C-Kermit 8.0.206
As of: 24 October 2002
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This is a minor update of C-Kermit 8.0 that fixes all known bugs, adds
some new features (especially to the FTP client),
and coincides with Kermit 95 2.1.
- Where to Find It
- Documentation of New FTP Features
- CLICK HERE to read. Feel free to send comments
about NLST vs MLSD after you read it; they might make a difference.
- Special Thanks To . . .
- Gerry Belanger, Peter Eichhorn, Mark Berryman, and the IETF
FTP Working Group.
Frank da Cruz, Jeffrey Altman
The Kermit Project, Columbia University
List of Changes
Most of these also apply to Kermit 95 2.1.
- New commands:
- ORIENTATION lists location-related variables and their values.
- KCD changes to special directories by their symbolic names
("kcd ?" for a list).
- SET CD HOME path to specify home directory for CD and KCD commands.
- CONTINUE given at top level is equivalent to END -- handy when PROMPT'ed
out of a script, to continue the script.
- New switches or operands for existing commands:
- GETOK /TIMEOUT
- ASK, ASKQ, GETOK /QUIET (suppresses error message on timeout)
- COPY /APPEND now allows concatenating multiple source files into one
dest file.
- SET TCP { HTTP-PROXY, SOCKS-SERVER } /USER, /PASSWORD.
- DIRECTORY command now accepts multiple filespecs, e.g. "dir a b c".
- SET QUIET ON now also applies to:
- SET HOST connection progress messages.
- "Press the X or E key to cancel" file-transfer message.
- REMOTE CD response.
- REMOTE LOGIN response.
- Improvements and new features:
- Numerous FTP client fixes and new features, listed below.
- C-Kermit, when in remote mode at the end of a file transfer, now prints
a one-line "where" message. Control with SET TRANSFER REPORT.
- Unix makefile "install" target now creates an UNINSTALL script.
- Improved operation and performance on RFC 2217 Telnet connections.
- Improved CONNECT (interactive terminal connection) performance.
- HELP text updated for many commands.
- New or fixed makefile targets:
- Solaris 9 (several variations)
- Concurrent PowerMAX
- Mac OS X 10.2
- FreeBSD 1.0
- FreeBSD 4.6, 5.0
- AIX 5.2, 5.3
- Bugs fixed (general):
- Failure to run in VMS Batch fixed.
- LDIRECTORY fixed to run Kermit's built-in DIRECTORY command rather than
an external one.
- Fixed Solaris and other SVORPOSIX builds to find out their
full hostnames rather than just the "uname -n" name.
- Fixed some problems matching strings that start with ".".
- Fixed some problems matching pattern that contain {a,b,c} lists.
- Fixed erroneous reporting of text-mode reception as binary when sender
did not report the file size (cosmetic only).
- Many problems with SWITCH statements fixed.
- Fixed SET OPTIONS DIRECTORY /DOTFILES to work for server too.
- Fixed DELETE to print an error message if the file was not found.
- Fixed SET CONTROL UNPREFIX ALL and SET PREFIXING NONE to do the same thing.
- Fixed bugs executing macros from within the ON_EXIT macro.
- \fday() and \fnday() fixed for dates prior to 17 Nov
1858.
- Serial speed-changing bug in Linux fixed.
- "Unbalanced braces" script parsing errors when using
\{number} fixed.
- "if defined \v(name)" fixed to behave as described in the
book.
- Fixed Problems caused by LOCAL variables whose names are left substrings of
macro names.
- The INPUT command was fixed to honor the PARITY setting.
- Fixed bug with COPY to existing file that is longer than source file.
- REINPUT command failed to strip braces/quotes around its target string.
- Network directory lookups didn't work for SSH connections.
- REMOTE SET { FILE, TRANSFER } CHARACTER-SET fixed.
- Closed some holes whereby an incompletely received file was not deleted
when SET FILE INCOMPLETE is DISCARD, e.g. when the Kermit is hung up upon.
- SET XFER CHARACTER-SET TRANSPARENT fixed to do the same as SET XFER
TRANSLATION OFF.
- SET HOST PTY (e.g. SSH) connection fixed to pass along window-size changes.
- C-Kermit search path for TAKE files was accidentally disabled.
- FTP client bugs fixed:
- Character set translation was broken on little-endian (e.g. PC)
architectures.
- FTP PUT /SERVER-RENAME:, /RENAME-TO:, /MOVE-TO: switches were sticky.
- Make SET TRANSFER MODE MANUAL apply to FTP.
- Make SET FILE INCOMPLETE { KEEP, DISCARD } apply to FTP.
- FTP MGET /UPDATE handled equal times incorrectly.
- FTP GET /RECOVER fixed to ignore file dates, use only size.
- FTP MGET /RECOVER sometimes downloaded files it didn't need to.
- FTP downloads with TRANSFER DISPLAY BRIEF could give misleading error msgs.
- MGET temp file not deleted if FTP DEBUG set to OFF after it was ON.
- LOCUS not switched back when FTP connection is lost.
- Set incoming file date even if it was not completely received.
- FTP MGET sent SIZE and MDTM commands even when it didn't have to.
- FTP MGET sent SIZE and MDTM commands even when it knew they wouldn't work.
- FTP MGET failed if no files were selected for download.
- FTP MGET a* b* c* would fail to get any c*'s if no b*'s existed.
- Big problems canceling MGET with Ctrl-C.
- Some extraneous LOCUS dialogs squelched.
- Some inconsistencies in SET FTP FILENAMES AUTO fixed.
- Fixed file-descriptor pileup after multiple MGETs when using
mkstemp().
- Fixed "mget foo", where foo is a directory name.
- FTP improvements:
- New FTP protocol features added (FEAT, MLSD).
- FTP MGET /RECURSIVE now works as expected if server supports MLSD.
- FTP MGET /DATES-DIFFER to download if local and remote file dates differ.
- FTP DATES default changed to ON.
- FTP MPUT, MGET /EXCEPT now allows up to 64 patterns (up from 8).
- Top-level SITE and PASSIVE commands added for convenience.
- MGET /COLLISION:APPEND /AS-NAME:newfile *.* puts all remote files into one
local file.
- SET FTP SERVER-TIME-OFFSET for when server has wrong timezone set.
- Allow for alternative server interpretations of [M]MPUT /UNIQUE.
- SET FTP ANONYMOUS-PASSWORD lets you specify the default anonymous
password.
- Allow "GET /RECURSIVE path/file" to force local subdirectory creation.
- SET FTP DISPLAY is like SET TRANSFER DISPLAY but applies only to FTP.
- FTP { ENABLE, DISABLE } new-protocol-feature-name.
- FTP MGET /NODOTFILES.
- Debug log now records FTP commands and responses in grep-able format.
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