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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Kermit 95 1.1.10 for Alpha/NT and other news
Date: 22 Jan 1997 22:50:49 GMT
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Our Alpha is fixed and the upgrade patch for Kermit 95 1.1.10 is now
available for Alpha NT:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95patch.html
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/patches/wa11{7,8,9}-10.exe
Meanwhile, since version 1.1.10 was released, the inevitable handful of
bugs has appeared -- some old but never noticed before, a couple new.
Briefly summarized, they are:
. Unwanted alert box from K95CINIT
. Problems when switching from VT to ANSI terminal type
. Using SCOANSI emulation with SCO hosts
. Environment variables are not case sensitive
. Data loss in dialup host mode
. Problems with automatic login from certain Dialer entries
. Problems with arrow keys and command recall in certain emulations
. Misleading Dialer error message about screen dimensions
. How to disable scrollback
. Wildcard sends don't work right in XYZMODEM
. Changes in the operation of the numeric keypad
. DEC NRCs are forgotten in Multinational Mode
These are described and, in most cases, workarounds are given, in the
newbugs.doc file in kermit/k95 on kermit.columbia.edu:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/newbugs.doc
You can also visit this file in your Web browser:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95news.html
Some of these items are not actually bugs, but changes (improvments) in
behavior. But they have evidently caused a lot of confusion. The
descriptions of two most confusing ones are reproduced below:
253. Using SCOANSI emulation with SCO hosts
There is a type of terminal emulation commonly called ANSI, which is used by
BBS's. It is very simple -- essentially nothing more than what you get with
ANSI.SYS on a PC. Then there is the highly evolved and complex version of it
used on the SCO (and Linux) console. Kermit 95 supports both; the first
emulation is called ANSI; the second is called SCOANSI. However, the *name*
SCOANSI is unknown on SCO systems. They call it just ANSI. So if a Telnet
client such as Kermit 95 comes in announcing its terminal type as SCOANSI, the
SCO host doesn't recognize it. In Kermit 95 1.1.8 and later, the Telnet
terminal-type negotiation feature will cause Kermit 95 to change to another
terminal type, most likely "plain old" ANSI. To work around this problem in
Kermit 95:
set terminal type scoansi
set telnet terminal-type ansi
set terminal character-set transparent
Or on the SCO system:
Copy the /usr/lib/terminfo/terminfo.src entry for ansi to an scoansi.src
file, changing "ansi" to "scoansi" in that file, and then run tic on it. In
/etc/termcap, make a copy of the "ansi" entry, but call it scoansi.
There is presently no entry for "telnet terminal type" in the Dialer.
This will probably be added in a future release.
261. Changes in the operation of the numeric keypad (K)
In VT220 and VT320 emulation, the PC's numeric keypad is mapped by default
to the VT terminal's numeric keypad. Prior to version 1.1.10, however, this
was not true for VT100 and VT102. But the numeric keypad functions are just
as important in VT100/102 emulation as they are in VT220/320, and a lot of
users of VT100/102 emulation complained that the numeric keypad didn't work
right. So in version 1.1.10, the VT100/102 numeric keypad was mapped the
same as the VT220/320 numeric keypad.
However, this change (like all changes) surprised other people who had become
accustomed to the previous VT100/102 mapping, which was the same as the
mapping for the editing and arrow keys with the same labels.
If you want to restore the previous mapping, add the following to your
K95CUSTOM.INI file:
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \290 \Kdnscn
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \291 \Kendscn
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \292 \Khomscn
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \293 \Klfarr
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \294 \Kuparr
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \295 \Krtarr
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \296 \Kdnarr
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \302 \{127}
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \400 \Kignore
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \2411 {-}
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \4143 /
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \4365 \{13}
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \4463 /
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \4496 \Kignore
SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \4543 /
Replace VT100 with VT102 or other terminal type that you want to have these
definitions on the numeric keypad.
- Frank