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- From: FDBBC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Fred Bogin)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: need new version of Kermit
- Message-ID: <93003.133620FDBBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 18:36:20 GMT
- References: <Dec.31.18.10.15.1992.17518@blaze.rutgers.edu>
- Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
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- You may want to look at this from Columbia U. It tells you all you need
-
- to know about getting the newest version of Kermit.
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- Reply-To: Info-Kermit@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
- Sender: INFO-KERMIT Digest <I$KERMIT@CUVMB.BITNET>
- From: Christine M Gianone <cmg@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Info-Kermit Digest V16 #3
- Comments: To: Info-Kermit@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
- To: Fred Bogin <FDBBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>,
-
- Info-Kermit Digest Wed, 30 Sep 1992 Volume 16 : Number 3
-
- Today's Topics:
- MS-DOS Kermit 3.12 Released
-
- Digest submissions may be sent to Info-Kermit@WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU or
- KERMIT@CUVMA.BITNET. Requests for addition to or deletion from the
- Info-Kermit subscriber list should be sent to LISTSERV@CUVMA.BITNET or
- LISTSERV@CUVMA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU. These messages must be of the form:
-
- SUBSCRIBE I$KERMIT <your-personal-name> (To start a subscription)
- UNSUBSCRIBE I$KERMIT (To cancel a subscription)
- REGISTER I$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: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:00:00 EDT
- From: Christine M Gianone <cmg@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
- Subject: MS-DOS Kermit 3.12 Released
- 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, from Professor Joe R. Doupnik of Utah State University.
- The version number is 3.12, first announced for beta testing on August 26th.
- The major new features of version 3.12 are:
-
- . Networking and communications improvements, including support for ODI.
- . 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.
- . WINPKT "shim" for TCP/IP connections under Microsoft Windows.
-
- The Kanji and locking shift protocol extensions can be used with C-Kermit 5A
- and IBM Mainframe Kermit-370 4.2.3 and 4.2.4. The IBM mainframe file
- transfer extension (which allows files to be transferred through
- non-transparent 3270 protocol converters) works with the new IBM mainframe
- Kermit.
-
- See Info-Kermit V16 #2, 26 August 1992, for a more detailed announcement
- of MS-DOS Kermit 3.12. See V16 #1, 6 August 1992, for detailed announcements
- concerning the new IBM mainframe Kermit, as well as the announcement below.
-
- (Note: Info-Kermit Digest volumes are archived in kermit/e/imail.yyx on watsun
- and IMAIL.yyx on CUVMA, where yy is the year, and x = "a" for first half of
- year or "b" for second half of year, for example imail.92b (IMAIL.92B) for the
- current volume.)
-
- NEW FILES
-
- Internet anonymous ftp EARN/BITNET
- watsun.cc.columbia.edu KERMSRV@CUVMA Description
-
- kermit/bin/msvibm.exe (none) Binary executable for IBM PC
- kermit/a/msvibm.boo MSVIBM BOO BOO-encoded KERMIT.EXE for IBM PC
- kermit/a/msr312.upd MSR312 UPD List of changes since version 3.11
- kermit/a/mskerm.hlp MSKERM HLP Updated help file
- kermit/a/mskerm.bwr MSKERM BWR Updated beware file
- kermit/a/mskermit.ini MSKERMIT INI Updated initialization file
- kermit/a/mscustom.ini MSCUSTOM INI New customization file
-
- Use MSR312.UPD, MSKERM.HLP, and MSKERM.BWR as your supplement to the MS-DOS
- Kermit 3.11 documentation.
-
- The source files are available on both watsun and CUVMA in the same directory
- as the .BOO and .UPD files. The source files are all ASCII text files. Their
- names begin with the letters MS (lowercase on watsun), and they have file
- types of .C, .H, and .ASM (lowercase on watsun). Microsoft MASM and C 6.0
- are required for building version 3.12 from the source files.
-
- The MSVIBM.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-file back into an .EXE file 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:
-
- File name Description
- packet-drivers/bin/winpkt.com WINPKT executable (binary)
- packet-drivers/doc/winpkt.hlp WINPKT help file (ascii)
- packet-drivers/src/winpkt.asm WINPKT source code (ascii)
-
- My special thanks to Joe, on behalf all MS-DOS Kermit users everywhere, for
- the work and skill he put into this new release, and to Dr. Hirofumi Fujii
- of the Japan National Laboratory of High Energy Physics, Tokyo, for
- extensive contributions to the Kanji support. And thanks to all of you
- who sent in helpful comments on the Beta version.
-
- } I$KERMIT CUVMB 10/01/92
- ~Christine M Gianone Al Perez 10/01/92 Info-Kermit Digest V16 #3
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- Fred Bogin
- Brooklyn College Library
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