS\T-GIF.EXE added, used by the filemanager, very fast VESA viewer
+ ANSI graphics command added
+ BLIND.DOC now have a hotkey list
+ It is now possible to capture to PRN or LPTx (printer directly)

+ DOORWAY mode automatic on/off when receiving [[=255h/l
  DOOR.BAT is included in UTILS\ so the only thing you need to do to be
  able to remote control your computer is to unpack DOORWAY.EXE in UTILS\
  and you are running. Supervisor access required of course.

+ HostMode was improved again. First GOODBYE.ANS/ASC was added. Then a
  complete bulletin menu able of showing/download 1000 different bulletins.
  All host files has moved to HOST\ since the number of files has increased.

! Fixed a BBBS problem, really a BBBS programming problem, but overwrites
! Upload of readonly files now allowed
! d'Bridge problem was FINALLY fixed, no more trouble, sending empty PKT
  header if no files to send.
! It was not possible to use small characters in the fax header line.
! Pointsystem, when asking, call at once, the mail password was not found.
! TERMINAT.FAX is now included.
! Many small bugs have been fixed, removed and squazed.
# SmartPad has changed name to SmartNote.

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+ The Fax-Manager, Alt-M,F or Alt-F12. The final Fax program.
  To big to describe here. Read the online manual
+ Introducing the SmartPad system. An clipboard editor where you can save
  and recall all your information easily. Try it and you will see. Alt-A.
+ Batch upload, prepare list of files before calling. PgUp, Alt-B.
+ TSR receive faxes in the background (DOS)

+ Filemanager: Whenever you place the menubar on a mailfile, fidonet style
  the correct address will be shown on the bottom line. Address 1 is used
  for the calculation. Also mailpackages like F5F50001.MO1 will be calculated.
+ Network lock, lock EXE and KEY file to a certain network path.
+ 30 Lines now build in if you have a VGA card, 25.EXE, 30.EXE, 50.EXE added
  to UTILS\ I know you can guess what they are used for.
+ Deaf support, will flash the screen when the alarms are started
+ /V will start up in VISIBLE FAST menu
+ New Blind features, check BLIND.DOC for more information
+ Minimum diskspace can now be specified.
+ The ERRORLEVEL has now been structured, look in MAINCONF.HLP
+ Encrypt and decrypt any file (faxmenu/encryption) with password
+ Tagger was improved. Now Cursor left/right can be used to adjust. Shift+
  cursors to resize and reposition line.
+ Fossil: When uploading Terminate now uses the block command
+ Secondary costs. Works in statusline, voicecalls and logfile.
  In the costmanagement there is now 3 additional lines.
+ Semaphore directory and exit file defined allowing you to force exit.
+ Alt-M, Copy file to terminal mode: Simulate characters received from modem.
  With this function you can capture some screen and review the screens
  later.
+ Auto append to capture was added to the toggles menu.
+ Alt-0..Alt-1 now works in filemanager
+ Alt-U,S Calculate screen CPS
+ Alt-F6, Tagmenu, will now show where you tagged each file.
+ Errorhandler installed will grab any runtime error and allow you to
  continue or abort.
+ Alt-F2, can now show cursor x,y positions in statusline (right)
+ Alt-M,G Show/change all standard S-registers
+ Added miniscripts for logging into CompuServe via Infonet
+ Select on which ring the hostmode should pick up call.
+ Callback security wait time.
+ From Tagmenu you can now call any external utility (G) and untag files.
+ Sound test from System Information Alt-U,T
+ Hostmode: now detect ANSI and shows WELCOME.ANS. The menu is now in a
  file called SUPERVIS.ANS/ASC or NORMAL.ANS/ASC depending on the access.
  Also FILES.BBS and directory listing is now shown in full color.
+ CPU-speed added in Systeminformation (Alt-U)
+ Alt-F1 shows current device.
+ 3 new palettes with intense background colors.
+ The callback in the hostmode can now ask the user for a number to call
  and use that instead of the predefined.
+ TMAIL will now read and write QWK offline mail (quick-packet).
+ GMT timezones

* VT102 scrolling commands now WORKS. In the future there will be several
  dedicated betatesters to test this emulation alone, so we can be sure that
  the Internet users always are happy. Also any other special Internet
  features are welcome in the future. It was both tested with IRC and
  DIKU-MUD and worked without errors.

* If you have a | in your username you can now use || that will send a
  single | instead of a CR (#13). Used in some nordic countries.
* Each phone entry can now select if it should download to a download
  directory or use the wildcard system. Before you could not turn wildcards
  off.
* Now changing to 8N1 when transfering files (not kermit though)
* The estimated transfer time is now calculated as elapsed time+remaining time
* The pausefunction was changed so you now can send up to 20 chars instead
  of only 1 char.
* If Codepage 850 is in use the manual files will be shown correctly (corners).
* The toggles menu was cleaned and grouped.
* 20 AKA's will be tested when calling a system with the mail system
* Mouse in phonebook can use the bars in the top
* 10 different initstrings can now be defined (5 before)

! If a wildcard directory did not exist Terminate would loop
! A problem when detecting Pentium was solved. Terminate will now succesfully
  detect Pentium chips from Intel.
! Sometimes the connects was increased by 2 instead of 1
! The hostmode would sometimes not pick up the phone when the
  screenblanker was activated
! Inactivity is disabled in hostmode
! Would calculate online time wrong if clock was synchronized with Boss
! Filemanager, When moving several files to same drive, the files would not
  be deleted afterwards, unless overwrite all was used.
! On old XT's the soundcard check could mess up the realtime-clock.
  This was solved by default turning off soundcheck for these processortypes.
  To force soundcard check use the /YESCARD command

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# In re-writing the code from the ground up to save over 100K of memory,
  bugs were introduced. This bug-fix patch attempts to stabilise the code
  and we are also recruiting a team of Beta testers. (We want to compromise
  between bringing out new features quickly and not having too short a Beta
  test period.) There will probably be more 1.4n bug fixes and will hope to
  return to our normal program of major releases of new features with
  version 1.50. We would like to apologise for the problems and thank
  everyone for the continuing support and patience they have shown. We
  promise to try harder!

# Confirmed new file naming scheme to tolerate small fixes and improvements
  between major versions: Distribution files will be named nnnnTERn.*
  (eg: 0141TER1.ZIP) and patches to be applied to the immediately preceding
  version will be called nnnnXTER.ZIP (eg: 0141XTER.ZIP)

+ Check for FILES=?  in CONFIG.SYS
! Runtime error 204 sometimes occurred when removing a window
! Filerequest was not deleted after send
! @DIAL did not work correctly
! MainAddress is now first in AKA-list even if not user 1
! Some problems with manual mail
! Screenblanker time was not reset everywhere
! Autorequest was printing in top of screen
! Time period did not turn on/off windowsound and ansi-music
! Problem after calling external protocols was fixed
+ Filemanager, when scanning through a Binkley style outbound like OUT\ZONE
  Terminate will calculate the address of the file and show it on the last
  line of the window.

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# 13 was an unlucky number. These things just had to be fixed at once.

! IMPORTANT BUGFIX: Comments (1&2) in the phonebook could disappear

! Problems installing on some machines using 4DOS. Fixed this by not
  creating a batchfile, instead installing directly from INSTALL.EXE.
! Fixed problem with Statusline in point system not being updated
! Fixed a problem with some lines being overwritten in the logwindow
  in the point system.
! Fixed problem with encrypted phonebooks.

* When testing for costs, all spaces and hyphens (-) are now removed
  before testing the two strings, making the comparison more reliable.

+ Extra backup of phonebook, FON -> PBK -> 2BK.
+ Auto installation of local language files. Create an self-extracting
  archive and call it T-LOCAL.EXE and put in installation path.

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# I was forced to use 1-2 days on Christmas again like last year. But
  this year I bought a small portable, so I got a little work done
  while you and the competitors were eating greasy food. I refined the
  code so the program now uses more than 100K less memory (The .EXE
  file size has increased a little because much has been moved into
  overlays and therefore cannot be compressed, but this saves memory.)
# Because of complaints, we have revised the naming convention for the
  distribution files.             Thus: 013TER_A.ARJ and 013TER_B.ARJ.
# New registration forms, menu option and updated and new addresses of
  registration sites in ISRAEL, ITALY, NEW ZEALAND, PORTUGAL, QUEBEC,
  and SWITZERLAND.
# Support sites in more than 20 countries are now in SITES.FON.
# /NOEND has been moved to a toggle. (Omit closing screen)

+ VISIBLE FAST (tm) access menu installed on Alt-V (Dos commands can
  be used in the filemanager). This menu is so fast because all
  information for all keys is presented on one screen. You can also
  access this menu with the mouse: click on any portion of the lower
  right screen. You can then select any function with the mouse.
  (Actually I was just testing some mouse functions when I suddenly
  saw the need for this menu. Once I tried, it I couldn't live without
  it!).  {+}
+ CallerID is grabbed in hostmode when picking up the phone using
  ISDN: 'RING '+ number
+ OS2\INSTALL.CMD a REXX file that will setup a folder and icons under
  OS/2
+ Security password can now be asked when leaving the screen blanker.
+ Alt-Z keyhelp, can now be a user defined file (MANUAL\ALT-Z.HLP)
  and so translated into the local language. (Online help files for
  languages other than english have already been available since
  version 1.0...)
+ Create secondary/encrypted logfile (on networks etc.) so that theft
  of 'phonecalls, etc can be detected. {+}
+ The scrollback is now saved in color.
+ (U)nmark added in tagmenu, Alt-F6
+ Recovery of phonebooks with incorrect sizes attempted.
+ YooHoo/2U2 mail transfer handshakes are now available.
+ Z will zoom the grabber (Alt-K) to maximum/minimum
+ To send a ^ in a modem string you can now use ^^, ^M will send a #13
+ You can now adjust the size of the grabber (Alt-K) and move the
  grabber around with the mouse.
+ New keyword when calling external programs. !CD will change to the
  path in front of the file. Example: C:\ROBOMAIL\ROBOMAIL.EXE !CD
  will change to C:\ROBOMAIL first before starting program. (Some
  programs want to be started in their own directories.)
+ Toggle: Show connect speed in statusline can be turned off
+ Ctrl-right and left now works whenever editing strings.
+ Toggle: Release some timeslices while transferring files.
+ Detects 4DOS, shown in System information.
+ Detects IPX, shown in System information.
+ Now asks if files should be deleted after sending in the point
  system.
+ Toggle: Reginfo bright, to adjust registration colour {+}
+ Toggle: Ask phone, when changing phonebook with Alt-D,P
+ The point system is now supporting 4D points directly.
+ Import from TELIX (copyright deltaComm Development/Jeffrey L Woods)
  *.CNF configuration files.

* Heavily reduced the amount of memory used. Around 100-150k more free.
* The screen blanker will now work everywhere
* The cost editor can now edit 1000 entries (500 before)
* In filemanager when deleting, the tags will not disappear if
  different paths
* If any entries are tagged in the phonebook, you will be asked:
  Delete tagged or delete current? before deletion.
* Terminate will now respond faster when printing on screen.
* The Terminate Manual files (available in most european languages)
  can now be 1000 lines long instead of 600.

! Fixed a bug when moving many entries in the phonebook
! If Alt-X was pressed from the hostmode or phonebook, Terminate would
  exit without asking 'Are you sure' (if enabled).
! Fixed a problem with the mouse for some people after swapping.
! Fixed Change mail, when changing destination to another zone.
! AskDevice was turned off by a mistake.
! Fixed a bug with not calculating costs in point system
! When dialing and system was not open, then costs would be calculated
  if you answered no.