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- Date: 24-May-1991
-
- Announcing: CP/M Kermit Version 4.11
-
- Just to prove that the CP/M world still exists, here is CP/M Kermit -80
- Version 4.11.
-
- Features added since version 4.09 include:
-
- o SET COLLISION {BACKUP/DISCARD/OVERWRITE/RENAME}
- o SET INCOMPLETE-FILES {DISCARD/KEEP}
- O Many REMOTE commands, including some REMOTE SET commands
- o RENAME command to rename CP/M files from within Kermit-80
- o SET RECEIVE/SEND PACKET-LENGTH nn (nn <= 94)
- o SET AUTORECEIVE ON now implies that Kermit-80 ALWAYS tries to
- receive more files when a RECEIVE transaction has completed. The
- user can abort with ^C.
- o QUIT is now a synonym for EXIT.
- o STAY is now a synonym for SET NO-EXIT.
- o CONNECT, RECEIVE and SEND may be abbreviated to C, R and S,
- respectively.
- o Processing of commands from a file via a TAKE command may now be
- aborted by entering a Control-C at the console.
- o The TYPE and PRINT commands are now immediately aborted if a
- Control-C is entered at the console. If a Control-X is entered at
- the console, typeout/printout of the current file is aborted and
- typeout/printout of the next file, if any, begins. These actions
- also occur if any other key has been pressed to halt typeout/printout
- and Control-C or Control-X is pressed. Pressing any other key resumes
- the typeout/printout.
- o Many bug fixes
- o Kermit-80 Version 4.11 now supports the Microbee family of
- computers (56K, 64K, 128K and 256K) manufactured by
- Microbee Systems, Ltd, of Australia.
- o Kermit-80 now supports the Ampro Little Board system.
-
- Technical changes:
-
- o An "I" packet is now tried before the request for files is sent
- in a GET command
- o The overlay address is now 7000H
- o The overlay (CPXLNK.ASM) has an added INCFLG variable to handle
- INCOMPLETE-FILES status
- o The COPY, TYPE and PRINT commands now use the large buffer
- (8K bytes default size) for file I/O
-
- Syntax hints:
-
- In REMOTE commands such as REMOTE COPY, REMOTE MESSAGE, REMOTE RENAME,
- REMOTE WHO etc., where two arguments are required, the syntax is as for Vax
- VMS Kermit, i.e.,
- REMOTE <command> <argument 1>
- Prompt: <argument 2>
- For example:
- REMOTE COPY <old-file>
- New file: <new-file>
-
- The REMOTE LOGIN command has three arguments, of which the last two are
- prompted for an entered on new lines. Arguments are optional.
-
- In commands such as REMOTE SET FILE BLOCK-SIZE which take a numeric
- argument, Kermit-80 does not check the argument for validity. Whatever is
- typed is what the host sees.
-
- The FCOPY command has been renamed to COPY.
-
- The syntax for the RENAME command is as for the COPY command, that is:
- RENAME <old-filespec> <new-filespec>
-
- More rigorous checking for wildcards is now done by both of these
- commands.
-
- The STRING command has been renamed to OUTPUT.
-
- SET BAUD-RATE is now SET SPEED.
-
- The option SET FILE DEFAULT has ben re-enabled. Use a TAKE-file to set the
- initial file-mode to ASCII or BINARY.
-
- Building Kermit-80 ver. 4.11:
-
- Kermit-80 ver. 4.11 is built using the same procedure as for ver. 4.09.
-
-
- Many thanks to those who have contributed bug fixes, and, in particular,
- to Mr. Russell Lang of Monash University, Australia, for contributing
- a bug-fix and the family file for the Microbee systems and to Mr.
- Jay S. Rouman of Mt. Pleasant, MI for contributing the code for the Ampro
- Little Board. Thanks are also due to Lance Tagliapietra of the University
- of Wisconsin at Platteville for finding several bugs.
-