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- Subject: apxv29.ann
- Date: Tue, 30 May 89 11:36:31 WET DST
- From: The National PD Software Archive
- <pdsoft%pd-software.lancaster.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
-
- Version 2.9 of the alternative Apollo Pascal Kermit (APX).
- ----------------------------------------------------------
-
- The principal change between versions 2.7 and 2.9 of Apollo APX Kermit is to
- add in the 8 bit quoting and associated file handling changes from APO
- Kermit versions 2.8 and 2.8a. In the parameters exchange, APX 2.9 also
- handles 'Y' and 'N' in the 8-bit field from the other Kermit correctly.
- Also there is now SET 8BIT ON/OFF (if ON, it sends '&' which, according to
- the protocol manual, means "I insist on quoting" ; if OFF, it sends 'N'
- which means "I can't").
-
- I believe that the APX Kermit can now do everything that the APO version
- does (and more).
-
- The extensions are:
-
- APX can be run on a remote node, even (crudely) from an attached terminal on
- the local node.
-
- Repeat count processing.
- Filename normalising.
- RECEIVE followed by filename.
- SET TIME and TIMEOUT.
-
- Other changes between 2.7 and 2.9.
-
- CVT_NL is now called RAW (i.e. CVT_NL OFF now RAW ON).
-
- This version works out how is is being driven and sets GRAPHICS and RAW
- accordingly. As before, if it is being driven by an sio line it assumes it
- is running as a remote Kermit, so you can't use it as it stands to drive one
- sio on a node from another.
-
- If it is running on a remote node, CONNECT now works in RAW mode. This
- means you no longer get a double echo and echoing of passwords and you
- can send control characters. However, if you are using an attached
- terminal on the local node, this doesn't work and you must explicitly
- SET RAW OFF before CONNECTing. If normalising, received file names are
- converted to lower case. Now handles prefixing in incoming fileheader
- packets and does control quoting in outgoing ones.
-
- To avoid confusion, this version announces itself as Apollo-APX. Minor code
- changes to stop the Pascal optimiser generating warnings.
-
- This version works under Aegis SR 9.7. I don't know whether it works under
- SR10 - but it will have to be made to eventually.
-
- Gordon Sands,
- Technical Computing Dept.,
- Marconi Space Systems Ltd.,
- Anchorage Rd.,
- Portsmouth,
- PO3 5PU.
- 0705-664966 x3521
-
-