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- .title Kermit-32 v3.3.111 Release Notes
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- The following are the various changes that have gone into Kermit-32 version
- 3.3.111. This version is a maintenance version only and does not contain any
- major development work. This version has been tested under VMS 4.4 and
- 4.5 only.
-
- The following are the edits in Kermit-32 version 3.3.111.
- .ls "o"
- .Le;Edit 3.3.100
- .br;Add TRANSMIT command along with SET/SHOW TRANSMIT ECHO and DELAY commands.
- .le;Edit 3.3.101
- .BR;Change $TRNLOG system service calls to LIB$SYS_TRNLOG library
- routine. Handle no translation properly in VMSTRM.BLI.
- .le;Edit 3.3.102
- .BR;Add changes/fixes suggested by Art Guion and David Deley for VMSTRM.BLI
- .ls "o"
- .le;Turn off FALLBACK terminal characteristics for eightbit operations.
- .le;Decrease IBM timeouts when waiting for a handshake.
- .els
- .le;Edit 3.3.103
- .BR;Add changes/fixes suggested by David Deley for VMSMIT.BLI
- Problem with an infinite loop getting a command.
- .le;Edit 3.3.104
- .BR;Add changes/fixes suggested by Art Guion and David Deley for KERMSG.BLI.
- .ls "o"
- .le;Always attempt a handshake in IBM mode. Failing to handshake
- may cause 3704/5 style controller to hang a VM system.
- .le;Don't lose the last character in a buffer. BFR_FILL logic
- forgets to send the last cahracters of a file when it doesn't
- fit into the current packet.
- .els
- .le;Edit 3.3.105
- .BR;Attempt to fix the truncation errors that we now get from LINK with
- BLISS-32 v4.2. Also do code clean up in VMSTRM and VMSFIL.
- .le;Edit 3.3.106
- .BR;Fix problem of closing a fixed file and losing data.
- .le;Edit 3.3.107
- .BR;Do not abort on ERROR packet while in SERVER mode. Instead,
- return to SERVER IDLE mode.
- .le;Edit 3.3.110
- .BR;Make KERMIT-32 close the terminal (so the terminal
- parameters are appropriately reset) upon reciept of
- a GENERIC LOGOUT packet.
- .le;Edit 3.3.111
- .BR;Make Kermit-32 not eat the parity from a CR if a LF doesn't
- follow it when writing an ASCII file.
- .ELS
- The following are know problems with Kermit-32 3.3.111.
- .ls "o"
- .le;Commands are upcased so that LIB$TPARSE will scan the command correctly.
- This causes problems when attempting to set the prompt and sending server
- commands to a UNIX based Kermit.
- .le;Kermit-32 will quote multiple characters with "~" in a file name even if the
- REPEAT__QUOTE character is set to space.
- .le;When receiving a file of type FIXED, if the final record is not exactly
- 512 bytes, then an error occurs and the receiving Kermit blows up.
- .le;Kermit-32 can hang on a virtual terminal due to XON-XOFF processing
- between the VAX and a remote system.
- .els
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