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- From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: new ka9q (version 8) uploaded
- Message-ID: <Jan.27.04.49.57.1993.13106@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 09:49:58 GMT
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
- Lines: 31
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- A couple of people have said things that imply that KA9Q as now on
- tsx-11 doesn't work with kernel 0.99. I'm not sure why that would be.
- But I've uploaded the version of KA9Q I'm currently using. It works
- (at least for me) with 0.99pl2, including with the experimental tty
- driver. Note that the binary is linked static, so it doesn't matter
- which sharable libraries you have. The next time I'll probably build
- it dynamic, but at the moment I wasn't sure what to assume that people
- had.
-
- There is one minor change in functionality. It's possible to have
- several sessions active at once. But only one is current. I now
- output a message if input arrives on a session that's not the current
- one. This is intended to alert you that you probably want to look at
- that session to see what's going on. The message looks like
-
- [Telnet: Input from session %d]
-
- I noticed that somebody has a recent NOS release of KA9Q running on
- Linux. That's a newer version of KA9Q than this one. I haven't had a
- chance to look at it yet. I'll try to do so. I should note that
- while the version of KA9Q I started from is fairly old, I've done a
- certain amount of my own work on telnet and compressed SLIP. I have
- spent a lot of time getting CSLIP and telnet to the point where I get
- as good interactive response via KA9Q as a simple Kermit connection.
- I'd like to verify that NOS has equivalent performance and features.
- (There may also be a difference in style. I currently model the
- telnet after Cisco's terminal servers, which I think have a better
- user interface for telnet than the Berkeley code that's more commonly
- used as a model. But I haven't seen what NOS looks like for a couple
- of years, so it could well be as good.) If so, I see no reason for me
- to continue supporting an old version of KA9Q.
-