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From news@columbia.edu Fri Dec 17 21:05:44 1999
From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Announcing a new GPL'd Kermit program for UNIX
Date: 18 Dec 1999 01:49:54 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <83ep82$8st$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
This to announce a brief testing period for a new, compact, and GPL'd
Kermit program for UNIX. The new program is called G-Kermit (GNU Kermit).
It is intended to meet the need for a Kermit protocol implementation
that is:
. Stable and low-maintenance
. Small and fast with no frills
. Released under the GNU Public License
G-Kermit is command-line only (no interactive commands or scripting) and
remote-mode only (no making connections). It has an extremely simple user
interface, and implements a large subset of the Kermit protocol in a small
amount of highly portable code.
It has been built and tested on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, ranging
from early-1980s-era to up-to-the-minute, using both traditional C and
ANSI C. It is designed to be as independent as possible of platform-
specific features, and therefore to be stable for many years if we resist
the temptation to add features to it. The size of the binary ranges from
29K (on HP-UX 8.00) to 99K on Ultrix/MIPS, with an average size of 52K
over 37 builds, and a typical size of 34K on PC-based UNIXes.
It's easy to build, install, and uninstall. It requires no privileges.
Documentation is included as a plain-text README file and a man page.
You can find G-Kermit 1.00 Beta.01 at:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/gkermit.tar.Z (78K)
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/gkermit.tar.gz (53K)
Uncompress, untar, read the README file, and take it from there (in most
cases you just type "make" to build it).
Send test reports to kermit-support@columbia.edu.
- Frank
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Updates since the first Beta release:
Beta.02 20 Dec 99:
. Handle situation in which gkermit was built with MAXRP < DEFRP.
. Handle situation in which gkermit was built with MAXRP > 9020.
. Don't allocate tinbuf[] if built with USE_GETCHAR.
. Fix cmdlin() to return start state.
. Updates & fixes to README incl notes about HP-UX 6.5.
. Don't show bogus packet in debug log if user interrupted with ^C...
. Use EAGAIN instead of EWOULDBLOCK on SVR3 and earlier.
. Fixed interruption vs streaming (but the fix was in C-Kermit).
Beta.03 21 Dec 99:
. <srfil>F was not encoding the filename before sending it back in the ACK.
. Avoid creating files with multiple backup prefixes.
. Change clean target in makefile to not use wildcards (for HP-UX 6 and 7).
. Add missing option -w to usage message.
. Fixed assorted typos and errors in README.
. Changed crc routine to guard better against sign extension.
. Catch transmission errors when receiving and streaming.
. Added -x switch to let user force Xon/Xoff if not built with SETXONXOFF.
. Removed ttflui() call from streamon() - it wrecked multifile transfers.
Beta.04 22 Dec 99:
. Changed non-ANSI VOID def from nothing to int.
. Added -DNOXONXOFF to override automatic setting of Xon/Xoff on HPUX.
. In decode(), got rid of zputc() -- just call putc() inline.
. More debugging.
Beta.05 23 Dec 99:
. Add zchko() and call it from rcvfil().
. Change zrtol() and zbackup() to return success/failure codes; this prevents
gkermit from overwriting original file if zbackup fails, e.g. on
NFS-mounted DOS file system.
Beta.06 23 Dec 99:
. Sleep a sec after erroring out & before exiting to allow any/some/more
incoming packets to be absorbed by ttflui() in doexit().
. Improved the E-packet messages.
. Added stty target to makefile.
. Added support for 2.11BSD (16-bit. 64K address space) and bsd211 target.
Beta.07 24 Dec 99:
. Allowed for SIG_I and SIG_V definition on CC command line.
. Added --x to override automatic setting of Xon/Xoff.
. gkermit -d now runs ttopen and ttpkt to record settings in debug log.
. Fixed recording of GKERMIT options in debug log.
. Allowed gkermit to receive NULs unprefixed.
. Allowed -d to take an optional filename arg.
. Fixed backup file creation to avoid duplicate backup suffixes.
Beta.08 25 Dec 99:
. Fixed zbackup() to not create filenames longer than MAXPATHLEN.
. Fixed reception of files containing NUL bytes.
. Final cleanup with "gcc -Wall".
Release 1.00 25 Dec 99.
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Article: 10842 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Announcing G-Kermit 1.00
Date: 27 Dec 1999 21:19:05 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
G-Kermit 1.00 is released. The web page is:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html
For those who missed the Beta test, G-Kermit is small, fast, and
portable Kermit protocol implementation for UNIX released under
the GPL.
Prebuilt binaries are available for over 40 hardware/OS/version
combinations:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html#down
If you can send in binaries that are not listed, please let me
know. After allowing a few days for more binaries to come in,
we'll make a wider announcement.
- Frank
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