A new version of QCTerm (Version 0.90k, April 2, 2001) is now available for
downloading at:

     http://aics-research.com/qcterm

Indeed, I would recommend that you download this new version, given the
problems that were found in the previous version.

This version corrects a number of defects that were reported back to us since
the last release. In that regard, let me publicly and very sincerely thank
Petur Gudlaugsson, Per Ostberg, Wyell Grunwald, Tracy Johnson, Ken Sletten,
and others  for taking the time to report their specific problems with QCTerm
and for setting up problem exemplars on their machines and letting us dial
back in. That level of cooperation is truly appreciated.

The 0.90k version of QCTerm should now work properly in regards to:

     o Function key (normal, transmit, and local) mode behaviors.

     o Extended (ISO-Latin-1) characters in the function key labels.

     o Extended (ISO-Latin-1) characters in forms mode.

     o Characters appearing in the 80th column of a form.

Further, the serial baud rate has been upped from 19.2Kbaud to 256Kbaud,
should that prove useful.

Similarly, this version of QCTerm should work properly with the vi editor,
although you must be in "standard telnet" and transparent (^T) control
characters mode for it to function correctly. Because of the manner by which
vi (and a few other UNIX-like programs are constructed), the "advanced"
(half-duplex) mode of communications is simply disallowed. Under vi, a
character transmitted to the host is often not the character (or string of
characters) returned, thus half-duplex communications are unusable in this
circumstance.

This version also properly incorporates the "color themes" that Microsoft has
been promoting for the last several years. To be absolutely honest, I had
just been ignoring this as a gimmick, but I first sat next to Denys
Beauchemin at the Solutions Symposium, where he kindly let me look over his
shoulders at his laptop's screen as we listened to the speakers, and then
later that same night, went to eat dinner at Steve Cooper's house. In both
cases, they had specific color themes set into their PCs, and that was enough
to change my mind. The result of these observations is that QCTerm now
accurately tracks your chosen color theme.

A number of internal constructs were also improved so that this should be the
best performing version of QCTerm yet.

I once again believe that QCTerm is free of errors, but if you should find
anything, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it. We really do
appreciate your taking the time to accurately characterize problems with
QCTerm.

Wirt Atmar