Log of changes made to Minicom. Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org miquels@cistron.nl.mugnet.org miquels@hacktic.nl miquels@htsa.aha.nl (In preferred order, one of these should work!) - 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. - 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. - 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. Sun, Jun 21 1992 Posted diffs for 1.3 -> 1.3.2 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. 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. 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). 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. 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. November, 1993. Fixed bug in ANSI emulation (reset ESC-[m would not set colors to white on black). Added 'current' speed in dial menu. 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. 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 :-). 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.