ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³±±± CONEX version 7.1 ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ New features are: ... case insensitive now Searching in the telephone directory "phone" is case insensitive now. Keywords in "conex.ini" can be written with upper or lower case characters. clears screen in normal mode, too More information displayed in transfer mode Estimated time, Characters per second are displayed when a file is transferred. 132 X 25 screen mode in VESA automatically detected A VESA compatible graphic card is automatically detected. Try to select 132 X 25 in . If it works your card will be VESA compatible and support 132 columns. Automatically start Zmodem () When your host starts to send a file CONEX will automatically enter transfer mode and receive it. You need not press . Graphics disabled as default again () Spurious characters can switch into graphic mode which might be very embarassing for newcomers. restores original screen in edit mode In former versions left the screen as it is but now restores the original screen and cursor position. Thus you can scroll back even when you use a fullscreen editor. Blinking characters can be replaced by high intensity () On EGA+ graphic cards blinking characters can also be displayed as normal characters with high intensity background colour. Some BBS seem to use this feature. Write screen buffer to disk ( in edit mode) In previous versions you could only study the scroll back buffer on screen. Now it is possible to write out that portion of the buffer that you scrolled back. I thought about marking a portion of the screen and writing it out as other editors do. But I abandonned this idea at last because one can easily edit the created file. Conex.ini of version 7.0 can also be used with 7.1 ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³±±± CONEX version 7.0 ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ New features are: Graphics enabled as default If conex gets a graphic command FS|GS it automatically enters graphic mode, this is default now. It can be switched off with and to make it permanent. ESC [ 3#,4# m sets ANSI colours directly (configurable) Some mailboxes use ANSI ESC sequences to set the colour directly, VT320 does not support coloured text just the monochrome attributes underline, bold, inverse. See "tech.ref" for more details. Which colours correspond to which ANSI colours can be configured in conex.ini. White on blue is still the default colour of the screen, this can be changed either by "conex/m1" to white on black or by setting the colour in "conex.ini" directly. Read in macros directly from file Macros can now be executed from files as well as from internal memory created with . Just set the switch "execute as macro" in . Internal macros can be called from file macros and vice versa. Packet length affects sending of packets, too The value of packet length you can set in "kermit transfer mode" with now affects the length of outgoing as well as incoming packets. Added ANSI and VT52 emulation ANSI emulation differs slightly from VT100. Some mailboxes use ANSI emulation instead of VT100 which you may notice if the screen is not cleared correctly or some lines wrap around. VT52 is the predecessor of VT100 and is completely different from it, but there seem to exist some programs that still use it. conex/m# uses monochrome colours (eg. on LCD displays) If you can't read the screens in CONEX on your LCD display use option "/m" to display everything in black and white. This can be made permanent with . With option "/m1" only the main screen is white on black the help screen, menus are coloured. White on black is the default colour of ANSI/VT100 terminals. sends NULL This is a feature of VT100 terminals I forgot to implement. Some editors use it. gives more memory (XMS/file) Some memory is saved to XMS or file "conex.tmp" if you execute a program with . Thus you get more memory in your DOS shell. / don't move outside scroll buffer In edit mode the screen can be scrolled backwards or forwards. In previous versions blank lines followed the beginning or end of the scroll buffer, but that is not possible any more. Reorganized screen in transfer mode (new colour!) The transmission time is displayed now in transfer mode and some other things. Look at it yourself! Reorganized conex.ini to include keywords I organized the conex.ini file much like the windows ini-files with sections and keywords. Thus is will be easier to read and edit it and I hope it will be easier to upgrade to the next version. But unfortunately it is much more difficult to convert an old 6.3 ini file to 7.0. This is explained below. Support zmodem file transfer protocol At last I finished zmodem, which seems to be the most popular file transfer protocol on mailboxes. On network errors open or next session (configurable) You can choose what to do when a network error occurs. There are 3 possibilities: (1) do nothing (2) open window (3) change to next session or quit conex, if there are no more open sessions. These parameters can be set in conex.ini. Clock can display connect time The clock in the status line can now display the time since the connection was established. This feature can be selected in . FOSSIL support added There exist FOSSIL drivers for a couple of COM boards. Convert CR,LF to CR during file input When you enter a command manually it is ended by a single . In order to emulate a keyboard input all lines are sent with "CR" instead of the normal combination of "CR,LF". Files "phone"/"hosts" looked up in directory of conex The files "phone" and "hosts" are now searched in the directory where the "conex.exe" is located, previously they were searched in the current directory. You can define their pathnames in as well. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³±±± Update conex.ini 6.3 to 7.0 ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ Sorry, I don't provide any tools for converting the configuration file from 6.3 to 7.0 because this would consume quite a lot of time. I prefer to spend it on developing CONEX. Save the old init file to avoid over-writing it; then start the new Conex and save parameters to create a new init file. Then append the old init file to the new, delete all of the old file except the keyboard-mapping data, and edit the data lines to match the sample line (DIA) in the new init file. conex 6.3c -->> conex 7.0 ... [Keyboard mapping] Keyboard mapping key=,, ,,! key=,, ,,! key=,, ,,!!