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From: Igor Sobrado <igor@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Kermit: release 3.15 or 3.16?
Date: 23 Aug 2006 09:29:25 +0200
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Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure, however, if anybody still has the tools needed to
> build the program from source, so it would be a chore to remove
> the Beta notice (should that be desirable). Maybe the binary can
> just be patched.
Hello.
I think that patching the binary is *not* a very good idea!
The binary (from may 1999) is the 7th. beta release for 3.16:
$ strings MSK316.EXE | grep -i beta
MS-DOS Kermit: 3.16 Beta 7 4 May 1999$patch level 0 $
(sorry, I do not have that 286 computer yet, no way to run the binary!)
But the source code has this macro in MSSDEF.H:
version equ 316 ; master version number
verdef macro
db ' MS-DOS Kermit: 3.16 Beta 10'
ifdef nls_portuguese
db ' Portuguese'
endif ; nls_portuguese
db ' 22 April 2001'
endm
If I finally contribute to a stable release, I will work on the
code from april 2001... working on the 7th. Beta release would be
unacceptable if we want to release the highest quality version of
MS-DOS Kermit. What is the current status of the 10th revision?
Is it a well-known (relatively bug free) revision? Are there more
recent source-only revisions of MS-DOS Kermit?
Best regards,
Igor.