Announcing C-Kermit 7.0.197
Frank da Cruz
This is to announce a minor update of C-Kermit 7.0: version 7.0.197.
This update includes absolutely no functional changes, not even bug fixes,
in any C-Kermit implementation that was available in the original 7.0
release. The only changes are to make it compile, link, and run
successfully on platforms or in configurations where 7.0.196 would not.
These include:
. 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD on the VAX
. AT&T 3B2 System V R3
. BeOS 4.5 (sort of)
. Compaq Tru64 UNIX 4.0F and 5.0
. DEC OSF/1 1.3
. DEC Ultrix 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
. IBM AIX 2.2.1 on the PS/2
. Intergraph CLIX 3.1
. Microware OS-9/68000 with TCP/IP
. SCO OSR5 (due to a last-minute typo in the makefile)
. Siemens Nixdorf SINIX-L 5.41
. Stratus FTX
. Stratus VOS
. SunOS 4.1 with SunLink X.25
. Unixware 2.0
Also in response to reports (that I can't reproduce) of "TOC overflow"
errors when building on AIX 4.3, "-bbigtoc" was added to the AIX 4.3 target.
The biggest change in the new release is a functional version for VOS, which
includes both TCP/IP and X.25 networking, and which has been built for all
three Stratus architectures: Continuum, i860, and m68k.
Note that the BeOS version most likely is not capable of making connections,
and definitely not capable of entering CONNECT mode, since BeOS supports
neither of the mechanisms that C-Kermit uses for that (fork() or select()).
Version 7.0.197 is installed on the C-Kermit website:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html
None of the 7.0.196 binaries was replaced, nor do they need to be, but any
new binaries added from now on might be 7.0.197, since there is no point in
building on new platforms from older source.
Working C-Kermit distributions and packages based on version 7.0.196 do not
need to be updated. This release affects only the platforms listed in this
announcement, for which C-Kermit 7.0.196 was not available (or buildable)
prior to these changes. Of course, anybody who wishes to work on the source
code should download the new version. About half of all the changes are in
the UNIX makefile. There are no changes at all in the VMS version.
Any bugs reported in C-Kermit 7.0 (only a few minor ones so far) will be
fixed in a subsequent release or patch.
- Frank