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hi Matteo !
i did announce the changes of each release.
below the summary since 1.0
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Changes from V1.0 to V1.1alpha1 (Mark, DL4YBG)
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Implemented an interface to the Linux-Kernel-AX25. See file
ax25krnl.doc for details.
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Changes from V1.1alpha1 to V1.1alpha2 (Mark, DL4YBG)
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TNT V1.1alpha1 did not compile with module-xx-patched 2.0.x-kernels or
2.1.x-kernels and the 2.1.22b-ax25-utilities.
Using V1.1alpha2 you can compile and use TNT. It was tested with Kernel
2.0.29 with module-12 and ax25-utilities 2.1.22b.
Thanks to Jonathan, G4KLX and Joerg, DL1BKE for patches. As Rose and Netrom
support needs some restructuring of the code, support for these will follow
later.
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Changes from V1.1alpha2 to V1.1alpha3 (Mark, DL4YBG)
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Some problems, which were found using V1.1alpha2 are now fixed:
- Using TNT command 'QRG' to modify the port data leads to corruption
of the listen structure. Now only the display of the data is allowed,
data is fetched on startup like before from /etc/ax25/axports.
- It was not possible to get data from a connected DPBox (only a few frames
were sent, then no data flow anymore). Some status information about the
connection was not given to DPBox.
- Using 'XCONNECT' leads to a corruption of the listen structure.
- Changing the callsign on channel 0 (unproto channel) leads to a corruption
of the listen structure and did not work correctly.
Now changing the callsign on channel 0 with 'I' will only update the
unproto source callsign. If you use 'MYCALL' on channel 0, the callsigns
of all channels will be changed.
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Changes From V1.1alpha3 to V1.1alpha13 (Matthias, WS1LS)
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I build in many features known from other Packet-Programms. For additional
information take a look in ../.others/README.
- correction of the MD2-password creation, for using with dpbox.
- build in new remote-command "//act" for showing the last sysop-activity.
- statusinformation in rx and tx-file transfer got additional information,
like remaining time.
- build in new remote-command "//session" to show lifetime of TNT.
- create new macros to complete the new remotecommands:
%a shows last sysopactivity.
%s shows lifetime of TNT.
%m prints a message, which can be set using ":MSG" command
- build in new console-command ":TELL" to send a message to all connected
stations.
NOTE: this command and similar commands, use the "routes.tnt" file, to
get information about the type of station. To avoid sending any things
to a node or a box, please put "N>..." or "B>..." into your routes.tnt.
There is also an additional feature: remotecommands in boxmails or
coming from a node, won't be executed, if there is an entry like
"N>..." or "B>..." in your routes.tnt.
- build in new console-commands ":DA", ":WEG", ":600", ":KLO" and ":GND".
this commands have the same feature like in other packet-prgs (STOP or XP
for example).
this commands will send special information, depending on the content of
a config file, named "telltexte.tnt".
You can put there two informations for each of the console-commands.
the first is a text which will be send to each connected station.
the second is the text, which will be copied to the %m-macro.
(Of course you can avoid to set the macro or to send a text to the connected
stations, just take a look at the example-file).
- there a macros which you can use for (and only for) sending informations to
all connected stations. these macros you can use in the ":TELL" command and
in the telltexte-config file (but here only for the text to all stations, not
for the macro-text).
%n: will print your name
%c: will print your callsign
%k: will print the channelnr.
%t: will print the actual time
%g: will print the control-character $07 for a bell.
%b: same as %g
- user defined quit-text. (with additional macro %l for showing connecttime).
- in order to this, there are now the two remote-commands "//q" which will
send the quit-text and then disconnect, and "//d" which will disconnect
immediately without sending a quit-text.
- build in new remote-command "//onactivity" to set a special text, which will
be send, if there is any sysopactivty. (sysops, be careful now ;-)
- build in new switch ":RXBELL" to kill noisy bells while receiving a file.
- build in chat commands. You can now chat using the normal syntax "//n ..."
addition syntax is using "//msg <call> <text>" to send a text to a connect
station, without knowing the channel-number.
- TNT got soundeffects. You now can hear special songs for different
situations, like connect, disconnects, link failure, //ring, etc.
just take a look at sounds.tnt.
- changed apperance of lower statusline, to show connected stations.
- build in new remote-command "//mh" to show a list of heard stations.
(Of course you can use additional parameter, like a number to show only
a count of entrys, or a searchpattern to show only special entrys).
- fd_struct patch.
- build an install-script to set up an easy installation on systems with
dialog-package installed.
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Changes from V1.1alpha13 to V1.2 (Jonny, DH3MB)
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For more than one and a half year, no new patches or versions appeared from
Mark, so I decided to apply the last two patches from him and also some
patches from me which provide some new features:
- Due to a change in /usr/include/linux/posix_types.h beginning with
Linux Kernel 2.0.32, all appearences of 'struct fd_set' had to be
changed to 'fd_set'. This means that you need Kernel 2.0.32 or
later if you want to compile TNT, or you have to undo these changes.
- TNT did not compile under glibc2 (aka libc6). The #include's had
to be changed, so it will now compile with both libc5 and libc6.
- The configurationfile ~/tnt.ini now may also be named ~/.tntrc.
- Support for Linux-Kernel-AX.25 will be compiled in per default,
the ax25-utils-include-files must reside in /usr/include/ax25.
- When using Kernel-AX.25, a new parameter named 'moni_socket'
may be given in ~/.tntrc. TNT will then not try to open a monitor-socket
(which requires root-privileges), but it will read the monitor
from the given socket. E.g. if tnt sees the line 'moni_socket *:1234'
in ~/.tntrc, it will read the monitor from a local interet-socket on
port 1234.
- New remote-command: Using '//MSG <channel-number>' a QSO partner
is now able to send a message to an other channel. The command
may be abbreviated: '//<channel-number>' works, too. Switch
of this feature using ':SETACC MSG OFF', if you don't like it.
(WS1LS: please notice the changes from alpha3 to alpha13)
- New command: Using '://<remote-command>' you are able to force the
execution of a remote command.
- New command: Using ':CTRLTX <character>' you are able to send a
control-character. E.g. use ':CTRLTX T' to terminate a telnet-connection
on some NOS-systems.
- Changed the behavior of automatically generating answers when a
BayCom-password-request is received: When connecting to a callsign which
has an BayCom-password-entry in pw.tnt, the first 20 lines, which are
received from this call, are scanned for a password-request and - if
a request has been found - the correct answer will be sent back. This
is useful for answering a user-password-request of a BayCom-Mailbox.
However, new versions of the FlexNet node use the
BayCom-password-procedure. Now, if you receive the response of the
FlexNet-PAR-command within the first 20 lines after connecting a FlexNet
node, the lines are interpreted as a password-request and the according
answer is sent back, which does not make sense, of course.
The reason for this misinterpretation is the algorithm for finding
such password-request: Every line is scanned for five numbers
seperated by one or more spaces, and the FlexNet-parameter-list
includes such lines. Due to this the algorithm has been changed: A
line will only be interpreted as a password-request, if it additionally
includes the '>'-sign (Usually, password-requests look liks this:
'DB0IRS> 1 2 3 4 5').
- When sending a file (either using the commands :SEND, :SENDABIN, etc. or
after receiving //SEND, //SENDABIN, etc.) the specified file will now
not only be searched in the upload-direcotry, but in the following ones
(in the given order): upload-directory, download-directory,
home-directory.
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Changes from V1.1alpha13 to V1.2 (Matthias, WS1LS)
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- fixed order of mh-list output.
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Changes from V1.2 to V1.3 (Jonny, DH3MB)
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- Fixed a bug when sending a file using AutoBIN, which is not in the
upload_directory.
- Cleaned up the "#ifdef __GLIBC__" stuff
- Sending empty lines is now possible, also with :WHOLELIN switched ON
- German umlauts are now sent with ISO encoding
- Rewrote the hufmann-decompression-procedure, so that uncompressed
frames are recognized when :COMP is switched ON
- Hufmann-encoded frames will be decoded in the monitor window, if
'moni_decomp' is set to '1' in tnt.ini; please note that this may
fail sometimes, so that frames will be decoded although the are not
really encoded
- Included a patch from Walter, DG9EP, which adds some new commands
to include some PGP functionality:
:PGPAUTO ON/OFF Disables/enables the PGP functionality
Default: OFF
:USEGPG Use GPG instead of PGP
Default: OFF
:PGPKEYAD ON/OFF If enabled, received keys are added to the keyring
automatically; if disabled, the keys are shown only
Default: ON
:PGPEDIT <password> Calls an external editor set via the environment
variable EDITOR, or vi, if this is not provided.
The file name is generated by TNT. If you
save the file and exit the editor, TNT will
automatically add the PGP-signature and
send the file on the channel you entered the command,
so be sure to enter a SEND-command at the BBS before
you call the editor. Example:
SEND DEBATE @ WW Do not use PGP!
:PGPEDIT <mypassword>
^Z
If you exit the editor without saving the text, or
if you have provided the wrong password, nothing
will be sent.
In the second case, you may reenter the command with
the correct password and the edited text will be loaded
into the editor again.
:GPGEDIT <password> Same as PGPEDIT, but using GnuPG(GPG)
Note: You need a working PGP 2.6.x installed on your system!
The PGP support is still experimental and there are some
problems left:
- If :LOGQSO is active, the PGP functions will not work. However
this is also true with features like :AUTO7P, and a general
problem of TNT.
- Files created with :PGPEDIT will not be deleted from the
/tmp direcotry after they are sent.
Please report bugs regarding the PGP stuff to DG9EP@DB0IZ.#NRW.DEU.EU
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Changes from V1.3 to V1.4 (hans, oe1smc)
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- able to compile on solaris
- the log-file includes now the own call and the frequency
this can be done by an entry in the up-file like
qrg 0 430.000
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Changes from V1.4 to V1.4.1 (hans, oe1smc)
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- NUMFUNC in keys.h for linux
- several patches by wolfgang, dk2ui
arrived till 28th of january 1999
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Changes from V1.4.1 to V1.5-1 (Matthias, WS1LS)
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- support of glibc2 was still broken. I fixed the include-files in tntc.c and
correct things in bcastadd.c which would cause warnings while compiling
under glibc2.
- correct a bad bug in xmon.c, please notice additional information before
functioncall get_qrg_from_chanstr()
- cleaned up the sound-stuff in TNT. To use sound-parts you now need to
compile TNT with the flag "TNT_SOUND".
- build in switch ":SOUND" to enable and disable soundeffects.
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Changes from V1.5-1 to V1.5-final (Matthias, WS1LS)
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- reorganised package-format.
- changed config-file for telltexte from "tnt.telltexte" to "telltexte.tnt"
- updated CHANGES-File and cleaned up my own stuff.
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Changes from V1.5-final to V1.6 (Matthias, WS1LS)
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- no more changes on the code were made.
- there are several clean ups.
- NOTE: on linux-systems TNT will now link against the ncurses-library, not
longer against termcap-lib. Look at /src/Makefile* for more
information.
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Changes from V1.6 to V1.7 (Matthias, WS1LS)
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- format of log.c changed. qrg-field will be expanded to 7 Chars.
- Debian support integrated (f5ibh, Jean-Luc)
- changed ax25k.c to support glibc-systems
- NetBSD Support by Berndt Josef Wulf, wulf@ping.net.au
therefore a new script "TNT_SETUP" exists
- sound-support for ax25
- ini-file will now searched in several places.
- totally cleaned up Install-Script.
- compatibility patch for logcall-runprg
- install will now be easy, thanx to Berndt Josef Wulf
- passwordcheck for packet-cluster, thanx to DL6DH, Henning Folger
- fixed socketbits.h and netinet/in.h, thanx to DG7SEA, Arthur Erhardt
- mheardlist output
- cleaned up macro.c
- cleaned up runprograms
- cleaned up version-infos
- corrected bug in diffsec in remote-activity
- security: mktemp -> mkstemp
- fixed up BCAST to compile TNT without Broadcast
- fixed wordwrap for umlaute
- read tnt_soundfile only when contents changed
- autoconfigure by VK5ABN, Berndt Josef Wulf
- tntc.ini-file will now be found in all places tnt.ini is found
- some soundthings included in tnt-package
- tntc.ini can now be named .tntcrc
- sounddir (defined in tnt.ini with keyword "sound_dir"). this dir will
added to files defined in sounds.tnt
- first try to fix DPBOXT, but still broken
- corrected servlen in bind()-function call (to fix problems on NetBSD).
this bug was found and fixed by VK5ABN
- there was a mess with the headers-include in debian (glibc?). Thanx to
Joop (PA4TU) for finding and fixing it.
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Changes from V1.7 to V1.8 (Matthias, WS1LS)
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- OE1SMC has done some further solaris bugfixes
- build in language support for installation (english/german)
- german documentation by Rene Meyer
Peter Mack DL3FCJ:
- Much better handling of lock files. Now we have uucp style lock files.
- BUGFIX: moni_decomp is now really used as desired.
- BUGFIX: Variable unlock in main.c set to the default value 0.
- Try to detect if packet contains only binary data and display only the string
<xx byte binary data...> in the monitor window.
This new feature is enabled by default.
You can disable this feature with "moni_chkbin 0" in your tnt.ini file.
- Support for multiport TNCs like the TNC3 or PTC-II
New color attribute definitions
attc_monport1
attc_monport2
attm_monport1
attm_monport2
to support different coloring of the monitor headers.
Matthias Hensler:
- moni_chkbin-flag can enabled and disabled via switch ":MCHkbin"
- updated tnt_setup
- lockfilestring will build automaticly in TNT_SETUP (by a suggestion of
Peter Mack)
- fixed filedescriptor problems with mkstemp() (could cause TNT to crash if
running long enough)
- include make option "uninstall", only for developers ;-)
- corrected socket-stuff for redhat/glibc2 systems. Works now well on
Redhat 5.2, but do not know, if other glibc2-systems also do so
- rechanged things in tnt.h, hope that there isn't any trouble with libc5 and
glibc2 again.
- Disabled HIBAUD, enable via configure-option
- Configure checks for ax25-utils headerfiles, if TNT should be compiled
with ax25k-support
- Fixed Bug in //n (Chat)
Berndt Josef Wulf (VK5ABN):
- new hierarchical filestructure. All TNT-Files are now split over the
system on the right places (eg. configuration in /usr/../share/tnt,
rx/tx-file spooling in /var/spool/tnt, etc).
- filestructure will automaticly used on Linux and NetBSD. (maybe in
Solaris too [later]).
- fixed buffer problems for lineoutput (make use of snprintf). Global length
is declared in tnt.h (MAXCHAR, defaultly 80)
- cleaned up some things in configure.in
- totally clean up of external declarations and unused variables
Mark Wahl (DL4YBG):
- patches from 1.1a3 to 1.1a6 (build in by Hans Mayer, OE1SMC)
1.1alpha4
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- node-interface kommandos entfernt
- antwortstring von comp zu klein (Holger, DL8SCU)
- ax25k: devicestring zu kurz
- boxprompt wird nun auch ohne > nach call erkannt
- bei MD2 kann nun string definiert werden
1.1alpha5
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- box auf nicht connectetem kanal wird abgewiesen
- ax25k: fuehrende leerzeichen bei description werden ueberlesen
- boxlist neu strukturiert
- in boxlist werden lange Zeilen nun umgebrochen
- XBOX command (abkuerzung #)
- boxlist: commands BLREST, SHOWBLSV, BLFLUSH, LSBLCMD, LDBLCMD,
file tnt_blcmdfile
- blist_add_plus entfernt
- dpboxt in extra-dir gepackt und in makefile integriert.
- umschalten der bildschirme per kommando: SELSCRN
- kanaele fuer xconnect sperren: ALLOWXC
- end of line bei leerer Zeile auf Zeilenanfang (Info DK2UI)
- blist schaltet direkt auf boxlist-screen
1.1alpha6
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- struct fd_set in fd_set umgewandelt
- ifdef-fehler in boxlist.c korrigiert
Walter Koch (DG9EP):
- ":EDIT" command, to edit a file and send it out.
- cleaned up PGP/GPG code
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Please note: The documentation still is the one of version 1.0 and
needs to be updated. The broadcast transmitter is still broken.
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Hi to all fm Iw2Naw.
I read that TNT 1.8 for linux has been released... but what are the new
features respect the version 1.0 ??
'73 from Iw2Naw, Matteo
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