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- Date: Tue, 30 May 89 11:47:55 WET DST
- From: The National PD Software Archive
- <pdsoft%pd-software.lancaster.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
- Subject: Announcing GEC/OS4000 Kermit Version 3.9
-
- Version 3.9 of GEC Kermit for standard OS4000 consists mainly of bug fixes
- and fuller checking of received packets. Most of the changes were prompted
- by a spate of failed transfers some of which resulted in the GEC terminal
- getting locked up. The new version is more careful about whether it is in
- Logical or Physical mode and looks for Ctrl-Z more often. Some of the
- packets were arriving with bytes missing. This caused problems because the
- GEC kermit would wait for the number of bytes it was expecting and transfer
- would halt until one side timed out. The new version looks for premature
- CRs and immediately NAKs the packet. There were also problems in binary
- mode with files which ended in a null or with 2 or 3 copies of the same
- character.
-
- The routine which normalises incoming filenames now checks the new filename
- and strips off leading digits. Should the new name consist only of digits,
- the first is replaced with an X, e.g. S12ABC.XYZ becomes .ABCXYZ and
- S1234567.123 becomes .X4567123.
-
- If a user types RECEIVE followed by a filename, but then SENDs more than one
- file, only the first goes into the given name - the rest into normalised
- versions of the sender's names.
-
- I have developed a way of setting things up so that a user Kermitting to a
- GEC machine needs only to connect once in a session (to compensate for the
- lack of a LOGOUT command). Details in GECSVR.JCL.
-
- Gordon Sands,
- Technical Computing Dept.
- Marconi Space Systems Ltd.
- Anchorage Road,
- Portsmouth, ENGLAND PO3 5PU
- 0705-664966 x3521
-
-