Subject: Term 115 (beta) is out.
From: [email-masked] (Michael O'Reilly)
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 22:10:43 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Term 1.15 is now on
	
	tartarus.uwa.edu.au:/pub/oreillym/term/term115.tar.gz

and will shortly be mirrored to somewhere on sunsite.unc.edu.

BLURB: Term is for people running unix, who have internet access via
	a dialup connection, and who don't have access to SLIP, or PPP,
	or simply prefer a more lightweight protocol.  It does end-to-end
	error-correction, compression, and mulplexing across serial links.
	This means you can upload and download files as the same time
	you're reading your news, and can run X clients on the other
	side of your modem link, all without needing SLIP or PPP.

WARNING: The txconn in this version has a protocol change to support
	SCO, and simplify X connections to odd places. This means that
	you need to upgrade term at both ends if you use txconn.

PLEA: Where's my postcard!? :) (see the README). Yes, I value these
	postcards. They're the only tangable return I get on my
	(not very much) effort.

NOTE: There are a fair number of changes in term115. Linux is the only
	platform that's even semi-tested. If you note a problem, please
	mail me (preferably with fix. :). The faint-headed, or the
	data-critical will want to wait a week before upgrading.........

	Be warned. Semi-tested means just that.

CHANGES:

1.14 --> 1.15
	
	Non-blocking connections. Now only the one client hangs when
	doing a slow TCP connect, instead of all of them. Thanks to
	Steven Grimm ([email-masked])

	Finally got SCO support in. Many thanks to Tom Kelly
	([email-masked]) for patches, and considerable patience.
	This introduces a major protocol change, that will break
	txconn if both ends are not upgraded. xconn will now send
	C_X_SERVER instead of C_SOCKET. So unless you term server
	understands this, it will break.

	added Term.HOWTO. Thanks to Bill Reynolds

	added tmon fixes. thanks to The Crouton Man
		 ([email-masked])

	Fixed cast in pty.c for AIX and other sensitive compilers.

	Fixed bug in BSD pty handling. If master was available, and
	slave wasn't, term went into infinite loop.

	Removed various warnings from pty.c
	Removed some automatic initialization because it seems
	there are a lot of braindead of compilers out there still.
	
	Lots of nice stuff from Chris Metcalf
	<[email-masked]> among them:
		support for HCX/UX 5.1
		removed various warnings.
		changed open_pty() to use preset default, not terms
		initial settings. This will cure termios problems when
		term was run from seyon or some such.
		various fixes to docs.

	Fixed the version number!!

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