Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Kermit 3.83 Message-ID: <8805112031.aa01169@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 12 May 88 01:18:03 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 37 >Isn't speed wonderful kermit 3.83 has hit Compuserve on Monday already >and it hasn't made it through elsware. Was the improvement the Time extension >you mentioned earlier through INFO-APPLE or have other changes been made The thing about beta software is that there may be small subtle changes. If you have a copy of what appeared on Compuserve, try k-ESC, ? If it tells you about the cl(E)ar screen option, then it's at least as recent as the one I posted to APPLE2-L. I don't recall "time" extension? Changes since 3.82 1) if you QUIT to BASIC and type BYE, you get no longer get an "unclaimed interrupt error 2) SET PROTOCOL XMODEM ("vanilla" XModem - no CRC, no filespecs block) naturally that means SET PROTOCOL KERMIT (the default) 3) when connected to a host, the Kermit escape character (default is an ASCII null) followed by 'E' clears the screen, resets the 80 column and other display parameters which can be messed up by telephone line noise. My timing problem is that I shipped the files to APPLE2-L last night just as the link between YALEVM and BROWNVM crashed for 12 hours or so. Bitnet's file transfer protocol is to ship small files first. This morning there were nearly 500 files waiting on the link between Yale and Brown and the two Kermit files had been dropped to 480th or so. I just got a message from the LISTSERV telling me that the first file has arrived. I'd guess it'll be sometime tomorrow before the files reach the Internet (assuming nothing else goes wrong :-) --------------------- Disclaimer: The "look and feel" of this message is exclusively MINE! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut