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.
