C-Kermit 8.0.208 Announcement

This is to announce C-Kermit 8.0.208, a minor update of C-Kermit 8.0 that fixes all known bugs, adds a couple new features, and coincides with Kermit 95 2.1.4 for Windows (to be announced soon).

Improvements and new features since C-Kermit 8.0.206:

• OpenSSL interface updated to 0.9.7.
• SSL/TLS support added to the VMS version of C-Kermit.
• New \fcvtdate(xxx,code) format code 3 to request MDTM-format date-time (yyyymmddhhmmss).
• Separate text and binary session log file formats for VMS.

New commands:

• [FTP] PASV added as an invisible synonym for [FTP] PASSIVE.

New switches or operands for existing commands:

• FTP OPEN host [ port ] /NOLOGIN overrides SET FTP AUTOLOGIN ON.
• FTP OPEN host [ port ] /USER now overrides SET FTP AUTOLOGIN OFF.

New or fixed makefile targets:

• HP-UX 11 with SSL/TLS.
• AIX 5.2 and 5.3.
• New gcc targets for most AIX versions.
• FreeBSD 4.8.
• Tru64 Unix 5.1B.

Bugs fixed (general):

• Assorted syntax fixes for old VMS versions and compilers.
• Fixed core dump when making Telnet Com Port connections on certain platforms.
• Unix C-Kermit did not allow file transfer if started without a controlling terminal (even if given an already-open file descriptor, e.g. "-l 0").
• The GREP command did not allow its pattern to be a variable.
• HELP PATTERN text had some mistakes.
• INPUT n \fpattern(xxx) did not work for case-independent comparisons.
• \fpattern(xxx) didn't work with MINPUT at all.
• Macro replacement via \m() and \fdefinition() did not work as advertised for associative arrays (where the contents of the array "subscript" must be case sensitive).
• S-Expression bitwise & and | were broken.
• The RENAME command would sometimes fail to print an error message when it failed (even though it would properly set FAILURE status).
• The ENABLE QUERY and DISABLE QUERY commands were broken (keyword table out of order).
• "cd a*" failed even when "a*" matched only one directory.
• In Unix, the COPY command could reset the process's umask.

FTP client bugs fixed:

• "ftp mget" broken if TMP or TEMP definition too long.
• "ftp mget a b c" would get all files in server directory if c didn't exist.
• "ftp mget */data/*" didn't work (wildcard in directory path).
• FTP CD, FTP CDUP, and FTP RMDIR did not return a failure code when they failed.
• FTP brief-format transaction log records had success and failure status reversed.
• (wasn't a bug) "'FEAT': Command not understood" message is now suppressed.
• "ftp get /recursive /somepath/somfile" didn't create local directory.
• Occasional core dumps on certain platforms when downloading.
• FTP USER, FTP ACCOUNT, and related switches, failed to strips quotes from their operands.
• "ftp mput f1 f2 f3" got a parse error and failed immediately if any of the fn's did not exist.

Where to Find It:

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html

Special Thanks To:

Martin Vorländer, Gerry Belanger, Peter Eichhorn, and everybody else who helped by contributing code, reporting bugs, making suggestions, testing new features, building binaries, and telling people that C-Kermit is cool.

If you can make C-Kermit 8.0.208 binaries that are not already in the updated binaries table:

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckbinaries.html

please send them in:

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/cksendbin.html

And of course report any trouble by e-mail to the regular address:

kermit-support@columbia.edu

Thanks!

Frank da Cruz, Jeffrey Altman The Kermit Project, Columbia University