Changes from 6.0 to 7.0

 
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.