NEWS: $Id: NEWS,v 1.3 1995/07/21 02:24:44 zappo Exp $

Changes since ETALK 0.9 -> 0.10

 o Fixed many features revolving around the RINGER protocol, and
   graceful degredation of talk protocols when attempting to contact
   remote daemons.
   
 o Games now use font-lock techniques to create thier faces.  Requires
   the use of fontlock.

 o Attempted to make use of hilit19 more robust during compiles. 

 o Talk buffers now gracefully cut and paste with the mouse, unlike
   before which pasted things into the buffer, but did not transfer
   that data over the talk link.

 o variable etalk-process-parameters is now available to give defaults
   the the etalk process

 o etalk-mail is much friendlier and more robust.

 o C-q now inserts quotable characters over the talk line

 o xphone is now X11R5 compatible.

 o etalk-fancy-keymap, if bound, will use a fancy method of defining a
   keymap which allows extended keys (german, french, etc) to be used
   over a talk link.

Changes since ETALK 0.8 -> 0.9

 o Added many features into configure script.

 o Addition of the GTALK daemon.  This addition added the following
   protocol options to those available with the standard talk
   protocol.
   * REPLY_QUERY control message:  Permits user to ask if anyone is
                 currently calling.
   * NO_CALLER response message: Negative response to REPLY_QUERY
                 message.
   * TRY_HERE response message: Permits response to an ANNOUNCE
                 message.  When received, indicates that the person
                 the user is attempting to contact wishes to be
                 contacted on a different machine.
   * RINGER protocol: Allows a daemon to send a UDP messages to a
                 predesignated socket instead of writing to a TTY.
                 In an Xwindows system, this is useful since it is
                 often difficult to find the terminal that just
                 beeped.

 o Addition of "xphone" program which is an xbiff look-alike to talk
   requests.

 o Addition of "etalk-reply" command.  This uses the REPLY_QUERY
   message specified above.  This command takes no parameters.

 o Addition of TRY_HERE response in etalk to query user if they wish
   to talk to a caller.  Activation of this mode is done with the
   "etalk-ringer-on-command" and turned off with the
   "etalk-ringer-off-command".

 o Added command line parameters to etalk.  These parameters include
   -C --copyright, -t --test, -v --verbose, -h --help, and --version.

 o Changed command line for etalk binary.  Any command which SET a
   parameter is now grouped under a SET command, and for any command
   which displayed some state, is now grouped under the SHOW command.
   Appropriate actions have been taken for lisp commands which use
   these features.

 o Talk process is started BEFORE a user types a name in during the
   "etalk" command.

 o Added the games toreversi, gess, gessft2, and trax.
 o Updated game-lib to handle overlays better due to the complex ways
   it was used in gess. 
                 
 o "make check" now runs "etalk -t" using new command line options.
   The test features are now numbered and is significantly more
   thorough in checking as many communications with the existing
   daemon as possible.
