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  Monday March 25, 1991.

  Exis Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, known for their communications software
  products, announced that version 3.15 of their Telix modem communications
  software will be released on Tuesday, April 2nd, 1991.

  "The main purpose of the 3.15 release is not to introduce new features,"
  said Colin Sampaleanu, manager of Exis, "but rather to fix a few bugs, to
  allow us to make some changes to the documentation needed to account for
  changes in our overseas distribution, and to update our order forms to
  allow for the new GST value-added tax on sales in Canada. We are still hard
  at work on our next major update of Telix, and most people presently using
  Telix 3.12 will not want or need to upgrade to Telix 3.15."

  Jeff Woods of the Telix technical support department also stated that
  support will also be a focus of the 3.15 release. "We now have printed
  manuals available, as well as a Telix/modem configuration program to aid
  users in installing Telix". Woods estimated that over 50 percent of calls
  to the tech line could be eliminated by these new user aids, thus saving
  added costs to the users in support.

  Telix list price remains unchanged at $US 39 or $CDN 44, plus applicable
  taxes and shipping. Telix may be ordered by calling Exis at (416)-289-4641,
  or online via modem by calling EXIS's computer Bulletin Board System, at
  (416)-439-9399. The BBS supports baud rates from 300 baud through most
  high speed standards including v.32 and HST modulations. A fully working
  evaluation version of Telix 3.15 is also available.

  A file listing several new features in Telix 3.15 and all bugs fixed is
  available upon request.

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  A Comprehensive List New Features and Bug Fixes in Telix 3.15:

     o When  editing a dialing directory entry you may now use Tab and Shift-
       Tab to  move up and down in the list of items, instead of being forced
       to go forwards only.

     o The  status line  may be  cycled on/off directly from Terminal mode by
       pressing Alt-8.

     o BRANDTLX  previously needed about 320k free memory to run, which was a
       lot more  than Telix  itself needs.  It should  now run  in much  less
       memory, generally less than 100k free.

     o In  an attempt  to help  users debugging  SALT scripts,  4  predefined
       'macros' or variables have been set up in CS, the script compiler. The
       word __LINE__  will be  replaced in  the compiled script by an integer
       constant representing  the current line number in the script. __FILE__
       will be  replaced by  a string  constant holding the current filename.
       __DATE__ and  __TIME__ will  be replaced  by string  constants of  the
       current date  and time.  So for  example,  a  script  could  have  the
       sequence:

               printsc ( "This is file " );
               printsc ( __FILE__ );
               prints ( " and line number " );
               printn ( __LINE__ );

       which if compiling TEST.SLT would print something like:

               This is file TEST.SLT and line number xx

        where 'xx'  is the  line number  that __LINE__ occurred on. Note that
       these macros  get replaced  by whatever  they represent right as CS is
       compiling the script file, Telix itself knows nothing about them.

     o When  CTS/RTS hardware  handshaking is on by default, but the CTS line
       is low  at Telix  start-up, Telix  will now  give a  message  to  that
       effect, while  waiting up  to 10  seconds for  the signal  to come on.
       During this time the user may press Space to continue with handshaking
       on anyway, or any other key to continue with it off.

     o In  VT-102/ANSI, if  the remote  system defined a scrolling region and
       the cursor  was outside of this region, text in scrolling region would
       scroll on a received Line Feed.

     o Some  new keys  (e.g. Alt-\)  available with  enhanced  keyboard  were
       recognized by  Telix, but  Telix could  not display  their  names  (it
       showed only a blank). All show properly now.

     o On exit from Telix the border is now reset to black.



     o If  there was  a status  line at  the top  of the  screen and  it  was
       removed, Telix would lose the use of that line.

     o The  SALT 'run'  function with  a parameter of 1 (pause and wait for a
       keypress) would not always properly display the prompt.

     o Destructive/Non-Destructive  Backspace key setting can now be saved to
       disk.

     o The 'frename' script function would move file being renamed to current
       directory, if it was in another directory on the same drive.

     o Telix  now treats color codes in Avatar exactly as described in George
       Stanislav's Avatar  specs. Note  that Telix only supports Avatar Level
       0, not Level 1...

     o The inkey() and inkeyw() SALT functions returned negative values for a
       few keys (such as Alt-0).

     o On a few individual PCs that we know of, Telix's routines to detect an
       enhanced keyboard  BIOS thought that there was one, when there wasn't,
       leading to  very strange  results. This  was  more  likely  caused  by
       misbehaving keyboard  related resident  programs, rather  than a Telix
       bug. If the keyboard is thus completely unrecognized by Telix, the way
       to get  Telix running  is to add the line 'ENHKB=OFF" in the TELIX.CNF
       file (or  change the existing line with this parameter). Telix now has
       this option off by default.

     o In  ANSI or  VT102 mode,  the escape  code 'ESC [ L', which is used to
       scroll lines  down, would  sometimes clear  the  first  or  first  few
       entries in  the translate  table on  systems running  in 43 or 50 line
       mode.

     o The  Host Mode Remote Shell did not work properly on some systems. The
       symptom is the shell just exiting as soon as it was entered.

     o Some  time ago code was added to emulate (for conformity) a bug in the
       MS-DOS ANSI.SYS  driver in Telix's own ANSI terminal, but the new code
       slightly messed  up VT-102  terminal. The  ESC[J and  ESC[J1  terminal
       escape sequences would reset part of the current line to Gray on Black
       instead of the proper default colors.

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         (416)-289-4641 voice, (416)-289-4645 FAX, (416)-439-9399 BBS

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