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From: [e-mail] (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 Reissued
Date: 23 Jun 1995 14:55:10 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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This is to announce a minor reissue of MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 for the IBM
PC and compatibles with DOS or Windows.

The three EXE files (full, medium, "Lite") are identical to the original
January 18th version, except that a problem with TCP/IP Address Resolution
Protocol (ARP) is fixed (this fix could not be accomplished as a patch)
and the internal date (visible from the VERSION command) is changed to
May 21.

There is a new ZIP-format image of the distribution diskette.  It contains
the three new executables, updated patch files, and minor updates to some
of the documentation files (HLP, BWR, UPD).  The new patch files contain
the following patches:

 1. Optional Orchid Designer Professional VGA board video-mode patch.
    Allows patching in the appropriate video mode, since different models
    use different modes, but identify themselves the same way to Kermit.

 2. Fix for file names given on the command line in the -F option
    (alternate initialization file) not always being parsed correctly.

 3. VT220/320 terminal emulator patch for correctly recognizing OSC and
    PM sequences.  Without this patch, such sequences (which are rarely
    used) could cause Kermit to hang until reset.

 4. Patch to prevent MS-DOS Kermit from improperly encoding its response
    to the A packet.  The most notable symptom was failure to properly
    receive RESENDs.

 5. Patch to the READ command to prevent it from improperly treating "-"
    at the end of a line as a continuation character.

 6. Patch for TES networking: preserve TES LAT ID around restarts.

 7. Optional patch for Hebrew-model VT100 terminal emulation.

 8. Patch to make the MAIL command once again work properly when sending
    multiple files.  Without this patch, the MAIL command only works for
    one file; e.g. "mail foo.*" would send all foo.* files, but only the
    first one would be mailed; the rest would disappear.

Also included are some new dialing scripts (e.g. BESTDATA.SCR) and
improvements to preexisting dialing scripts.  Note in particular that
PP14400.SCR has had its name changed to PPI.SCR to reflect the fact that
it now adapts itself automatically to the full PPI (Practical Peripherals
Inc) line, from V.22bis to V.34 models.

Finally, an additional font utility is included in the PCFONTS directory,
called WITHFONT.COM.  This utility (which, like the rest of the material
in the PCFONTS directory, is from Yossi Gil at the Technion in Haifa,
Israel) loads a font (such as Cyrillic, Hebrew, or Latin-2) and then
reloads it automatically whenever the video mode changes, e.g. between 80
and 132 columns.  Without WITHFONT, the font would revert to CP437
whenever the video mode changed.

The space needed for the new material was obtained by removing six .TBL
files for character sets that are already listed in the book "Using MS-DOS
Kermit".

The version 3.14 reissue is available via anonymous ftp to
kermit.columbia.edu, directory kermit/msdos, binary mode, file msvibm.zip.
If no serious problems are reported within a week or so, we'll make this
the standard distributed version.

- Frank