From cmg Fri Aug 23 15:13:06 1991 Return-Path: Received: by watsun.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA08669; Fri, 23 Aug 91 15:13:06 EDT Date: Fri, 23 Aug 91 15:13:05 EDT From: Christine M Gianone To: Info-Kermit Subject: Info-Kermit Digest V14 #3 Reply-To: Info-Kermit@watsun.cc.columbia.edu Queries-To: Info-Kermit-Request@WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Errors-To: Info-Kermit-Request@watsun.cc.columbia.edu Message-Id: Info-Kermit Digest Fri, 23 Aug 1991 Volume 14 : Number 3 Today's Topics: MS-DOS Kermit 3.11 Prerelease Ready for Testing Termcap/Terminfo for MS-DOS Kermit on the Wang PC MS-DOS Kermit Speed under Windows Digest submissions may be sent to Info-Kermit@WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU or KERMIT@CUVMA.BITNET. Requests for addition to or deletion from the Info-Kermit subscriber list should be sent to LISTSERV@CUVMA.BITNET or LISTSERV@CUVMA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU. These messages must be of the form: SUBSCRIBE I-KERMIT (To start a subscription) UNSUBSCRIBE I-KERMIT (To cancel a subscription) REGISTER I-KERMIT (To correct your name) 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 4.1), 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. All files in these directories should be transferred in text (ASCII) mode. Binaries are in kermit/bin (use ftp in binary mode). 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: Fri, 23 Aug 1991 15:28 EDT >From: Christine M Gianone Subject: MS-DOS Kermit 3.11 Prerelease Ready for Testing Keywords: MS-DOS Kermit 3.11, TCP/IP >From Professor Joe R. Doupnik (JRD) of Utah State University, a new release of MS-DOS Kermit. The final release will occur in about one week, so rapid testing and reporting of bugs is needed. Please report problems directly via e-mail to Joe: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Internet), JRD@USU (BITNET/EARN), with cc to Info-Kermit@watsun.cc.columbia.edu. Please limit your reports to bugs (and/or fixes) -- the design and features of this release are frozen. The sooner you get your bug reports in, the greater the chances of getting the bugs fixed! The differences from version 3.10 are: NETWORKS: . Built-in TCP/IP network support for PCs with Ethernet-style packet drivers. . New SET PORT TCP/IP , SET TCP/IP commands. . Alt-n has \Knethold assigned by default. . SET NETBIOS-NAME allows you to set the PC's Netbios node name. TERMINAL EMULATION: . VT220 terminal type now supported. . Alt-minus now toggles between current text terminal and graphics screens, rather than all possible terminal types. . SET TERMINAL CHARACTER-SET DEC-SPECIAL. . SET TERMINAL UPSS {DEC-MCS, LATIN1}. SCRIPT PROGRAMMING: . New OPEN, CLOSE, READ, and WRITE commands for local file access. . "Long variable names": \m(this-is-a-variable-name). . Maximum length for macro definitions raised from 255 to 1000. . GOTO is now global, rather than confined to current macro or command file. OTHER: . New simplified and expanded dialing directory using a plain text file. . All known 3.10 bugs are fixed. . Improved help and status screens. . New help and beware files. The long variables work like this. Define them as if they were macros: define telephone-number 7654321 Refer to them using the new \m() construct: output atdt \m(telephone-number)\13 Those who want to try out the TCP/IP networking support, but don't have packet drivers, use anonymous FTP to get them from Clarkson College in Potsdam, NY, host sun.soe.clarkson.edu [128.153.12.3], cd pub/ka9q, use "type binary", get the appropriate zip, arc, zoo, etc, files, and use PKUNZIP or ZOO on your PC to unpack them. Only Ethernet-style packet drivers are supported. The new version of Kermit has been sucessfully tested with the following boards and accompanying packet drivers: Ungermann-Bass PC/NIC board with Clarkson UBNICPC packet driver 9.1 3COM 3C503 with Clarkson 3C503 packet driver 9.4.0 Western Digital WD8003E with Clarkson WD8003E packet driver Cabletron boards with Cabletron CSIPD_E (1.05) and CSIPD_X packet drivers IBMTOKEN.COM 3C501 emulation packet driver 1.9 over Token Ring board+drivers DIS_PKT over NDIS for LAN Manager networks (incl DECnet/DOS, AT&T StarGROUP) The new Kermit commands are: SET TCP/IP ADDRESS Tell Kermit the IP address of your PC SET TCP/IP BROADCAST IP broadcast address SET TCP/IP SUBNETMASK Your local IP network subnet mask SET TCP/IP GATEWAY IP address of nearest gateway SET TCP/IP DOMAIN Domain name for your local IP network SET TCP/IP PRIMARY-NAMESERVER Address of primary nameserver SET TCP/IP SECONDARY-NAMESERVER Address of fallback nameserver SET TCP/IP HOST Default host for SET PORT TCP SET PORT TCP/IP Specify host to connect to Automatic downloading of some of these parameters via BOOTP or RARP is also supported. Before using Kermit's TCP/IP features, be sure to read the TCP/IP sections at the end of MSKERM.HLP and MSKERM.BWR! Many thanks to Erick Engelke of Waterloo University in Ontario for contributing his Waterloo TCP package (WATTCP), and for his cooperation in adapting it to Kermit. The new files are in kermit/test/ms* on watsun.cc.columbia.edu, and in T:MS*.* on KERMSRV at CUVMA on BITNET/EARN. Convert the MSTIBM.BOO file into MSTIBM.EXE with any of the MSBPCT.* programs available in kermit/a or kermit/bin, or from KERMSRV. On the Internet only, the binary MSTIBM.EXE program is available via binary-mode FTP from kermit/bin/mstibm.exe. FTP users: remember -- transfer files from the kermit/bin directory in binary mode, transfer all files from all the other directories in text (ASCII) mode. Source code will appear with the final release. See MSKERM.HLP for information about the new commands and about how to use the dialing directory. Make sure to get the new MSKERMIT.INI and MSIHAY.SCR files too, since the dialing directory is implemented by these files (note, you must rename MSIHAY.SCR to HAYES.SCR so the DIAL command can find it). There is also a sample dialing directory file MSIDIA.TXT (rename to DIALUPS.TXT). The "beware file" for the new version is MSKERM.BWR -- be sure to read it before reporting problems. As always, our deepest thanks to Joe for his skill, generosity, patience, and long hours of hard work in making this new version of MS-DOS Kermit available. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 91 16:35:49 EDT >From: pfm@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU Subject: Termcap/Terminfo for MS-DOS Kermit on the Wang PC Keywords: Wang PC Kermit In case it's of interest to anyone else, I am sending my cheap way out of not having a terminal emulator with the Wang PC version of MS-DOS Kermit: UNIX termcap and terminfo files that will make the PC work as a VT100 minus function keys. (it has the correct screen and cursor escapes and the cursor arrow keys which makes it completely adequate for full screen use but not function keys). Let me also mention that I've put the IBM-PC version of Kermit on several PC's here we use as terminals, which had vt100 emulators only. The vt320/tek emulators are great and will probably save us from buying new graphics terminals. Keep up the good work! Best regards, Paul Mende pfm@math.mit.edu Center for Theoretical Physics pfm@mitlns.bitnet Massachusetts Inst. of Technology [Ed. - Thanks, Paul. The Wang PC termcap/terminfo material has been added to the Kermit distribution as MSVWNG.TC.] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Aug 91 15:15:19 EST >From: Pat Zerkle Subject: MS-DOS Kermit Speed under Windows Keywords: MS-DOS Kermit and MS Windows Regarding newsletter comments re MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0, and serial speeds above 9600. I use a 386/25MHz 64k cache, 4mb RAM 'AT Clone' (Club American) with AMI BIOS, connecting via a DEC LAT to an IBM 7171. I have had no problem using MS-Kermit 3.1 at 19200 bps under MS-DOS 4.01, MS-DOS 5.0, and via Windows 3.0 Enhanced under either DOS version. In Windows, I use the switch to enable background execution. The maximum speed is probably limited by a combination of software/BIOS/architecture/serial hardware/system load, so we can probably only use empirical methods to get it to work. As for Windows, the files \WINDOWS\SYSIN*.TXT installed by Windows (at least, my 5/1/90 files) explain several SYSTEM.INI settings related to COM ports. The COMxBuffer and COMBoostTime settings may help (hurt?) some users. Cordially, Pat Zerkle [Ed. - Thanks for the encouraging report. Another user, E.W. Carlson says, "I don't understand the July 25 comment that MS-Kermit can not run faster than 9600 baud under Windows. I routinely run MS-Kermit at 19,200 baud under Windows on a PS/2 55SX. The machine is standard IBM equipment with no special chips added."] ------------------------------ End of Info-Kermit Digest *************************