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Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #155
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:28:39 GMT
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Info-IBMPC Digest           Sat, 10 Oct 92       Volume 92 : Issue 155 

Today's Editor:
         Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <GHICKS@wsmr-simtel20.Army.Mil>

Today's Topics:
                      Info-Kermit Digest V16 #3

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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 11:08:44 EDT
From: Christine M Gianone <cmg@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: Info-Kermit Digest V16 #3

Info-Kermit Digest         Wed, 30 Sep 1992        Volume 16 : Number 3

Today's Topics:
	MS-DOS Kermit 3.12 Released
	New Kermit Program for IBM CS9000

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:00:00 EDT
From: Christine M Gianone <cmg@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: MS-DOS Kermit 3.12 Released

This is to announce a maintenance release of MS-DOS Kermit for the
IBM PC, PS/2, and compatibles, from Professor Joe R. Doupnik of Utah
State University.  The version number is 3.12, first announced for
beta testing on August 26th.  The major new features of version 3.12
are:

 . Networking and communications improvements, including support for ODI.
 . Japanese Kanji text file transfer translation.
 . Locking shift protocol for file transfer.
 . IBM mainframe file transfer extension.
 . New script programming and other features.
 . Bug fixes.
 . WINPKT "shim" for TCP/IP connections under Microsoft Windows.

The Kanji and locking shift protocol extensions can be used with
C-Kermit 5A and IBM Mainframe Kermit-370 4.2.3 and 4.2.4.  The IBM
mainframe file transfer extension (which allows files to be
transferred through non-transparent 3270 protocol converters) works
with the new IBM mainframe Kermit.

See Info-Kermit V16 #2, 26 August 1992, for a more detailed
announcement of MS-DOS Kermit 3.12.  See V16 #1, 6 August 1992, for
detailed announcements concerning the new IBM mainframe Kermit, as
well as the announcement below.

(Note: Info-Kermit Digest volumes are archived in kermit/e/imail.yyx
on watsun and IMAIL.yyx on CUVMA, where yy is the year, and x = "a"
for first half of year or "b" for second half of year, for example
imail.92b (IMAIL.92B) for the current volume.)

NEW FILES

Internet anonymous ftp    EARN/BITNET
watsun.cc.columbia.edu    KERMSRV@CUVMA   Description

 kermit/bin/msvibm.exe      (none)          Binary executable for IBM PC
 kermit/a/msvibm.boo        MSVIBM BOO      BOO-encoded KERMIT.EXE for IBM PC
 kermit/a/msr312.upd        MSR312 UPD      List of changes since version 3.11
 kermit/a/mskerm.hlp        MSKERM HLP      Updated help file
 kermit/a/mskerm.bwr        MSKERM BWR      Updated beware file
 kermit/a/mskermit.ini      MSKERMIT INI    Updated initialization file
 kermit/a/mscustom.ini      MSCUSTOM INI    New customization file

Use MSR312.UPD, MSKERM.HLP, and MSKERM.BWR as your supplement to the
MS-DOS Kermit 3.11 documentation.

The source files are available on both watsun and CUVMA in the same
directory as the .BOO and .UPD files.  The source files are all ASCII
text files.  Their names begin with the letters MS (lowercase on
watsun), and they have file types of .C, .H, and .ASM (lowercase on
watsun).  Microsoft MASM and C 6.0 are required for building version
3.12 from the source files.

The MSVIBM.BOO file is the .EXE file encoded in a printable ASCII
format, suitable for BITNET, e-mail, and other nontransparent modes
of transmission.  You can decode the BOO-file back into an .EXE file
using any of the MSBPCT.* programs available in kermit/a/msbpct.* or
MSBPCT * from KERMSRV.  See msbaaa.hlp (MSBAAA HLP) for details.

WINPKT is available only on watsun, in the packet-driver collection:

File name                              Description
  packet-drivers/bin/winpkt.com           WINPKT executable (binary)
  packet-drivers/doc/winpkt.hlp           WINPKT help file (ascii)
  packet-drivers/src/winpkt.asm           WINPKT source code (ascii)

My special thanks to Joe, on behalf all MS-DOS Kermit users
everywhere, for the work and skill he put into this new release, and
to Dr. Hirofumi Fujii of the Japan National Laboratory of High Energy
Physics, Tokyo, for extensive contributions to the Kanji support.
And thanks to all of you who sent in helpful comments on the Beta
version.

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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:00:00 EDT
From: Christine M Gianone <cmg@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: New Kermit Program for IBM CS9000

From Glenn Howes, University of Wisconsin <howes@bert.chem.wisc.edu>,
a send-only Kermit program for the IBM CS9000 workstation (circa
1980?), written in IBM 9000 Pascal (a derivative of UCSD Pascal),
ideal for those of you who are retiring your CS9000's and need to
move their files to another computer.

There is no code for receiving files.  There is also no code for
sending multiple files; you must run the program once for each file
to be sent.

The files (source and documentation) are in kermit/c/cs9000.*
(Internet ftp in text mode), and also available on BITNET from
KERMSRV@CUVMA as CS9000 *.  Thanks to Glenn for writing and
submitting this program!

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