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1 | Date: 24-May-1991 |
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3 | Announcing: CP/M Kermit Version 4.11 | |
4 | ||
5 | Just to prove that the CP/M world still exists, here is CP/M Kermit -80 | |
6 | Version 4.11. | |
7 | ||
8 | Features added since version 4.09 include: | |
9 | ||
10 | o SET COLLISION {BACKUP/DISCARD/OVERWRITE/RENAME} | |
11 | o SET INCOMPLETE-FILES {DISCARD/KEEP} | |
12 | O Many REMOTE commands, including some REMOTE SET commands | |
13 | o RENAME command to rename CP/M files from within Kermit-80 | |
14 | o SET RECEIVE/SEND PACKET-LENGTH nn (nn <= 94) | |
15 | o SET AUTORECEIVE ON now implies that Kermit-80 ALWAYS tries to | |
16 | receive more files when a RECEIVE transaction has completed. The | |
17 | user can abort with ^C. | |
18 | o QUIT is now a synonym for EXIT. | |
19 | o STAY is now a synonym for SET NO-EXIT. | |
20 | o CONNECT, RECEIVE and SEND may be abbreviated to C, R and S, | |
21 | respectively. | |
22 | o Processing of commands from a file via a TAKE command may now be | |
23 | aborted by entering a Control-C at the console. | |
24 | o The TYPE and PRINT commands are now immediately aborted if a | |
25 | Control-C is entered at the console. If a Control-X is entered at | |
26 | the console, typeout/printout of the current file is aborted and | |
27 | typeout/printout of the next file, if any, begins. These actions | |
28 | also occur if any other key has been pressed to halt typeout/printout | |
29 | and Control-C or Control-X is pressed. Pressing any other key resumes | |
30 | the typeout/printout. | |
31 | o Many bug fixes | |
32 | o Kermit-80 Version 4.11 now supports the Microbee family of | |
33 | computers (56K, 64K, 128K and 256K) manufactured by | |
34 | Microbee Systems, Ltd, of Australia. | |
35 | o Kermit-80 now supports the Ampro Little Board system. | |
36 | ||
37 | Technical changes: | |
38 | ||
39 | o An "I" packet is now tried before the request for files is sent | |
40 | in a GET command | |
41 | o The overlay address is now 7000H | |
42 | o The overlay (CPXLNK.ASM) has an added INCFLG variable to handle | |
43 | INCOMPLETE-FILES status | |
44 | o The COPY, TYPE and PRINT commands now use the large buffer | |
45 | (8K bytes default size) for file I/O | |
46 | ||
47 | Syntax hints: | |
48 | ||
49 | In REMOTE commands such as REMOTE COPY, REMOTE MESSAGE, REMOTE RENAME, | |
50 | REMOTE WHO etc., where two arguments are required, the syntax is as for Vax | |
51 | VMS Kermit, i.e., | |
52 | REMOTE <command> <argument 1> | |
53 | Prompt: <argument 2> | |
54 | For example: | |
55 | REMOTE COPY <old-file> | |
56 | New file: <new-file> | |
57 | ||
58 | The REMOTE LOGIN command has three arguments, of which the last two are | |
59 | prompted for an entered on new lines. Arguments are optional. | |
60 | ||
61 | In commands such as REMOTE SET FILE BLOCK-SIZE which take a numeric | |
62 | argument, Kermit-80 does not check the argument for validity. Whatever is | |
63 | typed is what the host sees. | |
64 | ||
65 | The FCOPY command has been renamed to COPY. | |
66 | ||
67 | The syntax for the RENAME command is as for the COPY command, that is: | |
68 | RENAME <old-filespec> <new-filespec> | |
69 | ||
70 | More rigorous checking for wildcards is now done by both of these | |
71 | commands. | |
72 | ||
73 | The STRING command has been renamed to OUTPUT. | |
74 | ||
75 | SET BAUD-RATE is now SET SPEED. | |
76 | ||
77 | The option SET FILE DEFAULT has ben re-enabled. Use a TAKE-file to set the | |
78 | initial file-mode to ASCII or BINARY. | |
79 | ||
80 | Building Kermit-80 ver. 4.11: | |
81 | ||
82 | Kermit-80 ver. 4.11 is built using the same procedure as for ver. 4.09. | |
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84 | ||
85 | Many thanks to those who have contributed bug fixes, and, in particular, | |
86 | to Mr. Russell Lang of Monash University, Australia, for contributing | |
87 | a bug-fix and the family file for the Microbee systems and to Mr. | |
88 | Jay S. Rouman of Mt. Pleasant, MI for contributing the code for the Ampro | |
89 | Little Board. Thanks are also due to Lance Tagliapietra of the University | |
90 | of Wisconsin at Platteville for finding several bugs. |