Date   : Tue, 13 Dec 1983 14:13:42-EST
From   : Frank da Cruz <cc.fdc@COLUMBIA-20.ARPA>
Subject: New release of CP/M-80 KERMIT

Announcing a new release of KERMIT-80, which provides file transfer and
terminal emulation for CP/M-80 systems.  This release is version 3.6; it has no
new functionality over version 3.5, but several major bugs have been fixed.
These include:

 Cursor addressing errors fixed for various systems.

 During terminal emulation, some systems (the Kaypro II, for instance) would
  output nulls continuously.  This has been fixed.

Thanks to James Grossen at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for these
fixes.  Users of CP/M Kermit are encouraged to get the new .HEX files (using
their current versions of Kermit), LOAD them, and try them out.  If you do
this, please let me know which system you tried, whether it worked, and if not,
what went wrong.

The .HEX files are available in KER:CPM*.HEX via anonymous FTP from host
COLUMBIA-20.  The systems supported, and the corresponding files, are:

 CPMAPPLE.HEX  Apple II with Z80 SoftCard, DC Hayes MicroModem II      
 CPMBRAIN.HEX  Intertec SuperBrain
 CPMDMII.HEX   DECmate II with CP/M option
 CPMGENERI.HEX "Generic" CP/M-80 version 2.x
 CPMHEATH.HEX  Heath/Zenith 89
 CPMKAYPRO.HEX Kaypro II
 CPMOSBORN.HEX Osborne 1
 CPMOSI.HEX    Ohio Scientific
 CPMPLUS.HEX   "Generic" CP/M-80 version 3.0 (CP/M Plus)
 CPMRAINBO.HEX DEC Rainbow-100, CP/M-80 (Z80 side)
 CPMROBIN.HEX  DEC VT180 "Robin"
 CPMTELCON.HEX Telcon Zorba
 CPMTRS80.HEX  TRS-80 Model II with CP/M
 CPMVECTOR.HEX Vector Graphics
 CPMZ100.HEX   Heath/Zenith Z100, CP/M-80 (Z80 side)

 CPMBASE.M80   The single source file for all the above.
 CPMBASE.DIF   Source differences from version 3.5.

There are also various associated .DOC and .HLP files.

KERMIT implementations are also available for many other systems, both micros
and mainframes.  To get an idea of what's available, see the file
KER:00README.TXT.

Those of you who have been using KERMIT-80 version 3.2 or earlier are
encouraged to try out this new release -- in incorporates many new features,
including built-in DIR and ERA commands, a way for switching and logging in
disks, improved wildcard facilities, etc.

Since we do not have examples at Columbia of more than a couple of the systems
listed above, I would be very grateful to anyone who could report to me about
their success or lack thereof in running this new version of KERMIT-80.
In the meantime, an entirely new (and radically different) release of KERMIT-80
is in preparation.  It is expected that this new version will require
considerable testing, so it is very desirable to stabilize the present version.
Your reports will be of great help in doing this.

- Frank da Cruz (Columbia U)