Note:  Mxserial originally started out as a separate package and had a 
separately maintained changelog.  Now that mxserial is part of the base MX
package, future changes will be described in the main MX doc/CHANGES file.
For historical reference, this file contains the old changelog from before
the time mxserial was merged into the base MX package.

   (William Lavender - July 26, 2005)

Version 1.1.0 (07/13/05):
	Minor changes were made to make 'mxserial' compatible with MX 1.1.0.

Version 1.0.0 (04/26/04):
	The default receive speed has been changed to 10000 bits per second.

	The record description for connecting to the remote server has been
	changed to match changes to the 'tcpip_server' driver in MX.

Version 0.66.1 (08/24/03):
	The procedure for marking an MX database as ready to be used has
	changed slightly for MX 0.66.0 and above.  'mxserial' has been
	modified to follow the new procedure.  This change merely consists
	of adding the line

	    list_head_struct->fixup_records_in_use = FALSE;

	after the call to mx_finish_record_initialization() for the server
	record.

Version 0.65.0 (04/01/03):
	Two new command line options have been added to 'mxserial'.
	They are:

	-f filename	Specifies the name of a file to be sent to the
			remote serial port before beginning interactive
			mode.

	-s speed	Specifies the maximum speed in bits per second
			that 'mxserial' will try to read from the remote
			serial port.  The default is 1000, which will
			use the relatively low speed of 100 characters
			per second.  There is no explicitly specified
			maximum speed.

Version 0.62.0 (12/03/02):
	This is the initial release of Mxserial.

	Mxserial is a utility program for connecting to MX controlled
	RS-232 ports in a manner analogous to Kermit, HyperTerminal,
	cu, and so forth.  Mxserial is invoked as follows:

		Usage: mxserial [-d debug_level] record_address
		    where record_address is
	
		        port_name
		    or  hostname:port_name
		    or  hostname@port:port_name
	
		Example: mxserial localhost@9727:theta_rs232

	In the above description, 'port_name' is the name of the RS-232
	record in the remote MX server.  'hostname' is the name of the
	computer the remote MX server is running on.  The hostname
	defaults to 'localhost'.  'port' is the TCP port number that 
	the remote MX server is using.  The port number defaults to 9727.

	Once you have successfully connected to the remote RS-232 record,
	characters you type will be sent to the RS-232 device, while
	responses from the RS-232 device will be sent back to your screen.
	You disconnect from the remote RS-232 device by typing ctrl-C on
	your keyboard.  Eventually, command line arguments will be provided
	for uploading and downloading files to the remote RS-232 device,
	but this has not been done yet.

	WARNING: Mxserial assumes that it is the only MX client that is
	currently communicating with the remote RS-232 port.  It constantly
	looks for new characters from the remote RS-232 device.  This means
	that any other MX clients that might try to talk to the same RS-232
	device must be shut down or paused while Mxserial is connected to
	the port.  If both Mxserial and some other MX client are both
	trying to talk with the same RS-232 device at the same time, the 
	communication may become garbled with some of the responses intended
	for the other MX client going to Mxserial and some of the responses
	to Mxserial requests going to the other MX client.  Thus, you should
	not have Mxserial connected to an RS-232 device when you are trying
	to use that RS-232 device for any other purpose.

	NOTE: Currently Mxserial intentionally restricts the display of
	responses from the remote RS-232 device to a maximum of 100 characters
	per second.  This is to minimize the load on an MX server that may
	also be being used for some other purpose.  This restriction will
	be removed in a later release.