CP/M-86 8086/8088-based KERMIT ------------------------------ V 2.9: 2 Dec 84 LOCAL DIR, TYPE, alphabetical wildcard send, KERMIT.INI no longer req'd, SET DEFAULT-DISK fixed. V 2.8: 10 Oct 84 SET DEFAULT-DISK to login disk & user, new prompt to show current disk/user. Local SPACE, DIRECTORY, DELETE commands. RECEIVE filename no longer acts like GET. Bug fixes. (RonB) V 2.7: 4 May 84 8th bit prefixing, TAKE files, KERMIT.INI capability, bug fixes, improved messages, improved modularization. (RonB) V 2.6: 30 Mar 84 Session logging; improved interrupt handling of file names, error messages, modularization; bug fixes (Ron B, Rich G) V 2.5: 7 Mar 84 SET FILE-WARNING => SET WARNING, SET TIMER ON/OFF, Fix 2.4 for APC, add BREAK for APC, Ron B, Bernie Eiben. V 2.4: 24 Feb 84 Flow control, send BREAK, ^X/^Z file interruption, timeouts; Richard Garland, Columbia University. V 2.3: 5 Feb 84 Do parity, talk to IBM mainframe; Jeff Damens, Columbia U. V 2.2: 19 Jan 84 Add CFIBFs, clean up conditionals; Bill Catchings. V 2.1: 4 Jan 84 Adds missing commands, wildcard sends; Ron Blanford, U Wash. V 0.2: 19 Dec 83 Corrects problem with RTS and DTR; Brian Orr. V 0.1: 2 Dec 83 Adds interrupt driven i/o, GET command; Bill Catchings. V 0.0: 21 Oct 83 Initial coding and pre-release; Bill Catchings, Columbia. This version of KERMIT is written in Digital Research CP/M-86 assembler, ASM86. It is designed to support any CP/M-86 system. So far it supports: DEC Rainbow-100 NEC Advanced Personal Computer (APC) Tektronix 4170 Fujitsu Micro 16s Features and restrictions: . Performs all standard KERMIT functions. . Has commands for file transfer with KERMIT servers. . Runs up to 9600 baud on all systems tested. . Can time out. . Can do 8th-bit prefixing. . Can exchange files with IBM host. . Can send BREAK. . Can do protocol to interrupt a transfer (^X/^Z). . ^C during file transfer gets back to Kermit-86 command level. . Can log terminal session. . Has TAKE command and KERMIT.INI file. . Local CP/M functions (ERA, DIR, TYPE, SET DEFAULT disk). . No repeat-count prefixing. . No 2- or 3-character block checks. Known Problems: . SET ESCAPE ^x doesn't work for certain control characters, like ^X. . SET IBM and SET FLOW should interact appropriately. CP/M-86 KERMIT is broken up into the following source modules: C86CMD.A86 Command parser C86FIL.A86 File handler C86KER.A86 Main Program C86PRO.A86 Protocol Module C86TRM.A86 Terminal Emulation (v 2.6 and later) C86UTL.A86 Utilities C86Xxx.A86 System Dependent I/O, xx = RB, AP, TK, FJ The main program module, C86KER.A86, contains INCLUDE directives for the other files. C86Xxx.A86 files exist for each system supported (Rainbow, APC, ...). The program may be built on the CP/M-86 system by obtaining all the source files listed above, storing them on the current disk with the names indicated, renaming the appropriate C86Xxx.A86 file to C86XXX.A86, and then doing: ASM86 C86KER $PZ (this takes about 6 minutes on the Rainbow) GENCMD C86KER (takes less than a minute) and, if desired, REN KERMIT.CMD=C86KER.CMD [End of C86KER.HLP]