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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: C-Kermit 7.0 Update Notes
Date: 2 Feb 2000 00:23:58 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <877teu$l3m$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
To make it easier for everybody to find what they're looking for in
the C-Kermit 7.0 update notes, the ckermit2.txt file has been converted
to HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and placed on the Kermit website as:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit2.html
It's big, of course, so it takes a while to load. But it should be
easier to read, with the same typeface conventions as the printed manual,
plus all the references and internal cross-references are now hyperlinks.
Nothing fancy -- it should be usable by any browser at all (HTML 1.0 and
later :-) It's still all one big file, which is advantageous for text
searches.
The case studies (posted here over the past few weeks) that were added to
the website now link into specific sections of the new update notes page,
so you can just click on (e.g.) "Section 7.19" and go straight there.
Case 10 seems to have been the most discussion-provoking, and all the
followups have been collected with it:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/case10.html
In other news, version 7.0 has been holding up well. As noted or implied
in other postings, some alterations were made after the release to make
it build on platforms that were not accessible before the release date,
most of them to the makefile (the one involving SCO OSR5 was caused by
a "cleaning up" edit to the makefile after the binaries were built --
evidently it was interrupted in the middle by a phone call or something).
We've collected about 240 C-Kermit 7.0 binaries so far, which might be
some kind of record, plus 100 G-Kermit ones. We hope to go to press with
the C-Kermit 7.0 CDROM soon, so if you can make any binaries that are not
listed (or that are listed without the "+" sign) in:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html#binlist
or can add any new G-Kermit binaries:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html
please let me know. Some of the major gaps include:
. Unixware 2.0 or earlier
. SCO OSR5.0.0
. SCO UNIX prior to 3.2.4
. Old DG/UX versions
. OSF 2.0 or 3.0
. HP-UX 10.30
. AIX 3.0 or 3.1
. AIX 3.2.5
. AIX 4.2-point-anything
. AIX or any other OS on RT PC
. Motorola 88K with System V R3
. BSDI releases prior to 4.0
. Sequent DYNIX/ptc prior to 4.4.2
. ESIX
. Encore Umax, any version
. 4.2 or 4.3 BSD on any architecture
. Red Hat Linux prior to 5.1, any architecture
. NeXTSTEP 3.x on Intel
. Any QNX version priot to 4.25
. Unisys SVR3
And for C-Kermit only:
. Stratus VOS on m68k or i860
. Stratus FTX on Continuum
. Old VMS versions
Thanks!
- Frank