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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:04:41 -0700
From:         Alan Smith <alans@CORAL.USACE.MIL>
Subject:      FTP Software version 2.1 information
X-To:         banyan-l@vm1.cc.uakron.edu

Here's some info direct from FTP Software about their new version 2.1 that
Banyan sites using ebanyan/ibanyan should see sometime in September.


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                           Current Product Releases

    As of September 1992, these are the current releases of all of our
    products.  After you review the new features and fixes, if you want
    the latest release, contact our Sales department.

    PCTCP for DOS...........................................Version 2.1

    * New initialization, installation, and configuration: the PCTCP
    environment variable replaces the FTP_CONFIG environment variable,
    the ipconfig and ifconfig device drivers are no longer needed, and a
    new configuration editor, confedit.exe contains context-senstive help
    for all options in the pctcp.ini file.

    * Major kernel enhancements: such as QIO architecture revision,
    expanded memory usage, MTU path discovery, IP fragmentation, unload
    notification, simplified configuration, multiple packet buffer sizes,
    multiple router capatibility/gateway fallback, and serialization.

    * A sample protocol.ini file is included to help with PC-210 NDIS
    installations.

    * New ping.exe option, -q, prints out the hop count and routers
    traversed to reach a designated foreign host.

    * Ability to run PPP and SLIP drivers in Windows.

    * A three part DLL set, pctcpapi.dll, wnet286.dll, and wnet386.dll
    support both Standard and 386 Enhanced Modes in Windows.

    * Four windows applications, wpftp.exe, wtnvt.exe, wping.exe, and
    winet.exe.

    * You can customize display remapping and choose the national
    character set in wtnvt.exe.

    * Support for the Kerberos Authentication System for the
    applications, kloginvt.exe, klogingl.exe, rsh.exe, and rcp.exe.
    Additional Kerberos commands are kinit.exe, klist.exe and
    kdestroy.exe.

    * An ODI to packet driver converter is included in this release.

    * The ability to run PC/TCP through IP using IP tunneling is
    available with the new pd_pctcp.com packet driver.

    * A new electronic mail command, nntp.exe, supports the Network News
    Transfer Protocol.

    * Vmail has support for nntp.exe.

    * The tn.exe and tnglass.exe programs support 132 column mode for
    more VGA cards.

    * You can specify screen colors for the tn.exe, rloginvt.exe, and
    vmail.exe.

    * Some 2.1 applications (ping.exe, tn.exe, and inet.exe) that display
    statistics have new display formats.

    * Improved predir.exe and wprespl.exe programs for better Windows
    printing.

    * The formerly sold separtely NetBIOS and InterDrive products are
    included in this release.

    * NetBIOS has the capability to run over routers through the use of
    something like a host file, whereas before it was restricted to a
    single LAN.


    InterDrive..............................................Version 2.1

    * The size of the idrive.exe TSR is significantly decreased (to about
    half the size as the previous version).

    * Improvements to the filename mapping feature.  The name mapping
    table can be considerably larger.

    * Significant improvements to the reliability of file locking.

    * More support for PCNFSD.  You can now set the authentication server
    for the distribution information from administrative files.

    * Lets you set different permission masks for each of the individual
    mounted drives.

    * Supports multiple group memberships, allowing you to belong to two
    or more groups on the remote server.

    * Changes in the default values, as well as the minimum and maximum
    values, for some InterDrive commands.

    * You can now use the idrive -a command to set the number of lock
    table entries.

    * You can now use the idrive -n command to set the number of
    filenames that InterDrive maps before reusing entries in the filename
    mapping table.

    * Lets you specifically set the mapping character you use with the

    * map-char entry in the [pctcp idrive] section of the pctcp.ini
    configuration file.

    * Replaces the large and small buffers in previous versions of
    InterDrive with a single buffer for reads and writes.  The -l and -s
    options for the idrive command are obsolescent.

    * You can now set the number of entries in the look-up cache from 9
    to 500 with a new command, idrive -k.

    * You can now set the number of directory cache buffers with the
    idrive -c command.

    * The new option idconfig -k n, which sets the number of entries to
    delete when the name mapping cache overflows.

    * Changes to the idls -a command so that, to display files, it uses h
    in the first position of the attribute list with the hidden bit set,
    and H with a leading dot, such as .login.

    * You can now unmount all drives and unload the InterDrive TSR with
    the idumnt -u command

    * Two new options to the idutil command: the -e option causes the
    display of the most recent error messages received from NFS, DOS, and
    the network, and the -h option toggles whether or not to hide files
    with names that begin with a dot, such as .login.


    PC/TCP for OS/2..........................................Version 1.2

    * The pcmaild daemon is new with four commands, rep, flush, rebuild,
    and peek that create pcmaild.  The peek command is a program manager
    application.

    * Two new kernel.ini parameters are available, Hostname and
    Tcp_Keep_Alive.

    * The bootpd daemon is new.  It is a bootserver that lets a diskless
    client obtain network boot-up information and a boot file from the
    server.

    * The new command host displays the Internet address that corresponds
    to a hostname.

    * The named daemon is new.  It is a version of the Berkeley Internet
    naming daemon BIND.

    * A nbstatus command is new.  This command reports statistics
    regarding NetBIOS adapters and activity.

    * The new command nntp is a client mail command that uses the Network
    News Transfer Protocol.

    * NetBIOS has moved from Ring 3 to Ring 0.  This improves performance
    200% to 300%.

    * An rpcinfo command is new.  It obtains the location and version
    numbers of programs available on other hosts in the network.

    * The new command sc displays the key values to use for VT100
    keyboard remapping.

    * An SNMP agent for OS/2 is new, called snmpd.

    * The new daemon syslogd filters messages from daemons running on the
    system.


    LANWatch................................................Version 2.04

    * LW-110 now runs over both Ethernet and Token Ring with support for
    class 11 packet drivers (802.3).  LANWatch automatically determines
    what LAN media is running and parses accordingly.

    * A new command line option for LW-110 specifies the packet driver
    class.  The new option is -d class, where class can be 1 (Ethernet),
    3 (802.5) or 11 (IEEE 802.3).

    * IEEE packets (802.2, 802.3 and 802.5) now display different colors
    for different protocols on color monitors.


    PC/LPD......................................................Version 1.01

        Version 1.02 will be released shortly with these new features:
        --------------------------------------------------------------

    * When you configure the server, you can force the server not to
    print the header page for any printer.

    * You can redirect a print command to write to a file.

    * You can use filenames as control strings to be sent to the
    printers.

    * You can send control sequences after you send a file to a printer.

    * You can start up a server with printing and/or spooling turned off
    for any printer.

    * You can print a PostScript header page.

    * The logging file for each printer records whether the job completed
    and how many bytes printed.

    * You can change the number of characters to print at a time.

    * You can use the hosts file to limit access to the server.

    * You can turn off the form feed at the end of the line.


    Development Kit for DOS....................................Version 2.05 pl4


    Development Kit for OS/2...................................Version 1.2


    PC/Bind....................................................Version 2.01


    SNMP Tools.................................................Version 1.01






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William J Rust (aka, not-the-mama)                       Internet: wjr@ftp.com
FTP Software, Inc.                         (617) 246-0900, fax: (617) 246-0901




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