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- Date: Wed 23 Jul 86 18:13:17-PDT
- From: Bob Larson <BLARSON@USC-ECLB.ARPA>
- Subject: Protocol Manual Potential Changes
-
- When using long packets and sliding windows together, the suggestion of
- reducing the packet size (long packets section) cannot be done if a later
- packet has been sent. (Unless some further protocol extention is done.)
-
- There are also a couple of problems in the attributes system/os field:
- Prime/Primos is listed both as G and M4. Tandy (J) should probably be
- subdivided, TRSDOS and Disk Extended Color Basic versions of Tandy specific
- Kermit exist. (Tandy seems to be migrating away from proprietary os's, they
- supply Xenix, MS-DOS and Os9.) The assignment of these seems to be quite
- random, UNIX and Os9 have one listing each, while cpm has 4.
-
- The delimiter may be listed in both the type and format attribute packet if
- the type is A. It should probablby only be in the format.
-
- Encoding should have a compress 4.0 type (bits in the range 12-16 may also
- need to be listed.)
-
- Shouldn't the "1-@ (ascii 49)" be "1 (ascii 49)"?
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- Date: Tue 16 Sep 86 17:14:33-EDT
- From: "Christopher Lent" <OC.PEDHEM@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- Subject: IBM Kermit-MS 2.29A (test) and other things
-
- This letter has a number of mostly cosmetic bugs in the documentation,
- plus a few oddball errors in a number of programs. Oh, there's a bit
- of stuff on the 2.29A (test) version for the IBM.
- (I have't had the change to check 2.29A on a PC-Jr yet.)
-
- Kermit error:
- 6th Edition protocol manual
- Section 11.
- "...
- - Handle port input in one process and console input in another, paral-
- lel process. The UNIX Kermit program listed in this manual uses this
- method."
- ----> Reference to C-Kermit example (which has been removed) probably should
- be removed.
-
- Kermit error2:
- Kermit commands (the K packet)
- ---> Shouldn't K packet be included in section 8.2.7
-
-
- Kermit repeat count question:
- ----> What does a repeat count of 0 mean? (I assume it means to ignore the
- following character.) I could see this being useful
- when an interfering character is known to appear in the
- data stream of the sending machine (or intermediate line equipment).
- It could be used as a way to pass normal text characters which
- intermdiate equipment eats using a quoting mechanism for the other
- (usually ignored) character.
-
- Kermit suggestions:
- 'E' error packet for logout failure.
- ----> For machines where the kermit cannot currently terminate the
- login session, I think sending an E (error) packet with some
- useful message would make sense. Something on the order of,
- "Reconnect to terminate session on machine XYZ."
- This way the local kermit would not shut down, leaving the
- user to have to restart and reconnect to terminate the remote
- host session.
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