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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 Beta 14 ready for testing
Date: 21 Nov 1994 22:24:00 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 Beta-14 is available for anonymous ftp from
kermit.columbia.edu as of Monday, 21 November 1994, 5:00pm EST:
kermit/test/bin/mstibm.zip - Binary ZIP file
kermit/test/text/mstibm.uue - Uuencoded ZIP file
kermit/test/text/mstibm.boo - BOO-encoded ZIP file
The UUE and BOO files are also available on BITNET from KERMSRV at CUVMA.
Changes and fixes since Beta-12 ( there was no Beta-13 :-) include:
1. Final touches added to SET CARRIER detection for rapid reaction.
2. Found and fixed the recent slowdown for real serial ports (too long a
delay when waiting for the UART transmitter to become free). ZIP-file
throughput dropped to 600-700 file characters per second, rather than
the usual 1600 or so with a 14,400 bps modem (when Kermit protocol is
tuned for peak performance and you have a buffered UART, etc).
3. Added new built-in DIAL command. This looks for a macro of the same
name (such as the one defined in the standard MSKERMIT.INI file), and
executes it with the given phone number as its argument(s). If no DIAL
macro is defined then a simple internal macro named __DIAL is run
instead. This allows at least some form of dialing to be done under
program control even when KERMIT.EXE is run "bare" with no macros
defined. The only assumption made by the built-in DIAL macro is that
ATD<phone-number><CR> is the dialing command. See (the new) section
1.2 of the KERMIT.UPD file for details.
4. Cured a bug when "\FOOBAR" or other word beginning with \F (upper or
lower case), but not one of the \function()s, occurs in certain
commands, especially in SET PROMPT.
5. Fixed a bug in sending packets over a seven bit channel with locking
shifts active. A packet could be one byte longer than a "regular" one
and be sent in long packet format by mistake.
6. Fixed a bug in packet capabilities fields which could prevent a client
from requesting file type Binary automatically.
7. Minor fixes to Cyrillic .INI files, addition of a SHORTKOI.TBL file.
Still more thanks to Joe Doupnik for his continuing work on this project
and his responsiveness to beta testing reports.
Please continue to send reports by e-mail to kermit@columbia.edu. Let's
give this one a good workout in hopes that it might be the final Beta!
- Frank