9-Jul-85 10:07:53-EDT,2007;000000000001 Return-Path: Received: from ucl-cs by CU20B.ARPA with TCP; 9 Jul 85 10:07:19 EDT Received: from vax1.central.lancaster.ac.uk by 44d.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK via Janet with NIFTP id a001544; 9 Jul 85 12:29 BST Date: 9-JUL-1985 12:22:20 From: SYSKERMIT%vax1.central.lancaster.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa To: "SY.FDC" Subject : PERQ KERMIT bugs Dear Frank, I'm catching up here on a year of saved up messages for you! Below are some changes and bug notes on the PERQ KERMIT (PQ) sent by Ian Clifton of Daresbury Laboratories. Alan Phillips Lancaster University --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) In KermitGlobals.Pas, a couple of identifiers, "EscapeChr" and "DstryCmdFile" needed to be changed to "EscapeChar" & "DstryCmdFiles" to match the rest of the program. 2) There is a module "Sleep" which I guess is part of some versions of Perq Operating System. PQ-Kermit seems to work with all references to this module ( & also "Nap" which is presumably part of it) commented out. 3) There were a couple of bugs in the way PQ-Kermit handles the setting-up of the control character quote (See Section 7, "Initial Connection" of the Protocol manual. i) PQ-Kermit compares the QCTL slot [of the data field of the ACK to a Send-Init] to 0 when it should compare with ASCII(blank). ii) PQ-Kermit also applies control-chatacter prefix decoding [to the ACK of a Send-Init] when it shouldn't. So when a remote Kermit sends a "#" in the QCTL slot of it`s ACK to PQ-Kermit`s Send-Init, this character & the one following are decoded as a single control char! I added al extra Boolean global variable to PQ-Kermit so that the relevant parts of the program can switch prefix decoding off temporarily. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** end of mail ***