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From: [e-mail] (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Announcing Kermit 95 1.1.9
Date: 18 Dec 1996 22:18:18 GMT
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Version 1.1.9 of Kermit 95 is now available as a patch to versions 1.1.7
or 1.1.8.  The main purpose of this release is to correct several annoying
bugs in the 1.1.8 release, most of them artifacts of the Unicode conversion,
notably:

 . Page faults when "set terminal character-set transparent" was used
 . Keyboard character-set translation problems
 . Broken Hebrew and Russian keyboard modes
 . Broken dead-key and Alt-Gr support
 . Broken Latin-2 Compose key
 . Broken print-screen and transparent-print functions
 . Some problems with HP2621 emulation
 . VMS SET TERM/WIDTH=xxx did not always clear screen

plus several other lower-profile bugs.

There are also a few new features, including:

 . Improved horizontal scrolling
 . EDIT, SET EDITOR, SHOW EDITOR and a new "netedit" feature
 . XSEND32 utility for sending directory trees
 . Support for host WordPerfect private character-set designation
 . (Partial) HPTERM emulation (Hewlett Packard "term0")
 . (Partial) Honeywell VIP7809 emulation
 . SET SEND DOUBLE-CHARACTER and SET RECEIVE IGNORE-CHARACTER

The last two items are for compatibility with MS-DOS Kermit, and are used
for accessing and transferring files with Honeywell DPS-6 mainframes.
Kermit's VIP7809 emulation is just a minor modification to VT102 involving
the "what are you?" query and response and does not, at this time, claim to
be true VIP terminal emulation.  The SET SEND/RECEIVE commands are useful
for helping file transfers to work through communication front ends that use
a printable character (like @) as an escape character (like the old ARPAnet
TIP or TAC), and for stripping out line-folding control characters that have
been inserted into incoming packets, e.g. by an X.3 PAD or a DPS-6 front end.

HPTERM emulation is the basic Hewlett Packard "Term0" specification used by
the hpterm X-terminal on HP workstations, and compatible with most actual HP
terminal types.  It is quite serviceable, but at present lacks color, key
labels, and a few other features, to be filled in later on if demand warrants.

The horizontal scrolling item is to compensate for the Windows 95 bug that
prevents use of 132-column (or other odd-size) windows in Console mode.
Kermit 95 now lets you have a 132-column "logical" screen within an
80-column "physical" screen, and then gives you keyboard verbs (that can be
assigned to any keys or key combinations) to scroll left and right, plus new
indicators on the status line to let you know where you are, horizontally
speaking.  This is the ONLY way to have wide console screens without
crashing the application or Windows 95 itself, and it should hold the fort
until the GUI version arrives (still coming!).  (REMEMBER -- there are no
problems at all with 132-column-mode in Kermit 95 on Windows NT.)

A form of "network editing" has been added, which lets you type a command
to Kermit 95 or to the remote computer (the one you are talking to in your
terminal screen) that automatically downloads a file to your PC, loads it
into your preferred Windows editor, and then uploads it again automatically
after you're finished editing it.

We've also included a new XSEND program for Windows 95 and NT.  When you
run it in a particular directory, it builds a Kermit 95 script to send and
replicate the entire directory tree of which the current directory is root,
to another computer that has a Kermit server.  The other computer can be
UNIX, VMS, OS/2, DOS, or even another Windows 95 system.

HOW TO GET IT

The new release can be ordered in shrink-wrapped or bulk- or site-licensed
form from Columbia University.  All orders received starting today will be
filled with version 1.1.9.  (Yes, we said that about 1.1.8 on November 21,
but because a the bugs listed above, that surfaced just after it was
released, we continued to ship 1.1.7 until 1.1.9 could be completed.)

Find Kermit 95 ordering information at:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html

Current registered users of Kermit 95 can download the 1.1.9 upgrade patch
from our BBS or from our ftp site:

  ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/patches/

or on the Web:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95patch.html

All the new features are documented in the updated UPDATES.DOC file that
comes in the patch, and in the updated BUGS.DOC file.

Incidentally, in case any of you missed the announcements, the host-side
counterpart of Kermit 95 -- C-Kermit 6.0 for UNIX, VMS, AOS/VS, etc -- was
released a couple weeks ago.  Kermit 95 and C-Kermit 6.0 make a great team.
Find out all about it at:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck60.html

Frank da Cruz
The Kermit Project
Columbia University