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WHAT'S NEW IN KSP FTP
3.0: Enhancement: At the end of a timed-out session, KSP-FTP
now waits for the serial output buffer to empty, and then
flushes the serial input buffer.
Enhancement: Modified to use the ftp PASV command (rather
than PORT command) when supported by remote server so that
KSP-FTP can now work through most firewalls.
2.9: Bug Fix: Discovered that the Waterloo TCP/IP library
routine that reads a line of text from the network failed
when the input buffer contained an ASCII NUL. Corrected.
2.8: Clean Up: Reversed the default on
"ksp-ftp.retrieve_hostnames". The default now is
disabled; the parameter may be used to set it to enabled.
New Feature: Added an option (ksp-ftp.allowed_ip_list) to
specify the name of a file containing a list of allowed IP
addresses. Users will not be allowed to connect to any IP
address not on this list.
Enhancement: Whenever the local BBS console screen is
disabled (by SysOp command or file transfers), KSP-FTP now
displays the user's name, city, the remote host id, and
the minutes remaining.
Enhancement: KSP-FTP now assigns it's local tcp/ip port
randomly. This helps when trying to re-establish a
connection to a remote host that was lost in a recent
previous execution of KSP-TLNT.
Clean Up: KSP-FTP no longer hangs up the modem when the
user times out but rather simply returns to the BBS and
lets the BBS decide whether or not to hangup.
2.7: New Feature: Added reverse domain name lookups so that the
command prompt reflects the correct hostname even if an IP
address was given by the user. This feature is enabled by
default, but may be disabled by setting
ksp-tlnt.retrieve_hostnames=DISABLED. Note: This change
required adding an entry to KSP-FTP.TXT.)
2.6: Bug Fix: When an external protocol was invoked, the port
number was always passed to the driver as zero;
corrected.
Bug Fix: With external protocols, no check for carrier
loss or timeout occurred until after the tcp/ip transfer
was complete; corrected.
WHAT'S NEW IN KSP FTP
2.5: Clean Up: Improved handling of "ksp-ftp.ophours" . If
start time is after the stop time, the hours of operation
will be interpreted as all but those in the window
specified. I.e., setting ophours to 03:20-03:00 will
allow operation anytime except 03:00-03:20.
2.4: New Feature: Added a option (ksp-ftp.blocked_ip_list) to
specify the name of a file containing a list of blocked IP
addresses. Users will not be allowed to connect to any IP
address on this list. This required adding a new message
to the end of KSP-FTP.TXT.
2.3: Bug Fix: If you entered the command "PUT" without
specifying a filename, external batch protocols would
upload the file(s) to the BBS, but not transfer them over
the Internet to the remote ftp host. Corrected.
Bug Fix: External protocol batch files are supposed to be
located in the same directory as the executable file
(KSP-FTP.EXE) so that one set can be shared by multiple
nodes. The code contained a bug that required these files
to be placed in the directory that was the current default
directory at the moment that KSP-FTP was executed.
Corrected; external protocol batch files (KSPFTPR?.BAT and
KSPFTPS?.BAT) should now be located in the directory that
holds KSP-FTP.EXE, and the batch files should be marked
"read-only".
Bug Fix: If the minutes remaining passed to KSP-FTP in the
DOOR.SYS file was zero, the user would get unlimited time;
corrected. Note: This required adding a new message (#96)
to KSP-FTP.TXT.
2.2: Work Around: Discovered that the ARNET driver in Egberto
Willies' COMM-DRV (used by Clark Development's PCBoard)
does not adhere 100% to the fossil spec in that function
04h (Initialize) does not return 1954h when called with
DX=00FFh. I was using this to detect the presence of a
fossil driver as recommended in the fossil spec! Corrected
by modifying the presence test to add two additional
presence tests if the first one (04h) fails.
Clean Up: Wow! No one ever noticed before (including me)
that there was no explanation in the docs about how to
implement external protocols! Corrected.
WHAT'S NEW IN KSP FTP
2.1: Bug Fix: Fossil drivers do not typically detect an
incoming serial "break" signal. Thus when used with a
fossil driver, the configuration parameter called
"serialport" is used to enable additional code to provide
this feature. Although this code worked fine when tested
with the X00 fossil driver, it prevented both the BNU
fossil driver and PCBoard's COMMDRV program from doing
serial output properly. Corrected.
Bug Fix: Was not detecting carrier loss (user hangup)
properly. Corrected.
New Feature: Added a command line parameter
"/SCRIPT=<filespec>" to specify a text file to be used as
command line input.
Enhancement: A caller could abort an attempt to connect to
a remote site by pressing any key while the dots are being
painted back and forth on the screen. However, this
caused a rather obvious problem if the caller had a noisy
modem connection to the BBS. Now only three specific
keystrokes are recognized as a request to abort the
connection attempt: Esc, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-X.
Enhancements: When run from the local BBS console, the
door no longer announces to the SysOp that Shift-F1
toggles the local BBS screen and the key has no effect;
when a remote caller invokes the door, however, Shift-F1
is fully functional in the normal manner. When used with
a remote caller to enable/disable the local console
screen, Shift-F1 now informs (only) the SysOp whether the
screen has been enabled or disabled.
Clean Up: When opening the door, the number of minutes
remaining is announced properly to the caller. However,
the minutes remaining was not displayed properly in the
prompt when it was a very large number (like 1440 minutes
= 24 hours). Corrected.
2.0: Bug Fix: Wasn't working with Digiboard when used with a
fossil driver. Corrected.
Bug Fix: The COM port number in DOOR.SYS was limited to
COM1 through COM4 since this is all that can be supported
by the async library; however, there should be no such
limit if a fossil driver is used. Corrected.
WHAT'S NEW IN KSP FTP
Bug Fix: The special break detect code used with fossil
drivers was interfering with normal fossil operation;
corrected.
New Feature: Added support for an environment variable
(ksp-ip) to set the IP address. Since the IP address is
often the only parameter in WATTCP.CFG that changes from
one BBS node to another, this allows using a single copy
of that file for all nodes.
New Feature: While user is in the door, pressing Shift-F1
on the local console of the BBS will toggle whether or not
output also appears on the BBS's local console screen.
Clarification: Some Internet access providers configure
their dial-up slip and ppp accounts with a very small
segment size. You may need to set mss as low as 212 if
your Internet connection is through such a connection.
1.9: Oops! When I fixed the search algorithm in 1.8, I
accidentally broke the "include" directive in WATTCP.CFG.
Corrected.
1.8: Bug Fix: Dynamic parameters did not function properly;
corrected.
Change: Changed the search order for WATTCP.CFG to be
downward compatible with earlier versions of KSP-FTP.
First, it checks for an environment variable called
WATTCP.CFG that specifies the directory. Second, it looks
in the current (default) directory. Third, if still not
found, it looks in the directory that contains the
executable (KSP-FTP.EXE).
1.7: Oops! 'Forgot to include KSP-FTP.TXT in KSPFTP16.ZIP!
Enhancement: KSP FTP now looks in three directories to
locate the WATTCP.CFG configuration file. First, it
checks for an environment variable called WATTCP.CFG that
specifies the directory. Second, it looks in the
directory that contains the executable (KSP-FTP.EXE).
Third, if still not found, it looks in the current
(default) directory.
Enhancement: Added a command line option
(/CONFIG=<number>, where "<number>" is a non-zero integer
such as "1") to facilitate dynamic configuration options.
If used, then any WATTCP.CFG configuration file parameters
of the form:
WHAT'S NEW IN KSP FTP
ksp-ftp[<number>].<parameter>=<value>
are ignored unless the integer number enclosed in square
brackets matches that specified in the command line
option. This also works for global parameters, such as
"ksp[<number>].<parameter>".
1.6: New Feature: Added a command line option (e.g.,
/MAX_MINS=60) to limit the time a caller is allowed in the
door. If used, time in the door will be the minimum of
that specified by the option and their time remaining on
the BBS.
New feature: Added support for foreign languages by
putting all the program text in a file called
KSP-FTP.TXT. This file can be modified using any normal
text editor. The file MUST be placed in the same
directory as KSP-FP.EXE and marked read-only.
1.5: Bug Fix: When a user dropped carrier, KSP FTP did not
necessarily properly unhook the serial port interrupt
routine. Most users would never experience a problem
since it required an improbable combination of events to
cause it to occur. Corrected.
New Feature: All of our software is now available via
anonymous ftp at "scizzl.scu.edu", directory "ksp".
Please note that there is no "e" at the end of "scizzl".
1.4: Bug Fix: When remote host refused a connection, KSP FTP
would try to close that connection even though it had not
been opened, thus causing a long delay. Corrected.
Enhancement: Added the ability to override Waterloo
TCP/IP's automatic search for the packet vector interrupt
by using an environment variable, as in:
set ksp-pv=<number>
where "<number>" may be in decimal (e.g., "96"), in hex
preceded by "0x" (e.g., "0x60"), or in octal preceded by
"0" (e.g., "0140").
Enhancement: Added information in the documentation about
a packet driver shim for Novell with a Token-Ring_SNAP
network.
WHAT'S NEW IN KSP FTP
Enhancement: Performance problem when running under
DESQview with PKTMUX solved by creation of KSP-DVMX packet
multiplexer. Available as file KSPMUX*.ZIP, where "*" is
the version number.
Bug Fix: Users who hung up abruptly in the middle of a FTP
session could cause the software to hang; corrected.
1.3: New Feature: Now DESQview "aware" to provide better
performance in a multitasking environment.
New Feature: Added configuration option
"ksp-ftp.local_bell" which can be set to "disabled" to
silence the bell on the BBS console.
New Feature: Added configuration option
"ksp-ftp.local_screen" which can be set to "disabled" to
improve screen painting speed for the caller.
Enhancement: Added Waterloo TCP/IP configuration parameter
"dns_search_mode" to accelerate nameserver lookups.
1.2: Enhancement: KSP-FTP did not send the file size to the
receiver at the start of a Zmodem download because some
ftp hosts do not provide that information. That's not a
problem if Zmodem is implemented properly in the
receiver's communications program, since the Zmodem spec
regards this information as optional. KSP-FTP now tries
two techniques (that suffice for 90% of the ftp hosts) to
obtain the file size; if available, it is now provided to
the internal Zmodem protocol driver.
Enhancement: Documented the "include" directive that helps
when you have multiple nodes.
CleanUp: Clarified the description of the batch file used
to invoke the door.
CleanUp: Discovered that only the newest versions of the
Novell packet driver shim (ODIPKT) allow command line
parameters to be specified in hex; older versions require
that they be specified only in decimal. Our docs
describing how to install ODIPKT have now been modified to
show decimal parameters since they will work in all
versions of ODIPKT.
BugFix: Translation of filenames like "BBSes.on.Internet"
on remote (Unix) ftp host yielded a DOS name of
"BBSES.ON." where the second period was clearly improper.
WHAT'S NEW IN KSP FTP
Corrected.
BugFix: If no WATTCP.CFG environment variable was used,
there was a chance that part of memory might be
corrupted. Corrected.
BugFix: The configuration parameter "ksp-ftp.mb_external"
unfortunately affected internal as well as external
protocols. Corrected; it now only applies to external
protocols.
1.1: Enhancement: Configuration parameters such
"ksp-ftp.serial_port" that are common to more that one KSP
product may now be enterred in the WATTCP.CFG
configuration file once, as in "ksp.serial_port".
Enhancement: Added "more" command to toggle the "More?"
prompt at the end of a page of text."
Bug Fix: Downloading using Zmodem in QmodemPro with 32-bit
CRC enabled caused "Long packet received during protocol"
errors. Corrected.
CleanUp: If username or password commands failed during
login to remote ftp host, connection is closed but command
line prompt looked like connection was still open.
Corrected.
CleanUp: When presenting remote text to the user, the
count of lines that controls the "More?" prompt was off by
one. Corrected.
1.0: Initial release.