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- WHAT'S NEW IN KSP FTP
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- 2.6: Bug Fix: When an external protocol was invoked, the port
- number was always passed to the driver as zero;
- corrected.
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- Bug Fix: With external protocols, no check for carrier
- loss or timeout occurred until after the tcp/ip transfer
- was complete; corrected.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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".
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- WHAT'S NEW IN KSP FTP
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Bug Fix: Was not detecting carrier loss (user hangup)
- properly. Corrected.
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- New Feature: Added a command line parameter
- "/SCRIPT=<filespec>" to specify a text file to be used as
- command line input.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 2.0: Bug Fix: Wasn't working with Digiboard when used with a
- fossil driver. Corrected.
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- WHAT'S NEW IN KSP FTP
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- 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.
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- Bug Fix: The special break detect code used with fossil
- drivers was interfering with normal fossil operation;
- corrected.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 1.9: Oops! When I fixed the search algorithm in 1.8, I
- accidentally broke the "include" directive in WATTCP.CFG.
- Corrected.
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- 1.8: Bug Fix: Dynamic parameters did not function properly;
- corrected.
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- 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).
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- 1.7: Oops! 'Forgot to include KSP-FTP.TXT in KSPFTP16.ZIP!
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- 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.
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- WHAT'S NEW IN KSP FTP
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- 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
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- ksp-ftp[<number>].<parameter>=<value>
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- 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>".
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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".
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- 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.
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- Enhancement: Added the ability to override Waterloo
- TCP/IP's automatic search for the packet vector interrupt
- by using an environment variable, as in:
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- set ksp-pv=<number>
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- 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").
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- WHAT'S NEW IN KSP FTP
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- Enhancement: Added information in the documentation about
- a packet driver shim for Novell with a Token-Ring_SNAP
- network.
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- 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.
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- Bug Fix: Users who hung up abruptly in the middle of a FTP
- session could cause the software to hang; corrected.
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- 1.3: New Feature: Now DESQview "aware" to provide better
- performance in a multitasking environment.
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- New Feature: Added configuration option
- "ksp-ftp.local_bell" which can be set to "disabled" to
- silence the bell on the BBS console.
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- New Feature: Added configuration option
- "ksp-ftp.local_screen" which can be set to "disabled" to
- improve screen painting speed for the caller.
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- Enhancement: Added Waterloo TCP/IP configuration parameter
- "dns_search_mode" to accelerate nameserver lookups.
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- 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.
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- Enhancement: Documented the "include" directive that helps
- when you have multiple nodes.
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- CleanUp: Clarified the description of the batch file used
- to invoke the door.
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- 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.
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- 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.
- Corrected.
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- BugFix: If no WATTCP.CFG environment variable was used,
- there was a chance that part of memory might be
- corrupted. Corrected.
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- BugFix: The configuration parameter "ksp-ftp.mb_external"
- unfortunately affected internal as well as external
- protocols. Corrected; it now only applies to external
- protocols.
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- 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".
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- Enhancement: Added "more" command to toggle the "More?"
- prompt at the end of a page of text."
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- Bug Fix: Downloading using Zmodem in QmodemPro with 32-bit
- CRC enabled caused "Long packet received during protocol"
- errors. Corrected.
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- 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.
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- CleanUp: When presenting remote text to the user, the
- count of lines that controls the "More?" prompt was off by
- one. Corrected.
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- 1.0: Initial release.
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