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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Subject: Kermit 95 1.1.18 - Looking for testers
Date: 5 Jan 2000 22:45:12 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <850hho$2ub$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
With the release this week of C-Kermit 7.0 after an almost three year
effort the Kermit Project is proud to announce that is about to
release a patch for Kermit 95 that brings it up to date with
C-Kermit 7.0.
This patch will provide:
. The client side functionality to interact with the Internet
Kermit Service
. All of the improvements to C-Kermit 7.0 scripting
. All of the improvements to Kermit file transfer
. Support for the latest MIT Kerberos distribution for Windows 9x,
NT, and Windows 2000
. Support for the latest Secure Remote Password distribution (1.5.0)
from Tom Wu at Stanford.
. Support for the IETF's Telnet START_TLS protocol. Kermit 95 can
now be used with OpenSSL to establish secure connections for
Telnet and HTTP using client and host X.509 certificates.
. Support for HTTP commands such as GET, PUT, POST, HEAD, ... to
allow scripting of HTTP based file transfers
. A new Telnet protocol engine which is allows connection policies
to be assigned to each telnet negotiation.
. Unicode file transfers and UTF-8 character set support for
terminal emulations.
. New modems, character-sets, commands, ....
. Support for the Microsoft VTNT terminal type and NTLM authentication
method for use with the Microsoft Windows 2000 Telnet Service. Unlike
the Microsoft provided Telnet client, Kermit 95 may be used on
Windows 95/98 or NT to communicate with the Windows 2000 Telnet Service.
. Enhancements to TVI, Wyse, SNI-97801, QNX, and other terminal
emulations.
. Printer support now incorporates built in Text to Postscript translation
so K95 may be used with Postscript printers on Windows
. Support for the Pragma Systems Telnetd that allows Kermit 95 to transfer
files through the telnet connection in the same way that C-Kermit does
on Unix
. Support for encrypted Rlogin connections
and much much more. Depending on the timing of the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority there may even be a feature which will automatically
protect X Windows session data much the same way that SSH does.
Warning: this is not the much delayed GUI release. That will follow in
a very short time now that C-Kermit 7.0 is complete and released.
However, the C-Kermit 7.0 development cycle has prevented us from
releasing the incremental updates that we were shipping to Kermit 95
users every three to four months. It has now been 18 months since the
last release and we know there are lots of users waiting on various
bug fixes, new features, and compatibility with updated software.
So we feel that we must get this functionality out to you as soon as
possible.
Registered users who would like to help us test the 1.1.18 release
before we ship it should send e-mail to Kermit Support
mailto:kermit-support@columbia.edu
with a subject line of "K95 BETA TESTER". Please provide the following
information in the body of the e-mail:
K95 Serial Number:
Operating System and Version:
A brief description of how you use Kermit 95:
Have you applied the K95 Crypto patch:
Note: you must have the release version of K95 1.1.17 installed on
your machine to take part in this test. 1.1.18 will be shipped only
in patch form. User's who have received interim test builds to correct
problems with have to restore the original K95 executables in order
to take part in this test; and to install the final 1.1.18 upgrades.
All efforts will be made to ship the initial GUI version of K95 in
a short period of time after the release of 1.1.18. It is our hope
that the 1.1.18 testing period will be extremely short. 1.1.18 is
built on top of 1.1.17 and C-Kermit 7.0.
Thanks and Happy New Year!!!
Jeffrey Altman
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org