From: "Juergen Weigert" <jnweiger@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: We proudly present: Screen 3.6.1 
To: SCREEN users
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 01:39:30 +0100 (MET)

                            Screen 3.6.1

==========================================================================

The latest official(!) release of screen is available from 

   ftp.uni-erlangen.de[131.188.1.43]: 
   pub/utilities/screen/screen-3.6.1.tar.gz

and (soon) from all other gnu mirrors.
==========================================================================
(If you already fetched 3.6.0, here are the reasons why you should get 3.6.1:
 KANJI patch. doc/Makefile.in fixed. Install now calls doc/Makefile install.
 Don't use 'ds' too often, breaks MSkermit. Undef'd LOGOUTOK logs in now.
 Ultrix is broken, too (seteuid). Use \r (not \n) to join lines in pastebuf.
 bindkey can now remove sequences. InitTTY fixed for PLAIN.
 There is a patch (screen-3.6.0-3.6.1.diff.gz) in the directory, too)


And here is what is new, if you know 3.5.0:
===========================================

* Input translation! This makes the vt100 emulation complete.
  As an addition it is now possible to bind any command to any
  (function-) key. See the man page for more details (bindkey
  command).

* Status line support. Each window can have a different status line. 
  Use the ANSI APC string to set the status line, i.e.:
  <ESC>_<status string><ESC>\
  (For convenience the xterm sequence is also accepted.)
  You may want to add
    termcap  * '' ':hs:ts=\E_:fs=\E\\:ds=\E_\E\\:'
    terminfo * '' ':hs:ts=\E_:fs=\E\\:ds=\E_\E\\:'
  to your ~/.screenrc to make screen advertise the hardstatus
  support.
  
* Zombie feature added. Windows now may generate a message (with a
  timestamp) if they die and stay around until the user presses
  a key.

* New paste syntax: Paste can now concatenate registers and paste
  either on screen or in anouther register.
  This makes the old "ins_reg", "copy_reg" commands obsolete.

* More architecures supported. Screen now runs on AIX3.2.5,
  Solaris, NeXT and some other exotic platforms.

* Kanji support added. Screen understands JIS, EUC and SJIS coding.
  This is an experimental feature.

* GR charset switching (ISO 2022) implemented. Can be enabled with
  the "gr" command.

* C1 sequences implemented (see the "c1" command).

* Tek support from Xiaoguang Zhang. Apply tek.patch if you want to
  make screen pass tek sequences.

* List of new commands:
    bindkey, c1, command, gr, kanji, mapdefault, mapnotnext, maptimeout,
    pastefont, printcmd, readreg, stuff, zombie

* Lots of other bugs fixed.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 

This screen version does not really reflect what we are working on for quite
a while: Good multi-user support needs to have several ttys displaying the same
screen window simultaneously. Good single user support needs to split up
the display area to show several screen windows simultaneously. 

The first is not ready, because we found that different terminal sizes cause
lots of grief, the second is not ready, because re-implementing a windowing 
system for ascii terminals is not much fun. (Actually, the second problem
is not that hard if you solved the first.) I still believe that the beast
will be called 4.0 then, when ever that will be.
	

Cheese,
	Juergen & Michael.

-- 
              Juergen Weigert >> jnweiger@uni-erlangen.de <<
Two pizza, one box of beer, two t-shirts, thousand bug-reports, still no money..
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   It is a program that screens other people from seeing what you are doing