From fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu Sun Feb 27 19:49:15 EST 2000 Article: 11261 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!fdc From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc Subject: The C-Kermit 7.0 CDROM Date: 28 Feb 2000 00:44:10 GMT Organization: Columbia University Lines: 58 Message-ID: <89cgcq$n9e$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: watsun.cc.columbia.edu X-Trace: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu 951698650 23854 128.59.39.2 (28 Feb 2000 00:44:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster@columbia.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Feb 2000 00:44:10 GMT Xref: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu comp.protocols.kermit.misc:11261 C-Kermit 7.0.197 was announced on comp.protocols.kermit.announce just now. As noted there, there are no functional changes -- just cleanups of 7.0.196 in preparation for the C-Kermit 7.0 CDROM, which should go to press within a few days. There's no need to download the new version if you already have a working copy of 196; the new version is functionally identical, but runs on some additional platforms. If you are able to make any C-Kermit 7.0 binaries that we aren't listed (with a "+" sign to indicate they are current) in the C-Kermit binaries list: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html#binlist this is the last chance to get them in time for the CD. Here are some of the notable absentees: . Unixware 1-point-anything . SCO ODT 3.0 . Solaris 2.6 Intel . MkLinux DR3 . Cray Unicos . DEC OSF/1 2.0 and 3.0 . DEC Ultrix 4.5 . Encore Multimax . HP-UX 9.xx on Model 800 . IBM RT PC with 4.3BSD (AOS) . IBM RS/6000 with any AIX prior to 3.2.0 . IBM RS/6000 with AIX 3.2.4 or 3.2.4 . ICL DRS6000 Sparc with System V R4 . Motorola Delta 88K with System V R3 . NeXTSTEP 3.2 (any architecture) . NeXTSTEP any version on i486 . DG/UX 5.40 or earlier (any architecture) . DYNIX/ptx 2.16 or earlier . ESIX . FreeBSD 2.2.7 or earlier (any arch) . Red Hat Linux prior to 5.1 (any arch) . Red Hat 6.0 (any arch) . Any SuSE, Corel, or Caldera Linux builds at all . Any NetBSD prior to 1.4 . Any QNX version prior to 4.25 . SINIX-L 5.42 on PC . Interactive UNIX 4-point-anything . Unisys, any UNIX version on any architecture . IRIX, any version prior to 5.3 . IRIX 6.0 . IRIX 6.4 . SunOS, any version prior to 4.1 . VMS, any version prior to 4.7 Let's make this the biggest collection of binaries for any program ever! At present we have nearly 600 C-Kermit binaries, about 260 for version 7.0, the rest for earlier releases. Of course some of these are redundant (e.g. cc and gcc versions for the same platform), but it's still quite a pile. - Frank From fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu Sun Feb 27 19:49:34 EST 2000 Article: 43 of comp.protocols.kermit.announce Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!fdc From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.announce Subject: Announcing C-Kermit 7.0.197 Date: 28 Feb 2000 00:16:54 GMT Organization: Columbia University Lines: 55 Approved: fdc@columbia.edu Message-ID: <89cepm$lve$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: watsun.cc.columbia.edu X-Trace: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu 951697014 22510 128.59.39.2 (28 Feb 2000 00:16:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster@columbia.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Feb 2000 00:16:54 GMT Xref: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu comp.protocols.kermit.announce:43 This is to announce a minor update of C-Kermit 7.0: version 7.0.197. This update includes absolutely no functional changes, not even bug fixes, in any C-Kermit implementation that was available in the original 7.0 release. The only changes are to make it compile, link, and run successfully on platforms or in configurations where 7.0.196 would not. These include: . 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD on the VAX . AT&T 3B2 System V R3 . BeOS 4.5 (sort of) . Compaq Tru64 UNIX 4.0F and 5.0 . DEC OSF/1 1.3 . DEC Ultrix 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 . IBM AIX 2.2.1 on the PS/2 . Intergraph CLIX 3.1 . Microware OS-9/68000 with TCP/IP . SCO OSR5 (due to a last-minute typo in the makefile) . Siemens Nixdorf SINIX-L 5.41 . Stratus FTX . Stratus VOS . SunOS 4.1 with SunLink X.25 . Unixware 2.0 Also in response to reports (that I can't reproduce) of "TOC overflow" errors when building on AIX 4.3, "-bbigtoc" was added to the AIX 4.3 target. The biggest change in the new release is a functional version for VOS, which includes both TCP/IP and X.25 networking, and which has been built for all three Stratus architectures: Continuum, i860, and m68k. Note that the BeOS version most likely is not capable of making connections, and definitely not capable of entering CONNECT mode, since BeOS supports neither of the mechanisms that C-Kermit uses for that (fork() or select()). Version 7.0.197 is installed on the C-Kermit website: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html None of the 7.0.196 binaries was replaced, nor do they need to be, but any new binaries added from now on might be 7.0.197, since there is no point in building on new platforms from older source. Working C-Kermit distributions and packages based on version 7.0.196 do not need to be updated. This release affects only the platforms listed in this announcement, for which C-Kermit 7.0.196 was not available (or buildable) prior to these changes. Of course, anybody who wishes to work on the source code should download the new version. About half of all the changes are in the UNIX makefile. There are no changes at all in the VMS version. Any bugs reported in C-Kermit 7.0 (only a few minor ones so far) will be fixed in a subsequent release or patch. - Frank