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Napsaterm is derived originally from Niftyterm 1.2. It is called
Napsaterm because original authors wanted to keep distinction clear
between it and their versions of Niftyterm. See section 1.0.1 Niftyterm Licence.
There are some features in Napsaterm 3 which are incompatible with
earlier versions or with NiftyTerm 1.2.
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The AmiTCP/IP error messages are now printed when using the rlogin or
telnet protocol.
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A brave new `About' requester was added. Currently, it is modal.
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The tool type `CTRL8BIT' is no more enabled by default, ie. 7 bit
control codes are used normally.
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Bug with audio bell is fixed.
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Support for section 1.7.2 Serial devices was added. Supported features include
terminal type and size negotation.
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The long options have now double hyphen at the beginning.
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The 8-bit/7-bit control codes are working for all keys.
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New menu item added, Control Codes, which enables
sending 8-bit control codes.
Robert Knop, <rknop@cco.caltech.edu>, released these versions.
The major new feature in these releases is the section 1.8 Tektronix emulation. Any bug reports on the tek4010 emulation should be sent to
Rob Knop.
- The tek4010 emulation has following features:
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Vector, Alpha, Incremental, and Point-plot modes are (at least partially)
supported.
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As of version 3.5, the GIN cursor is supported.
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Some GraphOn enhancements, e.g. block fill mode, are also supported.
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`ANSI LNM' added to the section 1.4.3 Setup Menu. Sometimes changing the
state of this flag can improve the operation of the terminal's newlines
under Unix when running directly over the serial port. It does not seem
to be necessary when Napsaterm is used with AmiTCP/IP.
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Support for the VT100 application keypad has been added. Under the
section 1.4.3 Setup Menu, if you select `Application' for keypad type,
VT100 escape sequences will be sent to the host instead of characters
when you hit keys on the numeric keypad. This is handy for text editors
and the like that use the keypad as a function keypad.
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A small number of additional minor enhancements and bugfixes to the VT100
emulation.
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For compatibility reasons, if the file `AmiTCP:db/NapsaPrefs' does
not exist, the files `S:NapsaPrefs' and `S:NiftyPrefs'
are searched for preferences.
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New menu item `Left Alt key is' was added to `Setup' menu.
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Workbench support is added. You can start Napsaterm directly from
Workbench
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As a consequence of previous, the preference parsing is altered.
See section 1.3.6 Preference File. Preference files are used only when Napsaterm
started from shell. The program name used in preference parsing is not
fixed, the command name given by shell is used
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Napsaterm can select randomly a host if it is given multiple host names
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Mouse support is enchanched. (Mouse.)
Napsaterm sends Mouse events as ESC M sequences. Preference
`Emacsmode' is obsolete and it is supported no more
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New preference
Backspace2Delete. (Backspace2Delete.) There was an old preference `NormalBackspace',
which had opposite meaning
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New preference
Delete2Backspace. (Delete2Backspace.) There was an old preference `NormalDelete',
which had opposite meaning
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Preference `LineSpeed' is used to change the serial speed, also a
new option
-B changes the line speed
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Preference `National' has now three values, `None',
`MultiNatinal' and `National'
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Preference
PubScreenName
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Preference
ctrl8bit
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Preference
Keyboard was mentioned version 2 documentation instead
of correct preference Keymap. Now both preferences can be used
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Option
-p selects the public screen
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The preference file is moved into the directory `AmiTCP:db/'
The AmiTCP/IP BSD socket interface was added to Napsaterm after the
porting of real rlogin program seemed to take too much effort and
time. The section 1.7.1 Rlogin protocol is a very simple. However
asynchronous, interactive IO with AmigaDOS is quite ineffective and
quite complex to implement. Fortunately Niftyterm IO implementation was
extremely flexible and it was easy to add new IO methods for rlogin.
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Option
-d net selects now rlogin protocol (-d dnet will
select DNet).
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New preferences:
- `Linespeed'
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- `RemoteName'
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- `RemoteType'
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Support for different international keyboards layouts and character sets
is added. Napsaterm supports multinational ISO 8857-Latin-1 character
set, the native Amiga character set. It also supports some ISO 646
national character sets. For the character tables for ISO 646 character
sets see section 1.6.2 National Character Tables.
- New preferences were added:
- `Keymap'
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- `National'
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Left Alt key can be used as a Meta key by setting the
`AltisMeta' preference. If you press a key with Left Alt key
Napsaterm sends an
Escape character (ASCII 27) before the key's ASCII
code. Niftyterm sets the 8th bit of sent ASCII code.
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Switching Delete and Backspace keys was enchanched.
Switching Delete and Backspace keys are now done before key
code conversion. So, even if the Backspace key (arrow to left
above the Enter key) will send a
DEL code (ASCII 127) but
if you press CTRL and H, Napsaterm sends still ^H (ASCII 8).
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A bug in the clipboard handling is fixed.
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Napsaterm do not free the console window when it is started, you must
start it explicitly with run. Iconify feature is removed (if you really
want it, do recompile from the sources).
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Iconifying was removed as the zoom feature in Amiga OS 2.04 had most of
its functionality
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