16-May-90 19:21:16-GMT,22655;000000000001 Return-Path: Received: by watsun.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA19743; Wed, 16 May 90 15:11:01 EDT Date: Wed, 16 May 90 15:11:00 EDT From: Christine M Gianone To: Info-Kermit Subject: Info-Kermit Digest V11 #7 Reply-To: Info-Kermit@watsun.cc.columbia.edu Queries-To: Info-Kermit-Request@WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Message-Id: Info-Kermit Digest Wed, 16 May 1990 Volume 11 : Number 7 Departments: KERMIT-370 - Announcing IBM Mainframe Kermit-370 Version 4.2 Announcing IBM Mainframe VM/CMS Kermit-370 Version 4.2 Announcing IBM Mainframe MVS/TSO Kermit-370 Version 4.2 Announcing IBM Mainframe MUSIC/SP Kermit-370 Version 4.2 Using CMS 6 Shared File System with Kermit VAX/VMS KERMIT - New Kermit-32 Release for VAX/VMS MS-DOS KERMIT - New MS-DOS 3.01 Patch File KERMIT NEWS - Kermit News Number 4 Is on the Way MACINTOSH KERMIT - MacKermit Questions and Answers About MacKermit... Kermit bug MacKermit 0.98(62), terminalr, terminals, Print Mac Kermit Print Option? Bug report on Mac Kermit 0.98(62) Digest submissions may be sent to Info-Kermit@WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU, requests for addition to or deletion from the Info-Kermit subscriber list to Info-Kermit-Request@WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU or to KERMIT@CUVMA.BITNET. Kermit files may be obtained over networks and by mail order. On the Internetwork, use FTP to log in to host WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU, a SUN-4/280 running UNIX (SUNOS 4.0), IP host number 128.59.39.2. Login as user anonymous (note, lower case), any password, and GET or MGET (MULTIPLE GET) the desired files. The Kermit files are in directories kermit/a, kermit/b, kermit/c, kermit/d, and kermit/e. Test versions are in kermit/test. You can also get Kermit files over the BITNET/EARN network; to get started send a message with text HELP to KERMSRV, the Kermit file server, at host CUVMA. For detailed instructions, read the file kermit/a/aanetw.hlp (AANETW.HLP on KERMSRV). To order by mail, request a complete list of Kermit versions and an order form from Kermit Distribution, Columbia University Center for Computing Activities, 612 West 115th Street, New York, NY 10025 USA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue 8 May 1990 16:46:42 EDT From: "John F. Chandler" Subject: Announcing IBM Mainframe Kermit-370 Version 4.2 Keywords: IBM 370 Kermit Xref: IBM Mainframe, Also see IBM 370 This is to announce Kermit-370 Release 4.2. The sources have not been completely rewritten, nor have they been resequenced, but numerous fixes, extensions, and improvements have been inserted. The changes applied include all updates formerly available in the various system- specific update files plus many new ones. All the variants of Kermit-370 are being re-released simultaneously; see the accompanying system-specific announcements for further details: IKCKER.ANN (CMS), IKMKER.ANN (MUSIC), and IKTKER.ANN (TSO). Anyone interested in helping to port Kermit-370 to still other operating systems should contact John Chandler or . Below is a list of the generic changes in Version 4.2 of Kermit-370, including those appearing in intermediate releases: 1) New syntax for sending partial files by line numbers. 2) Implementation of the new level-1 international transfer syntax being developed at Columbia. See file ISOK5.TXT in the Kermit distribution for a description of the syntax. Kermit-370 includes support for files stored using numerous IBM Country Extended Code Pages and transfers using character sets ASCII, CYRILLIC, GREEK, HEBREW, KATAKANA, and LATIN1. The facility currently supports text files in the following languages: Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese (Katakana), Latin, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Welsh, and Yiddish. In extending support to other languages, the limiting factor has been the shortage of information about character set arrangements for file storage on 370-compatibles. Anyone with such information is urged to forward it to the Center for Computing Activities at Columbia University. 3) New syntax for specifying the response to filename collision, largely as specified in Kermit Digest V. 11 #1. SET WARNING and SET APPEND are still available but are not documented. 4) Kermit-370, when receiving a file, now attempts to honor the attributes specified by the sending Kermit, not including the Date attribute. 5) New option to ignore any attribute, both for sending and receiving. 6) Support for the MAIL, PRINT, and SUBMIT Disposition attributes via system-specific command invocations. Implementations are intended to be site-specific as well, but a few samples are available. 7) New provision for an accounting exit routine to be called after completion of each session of SEND or RECEIVE. 8) Freedom to redefine anything in the ATOE/ETOA tables, even CR or LF, as long as the TATOE/TETOA tables are either correct or irrelevant. 9) New, separate error message for receiving a "packet" containing no start-of-packet character. 10) Compatibility with the (aging) F-level assembler. 11) Assembly-time consistency check on the source components. 12) Edit number announced at start-up, in addition to release and date. 13) "In-core" files sent as TEXT, regardless of the current file TYPE. 14) Recover if an I-packet is denounced as an error or if the S-packet of a long reply is lost. 15) New SET SERVER-TIMEOUT subcommand. 16) SET BAUD changed to SET SPEED. Incidentally, the generic update program GUPI has been updated, but the old version will still work. You need not recreate it, but if you do, be sure to use all-new sources, or it will not assemble properly. Many thanks to the beta testers who have helped work out the bugs in the new release. ------------------------------ Date: Tue 8 May 1990 16:46:42 EDT From: "John F. Chandler" Subject: Announcing IBM Mainframe VM/CMS Kermit-370 Version 4.2 Keywords: IBM 370 Kermit, VM/CMS Kermit, CMS Kermit Xref: IBM Mainframe, Also see IBM 370 Xref: VM/CMS Kermit, Also see VM/CMS Kermit, IBM 370 This is to announce CMS Kermit Release 4.2. The sources have not been completely rewritten, nor have they been resequenced, but numerous fixes, extensions, and improvements have been inserted. The changes applied include all updates formerly available in IKCKER.UPD plus a number of new ones. As with Release 4.1, all CMS-specific files begin with IKC, and generic Kermit-370 files begin with IK0 (I K Zero). The separate pieces are to be recombined into a single composite source (or made into a macro library) for installation. See the file IKCKER.INS for instructions. Release 4.2 is also being issued in the companion TSO and MUSIC variants (see the separate announcements for details). Anyone interested in helping to port Kermit-370 to still other operating systems should contact John Chandler or . For a list of generic additions, see the generic Kermit-370 announcement IK0KER.ANN. The following is a list of CMS-specific updates added since Release 4.1. 1) New bimodal version for VM/XA in addition to the version for VM/SP. 2) Certain CP SET options which are not supported by VM/XA are now avoided by both CMS variants of Kermit when running under VM/XA. 3) GRAPHICS controllers are supported. 4) Extended PLIST for system commands, not just a tokenized PLIST. 5) Current HANDSHAKE character, if any, automatically appended to the string specified via SET PROMPT, unless the string is empty or already ends with the HANDSHAKE. 6) Alternate filespec syntax fn.ft.fm allowed in subcommands. 7) Prevent certain infinite waits on protocol-converter-type transfers. Many thanks to the beta testers who have helped work out the bugs in the new release. ------------------------------ Date: Tue 8 May 1990 16:46:42 EDT From: "John F. Chandler" Subject: Announcing IBM Mainframe MVS/TSO Kermit-370 Version 4.2 Keywords: IBM 370 Kermit, MVS/TSO Kermit, TSO Kermit Xref: IBM Mainframe, Also see IBM 370 Xref: MVS/TSO Kermit, Also see MVS/TSO Kermit, IBM 370 This is to announce Release 4.2 of Kermit-370 for TSO. The sources have not been completely rewritten, nor have they been resequenced, but numerous fixes, extensions, and improvements have been inserted. The changes applied include all updates formerly available in IKTKER.UPD plus many new ones. As with Release 4.1, all TSO-specific files begin with IKT, and generic Kermit-370 files begin with IK0 (I K Zero). The separate pieces are to be recombined into a single composite source (or made into a macro library) for installation. See the file IKTKER.INS for instructions. Release 4.2 is also being issued in the companion CMS and MUSIC variants (see the separate announcements for details). Anyone interested in helping to port Kermit-370 to still other operating systems should contact John Chandler or . For a list of generic additions, see the generic Kermit-370 announcement IK0KER.ANN. The following is a list of TSO-specific updates added since Release 4.1. 1) Implicit CLIST invocation now supported. 2) Missing host commands no longer result in ABEND's. Kermit simply returns an "invalid host command" indication. 3) Migrated data sets are automatically recalled, if possible, before attempting to use them. This includes especially the initialization files. 4) Sending PDS members by wildcard has been re-enabled. 5) The "MOD" date, as defined by ASM2 package, is now used (if it exists) instead of the creation date for sending the date attribute. 6) TSO commands may now be up to 256 bytes long and be mixed-case. 7) NOINTERCOM is set during transfers. 8) Automatic detection of VTAMTTY as opposed to plain TTY. 9) TTY-mode timeouts now work under MVS/XA and MVS/ESA. 10) Kermit HELP subcommand now works more than once per session. Incidentally, the generic update program GUPI has been updated, but the old version will still work. You need not recreate it, but if you do, be sure to use all-new sources, or it will not assemble properly. Many thanks to the beta testers who have helped work out the bugs in the new release. ------------------------------ Date: Tue 8 May 1990 16:46:42 EDT From: Pierre Goyette Subject: Announcing IBM Mainframe MUSIC/SP Kermit-370 Version 4.2 Keywords: IBM 370 Kermit, MUSIC/SP Kermit, MUSIC Kermit Xref: IBM Mainframe, Also see IBM 370 Xref: MUSIC/SP Kermit, Also see MUSIC/SP Kermit, IBM 370 This is to announce MUSIC Kermit Release 4.2. The sources have not been completely rewritten, nor have they been resequenced, but numerous fixes, extensions, and improvements have been inserted. The changes applied include all updates formerly available in IKMKER.UPD plus a number of new ones. As with Release 4.1, all MUSIC-specific files begin with IKM, and generic Kermit-370 files begin with IK0 (I K Zero). The separate pieces are to be recombined into a single composite source for installation. See the file IKMKER.INS for instructions. Bug reports should be sent to Pierre Goyette . Release 4.2 is also being issued in the companion TSO and CMS variants (see the separate announcements for details). Anyone interested in helping to port Kermit-370 to still other operating systems should contact John Chandler or . For a list of generic additions, see the generic Kermit-370 announcement IK0KER.ANN. The following is a list of MUSIC-specific updates added since Release 4.1. 1) Correction of problem in SERIES1-type transfer I/O with large blocks. Incidentally, the generic update program GUPI has been updated, but the old version will still work. You need not recreate it, but if you do, be sure to use all-new sources, or it will not assemble properly. Many thanks to the beta testers who have helped work out the bugs in the new release. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1990 May 11 13:13 EDT From: "John F. Chandler" Subject: Using CMS 6 Shared File System with Kermit Keywords: CMS, Kermit-370, Shared File System CMS Kermit has been reported as unable to work with files in the Shared File System (SFS) of CMS 6. This is only partly true. Because of the changed length of FST entries in SFS, Kermit has been unable to tell whether a specified file already exists, but it can store a file into the SFS routinely. There is now an update from East Texas State for determining the proper length of FST entries (see IKCKER.BWR in the new release of CMS Kermit -- thanks to Charles Becker for supplying the update and to M.R. Cagle for devising it), but problems have still been reported in locating the proper FST. If the source of these problems is the shared nature of SFS, the only solution may be to give up Kermit's high-speed built-in FST routine and fall back on the system GETFST function. Anyone with information about the organization of SFS FST's or anyone interested in halping to solve the "Case of the Missing Files" should drop me a line. John or ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 May 90 13:35:57 EDT From: Christine M Gianone Subject: New Kermit-32 Release for VAX/VMS Keywords: VAX/VMS Kermit 3.3.122 VAX/VMS Kermit-32 Version 3.3.118, contributed by Burt Johnson, and announced in Info-Kermit V11 #6, was not formally installed so that a testing period could verify whether it could safely replace the previous release, 3.3.117. Its major new feature was support for long packets (up to 1K in length). Jonathan Welch, JHWELCH@ECS.UMASS.EDU, of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, picked up this version and fixed it up a bit, and now we are making it "official" and releasing it as version 3.3.122. Jonathan's changes include: . Added the SET FILE BLOCKSIZE nnn (where nnn is the record size in bytes) command for incoming BINARY and FIXED file transfers. If no blocksize has been specified the old behavior will be used. Also modified SHOW FILE to display record size when appropriate. People have been asking for this one for years! . The restriction on file name and type lengths is now 39 characters each. Previously the restriction was 9 characters for the name and 3 for the type (pre-VMS 4 format). . Under some circumstances if all kermit operations were successful a return status of 0 was generated; SS$_NORMAL is now returned instead. . If SS$_HANGUP occurs on the outgoing terminal line the user will be notified. If the outgoing line is serviced by a DECserver (LTA type terminal) the user must issue a CONNECT LTAnnn command to reestablish a LAT link to the DECserver. . Relative offsets to data structures are now longwords. This change is an internal one which only those people compiling and linking Kermit-32 would be interested in, but it may allow the program to support packets even longer than 1K. This version of Kermit-32 was linked under VMS 4.5, and so the VMSMIT.HEX file requires VMS 4.5 or later to run. If you have an earlier version of VMS, then you can build Kermit-32 from the Macro-32 source code as outlined in VMSAAA.HLP. Jonathan will try to find a VMS 4.0 system to build the .HEX file on, but in the meantime, if anyone else with VMS 4.0 would care to contribute a VMSMIT.HEX file based on the new sources, it would be much appreciated. Meanwhile, Gary Stebbins sent in some new procedures for building VMS Kermit: VMSINS.KIT is a VMS install kit, VMSMKH.COM is a DCL procedure for creating the help files and library; VMSMKI.COM is a DCL procedure for creating the VMSINSTAL file. And Both Gary and Jonathan updated the help text; the new version with both of their changes in it is VMSMIT.RNH. Thanks to Jonathan and Gary, and once again to Burt, for their work on this popular Kermit version. The new files are in the B area of Kermit Distribution: Tape B, kermit/b/ on watsun (anonymous ftp), and also on BITNET KERMSRV at CUVMA. The previous release of VMS Kermit, 3.3.117, is still available in kermit/old, and the 3.3.118 test version has been removed from kermit/test. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 May 90 12:34:56 EDT From: Christine M Gianone Subject: New MS-DOS 3.0 Patch File Keywords: MS-DOS Kermit 3.0 The patch file for MS-DOS Kermit 3.01 has been updated by Joe Doupnik to correct the following problems: . Incorrect operation of REMOTE commands . Unwanted echo of path from CD command . Incorrect REMOTE LOGIN operation . Incorrect operation of ASK if invoked from within a macro . Incorrect operation of logging commands if invoked from within a macro . Problems with several VT320 and Tektronix escape sequences . Incorrect identifier for Latin-1 character set in Attribute packet . Failure to clear communication port buffer before sending a file The updated patch file is in kermit/a/msr301.pch (watsun, Internet) and MSR301.PCH (BITNET KERMSRV). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 May 90 08:15:00 EDT From: Christine M Gianone Subject: Kermit News Number 4 Is on the Way Keywords: Kermit News Kermit News Number 4 has gone to press -- 32 pages of news of Kermit releases, plus world news, stories from users, and technical contributions including a detailed analysis of Kermit's performance, and much discussion of Kermit's new ability to handle international character sets. If you are not already on our mailing list and you would like to receive the new issue (free of charge!), please send me your postal mailing address within the next few days, so it can be added to the subscription list before the mailing labels are printed. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 17:54:51 EDT From: Paul W Placeway Subject: MacKermit Questions and Answers Keywords: MacKermit, Macintosh From: Haydn Huntley Subject: About MacKermit... Is it possible to change the size of the characters on the screen? It's nice to be able to fit so many on the screen at once, but sometimes I wish a 12 point font were available... Coming soon (I've had a lot of requests, and have a large screen and poor eyesight myself)... Also, do you allow people to use the source for MacKermit? Is it available for ftp? See the info-kermit intro. From: wmorrg@urc.tue.nl (Rudy Gobits) Subject: Kermit bug I want to report a possible bug in Kermit version 0.98(62) that I currently use. When sending a file compressed with Stuffit 1.51 with the MacBinary option in 'File Defaults...' checked, and the host's file type set to binary, the file is transferred OK. However I end up with an 'eaten' stuffed file, i.e. the data fork length has been reduced to 0 (zero). This happened more than once, in fact it is 100% reproducible. I run Kermit on a Macintosh SE with System 6.0.3. Further I have a question: where do I get a manual for Kermit? I got this version of Kermit from a bulletin board in The Netherlands without manual. Thank you for making Kermit. Yes, there is a BAD bug in Kermit sending in MacBinary format: it zeros the source file when closing it after transfer (not a real useful feature), due to a screw-up (of mine) in the source code (some of the code magically disapeared). This will be fixed Real Soon Now; I am testing the file code a lot trying to find any other problem points before leting the next version out. In the mean time, don't use MacBinary. Hopefully no one has lost any work due to this. Sorry. From: <#MAK%LEHIGH.BITNET@IBM1.CC.Lehigh.Edu> Subject: MacKermit 0.98(62), terminalr, terminals, Print From: Macintosh Conference System Opperator (RobPlatt) I just got Kermit 0.98(62), and it is nice. Our mainframe programmers want to know, are terminalr and terminals supported? and are macros supported? No, these are currently available only in MS-DOS Kermit. Macros will probably appear some time soon. Programmable answer-back will never appear (it's too much of a security hole). I am not a Kermit protocol expert, but your answers would help our mainframe programmers.... and there is a Print menu up in the menu bar, but it is always grey. Should it be grey, or not? I have never seen it active/selectable??? The Print menu will light up if you send information at Kermit as if it were a VT-xxx terminal with a local printer, that is, surround the text to be printed with ESC [ 5 i (to start printing) and ESC [ 4 i (to stop). More printer support is coming. From: Jay Graham Subject: Mac Kermit Print Option? Dear Sirs, I have a copy of the release of mac kermit .98(63) and it has a menu option that is inactive called "PRINT". Is there a way to capture text from an entire session or parts of a session and save it or print it at a later time? (END of session). See above about what "PRINT" does. You can currently save the text of a session by doing a "log session" ("Log" menu, "Session" item). In a future version this will be able to save all the characters too, but for the moment it only captures lines displayed on the screen. From: tw-medli@cscaza.ncsu.edu (Todd Wilson Medlin) Subject: Bug report on Mac Kermit 0.98(62) I've noticed on several occasions that while using Get File From Server that if I interrupt with a command-. then the arrow icon is trashed and I get what I assume is a raw storage being used for the pointer. I'm on a 1M Mac Plus. Interesting. I must have a stray pointer problem to track down... --Paul ------------------------------ End of Info-Kermit Digest *************************