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- This is to announce Version 3.54 of Kermit-11 for PDP-11s or Pro-3xx's
- running the various DEC operating systems (RSX, RSTS, RT, P/OS, etc) or
- TSX+, from Brian Nelson at the University of Toledo (BRIAN@UOFT02.BITNET).
- New features since the last release, 3.50 (April 1986), include:
-
- . Command line editing and recall controlled by arrow keys. ";" and "!"
- may be used to delimit comments.
-
- . Handling of DEC multinational 8-bit ASCII text files.
-
- . New SET FILE NAMING options.
-
- . New SET SEND [NO]XON command, to prefix every packet with an XON to fight
- pathological problems with flow control.
-
- . Minor bug fixes and cleanups.
-
- . Some RT11/TSX+ specific modifications:
-
- Reduction in the size of the root for XM to facilitate running Kermit as a
- foreground task.
-
- Complete rewrite of terminal emulation, specifically to enhance the
- support of the XL/XC/CL handlers. It is now completely event driven
- thus performance should be improved as well as presenting a much lower
- load on the CPU. It should also function better under SJ.
-
- Restructuring buffer allocation to (1) Reduce the root size for XM, and (2)
- To enable the USR to swap over buffers for SJ and FB. This will eliminate
- Kermit crashing on USR requests in 95% of the cases for SJ and FB systems
- with minimal background memory available (ie, many devices in the system
- and/or large RMON).
-
- Control C delivery has been improved by adding a watchdog timer to check for
- control C's as RT11 does not generate an AST on control C.
-
- The new files are available via anonymous as KER:K11*.* on CU20B and over
- BITNET via KERMSRV at both CUVMA and UOFT02. The file K11INS.DOC contains
- installation instructions, K11AAA.AAA is a read-me file, and K11FIL.DOC is a
- (slightly dated) annotated list of the Kermit-11 files (of which there are
- about 111, totalling about 3.8 megabytes in size). The file K11CMD.MAC
- contains the detailed update history.
-