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- Date: 05/07 05:43:19
- From: M70B@CBEBDA3T
- Subject: New TSO Kermit in Pascal
-
- Finally my version of TSO-KERMIT is finished. I read in a file on the
- KERMIT-server that you're expecting my version since a year. I have had my
- program for beta-test since Nov 85, but the guys were not so sensitive to
- inform me about their experiences. But on our installation we run it with
- great success.
-
- There is a total of 7 files, containing the following:
-
- * TS2DS.ASM Some ASM routines for TSODS command
- * TS2DS.INS Installation procedure for TSODS command
- * TS2DS.PLI Some PL/I rotines for TSODS command
-
- # TS2KER.INS Installation of TSO/KERMIT
- # TS2KER.DOC User's Guide of TSO/KERMIT
- # TS2KER.ASM Some ASM routines for KERMIT
- # TS2KER.PAS KERMIT main program
-
- *) The TSODS command is used within the KERMIT program, to redirect
- TSO command output into a temporary file, accessible from the PASCAL
- main program.
-
- Fritz Buetikofer
- Amt fuer Informatik des Kt. Bern
- Laengassstrasse 51
- CH-3012 BERN (Switzerland)
- BITNET: M70B@CBEBDA3T
-
- [Ed. - The files are installed in KER:TS2*.* on CU20B, and TS2* * on CUVMA.
- This version is based in part on the Pascal/VS Kermit for VM/CMS by Victor
- Lee of Queen's University. This version of Kermit is more advanced than the
- old assembler version from the University of Chicago (KER:TSO*.*); it allows
- transfer of binary files, includes 8th-bit prefixing, wildcard send, repeat
- count compression (receive only), alternate block checks, server mode, etc.
- It runs only on line-mode ASCII connections through a 3705-style front end;
- there is currently no support for Series/1-style protocol converters.]
-
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- Date: 23 Sep 86 14:15 CET
- From: Fritz Buetikofer <M70B@CBEBDA3T.BITNET>
- Subject: New Release 1.6 of KERMIT/TSO
-
- Since May 86 some bugs in the version 1.4 have appeared. And furthermore
- some new commands have been implemented:
-
- * Bugs fixed and error handling improved in the routine which checks
- for the presence of a file (Check_Dsn).
- * New command TAKE to execute KERMIT-commands from within a file.
- * When displaying STATUS screen, you will find a notice, whether
- the INIT-file (KERMIT.SETUP) has been found or not.
- * New command SET ATOE/ETOA to modify the ASCII <-> EBCDIC translation
- tables, while running KERMIT.
- * New command SET INCOMPLETE, to specify what has to be done with a
- file when user aborts the transfer.
- * Update of SEND command, so that the user may specify a filename,
- which is sent to the micro (instead of generating one automatically).
-
- For the very next future, I'm going to implement a STATISTICS command,
- handling of attribute packets and (maybe) long packets. All modifications
- and improvements I made are inside the pascal source. All I had to do is to
- adapt the documentation file to all changes.
-
- Regards to all TSO freaks, F.Buetikofer
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1987
- From: Fritz Buetikofer <M70B@CBEBDA3T.BITNET>
- Subject: New Release 2.0 of Kermit/TSO
-
- Good new year ... good news !!!
-
- Finally I found time to implement long packets into Kermit/TSO !
-
- After reading thorougly the documentation of long packets and sliding
- windows, I decided to try an implementation of long packets only,
- because you don't get any full duplex channels on a TSO system
- (Here I refer to the letter of Roger Fajman of Tue, 30 Jul 1985).
- To my astonishment the changes for long packets were not so many !!
- And after one day of testing I had the first transfer with long packets
- running. As we are connected via a local area network to the host,
- I decided to start with a maximum packet size of 1K, which seems to be
- wide spread. Then I thought it would be useful, to set the checktype
- automatically to 3 (CRC), if the packet size exceeds a certain limit,
- which I put to 256 chars. In this period I found severe problems
- in this Kermit version, because it sent wrong checktypes in certain
- cases. So I had to fix this too ...
-
- At this point I'd like to send a 'thank you' to the makers of Kermit-MS.
- As the latest test version of Kermit-MS supports long packets, I had
- a good test partner for my version.
-
- In the past time I had some questions about the extended ascii table,
- supported in my Kermit version. I think I should explain a little bit
- more what I mean with this feature:
- In early days of filetransfer, people usually sent programs to and
- fro, and these programs normally included only characters in the range
- of ASCII 32..126. And all text formating was done on the micros. But
- later, people wanted to share the text documents with others. And
- these texts include now simple graphics characters, greek chars and in
- Europe our special characters, the 'Umlaute'! There I thought it should
- be possible to specify on the mainframe side a table (or maybe only
- a table-extension). And in the original CMS version of Victor Lee I
- found this table and implemented a full ASCII table according to the
- character set of the IBM PC. When I tranfer files from my MAC I have to
- modify this table using an external file with SET ATOE's.
-
- Well, these are all notes I'd like to append to this new Kermit version.
- Changes have been made mainly to the Pascal source, the assembler
- subroutines to be able to handle 1K packets instead of 94 chars, in
- the documentation file and some little modifications in the install
- procedure ... so you have to get all TS2KER files !!
-
- I hope you enjoy this new version and take profit of the increased
- transfer rate of up to 200% (with long packets) !!
-
- -----Fritz
-
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-
- Date: 18 Sep 87 09:47:24 ADT
- Subject: Yet another version of ts2 kermit
- From: "Michael J. MacDonald" <MIKEMAC@UNB>
-
- I have modified ts2 kermit so that it works through the ibm3705 and
- the ibm7171 in transparent mode. If your interested I will package it
- into a reasonable form and send it to you.
-
- Michael MacDonald
- Software Specialist, School of Computer Science
- University of New Brunswick
- Po. Box 4400
- Fredericton, New Brunswick
- CANADA E3B 5A3
-
- (506) 453-4566
-
- Netnorth/BITNET: MIKEMAC @ UNBMVS1
-
- (This message was forwarded to Fritz, and Mike was encouraged to get together
- with Fritz to combine their work.)
-
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-
- Date: 01 OCT 87 15:13 GMT
- From: M70B@CBEBDA3T.BITNET (F.Buetikofer, Help desk UNI Bern)
- Subject: Maintenance Release 2.3 of TSO kermit
- Keywords: TSO Kermit
-
- After a hot summer while I did not very much additional work on my
- TSO-Kermit, I encountered some hidden bugs ... and fixed them.
-
- The biggest problem was a system connected with 300 baud (!) to our
- mainframe. TSO Kermit didn't check for the right Y packet to come in, and
- continued sending. This should be fixed now. Another not official goodie is,
- that my kermit should understand attribute packets (they are logged to the
- KERMIT.LOG file, so I can analyse what's coming from the micro).
-
- I'm appending the hottest version of Kermit (Pascal and documentation)
- so you can put it in the distribution library.
-
- Thanks and regards ... Fritz
-
- [Ed. - And thanks to you! The new files are in KER:TS2KER.PAS and
- KER:TS2KER.DOC. The other KER:TS2*.* files remain unchanged.]
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