Announcing minicom 1.82

A short summary of what minicom is:

Minicom is a communications program that resembles the MSDOS Telix

somewhat. It has a dialing directory, color, full ANSI and VT100

emulation, an (external) scripting language and more.

Tested platforms:

Linux 2.0.34, 

Supported but untested (may need a little tweaking):

DGUX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Coherent, HP/UX, SysVR4, Apollo Domain/OS, SunOS, SCO.

New in Minicom 1.82: 

- call duration in the "Gone offline" and "Hangup" log messages.  

- Old phonedir version (one with shorter entry length than the current

  version), if found, is backed up at program start

- command line option "-C filename" to start capturing at program startup

- the character conversion tables are now also used when writing the

  capture file, unless you unset the capture convert option

- log command added to runscript. Now you can write text from your scripts

  with the command "log this is the log entry"

- the date is now written in the phone directory and the log file with 

  4 numbers in the year

- default value for control key changed back to ^A from Escape(meta)

- notations \u for username and \p for password in the macro strings.

  If you need the \ character in macros, type it double (as \\)

- citation facility in the scrollback buffer: When viewing the scrollback

  buffer, move cursor where you want the citation to start, press c, move

  cursor to the end of text to be citated, and press c again. The marked

  text will be sent to the modem, each line prefixed with >

- Japanese, French and Polish have been added to the language selection

New in Minicom 1.81:

- The filename selection window has been rewritten by James Seymour

  (jseymour@jimsun.LinxNet.com). When you upload files, you can use this

  window to select the filenames from the upload directory. You can also use

  change the upload directory within this window. New setting 'multi' has 

  been added to the file transfer protocol configuration screen to define

  which protocols can send multiple files with one command.

  The program can also be set to prompt for the directory each time you

  download something. (Setting 'O', "Prompt for download directory", in the

  file transfer protocol configuration menu.)

- When you start dialing and the highlighted phone directory entry is not

  tagged, the dialing function starts searching for tagged entries from the

  highlighted one, not from the beginning. Thus, if entries 1, 2 and 5 are

  tagged and entry 3 is highlighted, the dialing starts from entry 5.

- Multiple device support: You can define multiple serial ports in the

  Serial device setting in the Serial port setup configuration menu by

  separating them with commas, if you have more than one modem

  attached. When Minicom starts, it will look for the first available one

  and use it. This feature was also written by Jim Seymour.

New in version 1.80:

- Internationalization. The text strings can be changed to localized ones.

  Set the environment variable LANG to the code for your country. If you

  use bash, you can do that with "export LANG=xx_XX" in your .bash_profile,

  where xx_XX is the code for your country. Currently supported codes are

  pt_BR for Brazilian Portuguese and fi_FI for Finnish.

  You may also have to set LC_CTYPE to indicate the character set used

  in your country (ISO-8859-1 is the right one for many).

New in version 1.79:

- The changes from version 1.78-s, published by Kent Robotti, were included: 

  - history buffer search 

  - The X, Y, Zmodem protocols lrzsz-0.12.16, are included.

  - The program 'modemu.v.0.0.1', is also included, this allows you to use

    minicom over a telnet connection.

- Filename selection window was added, along with the setting 'N', 

  "Use filename selection window", in the File transfer protocols setting

  menu to toggle for using the feature. The window itself has been rewritten

  for version 1.81.

Jukka Lahtinen, walker@clinet.fi