Hi,

the BinkleyTerm XE developers team is pleased to announce the fifth Gamma
release of BT-XE, which will offer you a truckload of fixes, improvements
and new, amazing features. To name only a few:

-   A quite severe EMSI bug has been fixed.

-   Completely new and improved screen layout, including:

    .   A newly designed comprehensive current session statistics window
        will pop up during connects, providing information on the system
        connected to, names and number of files, current/left time, volume
        and percentage. The graphical progress bars have been doubled in
        their resolution and can use user defined characters now.

    .   Two new windows/views of extensive history/call statistics including
        several sorted Top Caller/Called Lists, etc. are now accessible from
        the mailer screen.
        Similar information even can be posted by the mailer as messages to
        the SysOp in netmail or echomail.

    .   An optional new modem monitoring window has been added so you can
        watch which commands are being really sent to the modem and what it
        answers to them.

    .   A new interactive current event setup/change window is accessible
        from the mailer screen on key press.

    .   Improved name/address input boxes will optionally show extended
        target address information on demand.

    .   User-configurable colouring/highlighting of displayed recent activity
        window strings.

    .   Dropped old fullscreen terminal mode. There's a VERY simple windowed
        terminal mode now, but most things aren't working yet.
        This is OK to configure your modem, but you will need something else
        to call a BBS and do up/downloads.

-   Optional new V7+ nodelist support, that is a good basis for future
    enhancements, like ,U,Txy support etc. - to make use of V7+ feature you
    you will need a nodelist compiler capable of generating V7+ nodelists.
    Most likely the next FastList release will support the V7+ nodelist format.

-   Extended cFos support (OS/2 versions only).

-   Improved pipe- and PM-support for OS/2. Now you can run BTXE even
    without the OS/2 Presentation Manager (again).

-   New CallBack feature and improved CallerID-detection/mapping.

-   Interactive / manual file skipping during connect now possible.

-   Support for private node outbound directory.
    All stuff you copy in there will be transmitted to this node.

Instead of posting the whole quite long list here, we suggest to grab a
copy of the distribution archives and have a look for yourself. Beneath all
these improvements the range of available versions now includes:

-   New Windows/NT version.
    Please note that this one still is regarded somewhat beta, and most
    likely will not run under Windows/95.

-   New overlayed DOS versions will work with less than 400k of free memory!

Moreover, the original BinkleyTerm documentation files have been rewritten
and updated to reflect the state of current BT-XE versions and development.
As per now the new documentation currently is only available in German
language, but the English one will follow "when it is ready" ;-) The new docs
come as preformatted, ready to print text files and also in OS/2 .INF format.

We like to thank all users, beta testers and the documentation team, who
all helped us with their bug reports, suggestions and work.

    Enjoy! :-)

