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Article: 13115 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: C-Kermit versus ALL-IN-1
Date: 7 Jan 2002 16:38:27 -0500
Organization: Columbia University
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Does anybody out there still use (or have) ALL-IN-1?
Some years ago, as people started to try using C-Kermit under more and more
different VMS environments (interactive, DCL, Batch, spawned, captive, in a
mailbox, within ALL-IN-1, etc) more and more adaptations had to be made to
get it to recognize which kind of environment it was in, so it would know
how to treat the terminal, whether to echo commands, etc. These adaptations
became increasingly complicated and error-prone, to the extent that when
C-Kermit 8.0:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html
was released a few weeks ago, it turned out to be just about totally broken
for batch use and when spawned.
Because of this and a couple other bugs that surfaced after the 8.0 release
(despite a year of beta testing that never turned them up), we'll probably
be issuing a quick update. A candidate for this updated release is here:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/x.zip
("unzip -a" to unpack, and you'll need a C compiler to build it.) This
version has been verified to work interactively, in DCL, in batch, and
spawned, but not yet in some of the more esoteric environments like ALL-IN-1
or DECintact.
If anybody out there can please try it in these or any other strange VMS
environments you might have access to, I'd appreciate hearing back from you.
If all is well, we can go ahead with the update; otherwise further fixing is
needed.
Thanks!
Frank da Cruz
The Kermit Project
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/