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Applications / Re: Kermit 95 3.0 beta
« on: January 28, 2025, 11:11:45 pm »
I should probably add that if you regularly use the old commercial release of Kermit 95 (on OS/2 or Windows), or the even older freely available OS/2 C-Kermit 5A(191), it would be very useful to hear any reports of success or otherwise with the new open source Kermit 95. Github can tell me download counts, but of course that doesn't mean people are using it successfully. I'm primarily a Windows user, so if there are any bugs specific to the OS/2 version I'm not too likely to run into them, plus I'm only able to test it against the limited selection of things I have licenses for - OS/2 2.x, warp 3 (non-connect), warp 4 advanced server, and warp 4 with the network options that come in the box (if any) and whatever fix packs were freely available.
Stability-wise, I don't know of any bugs that affect the OS/2 version besides the dialer being broken due to the switch to Open Watcom, though a handful of bugs that affected K95 2.x have been fixed (eg, support for making NetBIOS connections had apparently been broken starting with v1.1.19 of February 2000). If no bugs are reported, the stable release for OS/2 will probably end up looking much like this beta, just with (I hope) a fixed dialer and perhaps support for xterms alternate screen buffer.
On Windows, the current beta releases are at this point more usable than the last commercial release. I'm mostly just using the beta tag now because its not yet feature-complete compared to K95 2.1.3 (though its also not far off it now and most of what's left is probably not widely used). Otherwise, it is more compatible with modern Windows and SSH servers and fixes a number of annoying bugs.
Stability-wise, I don't know of any bugs that affect the OS/2 version besides the dialer being broken due to the switch to Open Watcom, though a handful of bugs that affected K95 2.x have been fixed (eg, support for making NetBIOS connections had apparently been broken starting with v1.1.19 of February 2000). If no bugs are reported, the stable release for OS/2 will probably end up looking much like this beta, just with (I hope) a fixed dialer and perhaps support for xterms alternate screen buffer.
On Windows, the current beta releases are at this point more usable than the last commercial release. I'm mostly just using the beta tag now because its not yet feature-complete compared to K95 2.1.3 (though its also not far off it now and most of what's left is probably not widely used). Otherwise, it is more compatible with modern Windows and SSH servers and fixes a number of annoying bugs.