A new version of QCTerm (Version 1.00, February 8, 2003) is now available.
With this version, we've finally decided to call QCTerm "done," thus the 1.00
designation.
Among the various items that this version corrects are these:
o Fields marked as "secure" on the screen by the appropriate escape
sequences no longer print on paper.
o The Esc0 print command is now implemented.
o This version obtains which serial ports are implemented in your PC
from the PC's registry and automatically enters that information into
QCTerm's COM port choices, making life a little easier for serial
users.
o This version also recognizes your PC's HTTP and FTP proxy server
settings and honors them for BLOB downloads, if any.
o This version should be more resistant to losing its user-set
configuration
entry values.
QCTerm may be downloaded from:
http://aics-research.com/qcterm
Although you would think that after all of this time, making this version
1.00 would be cause for great celebration, we actually liked having the
version be less than one. It let everyone know that QCTerm was a
use-at-your-risk type of product. However, we had one organization say that
they could not use it until the version number was at least 1.00, thus that
was part of the impetus of the change.
The other reason for keeping the version number at 0.96 was that QCTerm was
ca. 96% complete when measured against our original plans. We had originally
intended on putting in a very easy-to-use, HP3000- and UNIX-compatible,
GUI-architected FTP file transfer program into QCTerm as well, but since the
death of the HP3000, that final task seemed less pressing. Indeed, we've now
abandoned that work, at least for the moment. What that meant was that of all
of the tasks we originally drew on the blackboard for QCTerm four years ago,
before we began work, they've all been accomplished and now seem to be
robustly implemented.
Wirt Atmar
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