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Note: kermit was recently removed from SimTel (oak.oakland.edu) and
garbo (garbo.uwasa.fi) ftp-sites. This info should be useful..
From fdc@fdc.cc.columbia.edu Tue Oct 18 01:39:25 1994
From: fdc@fdc.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.announce
Subject: MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 Beta available for testing
Keywords: Kermit
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 22:57:25 GMT
Followup-To: comp.archives.msdos.d
Organization: Columbia University
(Reposted from comp.protocols.kermit.announce...)
This is to announce a beta testing period for MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 for the
IBM PC, PS/2, and compatibles with DOS or Windows. The new MS-DOS Kermit
release was prepared, as always, by Professor Joe R. Doupnik of Utah State
University.
HIGHLIGHTS
FILE TRANSFER RECOVERY allows interrupted binary-mode transfers to be
continued from the point of failure. Can be used with C-Kermit 5A(190),
which is still in Beta test, on UNIX, AOS/VS, Stratus VOS, and the
Commodore Amiga. Maybe also with VMS, no promises. And in the near
future, probably also with other major operating systems (stay tuned).
NOTE: C-Kermit 5A(190) is still in the kermit/test directories on
kermit.columbia.edu, but should be finalized and moved to kermit/b
and also made available on BITNET KERMSRV within a few days. So
if you look for it one place and don't find it, just look in the
other place.
ANSI AND WYSE TERMINAL EMULATION add two popular terminal types to
Kermit's repertoire. ANSI emulation, not quite the same as VT100
emulation, is used to access most BBSs, and Wyse emulation is required by
certain applications and services.
Workarounds for buggy UART simulator on Pentium motherboards and other new
processors allows MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 to work on these systems, where
earlier versions might not have. Also: support for the Hayes ESP serial
communications board in 16550A mode; support for Fossil drivers; dialing
scripts for more and more new kinds of modems (many of them with X and/or
Z in their names -- all the popular brands!).
Numerous additions to the script programming language, including a full
selection built-in functions compatible with C-Kermit's: \fsubstring(), etc.
Complete Hebrew and Cyrillic support packages are now included, and Kanji
terminal emulation is now available for DOS/V on IBM and compatible PCs.
Network, printer, keyboard, font, and other support support utilities are
now included in the basic package.
New smaller versions are available for those who don't need (or can't fit)
all the features of the full version.
Here is a more detailed list of the changes in version 3.14:
. ANSI terminal emulation
. Wyse-50 terminal emulation
. Data General DASHER and DEC VT terminal emulation improvements
. Kanji character-set translation during terminal emulation
. HP-Roman8 terminal character-set
. Control over timeslicing method in Windows, DesqView, OS/2, NT
. Control over automatic video-mode switching
. Selectable fore- and background colors for underline simulation
. Additional scan codes for Alt/Ctrl/Shift - SpaceBar/EscKey combinations
. DEC User Definable Keys (UDKs) now supported
. Revised printer support for better interoperation with Novell CAPTURE
. Additional control over TCP/IP and TELNET protocol features
. Debugging display of TELNET options negotiation
. Networking support for Telebit PPP
. TCP/IP fixes, speedups, and refinements
. Multiple TCP/IP sessions to the same host now allowed
. Support for Artisoft Int14 redirector
. Support for Meridian Technology SuperLAT network connections
. Workarounds for buggy SMC FDC37C665 UART simulator on Pentium motherboards
. Support for Hayes ESP serial communications board in 16550A mode
. Support for Fossil Drivers
. SET SPEED 28800
. User control over treatment of carrier signal on serial connections
. Binary-mode file transfer recovery
. Ability to send partial files manually
. Control of run-length encoding
. Improved client/server operation
. Prompt string value now evaluated each time prompt is issued
. ASK/ASKQ responses now taken literally
. New APC command sends APC strings
. Incoming APC strings ignored by default for safety
. Revised CONNECT-mode status line for additional information
. Separate CONNECT-mode help and one-character command menus
. New script programming commands
. Improved consistency of backslash-quoting in commands
. New built-in string, file, and numeric functions
. Additional built-in variables
. Revised command line handling of substitution variables
. Transaction log of file transfers now records detailed rejection
reason if based on file attributes
. Available also in special reduced forms for limited memory, e.g. for
use on 256K systems, or as an external protocol on BBSs, etc.
The organization of the files and the manner in which we are distributing
them as been improved. We are now distributing Kermit on a high-density
1.44MB 3.5-inch diskette, which is pretty universally accepted these days,
and on the network in a ZIP file that mirrors this diskette. This allows
us to organize and name the files more sensibly and to include material
that previously would not fit. Here is a brief synopsis:
READ.ME Brief overview of what's on the disk (in the ZIP file)
KERMIT.EXE Full-function MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 (about 260K)
KERMITE.EXE A smaller version (about 180K - no networks, no graphics)
KERLITE.EXE A very small version (120K, scripting & file transfer only)
MSR*314.PCH Patch files (currently empty)
MSKERMIT.INI Standard initialization file
MSCUSTOM.INI Sample (note: -> SAMPLE <-) customization file
DIALUPS.TXT Sample dialing directory
KERMIT.UPD Documentation for new features
KERMIT.HLP Brief synopsis of commands
KERMIT.BWR "Beware" file - hints and tips, etc
COLS80.BAT Too hard to explain in one line, see READ.ME...
COLS132.BAT Ditto
KERMITE.EXE can be used on PCs with small memories, e.g. on old XTs, where
the full-featured version might not fit. It can also be used if you
simply do not need Kermit's networking or graphics terminal emulation
capabilities, in which case you can run bigger programs "under" Kermit in
the extra free memory.
Of particular interest to BBS proprietors, KERLITE.EXE is an "extra-lite"
version which is like the "lite" version, but also eliminates the terminal
emulator (and the CONNECT command) entirely, but still includes the full
script programming language, weighing in at only 120K - perfect for use as
an external protocol and script execution engine.
With Kermit Lite plus Fossil and ESP support, there is every reason to
upgrade the Kermit support in BBSs to the most advanced and fastest Kermit
protocol implementation available for DOS. For further information, see
the new BBS OPERATORS GUIDE section in the KERMIT.UPD file. (Vendors of
BBS software who want to include Kermit with their product should contact
us for further information.)
Now come the subdirectories. Each one has a READ.ME file that explains
its contents.
PERFORM
An article on Kermit file transfer protocol performance.
MODEMS
Dialing scripts for 19 different modems, including most popular
high-speed, error-correcting, data-compressing models.
NETWORKS
Everything you need for MS-DOS Kermit TCP/IP networking except the
specific driver for your network board, including all the famous "shims"
that convert between one "standard" and another, such as the latest
version of Dan Lanciani's ODIPKT, plus Joe Doupnik's DIS_PKT9, plus the
WINPKT shim to be used when Windows is involved, and a SLIP driver in
case you don't have a network board, all of which have been verified to
work with this version of Kermit and other popular software. Plus a new
overview document to help you make sense of this ever-more-confusing
tangle.
KEYBOARD
Complete key mappings for DEC VT220/320 and DG DASHER emulation. The
"Gold key" TSR, for making Num Lock work like the F1 key. LK250 drivers
(for DEC keyboards that plug into IBM PCs). A little TSR for swapping
the Caps Lock and Ctrl keys and Esc and tilde.
UTILS
General utilities, like the famous XSEND program for transferring entire
directory trees, plus various printer items. (Did you know Kermit could
transfer directory trees intact?)
WINDOWS
Windows Program Information File for Kermit.
PCFONTS
This is something new -- public domain fonts (code pages) for your PC
that are easy to load dynamically -- no more endless and fruitless
wandering through the corridors of IBM or Microsoft to track down a
Hebrew or Cyrillic code page; no more editing AUTOEXEC.BAT (DISPLAY.SYS,
NLSFUNC blah blah, MODE CON CP PREPARE blah blah, MODE CON CP SELECT
blah blah) and then rebooting to install a new code page, no more limit
to four "prepared" code pages. Now you can just "loadfont" whatever
code page you want, any time you want. This directory includes code
pages for Western and Eastern European languages (CP437, 850, and 852),
Icelandic (861), Hebrew (862) and Cyrillic (863), plus utilities to load
and display them. Our thanks to Joseph (Yossi) Gil at The Technion in
Haifa, Isreal, for this wonderful collection (and this is only a small
part of it -- look in kermit.columbia.edu:pcfonts for more, and maybe
find even more at the Technion - ftp.technion.ac.il).
CYRILLIC
Also new. Key mapping and screen translation setups to be used with the
Cyrillic font, plus Cyrillic character-set tables. Use MS-DOS Kermit
for Russian terminal emulation (and Ukranian, Bielorussian, etc), using
any of the popular host encodings: ISO, KOI-8, or Short KOI. Now you
can read those Russian newsgroups! Thanks to Konstantin Vinogradov of
ICSTI in Moscow, Russia, for the .INI files.
HEBREW
Also new. The files in this directory give MS-DOS Kermit full Hebrew
terminal emulation capability, including the standard (i.e. WordPerfect
:-) key map for entering Hebrew letters on the PC keyboard, complete
with automatic English/Hebrew switching directed by the host, everything
you get on a real Hebrew-model VT420 terminal. Thus the standard MS-DOS
Kermit distribution now replaces the various "Hebrewized" offshoots of
MS-DOS Kermit that have been in circulation for some years, e.g. for use
with the ALEPH bibliographic software. You even get a PostScript
picture of the key map.
ROMAN
Character-set tables for Roman-based character sets used by MS-DOS Kermit.
HOW TO GET IT...
The ZIP file is available via anonymous ftp from kermit.columbia.edu in
the directory kermit/test/bin, filename mstibm.zip. Transfer it in binary
mode, and then unzip it, preserving the subdirectories (use the "-d" switch
in pkunzip), read the top-level READ.ME file, and go from there.
By the way, do not unzip the ZIP file over your old Kermit directory, or
you will lose your old MSCUSTOM.INI file and your old dialing directory!
Either make a new directory for MS-DOS Kermit 3.14, or copy your
MSCUSTOM.INI and DIALUPS.TXT files to a safe place before wiping out your
old one, for example:
cd \kermit
copy mscustom.ini mscustom.old
copy dialups.txt dialups.old
pkunzip -d mstibm.zip
copy mscustom.old mscustom.ini
copy dialups.old dialups.txt
Also in the kermit/test/bin directory: mstz10.exe, MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 for
the Heath/Zenith 100. Other versions (Victor 9000, etc) will be added as
time goes on.
There are also textual encodings of the ZIP file in BOO and UUENCODE
format. These are available via anonymous ftp from kermit.columbia.edu,
directory kermit/test/text, text mode, files mstibm.boo and mstibm.uue.
These two files are also available on CUVMA for retrieval via BITNET
KERMSRV.
Our deepest thanks, as always, to Joe Doupnik for bringing another new
version of MS-DOS Kermit to us.
Please send comments on MS-DOS 3.14 Beta via email to kermit@columbia.edu.
In particular, we are interested in the new layout of the disk, and that
all internal cross references among files (text, command, and program) are
consistent and working.