$Id: ChangeLog.old,v 1.1.1.1 2003-03-30 18:55:36 al-guest Exp $
Log of changes made to Minicom.
Until 1996
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
miquels@drinkel.ow.org
miquels@xs4all.nl
miquels@htsa.hva.nl
(In preferred order, one of these should work!)
Since 1997
Jukka Lahtinen, walker@clinet.fi
walker@megabaud.fi
See the file 'AUTHORS' for a full list of current developers.
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November 1999
- released 1.83
September 1999
- added 'moVe' command to the dial directory to move directory
entries up/down on the list
August 1999
- support for DTE speed 230400 bps added
June 1999
- Korean translations added (Kim soyoung <nexti@chollian.net>)
- lock file creation moved to before opening the serial port
- flag %f added to the upload/download protocol program command
lines to allow passing the port file descriptor to c-kermit
(mauro <smcsd@his.it>)
May 1999
- changed the command line option -d to accept multiple comma-
separated entries as the parameter
- a fix for the timeout command in runscript
(Bulent Murtezaoglu <bm@acm.org>)
April 1999
- fixed possible overflows when inputting long strings in
manual dial and "find entry" windows in the dial dir
- added options for the logfile name and which events to log.
Now you can also disable logging by deleting the filename.
- added multiline untag option to untag all phonedir entries
with the same name when one of them answers
(Vangelis Rokas, valis@acrogate.ath.forthnet.gr)
- FSF address fixed in the Copyright file
- xminicom script fixed for Debian (miquels@cistron.nl)
- newline delay option added in the terminal settings
(miquels@cistron.nl)
February 1999
- released 1.82.1
January 1999
- the mailing list address changed, so because it is mentioned in
the 'developers' file, a new packet was considered necessary
although there are no big changes after 1.82
- the program doesn't any more unnecessarily remind you of the need
to save config and restart before the history buffer size change
takes effect, if you started with -s option and didn't change it
during THAT session.
November 1998
- option to show line speed on the status line (instead of DTE speed)
September 1998
- Polish (pl) translations by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
(misiek@pld.org.pl)
- released 1.82
August 1998
- some fixes for 'half-character' display troubles and formatted
output with multibyte character languages such as Japanese. (kubota)
- default value for control key changed back to ^A from Escape(meta)
- added notations \u for username and \p for password in the
macro strings. If the \ character is needed, it must be keyed in
double (as \\).
- the included conversion tables in the tables directory have been
renamed from .mc* to mc.*
- citation facility added to the scrollback buffer, and a bug in
the history search fixed (kubota)
- French (fr) translations by Gaël Quéri (gqueri@mail.dotcom.fr)
July 1998
- command line option "-C filename" added to start capturing at
program startup (kubota@debian.or.jp)
- the character conversion tables are now also used when writing the
capture file, unless you unset the capture convert option
- if you try dialing from the dial directory while you are online,
you'll get an error message (if you have the DCD setting on)
- added command line option "-S script" to run the named script at
program startup (before dialing the entry you may have specified
with the -d option)
- added log command to runscript. Now you can write text from
your scripts with the command "log this is the log entry"
- y2k fix: the date is written in the phone directory and the log file
with 4 numbers in the year
- Japanese translations by Tomohiro Kubota (kubota@debian.or.jp)
- fixed a minor bug that the security fixes for 1.81.1 had caused:
the file browser didn't always get some strings properly initialized,
so the directory name at the top of the browser window wasn't shown
correctly and neither did the first directory change work right
- changed the function name 'tell' to 'mc_tell' to avoid conflict with
a system function on some systems
June 1998
- Added call duration to the "Gone offline" log message.
- If the program reads an old version of the dialing directory
(one with shorter entry length than the current version), it backs
up the old one, with the entry length added as a suffix to the
name.
- fix for sig11 when the statusline is not used (vlk@st.simbirsk.su)
May 1998
Applied a patch by Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) to avoid
string overflows
Released 1.81.1
April 1998
Replaced the filename selection window with a better one written by
Jim Seymour
Changed the dialing function to start searching for dial tags from
the highlighted entry, instead of the beginning of the list, when
the highlighted one is not tagged. So that now, if entries 1, 2 and 5
are tagged, and the highlight cursor is on entry number 3, the program
dials entry 5 first, not entry 1.
Some fixes to the chartab.h table
Released 1.81
February-March, 1998
Merged changes made by robotti@erols.com (Kent Robotti) to his
version 1.78-s.
Added and enhanced the filename selection window written by
Hans Georg Keller (WINNIE@hanse.antar.com).
Released 1.79
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br) internationalized
the program and translated the strings to Brazilian Portuguese.
Jukka did the Finnish translations.
Released 1.80.1
Added multiple device support by Jim Seymour
(jseymour@jimsun.LinxNet.com)
Fixed some documentation and sent another packet of 1.80.1 to
the world..
January, 1998
Fixed a memory freeing bug when closing the history window
(thanks to dickey@clark.net)
Added last login date & time to the dialing window
Patchlevel 1.78.2
November, 1997
Released 1.78
October, 1997
Changed the DTE speed from int to long. Now it should also work on
modems faster than 32768 bps even if your compiler uses 16-bit int.
Added some patches that Miquel had made during the last year.
September, 1997
Added user-configurable character conversion tables to the Screen
and keyboard menu. Conversion tables .mciso, .mcpc8 and .mcsf7
(later renamed mc.*) included in the main directory for no
conversion, pc8 and sf7 character sets, respectively.
Environment variable TERMLIN for runscript to tell the actual terminal
lines (LINES - 1 if you use the status line, same as LINES if you
don't)
Added logging of sz/rz file transfers.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the wrong login script to run.
Miquel said he was too busy to go on with minicom.
June, 1997
Added logging of connects and disconnects to $HOME/minicom.log,
added the last login time & date and login count to the phone dir
Made the DTR drop time adjustable, because my modem needs DTR
to be down more than just 1 second before it drops the carrier.
Spring 1997
Jukka Lahtinen, walker@clinet.fi
walker@megabaud.fi
saw that Minicom was a good program, but lacked character conversion
tables and a logfile, so decided to work on them myself..
June, 1996
Added some minor patches. Released 1.75.
March, 1996.
Added ascii-xfr
Added patch from "T.E.Dickey" <dickey@clark.net> color initialization
Added patches for FreeBSD
Januari, 1996
Fixed rwconf.c. Added drop_all_privs(). Released minicom 1.74.
Januari, 1996
Fixed security hole in rwconf.c. Made debian package. 1.73-1.
September, 1995
Added some patches for Minix back in. The "real ANSI" ACK compiler
can't deduce prototypes from K&R declarations, but I'm not
going to add 100 prototypes for one stupid compiler.
Added -D_DCDFLOW for systems that have to have hardware
handshaking turned off when DCD is low (FreeBSD, SunOS).
August, 1995
Rewrote terminal emulation (numerical arguments) a bit to be
more generic. Put in some of the SunOS patches (DTR handling).
Juli, 1995
Fixed termcap a bit. Added terminal type to dialdir. Added "-p"
flag. Fixed null arguments in escape sequences (for CompuServe).
May, 1995
Added :am: to linux termcap entry. Added changes for variable
history size buffer (Mark Rejhon <mdrejhon@magi.com>). Patches
for DG/UX (Dario_Ballabio@milano.europe.dg.com). Fixed color
save problem. Added a setuid() here and there. Garbled .dialdir
files are no longer deleted. '-m and -M flags. Only write
.dialdir when changed. Version 1.71.
Februari, 1995
Added complete termcap files into the termcap subdirectory.
Official release of 1.70 since 1.69 has proved itself stable.
Januari, 1995
Fixed ALT key, now listen to either 8th bit or ESC, not both.
Deleted all Minix stuff, including the Minix terminal emul.
Minicom is so big now, it won't compile on Minix or Coh3 anyway.
Added PD-zmodem "lszrz0.12a" to the minicom distribution.
November, 1994
Complete VT102 emulation (tested with vttest). Ported to SCO.
Runscript fixes. Made minicom drop root privs whenever possible.
Minicom can send NUL (\0 or ^@) characters now.
October, 1994
Added the customizable colors and macro patches. Support for
terminals with a status line. Fixed bug in ANSI emulation
(instead of ANSI emulated VT100, hmm). Support for alternate
character set if termcap provides it. Vt100 insert mode. Bug fixes.
Februari, 1994.
Got rid of bugs due to the double level of buffering in wkeys.c
Added auto check for Meta-key mode on the console (ESC-X, etc).
Added vt100 line character set emulation. Added dial-a-list.
Zmodem auto-download.
Januari, 1994.
Got report that after up/download RTS sometimes is low. Enabled
it specifically in sysdep1.c - hope it helps? Wrote a manual page
for runscript - finally! Fixed a few bugs in runscript - now it
even works :-).
December, 1993.
Fixed bug in dialing directory. Made minicom screen-size aware in
more places. Online time keeps running during scripts and up/down
load. Fixed resize code (you cannow resize minicom in an xterm).
Changed version number to 1.60 - note the omission of the letter.
November, 1993.
Fixed bug in ANSI emulation (reset ESC-[m would not set colors to
white on black). Added 'current' speed in dial menu.
October, 1993.
Added local echo and multiple dial strings, both can be set
in the dialing directory. Changed the wgets() function to
allow longer lines to be editted (now scrolls).
Added a scroll back buffer (yeah!).
Fixed bug in m_dtrtoggle: dtr never got set high again.. How
could this ever have worked?? Put it up for ftp as version 1.5b.
August, 1993.
Changed minicom to use the select() system call, if present.
The keyserv process is no longer needed for such systems.
Fixed some bugs in the vt100 emulation (still not complete,
and never will be..) so that it does not crash anymore.
Fixed other bugs. Minicom should be pretty stable now.
'Modulized' the window.c and vt100.c, so that they can be
used for some other project (can you say: ANSI-BBS?).
Version number bumped up to 1.5.
April, 1993.
Put a beta version of minicom 1.4 up for ftp. Changes made
_after_ this are:
Corrected documentation for the new configuration with
Makefile and config.h. Changed internals of vt100.c and
window.c so that window.c now handles the translation of
IBM characters to normal characters, if needed. Can use IBM
characters in windows now (status line, help window).
March, 1993.
Been working on new version of minicom that does not use the
keyserv process on systems with select, has sz/rz builtin,
has new configuration files and so on. However, this is a
_big_ project. So I decided to give the 'old' minicom 1.3.2
a revision because people have been complaining about bugs some
time. This revision is only tested under Linux and Minix: be warned.
Juli, 1992.
Got a 386, so installed Linux. Of course, the first thing to do
(after getting X up :-) was to work on minicom. Now ISIG is on
when running up/download protocols and runscript, so that you
can interrupt them. Removed flushing from ipc.c, now the bug with
windows not getting deleted is solved. Added nice sound effect
for Linux when connected and when up/download is ready.
Removed bugs with scroll regions in both vt100.c and window.c.
ALT key now works under Linux.
Sun, Jun 21 1992
Posted diffs for 1.3 -> 1.3.2
- June, 1992.
Posted version 1.3 to comp.os.minix.
Did not seem to work under Linux. Added ~NOECHONL to routines
in sysdep1.c. Added special Linux case hard coded escape
sequence for color. Found bug in window.c:wscroll. In full
screen mode insert line / delete line did not work OK.
Found bug in window.c:wdelchar. Character under the cursor
was not correctly deleted. Found bug in keyserv: when running
an external command (up/download, runscript) and ^A or some
ALT combination was pressed, keyserv would send too many
ACK signals back so that minicom would be killed. Now call
m_flush(0) in ipc.c:keyserv before re-starting keyserv.
(Posix signal interface could solve this ; however, a lot of
systems don't have that including Minix 1.5).
Changed DCD handling ; minicom first tried to find out for
itself it the OS and modem supported the DCD line. Now it's
a configuration option in "modem and dialing".
Found bug in keyserv.c for Coherent: used #ifdef COHERENT
instead of _COHERENT.
- Februari, 1992.
Posted Minix version 1.2 to comp.os.minix. Got some feedback ;
it even ran under Coherent. Changed keyserv to communicate
with minicom through pipes. Changed some menu's and command
line interface. Ported it to Sysv and Linux. Changed the
configuration file to ASCII. Added redialing.
- Somewhere in middle 1991
Made first version of Minicom, based on a not-yet-finished
window library of Fred van Kempen. Used Non blocking IO
patches to the kernel for asynchronous IO. Used lots of
CPU time. Ran under my version of Minix only.
Decided later to write my own window routines.
Did away with non blocking IO, started to use a separate
process for the IO from keyboard to modem.
Added color routines, perfected communication between
"keyserv" and minicom.
Got it running under BSD.