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update to 1.8.4; document changes from previous forks
author Carl Byington <carl@five-ten-sg.com>
date Tue, 08 Jul 2014 11:10:05 -0700
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64 This fork extends previous connectbot projects in two ways. It includes 64 This fork extends previous connectbot projects in two ways. It includes
65 tn5250 terminal emulation, in addition to the previous vt320 terminal 65 tn5250 terminal emulation, in addition to the previous vt320 terminal
66 emulation. It also contains hooks for a separate monitoring process 66 emulation. It also contains hooks for a separate monitoring process
67 that has access to some of the internal operations in this emulator. 67 that has access to some of the internal operations in this emulator.
68 </para> 68 </para>
69 </refsect1>
70
71 <refsect1 id='changes.1'>
72 <title>Changes from previous Connectbots</title>
73 <itemizedlist>
74 <para>
75 The soft function keypad can generate all 24 function keys
76 for 5250 emulation. A hardware button can be configured to
77 display that function keypad.
78 </para>
79
80 <para>
81 A deployment.connections text file is read (and deleted) on
82 startup. This may be used to preconfigure the global options
83 and to create an initial set of host connections.
84 </para>
85
86 <para>
87 The font sizes are now kept with one decimal point, and font
88 size changes are done by scaling by a constant factor of 1.1,
89 rather than the linear additive 2 point factor.
90 </para>
91 </itemizedlist>
69 </refsect1> 92 </refsect1>
70 93
71 <refsect1 id='monitor.1'> 94 <refsect1 id='monitor.1'>
72 <title>Terminal Monitor</title> 95 <title>Terminal Monitor</title>
73 <para> 96 <para>