Log of changes made to Minicom.

Until 1996
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
			miquels@drinkel.ow.org
			miquels@xs4all.nl
			miquels@htsa.hva.nl
			(In preferred order, one of these should work!)
Since 1997
Jukka Lahtinen, walker@clinet.fi
		walker@megabaud.fi

- Somewhere in middle 1991
	Made first version of Minicom, based on a not-yet-finished
	window library of Fred van Kempen. Used Non blocking IO
	patches to the kernel for asynchronous IO. Used lots of
	CPU time. Ran under my version of Minix only.
	Decided later to write my own window routines.
	Did away with non blocking IO, started to use a separate
	process for the IO from keyboard to modem.
	Added color routines, perfected communication between
	"keyserv" and minicom.
	Got it running under BSD.

- Februari, 1992.
	Posted Minix version 1.2 to comp.os.minix. Got some feedback ;
	it even ran under Coherent. Changed keyserv to communicate
	with minicom through pipes. Changed some menu's and command
	line interface. Ported it to Sysv and Linux. Changed the
	configuration file to ASCII. Added redialing.

- June, 1992.
	Posted version 1.3 to comp.os.minix.
	Did not seem to work under Linux. Added ~NOECHONL to routines
	in sysdep1.c. Added special Linux case hard coded escape
	sequence for color. Found bug in window.c:wscroll. In full
	screen mode insert line / delete line did not work OK.
	Found bug in window.c:wdelchar. Character under the cursor
	was not correctly deleted. Found bug in keyserv: when running
	an external command (up/download, runscript) and ^A or some
	ALT combination was pressed, keyserv would send too many
	ACK signals back so that minicom would be killed. Now call
	m_flush(0) in ipc.c:keyserv before re-starting keyserv.
	(Posix signal interface could solve this ; however, a lot of
	systems don't have that including Minix 1.5).
	Changed DCD handling ; minicom first tried to find out for 
	itself it the OS and modem supported the DCD line. Now it's
	a configuration option in "modem and dialing".
	Found bug in keyserv.c for Coherent: used #ifdef COHERENT
	instead of _COHERENT.

Sun, Jun 21 1992
	Posted diffs for 1.3 -> 1.3.2

Juli, 1992.
	Got a 386, so installed Linux. Of course, the first thing to do
	(after getting X up :-) was to work on minicom. Now ISIG is on
	when running up/download protocols and runscript, so that you
	can interrupt them. Removed flushing from ipc.c, now the bug with
	windows not getting deleted is solved. Added nice sound effect
	for Linux when connected and when up/download is ready.
	Removed bugs with scroll regions in both vt100.c and window.c.
	ALT key now works under Linux.

March, 1993.
	Been working on new version of minicom that does not use the
	keyserv process on systems with select, has sz/rz builtin,
	has new configuration files and so on. However, this is a
	_big_ project. So I decided to give the 'old' minicom 1.3.2
	a revision because people have been complaining about bugs some
	time. This revision is only tested under Linux and Minix: be warned.

April, 1993.
	Put a beta version of minicom 1.4 up for ftp. Changes made
	_after_ this are:
	Corrected documentation for the new configuration with
	Makefile and config.h. Changed internals of vt100.c and
	window.c so that window.c now handles the translation of
	IBM characters to normal characters, if needed. Can use IBM
	characters in windows now (status line, help window).

August, 1993.
	Changed minicom to use the select() system call, if present.
	The keyserv process is no longer needed for such systems.
	Fixed some bugs in the vt100 emulation (still not complete,
	and never will be..) so that it does not crash anymore.
	Fixed other bugs. Minicom should be pretty stable now.
	'Modulized' the window.c and vt100.c, so that they can be
	used for some other project (can you say: ANSI-BBS?).
	Version number bumped up to 1.5.

October, 1993.
	Added local echo and multiple dial strings, both can be set
	in the dialing directory. Changed the wgets() function to
	allow longer lines to be editted (now scrolls).
	Added a scroll back buffer (yeah!).
	Fixed bug in m_dtrtoggle: dtr never got set high again.. How
	could this ever have worked?? Put it up for ftp as version 1.5b.

November, 1993.
	Fixed bug in ANSI emulation (reset ESC-[m would not set colors to
	white on black). Added 'current' speed in dial menu.

December, 1993.
	Fixed bug in dialing directory. Made minicom screen-size aware in
	more places. Online time keeps running during scripts and up/down
	load. Fixed resize code (you cannow resize minicom in an xterm).
	Changed version number to 1.60 - note the omission of the letter.

Januari, 1994.
	Got report that after up/download RTS sometimes is low. Enabled
	it specifically in sysdep1.c - hope it helps? Wrote a manual page
	for runscript - finally! Fixed a few bugs in runscript - now it
	even works :-).

Februari, 1994.
	Got rid of bugs due to the double level of buffering in wkeys.c
	Added auto check for Meta-key mode on the console (ESC-X, etc).
	Added vt100 line character set emulation. Added dial-a-list.
	Zmodem auto-download.

October, 1994
	Added the customizable colors and macro patches. Support for
	terminals with a status line. Fixed bug in ANSI emulation
	(instead of ANSI emulated VT100, hmm). Support for alternate
	character set if termcap provides it. Vt100 insert mode. Bug fixes.

November, 1994
	Complete VT102 emulation (tested with vttest). Ported to SCO.
	Runscript fixes. Made minicom drop root privs whenever possible.
	Minicom can send NUL (\0 or ^@) characters now.

Januari, 1995
	Fixed ALT key, now listen to either 8th bit or ESC, not both.
	Deleted all Minix stuff, including the Minix terminal emul.
	Minicom is so big now, it won't compile on Minix or Coh3 anyway.
	Added PD-zmodem "lszrz0.12a" to the minicom distribution.

Februari, 1995
	Added complete termcap files into the termcap subdirectory.
	Official release of 1.70 since 1.69 has proved itself stable.

May, 1995
	Added :am: to linux termcap entry. Added changes for variable
	history size buffer (Mark Rejhon <mdrejhon@magi.com>). Patches
	for DG/UX (Dario_Ballabio@milano.europe.dg.com). Fixed color
	save problem. Added a setuid() here and there. Garbled .dialdir
	files are no longer deleted. '-m and -M flags. Only write
	.dialdir when changed. Version 1.71.

Juli, 1995
	Fixed termcap a bit. Added terminal type to dialdir. Added "-p"
	flag. Fixed null arguments in escape sequences (for CompuServe).

August, 1995
	Rewrote terminal emulation (numerical arguments) a bit to be
	more generic. Put in some of the SunOS patches (DTR handling).

September, 1995
	Added some patches for Minix back in. The "real ANSI" ACK compiler
	can't deduce prototypes from K&R declarations, but I'm not
	going to add 100 prototypes for one stupid compiler.
	Added -D_DCDFLOW for systems that have to have hardware
	handshaking turned off when DCD is low (FreeBSD, SunOS).

Januari, 1996
	Fixed security hole in rwconf.c. Made debian package. 1.73-1.

Januari, 1996
	Fixed rwconf.c. Added drop_all_privs(). Released minicom 1.74.

March, 1996.
	Added ascii-xfr
	Added patch from "T.E.Dickey" <dickey@clark.net> color initialization
	Added patches for FreeBSD

June, 1996
	Added some minor patches. Released 1.75.


Spring 1997	
	Jukka Lahtinen, walker@clinet.fi
			walker@megabaud.fi
	saw that Minicom was a good program, but lacked character conversion
	tables and a logfile, so decided to work on them myself..

June, 1997
	Added logging of connects and disconnects to $HOME/minicom.log,
	added the last login time & date and login count to the phone dir
	Made the DTR drop time adjustable, because my modem needs DTR
	to be down more than just 1 second before it drops the carrier.

September, 1997
	Added user-configurable character conversion tables to the
	Screen and keyboard menu. Conversion tables .mciso, .mcpc8 and 
	.mcsf7 included in the main directory for no conversion, pc8 and
	sf7 character sets, respectively.
	Environment variable TERMLIN for runscript to tell the actual terminal
	lines (LINES - 1 if you use the status line, same as LINES if you 
	don't)
	Added logging of sz/rz file transfers.
	Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the wrong login script to run.
	Miquel said he was too busy to go on with minicom.
	
October, 1997
	Changed the DTE speed from int to long. Now it should also work on
	modems faster than 32768 bps.
	Added some patches that Miquel had made during the last year.

November, 1997
	Released 1.78

January, 1998
	Fixed a memory freeing bug when closing the history window
	(thanks to dickey@clark.net)
	Added last login date & time to the dialing window
	Patchlevel 1.78.2

February-March, 1998
	Merged changes made by robotti@erols.com (Kent Robotti) to his
	version 1.78-s.
	Added and enhanced the filename selection window written by
	Hans Georg Keller (WINNIE@hanse.antar.com).
	Released 1.79
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br) internationalized 
	the program and translated the strings to Brazilian Portuguese.
	Jukka did the Finnish translations.
	Released 1.80.1
	Added multiple device support by Jim Seymour
	(jseymour@jimsun.LinxNet.com)
	Fixed some documentation and sent another packet of 1.80.1 to
	the world..

April 1998
	Replaced the filename selection window with a better one written by
	Jim Seymour
	Changed the dialing function to start searching for dial tags from
	the highlighted entry, instead of the beginning of the list, when
	the highlighted one is not tagged. So that now, if entries 1, 2 and 5
	are tagged, and the highlight cursor is on entry number 3, the program
	dials entry 5 first, not entry 1.
	Some fixes to the chartab.h table
	Released 1.81

May 1998
	Applied a patch by Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) to avoid
	string overflows
	Released 1.81.1

June 1998
	- Added call duration to the "Gone offline" log message.  
	- If the program reads an old version of the dialing directory
	(one with shorter entry length than the current version), it backs
	up the old one, with the entry length added as a suffix to the
	name.
	- fix for sig11 when the statusline is not used (vlk@st.simbirsk.su)

July 1998
	- command line option "-C filename" added to start capturing at
	program startup (kubota@debian.or.jp)
	- the character conversion tables are now also used when writing the
	capture file, unless you unset the capture convert option
	- if you try dialing from the dial directory while you are online,
	you'll get an error message (if you have the DCD setting on)
	- added command line option "-S script" to run the named script at
	program startup (before dialing the entry you may have specified 
	with the -d option)
	- added log command to runscript. Now you can write text from
	your scripts with the command "log this is the log entry"
	- y2k fix: the date is written in the phone directory and the log file
	with 4 numbers in the year
	- Japanese translations by Tomohiro Kubota (kubota@debian.or.jp)
	- fixed a minor bug that the security fixes for 1.81.1 had caused:
	the file browser didn't always get some strings properly initialized,
	so the directory name at the top of the browser window wasn't shown
	correctly and neither did the first directory change work right
	- changed the function name 'tell' to 'mc_tell' to avoid conflict with
	a system function on some systems

August 1998
	- some fixes for 'half-character' display troubles and formatted
	output with multibyte character languages such as Japanese. (kubota)
	- default value for control key changed back to ^A from Escape(meta)
	- added notations \u for username and \p for password in the
	macro strings. If the \ character is needed, it must be keyed in 
	double (as \\).
	- the included conversion tables in the tables directory have been
	renamed from .mc* to mc.* 
	- citation facility added to the scrollback buffer, and a bug in
	the history search fixed (kubota)
	- French (fr) translations by Gal Quri (gqueri@mail.dotcom.fr) 

September 1998
	- Polish (pl) translations by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
	(misiek@debian.eu.org)

	- released 1.82