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Article: 14182 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: C-Kermit 8.0.209
Date: 16 Mar 2003 17:38:49 -0500
Organization: Columbia University
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It never fails that the killer bug is discovered right after the new
release. C-Kermit 8.0.208 is no exception. A few days after it was
announced, Jason Heskett reported that MINPUT failed to strip enclosing
quotes or braces from around its targets. This happened in a
rearrangement of the code that fixed some other problems with MINPUT
(it had never worked with \fpattern()). The quote/brace-stripping
problem not only breaks existing scripts that use this syntax, but
also makes it impossible to have MINPUT targets that contain spaces.
Actually, it was worse than that. MINPUT targets also could not include
certain control characters (notably carriage return and line feed).
These problems, along with a few smaller ones, are fixed in 8.0.209,
which is here for now:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckdaily.html
(source only, no new binaries.) I'll let it sit for a few more days
and, barring any new killer bug reports, I'll release it. In the
meantime, if anybody wants to send in finished, working, and tested
makefile targets for secure builds that we don't have yet (e.g. for
various releases of FreeBSD, HP-UX, AIX, etc), I'll be glad to add them
to the makefile.
Meanwhile, I did some work on the Alphanumeric pager script, mainly
sorting out syntax quirks that made it not terribly transportable among
different C-Kermit/K-95 releases. The new version is here:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/scripts/c-kermit/alphapage
It works in C-Kermit 8.0.201, 206, and 209 (but not 208 because of the
MINPUT bugs) and has better parameterization and feedback.
- Frank