
TM4BETA.ZIP     28 May 1993
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This will be a short beta from 28 May to 10 June. Telemate 4.11 is
scheduled to release on 15 June, by then we should have received the AV
verification number from PKWare.

You can obtain the beta from Land of the Gypsy (503)297-0626. The file
name is TM4BETA.ZIP (309K). Please report any problem in the Telemate
FidoEcho or the RIME RelayNet Telemate conference to 'WINFRED HU'.

Please DO NOT DISTRIBUTE THIS BETA because of its short life.


Installing TM4BETA
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To install TM4BETA, (assuming you have Telemate 4.00)

 1. backup your TM.CFG (better yet: backup your Telemate directory)
 2. copy all files in TM4BETA.ZIP to your Telemate directory
 3. run "UPGRADE TM.CFG" to upgrade your TM.CFG, there are two changes:
    a) Version="4.11"
    b) VideoCache=Off

And you are ready to run TM4BETA. There is no changes in the phone
directory format.


Beta testing
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TM4BETA contains the following additions:

 . multiple upload directories
 . multiple download directories
 . batch upload status
 . batch Zmodem download status (if remote protocol drivers transmit the
   information, such drivers include DSZ and GSZ)
 . Zmodem recovery with date check should be fixed, previously it may
   not recover even if the date check pass
 . high IRQ support, run TMINST.EXE to select IRQ number and interrupt
   number

 . hot key to the screen saver [Alt `]
 . add remaining transfer time in the screen saver
 . Video Cache option which update the screen every several lines (best
   for Windows, OS/2 or slower machine with high speed modem)
 . give up timeslice to OS/2 and Windows directly if not downloading
 . remove "phantom drive" from the file directory dialog
 . VGA 40 line screen height
 . SET QUOTESTRING and QUERY QUOTESTRING in TMScript
 . HOST.SCR is modified to adopt multiple directories. However, only
   the first directory is used.

I'd appreciate some intense testing on the first group. If you encounter
a problem, please let me know how to reproduce it.


Explanation
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Most features do not need much explanation, except multiple upload
direcotries and multiple download directories:

 Ŀ
                                                                 
    Telemate         C:\TM\__________________________________    
    Upload           C:\TM\UL\;C:\QWK\_______________________    
    Download         C:\TM\DL\;C:\QWK\(*.QW?)________________    
    Script           C:\TM\__________________________________    
    Edit             C:\ED\__________________________________    
    View             C:\ED\__________________________________    
    Write            C:\ED\__________________________________    
    Image            C:\TM\__________________________________    
    Log              C:\TM\__________________________________    
    Virtual Memory   C:\_____________________________________    
                                                                 
                 ͻ                Ŀ                
                  OK                  Cancel                 
                 ͼ                                
 

Telemate allows you to define multiple upload directories by adding
';' between the directories. If a file is not found in the first
directory, Telemate will search the second and so on. If the file name
contains wildcard characters, the search will stop when a match is
found. For example, specifying *.* will only upload all the files in
C:\TM\UL\ in the example above.

Multiple download directories can also be defined by adding ';'
between the directories with wildcard between '(' and ')'. In the
example above, *.QW? files will be put into the C:\QWK\ directory and
all other files will be put into the C:\TM\DL\ directory.

(If you can explain it better, please let me know.)


Thank you for beta testing TM4BETA.

Winfred Hu
Author of Telemate

