ONEFOSsil Revision History (c) Copyright 1995-96 by Carl Morris and Morris Softronics Whats to come? We have a few things up our sleeves for the next couple revisions. However, first will be an attempt to actually rewrite the driver. After even this short time it has been presumed that if it was rewrote some other features could be made available and would streamline the whole driver. Revision 8 - Jan 12, 1996. A lot of changes all over. Many areas of the function handler have changed. A few changes to the UART interrupt handler to reduce ISR overhead. Changed function 1F to only allow the DTR to be manipulated, I haven't found any need to allow programs to manipulate the rest of the Modem Control Register. Added the Delayed Carrier option for slow speed modems and improperly built null-modem cables. Revamped all documentation. The FIFO option now permits both buffer and trigger level settings to be manipulated. The full specification for detecting a FOSSIL driver was adhered to in case there is any software that require this. Function 5, deactivation, now forces RTS and DTR high, this prevents characters from being held in the remote's buffer waiting to wreak havoc, such as keeping the remote protocol driver from returning, causing the next local protocol driver to be aborted before it starts. The mass move functions were streamlined. How UART's are detected was changed. Several functions or subfunctions of X00's specification were removed. Improved the ability for ONEFOSsil to purge Windows' virtual communications buffers on 16450 UARTs. Revision 7 - Dec 17, 1995. Improved some areas, some dealing with the revision 5 bug. The revision 5 bug crept back in in the process, and now it shouldn't have any problems any more. A FIFO setting option was created for those who might think they need to play with it, or who have to. If the S option didn't specify a sensitivity and was on the end of the command line, a command line error would occur. Math routines for the timeout value was updated. Its still as accurate though, just uses less code. Made some changes to the timeslice code. The function reference document was written and included in this release. IRQ's 8 though 15 are now fully usable. Only IRQ's 3 - 5, 7, 9 - 12, and 15 are valid on the command line. Finally found a bug that might have been causing some programs to not function properly at hanging up the modem. Changed the name of the company back to Morris Softronics, as many people liked that older name. Function 1Eh would not stop function 00h from setting the baud rate, now it does. Right before release, it was found that the new Fifo setting option had some large errors, first it wouldn't allow setting at all, then it had a minor display error. Also, function 05h now disables FIFO's, so that old software like BBSRACE 2.41 will work. Revision 6 - Nov 21, 1995. Revision 5 actually got out. Only a few small bugs have cropped up in the first day. The installation code would allow the flow parameter to have items repeated indefinitely. Oops, the sleep mode defaulted to Windows, and now defaults to None as documented. Seemed to have the problem that effected most mailers and probably all other high efficiency programs to be more a hardware related bug. I found the solution though... Revision 5 - Nov 19, 1995. Revision 4 never got to the public either. Documentation was improved and other little bugs removed. Command line processor is near completion. All installation options are available, and the basic control options are in there. No real known bug fixes in a while now. The ONEFOS echo was created for FidoNet support of ONEFOSsil. Right before release a bunch of bugs, major bugs, were solved that had just cropped up in this version. It should be fairly stable now. A bug has cropped up with Portal of Power, I can't find it, all other software tested works (about 15 programs). Revision 4 - Nov 13, 1995. Revision 3 never got to the public. This revision has a few forgotten bug fixes. This version also has Windows sleep calls built in for programs that don't give time slices. However, under Windows 95, this will sometimes cause the programs to go MUCH slower if the program in the foreground doesn't give time slices. This effects all programs, even those that already give time slices away (LORE and BRE are noted as the worst!). Also added some compatibility notes in the documentation. Also, made the DEINIT function flush the buffer before closing the port. This helps some door games that close the port too quickly. However, some doors never close the port at all... Renegade BBS on the other hand closes the port before opening it. Remind me to complement Cott Lang on that. I'll be working on this more as I work on the command line processor. Revision 3 - Nov 8, 1995. First release to public. Just little changes made before public release. Source code will be archived before the major modifications the command line interface will require. Revision 2 - Nov 4, 1995. Never released. Source code was not saved. Lots of the Revision 1 bugs were fixed by very complete testing. There could still be lots of bugs needing work. Revision 1 - Nov 1, 1995. Never released. I changed revision number after I had seen that the majority of the code worked. The source code to this revision still exists, but is very buggy.