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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu>
Subject: Announcing Kermit-10 3.136
Date: 27 Apr 2006 15:09:11 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <slrne51nkn.3io.fdc@sesame.cc.columbia.edu>
newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
An update to PDP-10 DECsystem-10 Kermit from Nick Bush, one of the original
authors. This was one of the first Kermit programs written outside of
Columbia University, and it was written to be portable to three different
Digital Equipment Corporation platforms: the PDP-10 with TOPS-10, the VAX
with VMS, and the Professional 350 and 380 PDP-11 based workstations with
P/OS, the main three platforms in use at Stevens Institute of Technology in
1983, where Nick worked at the time.
While P/OS is long forgotten, VMS is still surprisingly strong after nearly
30 years (but nowadays we use C-Kermit there rather than Stevens'
Kermit-32). The 36-bit PDP-10, like its sibling the DECSYSTEM-20, were
highly influential machines of the 1970s and 80s. Although a few are still
operational, the resurgence of interest in them comes from the recent
availability of hardware emulators for these machines that can be run on
today's desktop architectures.
The new release of PDP-10 Kermit, Kermit-10 3.136, unifies the various
patches that have come in since Stevens halted development 20 years ago,
and also fixes a few bugs, notably incorrect terminal modes upon return from
CONNECT mode (e.g. ESC would echo as $).
Thanks to Nick for remembering how to do this!
The new version is accessible from the PDP-10 Kermit page:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/pdp10.html
as is information about the PDP-10 emulators and related topics.
- Frank
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 89 01:06:47 +0100
From: Dan Norstedt <DANNE@kicki.stacken.kth.se>
Subject: Announcing DECsystem-10 Kermit 3(134)
Keywords: DECsystem-10 Kermit, Bliss Kermit, TOPS-10 Kermit, VAX/VMS Kermit
New features and changes in Kermit-10 3(134)
This version has added support for extended length packets:
* Extended length packets are supported by the normal SET RECEIVE
PACKET and SET SEND PACKET commands. Sizes up to 1000 are allowed.
By default, extended length packets are not used. Typically, use
SET RECEIVE PACKET 1000 and SET SEND PACKET 1000 to enable it.
It also contains bug fixes/enhancements from the VMS version:
* CRC calulations works ok when sending 8 bit data not using quoting.
* IBM mode handshake improved.
* Don't lose last character in a buffer if it's a widow.
That's all, folks. The updated files are:
K10COM.REQ
K10GLB.MAC
K10MIT.MAC
K10MSG.BLI
K10MSG.MAC
K10TT.MAC
K10UNV.MAC
There are no new files, except this announcement.
The .MAC (Macro-10) files are generated from the Bliss sources, but they
will only work for KL and KS systems (our system is a KI). But since KI's
are rare, and the previous version also was compiled only for KL/KS, I don't
think it's much of a problem. The program has been put to heavy use here
over the last few months, and I believe it to be free of (at least) new
bugs.
Regards,
Dan Norstedt
[Ed. - Thanks, Dan! This will certainly be good news for the world's
remaining TOPS-10 users. The new files are installed in Kermit Distribution
in the B area, kermit/b/k10*.* on watsun.cc.columbia.edu for Internet access,
and in K10*.* on KERMSRV at CUVMA for BITNET access. Note that the
system-independent Kermit protocol portions of this program are supposed to
share the same source files with VAX/VMS Kermit-32. VAX/VMS users who have a
Bliss-32 compiler are encouraged to get the new files and see if a new version
of Kermit-32 can be built from them, which will give this orphaned program
long packet support.]