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- V 1.1 7 December 1987
-
- Add delay after "TRANSMIT" to allow all the data to be send before the
- port is closed.
-
- Change timeout in port open routine to control-C trap so a line can be
- opened while it is not ready, and the command can eventually be aborted
- in a clean way.
- This has the side effect that a port can always be set with 'set line',
- even if it's not ready.
-
- Add 'purgeline' before sending a packet, so that eventual old input will
- be ignored. This prohibits the sending of the same packet twice.
-
- Check if sending a file from the server over a remote line. A send delay
- is not neccessary when this happens.
-
- Don't stop the server if a file transfer is aborted from the other side.
-
- Add check if in single user mode when a server 'bye' command is received.
- If the system is in multi user mode, the process will be logged out. If
- this should be done in single user mode, the system will be stopped !! A
- normal exit will be done in that case.
-
- Check if send or receive enabled in packet send/receive routines. Only
- update statistics counters if so.
-
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-
- V 1.2 24 Februari 1988
-
- Check for existance of '/bin/baud'. If this utility is unavailable,
- don't issue an error message when opening the communication port.
- If an attempt is made to set the baudrate, issue a warning that this
- is impossible.
- This is done for people who want to set the baudrate manually. They
- can place the 'baud' utility in '/usr/bin', so they can set it by hand.
- Also don't call the baud utility when a command line option for connect,
- send or receive is given without an 'b' option. Call 'baud' only when a
- 'set baudrate' command is given, and the first time when the
- communication line is used (unless a 'set baudrate' command has been
- given before).
-
- Check if a file was open after returning to the main command loop.
- If this was not the case, the call to 'fclose' corrupted low memory,
- thereby causing strange effects when using two shared text kermits
- at the same time.
-
- Add long packet support. This can be activated by setting the packet
- length to a value > 94. If the remote system does not support this,
- a length of 94 will be used. An extra option is provided:
-
- 'set auto_recover on/off'
-
- This enables/disables kermit to automatically shorten the packet size
- on a receive error until a low limit (80 bytes) is reached. This will
- only be used if the long packet length has been successfully negotiated.
-
- Leave the terminal port open after the first use. This is done to prevent
- the dropping of DTR at the close of the port. The port is now only closed
- in the following cases:
-
- 1. After a 'set line' command.
- 2. After a 'connect' command which specifies a line.
- 3. At kermit's exit.
-
- A modem won't hangup in this way after a 'connect' followed by a data
- transfer command.
-
- Extra command line options are available: 'x' will let kermit startup
- in server mode, 'u' selects a specific startup command file.
-
- Add a display of parameters selected after negotiating with the other
- kermit. The items shown are:
- - packet length
- - timeout value
- - block check type
- - end of line character
- - padding character
- - number of pad characters
- - control quote character
- - repeat quote character
- - eight bit quote character
-
- Correct bug if a server kermit had another blockcheck type than the default
- selected, and the first file requested at the server did not exist. The
- server would then send an error packet with an invalid blockcheck type.
-
- Correct bug in server. If a 'bye' command was received, the acknowledge
- got lost due to the server process being killed before the acknowledge
- had been send out.
-
- Modified mechanism of creating new filename. If filename warning was
- enabled, and there were 10 or more files ending with a digit in the
- current directory, then the program would enter a loop.
-
- The terminal emulator has been changed in such a way that the character
- following the escape character will be send to the host if it is an
- invalid character for escape processing.
-
- Add a display of the transfer parameters which are used after negotiation
- with the other kermit.
-
- Check for the entering of a ctrl-X or ctrl-Z while transfer is in progress
- was done only after the timeout had expired. It will now be checked every
- second, no matter how long the timeout has been set.
-
- Correct bug in the sending of padding characters. If the padding count
- was greater than one, the characters after the first character could
- contain garbage.
-
- Add panic escape while transfer is active: type a control '\', and kermit
- will abort and return to the shell.
- Modify duplicate filname check/new filename creation. Sometimes an invalid
- filespec could be generated.
-
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-
- V 1.3 23 August 1988
-
- Modify duplicate filname check/new filename creation. Sometimes an invalid
- filespec could be generated.
-
- Remove purging of input line after a packet has been send. It might eat
- the acknowledge of data on a fast line.
-
- Check in connect for write of a received 0xff to the file. Fputc will
- return this value, which would stop logging. Continue for now.
-
- Add text highlighting and cursor on/off switching.
-
- Correct 'F' packet behaviour when compression is used. Use compression
- in these packets as well.
-
- Add check for device type files. Ignore them on send.
-
- Add check if new port is specified in 'connect' command. Close old port
- if so, otherwise the old port would still be used.
-
- Add check in screen routines that if 'termcap' can be read successfully,
- and 'pc' (position cursor) is not defined, no screen handling will be done.
-
- Add 'free' command to get the number of bytes available on any disk.
-
- Add attribute packets. This enables the kermit to negotiate with each other
- about files type, file size, and to set the original protection and
- creation date. If attribute packets are selected then it is possible to
- mix binary and ascii files in one command.
-
- Restricted the extended packet size to 2048 due to memory shortage.
-
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-
- V 1.4 3 Januari 1989
-
- Add 'BREAK' command in connect.
-
- Close files after fork but before 'exec' to support task. Because the line
- to the terminal was propagated to the support task, this line would not be
- closed (= DTR off) when the port was closed in the main task.
-
- Make 'set configuration' work after a line was used. It had no effect
- until the line was closed by another 'set line' command.
-
- Flush the directory read function to close the currently open directory
- file on an abort. After every error another file stayed open.
-
- Reset the TABcounter in the output buffer processing after the file
- specification was processed. The first encountered tab in a file could
- otherwise be misaligned.
-
- Correct packet length error if extended packet length was used. This change
- causes kermit to refuse to talk to older UniFLEX kermit's if extended packet
- length is used. This change was necessary to keep up to the standards.
-
- Correct default packet length if remote kermit can handle extended length,
- but we don't want it.
-
- Correct bugs which made it impossible to send or receive binary files with
- checksum type 2 or 3 enabled.
-
- Re-designed help files for enormous speed improvement. Corrected several
- help file errors.
-
- Removed 'd' (debug) command line option. Suppressed screen output (except
- for error messages) if kermit was called with command line parameters.
- This enables kermit to run in the backgroud.
-
- Increased maximum number of command line parameters from 20 to 100.
-
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-
- V 1.5 13 August 1989
-
- Corrected bug if support task (/bin/kermit_support) could not be found.
- A nice error message should be reported, but instead a 'Pipe.' signal
- was received.
-
- Make support task a shared text task.
-
- Add 'o' option to set the serial interface line to force RTS and to
- ignore DCD.
-
- Add search for initialization file in common directory (/usr/kermit.ini).
- This file will be searched for if a search for kermit.ini in the current
- directory was unsuccessfull.
-
- Remove restriction for only 100 command line parameters.
-
- The algorithm to check if a file was binary or ascii has been revised to
- get make it more reliable.
-