* Handle device reconnected more smoothly (USB-serial dongles)
* Translation updates: Danish
* Several fixes (see ChangeLog)
Changes 2.4:
* Add -D and -b options to specify device and baud rate on the command
line.
* Do character conversion between local and remote side (-R option)
* Added indonesian translation
* Compatibility fixes for recent build environments
* Remove code that handled very old systems
Changes 2.3:
* Fix build on Mac OS X
* New version of the dial format to be little and big endian as well as
32/64 bit safe
* Support more baud rates
* Handle device disappearances (e.g. serial-USB device unplug)
* Various build and other fixes
Changes 2.2:
* Vietnamese translation added
* Norwegian translation added
* Traditional chinese translation added
* Swedish translation added
* Romanian translation added
* default to 8bit mode if LANG or LC_ALL are set
* default baud rate set to 115200
* Various code cleanups and fixes
Too many Changes to list here (Changelog is too long), so only whats new in 2.1:
- applied some pending patches (see ChangeLog for a complete list)
- added support for socket connections
- fixed compiling issues on Solaris
- new maintainer: Adam Lackorzynski
- new homepage: http://minicom.alioth.debian.org/
- new mailinglists (-devel and -announce):
http://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=31
NetBSD patches:
- Include <sys/types.h> to fix PR pkg/29026 (1st error)
- Fix i18n error for PR pkg/29939, which should also fix PR pkg29026 (2nd error)
- Remove the create-dev-link script, which fix PR pkg/29026 (3rd error)
The system administrator is expected to setup the correct configuration
of the modem device.
- Updated patches and removed patch-af and patch-ag
- Fix the path for the lrzsz and gkermit tools in the default configuration
- Remove the old share/doc/minicom dir, because the new Makefiles doesn't
install them and they are outdated
Notable changes include:
- An old signal handling bug has been fixed. It sometimes caused an
eternal loop of "Killed by signal x" - "Resetting modem" - "Killed
by signal y" when minicom was aborted unexpectedly, and then it could
only be killed with kill -9 (SIGKILL).
- Now there is also a setting in the Bps/par/bits section of the Serial
port setup menu to use two stop bits.
- Some patches for SVR4 lock file handling.
- Fixed some compilation errors when -D_HAVE_MACROS is not defined
in the makefile.
- possible overflows fixed in inputting the manual dialing string and
search string in the phone dir.
- user-configurable options to disable writing the logfile or select
which things to write there
- the command line option -d now accepts multiple numbers or names as
the parameter. Separate them with commas and use no spaces around it.
- a fix for the script timeout command that sometimes didn't work right.
- now you can move an entry up/down in the phone directory.
- flag %f added to the upload/download protocol program command lines to
allow passing the port file descriptor to c-kermit
- support for DTE speed 230400 bps
- newline delay option added in the terminal settings
- multiline option added to untag all phonedir entries with the same name
when one of them answers
