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- Following is the announcement of CP/M-80 Kermit version 4.09, the first
- new release of CP/M Kermit since 4.05 since February 1985.
-
- Kermit files may be obtained over networks and by mail order. On the
- Internetwork, use FTP to log in to host CU20B, CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU, or
- CU20B.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (a DECSYSTEM-20), as user ANONYMOUS, using any password,
- and GET (or MULTIPLE GET, or MGET) the desired files from logical device KER:,
- e.g. MGET KER:CP*.* for the new CP/M files. You can also get Kermit files over
- BITNET/EARN; to get started send a message with text HELP to KERMSRV, the
- Kermit file server, at host CUVMA. For detailed instructions, read the file
- KER:AANETW.HLP (AANETW HLP on KERMSRV). To order by mail, request a complete
- list of Kermit versions and an order form from Kermit Distribution, Columbia
- University Center for Computing Activities, 612 West 115th Street, New York, NY
- 10025 USA.
-
- Date: 8 Jan 88 0:00:00
- From: Bertil Schou, Loughborough University, UK
- Via: SYSKERMIT%vax1.central.lancaster.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK
- Subject: Announcing Version 4.09 of Kermit-80 for CP/M-80
- Keywords: CP/M-80 Kermit 4.09
-
- After an incredibly long gestation period, here is hopefully an updated
- version of Kermit-80 V4.05. Kermit-80 V4.08 is issued for testing purposes
- only. Version 4.09 is the release issue of version 4.08. I still, however,
- want any feedback about problems generated in this revision, or others
- desperately want fixing.
-
- Superficially, there is little real change in operation of Kermit-80, version
- 4.05, but there have been some major jobs tackled like trapping BDOS calls and
- multiple FCB buffering...
-
- New bits for this version include:
- SET {SEND/RECEIVE} START-OF-PACKET character
- SET DIRECTORY-FILE-SIZE (Shows or hides file sizes on
- DIRectory displays)
- SET TERMINAL to OFF, VT52, DUMB, EXTERNAL, QUIET, REGULAR.
- SET USER to set other user spaces
- RECEIVE to collect a file from a remote SENDer
- GET to collect a file from a remote SERVER
- SEND {local filename} {remote filename}
- TAKE to take command files from disk (including other take files!)
- FCOPY Copy CP/M files from within Kermit (no wildcard)
- TYPE Type a file to the console from within Kermit
- PRINT Print a file to the printer from within Kermit
- - Updated TRANSMIT command that waits for a string of characters
- from the host (default is CR).
- - Command line commands, eg:
- KERMIT ;SET FILE BINARY;SEND FOO.BAR
- - Automatic TAKE KERMIT.INI on default disk on
- loading KERMIT-80 (useful for SET BAUD etc.)
- - Much improved speed on DIRECTORY
- - Automatic CLOSE-ing of a terminal connection if the line is
- DROP-ped (currently only for an Apple, and Torch has a dummy
- test for cntrl-] D in connect state)
- - Improved printer handling.
-
- On the negative side, only LASM and Microsoft M80 assemblers can be used to
- assemble the source files. I personally see no point in being able to support
- several assemblers if LASM can do the job, but then again, I have not used the
- MAC80 cross assembler... Comments on assembler compatabilities, please!
-
- All source files have been renamed, and there are a few additions. All source
- files are named in the form CPaxxx.ASM, where:
-
- a=A for general information
- a=S for system independent source files and hex file
- a=X for system dependent source files
- a=V for system-dependent hex files
-
- The system dependent code has changed a litle too, hopefully bringing the
- CPXSYS.ASM (formerly CP4SYS.ASM) file a bit more toward a manageable size.
- There is now the possibility for FAMILIES of systems, like APPLE and NorthStar
- (also Comart), which contains code for computers of a single type. I have
- immediately gone against all this by creating a family with the code for
- Torches, Cifers, Ithacas and Superbrains (this because we have these systems
- here at Loughborough.)
-
- Bertil Schou.
-
- [Ed. - Many thanks, Bertil! And also to Alan Phillips and Steve Jenkins at
- Lancaster University for sending this new version to us via transoceanic
- magnetic tape, and to the many others in the UK who contributed to this new
- release. This version supports all the systems supported by version 4.05,
- with the exception of the HP-125, and with the addition of many more, for a
- total of something like 52 systems. The new files have been installed in
- KER:CP*.*, and the old ones moved (on CU20B, anyway) to KO:CP*.*. CP/M
- users, please get this new version and try it out, so we can make sure it's
- safe to distribute. And this is also the time to plead ONCE AGAIN for
- volunteers to distribute CP/M Kermit on 5.25-inch diskette for different
- kinds of systems, and also in "universal" 8-inch diskette format. Please
- come forward if you can do it, or know of a user group that can!]
-