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- CC-DOS Kermit Distribution Notes, July 1991
-
- Welcome to CC-DOS(/MS-DOS) Kermit !
-
- I hope you would like this version of Kermit. First,a few words about the
- program. Please read MSKERM.DOC and this will give you an idea of how this
- version works. I have not edited that file, it is the MS-DOS distribution
- version, but most of what it says still applies.
-
- I translate the MS-DOS Kermit Version 2.32/A into a Chinese version which is
- named as CC-DOS Kermit (CCKermit, the prompt is Kermit-CC) and can run under
- either MS-DOS or CC-DOS (Chinese Code DOS). The CC-Kermit has such a feature
- that when it runs under MS-DOS, it is completely the MS-Kermit 2.32, but when
- it runs under CC-DOS, ALL messages on the display are Chinese and screen
- display mode is also modified. So if you know little English, you can also
- operate this Kermit successfully.
-
- There are a lot of versions of CC-DOS, such as LIANXIAN, STCDOS, CCDOS213,
- GWCDOS and so on, and among these versions many differences exist on screen
- display mode.the CC-Kermit version 2.32 can properly run on most of CC-DOS
- versions. In case you find it can't run on your machine, please tell me
- immediately. I would like to help you and ,ake the program more satisfactory.
-
- The file names of the source programs of the MS-Kermit 2.32 are renamed in
- this version, cc*.* replased for ms*.*. In additional, I put the code segment
- and data segment in a source file to two files, cc*.asm including code segment
- and cc*.dat including data segment.
-
- Original Name Distribution Name Comments
- (MS*.*) (CC*.*)
-
- MSSDEF.H CCSDEF.H
- MSYIBM.ASM CCYIBM.ASM CCYIBM.DAT
- MSSSER.ASM CCSSER.ASM CCSSER.DAT
- MSSTER.ASM CCSTER.ASM CCSTER.DAT
- MSSFIN.ASM CCSFIN.ASM
- MSZIBM.ASM CCZIBM.ASM CCZIBM.DAT
- MSSCOM.ASM CCSCOM.ASM CCSCOM.DAT
- MSGIBM.ASM CCGIBM.ASM CCGIBM.DAT
- MSSFIL.ASM CCSFIL.ASM CCSFIL.DAT
- MSSSEN.ASM CCSSEN.ASM CCSSEN.DAT
- MSSRCV.ASM CCSRCV.ASM CCSRCV.DAT
- MSSSCP.ASM CCSSCP.ASM CCSSCP.DAT
- MSUIBM.ASM CCUIBM.ASM CCUIBM.DAT
- MSHKOS.ASM CCHKOS.ASM CCHKOS.DAT
- MSSSET.ASM CCSSET.ASM CCSSET1.DAT CCSSET2.DAT
- MSXIBM.ASM CCXIBM.ASM CCXIBM.DAT
- MSSCMD.ASM CCSCMD.ASM CCSCMD.DAT
- MSSKER.ASM CCSKER.ASM CCSKER.DAT
- CCHKOS.ASM ; check DOS status
- MSKERMIT.INI CCKERMIT.INI
- MSKERMIT.EXE CCKERMIT.EXE
-
-
- ****PROBLEMS AND LIMITATIONS****
-
- - The screen display size is adjusted under CC-DOS. As different CCDOS versions
- have their different screen rows, such as 11 rows, 16 rows, 20 rows or 25
- rows, The size of the screen message window is formalized into 11 rows when
- SEND,RECEIVE, GET and SERVER commands are operated.
-
- - The function of terminal emulating under CC-DOS is imperfect. Some control
- keys probably cause screen disorder. I suggest you to use 'set terminal
- vt102'.
-
- - Use 'set key off' and 'set display 8' under CC-DOS. As a Chinese character
- is represented in two 8-bit bytes, it is necessary to set 8-bit character
- display and to read char through DOS function call, INT 21h.
-
- - Limitation exists for different display adapters. As we know, there are many
- kinds of display adapters, such as CGA, EGA, VGA, MDA, etc.
- It is no problems when you run CC-Kermit under MS-DOS. Nevertheless problems
- probably ocurr when it runs under CC-DOS. The reason is that Chinese
- characters are displayed on the
- screen as graphic mode, not char mode. So under CC-DOS any attempt to write
- video buffer directly used in MS-Kermit will be failed. In Additional,
- video buffer operation in BIOS is different to different adapters.When
- the module "ccyibm.asm" is assembled, a MASM /D option "CGA" must be used
- if you want to build a kermit.exe program running on a machine with a CGA
- or MDA adapter under CC-DOS.
-
-
- There are still things wrong in this version, but the list above should get
- you started! If you find bugs, please contact with me. I am going to do my
- best on this project as time permits.
-
-
- Quanfang Zhang
- Computer Network Research Lab
- Dept. of Comp. Sc. & Eng.
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
- P. R. China
-
- Tel: (571)572244 ext 2400 or (571)761211
- Email: BMAZUNET@ICA.BEIJING.CANET.CN
-