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

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
Keywords: MS-DOS Kermit 3.12, Kanji, ODI, SLIP, TELNET, TCP/IP, WINPKT

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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