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- Info-Kermit Digest Wed, 26 Aug 1992 Volume 16 : Number 2
-
- Today's Topics:
- MS-DOS Kermit 3.12 Available for Beta Testing
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Digest submissions may be sent to Info-Kermit@WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU or
- KERMIT@CUVMA.BITNET. Requests for addition to or deletion from the
- Info-Kermit subscriber list should be sent to LISTSERV@CUVMA.BITNET or
- LISTSERV@CUVMA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU. These messages must be of the form:
-
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- REGISTER I$KERMIT <your-personal-name> (To correct your name)
-
- Kermit files may be obtained over networks and by mail order. On the
- Internetwork, use FTP to log in to host WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU, a SUN-4/280
- running UNIX (SUNOS 4.1), IP host number 128.59.39.2. Login as user anonymous
- (note, lower case), any password, and GET or MGET (MULTIPLE GET) the desired
- files. The Kermit files are in directories kermit/a, kermit/b, kermit/c,
- kermit/d, and kermit/e. Test versions are in kermit/test. All files in these
- directories should be transferred in text (ASCII) mode. Binaries are in
- kermit/bin (use ftp in binary mode). All files on watsun have lowercase
- names, and case is significant.
-
- You can also get Kermit files over the BITNET/EARN network; to get started
- send a message with text HELP to KERMSRV, the Kermit file server, at host
- CUVMA. For detailed instructions, read the file kermit/a/aanetw.hlp
- (AANETW.HLP on KERMSRV). To order by mail, request a complete list of Kermit
- versions and an order form from Kermit Distribution, Columbia University
- Center for Computing Activities, 612 West 115th Street, New York, NY 10025
- USA.
-
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- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 14:00:00 EDT
- From: Christine M Gianone <cmg@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
- Subject: MS-DOS Kermit 3.12 Available for Beta Testing
- Keywords: MS-DOS Kermit 3.12, Kanji, ODI, SLIP, TELNET, TCP/IP, WINPKT
-
- This is to announce a maintenance release of MS-DOS Kermit for the IBM PC,
- PS/2, and compatibles, for beta testing from Professor Joe R. Doupnik of
- Utah State University. The version number is 3.12. The major new features
- of version 3.12 are:
-
- . Networking and communications improvements.
- . Japanese Kanji text file transfer translation.
- . Locking shift protocol for file transfer.
- . IBM mainframe file transfer extension.
- . New script programming and other features.
- . Bug fixes.
-
- Here is a more detailed list:
-
- . All 3.11 patches and corrections incorporated.
-
- . Improved TCP/IP networking:
- - ODI drivers now supported directly
- - SLIP and ETHERSLIP packet drivers now supported
- - TCP/IP networking in Microsoft Windows (see below)
- - Specific TCP service ports can be selected in the SET PORT TCP/IP command
- - Incoming TCP/IP connections are now accepted
- - Packet driver interrupt now can now be given explicitly
- - Improved TELNET operation:
- . Option negotiation bugs fixed
- . Screen size is sent to the host if the TELNET server requests it
- . A terminal-type negotiation override is now available
- . Improved handling of Enter key (CR)
- - BIOS Interrupt 14H no longer used internally for TCP/IP, freeing Int 14H
- for use by external drivers, e.g. for speaking devices.
- - Improved interactions with Domain Name Servers.
- - Kermit now responds to traceroute requests and supports ICMP redirects.
- - Workarounds for Western Digital 8003PKDR.EXE problems.
-
- . Improvements in other networking methods:
- - Now works with PATHWORKS LAT when LAT is loaded in expanded memory.
- - Now works with PATHWORKS version 3 as well as with 2 and 4.
- - Now works with Novell LWP 3.5 as well as 4.
- - Now works with Interconnections TES 2.2 R8.
- . User is warned upon attempt to EXIT Kermit while network connection active.
-
- . Serial communications:
- - HANGUP now leaves DTR signal down until port is used again.
- - IRQ 4 is no longer tested first if COM1 is not the desired port.
- - Improved serial port hardware handling on fast 486 machines.
-
- . Terminal emulation:
- - PRIME PT200 type added (= VT320 with minor differences).
- - New SET TERMINAL OUTPUT-SHIFT {NONE, AUTOMATIC, SI/SO, SS2, SS3}
- command for controlling output of 8-bit characters on 7-bit connections.
- Input shifting is handled automatically, as always.
- - Correctly recognize extended (bold) line drawing patterns for Tek drawing.
- - Use of ESC 1 and ESC 2 to enter and leave Tek mode now disabled.
-
- . File transfer:
- - New support for Japanese Kanji file translation during file transfer,
- via SET TRANSFER CHARACTER-SET JAPANESE-EUC. Works with Kermit-370 4.3
- and C-Kermit 5A.
- - Locking shifts for transferring 8-bit files on a 7-bit connection, via
- SET TRANSFER LOCKING-SHIFT {OFF, ON, FORCED}. Works with Kermit-370 4.3
- and C-Kermit 5A.
- - New SET TRANSLATION CHARACTER-SET {READABLE, INVERTIBLE} command
- to select different styles of text translation during file transfer.
- - Create zero length files if the host sends them.
- - Support for transferring files through non-transparent IBM mainframe
- front ends (like the 3708). Works with Kermit-370 4.3. Includes:
- . Support for printable start-of-packet
- . Support for BLANK-FREE-2 block check
- . Packet echo suppression, etc etc
- - Improved negotiation of 8th-bit prefixing.
-
- . Other new commands and features:
- - OUTPUT \L sends a Long BREAK.
- - IF [NOT] INPATH <filename> <command>
- - Optional <path> added to PATCH command, e.g. PATCH C:\KERMIT
- - Keyword "O" is (once again) a snyonym for OUTPUT.
- - Variable \v(terminal) reports the current terminal type.
- - INCREMENT <variable>
- - DECREMENT <variable>
-
- . Fixes:
- - TRANSMIT fixed to wait for handshake from host, if requested.
- - SET PROMPT <string> no longer lets long strings overwrite memory.
- - WAIT now sets SUCCESS or FAILURE correctly.
- - Close log files when asked to do so, not just when EXITing from Kermit.
- - Lexical comparisons IF LLT, IF LGT fixed.
- - STOP and END now accept an optional numerical argument, to be used as a
- return code or failure/success code, plus optional trailing message text
- to be printed.
- - Better handling of Ctrl-C interruption during script execution.
- - \v(directory) value now always ends in backslash (the directory separator)
- - DESQview corrections and enhancements.
-
- With MS-DOS Kermit 3.12, Joe is also releasing an improved version of the
- WINPKT "shim" - a program that sits between the packet driver and a Windows
- application (such as MS-DOS Kermit) that uses the packet driver. Since
- Windows can move applications around in memory, deactivate them, or possibly
- swap them out, the packet driver (which stores packets at specific,
- registered addresses in the application) will fail. WINPKT solves this
- problem by recognizing the Windows Enhanced mode virtual machine in which
- the program is running and invoking that machine before delivering a packet
- to the program. This eliminates the need to "lock application memory" in
- its .PIF file and eliminates the Crynwr (nee Clarkson) PD command argument
- "-w", which simply rejects a packet if the program is not immediately
- active. WINPKT was originally written by Roger F. James. These mechanisms
- will also appear in Joe's next edition of the shim, DIS_PKT, Packet Driver
- interface for NDIS.
-
- Joe expresses his special thanks for assistance, contributions, and
- suggestions to Frank da Cruz, Hirofumi Fujii, John Chandler, James
- Sturdevant Andre Asselin, Jim Fregin, Jim Reisert, Rick Sladkey, Richard
- Stanton, Bertil Stenstrom, Konstantin Vinogradov, Robert Weiner, and to
- Digital Equipment Corporation, Quarterdeck Online Systems, Novell, AT&T, and
- Interconnections Inc.
-
- NEW FILES
-
- MS-DOS Kermit 3.12 Beta is being released only in binary form. Sources will
- be made available after the testing period is over.
-
- Internet anonymous ftp EARN/BITNET
- watsun.cc.columbia.edu KERMSRV@CUVMA Description
-
- kermit/test/mstibm.boo MSTIBM BOO BOO-encoded KERMIT.EXE for IBM PC
- kermit/bin/mstibm.exe (none) Binary executable for IBM PC
- kermit/text/msr312.upd MSR312.UPD List of changes since version 3.11
-
- The ".boo" file is the .EXE file encoded in a printable ASCII format,
- suitable for BITNET, e-mail, and other nontransparent modes of transmission.
- You can decode the boo-files back into .EXE files using any of the MSBPCT.*
- programs available in kermit/a/msbpct.* or MSBPCT * from KERMSRV. See
- msbaaa.hlp (MSBAAA HLP) for details.
-
- WINPKT is available only on watsun, in the packet-driver collection:
-
- packet-drivers/bin/winpkpt.com WINPKT executable
- packet-drivers/doc/winpkpt.hlp WINPKT help file
- packet-drivers/src/winpkpt.asm WINPKT help source code
-
- My usual thanks to Joe, on behalf all MS-DOS Kermit users everywhere, for
- all the work and skill he put into this new release, and to Dr. Hirofumi
- Fujii for extensive contributions to the Kanji support. Please send
- questions, bug reports, and comments to me at the Internet e-mail address
- above, or to KERMIT@CUVMA on BITNET/EARN.
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