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- From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
- Subject: Seyon 1.2 is out
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.035548.19963@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:55:48 GMT
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- Version 1.2 is out. You can get it from the usual place, sipb.mit.edu
- at pub/seyon. Notable in this release is a revamped dialer with
- multiple dialing and dial timeout. This is the final piece of the
- puzzle and Seyon is now at the same level of functionality as most
- descent DOS communication programs. This doesn't mean that I won't
- continue maintaining Seyon and adding features to it, but I suspect
- that versions will come in at a slower rate from now on. I've also put
- a binary of seyon-cmd on sipb for people having trouble with compiling
- or running seyon. I think I will also upload this version to other
- major linux ftp sites (but sipb will always have the latest release.)
-
- For those having trouble running Seyon, please read on to the section
- 'Important -- linux users' below. The following is the introduction
- followed by the change log from the previous version:
-
- 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). 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).
-
- Important -- linux users:
- =========================
-
- Q: I get 'killed by siganl 11' when I start seyon.
-
- A: You must be using old versions of libraraies. Test that by
- using
-
- ldd seyon-cmd
-
- This will tell you what libraries you have linked Seyon with.
- If you get anything other than
-
- /lib/XawVen.so.2.1 (Classic 2.1)
- /lib/libX11.so.2.1 (Classic 2.1)
- /lib/libc.so.4 (Jump table 4.1)
-
- it's time to upgrade to newer libraries.
-
- Changes:
- ========
-
- Version 1.2:
- * Setting the baud rate interactively is now fully supported.
- * The 'show' button has been removed since it's no longer needed.
- * The dialer timeout is now fully supported. Use the resource
- "dialTimeOut" to set it (default is 45 sec).
- * Added multiple dialing. Seyon will now circulate through
- selected items in the dialing directory until a connection is
- made. Refer to the FAQ to see how this is used.
- * Added two new resources, dialPrefix and dialSuffix.
- * The dialing directory and transfer console now have scroll bars
- and would can be scrolled if they contain more than 10 entries
- (no limit on the total number of entries).
- * Cleaned up the dialer code quite a bit
-
- --
- /M. Saggaf
- alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu
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