21-Mar-88 11:39:24-EST,2202;000000000015 Return-Path: <@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU:goeke@space.mit.edu> Received: from MC.LCS.MIT.EDU by CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU with TCP; Mon 21 Mar 88 11:39:11-EST Received: from space.mit.edu (TCP 2222600012) by MC.LCS.MIT.EDU 21 Mar 88 10:50:41 EST Received: from canth.ARPA by space AA16921; Mon, 21 Mar 88 10:47:36 EST Date: Mon, 21 Mar 88 10:45:20 est From: Robert F. Goeke Site: MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge Mass. To: jrd@usu.bitnet, sy.fdc@cu20b.cc.columbia.edu Subject: MS Mermit v2.30 for the NEC APCIII Gentlemen, I was a little surprised to find out a week ago that v2.30 of MS Kermit had gotten released in January -- not having heard from Joe since last summer. Never-the-less a bit of fast keyboarding brought the NEC community back up to date. The current version for the APCIII does everything the IBM one does -- including the Tektronix emulation -- with the following elaborations: a) The graphics are 640 x 400 in your choice of green, no matter what the text screen color is. b) The graphics are not saved during mode switch. c) The function performed by Shift-Arrow during cursor control is done by Control-Arrow on the NEC (shift arrow doesn't emit a unique key code here). I'm not sure this is even mentioned in the manual, but the msg code made it clear. Furthermore, the APCIII use the "real" arrow keys for this function, not the 2-4-6-8 set. The remaining comments in the manual concerning the NEC APCIII implementation are still all correct. The files for the APCIII implementation are available via anonymous ftp from SPACE.MIT.EDU in the "pub" directory as msgap3, msuap3, msxap3, msyap3, and mszap3.asm for source and msvap3.boo for executable or I can mail them to you, as you wish. At the very least, we should get the old v2.28 version of Roger Link's out of circulation (which is what is currently held in the Columbia archives in spite of the 2.29 version being available 2 years ago). Bob Goeke [goeke@space.mit.edu] or [...!seismo!space.mit.edu!goeke] MIT Center for Space Research Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 617-253-1910