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- Well, it is about twice as fast at news gathering. I'm regularly getting
- 1500cps on my overnight news call to Demon!
-
- [1.31B] Make that 2200cps now! :-)
-
- [1.31B] Fixed the various time problems. All times should now be GMT...
- It will get us through to October at any rate!
-
- I haven't touched the terminal emulation, except to remove the filter
- which was killing <CR>s.
-
- [1.31B] I've probably found what was giving Telnet a double echo, but
- this hasn't been tested.
-
- [1.31B] Fixed the AX25 sessions to work again!
-
- *** THIS VERSION DOES NOT FETCH NEWS BY NUMBER AT ALL!!!! ***
- Put all your newsgroups in DemGroup, DemNGroup is ignored.
-
- I think I've fixed all the zero page accessing, I can quite happily run
- with page zero write protected now, although I occasionally get a
- strange error if I try to do a hop check...
-
- The main window now echos the commands from Config, Autoexec or dragged
- in files as they are processed
-
- [By Adam]
- Dragging a file to the main window treats it as if it was a set of
- commands.
-
- [By Adam]
- " " " " an ftp window does a "put <filename>"
-
- Changed commands
- ----------------
-
- [By Geoff]
- hash <number>
- If number == 1 then a count of the transfer is kept rather than using
- hashes
-
- New commands
- ------------
-
- nntp direct [<on|off>]
- Default is off, when on saves incoming news direct to DemNews rather
- than going via a temporary file. Interestingly, there seems to be
- practically no difference in throughput between turning direct saving on
- and using a !Scrap on a RAM disc.
-
- nntp batch [number]
- Causes the NNTP to ask ahead for articles so as one is being sent the
- next is already in the queue and the one after is being looked for.
- Default is 4, maximum is 16. I haven't done extensive testing to see
- what is best, but 8 seems to be good.
-
- hop
- *** This is flakey ***
- Due to the processor bandwidth claimed by TCPIP (98% last time I ran
- !Useage on it, and that included !Useage itself with most of the rest of
- the 2%!) this doesn't exactly work well if anything else (like news) is
- happening as well, but...
-
- hop check <hostname|ip address>
- Carries out a route check to the given site, usually.
-
- hop maxttl [<number>]
- Set (or read) the maximum ttl for the trace packets
-
- hop maxwait [<number>]
- Set the maximum wait time before declaring a trace packet dead
-
- hop queries [<number>]
- Number of times to try each intermediate site
-
- WIBNIs from me include reverse name serving, ie send an ip address and
- get back the site name
-
- I've recieved a new file from Thomas Aeby which isn't included here yet.
- Basically it allows you to use external programs over a Telnet
- connection! Thomas now has a Demon account but calls it over the net
- which saves phone calls from Switzerland. He runs two copies of TCPIP,
- one connected locally, the other connected over the net... Unfortunately
- he wrote it for the older TCPIP and I want to try to understand it
- before updating it and adding it into the main release.
-
- One new command, "credits", shows you who is to blame. I'm sure it
- misses people out, so shout if you should be there!
-
- New ability, you can run different configurations by adding the Config
- and AutoExec leaf names to the command line, eg...
-
- *Run <TCPIP$Dir>.!RunImage
-
- is now equivalent to...
-
- *Run <TCPIP$Dir>.!RunImage Config AutoExec
-
- Config and Autoexec remain the default names used. For radio use I also
- have...
-
- *Run <TCPIP$Dir>.!RunImage ConfigTNC AutoTNC
-
- Which fires me up configured for amateur radio AX25 use...
-
- Anthony
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