CRT 3.1 (Official) -- July 3, 2000 Copyright (C) 1995-2000 by Van Dyke Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Description ----------- CRT is a 32-bit terminal emulator designed for Internet and intranet use with support for both the telnet and rlogin protocols. CRT includes a 30 day try-before-you-buy evaluation license for the fully functional application. CRT is easy to use and extremely customizable. Remote sites can be accessed easily by just entering a hostname. CRT is ideal for connecting to remote systems running UNIX and VMS as well as the many BBS's and databases that are now available via the Internet. CRT delivers quality VT100, VT102, VT220, Linux, SCOANSI and ANSI terminal emulations. All of CRT's emulations support ANSI color. Some of CRT's new features include reorganized session preferences for easier access, with folders to manage hundreds of sessions. ActiveX scripting support lets you use VBScript and other scripting languages to control CRT connections, window behavior, and more. Other popular features include named sessions, auto login, printing, ZModem file transfer, emacs mode, and SOCKS firewall support. If you have any questions, please visit our web site at http://www.vandyke.com or, send e-mail to crt-questions@vandyke.com. Notes ----- If you have a version of CRT previous to CRT 3.0 installed, it is highly recommended that you install CRT 3.1 to a new directory rather than an existing CRT directory. The recommended directory is: "C:\Program files\CRT 3.0" By default, CRT 3.1 stores all settings and sessions in: "C:\Program files\CRT 3.0\Config" CRT 3.1 includes online help in the new Microsoft HTML Help format. In order to view the new online help, Internet Explorer 3.0 or newer must be installed. If you would prefer to have online help in the Windows 95 help format, please send e-mail to support@vandyke.com . Please include "CRT 3.1 Help Files" on the subject line of your\ e-mail message. If you have purchased a CRT license since July 1, 1998, your current license key will work in this release. Upgrade pricing is available for earlier licenses at http://www.vandyke.com/order CRT 3.1 is not available for Windows 3.1. CRT 3.1 supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000. Reporting Bugs -------------- If you experience an uncaught exception, General Protection Fault (GPF), or something you believe is a bug, please send e-mail to crt-bugs@vandyke.com . Please do not assume someone else will report it. We will try to resolve reported bugs as quickly as possible. However, we can't resolve bugs that are not reported. Please describe the problem in as much detail as possible. In your e-mail message, please include the following information: The version of CRT (as shown in the About dialog box) The TCP/IP package and version The operating system and version Registration ------------ For information on registration, please visit http://www.vandyke.com Changes in CRT 3.1 (Official) ----------------------------- There have been no changes or bug fixes since beta 4. Changes in CRT 3.1 (beta 4) --------------------------- Bug fixes: - When there was a margin at the bottom of the terminal window, occasionally the background would not be properly filled. - If the user's name or company name included the ampersand character (&), it was displayed as two ampersands (&&) in the About box. - Due to a rounding error, it was possible for the point size of a terminal font or printer font to be displayed incorrectly. Changes in CRT 3.1 (beta 3) --------------------------- Changes: - Under Windows 2000, CRT now defaults to the Application data directory for storing configuration files. - In serial, changed the inter-character timeout from 10 to 4. The previous value did not perform well for interactive applications when a modem was not involved. - If a user pastes, it is now treated as if it was typed in. In particular, if "Scroll to bottom on keypress" is on, the behavior is identical whether it is an actual keypress or a paste. Bug fixes: - When CRT was maximized, the text area was scrolled back and there was a margin without text at the bottom, the background would not be properly filled. - When editing the Default Session Settings in the Global Options dialog, under certain circumstances it was possible to specify a hostname. This resulted in CRT connecting to that same host every time CRT was started. - VT220 emulation did not honor DECCOLM sequence containing a spurious semicolon (as a genuine VT220 does). - If a session path was specifed on the command line and it contained forward slashes (/), the name was not displayed correctly in the Session Options dialog. - On occasion, rapid pasting of data could result in a buffer overflow which would cause CRT to GPF. - CRT now checks the maximum columns and scrollback when initializing session settings in case the global and session settings are out of sync. If the session setting is greater than the global setting, a GPF could result. - In telnet kludge mode, CRT could become non-responsive if a backspace was received with telnet echo off. Under normal circumstances, a user would not experience this problem. Changes in CRT 3.1 (beta 2) --------------------------- Changes: - The Find dialog now defaults to searching up. - Improved error message when winsock initialization fails. - Improved error message when rlogin fails to connect because the user's firewall has not bound the out going connection to a privileged port. Bug fixes: - Under Windows NT 4.0sp6 or Windows 2000, with the option "Close on Disconnect" on, occasionally, the CRT window would close, but the CRT.exe would not exit. - The /POS command line option was being ignored. - In telnet, when connecting to CompuServe, typing in login id was not echoed until return was sent. - The option "Show cursor position" was on both the general and appearance options page. It has been removed from the general page. Changes in CRT 3.1 (beta 1) --------------------------- New features: - Added Linux terminal and keyboard emulation. Changes: - Added a check box in Global Options dialog to enable or disable the row/column indicator in the status bar. - The version, name, company, and serial number in the About dialog can now be selected and copied to the clipboard. - In Global Options, the label "Character paste delay" was changed to "Character send delay". Bug fixes: - A significant rewrite of ZModem to be more compatible with wider variety of ZModem versions. These changes should eliminate occasional stalling and problems with cancel on some systems. - Major revision of serial and TAPI support to correct a number of problems including slow performance on some systems. - Attempting to open a URL that was immediately followed by a comma or colon failed. - The print-related file menu options are now disabled if a default printers is not defined. - When "Synchronize viewable columns" was off and the number of columns was wider than the screen, the initial window width was not properly initialized. - The row/column indicator in the status bar was not updated after displaying a tab received from the remote system. - If the user cancelled a login while a simple expect/send script was running and then connected to another session that didn't have a login script, the original script would continue to run. - For multi-line pastes, the optional line delay would be applied after each character. What's New in CRT 3.0 --------------------- - ActiveX scripting support allows use of mulitple scripting languages include VBScript, JScript, and PerlScript. - SCOANSI terminal and keyboard emulation. - Session keyboard mapping now supports any key combination - not just function keys - without the need for an external keymap file. - Printing options can be set globally or by session. - The connect dialog has been completely redone. It now supports folders. Operations in the connect dialog are available from both the toolbar and the context menu. - Desktop shortcuts can be quickly created from the connect dialog. - A new "Auto Session" option allows you to specify the session to use when CRT starts up. - The session and global options have been reorganized for easier access. - All settings are stored in a common location. Previous to 3.0, global settings were stored in the registry and session settings were stored in CRT.cfg. - Full screen mode is now supported. Use Alt+Enter to switch to and from full screen mode. - New global options include: Automatic reconnect Specify delay between characters on paste (or ASCII send) Specify delay between lines on paste (or ASCII send) The number of recent sessions in the File menu (up to 9) The maximum number of terminal columns (up to 512) Which web browser is used with "Open URL" Whether DDE is used to start the web browser - The scrollback buffer maximum has been increased from 9999 to 32000. In addition, the scrolling performance as new data is received has been significantly increased. CRT Features ------------ - Named session allows the user to have different preferences for different hosts. - Simple mechanism for automating logins. - An optional chat window provides an editable type-ahead buffer. - Support for rlogin and telnet protocols: Telnet supports Window Size Change (NAWS) Telnet supports Local Flow Control (LFLOW) - Quality VT100, VT102, VT220, Linux, SCOANSI and ANSI emulation, including: VT line drawing Support for bold, underline, and reverse attributes Double width and double height fonts 80/132 column switching VT100 and VT220 keyboard emulation Optional ANSI color Xterm extensions for mouse support and changing title bar - SOCKS firewall support (telnet only). - Generic telnet proxy firewall support. - ZModem file transfer (upload and download). - Printing: auto print, selection, and screen. - User-configurable number of rows and columns. - User-defined foreground, background, and bold colors. - User-defined number of savelines (scroll back). - User-defined keymaps. - User-defined word delimiter characters for double click. - Emacs mode maps Alt+ to send Esc+. - Support for use from the command line or web browsers. - Copy and paste, including an "auto copy" option. - A session can be logged to a file. - Easy setup/install. All inquiries should be directed to: Van Dyke Technologies 4848 Tramway Ridge Dr, NE Suite 101 Albuquerque, NM 87111 USA E-mail: support@vandyke.com