If you are upgrading from 6.x to this release, many new features have been added. The most significant are listed here.
Added Display Functions, which control the display for control characters on the CRT. See Reference Manual
Support for SEPARATE ALPHA FROM GRAPHICS. See Reference Manual.
New drivers for National Instruments’ line of Data Acquisition (DAQ) cards including their AT, PCI, PXI, and PCMCIA platforms
New GESCAPE CRT CODES were added for manipulation of the HTBasic program window. See Reference Manual
KBD Control Registers were added for directory CAT and mouse control. See Chapter 4.
Version 7.0 has added improved functionality to the SERIAL32 driver, which include inbound TRANSFER, clearing of the receive buffer using RESET, and BREAK detection.
The HP SICL driver for GPIB (HPIBS) now supports the TransEra’s Model 900 GPIB card under Windows NT.