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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
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Subject: Kermit 3.83
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Date: 11 May 88 18:34:30 GMT
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>Everyone of course appreciates those who take the trouble to tune and
>improve kermit -- but I would think in the interests of lessening
>confusion only Ted Medin should be allowed to 'release' any versions
>that have an 'official' sounding name -- the one recently mentioned, for
>instance, should perhaps be known as 3.82-SEWALL, but definitely not
>3.83.  I'd also argue, but less strongly, that the ONLY versions of
>kermit that should be released in any mass way (e.g., through a LISTSERV
>mechanism) are those that are released through Columbia.

I could quibble, but your first point is pretty well taken.  3.83 IS
a beta copy (I believe I said that) and I DID ask Ted about posting it
(It's as "official" as 3.82 which hasn't ever been sent to Columbia).

You can call it whatever version you wish to, but it contains some
significant improvements over version 3.81 (which is the one currently
on the server at Columbia).  The fact that BYE works will make quite
a few folks happy.

An awful lot of people have version 3.82, however obtained, and I don't
believe that one will ever exist at KERMSRV (version 3.80 never did).

Version 3.83 is stable (Ted's assessment) and word already is spreading
around that it exists.  The "delay" (if you choose to call it that) in
sending it to Columbia is whatever time it's going to take to update
the documentation (I won't bore you with details, but it'll be
a little while).  In the meantime, 3.83beta has some nice features
(XModem for instance) that the one available from Columbia doesn't
have.  If very many people are going to want it, then APPLE2-L and
comp.binaries.apple2 are clearly the most efficient way of making
it available.

Ted may well have a small improvement or two between 5/7/88 and the
time he sends the new version off to Columbia.  I don't think it a bad
idea at all to download a new copy of KER383.2 from Columbia when it
gets there and update it.

Where do all those new versions of BLU and TIC come from (not Glen
Bredon and Don Elton, do they)?  Anyhoo, I certainly don't mind your
asking me where I got 3.83 and howcome I decided to send it to APPLE2-L.

BTW There was some sort of communications problem between Yale and
Brown last night (backed up a few hundred files including the 2 parts
of Kermit), so it will be a day or two before the backlog clears and
those files arrive in your mailbox.

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