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- From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
- Subject: ANNOUNCE: Seyon 1.1 is out
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.080717.5816@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:07:17 GMT
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- (The first time I posted this didn't seem to go through, sorry if you
- see it twice).
-
- Version 1.1 is out. You can get it from the usual place, sipb.mit.edu
- at pub/seyon. Notable in this version is ZMODEM autodownload and
- integrating the dialer into the dialing directory. Please let me know
- how it works out for you (i.e. don't send me bug reports only, I'd
- like to hear success stories as well). I encourage those interested in
- Seyon to joing the Seyon mailing list. I send a copy of each reply to
- a letter concerning Seyon to the mailing list, so it would be very
- beneficial to join. I'd like to carry out discussions about
- suggestions and further development of Seyon there as well. See the
- FAQ on how to join.
-
- The following is an introduction, followed by the change log since the
- last version.
-
- (NOTE: Seyon now uses an Imake file (see below), so it is essential
- that you do 'xmkmf' before proceeding.)
-
- Introduction:
- =============
-
- This is Seyon, an X-based communication package that has its roots
- in xcomm 2.2. Seyon has a descent dialing directory where hosts
- can be chosen by clicking at them. Seyon has the same script
- language as xcomm 2.2, which is quite good. Seyon avoids the
- problematic terminal emulation of minicom and other communication
- programs by using xterm as its terminal emulator. Hence, Seyon can
- emulate vt100 and color ANSI (the latter only if color xterm is
- used). Some non-essential features are still not implemented but
- will be in the near future. If you use Seyon and like it, please
- let me know by email. This will give me the incentive to continue
- maintaining it. Also let me know how it works out whenever you
- upgrade to a new version.
-
- Please read the FAQ. I've put a lot of effort into making it
- complete and up-to-date. It serves as the documentation for Seyon
- (until a kind soul writes a good documentation for it).
-
- Changes
- =======
-
- Version 1.1:
- * Major revisions to the dialer. The dialer is now integrated into
- the dialing directory instead of having its own popup (no need
- to clutter the screen).
- * Fixed it so that there may be no more than one copy of the
- dialing direcotry.
- * The transfer popup now pops down after the transfer is
- initiated. Similarly the shell popup.
- * Auto ZMODEM download is now fully supported. See tha FAQ to
- learn how to set it up or disable it (thanks to R. Ramish for
- supplying the auto download string).
- * Seyon now has an Imake file (kindly contributed by David Boyce,
- with minor modifications by me).
- * The dialing directory now 'remembers' its location and size if
- moved or resized interactively.
- * The status area is now fully supported. most of the messages now
- appear there instead of at the terminal.
- * Seyon now shows some 'fun' messages in the status area if it has
- nothing else to say (I know, I got carried away. Anyhow, it can
- be disabled, see the FAQ).
-
-
- --
- /M. Saggaf
- alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu
-
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