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- June 21st 1991
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- Term II
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- version 1.0
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- (c) 1990,1991 - Eric GONTIER
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- NOTES.doc
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- Here are a few tips to use Term II :
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- o Term II needs Workbench 2.0x (or above) to run.
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- o Since Workbench 2.04 (Kickstart 37.74, Workbench 37.33),
- the gadget toolkit allows the use to switch from one string
- gadget to another with TAB and shift-TAB. Pretty handy !
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- o Term II is using the console device, so it is not possible
- to use proportional fonts. No crashes to be afraid of, but
- the Term II window could have a strange look with
- proportional fonts.
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- o I like to use the courier font in 640x400, so I added a
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- console_font "courier.font" 11
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- in term.config
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- o With <Amiga-Left><V> and <Amiga-Left><B> it is possible to
- answer requester without using the mouse.
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- o The XPR support is not completed (for example, there is no
- support for environment variable to set the options, and
- the auto-download feature of some protocol - like zmodem -
- is not implemented). However, Term II recognize the command
- xpr_init, which allows the user to initialise the external
- protocol. For example, in term.config one can add :
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- xpr_open "xprxmodem.library"
- xpr_init "T0,C1,K1"
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- This will force Term II to open the xprxmodem.library, and
- to send it the "T0,C1,K1" init string (1K-CRC, sometimes
- called Y-Modem). See the documentation of the XPR library
- you are using for more informations on the init strings
- recognized by the protocols.
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- o The string gadgets in the requesters to set XPR options
- _NEED_ validation, either by RETURN (the common way) or by
- TAB or shift-TAB (in Workbench version >= 2.04).
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- o There are not XPR libraries distributed with Term II, but
- they can be found easily on good BBS, or on Fred Fish's
- disks. I know the existence of the following libraries :
- xprxmodem (XModem protocol, with block size of 128 or 1024
- bytes, and with CRC or checksum), xprkermit (Kermit
- protocol), xprascii (no protocol), xprzmodem (ZModem
- protocol), xprquickb (Quick-B protocol, used on Compuserve)
- and xprbbt (BBT protocol, used in France with minitels in
- V23).
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