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Date: Mon, 1993 Oct 18 13:51 EDT
From: "John F. Chandler" <JCHBN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: Announcing IBM Mainframe MVS/TSO Kermit-370 Version 4.3
Keywords: IBM 370 Kermit, MVS/TSO Kermit, TSO Kermit
Xref: IBM Mainframe, Also see IBM 370
Xref: MVS/TSO Kermit, Also see MVS/TSO Kermit, IBM 370
This is to announce Release 4.3 of Kermit-370 for TSO. The sources have
not been completely rewritten, but numerous fixes, extensions, and
improvements have been inserted. The changes in 4.3 include all updates
formerly available in IKTKER.UPD plus many new ones. Parts of the
source have been resequenced: IKTMAC.ASM, IK0DEF.ASM, IK0CMD.ASM,
IK0KAN.ASM, IKTUTL.ASM, and IK0PRO.ASM, and any local mods affecting
these parts will need to be changed accordingly. As with previous
releases, all TSO-specific files begin with IKT, and generic Kermit-370
files begin with IK0 (I K Zero). See the file IKTKER.INS for
installation instructions. Most of the distribution files have been
replaced, including IKTKER.INS, plus the assembler sources and the
"beware", help, and update files. Release 4.3 is also being issued in
the companion CMS, MUSIC, and CICS variants (see the separate
announcements for details). As usual, the ROSCOE variant is obtained as
a small change from the TSO variant. Anyone interested in helping to
port Kermit-370 to still other operating systems should contact John
Chandler <JCHBN@CUVMB.BITNET> or <JCHBN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>.
For a list of generic additions, see the generic Kermit-370 announcement
IK0KER.ANN. The following is a list of TSO-specific updates added since
Release 4.2, including many that were already available in intermediate
releases.
1) When downloading ISPF PDS members, Kermit-TSO now uses the ISPF
modification date as the time stamp (if attributes are enabled).
2) The format of KER.LOG for SET DEBUG I/O has been extended to give
hexadecimal buffer dumps like those of CMS Kermit.
3) Correct UNIT selection for new datasets uploaded to TSO. This fixes
a bug introduced with version 4.1.
4) Multiple subcommands allowed on the initial invocation command line,
provided the Kermit delimiter is defined in one of the initialization
files.
5) Current status code available to CLIST's as &LASTCC.
6) Now comes with a file of sample auxilliary CLIST's for use with
Kermit (IKTAUX.CMD). These include KERMAIL, KERMPRT, and PC.
7) Now recovers cleanly if the user specifies an erroneous CWD string.
8) Now supports relative generation numbers for GDG's for both sending
and receiving files.
Many thanks to the beta testers who have helped work out the bugs in the
new release.