[GreenKeys] HeavyMetal v3.0.001 released (finally)

[Javier Albinarrate (LU8AJA-TTY)]

Hi everybody

        It has been a few months since I mentioned this but I had no chance 
to finish things neat enough to work out of the box in Windows XP with an 
exe instead of a whole perl environment.

        Finally yesterday I got my hands into a desktop PC with Windows XP 
and a serial port , I had this thing working for months in an old Win98 
laptop with serial port, the one I regularly use for TTY. So.. I got all the 
bits working together and tested... the creature is alive.

        http://www.albinarrate.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51:heavymetal

        The first time you run heavymetal.exe it will unpack all the 
required perl stuff... so it will take a minute without any indication of 
what it is doing.. subsequent times, it will not need to do that.

        There are lots of commands and configs. Commands and special chars 
use the $ prefix.
        Start by giving a look to $HELP :)

        $CONFIGS
            will search the configs
        $CONFIG name value
            will set a config

        This version includes support for Telnet sessions IN and OUT, with 
the idea of connecting TTYs over internet
        And it also includes MSN support, not only allowing you to chat with 
MSN over the TTY, but ALSO, to establish sessions and control the software 
and the TTY remotely over MSN.

        And one more thing... funnily enough, you can test things without 
the TTY installed, with just your PC modem if you have one, and issue AT 
commands.. like ATZ or ATI6, etc
        And... now that I am writting of this... I have just realized that 
the new HeavyMetal would be perfectly expandable to use your modem to 
connect your TTY over the phone line. I guess I will do that in the next 
version of it.


        Ok guys... I will need feeback, particullarly because serial ports 
(mainly USB based ports) can be wild...

        Source code is attached in the zip as well, and I have created a 
project in Github, I will upload a snapshot today.

        If anybody is willing to make tests, just email me :)

        REGARDS!!

Javier Albinarrate
LU8AJA

PS: For those of you who sent me samples of historical news wires and so 
one, in the next subversion I will add a menu with a listing of historical 
TTY wires, which will be open to contributions.