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From news@columbia.edu Fri Dec 17 21:05:44 1999
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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Announcing a new GPL'd Kermit program for UNIX
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Date: 18 Dec 1999 01:49:54 GMT
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Organization: Columbia University
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Message-ID: <83ep82$8st$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
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This to announce a brief testing period for a new, compact, and GPL'd
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Kermit program for UNIX. The new program is called G-Kermit (GNU Kermit).
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It is intended to meet the need for a Kermit protocol implementation
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that is:
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. Stable and low-maintenance
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. Small and fast with no frills
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. Released under the GNU Public License
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G-Kermit is command-line only (no interactive commands or scripting) and
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remote-mode only (no making connections). It has an extremely simple user
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interface, and implements a large subset of the Kermit protocol in a small
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amount of highly portable code.
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It has been built and tested on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, ranging
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from early-1980s-era to up-to-the-minute, using both traditional C and
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ANSI C. It is designed to be as independent as possible of platform-
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specific features, and therefore to be stable for many years if we resist
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the temptation to add features to it. The size of the binary ranges from
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29K (on HP-UX 8.00) to 99K on Ultrix/MIPS, with an average size of 52K
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over 37 builds, and a typical size of 34K on PC-based UNIXes.
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It's easy to build, install, and uninstall. It requires no privileges.
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Documentation is included as a plain-text README file and a man page.
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You can find G-Kermit 1.00 Beta.01 at:
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ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/gkermit.tar.Z (78K)
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ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/gkermit.tar.gz (53K)
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Uncompress, untar, read the README file, and take it from there (in most
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cases you just type "make" to build it).
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Send test reports to kermit-support@columbia.edu.
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- Frank
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Updates since the first Beta release:
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Beta.02 20 Dec 99:
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. Handle situation in which gkermit was built with MAXRP < DEFRP.
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. Handle situation in which gkermit was built with MAXRP > 9020.
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. Don't allocate tinbuf[] if built with USE_GETCHAR.
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. Fix cmdlin() to return start state.
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. Updates & fixes to README incl notes about HP-UX 6.5.
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. Don't show bogus packet in debug log if user interrupted with ^C...
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. Use EAGAIN instead of EWOULDBLOCK on SVR3 and earlier.
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. Fixed interruption vs streaming (but the fix was in C-Kermit).
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Beta.03 21 Dec 99:
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. <srfil>F was not encoding the filename before sending it back in the ACK.
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. Avoid creating files with multiple backup prefixes.
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. Change clean target in makefile to not use wildcards (for HP-UX 6 and 7).
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. Add missing option -w to usage message.
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. Fixed assorted typos and errors in README.
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. Changed crc routine to guard better against sign extension.
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. Catch transmission errors when receiving and streaming.
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. Added -x switch to let user force Xon/Xoff if not built with SETXONXOFF.
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. Removed ttflui() call from streamon() - it wrecked multifile transfers.
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Beta.04 22 Dec 99:
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. Changed non-ANSI VOID def from nothing to int.
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. Added -DNOXONXOFF to override automatic setting of Xon/Xoff on HPUX.
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. In decode(), got rid of zputc() -- just call putc() inline.
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. More debugging.
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Beta.05 23 Dec 99:
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. Add zchko() and call it from rcvfil().
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. Change zrtol() and zbackup() to return success/failure codes; this prevents
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gkermit from overwriting original file if zbackup fails, e.g. on
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NFS-mounted DOS file system.
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Beta.06 23 Dec 99:
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. Sleep a sec after erroring out & before exiting to allow any/some/more
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incoming packets to be absorbed by ttflui() in doexit().
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. Improved the E-packet messages.
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. Added stty target to makefile.
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. Added support for 2.11BSD (16-bit. 64K address space) and bsd211 target.
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Beta.07 24 Dec 99:
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. Allowed for SIG_I and SIG_V definition on CC command line.
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. Added --x to override automatic setting of Xon/Xoff.
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. gkermit -d now runs ttopen and ttpkt to record settings in debug log.
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. Fixed recording of GKERMIT options in debug log.
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. Allowed gkermit to receive NULs unprefixed.
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. Allowed -d to take an optional filename arg.
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. Fixed backup file creation to avoid duplicate backup suffixes.
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Beta.08 25 Dec 99:
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. Fixed zbackup() to not create filenames longer than MAXPATHLEN.
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. Fixed reception of files containing NUL bytes.
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. Final cleanup with "gcc -Wall".
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Release 1.00 25 Dec 99.
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