I am calling this release of Kermit a Beta-Test for several reasons. This version was slapped together from the sources I received from Dave Dermott and my improvements,updates from the lates Apple version. I wanted to get this out ASAP. As a result, there are several untested features, unimplemented features or some features which may be better if implemented in a different way. The ones I can think of are: Communications settings. SET RS232-REGISTERS should be replaced by SET BAUD and SET PARITY, which should really do what they say. The 6526 can do parity on its' own! Maybe there should also be a SET STOP-BITS? SET LOCAL-ECHO should be called SET DUPLEX (FULL/HALF) since, again the 6526 chips can handle these settings themselves. I haven't been able to test SET IBM or EIGHT-BIT-QUOTING transfers in this release, they may or may not work. Other things: There should be a timeout capability, the 64 has an internal clock! FILE-WARNING should be implemented. The cursor routines need a little fixing. The cursor is blinking too rapidly in the parser. A full ASCII character set would be nice. Maybe even the ability to choose between the PETASCII and ASCII sets? Doing ASCII will be a fairly trivial matter - I already have the code to do it, would it be wrong to display true ASCII even when talking between 64s? The information will still be transferred correctly. I haven't even had the time to check whether or not the character conversion routines behave the way they should for the different settings. 80 Columns? - This can be done in the terminal emulation routines. Would it be worth it to do in the entire Parser as well? (with the ability to switch between 40 and 80 columns at will). That would require lots more work. The ability to change screen colors. My proposal - whenever reading a key, check for: cntrl-1 : change bacground cntrl-2 : change border cntrl-3 : change character this would leave: cntrl-4 : clear screen, switch to 40 column mode cntrl-8 : clear screen, switch to 80 column mode and return nothing in the AC (like no real character read) so we don't screw up the parser or host on the other end. DOS should display block counts in decimal. STATUS isn't displaying the last error correctly. Oh well, you may even disagree with me on many of my ideas. If you have any comments, suggestion for improvement or bugfixes, please feel free to contact me. ARPA: Lavitsky@RUTGERS UUCP: ...harpo!whuxlb!ru-blue!lavitsky or ...allegra!ru-green!ru-topaz!eric SNAIL: CPO 2765, CN 700 New Brunswick, NJ 08903 or 14 Rock Ave. Swampscott, MA 01902 Phone: (201) 932 - 2443 (RUTGERS: Operators' Cubbyhole: leave a message) (617) 593 - 4841 (Real Home: leave a message) (201) 745 - 8143 (Campus Home during school semesters only)