From: Frank da Cruz Subject: Announcing Kermit-10 3.136 Date: 27 Apr 2006 15:09:11 GMT Organization: Columbia University Message-ID: newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc An update to PDP-10 DECsystem-10 Kermit from Nick Bush, one of the original authors. This was one of the first Kermit programs written outside of Columbia University, and it was written to be portable to three different Digital Equipment Corporation platforms: the PDP-10 with TOPS-10, the VAX with VMS, and the Professional 350 and 380 PDP-11 based workstations with P/OS, the main three platforms in use at Stevens Institute of Technology in 1983, where Nick worked at the time. While P/OS is long forgotten, VMS is still surprisingly strong after nearly 30 years (but nowadays we use C-Kermit there rather than Stevens' Kermit-32). The 36-bit PDP-10, like its sibling the DECSYSTEM-20, were highly influential machines of the 1970s and 80s. Although a few are still operational, the resurgence of interest in them comes from the recent availability of hardware emulators for these machines that can be run on today's desktop architectures. The new release of PDP-10 Kermit, Kermit-10 3.136, unifies the various patches that have come in since Stevens halted development 20 years ago, and also fixes a few bugs, notably incorrect terminal modes upon return from CONNECT mode (e.g. ESC would echo as $). Thanks to Nick for remembering how to do this! The new version is accessible from the PDP-10 Kermit page: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/pdp10.html as is information about the PDP-10 emulators and related topics. - Frank ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Sep 89 01:06:47 +0100 From: Dan Norstedt Subject: Announcing DECsystem-10 Kermit 3(134) Keywords: DECsystem-10 Kermit, Bliss Kermit, TOPS-10 Kermit, VAX/VMS Kermit New features and changes in Kermit-10 3(134) This version has added support for extended length packets: * Extended length packets are supported by the normal SET RECEIVE PACKET and SET SEND PACKET commands. Sizes up to 1000 are allowed. By default, extended length packets are not used. Typically, use SET RECEIVE PACKET 1000 and SET SEND PACKET 1000 to enable it. It also contains bug fixes/enhancements from the VMS version: * CRC calulations works ok when sending 8 bit data not using quoting. * IBM mode handshake improved. * Don't lose last character in a buffer if it's a widow. That's all, folks. The updated files are: K10COM.REQ K10GLB.MAC K10MIT.MAC K10MSG.BLI K10MSG.MAC K10TT.MAC K10UNV.MAC There are no new files, except this announcement. The .MAC (Macro-10) files are generated from the Bliss sources, but they will only work for KL and KS systems (our system is a KI). But since KI's are rare, and the previous version also was compiled only for KL/KS, I don't think it's much of a problem. The program has been put to heavy use here over the last few months, and I believe it to be free of (at least) new bugs. Regards, Dan Norstedt [Ed. - Thanks, Dan! This will certainly be good news for the world's remaining TOPS-10 users. The new files are installed in Kermit Distribution in the B area, kermit/b/k10*.* on watsun.cc.columbia.edu for Internet access, and in K10*.* on KERMSRV at CUVMA for BITNET access. Note that the system-independent Kermit protocol portions of this program are supposed to share the same source files with VAX/VMS Kermit-32. VAX/VMS users who have a Bliss-32 compiler are encouraged to get the new files and see if a new version of Kermit-32 can be built from them, which will give this orphaned program long packet support.]