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- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 87 18:43 GMT
- From: <MACMAN%CZHETH5A.BITNET@CUVMA.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Another Volunteer / MacKermit 0.9(36)
- To: SY.FDC@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU
-
- Dear Frank,
-
- some times ago Carlos Albuerne was so kind to pass my Modula-2 version
- of Kermit to you. In his letter he mentioned that you might be glad about
- some help with the Macintosh version. So I'm happy to be able to send
- you a new enhanced binary version of the program. It's a port to MPW C
- including many bug fixes and new features. Here is a short (unordered and
- incomplete) list of the changes I made to the program:
-
- # The Cursor with open desk accessories now works correctly
- # Long packets now supported
- # Dialog boxes cleaned up
- # New program icon
- # Settings files are no longer TEXT
- # Changed "Restore ResourcesE" to "Load ResourcesE"
- # Reformatted many parts of the source to be better readable
- # Settings can now be written back to an already existing settings file
- # Server mode: added directory listing feature
- # Added multifile (folder) send
- # Added Server "Delete" file command
- # Added Server "Space" command
- # Server mode: Stop Alerts are not displayed (e.g. User cancelled transaction
- stopped server operation)
- # Get whole folder content from the server with filename ":"
- # Menu command keys added to menus
- # Support of menu command keys
- # Menu command key and FKEY flag now saved with settings
- # Accept end of transmission with keydown (not only mousedown)
- # Added terminal settings dialog
- # Added non-transparent terminal mode
- # Added smooth scrolling option to terminal emulation
- # Added underline cursor option to terminal emulation
- # Added display of protocol version to "About Kermit" dialog.
- # Fixed a bug in ckmtio which caused problems with the parity bit when
- receiving form an IBM host for example.
- # Added a simple Take file interpreter
- # Added session logging
- # Added transaction logging
- # Added a completly new keyboard management (CKMKEY is no longer necessary)
- # "Keep" flag settable by user
- # statistics in about dialog
- # rewrote parts of the window handling routines: windows are now
- highlighted according to the userinterface guidelines
-
- Thanks to the good code generation of the MPW C compiler just porting
- the source saved about 20 kBytes of binary code. Rewriting parts of
- the source saved some more kBytes. This results in a new version with
- all the new features added but about 6 kByte smaller than version 0.8(35).
-
- I hope you will like the new version which I think could be called
- 0.9(36). Please tell me where and how to send the source code
- (preferably a BITNET address). Today I read about Paul Placeway of
- Ohio State University who seems to be working on a new version too.
- Unfortunately I don't have an address to contact him directly. So I
- leave it up to you, how to handle the integration of the sources. Unfor-
- tunately I will not be able to continue the work on MacKermit at the
- moment, because the company who payed for the three weeks of development
- wants me to do some work which pays for them too. Nevertheless I will
- try to write a documentation for the new version. I will keep you
- informed about this.
-
-
- Matthias Aebi
-
- PS: Please do not try to reply via the source address of this message. I
- normally do not have access to this account. Use one of the two adresses
- below instead:
-
- BITNET: K116430@CZHRZU1A
- USENET: ...!mcvax!cernvax!unizh!aebi
-
- I sent a similar letter to KERMSERV@CUVMA. But as I did not get a reply
- I tried this other channel. I'm sorry if you should have received the
- same stuff twice.