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- Date: Tue, 28 May 91 12:00:00 EDT
- From: Christine M Gianone <cmg@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Kermit for Microsoft Windows 3.0
- Keywords: Microsoft Windows 3.0 Kermit
-
- Bill Hall has sent in a new release of Kermit for Microsoft Windows.
- You may have seen Bill's feature article on this program in January 1991
- Microsoft Systems Journal: "Adapting Extended Processes to the Cooperative
- Multitasking of Microsoft Windows". The previous release of this program
- only works under Windows 2.0x. The new release is for Windows 3.0. Here
- is Bill's description:
-
- "A version of Kermit for Microsoft Windows 3.0 has been made available for
- distribution by Columbia University. The complete package contains a
- Windows program along with documentation, fonts, and complete sources. The
- basic program, WIN100, contains a substantial emulation of DEC VT100 and
- VT52 terminals and a version of Kermit with enough features to perform
- reliable file transfer as well as act as a client to a Kermit server.
-
- "WIN100 has evolved from an earlier experimental version which has been
- available from Columbia for some time. This latest version has several new
- features:
-
- 1. Support for COM1 through COM4.
- 2. Improved font selection.
- 3. A wider selection of foreground and background colors.
- 4. Restricted scroll regions and origin mode.
- 5. Control representation mode.
- 6. Memory rollback. Currently, this is limited to five screen pages.
- 7. Redesigned dialogs.
- 8. Editing commands to move around the terminal window and through the
- rollback memory.
- 9. Substantial font support for the VGA including normal and bold fonts
- with both the Windows and DEC special graphics character sets, all in
- wide and narrow formats. Sources for the fonts are also supplied.
- 10. An optional 8-bit mode with support for some DEC 8-bit controls.
- 11. A complete set of Kermit REMOTE commands including GET, BYE, FINISH,
- LOGOUT, as well as remote file manipulations.
- 12. Enhanced user interface for working with REMOTE commands.
- 13. Local commands for listing and changing directories.
- 14. Dialogs for setting Kermit packet and Protocol parameters."
-
- The files have been placed in the Kermit Test area (kermit/test on watsun,
- T: prefix for KERMSRV) to allow for a period of public testing before formal
- release. The file names all start with the prefix "wk". Get the file
- "wkaaaa.doc" and read it first, then get the other files you need. Many
- thanks to Bill for this valuable contribution!
-