June 21st 1991 Term II version 1.0 (c) 1990,1991 - Eric GONTIER NOTES.doc Here are a few tips to use Term II : o Term II needs Workbench 2.0x (or above) to run. o Since Workbench 2.04 (Kickstart 37.74, Workbench 37.33), the gadget toolkit allows the use to switch from one string gadget to another with TAB and shift-TAB. Pretty handy ! o Term II is using the console device, so it is not possible to use proportional fonts. No crashes to be afraid of, but the Term II window could have a strange look with proportional fonts. o I like to use the courier font in 640x400, so I added a console_font "courier.font" 11 in term.config o With and it is possible to answer requester without using the mouse. o The XPR support is not completed (for example, there is no support for environment variable to set the options, and the auto-download feature of some protocol - like zmodem - is not implemented). However, Term II recognize the command xpr_init, which allows the user to initialise the external protocol. For example, in term.config one can add : xpr_open "xprxmodem.library" xpr_init "T0,C1,K1" This will force Term II to open the xprxmodem.library, and to send it the "T0,C1,K1" init string (1K-CRC, sometimes called Y-Modem). See the documentation of the XPR library you are using for more informations on the init strings recognized by the protocols. o The string gadgets in the requesters to set XPR options _NEED_ validation, either by RETURN (the common way) or by TAB or shift-TAB (in Workbench version >= 2.04). o There are not XPR libraries distributed with Term II, but they can be found easily on good BBS, or on Fred Fish's disks. I know the existence of the following libraries : xprxmodem (XModem protocol, with block size of 128 or 1024 bytes, and with CRC or checksum), xprkermit (Kermit protocol), xprascii (no protocol), xprzmodem (ZModem protocol), xprquickb (Quick-B protocol, used on Compuserve) and xprbbt (BBT protocol, used in France with minitels in V23).