A new version of QCTerm (version 0.90i, February 12, 2000) has been put up on
QCTerm's web page at:

     http://aics-research.com/qcterm

If you've previously downloaded a version of QCTerm this year, you should
download this new, updated version. A few more pecadillos that you all have
reported have been killed in this version -- and once again, there are no
known defects. And it goes without saying, your help is greatly appreciated.

As a note, there are some programs (almost all of which are characteristic of
UNIX systems) that CANNOT use advanced telnet. In advanced telnet, we
transfer your typed characters to the screen as you type them. We also then
send them on to the host in a manner such that they are NOT echoed back to
QCTerm.

Some UNIX-like programs depend on that echo, however. The editor vi is one of
them. If you type an "h" in command mode, the host interprets that "h",
translate it, and then returns a backspace character. Similarly, an "l" is
translated by the host into an EscC sequence. To make these kinds of programs
work, you must be in a full-duplex (standard telnet) mode of communication.

Luckily, there are very few programs that are written in this manner,
especially on the HP3000. Nonetheless, the moral is: if your program isn't
working (or giving you screwy results) with QCTerm, try switching to standard
telnet and see if that corrects the problem [and in that regard, many of you
have older telnet clients on your HP3000 that also demand that you be in
standard telnet mode, but that requirement will go away if you are on either
6.5 Express patch 2 or are on 7.0; advanced telnet is now on all of those
systems].

Wirt Atmar