Hi,

The BinkleyTerm XE developers team is pleased to announce that we have
decided to release the source code of XR6 (aka Beta-XH2) and all of the
following betas and gammas.

This does NOT mean, that we are stopping development or closing the team.

The only change: Everyone can get the sources, compile his own BinkleyTerm if
he prefers and make his own changes. You are still highly encouraged to join
the team, if you want to help make BinkleyTerm XE better. But if you prefer,
you can also send your changes to a team member (see team.lst in current
source tree) and ask him to incorporate them.

When you decide to join the team you will have the following advantages:

- you are connected to the developers discussion area and file echos,
- you receive the diffs of all other developers and
- you can submit changes directly.

As we are planning a LOT of BIG changes - especially structural ones, because
Binks source gets more and more complex -, you should really consider joining
the team if you want to make changes other than little bug fixes.

BTW: You are definitely NOT encouraged to create your own BinkleyTerm and
keep your changes for yourself, or even release yet another BinkleyTerm.
Also please do NOT spread your self-compiled versions - but if you do, add a
VERY, VERY BIG note telling the users that this is not an official release and
to NOT send any bug reports to us as we really can't support your version.

As a consequence of the release of the sources, all future betas will also be
publicly available so everyone who is brave enough can test them and report
possible bugs. We hope that this also will help improve stability and help
find new bugs sooner.

To distribute the sources and betas, we have several file areas. Everyone who
wants to receive the files via these file echos is free to find someone who
is already connected to them.

You can also simply request them at the usual places. There will be no magics
for the sources or the betas, but we will use the following naming scheme for
the filenames: bWHT?VER.rar where WHT is the OS ('DOS', 'OS2', 'W32') or 'SRC'
for sources, ? is the compiler ('B'=Borland, 'M'=M$, 'V'=VAC++, 'W'=Watcom)
or '_' for sources and VER is the version (i.e. XH2).

Yet another way to get the files and information is in the internet from
http://btxe.uue.org/.


    Thanks for your attention.

