General Release Notes
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Multiview Mascot

Problem with Multiview Mascot: If you are running a Mascot session on
the server, and paste a large amount of text (more than about 100 
chars) from the clipboard to TelStar, Mascot locks up completely.
You can perform the same operation running the same program
without Mascot, and get normal operation.

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SCO 3.2v4.2

Setting environment variables doesn't seem to work on SCO 3.2v4.2, even
though the 'handshake' completes correctly. If anyone knows why, I'd
like to be informed.

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ANSI & CUSTOM SEQUENCES

Ansi/vt100 code sequences that start with "ESC[?" and "ESC[=" seem to
be implementation-specific or custom implementations. Certainly I've
found no documentation delineating any standards for any of these
sequences. If anyone can point any out, I'd appreciate it.

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ANSI & COLOR

The Ansi spec seems to assume that only 8 colours are available for
foreground and background. Because Windows doesn't impose those
limitations, I've expanded the spec. See term.txt for details.
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Version Information
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Current Version is 1.2

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97-12-08	TelStar Version 1.0 released.
98-02-04	TelStar Version 1.1 released.
98-03-19	TelStar Version 1.2 released.


Changes For 1.1
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When the window is resized, the window center is maintained instead of
the top left corner. This seems to be more useable.
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Made the contact info in HELP/CONTACT US into active buttons, i.e. email
button calls up your mail program, and web button calls up your browser.
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Added init capability to term types. Contents of file init_xxxxx are
'sent' to your terminal immediately after connection is established.
Useful for programming function keys, default colors, etc.

Please note that this is an interim fix. The next major release will
use an INI file to specify init strings, either directly or by 
specifying a file name.
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term_vt100.dll was returning wrong string in init structure.
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Added custom settings to the SETTINGS program on a per-term-type basis.
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Added Color Preferences settings to The SETTINGS program.
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Changes for 1.2
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Fixed a bug in aux print that prevented it from working on some systems.
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Added adjustable screen size capability.
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Added label line support.
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VT100 emulation extensively reworked. Seems that unix uses an entirely different
set of control sequences for vt100 than it does for ansi.
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VT100 now supports proper ANSI character set.
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Added ability to set screen size and  terminal type through command-line options.
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DIM color now calculated based of foregound and background rather than just
assigning gray.
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