What's new in Dave's Telnet 1.3.8
Jul 31, 2017
- For win32/64 help-file in chm format, from John G Zvonar
- IPv6 support (win32/64)
New in Dave's Telnet 1.3.7 (Jul 31, 2017)
- New help-file from John G Zvonar
- Color selection in 'Terminal' menu
- terminal-type 'xterm-kbsH' became 'xterm-kbs8' (dtelnet.set)
- Minimal bugfixes
New in Dave's Telnet 1.3.6 (Feb 15, 2016)
- minor bugfixes
- using environment variable %USERPROFILE%, if %HOME% is not set
- new terminal types in dtelnet.set: xterm-kbs177, xterm-kbsH for special cases (see backspace.txt)
New in Dave's Telnet 1.3.5 (Jan 23, 2016)
- Dtelnet's file extension changed from '.ts' to '.dtelnet_ses'
- From now, you can use NEW ENVIRONMENT feature (if your server supports it) add [EnvVars] section into your 'dtelnet.ini' or 'favourite.dtelnet_ses'
- EnvVars]
- LC_CTYPE="hu_HU.ISO-8859-2"
- ORA_SDTZ="Europe/Budapest"
- New Connect/Reconnect menu command
- Most likely the last version for Windows16
New in Dave's Telnet 1.3.4 (Mar 25, 2015)
- Help file added
- Reorganized 'keypad application mode' settings in 'Connect' dialog. Most users should set both radio-buttons to 'Num'.
- For user without mouse: when connected, pressing and releasing both Alt's activates the menu
- New menu-command: Term/Mouse: you can assign function 'paste' to middle or right mouse-button.
- From now triple-click and quadruple-click are usable to select a (screen) line or a (logical) line. (The latter selects the wrapped lines, too.)
- In file dtelnet.set, two new terminal-types for linux-users: xterm-linuxbs and rxvt-linuxbs Read backspace.txt for details.
New in Dave's Telnet 1.3.2 (Apr 4, 2014)
- Bugfix: ESC[H didn't work (VMS!EDT uses it)
- Reorganized attributes, try them with the attached 'dtelnet.test.sh' script with parameter 'attrs'
- In the command line, within the /A parameter you can specify two more colors
- for bold and blink attributes (that's four colors totally)
- normalForeground/emphasizedForeground-on-normalBackground/emphasizedBackground
- eg: DTELNET.EXE /A White/0xfa-on-0xed/0xee
- In the INI-file it is 'Attrib' in section [Terminal]
- You can see the 256 colors with 'dtelnet.test.sh colors'
- For DEC/VT-users ScrollLock and Pause now act as 'Help' and 'Do'
- irrelevant for unix-users)
- Also for them there is an option to map Insert/Home/PageUp/Delete/End/PageDown to
- Find/InsertHere/Remove/Select/PrevScreen/NextScreen
- VtKeyMap option in *.ts file)
- If you have a 'HOME' environment variable, dtelnet will look for ini-files
- in %HOME%\dtelnet before the directory of the executable (dtelnet.exe)
New in Dave's Telnet 1.3.1a (Feb 8, 2014)
- Bugfix: Shift+F should work now (test in Midnight Commander)
New in Dave's Telnet 1.3.1 (Jan 22, 2014)
- Bugfix in Term/Emul (Windows 16 version only)
- Support for second mouse-wheel (to tell the truth, I cannot test it),
- also support for "mouse_button_event" functionality (whatever is is)
- IMPORTANT Reorganized terminal types (dtelnet.set is changed, too); from now on, I'd suggest terminal-type konsole (or konsole-256color) for linux-servers, xterm (or xterm-256color) for AIX-servers. See file backspace.txt for more information.
- Also test these keys in mc/mcedit, they should work with the said terminal-types: Shift+Arrows, Ctrl+Up/Down, Ctrl+Home/End, Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn
New in Dave's Telnet 1.3.0 (Dec 30, 2013)
- Secondary font' in 'Term/Font' menu: once if you set it, the change of the Primary Font won't corrupt the line-drawing characters. (Test with Midnight Commander.)
- With command-line option /A you can choose from 256 colors, eg /A 0xea-0xf8 is a nice, darkgrey on whitegrey combination.
- In file 'dtelnet.set', terminal type 'xterm' has been split into 'xterm-new' and 'xterm-old'. Test both to choose the better for your server.
New in Dave's Telnet 1.2.9 (Dec 30, 2013)
- In Windows16, we are sending telnet.nop commands in every 65.535 secs to keep the connection alive; In Windows32/64 we use TCP_KEEPALIVE in every 10 minutes; (or the value from registry key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TCPIP\Parameters\KeepAliveTime, if that is shorter than 10 minutes (NB: it is in millisec))
- Supporting 256 colors (sequences ESC[38;5; and ESC[48;5;); from now, the preferred terminal type is 'rxvt-256color' Test with: 'dtelnet.test.sh colors'
- This is the first version coming in three variants: Windows16/32/64
New in Dave's Telnet 1.2.8 (Jul 4, 2013)
- From now on, you can map menu-commands to keys, too.
- Currently available: NewWindow and PrintScreen.
- Example:
- Map Ctrl+W to function 'NewWindow', Ctrl+P to function 'PrintScreen'
- Notice the lack of quotes.
- Ctrl,0x57 = NewWindow
- Ctrl,0x50 = PrintScreen
- Mouse wheel works again (but only in the 32-bit version) to scroll vertically;in Midnight Commander test the wheel in itself, and together with Shift
- There were some problems with selection, attributes and anti-aliasing
- especially ClearType) -- hopefully it's better now.
- The handling of colors has been changed: now 'blink' means intense background color, like 'bold' means intense foreground color.
- In the Font-selection menu you can choose bold font now -- it might or might not work for you (check with Midnight Commander).
- More function keys (26, 24 editable in the GUI) -- for special uses. Remember: F11=Shift+F1, F22=Shift+F12
- A test script (dtelnet.test.sh), to test colors, alternate buffer, scrolling etc.
- Underline support, it may or may not work depending on font/size, test from unix: tput smul; echo underlined; tput rmul
- Option -I works again, but you have to use quotes if there are backslashes in the pathname: -I'C:\HOME\USERNAME\DTELNET.INI'
New in Dave's Telnet 1.2.7 (Aug 28, 2012)
- New feature: keymapping. No user interface yet, the definitions are to be entered into dtelnet.ini or *.ts files. Documentation can be found in file keymap.txt.
New in Dave's Telnet 1.2.5 (Sep 30, 2011)
- Better support for rxvt (file dtelnet.set has been changed too), try in Midnight Commander: Ctrl+O, Shift+Arrows, Ctrl+Home
- Keypad application mode (for special use only)
- Local execute mode (for very special uses only)
New in Dave's Telnet 1.2.4 (Sep 30, 2011)
- Bugfixes
- Terminal/Font/Size became Combobox to allow unlisted values.
- Display Keyboard Codepage in Font dialog in Win16
- Support for ESC[8t, ESC[14t, ESC[18t sequences, to let resize(1) work
New in Dave's Telnet 1.2.3 (Sep 30, 2011)
New in Dave's Telnet 1.2.2 (Sep 30, 2011)
- Fix: _not_ setting DISPLAY environment variable if port 6000 is not open on local host.
- Partial support of AnswerBack message:
- from command line: /AnswerBack="Hello\r\n"
- from .TS file: AnswerBack=Hello\r\n
New in Dave's Telnet 1.2.1 (Sep 30, 2011)
- Using two font: one for normal characters (variable charset) and the other for graphical characters (OEM charset)
- More information in Terminal/Font menu
- Small fixes eg no terminal type was set if called from command line
New in Dave's Telnet 1.2.0 (Sep 30, 2011)
- Bugfix about terminal types. /E option dropped.
- To debug dtelnet, here are shkeys.c and shchars.c, they can be compiled in UNIX.
New in Dave's Telnet 1.1.9 (Sep 30, 2011)
- Many changes and fixes, such as support for favorites, SOCKS and HTTP-proxy, printing, shortcut files (.ts files to store telnet-locations) , extra character sets (see dtelnet.in0 file)
New in Dave's Telnet 1.1.8 (Sep 30, 2011)
- Editable terminal definitions (file dtelnet.set), Mouse wheel support, You can drag and drop text files, Bugfixes (Supporting sequences ESC[39m and ESC[49m for screen, Enter now sends 0D0A, "Local echo" is now on by default)
New in Dave's Telnet 1.1.7 (Sep 30, 2011)
- New terminal types (vt320,vt420,xterm,rxvt). Mouse support for xterm
New in Dave's Telnet 1.1.6 (Sep 30, 2011)
- bugfixes, a little support for different character sets