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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 Bug Fix and Replacement
Date: 19 Jan 1995 18:44:31 GMT
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MS-DOS Kermit 3.14, as announced on January 12th, had a pair of bugs
that required a quick replacement. Very briefly, the bugs were:
1. Incorrect response to the cursor position report request escape
sequence, such as the one issued by UNIX `eval resize`, or by
the login procedure of VMS 6.x, or by recent releases of Pine,
to determine the size of your physical screen.
2. Memory corruption if the cursor was positioned off the physical
screen.
Unfortunately, (2) was very likely to happen because of (1). For
example, Pine might send the escape sequence from (1), Kermit might
mistakenly report that its screen had 231 lines, and then Pine would
try to write text to bottom of the screen, causing the memory corruption.
The memory corruption manifested itself in various ways: switching to
Tektronix mode, the disappearance of macro definitions, and/or the
inability to EXIT from Kermit.
These bugs are now fixed, thanks to the quick action of Joe Doupnik, and
a new replacement ZIP file is now available. The Kermit program still
identifies itself as version 3.14, but the date is January 18, 1995,
rather than January 12, 1995.
The corrected version 3.14 is available via anonymous ftp from
kermit.columbia.edu as follows:
DIRECTORY MODE DESCRIPTION
kermit/archives/msvibm.zip binary Distribution diskette ZIP file
kermit/a/msvibmzip.boo text Ditto, BOO-encoded
kermit/a/msvibmzip.uue text Ditto, uuencoded
The text-encoded ZIP files are also available on BITNET from KERMSRV@CUVMA
as MSVIBMZI.BOO and MSVIBMZI.UUE.
Please replace the January 12th version with the January 18th one.
Apologies for the inconvenience. All further corrections will be issued
in the form of patches.
- Frank