Announcing minicom 1.78A short summary of what minicom is:Minicom is a communications program that resembles the MSDOS Telixsomewhat. It has a dialing directory, color, full ANSI and VT100emulation, an (external) scripting language and more.Tested platforms:Linux 2.0.30Supported but untested (maybe needs a little tweaking):DGUX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Coherent, HP/UX, SysVR4, Apollo Domain/OS, SunOS, SCO.New in minicom 1.78:- A logfile is kept of connects, disconnects and file transfers.When you dial a number from the phone directory and the other end answers,the connect string from the modem is written to the logfile with the entryname and phone number. When the carrier drops, the text "Offline" is written.The command line of file transfers are also written. The file names and sizesare taken from the external protocol driver output lines beginning with "Sending", "Receiving" and "Bytes". I tested this with rz and sz.All output lines in the logfile are preceded with the system date and time.If you want to disable logging, you may comment out the LOGFILE macro in config.h and recompile the program. If you don't want to compile it, andyou don't care about the logfile, you may create an empty file "minicom.log" in your home directory with no write permissions.- The date and time of the latest call, and a call counter is stored for each phone directory entry. They are shown in the phone dir instead ofsome things I found less interesting, like the terminal emulation settingand serial port parameters.- The DTR drop time with the hangup command is now adjustable. Some modemsneed DTR to be down more than just one second before they hang up.- Character conversion tables for calling systems that use a character setdifferent from your computer. You may define a conversion table for each phone directory entry, and the defined table will be loaded when you call that entry, before running the login script. If no table is defined in thephone dir, the table is not changed. Tables .mciso, .mcpc8 and .mcsf7 areincluded to be used when calling systems that use iso-8859-1, pc characterset and the Finnish sf7 coding, respectively. The .mciso actually doesn'tconvert anything. Copy the tables to your home directory. There is noactual restriction of the filenames for the conversion tables (except thatit shouldn't be longer than 16 characters), I just began them all with .mcto keep them together in the ls listings.- Added environment variable TERMLIN for runscript. It is the number oflines on the terminal screen. (That is, LINES - 1 if you use the statusline,same as LINES if you don't.)- Fixed a bug that caused runscript to always run the login script of thefirst number dialed when several entries were tagged for dialing, regardlesswhich one of them answered.- Changed the DTE speed from int to long. Now it should also work on modems faster than 32768 bps.Jukka Lahtinen, walker@clinet.fi