PD ROM 1/PD ROM Volume I - Macintosh Software from BMUG (1988).iso/Telecommunications/Term Programs/Kermit/Kermit Info

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Dear Frank,

some times ago Carlos Albuerne was so kind to pass my Modula-2 version
of Kermit to you. In his letter he mentioned that you might be glad about
some help with the Macintosh version. So I'm happy to be able to send
you a new enhanced binary version of the program. It's a port to MPW C
including many bug fixes and new features. Here is a short (unordered and
incomplete) list of the changes I made to the program:

# The Cursor with open desk accessories now works correctly
# Long packets now supported
# Dialog boxes cleaned up
# New program icon
# Settings files are no longer TEXT
# Changed "Restore ResourcesE" to "Load ResourcesE"
# Reformatted many parts of the source to be better readable
# Settings can now be written back to an already existing settings file
# Server mode: added directory listing feature
# Added multifile (folder) send
# Added Server "Delete" file command
# Added Server "Space" command
# Server mode: Stop Alerts are not displayed (e.g. User cancelled transaction
  stopped server operation)
# Get whole folder content from the server with filename ":"
# Menu command keys added to menus
# Support of menu command keys
# Menu command key and FKEY flag now saved with settings
# Accept end of transmission with keydown (not only mousedown)
# Added terminal settings dialog
# Added non-transparent terminal mode
# Added smooth scrolling option to terminal emulation
# Added underline cursor option to terminal emulation
# Added display of protocol version to "About Kermit" dialog.
# Fixed a bug in ckmtio which caused problems with the parity bit when
  receiving form an IBM host for example.
# Added a simple Take file interpreter
# Added session logging
# Added transaction logging
# Added a completly new keyboard management (CKMKEY is no longer necessary)
# "Keep" flag settable by user
# statistics in about dialog
# rewrote parts of the window handling routines: windows are now
  highlighted according to the userinterface guidelines


I hope you will like the new version which I think could be called
0.9(36). Please tell me where and how to send the source code
(preferably a BITNET address). Today I read about Paul Placeway of
Ohio State University who seems to be working on a new version too.
Unfortunately I don't have an address to contact him directly. So I
leave it up to you, how to handle the integration of the sources. Unfor-
tunately I will not be able to continue the work on MacKermit at the
moment, because the company who payed for the three weeks of development
wants me to do some work which pays for them too. Nevertheless I will
try to write a documentation for the new version. I will keep you
informed about this.


Matthias Aebi

PS: Please do not try to reply via the source address of this message. I
normally do not have access to this account. Use one of the two adresses
below instead:

BITNET:   K116430@CZHRZU1A
USENET:   ...!mcvax!cernvax!unizh!aebi

I sent a similar letter to KERMSERV@CUVMA. But as I did not get a reply
I tried this other channel. I'm sorry if you should have received the
same stuff twice.

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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 87 16:35:01 EST
>From: [e-mail] (Paul Placeway)
Subject: Version 0.9(36)b4 of Macintosh Kermit Available for Testing
Keywords: Macintosh Kermit

Following is a BinHex 4-ified copy of MacKermit 0.9(36)b4.  I have made
several changes to Matthias' code:

The C-Kermit part of 0.9(36)b4 is based on the (absolutly vanilla) 4E(067)
code.  I didn't have to edit any of the ckc* files a bit (ckmpro.c is just a
warted ckcpro.w with the standard Mac patch).

The backslash-number characters in the key macro code are now done in Octal
(just like C does).  Also, one can do control characters symbolically:
\^A --> Control-A.

Macro strings are stored as Pascal strings throughout now, so that one can
make a macro that includes NUL (ASCII 0).

MacKermit now has MultiFinder support.  It understands how to give away time
slices, has the SIZE (-1) resource, and will do background file transfers
(timeslicing multiple times per packet).  (In the process, the file xfer
dialog became modeless).

It has the FOND resource in the source files now (so SEs should be happy).

I added the extra stuff to the emulator so that VAX TPU will get along with
it.

Clayton Elwell added the ANSI insert multiple characters command
(ESC [ n @) to the emulator.

I also added a few extra bells and whistles:
. flashing/nonflashing cursor option
. visible bell option
. extra status indicators in the file xfer dialog,
. the mouse cursor is hidden on every key typed,
. the menu command characters option default is now dependant on the type of
  keyboard that the user is running (set for keyboards with a CTRL key, unset
  for all others), and
. there is now a default set of key macros and modifiers (arrow keys do VT100
  arrow key commands, BACKSPACE -> DEL, backquote -> ESC, command-backquote
  and control-backquote -> plain backquote).

        Have fun,
            -- Paul

[Ed. - Thanks, Paul! (And Matthias too!)  This new version is supposed to run
on any Macintosh, and to correct the various problems that many of you have
reported not only with 0.8(34), but also some of the newer prereleases.  It
should run on the entire Mac family with no special fussing about fonts or
other minutia.  But it probably will not fit into an original 128K Mac (does
anyone still have such a thing?)  The new Mac Kermit is still not a finished
product, however.  Some finishing touches are required to the key definition
feature, and in some other areas too.  And the manual has yet to be written.
Comments and reviews are welcome, and hopefully we'll have a final release
(maybe this time it'll actually be called 1.0!) soon, complete with source in
MPW C.  The program and documentation (such as it is) are in KER:XKM936.* on
CU20B, and KXK936 * on CUVMA.]