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- Version 3.5 of Kermit-40 provides the following:
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- Main features:
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- * Inclusion of Server mode.
- * Repeat count prefixing available.
- * Receive command can be specified with a filename.
- * A file of initialising commands can be read at the start of a Kermit
- run, as provided for in some Kermits as a 'TAKE' file.
- * Packets of up to 94 characters can now be sent, and upto 80 characters
- can be received.
-
- Bugs fixed:
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- * Overprints were still output to &KERMLOG, this has been fixed.
- * Error messages from the Send command were incorrect.
- * I/O buffers have been enlarged, to prevent overwriting problems in
- &KERMLOG.
- * Eight bit quoting is now handled whenever agreed, irrespective of the
- SET BINARY option.
- * The code has been altered so that the standard GEC version will now
- compile.
- * Prefix encoding and decoding is now done on file header packets.
- * A check has been included to prevent text file records received from
- exceeding 235 characters.
-
- General improvements:
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- * The Data Management error code after a DMCONNECT is now written to
- &KERMLOG.
- * Conversion of file names to 'normal form' can now be switched off.
- * Output from the SHOW command displays off/on instead of 0/1.
- * In Receive, the message 'oldname receiving as newname' appears in
- &KERMLOG.
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- Martin Loach, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories
-
- nsin12 @ uk.ac.rl.gk
-