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Info-Kermit Digest         Fri, 23 Aug 1991        Volume 14 : Number 3

Today's Topics:

           MS-DOS Kermit 3.11 Prerelease Ready for Testing
          Termcap/Terminfo for MS-DOS Kermit on the Wang PC
              MS-DOS Kermit Speed under Windows

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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1991 15:28 EDT
>From: Christine M Gianone <[e-mail]>
Subject: MS-DOS Kermit 3.11 Prerelease Ready for Testing
Keywords: MS-DOS Kermit 3.11, TCP/IP

>From Professor Joe R. Doupnik (JRD) of Utah State University, a new release
of MS-DOS Kermit.  The final release will occur in about one week, so rapid
testing and reporting of bugs is needed.  Please report problems directly via
e-mail to Joe: [e-mail] (Internet), JRD@USU (BITNET/EARN), with cc to
[e-mail].  Please limit your reports to bugs
(and/or fixes) -- the design and features of this release are frozen.  The
sooner you get your bug reports in, the greater the chances of getting the
bugs fixed!

The differences from version 3.10 are:

  NETWORKS:
  . Built-in TCP/IP network support for PCs with Ethernet-style packet drivers.
  . New SET PORT TCP/IP <host>, SET TCP/IP <parameter> <value> commands.
  . Alt-n has \Knethold assigned by default.
  . SET NETBIOS-NAME allows you to set the PC's Netbios node name.

  TERMINAL EMULATION:
  . VT220 terminal type now supported.
  . Alt-minus now toggles between current text terminal and graphics screens,
    rather than all possible terminal types.
  . SET TERMINAL CHARACTER-SET DEC-SPECIAL.
  . SET TERMINAL UPSS {DEC-MCS, LATIN1}.

  SCRIPT PROGRAMMING:
  . New OPEN, CLOSE, READ, and WRITE commands for local file access.
  . "Long variable names": \m(this-is-a-variable-name).
  . Maximum length for macro definitions raised from 255 to 1000.
  . GOTO is now global, rather than confined to current macro or command file.

  OTHER:
  . New simplified and expanded dialing directory using a plain text file.
  . All known 3.10 bugs are fixed.
  . Improved help and status screens.
  . New help and beware files.

The long variables work like this.  Define them as if they were macros:

  define telephone-number 7654321

Refer to them using the new \m() construct:

  output atdt \m(telephone-number)\13

Those who want to try out the TCP/IP networking support, but don't have
packet drivers, use anonymous FTP to get them from Clarkson College in
Potsdam, NY, host sun.soe.clarkson.edu [128.153.12.3], cd pub/ka9q, use "type
binary", get the appropriate zip, arc, zoo, etc, files, and use PKUNZIP or
ZOO on your PC to unpack them.  Only Ethernet-style packet drivers are
supported.  The new version of Kermit has been sucessfully tested with the
following boards and accompanying packet drivers:

  Ungermann-Bass PC/NIC board with Clarkson UBNICPC packet driver 9.1
  3COM 3C503 with Clarkson 3C503 packet driver 9.4.0
  Western Digital WD8003E with Clarkson WD8003E packet driver
  Cabletron boards with Cabletron CSIPD_E (1.05) and CSIPD_X packet drivers
  IBMTOKEN.COM 3C501 emulation packet driver 1.9 over Token Ring board+drivers
  DIS_PKT over NDIS for LAN Manager networks (incl DECnet/DOS, AT&T StarGROUP)

The new Kermit commands are:

  SET TCP/IP ADDRESS <ip-address>     Tell Kermit the IP address of your PC
  SET TCP/IP BROADCAST <ip-address>   IP broadcast address
  SET TCP/IP SUBNETMASK <ip-address>  Your local IP network subnet mask
  SET TCP/IP GATEWAY <ip-address>     IP address of nearest gateway
  SET TCP/IP DOMAIN <domain-name>     Domain name for your local IP network
  SET TCP/IP PRIMARY-NAMESERVER <ip-address>    Address of primary nameserver
  SET TCP/IP SECONDARY-NAMESERVER <ip-address>  Address of fallback nameserver
  SET TCP/IP HOST <ip-address or host-name>     Default host for SET PORT TCP
  SET PORT TCP/IP <ip-address or host-name>     Specify host to connect to

Automatic downloading of some of these parameters via BOOTP or RARP is also
supported.  Before using Kermit's TCP/IP features, be sure to read the TCP/IP
sections at the end of MSKERM.HLP and MSKERM.BWR!

Many thanks to Erick Engelke of Waterloo University in Ontario for
contributing his Waterloo TCP package (WATTCP), and for his cooperation in
adapting it to Kermit.

The new files are in kermit/test/ms* on watsun.cc.columbia.edu, and in T:MS*.*
on KERMSRV at CUVMA on BITNET/EARN.  Convert the MSTIBM.BOO file into
MSTIBM.EXE with any of the MSBPCT.* programs available in kermit/a or
kermit/bin, or from KERMSRV.  On the Internet only, the binary MSTIBM.EXE
program is available via binary-mode FTP from kermit/bin/mstibm.exe.
FTP users: remember -- transfer files from the kermit/bin directory in binary
mode, transfer all files from all the other directories in text (ASCII) mode.

Source code will appear with the final release.

See MSKERM.HLP for information about the new commands and about how to use
the dialing directory.  Make sure to get the new MSKERMIT.INI and MSIHAY.SCR
files too, since the dialing directory is implemented by these files (note,
you must rename MSIHAY.SCR to HAYES.SCR so the DIAL command can find it).
There is also a sample dialing directory file MSIDIA.TXT (rename to
DIALUPS.TXT).  The "beware file" for the new version is MSKERM.BWR -- be sure
to read it before reporting problems.

As always, our deepest thanks to Joe for his skill, generosity, patience, and
long hours of hard work in making this new version of MS-DOS Kermit available.

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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 91 16:35:49 EDT
>From: [e-mail]
Subject: Termcap/Terminfo for MS-DOS Kermit on the Wang PC
Keywords: Wang PC Kermit

In case it's of interest to anyone else, I am sending my cheap way out of not
having a terminal emulator with the Wang PC version of MS-DOS Kermit: UNIX
termcap and terminfo files that will make the PC work as a VT100 minus
function keys.  (it has the correct screen and cursor escapes and the cursor
arrow keys which makes it completely adequate for full screen use but not
function keys).

Let me also mention that I've put the IBM-PC version of Kermit on several PC's
here we use as terminals, which had vt100 emulators only.  The vt320/tek
emulators are great and will probably save us from buying new graphics
terminals.  Keep up the good work!

Best regards,
                     Paul Mende
 [e-mail]            Center for Theoretical Physics
 [e-mail]            Massachusetts Inst. of Technology

[Ed. - Thanks, Paul.  The Wang PC termcap/terminfo material has been added
to the Kermit distribution as MSVWNG.TC.]

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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 91 15:15:19 EST
>From: Pat Zerkle <[e-mail]>
Subject: MS-DOS Kermit Speed under Windows
Keywords: MS-DOS Kermit and MS Windows

Regarding newsletter comments re MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0, and serial speeds
above 9600.  I use a 386/25MHz  64k cache, 4mb RAM 'AT Clone' (Club American)
with AMI BIOS, connecting via a DEC LAT to an IBM 7171.  I have had no
problem using MS-Kermit 3.1 at 19200 bps under MS-DOS 4.01, MS-DOS 5.0, and
via Windows 3.0 Enhanced under either DOS version.  In Windows, I use the
switch to enable background execution.  The maximum speed is probably limited
by a combination of software/BIOS/architecture/serial hardware/system load, so
we can probably only use empirical methods to get it to work.  As for Windows,
the files \WINDOWS\SYSIN*.TXT installed by Windows (at least, my 5/1/90 files)
explain several SYSTEM.INI settings related to COM ports.  The COMxBuffer and
COMBoostTime settings may help (hurt?) some users.

Cordially,
Pat Zerkle

[Ed. - Thanks for the encouraging report.  Another user, E.W. Carlson says,
"I don't understand the July 25 comment that MS-Kermit can not run faster
than 9600 baud under Windows.  I routinely run MS-Kermit at 19,200 baud
under Windows on a PS/2 55SX.  The machine is standard IBM equipment with
no special chips added."]

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