Changes for BinkleyTerm 2.40k, 19th January 1990
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1. NoXon as introduced in 2.40j is now the default.  The NoXon keyword
   will still be recognised for backward compatibility, but will have no
   effect.  It should be considered obsolete.


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The following modifications have been taken from the PC Version 2.40 HS,
which was modified by:

 Holger Schurig
 Leiterbergweg 16
 D-3558 Frankenberg
 
  Fido: 2:243/23.0
   Box: 06451/23423
 Voice: 06451/23247
 
Thanks to Mario Martelli of 2:242/26 for sending me the source code to this.

Thanks to Lucien Oppler (FNET 1014) for translating the update notes from
German to English. 
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2. For testing and debugging purposes, you can force Binkley to send the
   answer string to the modem and act as if a RING has been received by
   the modem by pressing ALT-A.

3. ALT-S and ALT-G no longer add in a comment line to the REQ file, which
   gets treated as another file request by most mailers.

4. Alt-Z will zoom the outbound window showing more information.  It will
   return to normal if you press Alt-Z, Escape or Return or if you leave it
   for about a minute or if the modem sends something (e.g. RING).
   
5. If the "NiceOutBound" keyword is used in Binkley.CFG then the small
   outbound window will display more information including the packet size
   and date.

   Alt-F will toggle between NiceOutBound mode and normal mode (which is
   faster).

   Also the outbound window no longer wraps, when you scroll to the end you
   get blank lines instead of the 1st entries again.
   
   The status field no longer show cryptic signs but useful reports such as:
     Unknwn : Node is not in nodelist
     Noconn : When there have been too many failed calls
     Called : Nodes that have been called but did not sent everything.
     

6. The Colors statement has had 2 extra colours added.  The format of the
   line is now:
     colors n1 n2 n3 n4 n5 n6 n7 n8 n9 n10
   
   n1 : Colour of Upper and Lower Header (Node, System-name, version)
   n2 : Current settings window
   n3 : Today-at-a-glance window
   n4 : Pending outbound window
   n5 : recent activity window
   n6 : transfer-status window
   n7 : Highlighted node in outbound window
   n8 : pop-up windows
   n9 : Named Windows
   n10: Frame around windows

   Refer to readme.st for how to calculate the colors (16 * back + fore).

7. The Outbound Window is brought up to date after a call.

8. When calling a host there will be no "Called xxx/0 and got xxx/1" messages.

9. BinkleyTerm occasionally gave a "Nobody answered the door" error.  This is
   now ignored as often a session can be made.

10. The meaning of "NoSmallWindow" has changed.  What happens now is that
    Binkley will start off using small blocks when using Wazoo but will
    increase them if line conditions permit up to the maximum size for the
    current baud rate.  Also when sending more than 1 file, the length of
    the previous block length is remembered.

11. The outbound windows are sorted.  First come "hot" nodes, i.e. those that
    may be called.  Then those that may not.  Within the two categories, the
    sorting proceeds according to zone, net and number.  When scrolling with
    the arrow keys the order may get messed up.  Press Home to sort it out
    again.

12. When makeing file Requests (Alt-G) or sending files (Alt-S), you can
    specify several files at once.  The final question is as before (Normal/
    Crash/Hold etc) but you have the added option [M]ore.  Also the filename
    width has been increased to 14 characters so that you can more easily edit
    the filename if you made a mistake.

13. The modem initialisation code is quicker if no special strings (DialInit,
    Hangup, etc) is defined.
    
14. "ReInitTime" will set the time between modem re-intialisations.  It is
    followed by the time in minutes and defaults to 10.

15. "ReadHoldCtr" variable specifies the time in minutes between re-reads of
    the Outbound directories.  It defaults to a very large number, but may
    be reduced for example if you are in a multi-tasking environment.
    
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I also spent a long time trying out different compilation options and
comparing Turbo-C with Lattice C.  I am now compiling Lattice C using
register parameters, 16 bit words and PC relative subroutines.  This
produces code very similar to Turbo's.  In fact the file size is slightly
smaller, but the combined memory required is a little more (due to its
larger file buffers [which makes it faster]).  I don't really think there
is that much in it and so will be continuing to release versions using
Lattice unless an English version of Turbo-C is ever released, though I
will make sure that Binkley will compile with either.

Actually... I have since found that BinkleyTerm is not very stable using
either Turbo-C or Registerized parameters.  I don't know quite why this is,
but in the meantime have gone back to normal parameters.  I think reliability
is more important than an extra 5K of memory.

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16. BinkleyTerm uses an extra screen line than it used to.  For some reason
    it used to leave 2 blank lines at the bottom of the screen.

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There are quite a few more changes in the HS version that I would like to
incorporate (including a costlog), but I have quite a lot to do, and so am
releasing this version which has been running happily for several days on
my system...
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