## KERMIT 95 BUG LIST

The Kermit Project
https://kermitproject.org/

27 January 2025

For: Kermit 95 3.0.0 DEV

This file lists bugs or other problems in Kermit 95 and its operating environment. There is a lot of information here, organized chronologically, and so it is recommended you use a text editor or Web browser to do case-insensitive searches for keywords to turn up what you are looking for.

Bugs that have been fixed are listed here by number and name, but, except for the bugs that were fixed since version 1.1.16, the descriptions of fixed bugs have been moved to a separate file.

If you do not have the current version of Kermit 95, please upgrade to it:

      https://github.com/davidrg/ckwin/releases

if you are experiencing bugs or problems, they might already be fixed. Also, the BUGS.TXT / BUGS.HTM file that comes with the current release will have a more up-to-date list of bugs and hints than an older copy. If you do have the current version of K95, also consult:

- The Kermit 95 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions).
- The Github Issue Tracker, which lists bugs discovered since this version of K-95 was released (27 January 2025)

In this document, except where otherwise noted, the term Windows 95 or Windows 9x refers to Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows ME, but not to Windows NT, 2000, or XP or newer. Similarly, the term Windows NT also includes Windows 2000 and XP, but not Windows 95, 98, or ME.

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BUG CATEGORY
  `(M)` Microsoft Windows bug.
  `(I)` An IBM OS/2 bug.
  `(X)` A feature that is disabled in Kermit 95 because of an operating-system bug.
  `(Z)` A bug in the Dialer caused by a bug in the GUI development system that was used to build it.
  `(V)` Bug or restriction in vendor code, e.g. in 3rd-party TCP/IP stacks.
  `(K)` A Kermit 95 limitation or bug.
  `(D)` A documentation error.
  `(C)` A hardware / System / Drivers Configuration problem.
  `( )` Not a bug.

NOTE: The February 1996 Service Pack from Microsoft did NOT fix any of the bugs in the M and X categories. The September 1996 OEM SR2 release fixed at least one of these bugs (Bug #79) but is not available as a patch to earlier releases.

IMPORTANT: Windows NT 4.0 for Intel shipped with a dangerous but little-known bug that can randomly corrupt your data. Microsoft has fixed the problem in Service Pack 1 for Windows NT 4.0. It is strongly recommended that users of Windows NT 4.0 download and install this and all later fixes.

BUG STATUS
  `[ ]` Indicates an item that is still open or current
  `[+]` Indicates the bug is fixed or worked around as of the current release `[-]` Indicates bug is partially fixed or a workaround is given
  `[*]` Information and/or not really a bug

## BUG LIST

1. `[-] (M)` Ctrl-C Interruption in Command Screen
2. `[+] (X)` Video Attributes vs Terminal Screen Size in Windows 95
3. `[+] (K)` Microsoft Telephony (TAPI)
4. `[*] (K)` Registration
5. `[ ] (M)` Changing Code Pages
6. `[-] (M)` Keyboard Scan Codes, Caps Lock, and Dead Keys
7. `[-] (D)` "Kermit 95" Keyboard Verb table
8. `[ ] (M)` PUSH and related commands do not work in Windows NT 3.50
9. `[-] (M)` Don't Use the Auto Font Setting in Windows 95
10. `[+] (Z)` Blotchy Dialer Fields
11. `[ ] (K)` Missing Features
12. `[*] (C)` Hardware / system / drivers configuration
13. `[-] ( )` Miscellaneous Dialer peculiarities
14. `[*] ( )` Miscellaneous Hints and Tips
15. `[*] ( )` Debugging Tips

           ----(Version 1.1.1)----

16. `[+] (Z,M)` K-95 Dialer Vertical Scrolling
17. `[+] (K)` ZMODEM Downloads
18. `[+] (K)` ZMODEM and TELNET
19. `[+] (K)` Alphabetization of Dialer Entries
20. `[+] (K)` K95 Sometimes Thinks a Connection is Open When It Starts Up
21. `[+] (K)` Download Directory Doesn't Work
22. `[+] (K)` SET MODEM commands in K95CUSTOM.INI have no effect
23. `[+] (K)` Kermit 95 sometimes can't find its script or key mapping files
24. `[+] (K)` The Dial Prefix also becomes the Dial Suffix
25. `[+] (K)` Dialer complains unnecesarily about range of certain numbers
26. `[+] (K)` Kermit BBS entry in Dialer has wrong backspace key setting

           ----(Version 1.1.2)----

27. `[*] (C)` Screen updates updates are slow on some PCs
28. `[+] (K)` ZMODEM Recovery
29. `[+] (K)` ANSWER command crashed Kermit 95
30. `[+] (K)` Kermit always turned off autoanswer in the modem
31. `[+] (K)` Compose Key problems
32. `[+] (K)` SET TERMINAL CHARACTER-SET TRANSPARENT did not show all characters
33. `[+] (K)` Various other VT emulation problems
34. `[+] (K)` Printer problems
35. `[+] (K)` \v(keyboard) variable improperly set
36. `[+] (K)` XMODEM file transfer problems
37. `[+] (K)` MOVE and MMOVE command did not work right with XYZMODEM
38. `[+] (K)` Ctrl-C interruption nonfunctional in certain cases
39. `[+] (K)` File transfer recovery after Ctrl-C
40. `[+] (K)` SET FILE DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY didn't work with server mode
41. `[+] (K)` Filenames could not be parsed from variables
42. `[+] (K)` Choosing terminal character-set in the Dialer
43. `[+] (K)` The EMACS.INI file was not properly patched in version 1.1.1
44. `[+] (K)` The 1.1.1 patch versus READ.ME files in multiple directories
45. `[+] (M)` Xon/Xoff flow control doesn't work in Windows 95
46. `[-] (M)` Server mode sometimes locks up in Windows 95
47. `[-] (M,K)` Kermit 95 file naming conventions in conflict with Windows
48. `[+] (K)` The Dialer Login page does not show LOGIN.SCR in the text box
49. `[ ] (K)` The K-95 icon does not show up in Windows NT 3.5x
50. `[+] (K)` SEND and RECEIVE as-names ignored by XYZMODEM
51. `[*] (D)` Missing files
52. `[+] (K)` Title bar not properly set from "kermit -j host"

           ----(Version 1.1.3)----

53. `[ ] (M)` Can't interrupt SET HOST or TELNET or RLOGIN command
54. `[+] (K)` SET FILE DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY does not work with XYZMODEM
55. `[+] (K)` Crash when pasting voluminous material into terminal window
56. `[+] (K)` Problem with SET FILE DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY<Enter>
57. `[+] (K)` Terminal reset kills K95 if TERM CHARACTER-SET is TRANSPARENT
58. `[+] (K)` Cursor-type selection made in Dialer not saved
59. `[+] (K)` PBX-related entries in the Dialer's Dialing Location page not saved
60. `[+] (K)` No choice for location of Kermit 95's temporary files
61. `[ ] (M)` The "Paste" button on the Terminal Windows Toolbar doesn't work.
62. `[+] (K)` EMACS.INI Alt-x = Meta-x doesn't work
63. `[+] (K)` INPUT could not be canceled from the keyboard
64. `[+] (K)` SET ALARM / IF ALARM doesn't always work
65. `[+] (K)` \v(cpu) always says "unknown".
66. `[+] (K)` Invalid escape sequence ESC [ ? 6/7 i caused problems
67. `[+] (K)` Problems with transparent printing and accented letters
68. `[+] (K)` Microcom Deskporte modem configuration wrong
69. `[+] (K)` Cursor-type selection not saved by Dialer
70. `[+] (K)` PBX material from Locations & Codes Dialer page not saved
71. `[+] (K)` SET TERM CHAR TRANSPARENT, then terminal reset, causes crash
72. `[+] (K)` Spurious "Connection might still be active on COM1..." messages
73. `[+] (K)` SET PORT<Enter> gives spurious error message
74. `[+] (K)` DIAL timeouts sometimes caused an "access violation" crash
75. `[+] (K)` Modem list in SETUP program PPI / Multitech mixup
76. `[+] (K)` Incorrect default assignment for Ctrl-Space key combination
77. `[+] (K)` "k95 filename" requires fully specified filename
78. `[+] (K)` XYZMODEM Transfers didn't work over RLOGIN connections
79. `[+] (M)` PCMCIA or Plug-and-Play Modem Problems
80. `[ ] (V)` RLOGIN vs FTP Software OnNet-32
81. `[ ] (K,V)` "set host 0" vs FTP Software OnNet-32
82. `[*] (V)` Kermit 95 and Digital UNIX 3.2
83. `[ ] (M)` Extraneous characters on terminal screen in Windows 95
84. `[+] (M)` Special keys on national keyboards don't work
85. `[+] (K)` VT220/320 Erase Character (ECH) bug
86. `[*] (K)` Intel Modems without Fax
87. `[+] (K)` LOGIN.SCR renamed to LOGIN.KSC to avoid conflicts with screen savers
88. `[?] (V)` Uploads on LAT connections tend to fail
89. `[+] (K)` XYZMODEM and Kermit file transfer screens and stats are inconsistent
90. `[ ] (M)` Printing to network printers in Windows 95 or NT might not work

           ----(Version 1.1.4)----

91. `[+] (K)` Messed up colors on initial Terminal screen
92. `[+] (K)` Colors behave differently than in MS-DOS Kermit
93. `[+] (K)` Printing to PostScript printers doesn't work
94. `[+] (K)` Redialing on a SET HOST / SET MODEM / DIAL connection didn't work
95. `[+] (K)` Command-file line numbers not reset
96. `[+] (K)` ASSIGN/DEFINE failed to fail if definition too long
97. `[+] (K)` Dialer temporary files called .SCR instead of .KSC
98. `[+] (K)` The MSEND command did not work with ZMODEM
99. `[+] (K)` Backspace key didn't work with "set term char finnish"

           ----(Version 1.1.5)----

100. `[ ] (K)` Kermit 95 requires long filenames
101. `[-] (K)` Host-controlled status lines
102. `[+] (K)` Wyse screen-transmit functions not implemented
103. `[+] (M)` Windows 95 Dead key and Caps Lock bugs are fixed! (mostly)
104. `[*] (K,M)` East European keyboard features might not work in Windows 95
105. `[+] (K)` VT emulation DCS/OSC/APC/etc bugs
106. `[+] (K)` Terminal color bugs in version 1.1.4
107. `[ ] (K)` VT220/320 downloadable fonts / soft character sets don't work
108. `[+] (K)` SET TERMINAL CHARACTER-SET PORTUGUESE didn't work
109. `[+] (K)` VT emulation and SET TERMINAL CHARACTER-SET FINNISH (etc) bug
110. `[+] (K)` Autodownload versus SET TERM CHARACTER-SET
111. `[+] (M)` Keyboard doesn't work if I start K95.EXE from Netscape
112. `[+] (Z)` Dialer radio buttons not lined up
113. `[+] (K)` Multiple sessions to same Dialer entry don't work
114. `[+] (M,K,Z)` Can't select a Dialer entry from the keyboard
115. `[+] (K)` Dialer crash after editing an entry entry name
116. `[+] (K)` Dialer PBX configuration problems
117. `[ ] (M)` Ctrl-C doesn't work in NT when K95 started from the Dialer
118. `[+] (K)` No way to make LAT connections from the Dialer
119. `[*] (M)` Kermit 95 and Internet firewalls, SOCKS, etc
120. `[+] (K)` Unreasonable delays in SET HOST / TELNET to numeric IP address
121. `[ ] (V)` Kermit 95 does not work with LWP 5.0 TCP/IP in Windows 95
122. `[ ] (M)` No way to select split-speed serial communication
123. `[+] (K)` Errors in built-in modem support
124. `[+] (K)` SEND did not work with filename completion
125. `[+] (K)` OUTPUT could not send backslash characters
126. `[+] (K)` OUTPUT could not send long strings
127. `[+] (K)` Extraneous material in session log during INPUT
128. `[+] (K)` INPUT buffer too short
129. `[+] (K)` SEND foo\%a did not work
130. `[+] (K)` No way to print on A4 paper using textps
131. `[+] (K)` Invalid Page Fault after using command recall a lot
132. `[ ] (M)` Alt- doesn't work.
133. `[-] (K)` Interruption keys are ignored during XYZMODEM transfers

            ----(Version 1.1.6)----

134. `[*] (C)` Tone dialing changes to Pulse after first digit
135. `[+] (K)` VT100 reverse scrolling broken
136. `[+] (K)` SET KEY commands became slow
137. `[*] (C)` Terminal bell doesn't work as before, or at all
138. `[+] (K)` SET MSKERMIT KEYCODES ON did not work with some gray keys
139. `[+] (K)` Array elements could not be used for file names
140. `[+] (K)` Keyboard modes can't be modifed
141. `[-] (M,K)` Control keys on national keyboards in Windows 95
142. `[+] (K)` SCOANSI and AT386 emulation vs Code Page 437
143. `[+] (K)` SCOANSI and AT386 emulation vs CSI 10/11/12 m
144. `[+] (K)` Bad characters in Registration name
145. `[+] (K)` SET MODEM commands in K95CUSTOM.INI are ignored by Dialer
146. `[ ] (K)` Completion does not work with directory names
147. `[ ] (K)` Command-line editing doesn't use PC editing keys
148. `[ ] (K)` The DIRECTORY and TYPE commands are too slow
149. `[+] (K)` DIRECTORY command gives spurious error message
150. `[+] (K)` XYZMODEM transfer statistics are off
151. `[+] (K)` SET TERMINAL ESCAPE-CHARACTER DISABLED didn't work
152. `[ ] (K,M)` Command screen messed up after Ctrl-C
153. `[+] (K)` Cursor disappears after Ctrl-C interruption of file transfer
154. `[+] (K)` \v(sysid) was garbage
155. `[+] (K)` SHOW KEY ALL did not show keys that had string definitions
156. `[+] (K)` Dialer File Transfer page items spuriously grayed out
157. `[+] (K)` SET TERM COLOR ERASE CURRENT-COLOR didn't work
158. `[ ] (K)` Patching up from version 1.1.3 might not work
159. `[+] (K)` XYZMODEM file transfers gave incorrect status codes
160. `[+] (K)` XYZMODEM transfers made no transaction log entries
161. `[+] (K)` TELNET negotiations were sometimes skipped
162. `[+] (K)` Data loss during file transfer
163. `[+] (K)` K95 could not send a file that was already open
164. `[+] (K)` Dynamic packet timeout values were sometimes too high
165. `[+] (K)` Character attributes not shown in Televideo emulation
166. `[ ] (V)` PATCH.EXE only works with FAT filenames
167. `[+] (K)` TEXTPS.EXE was broken in version 1.1.5
168. `[+] (K)` File transfer efficiency number is misleading

            ----(Version 1.1.7)----

169. `[+] (K)` VT220/320 DCS string cancellation didn't work
170. `[+] (K)` SCOANSI and AT386 emulation conflict with Dialer
171. `[+] (K)` Server GET fails if a SEND-LIST had previously been used
172. `[+] (K)` PUSH from Terminal screen to shell could not be returned from
173. `[+] (Z)` K95DIAL window minimizes to desktop instead of task bar
174. `[*] (K)` Referring to directory names that start with digits
175. `[+] (K)` Televideo and Wyse printing didn't work right
176. `[+] (K)` Wrong default character-set for VT terminals in Dialer

            ----(Version 1.1.8)----

177. `[ ] (M)` The Dialer database can be corrupted by other applications
178. `[-] (K)` The Dialer can seem to disappear
179. `[+] (K)` The "Chess" entry in the Dialer is wrong
180. `[*] (K)` XMODEM-CRC, YMODEM-CHECKSUM, and ZMODEM-CRC16 are not supported
181. `[+] (K)` Renaming downloaded files with XYZMODEM doesn't work
182. `[+] (K)` XYZMODEM downloads are somewhat slower than expected
183. `[+] (K)` Scroll Lock doesn't work in version 1.1.7
184. `[+] (K)` No way to change the default key map for each terminal type
185. `[+] (U)` CTRL2CAP instructions misleading
186. `[+] (K)` LOG SESSION erroneously translates character sets
187. `[+] (K)` VT102 insert character function doesn't work
188. `[+] (K)` Spurious keyboard locks in VT220/320 emulation
189. `[+] (K)` Improper handling of Alternate ROM in VT emulation
190. `[+] (K)` Erroneous VT emulator Secondary and Tertiary DA Reports
191. `[+] (K)` Erroneous DECID reports in VT220/320 emulation
192. `[+] (K)` VT emulation Horizontal Position Absolute (HPA) ignored
193. `[+] (K,C)` Failure of K95 to start on certain Windows NT systems
194. `[+] (K)` Simultaneous LAT sessions don't work
195. `[ ] (X)` No redirection of standard input
196. `[+] (K)` SHOW KEY does not properly display C0 and 8bit characters
197. `[+] (K)` "set command more-prompting" could not be parsed
198. `[+] (K)` No way to specify 0 or no timeout in INPUT
199. `[+] (K)` INPUT ignores autodownload sequences
200. `[+] (K)` Problems entering commands that end with backslash
201. `[+] (K)` Spurious invisible Z command that does nothing
202. `[ ] (M)` Close box in K95 title bar doesn't work in Windows 95
203. `[*] (K)` Dialer startup is slow
204. `[*] (K)` Dialer toolbar buttons might "wrap around"
205. `[+] (K)` Statusline OFF vs TELNET NAWS bug

            ----(Version 1.1.9)----

206. `[+] (K)` Page faults in K95 version 1.1.8
207. `[+] (K)` Keyboard translations don't work in Windows NT in K95 1.1.8
208. `[+] (K)` Printing did not work right in version 1.1.8
209. `[+] (K)` Dead-key and Alt-Gr broken in 1.1.8
210. `[+] (K)` APC during INPUT broken in 1.1.8
211. `[+] (K)` Redundant terminal-type change in 1.1.8
212. `[ ] (K)` CD to nonexistent directory can cause errors
213. `[+] (V)` Problems with host-based WordPerfect
214. `[+] (K)` Russian and Hebrew keyboard modes don't work
215. `[*] (M)` Why does Dialup networking pop up whenever I make a Telnet connection?
216. `[*] (K)` Why does the termimal status line say "Script:" instead of "Prompt:"?
217. `[*] ( )` Why is my login prompt missing?
218. `[+] (K)` VERSION command did not display copyright notice
219. `[+] (K)` Alt-: and Alt-; missing from EMACS mode
220. `[+] (K)` Dialer would not start if any database entries were corrupt
221. `[+] (K)` Russian and Hebrew keyboard mode conversions broken
222. `[+] (K)` Latin-2 Compose sequences broken in 1.1.8
223. `[*] (M)` Windows 95 QuickEdit interferes with Kermit 95's mouse functions
224. `[ ] (M)` Caps Lock state can change when moving between windows
225. `[+] (K)` LOGIN.KSC broken in version 1.1.8
226. `[+] (K)` ADD SEND-LIST followed by MOVE did not delete source files
227. `[+] (K)` Marking text on bottom line of terminal screen didn't work
228. `[+] (K)` Sending data from terminal screen when SEND-DATA OFF
229. `[+] (K)` Kermit file-transfer packets sent out of window
230. `[+] (K)` VMS SET TERM/WIDTH did not clear the screen
231. `[+] (K)` k95 "file name with spaces" did not work in 1.1.8
232. `[+] (K)` k95 command screen could be frozen or corrupted in 1.1.8

            ----(Version 1.1.10)----

233. `[+] (K)` Spurious cursor in 1.1.9
234. `[*] (M)` Appearance of horizontal scrolling indicators
235. `[*] (K)` Network editing hints
236. `[+] (M)` Windows 95 long screens don't work in 1.1.9
237. `[+] (V)` Problems with TES32
238. `[ ] (M)` Keystrokes might be transmitted out of order in Windows 95
239. `[ ] (V)` Conflicts with CompuServe, AOL, etc
240. `[+] (K)` HPTERM and HP2621 screens were fractured
241. `[+] (K)` Overzealous recording in session log
242. `[+] (K)` VT100/102 keypad not mapped to PC keypad by default
243. `[+] (K)` Assorted window sizing problems in 1.1.9
244. `[+] (K)` SET TERMINAL CURSOR did not enable the cursor
245. `[+] (K)` Autoupload problems with XMODEM and YMODEM (K)
246. `[+] (K)` Data General DASHER terminal emulation problems
247. `[+] (K)` Default editor set in K95.INI might be wrong
248. `[+] (K)` Dial-in host mode did not agree with user-defined modems
249. `[ ] (K)` Not all SET TERMINAL settings are shown by SHOW TERMINAL
250. `[ ] (C)` PUSH, RUN, and similar commands might not work
251. `[+] (K)` Unwanted alert box from K95CINIT
252. `[+] (K)` Problems when switching from VT to ANSI terminal type
253. `[*] (V)` HINT: Using SCOANSI emulation with SCO hosts
254. `[ ] (M)` Environment variables are not case sensitive
255. `[+] (M)` Data loss in dialup host mode
256. `[+] (K)` Problems with automatic login from certain Dialer entries
257. `[+] (K)` Problems with arrow keys and command recall
258. `[+] (K)` Misleading Dialer error message about screen dimensions
259. `[*] (K)` HINT: How to disable scrollback
260. `[+] (K)` Wildcard sends don't work right in XYZMODEM
261. `[*] (K)` EXPLANATION: Changes in the operation of the numeric keypad
262. `[+] (K)` DEC NRCs are forgotten in Multinational Mode
263. `[+] (K)` ZMODEM crash recovery versus some FILE COLLISION settings
264. `[+] (K)` ZMODEM autodownload doesn't work with Wyse, VC, or DG
265. `[*] (C)` HINT: Kermit mouse buttons versus nonstandard mouse setups
266. `[+] (K)` VT terminal emulation wrapping problem
267. `[+] (K)` WP51.INI (WordPerfect 5.1 key mapping file) had a typo
268. `[*] (K)` HINT: Using the NETEDIT macro with GUI editors
269. `[ ] (M)` Yellow background change after !edit in K95
270. `[+] (K)` Popup printer-error boxes causes Kermit 95 to hang
271. `[+] (K)` Host-directed printing did not work in DG emulation
272. `[+] (K)` INPUT/MINPUT did not handle Telnet negotiations correctly
273. `[+] (K)` Dialer Options..Dialing page PBX values handled incorrectly
274. `[+] (K)` Wyse character graphics bug
275. `[+] (K)` Transparent printing of binary files did not work
276. `[+] (K)` VT100 terminal ID was incomplete
277. `[ ] (K)` Kermit/2 keycodes are different from OS/2 C-Kermit 5A(191)
278. `[ ] (C)` Kermit/2 conflicts with SWAPDCP on OS/2

           ----(Version 1.1.11)----

279. `[*] (M)` RLOGIN versus Microsoft's "WINNUKE" Patches
280. `[+] (K)` DIALINF.DAT can't be read-only
281. `[ ] (M)` Caps Lock state can be lost when switching between windows
282. `[+] (K)` Serial-port file transfer fails with large packet x window size
283. `[ ] (M)` Can't change keyboard language in Windows 95
284. `[+] (K)` K95 does not delete startup file generated by the Dialer (K)
285. `[+] (K)` Dialer can leave temporary files behind (K)
286. `[+] (K)` Kermit 95 TELNET.EXE stub works only if K95 directory in PATH
287. `[+] (K)` Problems with incoming TCP connections in OS/2
288. `[+] (K)` Dialer could crash if an entry's view status changed
289. `[+] (K)` SHOW KEY did not always give accurate results
290. `[+] (K)` REDIRECT command didn't work
291. `[+] (K)` Incoming NUL (0) characters confuse INPUT command
292. `[+] (K)` RECEIVE as-name did not work with XYZMODEM
293. `[+] (K)` Various EMACS mode bugs
294. `[+] (K)` Kermit protocol might send packet out of window
295. `[+] (K)` MOVE from SEND-LIST did not delete original files
296. `[+] (K)` Application filename could not contain spaces
297. `[+] (K)` Hayes high-speed-modem init string problem
298. `[+] (K)` READ command does not fail if file not open
299. `[+] (K)` Problems with long function arguments
300. `[+] (K)` Certain \function()s can misbehave
301. `[+] (K)` X MOD 0 crashes program
302. `[+] (K)` ANSWER doesn't automatically CONNECT
303. `[+] (K)` Overzealous EXIT warning
304. `[+] (K)` OUTPUT doesn't echo when DUPLEX is HALF
305. `[+] (K)` Minor problems with REMOTE DIRECTORY/DELETE/etc
306. `[+] (K)` CHECK command broken
307. `[+] (K)` Problem with SET TRANSMIT ECHO
308. `[+] (K)` Dialing results were sometimes incorrect
309. `[+] (K)` IF EXIST and IF DIRECTORY versus spaces in filenames
310. `[+] (K)` CD, SET FILE DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY, etc, don't provide full service
311. `[+] (K)` READ command too picky about last or only line in file
312. `[*] (K)` No way to include braces in function arguments
313. `[+] (K)` DIALINF.DAT file opened in READ/WRITE mode
314. `[+] (K)` Missing and incorrect key definitions in EMACS mode
315. `[+] (K)` NULs were being stripping during file transfers and printing
316. `[+] (K)` XYZMODEM RECEIVE was ignored
317. `[+] (K)` SET STARTUP-FILE DISCARD did not always delete the file
318. `[+] (K)` SHOW MODEM didn't quote backslashes
319. `[+] (K)` WIN32 COMM TX BUFFER SIZE set too small
320. `[+] (K)` K2DC.EXE accidently closed socket of incoming connection
321. `[+] (K)` Auto-print Formfeed bug
322. `[+] (K)` SAVE KEYMAP and SHOW KEY replaced RS with ESC
323. `[*] (M)` How can I use SSH, SSL, CHAP, etc, to make secure connections?
324. `[*] (M)` Why can't I pick any Windows font I want?
325. `[+] (V)` Data loss on Meridian Technology SuperLAT connections
326. `[*] (K)` Hints on dialing toll-free numbers
327. `[*] (K)` Hints on "blind dialing"
328. `[*] (K)` Log files in multiple sessions
329. `[+] (K)` Hazeltine 1500 emulation did not work at all
330. `[+] (K)` Problems with Wyse 50 emulation
331. `[+] (K)` Problems in DG DASHER 217 emulation
332. `[+] (K)` HPTERM emulation did not handle line-drawing & math
333. `[+] (K)` Many Dialer entries were obsolete
334. `[+] (K)` Unwanted triangles in Wyse, TVI, and Hazeltine emulation
335. `[+] (K)` Spurious spaces in ANSI emulations
336. `[+] (K)` Data loss/corruption on Windows 95 serial connections

           ----(Version 1.1.12)----

337. `[ ] (K)` Commands like "RUN D:\FOO\BAR\BAZ.BAT" don't work in Windows
338. `[ ] (M)` "RUN /K...." hangs K95 in Windows
339. `[+] (K)` Commands like "SEND \\K95\\TMP\\OOFA.TXT" did not work
340. `[+] (K,M)` Problems with help and completion in filenames with \\
341. `[ ] (M)` CTL3D32.DLL is missing
342. `[ ] (M)` K95 might take a long time to start and stop
343. `[+] (M)` K95 might not be able to exit on some Windows 95 systems
344. `[+] (K)` Dialer might crash if no modem was defined
345. `[+] (K)` Memory leak in Dialer
346. `[+] (K)` URL hot spot could fail if URL at end of sentence
347. `[+] (K)` EDIT and NETEDIT might have stopped working in 1.1.12
348. `[+] (K)` Telnet negotiations could become frozen
349. `[+] (K)` K95 could become stuck in marking mode
350. `[+] (K)` HP terminal emulation problems in 1.1.12
351. `[+] (K)` Wyse terminal emulation problems in 1.1.12
352. `[+] (K)` K95 could hang upon screen-size change request
353. `[+] (K)` SET MOUSE ACTIVATE command broken in 1.1.12
354. `[+] (K)` Character set versus copy/paste from/to Clipboard
355. `[+] (K)` (void)
356. `[ ] (M)` Paste to host using Toolbar Paste sends Esc O P when Num Lock on
357. `[ ] (K)` Reverse screen-writing direction not supported
358. `[+] (K)` Transparent print problems using 8-bit CSI
359. `[+] (K)` APC did not block terminal emulator
360. `[+] (K)` Conflict between INPUT and APC

           ----(Version 1.1.13)----

361. `[+] (V)` K95 might not work with certain third-party TCP/IP stacks
362. `[+] (K)` Another problem with filenames containing spaces
363. `[+] (K)` CONNECT mode hangs when host drops connection or \Kquit is used
364. `[+] (K)` Problem with Num Lock and SET MSKERMIT KEYCODES ON
365. `[+] (K)` Problem with OUTPUT command when there is no connection
366. `[+] (K)` END from within SWITCH doesn't work
367. `[ ] (V)` URL hot spots might not work
368. `[+] (K)` (void)
369. `[+] (K)` (void)
370. `[+] (K)` (void)
371. `[+] (K)` (void)
372. `[+] (K)` (void)
373. `[+] (K)` (void)
374. `[+] (K)` (void)
375. `[+] (K)` (void)
376. `[+] (K)` (void)
377. `[+] (K)` (void)
378. `[+] (K)` (void)
379. `[+] (K)` (void)
380. `[+] (K)` (void)
381. `[+] (K)` (void)
382. `[+] (K)` (void)
383. `[+] (K)` (void)
384. `[+] (K)` (void)
385. `[+] (K)` (void)
386. `[+] (M,K)` Problems with Dead Keys and Alt-Gr keys in Windows 95
387. `[+] (K)` Kermit vs TAPI Dialing in the Dialer
388. `[ ] (M)` K95 vs Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock
389. `[*] (M)` Parallel Port Communications
390. `[+] (K)` Wrong system type in Telnet NEW-ENVIRONMENT negotiation
391. `[+] (K)` IF ALARM might not work
392. `[+] (K)` SET TERM REMOTE-CHAR LATIN6 doesn't work
393. `[+] (K)` Single-click mouse actions generate an extraneous error beep
394. `[+] (K)` Various terminal emulation bugs
395. `[+] (K,V)` Ctrl-C caught by 4NT.EXE instead of K95 in Windows NT
396. `[+] (K)` OS/2 K2DIAL loses data in the Login Script text box
397. `[+] (K)` Various errors in the Windows Telephony (TAPI) implementation
398. `[+] (K)` Dialing fails due to garbled modem command
399. `[+] (K)` Dialer Modem Commands reset when modem selected for editing
400. `[+] (K)` SHOW KEY interrupted by Ctrl-C would cause keyboard problems
401. `[+] (K)` SET HOST * results in 100% CPU Utilization
402. `[+] (K)` Telnet to non-23 port might fail to produce a login prompt
403. `[+] (K)` SET MODEM TYPE to certain types didn't work
404. `[+] (K)` SETUP.EXE would crash while displaying summary of choices
405. `[+] (K)` Default AT386 and SCOANSI keymaps reference DEC Kverbs
406. `[+] (K)` SET TERMINAL DEBUG ON interferes with TELNET negotiations
407. `[+] (K)` OS/2 FTP PC/TCP stack would cause K2 to crash
408. `[+] (K)` K95's -N command-line option in OS/2 would not accept parameters
409. `[+] (K)` SET BROWSER ignored by \KmouseURL keyboard verb
410. `[+] (V)` K95 could not be the Telnet client for Netscape Communicator
411. `[*] (K)` The PRINT command no longer uses DOS COPY to print a file
412. `[+] (K,M)` DIAL DISPLAY ON didn't work with TAPI modems
413. `[+] (K)` TAP alpha paging script was not robust enough
414. `[+] (K)` Incorrect setup of Telebit modems
415. `[+] (K)` File transfers could fail when using very short packets
416. `[+] (K)` Screen-printing problems in Windows NT
417. `[*] (V)` Incorrect characters on screen when accessing SCO or AIX hosts
418. `[ ] (V)` K95 is unable to print to WinPrinters
419. `[ ] (K)` Host mode requires VT100 or ANSI client
420. `[+] (K)` HPTERM and VIP7809 selection didn't work in the Dialer
421. `[+] (K)` File-transfer problem using undefined variable for as-name
422. `[+] (K)` Overzealous EXIT WARNING
423. `[+] (K)` K95 program exit status codes were not always correct
424. `[+] (K)` Various misleading file-transfer error messages
425. `[+] (K)` EDIT command succeeds only on first attempt
426. `[ ] (M)` "WINOLDAP - This program has performed an illegal operation..."
427. `[+] (K)` Mixups in certain terminal-specific line-drawing character sets
428. `[+] (K)` Unnecessarily difficult to get big window and packet sizes
429. `[+] (K)` Host mode would not send file groups
430. `[-] (K)` Problem using Swedish (etc) NRC and DEC Special Graphics

           ----(Version 1.1.14)----

431. `[+] (K)` Various problems with the 1.1.14 Patch
432. `[+] (K)` SET TELNET TERMINAL TYPE affects actual terminal type
433. `[+] (K)` Problems with Kermit transfers on some Telnet connections
434. `[+] (K)` AIX and HFT arrow keys didn't work in the Command screen
435. `[+] (K)` AIX and HFT emulation versus Autowrap

           ----(Version 1.1.15)----

436. `[+] (M)` Assorted problems caused by faulty optimization
437. `[-] (M)` Problems with Winsock 2
438. `[+] (K,M)` Redirection of Standard Output
439. `[*] (M,C)` Illegal operations caused by lack of swap space
440. `[*] (M)` Roaring Fan
441. `[+] (K)` Failure to detect default printer in Windows NT
442. `[+] (K)` Console mode changed from text to binary and not restored
443. `[-] (M)` Trouble with EXIT under certain circumstances
444. `[+] (K)` Overzealous EXIT warning (again)
445. `[+] (K)` RUN command did not return status
446. `[+] (K)` Problems with DIRECTORY command filename completion
447. `[+] (K)` The DIRECTORY command would return one file too few
448. `[+] (K)` MKDIR command did not work in OS/2
449. `[+] (K)` SET TITLE effect was delayed
450. `[*] (M)` BEEP command can be delayed
451. `[+] (K)` CONNECT should not work if TAPI connection not open
452. `[+] (K)` TAPI device not released when closed
453. `[+] (K)` Various SET TCP command problems
454. `[+] (K)` \v(ipaddr) didn't work before a connection was made
455. `[+] (K)` Assorted Telnet initialization and negotiation problems
456. `[+] (K)` Spurious NUL characters on Telnet connections
457. `[+] (K)` Failure to recognize RLOGIN URLs
458. `[+] (K)` Problems with Wyse graphics character sets in Windows NT
459. `[+] (K)` QANSI graphics characters displayed as ASCII
460. `[+] (K)` Problems with DG transparent printing
461. `[+] (K)` Scrolling failures in ANSI X3.64 emulations
462. `[+] (K)` Incorrect appearance of VT220/320 characters after erasure
463. `[+] (K)` SCOANSI and AT386 function-key programming broken
464. `[+] (K)` Various problems in HPTERM emulation
465. `[+] (K)` Problems in Siemens/Nixdorf BA80 emulation
466. `[+] (K)` Spurious red lines on debug-mode terminal screens
467. `[*] (K)` Alt-x, Alt-h, etc, don't seem to work in AIXTERM
468. `[+] (K)` Difficulties pasting
469. `[+] (K,M)` Echoing delays
470. `[+] (K)` MSKERMIT keycode for Ctrl-Enter was incorrect
471. `[+] (K)` APC command containing SET TERM TYPE would stop
472. `[+] (K)` Failure to receive files with long names on some systems
473. `[+] (K)` Autodownload failures with parity mismatch
474. `[+] (K)` File transfer thermometer might not complete
475. `[+] (K)` XYZMODEM statistics counted each file twice
476. `[+] (K)` SET TERMINAL TYPE might mishandle 7-bit NRCs
477. `[+] (K)` Problems typing 7-bit national characters
478. `[+] (K)` Problem Selecting HP-Roman8 character set from the Dialer
479. `[+] (K)` RETURN within SWITCH didn't work
480. `[+] (K)` \ffiles() counted directories when it shouldn't
481. `[+] (K)` Problems with REMOTE QUERY KERMIT function()
482. `[-] (C)` K95 Host Mode might be slow to put up Login prompt
483. `[*] (K)` Host mode requires ANSI or VT terminal emulator
484. `[+] (K)` Host-mode maximum users setting wouldn't stick
485. `[+] (K)` Dialer Login Script text box data lost in OS/2
486. `[+] (K)` Dialer Printer Type combo box could not be set
487. `[+] (K)` Dialer Communications page speed entry wouldn't stick
488. `[*] (K)` HINTS: Alphanumeric Paging
489. `[*] (K)` HINTS: For blind users
490. `[*] (V)` HINTS: Telnetting to OS/2
491. `[*] (V)` HINTS: How to use K95 with Netscape Communicator 4.0
492. `[-] (M)` TEMP or TMP environment variable definition can cause problems
493. `[+] (K)` The GET Command Versus Filenames with Spaces
494. `[*] (K)` HINT: CR and/or LF disappear!
495. `[*] (K)` HINT: Eliminating "Press a key to continue" after RUN Command.
496. `[+] (K)` Cursor positioning on double-width lines
497. `[+] (K)` Errors in Default Keymap for EMACS Mode
498. `[+] (K)` SET HOST * Port Not Freed
499. `[+] (K)` Unwanted Command Screen Size Change
500. `[+] (K)` MKDIR/RMDIR Problems with UNCs
501. `[+] (K)` MKDIR/RMDIR Problems when Used in Macros or Command Files
502. `[+] (V)` RUN, REDIRECT, PIPE Interaction with Nonstandard Shells
503. `[+] (K)` Compression Skipped in Text-Mode Kermit File Transfers
504. `[+] (K)` Slow Local Echo in Terminal Screen
505. `[+] (K)` Slow Echo in Terminal Screen on Serial Connections
506. `[+] (K)` Problems with Bidirectional Printer Configuration in Dialer
507. `[+] (K)` Missing Error Messages in OUTPUT and INPUT
508. `[+] (K)` Problems Editing Certain Commands
509. `[+] (K)` Redirection of Certain REMOTE Commands Didn't work
510. `[+] (V)` K95 did not work well with Citrix Winframe
511. `[+] (K,C)` Wyse 370 colors didn't work
512. `[ ] (M)` CJK Input Method Editors do not work in Windows 95
513. `[*] (V)` Conflict between mouse and screen saver
514. `[+] (K)` Improper bolding in VT reverse-screen mode
515. `[ ] (K)` Dialer does not work in OS/2 2.x
516. `[ ] (M)` Log files can disappear in Windows 95 if K95 killed

           ----(Version 1.1.16)----

517. `[ ] (V)` Code Page 856 isn't really a code page
518. `[+] (D)` SET TERMINAL IDLE-xxx command misdocumented
519. `[ ] (K)` New screen updating method might not be good for everybody
520. `[+] (M,K)` Problems invoking RLOGIN.EXE and TELNET.EXE
521. `[+] (K)` AIXTERM, HFT, SCOANSI, AT386 scrolling problem
522. `[+] (K)` Program crash during XMODEM transfer
523. `[+] (K)` No means to receive XMODEM transfers with CRC block checking
524. `[+] (K)` (Two bugs, One Number)
525. `[+] (K)` Invalid TMP or TEMP directory will cause K95DIAL to crash
526. `[+] (K)` INPUT command sets \v(instatus) to wrong value
527. `[+] (K)` SET TERMINAL ESCAPE-CHARACTER does not work
528. `[+] (K)` TCP/IP sessions do not work on OS/2 3.0
529. `[+] (K)` OS variables not properly set in OS/2
530. `[ ] (M)` Win95/98 does not randomly access pooled IP hosts
531. `[ ] (M)` Kerberos authentication fails with "invalid network address"
532. `[+] (K)` PAUSE command always reports FAILURE
533. `[+] (K,M,I)` Kermit 95 could not display the EURO character
534. `[+] (K)` TES32 for Win95 connections fail immediately
535. `[+] (K)` \fsplit() function parses extra words
536. `[ ] (M)` Cursor can disappear in command screen
537. `[+] (K)` '\' at end of key definition cannot be sent to host
538. `[+] (K)` LOOKUP command does not return failure
539. `[+] (K)` Function rindex fails to match first instance of string
540. `[+] (K)` Non-CP437 extended characters displayed improperly in NT
541. `[+] (K)` In NT, dead keys produce an error beep when pressed
542. `[+] (K)` SET BELL VISIBLE does not work reliably
543. `[+] (K)` SET TELNET ENCRYPTION {REFUSED, ACCEPTED, ... } broken
544. `[+] (K)` Max Command Length is not necessarily max length of macros
545. `[+] (K)` END command numeric value is inaccessible to scripts
546. `[+] (K)` 10-digit dialing rules forgets to dial the area code
547. `[+] (K)` GET/REGET with SET FILE PATTERNS ON may corrupt files
548. `[+] (K)` REMOTE commands may set STATUS to SUCCESS on FAILURE
549. `[+] (K)` RUN command interferes with screen updates in a script
550. `[+] (K)` \fword() fails to find the last word in a string
551. `[+] (K)` Partial Dialing misuses dialing rules

           ----(Version 1.1.17)----

552. `[+] (K)` The PRODUCT macro had an extraneous parameter
553. `[ ] (K)` SETUP from CDROM might not exit cleanly
554. `[+] (K)` URL hot spots vs Netscape Communicator
555. `[+] (K)` Missing files (not really)
556. `[+] (K)` DATE command does not return to command prompt
557. `[+] (K)` CPS display in XYZmodem transfers is incorrect
558. `[ ] (K)` Problems with SET FILE INCOMPLETE DISCARD
559. `[+] (K)` Crash during Zmodem download with SET FILE COLLISION RENAME
560. `[+] (K)` TAPI dial gives "invalid call state message" after Busy
561. `[+] (M)` Dead Keys cause K95.EXE to terminate in NT
562. `[+] (K)` If PDIAL is used, all subsequent calls are partially dialed
563. `[+] (K)` HOST.KSC vs. K95 1.1.17
564. `[ ] (M)` Don't tell K95 to RUN 16-bit programs
565. `[+] (K)` SET SERVER IDLE-TIMEOUT doesn't timeout
566. `[+] (K)` VT Origin mode does not apply to Next Line (ESC E) command
567. `[+] (K)` PCTERM support not compiled into 1.1.17
568. `[*] (V)` Using K95 with a NASI modem
569. `[*] (K)` VT Soft-character-set assignments
570. `[ ] (M)` Windows 95/98 DNS Caching results in Kerberos Authentication Failures
571. `[+] (C)` TZ environment variable necessary for Kerberos Authentication
572. `[+] (K)` Word Perfect Keyboard Mode does not work
573. `[ ] (M)` More about Caps Lock
574. `[+] (K)` CONNECT /TRIGGER causes memory exception in OS/2
575. `[ ] (C)` "NO CARRIER", SET CARRIER-WATCH, INPUT and Hayes High-Speed Modems
576. `[+] (K)` Install of K95 1.1.17 on Alpha does not perform registration
577. `[+] (K)` Televideo terminals enter infinite loop when using Block mode
578. `[+] (K)` SNI 97801 terminal emulation bugs
579. `[ ] (M)` K95 Telnet can crash if remote host crashes
580. `[+] (K)` K95 prints double characters when Copy Print mode is used

           ----(Version 1.1.18-CU)----

581. `[+] (K)` REMOTE {SET, ASSIGN, RENAME, COPY} do not return to CONNECT mode
582. `[+] (K)` Incoming TAPI calls may result in K95 crashes during file sends
583. `[+] (K)` Kermit/2 1.1.17 server does not return from REMOTE HOST commands
584. `[+] (K)` Transparent-print error if CSI received when remote character set is a code page
585. `[+] (V)` MIT Kerberos 2.0 K5 support disables K95 telnet authentication
586. `[+] (V)` SRP support fails to authenticate against SRP 1.5.0 Telnetd
587. `[*] (K)` K95 1.1.17 breaks Host-Mode Script
588. `[*] (K)` K95 and Host-Mode Script versions must agree
589. `[*] (K)` TAKE command arguments are persistent
590. `[*] (K)` Title-Bar Close box [x] doesn't work in Win9x

           ----(Version 1.1.19)----

591. `[+] (K)` VT102 emulation broken in 1.1.19
592. `[*] (V)` Failure to make certain Telnet connections
593. `[+] (K)` Faulty OS/2 Dialer Patch for K95 1.1.19
594. `[+] (K)` LOGIN.KSC didn't work without the Dialer
595. `[+] (K)` C1 Printable characters of non-ISO-2022 character sets
596. `[+] (K)` IBM 3151 attributes
597. `[+] (K)` OpenSSL requires the PRNG to be seeded.
598. `[+] (V)` Kerberos support not compatible with NRL SecureID support
599. `[+] (K)` MAIL command does not work
600. `[+] (K)` SEND `..\\*.c` fails with "unreadable error"
601. `[+] (K)` LOCAL and global variable name conflicts
602. `[+] (K)` Kerberos password prompts versus `-# 96` startup option
603. `[+] (K)` ANSWER 0 improperly times out
604. `[+] (K)` ANSWER fails to answer call with SET TAPI MODEM-DIALING ON
605. `[+] (K)` RLOGIN Window Size reports are not sent
606. `[+] (K)` Pulse dialing did not work
607. `[*] (V)` AUTH K5 INIT /NO-ADDRESSES may crash Kermit 95

           ----(Version 1.1.20)----

608. `[+] (K)` RLOGIN protocol (and secure variations) does not work in 1.1.20
609. `[+] (V)` Kerberos 5 NT Alpha 2 and previous releases do not work with 1.1.20
610. `[+] (K)` SET FILE DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY leads to unexpected bahavior
611. `[+] (K)` HOSTMODE scripts updated
612. `[+] (K)` Telnet Forward-X option negotiated even when an X Server not found
613. `[+] (K)` Wyse 60 keyboard definitions are incorrect
614. `[+] (K)` \v(krb5errno) and \v(krb5errmsg) do not report all errors
615. `[+] (K)` The Dialer does not support %ENVVAR% expansion of file names
616. `[*] (K)` How to debug SET PRINTER configurations on Windows 95/98/NT/2000
617. `[+] (K)` RLOGIN host userid fails to send userid to host
618. `[+] (K)` -M command line option does not work
619. `[+] (K)` \v(exedir), \v(startupdir), \v(inidir) may have spaces in the name
620. `[+] (K)` Kermit 95 does not accept keyboard input on CJK Windows 95/98
621. `[+] (K)` QNX terminal emulation keypad-plus and keypad-minus keys do not transmit "+" and "-"
622. `[+] (K)` IBM 3151 unable to restore ASCII character set after Graphics character set is used
623. `[+] (K)` TYPE and TRANSLATE commands only work under specific circumstances
624. `[+] (V)` 1.1.20 is incompatible with Services for Unix 2.0 Telnet Server
625. `[*] (K)` Wheel Mouse Button Numbering
626. `[+] (K)` Transparent Print Bug introduced in 1.1.18
627. `[+] (K)` Attempts to Add/Edit in K95 Dialer produce GPF on Windows 95/98
628. `[+] (K)` K95 crashes on Windows 95 if SECUR32.DLL is missing
629. `[+] (K)` K95 Dialer 1.1.20 dialer produces non-fatal GPF on startup
630. `[+] (K)` Printer device not closed (if open) when K95 exits
631. `[*] (V)` Winmodems
632. `[+] (V)` SRP client security hole discovered
633. `[+] (K)` K95 Documentation Shortcut to bugs file is incorrect
634. `[+] (K)` UPDATES.HTM file has wrong version number
635. `[+] (K)` K95 Linux Console emulation incompatible with Red Hat 7.x AND all other new Linux distributions
636. `[+] (K)` Buffer overflow caused by long modem response messages
637. `[+] (K)` Failures when connecting through SOCKS server takes too long
638. `[*] (V)` Can't start K95 from a DOS Prompt or from with a DOS application
639. `[+] (K)` K95.EXE when started from dialer complains about invalid command line parameters (Windows 2000/XP)
640. `[+] (K)` K95D.EXE stops accepting new connections after several hundred or thousand incoming connections
641. `[+] (K)` SET FILE COLLISION BACKUP fails on some file names but not others
642. `[+] (K)` SET TAPI MODEM-DIALING ON can cause scripting to fail
643. `[+] (K)` Dialer direct-serial configurations vs. Hardware Parity
644. `[+] (K)` Windows XP default location causes K95.EXE to crash on startup
645. `[ ] (M)` Ghost Character Fragments on NT/2000/XP Console Screen
646. `[*] (K)` The Kermit Timesync Utility Might Not Work

           ----(Version 1.1.21)----

647. `[+] (K)` Unbalanced-Braces Error in Scripts
648. `[ ] (K)` Disappearing Cursor
649. `[ ] (K)` Escape Character Status Line Typo
650. `[+] (K)` Status Line Not Updated after Ctrl-] Ctrl-]
651. `[+] (K)` HELP REMOTE HOST text wrong
652. `[+] (K)` SET COMMAND SCROLLBACK in a script can cause an invalid memory access
653. `[+] (K)` Kerberos 5 Rlogin fails to authenticate
654. `[+] (K)` Dialer bugs
655. `[+] (K)` telnet.exe and rlogin.exe do not work
656. `[+] (K)` Telnet ComPort option
657. `[+] (K)` Russian and Hebrew keyboard modes broken
658. `[+] (K)` SHOW SSH does not list all forwarded ports
659. `[+] (K)` COMPOSE and UCS2 Kverbs when used at Command Prompt do not
660. `[+] (K)` SET SSH STRICT-HOST-CHECK ASK is treated as OFF
661. `[+] (K)` \Kpaste on serial connections only sends 5 or fewer characters
662. `[+] (K)` SET TERMINAL KEY { RUSSIAN, HEBREW } does not work

           ----(Version 2.0)----

663. `[-] (?)` Spurious K95G screen clearing on startup
664. `[ ] (V)` Everson Mono Terminal Font Side Effects
665. `[*] ( )` Dimensions popup inactive during resize
666. `[*] ( )` Possible Help→Manual misbehavior
667. `[+] (K)` Underline and Blink control
668. `[+] (K)` Host-Initiated Resize vs Font Scaling
669. `[+] (K)` SET GUI WINDOW RESIZE-MODE command missing
670. `[+] (K)` Trouble with COM ports
671. `[+] (K)` Toolbar always visible
672. `[+] (K)` Upgrade Registration Problem

           ----(Version 2.0.1)----

673. `[+] (K)` 673. SRP authentication attempted when not configured on incoming connections
674. `[+] (K)` 674. Extended argument error
675. `[+] ( )` 675. Non-English Directory Names
676. `[+] (K)` 676. SSH-AGENT.EXE Broken
677. `[+] (K)` 677. Default RGB color values in Dialer off by one
678. `[+] (K)` 678. Bulk License update loses number of seats
679. `[+] ( )` 679. SSH connections to Cisco PIX
680. `[+] (V)` 680. TLS CBC Cipher incompatibility with IBM Info Exchange
681. `[+] (K)` 681. SET TRANSFER MODE MANUAL doesn't completely work
682. `[+] (K)` 682. COPY command destination file can have junk at end
683. `[+] (K)` 683. Secure FTP authorization failure error message missing
684. `[+] (K)` 684. Fencepost error in FTP MGET /UPDATE
685. `[+] (K)` 685. In FTP MGET /RECOVER failures
686. `[+] (K)` 686. Redundant downloads in FTP MGET /RECOVER wildcard wildcard...
687. `[+] (K)` 687. Missing message for FTP MGET /EXCEPT
688. `[+] (K)` 688. Automatic Locus switching fails when FTP connection drops
689. `[+] (K)` 689. FILE INCOMPLETE setting ignored by FTP module
690. `[+] (K)` 690. FTP MGET sends superfluous commands to server
691. `[+] (K)` 691. FTP MGET pattern1 pattern2 pattern3 could stop prematurely
692. `[ ] (K)` 692. Interrupting FTP operations with Ctrl-C is problematic
693. `[+] (K)` 693. Terminal screen might have fewer columns than desired
694. `[+] (K)` 694. /POPUP switches in GUI version work improperly
695. `[+] (K)` 695. Changing GUI Resize-Mode behavior while maximized
696. `[+] (K)` 696. SET COMMAND CURSOR-POSITION broken
697. `[+] (K)` 697. SSH disables password based logins upon key change detection
698. `[+] (K)` 698. Scroll-mode exiting not always possible using the GUI scrollbar
699. `[+] (K)` 699. FTP PUT Text Xfers with Character-set Translation Broken
700. `[+] (K)` 700. SET TERMINAL IDLE-TIMEOUT does not stick in some circumstances
701. `[ ] ( )` 701. Unable to write to various Windows directories from K95

           ----(Version 2.1.0)----

702. `[ ] (V)` 702. Everson Mono Terminal font misbehavior on Win9x/ME
703. `[+] (K)` 703. FTP MGET Might Fail Immediately with Invalid Temp-File Name
704. `[+] (K)` 704. FTP MGET fails when directory segments contain wildcards
705. `[+] (V)` 705. Kerberos Leash Shows Garbage for Local Domain
706. `[*] (M)` 706. K95 can't download files named CON or CON.anything
707. `[+] (K)` 707. TELNET Com Port Control vs the INPUT command
708. `[ ] (K)` 708. VTNT connections vs Ctrl-C
709. `[+] (K)` 709. Mouse print selection broken in GUI
710. `[+] (K)` 710. K95 Does Not Support Remote SSH Agent Proxies
711. `[*] (K)` 711. Maximize and Restore versus Resize Mode

           ----(Version 2.1.3)----

712. `[+] (K)` 712. FTP Brief-format transaction log shows wrong status
713. `[+] (K)` 713. FTP connections always complain about 'FEAT' command
714. `[+] (K)` 714. Problems with FTP [M]GET /RECURSIVE
715. `[+] (K)` 715. FTP USER and similar commands don't strip quotes
716. `[+] (K)` 716. FTP MPUT requires all filespecs to match at least one file
717. `[ ] (K)` 717. GREP (FIND) does not allow pattern variables
718. `[+] (K)` 718. Dialer GUI Menu/Tool/Status Bar settings don't stick
719. `[+] (K)` 719. The K95 command parser does not handle the NUL device
720. `[+] (K)` 720. INPUT n \fpattern(xxx) doesn't work for case-independent matches
721. `[+] (K)` 721. MINPUT n ... \fpattern(xxx) ... doesn't work at all.
722. `[+] (K)` 722. Associative array references not case sensitive
723. `[+] (K)` 723. SET KEY xxx \27H erroneously lowercases the value
724. `[+] (K)` 724. Failing FTP CD/CDUP/RMDIR does not set failure status
725. `[+] (K)` 725. The RENAME command sometimes fails without printing an error message
726. `[+] (K)` 726. ENABLE/DISABLE QUERY broken
727. `[+] (K)` 727. CD command with wildcard broken
728. `[+] (K)` 728. DIRECTORY command with multiple filespecs can list too many files
729. `[ ] (M)` 729. Display of Plane-1-and-beyond Unicode characters
730. `[+] (K)` 730. k95g.exe ssh://xyzcorp.com --nobars causes invalid memory reference
731. `[+] (K)` 731. Long Read Delays when using USB Serial Ports or Modems
732. `[ ] (K)` 732. Backspace Key setting in Dialer -> Keyboard might be ignored
733. `[ ] (C)` 733. SET PRINTER command in Dialer-generated scripts
734. `[+] (K)` 734. Sessions Logs are always 8-bit
735. `[+] (K)` 735. Macros on Keys broken
736. `[+] (K)` 736. FTP MGET might not fail when it should
737. `[+] (K)` 737. No way to totally disable WIKSD event logging
738. `[+] (K)` 738. OpenSSL Security holes in 0.9.7
739. `[+] (K)` 739. Kerberos for Windows updates
740. `[+] (K)` 740. OpenSSH Security holes
741. `[+] (K)` 741. SEND command in Kermit function causes crash
742. `[+] (K)` 742. Denial of Service attack against TCP/IP SET HOST * connections
743. `[+] (K)` 743. SSL/TLS Private Key Passphrase Dialog reveals passphrase
744. `[+] (K)` 744. Pragma Systems Terminal Server Not Supported
745. `[+] (K)` 745. Communication devices passed to Kermit as handles are closed on exit
746. `[+] (K)` 746. SET TCP HTTP-PROXY cannot be used with HTTP connections
747. `[+] (K)` 747. UNC paths do not work during FTP operations
748. `[ ] ( )` 748. Dialer QUICK Command improvements
749. `[+] (K)` 749. Linux Character Set handling bugs
750. `[ ] (K)` 750. XMODEM-CRC checksums are not computed properly
751. `[+] (K)` 751. BEEP when setting window title in a terminal session
752. `[+] ( )` 752. NEW FEATURE: SSH Debug Logging
753. `[+] (K)` 753. Telnet AUTH vs Telnet START_TLS protocol negotiation conflicts
754. `[ ] ( )` 754. NEW FEATURE: SSH Version 2 Protocol Automatic Rekeying
755. `[+] (K)` 755. Extended command line options not properly processed
756. `[+] (K)` 756. SSH URLs did not set the window title
757. `[+] ( )` 757. NEW FEATURE: SKERMIT command
758. `[+] (K)` 758. Process handle leak in the IKSD Service
759. `[ ] ( )` 759. NEW FEATURE: FTP SSLv2 connections
760. `[+] ( )` 760. NEW FEATURE: SSH Heartbeats to maintain connections through NAT/Firewalls
761. `[+] ( )` 761. NEW FEATURE: ON_CD macro
762. `[+] ( )` 762. NEW FEATURE: FTP MLSD parsing of extended strings
763. `[ ] (K)` 763. SET ATTRIBUTES DATE OFF did not apply to XYZmodem file transfers
764. `[+] (K)` 764. FTP ASCII transfers generated incorrect end of line when sending
765. `[+] (K)` 765. Unable to specify the HTTP Agent for use in Proxy Operations
766. `[ ] (K)` 766. Windows Registry entries containing environment variables are not processed correctly
767. `[+] (K)` 767. Reverse DNS Lookups cannot always be disabled
768. `[ ] (K)` 768. Directory operations fail on network mapped file systems which do not provide date information
769. `[+] (K)` 769. IBM 3151 emulation is missing keymap assignments for some keys
770. `[ ] (K)` 770. Dialer FTP entries did not preserve alternative port numbers
771. `[+] ( )` 771. NEW FEATURE: Hyperlink Extensions for ANSI based terminals
772. `[+] (K)` 772. ANSI DCS sequences containing an intermediary '$' character are improperly handled
773. `[+] ( )` 773. NEW FEATURE: 3DES Telnet support
774. `[+] (K)` 774. UNC paths in file transfer operations generate errors
775. `[+] (K)` 775. SET TITLE <title-string> is not brace stripped
776. `[ ] (K)` 776. MOVE-TO and RENAME-TO functionality did not work with XYZmodem transfers
777. `[+] (K)` 777. SEND /MOVE-TO:<directory> fails when using Kermit protocol
778. `[+] (K)` 778. SET TERMINAL DEBUG ON command does not work.
779. `[+] (K)` 779. The INFORMATION sound generates no audible output
780. `[+] ( )` 780. NEW FEATURE: DG4xx Set Cursor Type support
781. `[+] (K)` 781. SET PRINTER command causes Kermit to crash
782. `[ ] (K)` 782. ANSI Backtab Control Sequence (CSI Z) does not function
783. `[+] ( )` 783. NEW FEATURE: GUI TYPE command
784. `[+] (K)` 784. SCO SGR Set Fg/Bg sequence sets colors to black on black
785. `[+] (K)` 785. SCO Set Function Key sequence if mis-used can corrupt the data stream
786. `[+] (K)` 786. IBM Info Exchange commands fail randomly with SSL_R_MISSING_EXPORT_TMP_RSA_KEY error
787. `[ ] (K)` 787. Dialer generates incomplete script when Transaction Logging is On
788. `[+] (K)` 788. Named Pipe Network Connections are not supported on Windows
789. `[+] (K)` 789. FTP FEAT response improperly parsed
790. `[+] (K)` 790. SET FTP CHARACTER-SET-TRANSLATION ON displayed garbage
791. `[ ] (K)` 791. Dialer generates incorrect FTP Connection Scripts
792. `[ ] (K)` 792. Installer does not initialize TAPI
793. `[+] (K)` 793. Print Selection Doesn't Work
794. `[ ] (Z)` 794. Dialer Database Corruption
795. `[+] (K)` 795. Printer output includes question marks instead of non-ASCII characters such as line drawing characters.
796. `[+] (K)` 796. Titles set with --title are cleared after a connection is established
797. `[ ] (K)` 797. Dialer generated scripts include SET LOGIN PROMPT and SET LOGIN PASSWORD commands when fields are empty
798. `[+] ( )` 798. NEW FEATURE: --noclose command line option
799. `[+] (K)` 799. Writing to VTxxx Status Line corrupted when display cursor on right margin
800. `[+] (K)` 800. In key mappings, the form \K{verb} is ignored
801. `[+] (K)` 801. SET TERMINAL IDLE-ACTION OUTPUT does not send NUL
802. `[+] (K)` 802. Date-time differencing across years broken.
803. `[+] (K)` 803. No way to HTTP GET a file that has metacharacters in its name.
804. `[+] (K)` 804. Some string-matching patterns don't work
805. `[+] (K)` 805. IF with disconnected multistatement ELSE part broken
806. `[+] (K)` 806. REMOTE DIRECTORY response lines terminated only by LF
807. `[ ] (K)` 807. DNS SRV records don't work with SSH
808. `[+] ( )` 808. K95 spuriously seizes focus
809. `[+] (K)` 809. S-Expression division broken in K95
810. `[+] (K)` 810. GSSAPI authentication doesn't work for SSH
811. `[ ] (K)` 811. KCD DOWNLOAD command doesn't work in Windows Vista and Windows 7
812. `[ ] (K)` 812. Autodownload GUI Dialog needs more buttons
813. `[+] (K)` 813. Kermit 95 and large files
814. `[+] ( )` 814. Using K95 as a terminal emulator to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
815. `[ ] (K)` 815. Incoming Ctrl-Z (SUB) character not properly displayed in VT emulation
816. `[+] ( )` 816. 80/132 column switching and Resize Mode
817. `[+] (K)` 817. Columns can be lost if K95G window wider than physical screen
818. `[+] (M)` 818. Ghost tool tips
819. `[+] (K)` 819. CVTDATE function cannot process deltas with negative months
820. `[+] (K)` 820. Entering plane-1 unicode values causes a crash
821. `[ ] (K)` 821. Receiving files with non-ascii names can result in garbled filenames
822. `[+] (K)` 822. Receiving large files requiring more than 32 bits to represent their size fails immediately
823. `[+] (K)` 823. Some applications don't resume properly after being sent to the background (linux term type)
824. `[ ] (K)` 824. The run and browse commands leave a console window open in K95G
825. `[+] (K)` 825. Files requiring more than 32bits to represent their size are shown as having a size of -1 by the DIRECTORY command
826. `[+] (K)` 826. The K95G terminal screen is cleared when you first move the window
827. `[+] (K)` 827. Making the K95G window larger in any dimension than the primary display introduces blank space
828. `[+] (K)` 828. The SET MOUSE ACTIVATE command does not work in K95G
829. `[+] (K)` 829. Receiving files with a specified destination fails when autodownload is set to ask
830. `[ ] (K)` 830. Switching between command and terminal screens via the keyboard does not update the toolbar button state
831. `[ ] (M)` 831. On Windows NT 3.50 for Alpha, K95G causes Windows to crash
832. `[ ] (K)` 832. K95G crashes on exit if a connection is active and GUI dialogs are off
833. `[ ] (K)` 833. Scrollback search input box isn't visible if the terminal status line is turned off
834. `[ ] (K)` 834. Switching between command and terminal via \Kexit doesn't toggle the toolbar button
835. `[ ] (K)` 835. The SET HOST command does nothing when the network type is NETBIOS

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## BUG DESCRIPTIONS

### 1. Ctrl-C Interruption in Command Screen

Ctrl-C typed in the Command screen to interrupt a command is not always delivered to Kermit 95 by Windows, due to a bug in Windows 95 and Windows NT: Microsoft PSS ID Numbers Q130717 and Q134284, 09-25-1995.

Once Ctrl-C fails to be delivered, it might never be delivered again. Workaround: evidently the only workaround is to restart Windows. In the meantime, you can still send Ctrl-C in the Kermit 95 Terminal screen using Ctrl-Shift-C (or any other key to which you use SET KEY to map `\3`).

If you use Ctrl-C to interrupt a file transfer that has not yet started, there may be a delay of several seconds before the Ctrl-C takes effect (this one is fixed in 1.1.2).

In some cases, even when Ctrl-C is ignored, however, you might still be able to use Ctrl-Break for the same purpose.

Also see: Bugs 83 and 152.

### 2. Video Attributes vs Terminal Screen Size in Windows 95

A workaround was discovered for the the Windows 95 bug that prevented K95 from using screen widths other than 80 or heights other than 25, 43, or 50. As of version 1.1.12, screens of any reasonable height and width can be used in Windows 95 as well as Windows NT. OS/2 Warp 3.0 and earlier still restrict console windows to 80 columns, but Warp 4.0 can use 132 columns.

Note, however, that Windows 95 video drivers are optimized for 80x(25,43,50); other sizes work correctly as of K95 1.1.12, but might work slowly or exhibit annoying amounts of flicker. This is a Windows 95 feature.

### 3. Microsoft Telephony (TAPI)

TAPI support was added in K95 1.1.12, and is documented in the current edition of the K95 manual.

### 4. Registration

Kermit 95's registration procedure currently consists of customizing the `K95.EXE` and `K95DIAL.EXE` programs with your name, company, and serial number, and mailing back your registration card with one of your Kermit 95 serial number stickers affixed to it. Future plans include online registration.

In 1.1, registration was applied only to the `K95.EXE` file. Beginning with 1.1.1 it was extended also to the Dialer.

### 5. Changing Code Pages

> NOTE: This item applies to Windows. In OS/2, loading code pages or "PC fonts" into a full-screen session is not only permitted, but also safe -- provided the video driver allows it; evidently, however, the trend in new video drivers is not to allow it -- thus preventing Kermit 95's Hebrew and Cyrillic support from working as widely as it used to. See Section 3.4 of OS2K95.TXT.

> NOTE 2: As of version 1.1.8, this section applies only to Windows 9x. The Windows NT version of Kermit 95 now uses Unicode fonts rather than PC code pages.

As noted in the Kermit 95 manual, Windows 95/98 does not support code page switching. The idea is that if you are going to use code pages, you should use only one. But that's bad because some people really do need to work in different languages; for example, English, Icelandic, Hebrew, and Russian. Kermit 95 supports all of these very nicely as long as the underlying code page is installed. Presumably if you are running Windows 95 in Iceland, your code page is 850; in Poland it is 852; in Israel it is 862; in Russia it is 866; in Greece it is 869. So if you have the code page you need, no worries. But if you need to work in (say) both Russian and Hebrew, you need a way to switch code pages.

To change code pages, you can get a utility from Microsoft called CHANGECP. It is on the Windows 95 CDROM, in the `Other\Changecp` folder. It comes with lots of code pages, including 862 (Hebrew) and 866 (Russian). Its menu only lists a few of them, but you can try typing any one you want on the command line; for example:

      changecp 850

or:

      changecp 866

And then rebooting your system. You can't change code pages on the fly in Windows 95 as you can in DOS. Nor is there any way to load fonts into a DOS window of Windows 95 (such as the LOADFONT program we use with MS-DOS Kermit to provide code-page switching).

Maybe CHANGECP will work for you, maybe not. When we tried it, 850 worked, 866 did not, even though all the supporting files for CP 866 were included. The supporting files for Hebrew CP 862 are not even there, so this one didn't even have a chance.

When you run CHANGECP, it prints a scary error message warning of possible disk corruption. This means that if you use accented or special characters in filenames (or for that matter, in the files themselves), the appearance of those characters can change if you change code pages. If CHANGECP does not work for you, our best advice is to give up -- do not try editing the Registry or any other workaround, as this is almost certain to end in tears.

If a code page can be loaded, Kermit 95 can use it. But it seems that the only way you can have a "non-Latin1" code page loaded is to install the appropriate national version of Windows 95 -- such as Hebrew, Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, Polish, etc.

If you want better language support in Windows 95 console applications, express your wishes to Microsoft.

NOTE: You can use the DOS LOADFONT program together with the "PC fonts" that are distributed with MS-DOS Kermit to load Cyrillic, Hebrew, and other code pages into full-screen Windows sessions, BUT this tends to cause Windows (not Kermit, but Windows) to crash, so this practice is not recommended, encouraged, or supported. The true fix to this situation will come in the conversion of K95 to full GUI, when it will no longer have to use code pages. (As of version 1.1.8, the Windows NT console version uses a Unicode font, so it can display any characters that are in its font -- e.g. Lucida Console.)

### 6. Keyboard Scan Codes and Caps Lock

Certain keyboard scan codes, constructed by Kermit 95 from information reported by Windows, are inconsistent between Windows NT and Windows 95. These include Num Lock and Numeric Keypad /.

The Caps Lock bug is fixed in 1.1.5. For dead keys, see items 103-104.

Also see items 283 and 386.

No problems in OS/2.

### 7. "Kermit 95" Keyboard Verb table

In the "Kermit 95" manual, Appendix I, Table I-5, pages 80-81, in the "Assignment" column, all occurrences of "Ctrl-\" are incorrect and should be replaced by "Ctrl-]", which is Kermit 95's default escape character. Also, there are many new keyboard verbs, listed in KEYMAPS\KVERBS.TXT; the default assignments are listed in KEYMAPS\DEFAULT.INI, and you can use the new SAVE KEYMAP command to save your current configuration into a file.

As of version 1.1.14, the HELP KVERB command can be used to find out what a particular kverb does and which key it is assigned to.

### 8. PUSH and related commands do not work in Windows NT 3.50

The Windows NT `CMD.EXE` shell bug that causes this problem is fixed in Windows NT Workstation 3.51. This bug does not occur with replacement shells such as JP Software's `4NT.EXE`.

### 9. Don't Use the Auto Font Setting in Windows 95

It's best to pick a specific size. When the setting is left at Auto, sometimes the window will mysteriously and inexcplicably change size, typically when returning to the Command screen from a non-standard-size Terminal screen, often becoming a tiny small-print window. This also tends to happen (but doesn't always) (in Windows 95 only) when you pick any size other than 24 x 80 for a terminal screen on the Terminal page of the Dialer.

Starting with K95 1.1.12, the first version to support true 132-column screens in Windows 95, a font size of Auto in the Console version can cause Windows 95 (original version) to create ever-smaller screens when switching back and forth between 80- and 132-column mode, eventually resulting in alert boxes or crashes. This is a Windows 95 bug, not a Kermit one. When this happens while TAPI is in use, the modem will become unusable until Windows 95 is rebooted.

Choose a specific font size, not "Auto". See the instructions in the READ.ME file creating a shortcut. You can choose your preferred font size in the K95.PIF file that you create when following those instructions. (As noted there, the default font size for console windows is set by editing the Properties of `C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CONAGENT.EXE`).

### 10. Blotchy Dialer Fields

(Fixed.)

### 11. Missing Features

As of K95 1.1.19, no features are missing that are supposed to be present. Of course many features remain to be added in future releases.

### 12. Hardware / System / Drivers Configuration

The behavior of Kermit 95 or any other program that uses serial ports will be unpredictable if there are hardware conflicts. Typical symptoms include application or system freeze-ups, general protection faults, etc. This is a result of the PC architecture, which has a severely limited number of device interrupts, but which is often overloaded with devices.

Serial communication devices must have unique addresses and IRQs (Interrupt numbers). You can't have more than one device using the same IRQ. If you do, neither device is likely to work -- or worse. Unfortunately, many devices (such as network boards) are often shipped set to the same IRQ (3 or 4) that is used by a serial port.

Serial ports COM3 and COM4 (or higher) are always problematic, since these are not part of the standard PC architecture and there are no slots for them in the PC BIOS. COM3 and COM4 are generally set by their manufacturers to use IRQ 3 or 4, which conflict with COM1 or COM2. To resolve the conflict, you must either find a free IRQ and set your COM3 or COM4 device to use it (and tell Windows about it), or else disable one or more of the conflicting devices. Changing the IRQ is risky because the new one you pick is likely to conflict with something else, especially in a well-equipped PC (CDROM, sound card, network adapter, etc).

In Windows 95, a COM port is supposed to be recognized automatically when you install it. However, Windows might easily make incorrect assumptions about its address or IRQ, or whether it has a FIFO (First-In-First-Out) buffer. You can examine these, and correct them if necessary, in My Computer -> System -> Device Manager -> Ports -> Advanced. In Windows NT, Control Panel -> Ports -> Advanced.

Even when your configuration is conflict-free, you will experience data loss -- often severe -- on serial connections if your serial-port controllers are not "buffered": 16550A UARTs must be used, rather than lower-numbered models. Unfortunately, many PCs are furnished with unbuffered UARTs by their manufacturers as a cost-cutting measure. You can find out what kind of UARTs you have on which COM ports, on which addresses, using which IRQs, in the Windows dialogs mentioned above.

Steer clear of any modem that says "RPI" or "Controllerless" or "Winmodem" on the box. Read the small print carefully. These are not fully functional modems, and are very likely not to work adequately, or at all, under Windows NT or OS/2. Although they are designed for Windows 95, they might not work well there either, and even if they do, they might impose an unacceptable load on your system, since the full job of the modem is being done by the PC CPU, and/or they might interfere with your sound card. (Note: nowadays, most new PCs come with Winmodems preinstalled -- the only way to avoid them is to buy a second, external, modem and attach it to your COM1 or COM2 device.)

Another type of problem occurs whenever you use certain software that installs its own drivers (such as COMM.DRV, the Windows 95 communications port driver) over the real one. Such drivers are intended specifically for use with the software they came with, and will often fail to work with other software. Unfortunately, there is often no notification when a standard driver is replaced in this manner, and also there is often no easy way to undo the change. You can find out about your communications driver in the modem diagnostics, Driver button. The communications port driver that comes with the first release of Windows 95 is identified there as:

COMM.DRV, 5856 bytes, 7/11/1995 09:50AM

(the date and time display might vary with time zone).

Problems that are even more subtle and vexing can result from any of the drivers you have installed on your PC -- SCSI-board drivers, sound-card drivers, CD ROMs, etc. Sometimes the problems are solved by obtaining a newer version of the driver from the board vendor. Other times, the only recourse is to purchase an entirely different board and driver.

Even more ominous are problems with the PC BIOS. PC makers often have BIOS upgrades available, perhaps downloadable from their BBS's or Web sites.

Also, owners of laptop and "green" PCs should watch out for the untoward effects of power savers and suspend/resume features on internal modems, PCMCIA cards, and similar hardware.

Finally, beware of any system changes that you make. In Windows, do not use the Registry editor (REGEDIT) unless (a) you know what you are doing, and (b) you have a way to back out of any changes. A seemingly innocent change in the Registry can have unpredictable ramifications later on, causing Kermit 95 and all your other applications, and Windows itself, to misbehave or malfunction. In some cases the only recourse is to reformat your hard disk and reinstall Windows 95 from the original media.

### 13. Miscellaneous Dialer Peculiarities

- The Hangup button does not interrupt dialing. If you need to interrupt dialing, bring the Kermit 95 Command window to the front and type Ctrl-C.

- Other items from this entry are fixed.

### 14. Miscellaneous Hints and Tips

- The Terminal screen can become frozen under certain circumstances; for example, receipt of an unterminated escape sequence (perhaps caused by noise). When this happens, the Terminal screen will report OSC, APC, DCS, etc, in the status line. To unfreeze, use Alt-R (Reset) while in the terminal screen. This is not a bug -- it is how real VT 220 and higher terminals work.

- If you try to download a file directly to the printer by naming the file "PRN", this will fail unless you "set file collision overwrite". That's because Kermit's normal action when receiving a file is create a backup copy -- but it can't make a backup copy of the printer :-) Similarly for other files whose names are the same as those of DOS devices: LPT1, AUX, COM2, and so on.

- The printer driver might fail to print the last or only page. This is a traditional shortcoming of PC operating systems. Sometimes the page can be forced out by using Alt-E (verb \KprintFF) to send a formfeed to the printer, or by sending another print job, to the printer. Some printers (such as the HP4L and HP5L) have a special button that ejects the page. K95 1.1.14 and later offer additional printer controls, such as the /END-OF-JOB switch, documented in the current K95 manual.

### 15. Debugging Tips

You can save the configuration for a particular Dialer entry into a plain-text file by highlighting the entry, then going to File on the main menu and choosing Generate Script File. The script file goes into Kermit 95's SCRIPTS subdirectory and has the same name as the highlighted Dialer entry, but with spaces and special characters converted to underscores. It is a plain-text file composed of Kermit commands that can be easily faxed or e-mailed to our tech-support staff.

You can troubleshoot connection problems by following the instructions in Chapter 3-6 of Using C-Kermit, second edition. You can obtain transcripts and logs of troublesome connections using "log session" and also with "set dial display on" and then using your mouse to copy and paste the modem dialog from the screen into a file.

You can troubleshoot terminal emulation problems by putting the terminal screen into debug mode (with Alt-D when the terminal screen is active).

You can troubleshoot file-transfer problems by following the instructions in Chapter 10 of Using C-Kermit (second edition). File-transfer packet logs are obtained with the "log packets" command.

The ultimate debugging tool is the debug log, obtained with "log debug". It tends to grow huge rather quickly.

Any or all of these logs can be sent to our tech support staff for analysis in cases where suggested remedies or workarounds are ineffective.

Version 1.1.14 and later allow the session.log and debug.log files to be activated in the Dialer entry.

### 16. K-95 Dialer Vertical Scrolling

(Fixed.)

### 17. ZMODEM Downloads

(Fixed.)

### 18. ZMODEM and TELNET

(Fixed.)

### 19. Alphabetization of Dialer Entries

(Fixed.)

### 20. K-95 Sometimes Thinks a Connection is Open When It Starts Up

(Fixed.)

### 21. Download Directory Doesn't Work

(Fixed.)

### 22. SET MODEM commands in K95CUSTOM.INI have no effect

(Fixed.)

### 23. Kermit 95 sometimes can't find its script or key mapping files

(Fixed.)

### 24. The Dial Prefix also becomes the Dial Suffix

(Fixed.)

### 25. Dialer complains unnecesarily about range of certain numbers

(Fixed.)

### 26. Kermit BBS entry in Dialer has wrong backspace key setting

(Fixed.) However, as of K95 1.1.19, the BBS is being retired due to lack of use.

### 27. Screen updates updates are slow on some PCs

Kermit 95 is necessarily less snappy than MS-DOS Kermit (under DOS) on the same type of PC because MS-DOS Kermit is in direct control of the communications and the video, whereas Kermit 95 must go through several layers of drivers and operating-system calls to do the same thing.

Video drivers vary in speed. Those in Windows NT tend to be significantly slower than those in Windows 95. Even in Windows 95, some drivers or hardware might be slower than Kermit 95 was designed for. Kermit 95's default screen-updating cycle is 100 milliseconds (1/10 second); if your video driver is slower than that, you might be able to make Kermit go faster by increasing (yes, increasing) its screen-update interval, for example:

      SET TERMINAL SCREEN-UPDATE FAST 200

Flickering can occur when the video driver is not performing a comparison between what is already on the screen and what it is being asked to write. So it paints the entire window (which takes time) even when it doesn't have to. When acceleration is on (and supported by the driver) minimal screen paints occur and screen updates should be fast. In the Control Panel either on the Display object or the System Object, there is a performance page which allows you to set the Video Acceleration properties. Make sure this is set to use full acceleration. The only flickering you should see in this case is the mouse pointer, since it is turned off and on before and after each console screen paint.

If that doesn't help, you can experiment with Kermit 95's SET TERMINAL SCREEN-UPDATE FAST and SMOOTH options to choose which algorithm is used to update the screen when new data arrives from the host. Whenever a byte arrives from the host it is processed by an incoming data thread. If it would result in a screen write, an internal screen buffer is updated and a flag is set. When using the FAST algorithm, the screen buffer is copied to the physical screen (if the flag is set) on a timer thereby allowing the maximum data throughput from the host to occur regardless of the speed of the video drivers. This is the default screen updating method.

The negative aspect of this method is that on really fast connections it is possible for some screen writes to never make it to the screen, e.g. during continuous scrolling (but the data is processed correctly, and can be viewed in the scrollback buffer). The SMOOTH option says to copy the screen buffer to the window whenever the dirty flag is set. This results in much slower data handling, and a potentially significant increase in the number of screen writes, but on the other hand it tends to make echoing snappier when you are typing. Also see item 469.

### 28. ZMODEM Recovery

(Fixed.)

### 29. ANSWER command crashed Kermit 95

(Fixed.)

### 30. Kermit always turned off autoanswer in the modem

(Fixed.)

### 31. Compose Key problems

(Fixed.)

### 32. SET TERM CHARACTER-SET TRANSPARENT did not show all characters

(Fixed.)

### 33. Various other VT emulation problems

(Fixed.)

### 34. Printer problems

(Fixed.)

### 35. \v(keyboard) variable improperly set

(Fixed.)

### 36. XMODEM file transfer problems

(Fixed.)

### 37. MOVE and MMOVE command did not work right with XYZMODEM

(Fixed.)

### 38. Ctrl-C interruption nonfunctional in certain cases

(Fixed.)

### 39. File transfer recovery after Ctrl-C

(Fixed.)

### 40. SET FILE DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY didn't work with server mode

(Fixed.)

### 41. Filenames could not be parsed from variables

(Fixed.)

### 42. Choosing terminal character-set in the Dialer

(Fixed.)

### 43. The EMACS.INI file was not properly patched in version 1.1.1

(Fixed.)

### 44. The 1.1.1 patch destroyed multiple READ.ME files

(Fixed.)

### 45. Xon/Xoff flow control doesn't work in Windows 95

(Fixed.)

### 46. Server mode sometimes locks up in Windows 95

In Windows 95, but not Windows NT or OS/2, if a REMOTE HOST command is sent to a Kermit 95 server, the server will lock up. Diagnosis: The server end of REMOTE HOST commands is implemented by running the corresponding operating system command with its standard output piped back to the server; redirection of standard output in Windows 95 can cause the parent process to get stuck in a read that never returns (refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Q150956).

Partially fixed in version 1.1.3, by using temporary files rather than pipes.

Partially fixed even more in 1.1.5 by recoding REMOTE DIRECTORY, REMOTE DELETE, etc, not to call the Windows shell, but to do everything internally. So now, hopefully, the problem occurs only with REMOTE HOST commands, if at all.

Fixed even more in 1.1.16 by changing the handle used by K95 for accessing the console device.

### 47. Kermit 95 file naming conventions in conflict with Windows

(Also see item 177.)

Kermit initialization and key mapping files historically have a filetype (extension) of .INI, but these are different from Windows .INI files.

Kermit online plain-text documentation have historically been had the .DOC filetype, but Windows thinks these are Word documents. In Kermit 95 1.1.11, all *.DOC files were renamed to *.TXT.

Similarly, Kermit script program files have long had a filetype of .SCR, but in Windows 95, .SCR files are associated with screen savers. Thus if you double click on a Kermit .SCR file, you are likely to get an undesired result.

In Kermit 95 1.1.3, all script files distributed with Kermit 95 were renamed from *.SCR to *.KSC, and all references to them (e.g. in the many Dialer pages) were changed accordingly, and the new script files that were included with this release for host mode were also given the .KSC extension. The .INI files, however, were not renamed. Kermit has been around a lot longer than Windows!

### 48. The Dialer Login page does not show LOGIN.SCR in the text box

(Fixed.)

### 49. The K-95 icon does not show up in Windows NT 3.5x

The K-95 icon is in the Windows 95 icon format, which can't be correctly displayed in Windows NT 3.xx; it shows up as a black square. It works fine in Windows NT 4.0. (An OS/2-format icon is included with the OS/2 version.)

### 50. SEND and RECEIVE as-names ignored by XYZMODEM

(Fixed.)

### 51. Missing files

Certain files mentioned in Kermit 95 manual are missing. These include:

- `P.DOC` (after the manual was written, the `P.EXE` program for XYZMODEM protocol file transfers was fully integrated into Kermit 95, and thus has no user interface or commands of its own);

- `KERMIT.KDD` (the Kermit Dialing Directory) referred to on page 30 is really `CKERMIT.KDD` in the PHONES subdirectory;

- `DOCS\FONTS.DOC` does not exist. At press time we thought we had a safe way to switch fonts, but it was not to be. A forthcoming release will address this issue.

- `DOCS\APC.DOC` does not exist. The APC feature is fully documented in the second edition of Using C-Kermit.

### 52. Title bar not properly set from "kermit -j host"

(Fixed.)

### 53. Can't interrupt SET HOST or TELNET or RLOGIN command (M).

Restriction. The Winsock `connect()` function does not respond to the WSACancel call.

### 54. Download directory only works for Kermit transfers

(Fixed.)

### 55. Crash when pasting voluminous material into terminal window

(Fixed.)

### 56. Problem with SET FILE DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY<Enter>

(Fixed.)

### 57. Terminal reset kills K95 if TERM CHARACTER-SET is TRANSPARENT

(Fixed.)

### 58. Cursor-type selection made in Dialer not saved

(Fixed.)

### 59. PBX-related Dialer entries not saved

(Fixed.)

### 60. No choice for location of Kermit 95's temporary files

(Fixed.)

### 61. The "Paste" button on the Terminal Window's Toolbar doesn't work (M).

"If I put text into the Windows Clipboard using regular Windows services, such as the Mark and Copy buttons on a console-window Toolbar, or mouse-select and Edit->Copy in a GUI Window, then I can't use the Paste button on the Kermit 95 window toolbar to paste the material into the Kermit 95 screen." Cure: Open the Properties dialog for the window; go to the Misc page and turn off "Fast Pasting".

No problem in Windows NT. In OS/2, Kermit 95 comes with K2CLIP.EXE, the Kermit/2 Clipboard Server, to take care of the clipboard.

### 62. EMACS.INI Alt-x = Meta-x doesn't work

(Fixed.)

### 63. INPUT could not be canceled from the keyboard

(Fixed.)

### 64. SET ALARM / IF ALARM doesn't always work

(Fixed.)

### 65. \v(cpu) always says "unknown"

(Fixed.)

### 66. Invalid escape sequence ESC [ ? 6/7 i caused problems

(Fixed.)

### 67. Problems with transparent printing and accented letters

(Fixed.)

### 68. Microcom Deskporte modem configuration wrong

(Fixed.)

### 69. Cursor-type selection not saved by Dialer

(Fixed.)

### 70. PBX material from Locations and Codes Dialer page not saved

(Fixed.)

### 71. SET TERM CHAR TRANSPARENT, then terminal reset, causes crash

(Fixed.)

### 72. Spurious "Connection might still be active on COM1..." messages

(Fixed.)

### 73. SET PORT<Enter> gives spurious error message

(Fixed.)

### 74. DIAL timeouts sometimes caused an "access violation" crash

(Fixed.)

### 75. Modem list in SETUP program PPI / Multitech mixup

(Fixed.)

### 76. Incorrect default assignment for Ctrl-Space key combination

(Fixed.)

### 77. "k95 filename" requires fully specified filename

(Fixed.)

### 78. XYZMODEM Transfers didn't work over RLOGIN connections

(Fixed.)

### 79. PCMCIA or Plug-and-Play Modem Problems

The Microsoft VCOMM driver used in Windows 95 versions prior to OEM SR2 for serial port services in console windows does not support Plug-n-Play. Therefore, 32-bit communication programs such as Kermit 95 can not use these modems in Windows 95 unless they are previously initialized by another program, such as Hyperterminal or Dial Up Networking.

Version 1.1.10 of Kermit comes with a new utility, K95CINIT, to initialize such modems so they can be used by Kermit 95. This program needs to be run only once each time you boot Windows 95. You can run it "by hand" at any time before starting Kermit 95, or you can put put in your StartUp Menu to make it run automatically each time you restart Windows.

Version 1.1.12 supports TAPI and so should work with any modem or other TAPI device at all; K95CINIT is not needed in K95 1.1.12 or later unless you want to use a Plug-n-Play COM-port device directly that Kermit can not normally see on its own as a COM port, rather than through TAPI.

### 80. RLOGIN vs FTP Software OnNet-32 (V).

K95's RLOGIN connections seem not to work at all with FTP Software OnNet-32. To enable them, you have to edit the ONNET32\ETC\SERVICES file and comment out the definitions of "login" service on port 49. The port that works is 513. Now you can make RLOGIN connections, but certain RLOGIN features, such as automatic screen-resize notification, do not work because OnNet-32 fails to properly deliver RLOGIN protocol messages as out-of-band data to K95. The same code works fine with Microsoft and OS/2 TCP/IP.

You can also specify the port number (not name) in RLOGIN commands to Kermit:

      rlogin hostname:513 [ userid ]

This allows you to make RLOGIN connections without editing the SERVICES file.

### 81. "set host 0" vs FTP Software OnNet-32

An IP address of 0 can sometimes be used to indicate one's own IP host. Using this construction in K95 with OnNet-32, however, causes K95 to crash. Diagnosis: Bug in OnNet-32. Workaround: Don't "set host 0" or "telnet 0" in OnNet-32.

### 82. Kermit 95 and Digital UNIX 3.2

Digital UNIX 3.2 (OSF/1 3.2) seems to think your terminal has one more line than it really has and so "man", "more", and similar commands try to use Kermit's status line for screen data. Workarounds -- either:

1. Tell UNIX "stty rows 23" (one less than Kermit's screen length), or:
2. Tell Kermit "set term height 25".
3. Tell Kermit "set term statusline off" (1.1.5) to let UNIX use the bottom line.

It is not known whether Digital UNIX 4.0 behaves differently.

### 83. Extraneous characters on terminal screen in Windows 95

On certain PCs, when the system load is high and/or when memory, swapping, or other resources are low, Windows's screen painting algorithm sometimes misses the fact that some areas of the screen need to be updated. Diagnosis: Bug in Windows 95 CONAGENT.EXE, which tries to optimize screen painting by comparing old and new window contents. Sometimes it misses. Workaround: Use Alt-Enter to switch between window and full screen will temporarily clear up the problem. Also, rolling back and then forwards will also tend to force the screen updates to be applied correctly. Workaround: adjust the video optimization using Control Panel -> System -> Performance, or adjust the resolution or color depth to reduce CPU requirements. Cure: Must be fixed by Microsoft. Also see Bug 238.

### 84. Some special keys on national keyboards don't work

(Fixed.)

### 85. VT220/320 Erase Character (ECH) bug

(Fixed.)

### 86. Intel Modems without Fax

If the "enter dial mode" string causes an error, use the new command "set modem command dial-mode" to alter or remove it.

### 87. LOGIN.SCR renamed to LOGIN.KSC to avoid conflicts with screen savers

(See bug 47.)

### 88. Uploads on LAT connections tend to fail

Uploading files on a LAT connection can be problematic on some connections, but not others. If you get a lot of retries or failures, try using 90-byte packets and 1 window slot (tell VMS C-Kermit to "set receive packet-length 90"). Downloads can use any packet length or window size. WARNING: Do NOT tell VMS or VMS C-Kermit to disable flow control. VMS C-Kermit MUST have "set flow xon/xoff". On other connections, uploads using long packets and sliding windows work just fine. No pattern has yet been discovered to explain success or failure.

### 89. XYZMODEM and Kermit screens and stats are inconsistent

(Fixed.)

### 90. Printing to network printers in Windows 95 or NT might not work (M).

Kermit 95 1.1.12 offers various new SET PRINTER options that should address this problem. See the current manual, or type HELP SET PRINTER at the K95 prompt, for details.

### 91. Messed up colors on initial Terminal screen

(Fixed.)

### 92. Colors behave differently than in MS-DOS Kermit

(Fixed.)

### 93. Printing to PostScript printers doesn't work

(Fixed.)

### 94. Redialing on a SET HOST/SET MODEM/DIAL connection didn't work

(Fixed.)

### 95. Command-file line numbers not reset

(Fixed.)

### 96. ASSIGN/DEFINE failed to fail if definition too long

(Fixed.)

### 97. Dialer temporary files called .SCR instead of .KSC

(Fixed.)

### 98. The MSEND command did not work with ZMODEM

(Fixed.)

### 99. Backspace key didn't work with "set term char finnish"

(Fixed.)

### 100. Kermit 95 for Windows requires long filenames

One file name in the Kermit 95 distribution, K95CUSTOM.INI, exceeds the 8.3 FAT name format. This is not a problem in Windows 95, but it is bad news in Windows NT when long filenames are disabled (by editing the registry) -- the installation procedure fails. Even if the industrious user finds a way to complete the installation, the temporary files created by the Dialer (based on the Dialer entry names, many of which are quite long) will cause runtime failures. So, at least for the present, maybe forever, this is a restriction. Kermit 95 can not be installed on file systems restricted to 8.3 notation.

### 101. Host-controlled status lines

VT320 and Wyse host-controlled status line features are not fully implemented. This will come with the GUI release. However, in version 1.1.5 it is possible to remove Kermit's status line from the screen, making it available to the host; this satisfies the requirements of many host-resident programs for an extra status line. (The command is SET TERMINAL STATUSLINE OFF.)

Version 1.1.8 adds full support for the VT320 status line (and for user messages on the Wyse models and Televideo label lines).

### 102. Wyse screen-transmit functions not implemented

This capability was added in version 1.1.8, but only if you enable it first with SET TERMINAL SEND-DATA ON. Use at your own risk -- host-initiated screen transmissions are a notorious security loophole.

### 103. Windows 95 Dead key and Caps Lock bugs are fixed! (mostly)

(This entry applies only to Windows 95)

The bugs noted in Entry 6 regarding dead keys and Caps Lock should be mostly fixed in version 1.1.5 by doing an end-run around the buggy Windows 95 console agent(*), and adding our own substitute keyboard handling in its place. The fix is not perfect, however, because the "raw" keyboard driver is still hidden from us, and the information we do receive is partially corrupted by Windows.

On the positive side, the Caps Lock bug is gone, and dead keys seem to work correctly on US systems when the "international" keyboard driver is selected, which uses dead keys, as well as on real German, Finnish, and other West European Windows 95 systems, where it is also reported that the special single-stroke keys (such as Umlauts on the German keyboard) work correctly. The the terminal emulation and character-sets sections of the current K95 manual for details.

On the negative side, the fix interferes with the Alt-Gr key which, on most non-USA keyboards, is used to select the "third" (or lower right, or front) character printed on the keytop. Alt-Gr is normally the right Alt key, and it is really just a shorthand for Ctrl-Alt. Thus, for example, on the German keyboard, Alt-Gr-q produces at-sign (@), and so does Ctrl-Alt-q. To work around this side effect, you can either use Ctrl-Alt instead of Alt-Gr, or you can give this command to Kermit 95:

      SET WIN95 ALT-GR ON

This tells Kermit 95 to treat the right Alt key as if it were Ctrl-Alt. If SET WIN95 ALT-GR ON produces other unwanted and unanticipated side effects, set it back OFF and use Ctrl-Alt instead.

SET WIN95 ALT-GR ON enables the use of Alt-Gr as a SHIFT key (i.e. to be held down at the same time as the key it is modifying, just like Shift, Alt, or Ctrl). Kermit 95 does not support the use of Alt-Gr as a "prefix" or "sticky shift" key (to be pressed and released prior to pressing the modified key).

Also, our workaround has moved some Control keys. For example, Ctrl-\ (ASCII 28, Field Separator) which is normally sent by Ctrl-sz (Ess-Zet) on a German keyboard (top left of 0 in digits rank), or Ctrl-] (ASCII 29), normally sent by Ctrl-9, are now sent from their original positions on the US keyboard. If you want to change these back to their expected positions, use SET KEY.

Of course, under Windows NT, dead keys, special keys, and Alt-Gr work naturally and correctly (without any workarounds in the Kermit code), except that some NT users report a beep whenever a dead key is pressed (even though the correct dead-key combinations are still produced).

All of these problems will disappear when the GUI version is released and Kermit is no longer accessing any of the bug-ridden Windows console services.

(*) Microsoft PSS ID Q140456, 12-07-1995: "Deadkeys cannot be accepted as input to a Windows 95 Console application even when the appropriate keyboard layout is selected. `ReadConsoleInput()` cannot read deadkeys in Windows 95".

NOTE: Alt-Gr and Dead-key handling were broken again during the translation to Unicode in 1.1.8 and was fixed and improved in 1.1.14. As of 1.1.14, K95 should properly default the SET WIN95 ALT-GR command for most keyboard layouts. 8-bit characters should now be properly translated for all locales from the ANSI code page to the OEM code page used by the Windows Console environment.

### 104. East European keyboard features might not work in Windows 95

> NOTE: This item applies only to Windows 9x. Since the release of version 1.1.7 we have had confirmation from Poland and other East European countries that the features described below work as advertised.

Testing of version 1.1.5 on East European Windows 95 versions was limited to the Czech version. Results are unknown for Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, and other East European versions. If you have problems entering East-European (Latin2) characters, first make sure you have:

      set terminal character-set latin2 cp852
      set terminal byte 8

If SHOW terminal doesn't say your code page 852, then also:

set win95 keyboard latin2

and, as noted in item 103:

      set win95 alt-gr on

In the Terminal Window, you can also enter East-European characters using Kermit 95's Latin-2 Compose-key feature, documented in the current manual. As of 1.1.14, SET WIN95 KEYBOARD-TRANSLATION is no longer needed. Translation from ANSI code pages to OEM code pages is performed using Win32 API calls.

### 105. VT emulation DCS/OSC/APC/etc bugs

(Fixed.)

### 106. Terminal color bugs in version 1.1.4

(Fixed.)

### 107. VT220/320 downloadable fonts / soft character sets don't work

We never said they did. Not only that, K95's terminal-to-host reports notify the host that they are not supported. This feature can not be implemented in a Console program. It is on the list for consideration in the full GUI version.

### 108. SET TERMINAL CHARACTER-SET PORTUGUESE didn't work

(Fixed.)

### 109. VT emulation and SET TERMINAL CHARACTER-SET FINNISH (etc) bug

(Fixed.)

### 110. Autodownload versus SET TERM CHARACTER-SET

(Fixed.)

### 111. Keyboard doesn't work if I start K95.EXE from Netscape

There are all sorts of bugs in Windows 95 regarding support of console applications (like Kermit 95), particularly when they are started from GUI applications (like Netscape). One of many typical symptoms is loss of keyboard focus. One simple workaround (not guaranteed, but seems to work in many cases) is to have Netscape start the Kermit 95 `TELNET.EXE`, which in turn starts `K95.EXE`; thus `K95.EXE` is not being started by a GUI application, and therefore this bug MIGHT not be tickled. If that doesn't work, try making a PIF file for `K95.EXE` and then having Netscape run the PIF file, rather than the EXE.

### 112. Dialer radio buttons not lined up

(Fixed.)

### 113. Multiple sessions to same Dialer entry don't work

(Fixed.)

### 114. Can't selecte a Dialer entry from keyboard

(Fixed.)

### 115. Dialer crash after editing an entry entry name

(Fixed.)

### 116. Dialer PBX configuration problems

(Fixed.)

### 117. Ctrl-C doesn't work in NT when K95 started from the Dialer

NT bug. Workaround: If this happens to you, try using Ctrl-Break instead of Ctrl-C. (The problem should now be fixed by adding a separate Ctrl-C handler to each thread.)

### 118. No way to make LAT connections from the Dialer

(Fixed.)

### 119. Kermit 95 and Internet firewalls, SOCKS, etc

Kermit 95 for OS/2 includes a SOCKS4 interface, described in the Kermit 95 for OS/2 notes.

The Windows version does not. Firewall support needs to be built into the TCP/IP stack, or the network itself (e.g. in a router or transparent bridge), not each application. Microsoft Winsock, for example, does not support the SOCKS firewall negotiation mechanism, but Trumpet Winsock and FTP OnNet-32 do support it.

The Microsoft Catapult proxy server announced in July 1996, however, is supposed to provide transparent firewall support, both CERN and RWS (Remote WinSock) styles, to all Windows applications, and so should work with K95.

And from NEC, we have a new 32-bit version of SocksCap, which sits between Windows Sockets (WinSock) and the application (Kermit 95, Netscape, etc). Its authors have tested it successfully with 32-bit Microsoft WinSock on both Windows 95 and NT using many different applications. It should work with SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 servers. You can find SocksCap at:

      http://www.socks.nec.com/sockscap.html
      ftp://ftp.nec.com/pub/socks/sockscap/

Security concerns are addressed in K95 1.1.16 for Windows 95 and NT by addition of Kerberos IV and V authentication and encryption. CLICK HERE for further information. Kerberos authentication as well as CAST and DES encryption carry export restrictions mandated by USA law.

### 120. Unreasonable delays in SET HOST / TELNET to numeric IP address

(Fixed.)

### 121. Kermit 95 does not work with LWP 5.0 TCP/IP in Windows 95

The TCP/IP stack in LAN WorkPlace 5.0 is 16-bit. Kermit 95 only works with 32-bit Winsock stacks. Workaround: You can use MS-DOS Kermit with the LWP 16-bit stack (via its TELAPI interface); or obtain a 32-bit stack from Novell, if they have one.

### 122. No way to select split-speed serial communication

Serial speeds such as 75/1200 can't be used in Windows. They are not supported by the serial driver.

### 123. Errors in built-in modem support

(Fixed.)

### 124. SEND did not work with filename completion

(Fixed.)

### 125. OUTPUT could not send backslash characters

(Fixed.)

### 126. OUTPUT could not send long strings

(Fixed.)

### 127. Extraneous material in session log during INPUT

(Fixed.)

### 128. INPUT buffer too short

(Fixed.)

### 129. SEND foo\%a did not work

(Fixed.)

### 130. No way to print on A4 paper using textps

(Fixed.)

### 131. Invalid Page Fault after using command recall a lot

(Fixed.)

### 132. Alt- doesn't work

Holding down the Alt key and pressing 1 to 4 consecutive digit keys on the numeric keypad, while Num Lock is on, and then letting go of the Alt key, is supposed to return the character whose code value was typed. This is supposed to be a way of typing special characters that can't be typed any other way on your keyboard. Kermit 95, however, sees each key as you press it. Thus, Alt-<123> returns three scan codes -- Alt-Keypad-End, Alt-Keypad-Downarrow, and Alt-Keypad-PgDn -- rather than the single character whose code value is 123. If you need to type a character that is not available on any key, use SET KEY to define a key to the desired code, e.g. when using Code page 437 to assign lowercase letter i with grave accent to Ctrl-Shift-Equals:

      set key \1979 \161

This works in the Terminal window and, as of version 1.1.5, also in the command window. As of K95 1.1.16, you can also use SET TERMINAL KEY /LITERAL to enter a literal definition, i.e. one that will not be translated.

### 133. Interruption keys are ignored during XYZMODEM transfers

Interruption of X-, Y-, and ZMODEM transfers by typing X, Z, E, etc, when the file transfer screen is active, is not implemented yet. Interrupting with Ctrl-C works, but it leaves the other XYZMODEM program in protocol mode; to take it out of protocol mode, you have to get back in the terminal window and type five (5) Ctrl-X characters in a row. In version 1.1.6, the other ZMODEM program should exit automatically when you Ctrl-C Kermit 95, so the five Ctrl-X's should not be needed.

### 134. Tone dialing changes to Pulse after first digit

Some modems have a feature called adaptive dialing. When they are told to dial a number using Tone dialing, they check to make sure that dialtone has gone away after dialing the first digit. If it has not, the modem assumes the phone line does not accept Tone dialing and so switches to Pulse.

When dialing out from a PBX, there is almost always a secondary dialtone. Typically you take the phone off-hook, get the PBX dialtone, dial "9" to get an outside line, and then get the phone company's dialtone. In a situation like this, you need to tell the modem to expect the secondary dialtone. On Hayes and compatible modems, this is done by putting a "W" in the dial string at the appropriate place. For example, to dial 9 for an outside line, and then 7654321, use ATDT9W7654321. In Kermit 95, this is accomplished with:

SET DIAL PBX-OUTSIDE-PREFIX 9W

(replace "9" with whatever your PBX's outside-line prefix is).

### 135. VT100 reverse scrolling broken

(Fixed.)

### 136. SET KEY commands became slow in 1.1.5

(Fixed.)

### 137. Terminal bell doesn't work as before, or at all.

In Windows 95 and NT, the sounds that K95 uses are as follows:

Terminal Bell
  Beeps the speaker (this is sometimes mapped by the sound drivers to the Windows Default Sound as configured in the Control Panel.
Beep Information
  Windows Default Sound
Beep Warning
  Windows Asterisk
Beep Error
  Windows Exclamation

If these sound events do not have `.WAV` files associated with them in the control panel they will not generate any sound.

Also, make sure that you have speakers hooked up to your computer. Many new computers with built-in stereo sound boards do not have internal speakers.

### 138. SET MSKERMIT KEYCODES ON did not work with some gray keys

(Fixed.)

### 139. Array elements could not be used for file names

(Fixed.)

### 140. Keyboard modes can't be modifed

Russian, Hebrew, and EMACS mode layouts could not be modified in 1.1.7 and earlier. This is fixed by the addition of the SET TERMINAL KEY command in version 1.1.8.

### 141. Control keys on national keyboards in Windows 95

As noted in Bug 103, the fixes that were added to work around the problems with Caps Lock and dead keys in the Microsoft console agent might cause some of the control keys to "move" on national keyboards, such as the German ones, from the position indicated by the keytop label to the US-keyboard position. Reportedly, this is nothing unique to Kermit; it also happens with other communications software too, including Microsoft's own Telnet and Hyperterminal. Here is a sample key mapping file to put the control keys back where they belong on a German keyboard, courtesy of Josef Hinterreger:

      ; GERMAN keyboard

      set win95 alt-gr on

      ; control key definitions
      ; in addition to predefined US-positions

      set key \1336 \27	; Ctrl-[ (Escape)
      set key \1499 \28	; Ctrl-\
      set key \1337 \29	; Ctrl-]
      set key \1054 \30	; Ctrl-^
      set key \1334 \30	; Ctrl-^
      set key \1500 \30	; Ctrl-^
      set key \1469 \31	; Ctrl-_

### 142. SCOANSI and AT386 emulation vs Code Page 437

(Fixed.)

### 143. SCOANSI and AT386 emulation vs CSI 10/11/12 m

(Fixed.)

### 144. Bad characters in Registration name

(Fixed.)

### 145. SET MODEM commands in K95CUSTOM.INI are ignored by Dialer

(Fixed.)

### 146. Completion does not work with directory names

(Fixed.)

### 147. Command-line editing doesn't use PC editing keys

Commands can not be edited with arrow keys, Insert/Delete, Home, End, or other PC keys, or the mouse. Nor can you use EMACS or VI style keystrokes to edit commands. Command editing is accomplished as described in "Using C-Kermit", with the addition of up- and down-arrow keys (or Ctrl-B and Ctrl-N) for command recall. Restriction.

### 148. The DIRECTORY and TYPE commands are too slow

The DIRECTORY and TYPE commands are built in to get around Windows 95 bugs with pipes and process control. If you would rather have Windows or OS/2 produce directory listings or type your files, then use "run dir" or "run type" or "run more", etc. In that case, you can also include Windows or OS/2 shell command switches. But watch out for loss of keyboard focus and other problems that can occur when you run inferior processes this way, especially if you interrupt them with Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Break.

### 149. DIRECTORY command gives spurious error message

(Fixed.)

### 150. XYZMODEM transfer statistics are off

(Fixed.)

### 151. SET TERMINAL ESCAPE-CHARACTER DISABLED didn't work

(Fixed.)

### 152. Command screen messed up after Ctrl-C

Several users have reported that the command screen loses messages or becomes scrambled after giving a DIAL command, or two DIAL commands, or an ANSWER command followed by a DIAL command, or after interrupting a DIAL command with Ctrl-C. Similarly, if you interrupt a file transfer with Ctrl-C and then start another one, the screen is not fully repainted. This problem started happening in version 1.1.5 when we switched the command screen to use the same virtual screen management that used by the terminal screen, to allow scrollback, etc. The cause is probably related to Bug 83 above, which is evidently exacerbated when an asynchronous process-related interrupt (like Ctrl-C) occurs. If this happens to you in the file-transfer display screen, use Ctrl-L to refresh (or at least partially refresh) the screen.

### 153. Cursor disappears after Ctrl-C interruption of file transfer

(Fixed.)

### 154. \v(sysid) was garbage

(Fixed.)

### 155. SHOW KEY ALL did not show keys that had string definitions

(Fixed.)

### 156. Dialer File Transfer page items spuriously grayed out

(Fixed.)

### 157. SET TERM COLOR ERASE CURRENT-COLOR didn't work

(Fixed.)

### 158. Patching up from version 1.1.3 might not work

Evidently version 1.1.3 was distributed in more than one form, so patching over the wrong form won't work. Sorry, our mistake -- if this happens to you, contact us.

### 159. XYZMODEM file transfers gave incorrect status codes

(Fixed.)

### 160. XYZMODEM transfers made no transaction log entries

(Fixed.)

### 161. TELNET negotiations were sometimes skipped

(Fixed.)

### 162. Data loss during file transfer

(Fixed.)

### 163. K95 could not send a file that was already open

(Fixed.)

### 164. Dynamic packet timeout values were sometimes too high

(Fixed.)

### 165. Character attributes not shown in Televideo emulation

(Fixed.)

### 166. PATCH.EXE only works with FAT filenames

The patch product used for applying patches to Kermit 95 only understands DOS (FAT, 8.3) filenames on its command line. You can't give a filename to the Patch program that does not conform to FAT restrictions: directory names must not be longer than 8 characters, and must not contain spaces; filenames must have no more than 8 characters before the dot, and no more than three after it, and must not contain spaces, and there can not be more than one dot. Examples of patch commands that work:

      patch wi115-6
      patch d:\k95\download\wi115-6

Example of a patch command that doesn't work:

      patch D:\Downloads\Kermit 95 Patch\K95-Intel-from-1.1.5-to-1.1.6

### 167. TEXTPS.EXE was broken in version 1.1.5

(Fixed.)

### 168. File transfer efficiency number is misleading

(Fixed.)

### 169. VT220/320 DCS string cancellation didn't work

(Fixed.)

### 170. SCOANSI and AT386 emulation conflict with Dialer

(Fixed.)

### 171. Server GET fails if a SEND-LIST had previously been used

(Fixed.)

### 172. PUSH from Terminal screen to shell could not be returned from

(Fixed.)

### 173. K95DIAL window minimizes to desktop instead of task bar

(Fixed.)

### 174. Referring to directory names that start with digits

In output-file specifications only, it is ambiguous whether `\`digit (like `\4DOS`) combinations are literal or are the backslash-encoding of special characters. So, for example, `SET PRINTER DOWNLOAD\123.TXT` does not work as expected. If you need to refer to a directory name that starts with a digit, a percent sign, an ampersand, or other character that signals a C-Kermit backslash code, in an output-file specification, either use a forward slash or double the backslash, e.g.: `SET PRINTER DOWNLOAD/123.TXT` or `SET PRINTER DOWNLOAD\\123.TXT`.

### 175. Televideo and Wyse printing didn't work right

(Fixed.)

### 176. Wrong default character-set for VT terminals in Dialer

(Fixed.)

### 177. The Dialer database can be corrupted by other applications (M).

Several Kermit 95 users have reported that the K95 Dialer suddenly and mysteriously stopped working. Diagnosis:

- Kermit 95 Dialer database files (DIALER.DAT, DIALUSR.DAT, DIALINF.DAT) have an extension or filetype (the part of the filename after the period) of DAT (not unreasonable; people have been using DAT for data files for decades).

- Certain other applications, when you install them, register themselves in the Windows Registry as the application for all files having the .DAT extension. These applications include at least ACT! (from Symantec) and Wordperfect 7 (from Corel).

- The Kermit 95 Dialer database files now appear with the icon of the other application. Should you click on one of these icons, the other application will be started and fed the K95 database file, and will likely damage it. If that happens, the Dialer might be unusable from that point on.

There is nothing Kermit can do to prevent this. There is no mechanism for arbitration of conflicting file associations. If filetype XYZ is associated with application A and then you install a new application, B, it might undo application A's association and take over its files (or, conversely, it might find that its files belong application A). This is intrinsic to the design of Windows 95 and NT. Only one application can be the default application for each filetype.

To defend against this effect, make a backup copy of your *.DAT files prior to installing any new application, preferably on a diskette, which you should remove immediately and put in a safe place. And then remember to avoid clicking on any of the files in your Kermit 95 directory, except of course the EXE files, no matter what interesting icons they might display. (This warning really applies to ALL your applications, not just to Kermit 95 -- never click on a data file's icon if the icon does not seem appropriate.)

As of version 1.1.7, the Dialer keeps two backup copies of each .DAT file as changes are made.

### 178. The Dialer can seem to disappear

(Fixed.)

### 179. The "Chess" entry in the Dialer is wrong

(Fixed.)

### 180. XMODEM-CRC, YMODEM-CHECKSUM, and ZMODEM-CRC16 are not supported

This is not really a bug; we never said they were, but we never said they weren't either. Status: To be added in a future release, maybe. In fact, all of these are supported internally, but there is no command to invoke them; the XYZMODEM program on the other end can request any of these and it will be used.

### 181. Renaming downloaded files with XYZMODEM doesn't work

(Fixed.)

### 182. XYZMODEM downloads are somewhat slower than expected

(Fixed.)

### 183. Scroll Lock doesn't work in version 1.1.7

(Fixed.)

### 184. No way to change the default key map for each terminal type

(Fixed.)

### 185. CTRL2CAP instructions misleading

(Fixed.)

### 186. LOG SESSION erroneously translates character sets

(Fixed.)

### 187. VT102 insert character function doesn't work

(Fixed.)

### 188. Spurious keyboard locks in VT220/320 emulation

(Fixed.)

### 189. Improper handling of Alternate ROM in VT emulation

(Fixed.)

### 190. Erroneous VT emulator Secondary and Tertiary DA Reports

(Fixed.)

### 191. Erroneous DECID reports in VT220/320 emulation

(Fixed.)

### 192. VT emulation Horizontal Position Absolute (HPA) ignored

(Fixed.)

### 193. Failure of K95 to start on certain Windows NT systems

(Fixed.)

### 194. Simultaneous LAT sessions don't work

(Fixed.)

### 195. No redirection of standard input

Beginning in version 1.1.5, `K95.EXE`'s standard input can not be redirected. This works around a bug in Windows 95 regarding invocation of console programs from GUI programs (e.g. `K95.EXE` from Netscape). BUT... Beginning in K95 1.1.16, redirection to/from a pipe is automatically detected, and there is a new command-line option to force the use of stdin and/or stdout, documented in the current K95 manual.

### 196. SHOW KEY does not properly display C0 and 8bit characters

(Fixed.)

### 197. "set command more-prompting" could not be parsed

(Fixed.)

### 198. No way to specify 0 or no timeout in INPUT

(Fixed.)

### 199. INPUT ignores autodownload sequences

(Fixed.)

### 200. Problems entering commands that end with backslash

(Fixed.)

### 201. Spurious invisible Z command that does nothing

(Fixed.)

### 202. Close box in K95 title bar doesn't work in Windows 95

See the original description of this bug. In Kermit 95 1.1.19, we work around it by disabling the Close box.

### 203. Dialer startup is slow

Startup of the K95 Dialer is unavoidably slow because it makes backup copies of all of its database files every time it starts. The backup copies go into your PC's temporary directories (identified by the TEMP or TMP environment variable). The speed of startup depends on the speed of the disk that is used and the sizes of the database files. If you don't need all the predefined BBS and Telnet site entries, etc, see the READ.ME file for instructions on removing them.

### 204. Dialer toolbar buttons might "wrap around"

In version 1.1.8, an 8th button -- "ScriptFile" -- was added to the Toolbar. This button might wrap around to a second Toolbar line if you are installing 1.1.8 as a patch to a previous version. If this happens to you, you can widen the main Dialer window by stretching it with the mouse. In version 1.1.14 the ScriptFile button was renamed to ShortCut because now it creates a clickable shortcut on your desktop and/or in your Start menu.

### 205. Statusline OFF vs TELNET NAWS bug

(Fixed.)

### 206. Page faults in K95 version 1.1.8

(Fixed.)

### 207. Keyboard translations don't work in Windows NT in K95 1.1.8

(Fixed.)

### 208. Printing did not work right in version 1.1.8

(Fixed.)

### 209. Dead-key and Alt-Gr broken in 1.1.8

(Fixed.)

### 210. APC during INPUT broken in 1.1.8

(Fixed.)

### 211. Redundant terminal-type change in 1.1.8

(Fixed.)

### 212. CD to nonexistent directory can cause errors

(Fixed.)

### 213. Problems with host-based WordPerfect

(Fixed.)

### 214. Russian and Hebrew keyboard modes don't work

(Fixed.)

### 215. Why does Dialup Networking pop up whenever I make a Telnet connection?

(Windows only) "Every time I start K95 to make a Telnet connection, the dialup networking program is launched automatically. I have to cancel it first and then continue logging in." This is not a Kermit problem -- the same thing would happen with any Internet application, such as Microsoft Telnet or FTP. To fix: open your Windows 95 Dial Up Networking folder (should be in your "My Computer" folder), go to Connections->Settings-> General and choose "Don't prompt to use Dial-Up Networking".

If that doesn't work and you are using Windows 95b (OSR2), check the setting for "auto connect" in the Internet Control Panel.

### 216. Why does the termimal status line say "Script:" instead of "Prompt:"?

"Why does the status line say Script instead of Prompt sometimes?" It says this when CONNECT mode was entered from a script (command file or macro) rather than from the prompt; thus escaping back from CONNECT mode will continue the script (if there are any commands left in it), rather than returning directly to the prompt.

### 217. Why is my login prompt missing?

There are two likely explanations for missing login prompts:

First, it can happen because Kermit 95 sent your user ID in advance. This happens on Rlogin connections and (in 1.1.8 and later) also on TELNET connections if the Telnet sever supports the NEW-ENVIRONMENT protocol and Kermit 95's LOGIN USER variable is set to match your username on the host. Just enter your password, or defeat this feature with SET LOGIN USER to nothing.

Second, this can happen when TELNET terminal-type negotiations cause K95 to change its terminal type (and therefore to clear the screen); use K95's SET TELNET TERMINAL-TYPE command to supply a terminal name acceptable to the host and to suppress automatic terminal-type switching.

In version 1.1.16, this also happens when you make a connection authenticated by Kerberos or SRP, in which case even the Password: prompt would be missing.

### 218. VERSION command did not display copyright notice

(Fixed.)

### 219. Alt-: and Alt-; missing from EMACS mode

(Fixed.)

### 220. Dialer would not start if any database entries were corrupt

(Fixed.)

### 221. Russian and Hebrew keyboard mode conversions broken

(Fixed.)

### 222. Latin-2 Compose sequences broken in 1.1.8

(Fixed.)

### 223. Windows 95 QuickEdit interferes with Kermit 95's mouse functions

Windows 95 QuickEdit (selected in the console window Properties notebook, General page, under Mouse), gets in the way of Kermit 95's mouse functions. Restriction: You can have one of these or the other, but not both.

### 224. Caps Lock state can change when moving between windows

If you use the Caps Lock key to change the Caps Lock state from what it was when K95 was started, and then select another window, the Caps Lock state goes back to what it was when you entered the K95 window. Diagnosis: bug in Microsoft `CONAGENT.EXE`. Happens only in Windows 95, not in Windows NT.

### 225. LOGIN.KSC broken in version 1.1.8

(Fixed.)

### 226. ADD SEND-LIST followed by MOVE did not delete source files

(Fixed.)

### 227. Marking text on bottom line of terminal screen didn't work

(Fixed.)

### 228. Sending data from terminal screen when SEND-DATA OFF

(Fixed.)

### 229. Kermit file-transfer packets sent out of window

(Fixed.)

### 230. VMS SET TERM/WIDTH did not clear the screen

(Fixed.)

### 231. k95 "file name with spaces" did not work in 1.1.8

(Fixed.)

### 232. k95 command screen could be frozen or corrupted in 1.1.8

(Fixed.)

### 233. Spurious cursor in 1.1.9

(Fixed.)

### 234. Appearance of horizontal scrolling indicators

The block character used on the left and right end of the status line to indicate the end of the left-right scrolling region in 1.1.9 and later comes out too small in certain fonts or sizes but not in others. When it's too small, it looks like a fifth LED rather than a distinct symbol. For example, it's a nice large block in TrueType 10x20 or 8x16 but it's too small in 10x18 or 8x8.

### 235. Network editing hints

You can override the choice of editor by adding the appropriate SET EDITOR command to your K95CUSTOM.INI file, or by having an EDITOR environment variable defined at the time K95 starts up. Remember, the SET EDITOR command (and the EDITOR environment variable) must contain the full pathname of the editor program, such as C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EDIT.COM. Also, the "netedit" process, especially when host-initiated, results in a lot of screen flashing as K95 switches back and forth between its command screen, file-transfer display screen, and terminal screen. It can't be avoided. Also see item 268.

NOTE: In version 1.1.12 and later, the full pathname of the editor is not required if the editor program is in the PATH.

### 236. Windows 95 long screens don't work in 1.1.9

(Fixed.)

### 237. Problems with TES32

(Fixed.)

### 238. Keystrokes might be transmitted out of order in Windows 95

In an interrupt driven system such as Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, etc, the keyboard driver is called to handle each event as it occurs. When the system is under heavy load, the events cannot be processed in real time and are placed on an event queue. In Windows 95, `CONAGENT.EXE` has a bug that causes the event queue to be processed in last-in-first-out rather than the expected first-in-first-out order. Thus fast typists might occasionally see their keystrokes transmitted in reverse order. And (you guessed it) this does not happen in Windows NT or OS/2.

### 239. Conflicts with CompuServe, AOL, etc

If you have installed Compuserve, America OnLine, or any other browser package from an Internet Service Provider that uses its own proprietary Sockets Library, there is a good chance that your existing Winsock applications (including, but not limited to, Kermit 95) will no longer work.

This happens when the installation either replaces the Windows version of WINSOCK.DLL and/or WSOCK32.DLL or adds new versions in a new directory. While all Winsocks are supposed to implement the same API, they don't always implement the same set of features or have the same bugs. Therefore, applications like K95 that make rather full use of Winsock might not work properly with these replacement DLLs.

These applications and service providers should not be replacing the standard Windows TCP/IP drivers. This is an extremely reckless act and all bets are off once they have done it. If you are affected by an application that has changed Windows' TCP/IP stack, contact the vendor of that application for a way to safely back out of the installation.

### 240. HPTERM and HP2621 screens were fractured

(Fixed.)

### 241. Overzealous recording in session log

(Fixed.)

### 242. VT100/102 keypad not mapped to PC keypad by default

(Fixed.)

### 243. Assorted window sizing problems in 1.1.9

(Fixed.)

### 244. SET TERMINAL CURSOR did not enable the cursor

(Fixed.)

### 245. Autoupload problems with XMODEM and YMODEM

(Fixed.)

### 246. Data General DASHER terminal emulation problems

(Fixed.)

### 247. Default editor set in K95.INI might be wrong

(Fixed.)

### 248. Dial-in host mode did not agree with user-defined modems

(Fixed.)

### 249. Not all SET TERMINAL settings are shown by SHOW TERMINAL

Sorry, there's not enough room on the screen. To be addressed in GUI release.

### 250. PUSH, RUN, and similar commands might not work

If you have an environment variable SHELL or COMSPEC, and it is NOT defined to be the path of COMMAND.COM or other valid command shell, then PUSH, RUN, and related commands will not work.

### 251. Unwanted alert box from K95CINIT

(Fixed.)

### 252. Problems when switching from VT to ANSI terminal type

(Fixed.)

### 253. HINT: Using SCOANSI emulation with SCO hosts

There is a type of terminal emulation commonly called ANSI, which is used by BBS's. It is very simple -- essentially nothing more than what you get with ANSI.SYS on a DOS PC. Then there is the highly evolved and complex version of it used on the SCO (and Unixware) console. Kermit 95 supports both; the first emulation is called ANSI; the second is called SCOANSI. However, the *name* SCOANSI is unknown on SCO systems (SCO Xenix, SCO UNIX, ODT, and Openserver versions 5.0.4 and earlier, and Unixware versions prior to 7.0), where it is called simply ANSI. So if a Telnet client such as Kermit 95 comes in announcing its terminal type as SCOANSI, the SCO host doesn't recognize it. In Kermit 95 1.1.8 and later, the Telnet terminal-type negotiation feature will cause Kermit 95 to change to another terminal type, most likely "plain old" ANSI. To work around this problem in Kermit 95:

      set terminal type scoansi
      set telnet terminal-type ansi
      set terminal character-set transparent

Or on the SCO system (Reference: SCO Technical Article 109521, 17 July 1998):

      # vi /etc/termcap (on the pre - 5.0.5 system)

Find the line that reads:

      li|ansi|ansi80x25|Ansi standard crt:\

and change it to read:

      li|ansi|scoansi|ansi80x25|Ansi standard crt:\

Then type:

       # vi /usr/lib/terminfo/terminfo.src

Find the line that reads:

      ansi|ansic|ansi-437|ansi80x25|Ansi standard console,

and change it to read:

      ansi|ansic|ansi-437|ansi80x25|scoansi|Ansi standard console,

After adding the scoansi definition to the `terminfo.src` file, run the terminal info compiler:

      # tic (no relink/reboot necessary)

SCO has added "scoansi" as an official terminal type (or, more precisely, a preinstalled synonym for what it now calls "ansi") in OpenServer 5.0.5 and Unixware 7.0.

Also see Bug 417.

### 254. Environment variables are not case sensitive

It has been noted that the \$(xxx) construction for accessing environment variables is not case sensitive, as it should be. This is a bug or a feature of Windows 95 inherited from DOS (Kermit gives the environment variable name literally to Windows, but Windows ignores the case of the letters).

### 255. Data loss in dialup host mode

When running K95 host mode in Windows 95 (but not NT or OS/2), callers could experience fractured screens, lost or duplicated data, etc. The problem was traced to problems in Windows 95 overlapped serial i/o, so the HOSTMDM.KSC script was modified to not use it in K95 1.1.12. Similarly, keystrokes sent to the hostmode screen could be lost if they were too close together. This was caused by a bug in HOST.KSC, also fixed in 1.1.12.

### 256. Problems with automatic login from certain Dialer entries

If you specify a password on the login page of a Dialer entry and find that the connection is not made at all, try removing the password (and specifying NONE for the prompt). If that fixes the problem, but you still want to specify a password (even though it is a security risk to store passwords on your computer), then try changing the password on the host computer (e.g. by appending an X to it) and entering the new password into the Dialer entry.

As of 1.1.14 you can also ask that the Dialer prompt you for the password each time you want to connect to the host.

The problem is fixed in version 1.1.16.

### 257. Problems with arrow keys and command recall

(Fixed.)

### 258. Misleading Dialer error message about screen dimensions

(Fixed.)

### 259. HINT: How to disable scrollback

There is no way specify a scrollback buffer size of 0, or for that matter, less than 512 lines. Thus, SET TERM SCROLLBACK 0 can't be used to disable scrollback. Instead, assign \Kignore (or any other non-scrollback related verb, etc) to the scrollback keys; for example:

      set key \4385 \Kignore ; Ignore PageUp
      set key \5409 \Kignore ; Ignore Ctrl-PageUp
      set key \4388 \Kignore ; Ignore the Home key

and so on.

### 260. Wildcard sends don't work right in XYZMODEM

(Fixed.)

### 261. EXPLANATION: Changes in the operation of the numeric keypad

In VT220 and VT320 emulation, the PC's numeric keypad is mapped by default to the VT terminal's numeric keypad. Prior to version 1.1.10, however, this was not true for VT100 and VT102. But the numeric keypad functions are just as important in VT100/102 emulation as they are in VT220/320, and a lot of users of VT100/102 emulation complained that the numeric keypad didn't work right. So in version 1.1.10, the VT100/102 numeric keypad was mapped the same as the VT220/320 numeric keypad.

However, this change (like all changes) surprised other people who had become accustomed to the previous VT100/102 mapping, which was the same as the mapping for the editing and arrow keys with the same labels.

If you want to restore the previous mapping, add the following to your K95CUSTOM.INI file:

      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \290 \Kdnscn
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \291 \Kendscn
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \292 \Khomscn
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \293 \Klfarr
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \294 \Kuparr
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \295 \Krtarr
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \296 \Kdnarr
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \302 \{127}
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \400 \Kignore
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \2411 {-}
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \4143 /
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \4365 \{13}
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \4463 /
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \4496 \Kignore
      SET TERMINAL KEY VT100 \4543 /

Replace VT100 with VT102 or other terminal type that you want to have these definitions on the numeric keypad. (A copy of this file is included with Kermit 95 1.1.11 and later as KEYMAPS\KEYPAD.INI.)

### 262. DEC NRCs are forgotten in Multinational Mode

(Fixed.)

### 263. ZMODEM crash recovery versus some FILE COLLISION settings

(Fixed.)

### 264. ZMODEM autodownload doesn't work with Wyse, VC, or DG

The ZMODEM ZINIT packet, by which Kermit recognizes the beginning of a ZMODEM download, is indistinguishable from a Wyse "Enter Controller Print" sequence. The terminal emulator takes precedence. Similar types of confusion occur with Volker Craig and Data General terminal types. This is a conflict, pure and simple. Kermit 95 1.1.11 adds some new SET TERM AUTODOWNLOAD options to address such conflicts; type HELP SET TERMINAL at the K95 prompt to see them.

### 265. HINT: Kermit mouse buttons versus nonstandard mouse setups

Don't expect default Kermit 95 mouse button assignments to work as described on pages 55-58 of the Kermit 95 manual if you have installed a nonstandard mouse driver and/or remapped your mouse buttons with a product such as the Clicker program that comes with the Logitech Trackman. For example, if you have used Clicker to translate Mouse Button 2 into Double-Left-Click, then don't expect double-clicking button 2 to paste from the Clipboard to the host. Work around such situations by using the SET MOUSE command to remap mouse events as desired, e.g.

      SET MOUSE BUTTON 3 NONE DOUBLE-CLICK \Kpaste

### 266. VT terminal emulation wrapping problem

(Fixed.)

### 267. WP51.INI (WordPerfect 5.1 key mapping file) had a typo

(Fixed.) But we don't need the `WP51.INI` file any more since K95 now has its own built-in Word Perfect Keyboard Mode.

### 268. HINT: Using the NETEDIT macro with GUI editors

(Fixed.)

### 269. Yellow background change after !edit in K95

"I'm running K95 1.1.10 under Windows 95. If I invoke the DOS EDIT program from the Kermit command screen either with !edit or by pushing to DOS and invoking edit from DOS, when I return to K95 anything which is supposed to display with a yellow background displays instead as blinking on a brown background. Normally, my 'select' colors are black on yellow. If I am in the command screen and type 'show terminal', the colors display properly. If I then type '!edit' and exit edit and return to the K95 command screen, the previously displayed black on yellow is now blinking black on brown. Any colors which I change to yellow background become blinking on brown instead.

This is a limitation of Microsoft Windows 95 and NT 16-bit DOS support. 16-bit DOS programs, such as `EDIT.COM`, are allowed to toggle the meaning of the VGA background-intensity bit. Instead of using it to allow bright colors as the background, `EDIT.COM` wants to use it to blink the text. The use of this bit to represent blinking is not supported in window sessions but is supported in full-screen sessions. There is no mechanism by which a 32-bit Windows application such as Kermit-95 can change the meaning of this bit.

### 270. Popup printer-error boxes causes Kermit 95 to hang

(Fixed.)

### 271. Host-directed printing did not work in DG emulation

(Fixed.)

### 272. INPUT/MINPUT did not handle Telnet negotiations correctly

(Fixed.)

### 273. Dialer Options..Dialing page PBX values handled incorrectly

(Fixed.)

### 274. Wyse character graphics bug

(Fixed.)

### 275. Transparent printing of binary files did not work

(Fixed.)

### 276. VT100 terminal ID was incomplete

(Fixed.)

### 277. Kermit/2 keycodes are different from OS/2 C-Kermit 5A(191)

OS/2 C-Kermit 5A(191) did not allow all key combinations to be mapped. Even worse was the fact that several of the combinations would generate the same keycode. When Kermit-95 was being planned it was decided that it would allow all keyboard combinations to be mapped to unique values. Meeting this goal required discarding the entire OS/2 C-Kermit keymap table and starting from scratch.

### 278. Kermit/2 conflicts with SWAPDCP on OS/2

Because of Kermit/2's more intensive probing of the keyboard than prior OS/2 Kermit versions, it no longer works with SWAPDCP (a public domain, use-at-your-own-risk method of swapping Ctrl and Caps Lock in OS/2). See the OS/2 Notes for details.

### 279. RLOGIN versus Microsoft's "WINNUKE" Patches

In May 1997 hackers discovered that any Windows 95 or NT system could be crashed by sending TCP Out Of Band (OOB) data to it on the NETBEUI port. Microsoft's reaction was to publish a "hotfix" for Windows NT that disabled processing of OOB data by Winsock; refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base Document Q143478 [winnt], "Stop 0A in TCPIP.SYS When Receiving Out Of Band (OOB) Data". But RLOGIN protocol works by using OOB data, and therefore if you have installed these fixes, you will not be able to use RLOGIN. This situation was addressed in a second "hotfix" issued May 24. Each fix is simply a replacement of the TCP/IP stack (TCPIP.SYS). You can (and should) install the latest one whether or not you installed the first one. As of this writing there is no fix from Microsoft for Windows 95.

NOTE: If Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 has been installed, the Post-SP3 OOB fix must be installed, since SP3 contains the first version of the OOB fix.

### 280. DIALINF.DAT can't be read-only

(Fixed.)

### 281. Caps Lock state can be lost when switching between windows

(Oops, this is a duplicate of Bug #224.)

### 282. Serial-port file transfer fails with large packet x window size

(Fixed.)

### 283. Can't change keyboard language in Windows 95

In Windows 95/98 and NT it is possible to install more than one keyboard layout in the Keyboard Control Panel on the Input Locales page. When more than one Input Locale/Layout combination is defined, you are required to choose one of them as the default, and to choose a key combination (such as Left Alt + Shift) to switch among them. This is called the Switch-Locale key sequence. The default Input-Locale is the Input-Locale that each Window uses when it is opened.

For instance, it is possible to install:

      Input Locale					Layout
      ------------------------------------------    ---------------
      English (United States)                       US
      Russian                                       Russian

with "English (United States)" as the default input locale and a Switch-Locale key sequence of "Left_Alt+Shift". Since the keyboard only has one alphabet on it, this "alphabet shift" key is needed to switch between the two defined alphabets. In Russian Windows, for example, it is necessary to type Roman letters when you type Windows file names or Kermit 95 commands and Cyrillic letters when writing in the Russian language.

Although the behavior is supposed to be the same on Windows 95/98 and Windows NT, it turns out that it is not.

In K95 on NT you can give the following commands:

      SET TERMINAL CODE-PAGE 1251
      SET TERMINAL LOCAL-CHARACTER-SET CP1251
      SET TERMINAL REMOTE-CHARACTER-SET CP866

When the current locale is "English (United States)" K95 receives Roman characters from the keyboard. When the current locale is "Russian" K95 receives Cyrillic characters from the keyboard. To toggle between the two press the Switch-Locale key sequence.

When issuing commands to K95 switch to the "English" locale and when sending Cyrillic characters to the host switch to the "Russian" locale. There is no limitation to mixing Roman and Cyrillic characters via this method at the K95 command prompt or in terminal mode.

Note that only characters that are in the active code page may be delivered to K95 from the keyboard. In the above example code page 1251 is used because it is available on all versions of NT and it contains all of the Roman characters needed for U.S. English and the Cyrillic characters used by CP866. (CP866 is not available on the U.S. version of NT but may be available on some international versions.)

However, when using Windows 95/98 locale switching does not work properly in 32-bit console applications. (The following was tested on Windows 95 OSR2 - Russian release.) The Russian Win95 uses CP866 as its default code page for the DOS and Win32 Console environments. Therefore, both Roman and Cyrillic characters are available for display.

For DOS applications the current locale is ignored. All keystrokes generate Roman letters regardless of what locales are installed.

For 32-bit Console applications when both the "English (United States)" and "Russian" input locales are defined and a Switch-Locale key sequence specified it is not possible to switch the input locale from the Default (as selected in the Keyboard Control Panel.) The result is that only the default language may be used. If the default locale is "Russian" then only Cyrillic characters may be generated which makes it impossible to type the English commands necessary to control Kermit 95. If the default locale is "English" then it is not possible to generate Cyrillic characters using the Windows Keyboard layouts.

In this case it is possible to use K95's built-in English-to-Russian keyboard mode with the following limitations:

- Your default Input Locale must be set to "English".

- CapsLock cannot affect the punctuation marks that are used to generate some of the Cyrillic letters.

- it can not be used at the K95 command prompt. Therefore, file names containing Cyrillic characters cannot be specified for file transfer by typing. A work around is to list the files with the DIR command and then copy/paste the file names with the mouse.

NOTE: As of 1.1.17, K95 implements its only Keyboard Layout management routines (on Windows 95) such that when K95 starts it will use the Default Layout. Each press of the LeftAlt-Shift or Ctrl-Shift combinations will toggle the Keyboard Layout.

### 284. K95 does not delete startup file generated by the Dialer

(Fixed.)

### 285. Dialer can leave temporary files behind

(Fixed.)

### 286. Kermit 95 TELNET.EXE stub works only if K95 directory in PATH

The Kermit 95 version of `TELNET.EXE` (which simply starts Kermit 95) assumes that `K95.EXE` is in the PATH. If it is not, and it is also not in your current directory, then `TELNET.EXE` will fail to start `K95.EXE`. This happens most frequently when Kermit 95's `TELNET.EXE` is specified as the Telnet application for Netscape or other Web browser. Solution: Add the Kermit 95 directory to your PATH, or else try specifying "`C:\K95\K95.EXE` `-J`" as your Telnet application, replacing "C:\K95" by the actual Kermit 95 disk and directory. Also see Bug 111. Fixed in 1.1.16 as long as `TELNET.EXE` is in the same directory as `K95.EXE`. Ditto for `RLOGIN.EXE`.

### 287. Problems with incoming TCP connections in OS/2

(Fixed.)

### 288. Dialer could crash if an entry's view status changed

(Fixed.)

### 289. SHOW KEY did not always give accurate results

(Fixed.)

### 290. REDIRECT command didn't work

(Fixed.)

### 291. Incoming NUL (0) characters confuse INPUT command

(Fixed.)

### 292. RECEIVE as-name did not work with XYZMODEM

(Fixed.)

### 293. Various EMACS mode bugs

(Fixed.)

### 294. Kermit protocol might send packet out of window

(Fixed.)

### 295. MOVE from SEND-LIST did not delete original files

(Fixed.)

### 296. Application filename could not contain spaces

(Fixed.)

### 297. Hayes high-speed-modem init string problem

(Fixed.)

### 298. READ command does not fail if file not open

(Fixed.)

### 299. Problems with long function arguments

(Fixed.)

### 300. Certain `\f` unction`()`s can misbehave

(Fixed.)

### 301. X MOD 0 crashes program

(Fixed.)

### 302. ANSWER doesn't automatically CONNECT

(Fixed.)

### 303. Overzealous EXIT warning

(Fixed.)

### 304. OUTPUT doesn't echo when DUPLEX is HALF

(Fixed.)

### 305. Minor problems with REMOTE DIRECTORY/DELETE/etc

(Fixed.)

### 306. CHECK command broken

(Fixed.)

### 307. Problem with SET TRANSMIT ECHO

(Fixed.)

### 308. Dialing results were sometimes incorrect

(Fixed.)

### 309. IF EXIST and IF DIRECTORY versus spaces in filenames

(Fixed.)

### 310. CD, SET FILE DOWNLOAD-DIR, etc, don't provide full service

(Fixed.)

### 311. READ command too picky about last or only line in file

(Fixed.)

### 312. No way to include braces in function arguments

(Fixed.)

### 313. DIALINF.DAT file opened in READ/WRITE mode

(Fixed.)

### 314. Missing and incorrect key definitions in EMACS mode

(Fixed.)

### 315. NULs were being stripping during file transfers and printing

(Fixed.)

### 316. XYZMODEM RECEIVE was ignored

(Fixed.)

### 317. SET STARTUP-FILE DISCARD did not always delete the file

(Fixed.)

### 318. SHOW MODEM didn't quote backslashes

(Fixed.)

### 319. WIN32 COMM TX BUFFER SIZE set too small

(Fixed.)

### 320. K2DC.EXE accidently closed socket of incoming connection

(Fixed.)

### 321. Auto-print Formfeed bugs

(Fixed.)

### 322. SAVE KEYMAP and SHOW KEY replaced RS with ESC

(Fixed.)

### 323. How can I use SSH to make secure connections?

You don't, at least not for now. SSH uses encryption algorithms that fall under one or more of the following: are prorietary, patented, require licensing, and/or are regulated for export by the US Government. They cannot be implemented in Kermit products without either significant increases in the price of the software, maintenance of separate versions for US and non-US markets, and halting distribution of source code (for C-Kermit), binaries, and patches via the Web.

Kermit 95 1.1.16-1.1.19 have added support for Kerberos, SSL/TLS, and other forms of security. SSH might come later, after its patents expire.

### 324. Why can't I pick any Windows font I want?

In Windows 95, the available font sizes are listed in the font-size dropdown list in the console window toolbar. The repertoire of the font is the current console code page, such as CP437, CP850, CP862, etc. See Item 5 for further information.

In Windows NT, you have a wider selection of fonts, including Unicode fonts (which are not limited to the repertoire of the current code page), but you still can't use just any font in the system; only the ones listed in the Fonts section of console window Properties dialog. NT includes and excludes fonts from this list based on spacing, proportionality, height/width ratio, encoding, and other factors. The GUI version of K95 will not suffer the same constraints.

### 325. Data loss on Meridian Technology SuperLAT connections

(Fixed.)

### 326. Hints on dialing toll-free numbers

Suppose you use a special prefix to dial toll calls (long-distance calls), as described on pages 112-113 of "Using C-Kermit", 2nd ed., for example:

      set dial ld-prefix 18005551234

If you do this, make sure you also have specified the toll-free area codes of your local country, e.g. 800 and 888 (and soon, also 877) in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). Otherwise your toll-free call will look like a toll call to Kermit, and the long-distance prefix will be applied, which in some cases results in failure to complete the call (e.g. you get a recorded message like "Please don't use an access code to dial a toll-free call").

Also, make sure your toll-free dialing prefix (at least in the NANP) is the normal long-distance dialing prefix ("1" in the NANP), not the access code for your long-distance service provider.

### 327. Hints on "blind dialing"

Prior to version 1.1.14, Kermit had no special provision for "blind dialing", i.e. forcing the modem to dial even when it does not recognize a dial tone, as is often necessary with PBXs, in hotels, when travelling, etc, so to handle this you had to change your modem's init string (this section explained how). Blind dialing is now handled by the new SET DIAL IGNORE-DIALTONE command. See Section 2.1.4 of the C-Kermit 7.0 update notes.

### 328. Log files in multiple sessions

You can't open the same log file in two (or more) different K95 sessions and have them both write to the same file. So if you want to create a session log, or transaction log, etc, from multiple K95 sessions at the same time, give each one a different name. Otherwise, the LOG TRANSACTIONS command that you give to the second session will destroy the log created by the first session (and so on).

### 329. Hazeltine 1500 emulation did not work at all

(Fixed.)

### 330. Problems with Wyse 50 emulation

(Fixed.)

### 331. Problems in DG DASHER 217 emulation

(Fixed.)

### 332. HPTERM emulation did not handle line-drawing and math

(Fixed.)

### 333. Many Dialer entries were obsolete

(Fixed.)

### 334. Unwanted triangles in Wyse, TVI, and Hazeltine emulation

(Fixed.)

### 335. Spurious spaces in ANSI emulations

(Fixed.)

### 336. Data loss/corruption on Windows 95 serial connections

(Fixed.)

### 337. Commands like "RUN D:\FOO\BAR\BAZ.BAT" don't work in Windows

The RUN command does not parse filenames, because the command to be run might not be a file -- it might be built in to your shell. So in the RUN command (and its synonyms, "!", "SPAWN", etc), normal Kermit parsing rules regarding backslash apply. So to include any directory separators in a RUN or similar command, you must double them: "RUN \\FOO\\BAR\\BAZ.BAT". Note that in this case you can't use forward slashes as directory separators because the normal Windows command parser does not allow them, even though the operating system itself does (which is why you can tell K95 to "SEND /FOO/BAR/BAZ.BAT", etc). Furthermore, in some cases you must also use double backslashes as directory separators in any filenames that are used as operands to the command. (But most programs other than the standard Windows command shell recognize forward slashes...) Well, this is pretty complicated, so here are some examples:

      run c:\windows\notepad.exe d:\k95\tmp\oofa.txt       - doesn't work
      run c:/windows/notepad.exe d:/k95/tmp/oofa.txt       - doesn't work
      run c:\\windows\\notepad.exe d:\\k95\\tmp\\oofa.txt  - works
      run c:\\windows\\notepad.exe d:/k95/tmp/oofa.txt     - works

In the last example, we use double backslashes in the command name, which are converted by Kermit to single backslashes and then passed the Windows command shell, so the command shell sees "`c:\windows\notepad.exe` `d:/k95/tmp/oofa.txt`". So it starts Notepad and passes "`d:/k95/tmp/oofa.txt`" to it as an argument. Notepad uses the regular file-opening APIs, and so it has no trouble with forward slash as a directory separator.

Of course you can always take the easy way out if the RUN command contains no Kermit variables or backslash escapes, as follows:

      set command quoting off
      run c:\windows\notepad.exe d:\k95\tmp\oofa.txt       - works
      run c:\\windows\\notepad.exe d:\\k95\\tmp\\oofa.txt  - doesn't work
      set command quoting on

SET COMMAND QUOTING OFF disables special handling of backslash by Kermit's command parser.

Here's a case study, illustrating the effect of multiple levels of backslash quoting... Suppose you want to:

- Transfer a ZIP file from a UNIX workstation to Kermit 95
- Unzip the file with the unzipped files being placed on a floppy disk
- Change the attributes of the unzipped files on the floppy disk
- Remove the transferred ZIP file from the PC

All under the control of the remote C-Kermit. This can be done with an APC command; you have to "set terminal apc unchecked" in K95 for this to work. Please read about this in the "Using C-Kermit" manual (2nd Ed). The following shell script does the trick:

      #!/bin/sh
      if [ $# = 0 ]; then
        echo "usage: $0 filename.zip"
        exit 1
      fi
      kermit -YQ -C \
      "set macro error on, binary, move $1,\
      apc {run unzip $1 -d A:/,del $1,run attrib +R A:\\\\\\\\*.*},exit"

$1 is the shell command argument, like \%1 in Kermit.

We're unzipping the ZIP file into the top-level directory of the A: drive. UNZIP understands forward slash as a directory separator, so "A:/" is OK as an operand to UNZIP.

But in DOS commands like ATTRIB, we have to use "\". But this is also (1) the shell's escape character, (2) C-Kermit's escape character, and (3) Kermit 95's escape character. So when telling the shell to tell C-Kermit to tell K95 to run a command that refers to a directory, we have to include EIGHT (= 2 to the 3rd power) backslashes for each ONE that we actually want passed to the DOS command.

### 338. "RUN /K...." hangs K95 in Windows

If you include a /K switch in a RUN command, this is a switch to the Windows command processor that means "Don't return" (/K = "keep"). So it doesn't return. There is nothing K95 can do about this. This can happen inadvertently if you were trying to use forward slashes as directory separators: "run /k95/k95cinit". Again: you must use backslashes as directory separators in program names given to the RUN command: "run \\k95\\k95cinit" (or "set command quoting off" and single backslashes).

### 339. Commands like "SEND \\K95\\TMP\\OOFA.TXT" did not work

(Fixed.)

### 340. Problems with help and completion in filenames with \\

(Fixed.)

### 341. CTL3D32.DLL is missing

CTL3D32.DLL is the Microsoft library that contains the 3D controls used by the Dialer. The Dialer can't run without it. This DLL is a critical component of Windows 95 that Microsoft forgot to include in Windows 95, and so it has to be packaged with *each* GUI application, and then either installed or not installed in this or that place depending on all sorts of things -- and to make matters worse, there are multiple incompatible versions. The same is true on NT, apparently. Microsoft itself is silent on the subject, but there are entire web sites devoted to just this topic (try an Alta Vista search on "ctl3d32.dll"). For 1.1.12, we have made copies of this DLL for Windows 95 and NT (separate copies, of course) available on our website. In 1.1.13 and later, it is included in the release and patches. A new program, `CTL3DINS.EXE`, distributed with 1.1.13 and later, uses the Microsoft VerInstallFile() service to install the appropriate DLL (Window 95 versus NT; Intel vs Alpha, etc) if necessary (e.g. if it is missing on your PC or your version is older). The behavior of VerInstallFile() is exactly what Microsoft provides, no more and no less (as to messages, actions, lack of choices, failure to back up any old copies).

The command line for `CTL3DINS.EXE` accepts and optional /F parameter which means "Forcefully install `CTL3D32.DLL`". This might be needed if a previous application installed the NT version on Win95 or the Win95 version on NT, or if the previous version is write-protected, or at any other time the CTL3DINS program states that -F might be used to override an error condition.

### 342. K95 might take a long time to start and stop

If you choose a TAPI device as your default communications device in SETUP, or if you have "SET LINE TAPI" or "SET TAPI LINE" command in your K95CUSTOM.INI file, then when you start K95, it opens the TAPI line; this can take a long time (it's TAPI, not Kermit, that is slow). If you try to make a network connection or to exit from K95 after the TAPI device is open, then K95 has to ask TAPI to release the line; this takes a long time too. So if you will not be using a TAPI device as your normal communications device -- for example, if you use K95 more frequently for network connections than for dialing out -- remove the aforementioned commands from your `K95CUSTOM.INI` file. Then when actually do want to dial out from `K95.EXE`, you'll need to "set tapi line" first (but you won't need to do anything special if you make connections from the Dialer).

### 343. K95 might not be able to exit on some Windows 95 systems

(Fixed.)

### 344. Dialer might crash if no modem was defined

(Fixed.)

### 345. Memory leak in Dialer

(Fixed.)

### 346. URL hot spot could fail if URL at end of sentence

(Fixed.)

### 347. EDIT and NETEDIT might have stopped working in 1.1.12

(Fixed.)

### 348. Telnet negotiations could become frozen

(Fixed.)

### 349. K95 could become stuck in marking mode

(Fixed.)

### 350. HP terminal emulation problems in 1.1.12

(Fixed.)

### 351. Wyse terminal emulation problems in 1.1.12

(Fixed.)

### 352. K95 could hang upon screen-size change request

(Fixed.)

### 353. SET MOUSE ACTIVATE command broken in 1.1.12

(Fixed.)

### 354. Character set versus copy/paste from/to Clipboard

(Fixed.)

### 355. (Void)

### 356. Paste to host using Toolbar Paste sends Esc O P when Num Lock on

When using the Paste button on the Windows toolbar (which works only if you follow the hints in item 61 in this file), and using VT100 or higher emulation, K95 sends Esc O P before and after the pasted text. This is because Windows stuffs a Num Lock key-press code into the keyboard buffer before and after the paste. There is no way for K95 to tell whether these Num Lock keycodes came from the user pressing the key, or Windows stuffing the keypress into the buffer. So K95 sends whatever is associated with Num Lock, which, in the case of VT emulation, is normally the PF1 or "Gold" key code, Esc O P, and perhaps other sequences in other emulations. The only way to defeat this behavior is to tell K95 to ignore the Num Lock key:

      set key \400  \Kignore ; Windows 95

This problem does not occur in OS/2.

### 357. Reverse screen-writing direction not supported

The reverse writing direction feature of the VT320 (DECRLM, CSI ? 34 h / l) is not supported. Thus, Hebrew terminal emulation works only when the host application positions the cursor in the right place to write each character. This is the case (for example) with the ALEPH bibliographic system. Reverse screen writing will be added in a future release.

### 358. Transparent print problems using 8-bit CSI

(Fixed.)

### 359. APC did not block terminal emulator

(Fixed.)

### 360. Conflict between INPUT and APC

(Fixed.)

### 361. K95 might not work with certain third-party TCP/IP stacks

(Fixed.)

### 362. Another problem with filenames containing spaces

(Fixed.)

### 363. CONNECT hangs when host drops connection or \Kquit is used

(Fixed.)

### 364. Problem with Num Lock and SET MSKERMIT KEYCODES ON

(Fixed.)

### 365. Problem with OUTPUT command when there is no connection

(Fixed.)

### 366. END from within SWITCH doesn't work

(Fixed.)

### 367. URL hot spots might not work

In Windows 95 and NT, URL hot spots (and the BROWSE command) invoke your browser via ShellExecute() if you SET your BROWSER to nothing. But this is not the default browser setting since it tends not to work. One reason for this has been identified: When the browser is installed, it is supposed to (a) install URL.DLL, and (b) add URL.DLL to the Registry key:

      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
      ShellExecuteHooks

Some browsers, however, register URL.DLL in HKEY_CURRENT_USER and/or HKEY_USERS rather than HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. In that case, ShellExecute() can not find URL.DLL, and therefore can not handle URLs. This has been observed (for example) with various versions of Netscape, such as 2.0. If you install Microsoft Internet Explorer, ShellExecute() will work, even if you do not make Explorer your default browser. Now we know why: because it registers URL.DLL under the same key used by ShellExecute() to locate it.

### 386. Problems with Dead Keys and Alt-Gr keys in Windows 95

(Fixed.)

### 387. Kermit vs TAPI Dialing in the Dialer

(Fixed.)

### 388. K95 vs Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock

When you activate a Window, if the current state of the NumLock, ScrollLock, CapsLock, ... flags for that window do not match those of the other sessions, it places a NumLock, ScrollLock, CapsLock, ... key event into the message queue for that window.

If NumLock is On, and you use the Toolbar Paste Button to paste text into the Window, Windows 95 will toggle NumLock off and then on by surrounding the text with NumLock key events. See Bug Number 356.

If this is a problem for you, the only thing that you can do is not assign Kverbs to those keys. This means \Kholdscrn and \Kpf1 cannot be assigned to the ScrollLock and Numlock keys. Instead you should assign \Kignore.

This is a limitation of the Windows 95 Console environment. It does not affect GUI applications (as far as we can tell) nor does it occur on Windows NT.

### 389. Parallel Port Communications

(Not a bug) In Windows NT, it is not possible to "set port lpt1" -- i.e. to use a parallel port as a communications device, because bidirectional parallel ports are not supported by the NT drivers. But they are in Windows 95, which includes a COM-to-LPT interface. So in Windows 95, you can:

      SET PORT LPT1
      SET PRINTER /DOS-DEVICE: LPT1

(or other parallel-port device). Only DOS names are allowed. Bidirectional parallel port support is under development by Parallel Technologies (http://www.lpt.com) for inclusion in Windows NT 5.0 and possibly for retroactive distribution.

### 390. Wrong system type in Telnet NEW-ENVIRONMENT negotiation

(Fixed.)

### 391. IF ALARM might not work

(Fixed.)

### 392. SET TERM REMOTE-CHAR LATIN6 doesn't work

(Fixed.)

### 393. Single-click mouse actions generate an extraneous error beep

(Fixed.)

### 394. Various terminal emulation bugs

(Fixed.)

### 395. Ctrl-C caught by 4NT.EXE instead of K95 in Windows NT

(Fixed.)

### 396. OS/2 K2DIAL loses data in the Login Script text box

(Fixed.)

### 397. Various errors in Windows Telephony (TAPI) support

(Fixed.)

### 398. Dialing fails due to garbled modem command

(Fixed.)

### 399. Dialer Modem Commands reset when modem selected for editing

(Fixed.)

### 400. SHOW KEY interrupted by Ctrl-C would cause keyboard problems

(Fixed.)

### 401. SET HOST * results in 100% CPU Utilization

(Fixed.)

### 402. Telnet to non-23 port might fail to produce a login prompt

(Fixed.)

### 403. SET MODEM TYPE to certain types didn't work

(Fixed.)

### 404. SETUP.EXE would crash while displaying summary of choices

(Fixed.)

### 405. Default AT386 and SCOANSI keymaps reference DEC Kverbs

(Fixed.)

### 406. SET TERMINAL DEBUG ON interferes with TELNET negotiations

(Fixed.)

### 407. OS/2 FTP PC/TCP stack would cause K2 to crash

(Fixed.)

### 408. K95's -N command-line option in OS/2 would not accept parameters

(Fixed.)

### 409. SET BROWSER ignored by \KmouseURL keyboard verb

(Fixed.)

### 410. K95 could not be the Telnet client for Netscape Communicator

(Fixed.)

### 411. The PRINT command no longer uses DOS COPY to print a file (K)

(Fixed.)

### 412. DIAL DISPLAY ON didn't work with TAPI modems

(Fixed.)

### 413. TAP alpha paging script was not robust enough

(Fixed.)

### 414. Incorrect setup of Telebit modems

(Fixed.)

### 415. File transfers could fail when using very short packets

(Fixed.)

### 416. Screen-printing problems in Windows NT

(Fixed.)

### 417. Incorrect characters on screen when accessing SCO or AIX hosts

SCO UNIX, OpenServer, etc, and IBM AIX allow their console and/or terminal drivers to be configured to translate character sets for you. DON'T DO THIS WHEN USING KERMIT! First of all, you don't need it -- Kermit itself already does this for you. And second, it will (a) probably ruin the formatting of your screens (depending on which emulation you are using); and (b) interfere with all sorts of other things -- legibility of non-ASCII text on the terminal screen, file transfer, etc. On SCO systems, use:

      mapchan -n

to turn off this feature. On AIX use:

      setmaps -t NOMAP

or:

      chdev -l tty??? -a imap='none' -a omap-'none'

(replacing ??? by your tty number)

### 418. K95 is unable to print to WinPrinters

WinPrinters (printers that only work with Windows 95) cannot print plain text. But Kermit 95 prints using "raw mode" because many host applications send printer-specific files such as Postscript and PCL. Meanwhile, the Windows 32-bit printer drivers do not allow plain text to be sent to this type of printer, but rather expect the application to convert the plain text to dots. Workaround: SET PRINTER to a file, and then use the DOS "PRINT" command (or "COPY /B filename PRN" or even "notepad /p filename") -- oddly enough, these printers do come with 16-bit drivers that do the needed conversions; unfortunately, appropriate conversions are not provided automatically for 32-bit applications.

### 419. Host mode requires VT100 or ANSI client

Clients that don't support the minimal ANSI set of screen clearing, line-clearing, and cursor positioning sequences will not be able to view the K95 host menu screens correctly. To be addressed in a future release of K95 hostmode.

### 420. HPTERM and VIP7809 selection didn't work in the Dialer

(Fixed.)

### 421. File-transfer problem using undefined variable for as-name

(Fixed.)

### 422. Overzealous EXIT WARNING

(Fixed.)

### 423. K95 program exit status codes were not always correct

(Fixed.)

### 424. Various misleading file-transfer error messages

(Fixed.)

### 425. EDIT command succeeds only on first attempt

(Fixed.)

### 426. "WINOLDAP - This program has performed an illegal operation..."

Sometimes K95 crashes with a message something like "Winoldap: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor." If you look at the message in more detail, you will usually see that the crash occurred not in K95 at all, but in the Windows kernel. Furthermore, please be aware that "Winoldap" does not refer to K95 -- it is not an "old" application, a DOS application, a 16-bit application, nor is it "old" in any other way. In fact, this term refers to the Microsoft Console window in which Windows 95 forces `K95.EXE` to run.

### 427. Mixups in certain terminal-specific line-drawing character sets (K)

(Fixed.)

### 428. Unnecessarily difficult to get big window and packet sizes

(Fixed.)

### 429. Host mode would not send file groups

(Fixed.)

### 430. Problem using Swedish (etc) NRC and DEC Special Graphics (K)

If you have a 7-bit National Replacement Character Set (such as Swedish, German, etc -- the ones with "national" names) as GL and an 8-bit display-only character set, such as DEC Special Graphics or DEC Technical, as GR (as shown by "show character-sets"), you won't be able to type your language-specific characters as expected. Workaround: See item 477.

### 431. Various problems with the 1.1.14 Patch

(Fixed.)

### 432. SET TELNET TERMINAL TYPE affects actual terminal type

(Fixed.)

### 433. Problems with Kermit transfers on some Telnet connections

(Fixed.)

### 434. AIX and HFT arrow keys didn't work in the Command screen

(Fixed.)

### 435. AIX and HFT emulation versus Autowrap

(Fixed.)

### 436. Assorted problems caused by faulty optimization

At least the following problems showed up in 1.1.14 and 1.1.15:

- Failure to update sections of the screen during terminal emulation;
- Coloration mixups;
- In Wyse emulation, entry into protected mode caused an infinite loop;
- VT scrolling region problems;
- GET would fail after an XMODEM SEND.

These were traced to bugs in the optimizer of the new release of the Microsoft Visual C/C++ compiler SP2 that was used to build Kermit 95 1.1.15 for Windows. Rebuilding the program without optimization makes these problems disappear. K95 1.1.16 was built with SP3, with optimization turned off. Thus the `K95.EXE` file is considerably bigger, but the risks are lower (the optimization bugs in 1.1.15 were quite subtle and took a good while to show up and to be properly diagnosed).

### 437. Problems with Winsock 2 on Windows 95

The `select()` call problems appear to have been fixed in build 4.0.1656 of windows\system\wsock32.dll. This release is currently available for download at the web site (the next two lines should be concatenated):

      http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/contents/updates/w95sockets2/default.asp

With the select() bug fixed performance is only slightly worse with Winsock 2.2 as it is with 1.1. However, it should be noted that all development on 1.1 has now officially been stopped by Microsoft and all future fixes will be delivered in new builds of 2.2. This will include an upcoming fix to the Domain Name resolution bugs in the current 1.1 and 2.2 code.

The Dialup Networking 1.2 and DCOM'95 updates must be installed prior to Winsock 2 (if they are to be installed at all):

      http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/contents/updates/W95DialUpNetw/default.asp
      http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom95/download-f.htm

To check the version number of a DLL, open the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ folder and then right mouse click the desired DLL and choose Properties from the Menu. The Version information is available on the "Version" page.

### 438. Redirection of Standard Output

Why can't I redirect K95's standard output? Because K95 does not write to standard output, it writes directly to the screen device, which can not be redirected. Why does it do that? See items 46 and 195. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 439. Illegal operations caused by lack of swap space

"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" can happen when Windows 95 runs out of swap space. Windows conveniently blames the problem on the application. You can reconfigure your swapfile, e.g. by moving it to a disk with more space, in the Control Panel (search for "Swap" in Help).

### 440. Roaring Fan

One user reported the following: While running K95, every so often the disk goes crazy, the PC slows down, and the fan starts roaring. Diagnosis: coincidence, nothing to do with Kermit; it was Microsoft Office 97 Fast Find, which periodically wakes up and searches the disk(s) to build indexes. We've heard of WinModems, WinPrinters, and even WinCPUs, but a WinFan???

Note: the same effect can result from any number of other helpful utilities, such as disk defragmenters, etc, and if your PC is connected to the Internet, also from people trying to break (into) it.

### 441. Failure to detect default printer in Windows NT

In Windows NT (but not 95) SET PRINTER /WINDOWS-QUEUE did not select the default printer if it was a network printer; SET PRINTER /WINDOWS-QUEUE:? showed only locally connected printers. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 442. Console mode changed from text to binary and not restored

In Windows 95, K95 was inadvertantly changing the Console from text to binary mode. No problem under most circumstances unless the program that is starting K95 under Windows 95 relies on text-mode for gets() to succeed. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 443. Trouble with EXIT under certain circumstances

Under certain circumstances, K95 or Windows 95 itself can appear to freeze when you try to exit from K95. This has been observed when using Option 11 to exit from the HOSTMODE script in Windows 95. This problem is fixed in 1.1.16.

HINT: Remember not to try to exit from `K95.EXE` by clicking the Close [x] box on the menu bar except when K95 will not exit normally. When you click the Close box, Windows closes Kermit 95 without releasing its resources, which can lead to all sorts of problems until the next time you reboot Windows. This is a Microsoft feature over which Kermit has no control whatever, since Windows does not send it a Close message when you click this box, nor does it give K95 any way to disable this box.

UPDATE: In version 1.1.19, K95 disables the use of [x] box. If you need to shut down Kermit 95 abnormally, select the K95 window and then use Ctrl-Alt-Del.

### 444. Overzealous EXIT warning (again)

An Exit Warning was generated if a TAPI device was open even if a call was not in progress. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 445. RUN command did not return status

The RUN (!) command did not properly return the exit status of the command or program that it ran, so it could be tested for success or failure, and did not set the \v(pexitstat) variable to the program's or command's return code. Fixed in 1.1.16. However, note that this feature works only if the underlying shell cooperates. The standard Windows 95 shell, COMMAND.COM, does not. Thus in Windows 95, K95's RUN command will always succeed when COMMAND.COM is the shell. Proper status is returned by the Windows NT version of COMMAND.COM, as well as by most alternative shells for Windows 95.

### 446. Problems with DIRECTORY command filename completion

Fixed in 1.1.16, except there still can be problems in this and other commands completing filenames that contain spaces.

### 447. The DIRECTORY command would return one file too few

Ditto for the `\ffiles()` function. Incidentally, the DIRECTORY command is implemented internally by calling the `\ffiles()` function, and so this would destroy the user's `\fnextfile()` list if one was active. All these problems are fixed in 1.1.16.

### 448. MKDIR command did not work in OS/2

Bug, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 449. SET TITLE effect was delayed

The SET TITLE command did not take effect until the next CONNECT command. In 1.1.16, it takes effect immediately.

### 450. BEEP command can be delayed

A BEEP command might take a long time to work if you have not used any sounds recently; sound driver code might be swapped out or not yet loaded, in which case it must be read in, and then the WAV file for the desired sound must be read, and then the sound must be generated, which might take some time.

### 451. CONNECT should not work if TAPI connection not open

The CONNECT command should refuse to work if a TAPI device is open but no call is in progress. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 452. TAPI device not released when closed

A TAPI LINE device would not be closed properly when released (e.g. when K95 was told to hang it up and switch to another device), and this would prevent other applications from accessing the device until K95 terminated. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 453. Various SET TCP command problems

The SET TCP NODELAY command was controlling the wrong socket parameter, the DEBUG capability instead of the Nagle algorithm. SET TCP commands were not gracefully recovering from setsockopt() call failures. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 454. \v(ipaddr) didn't work before a connection was made

The `\v(ipaddr)` variable did not return the IP address of your PC until after you had made a TCP/IP connection. Fixed in 1.1.16. But note that this variable still might not return the IP Address that you expect because of virtual adapters, etc; `\v(ipaddr)` is set to the IP address of the current connection each time a new connection is made.

### 455. Assorted Telnet initialization and negotiation problems

Echoing, binary modes, NAWS, and most other Telnet options would not be reset properly when connecting to ports other than 23 (the Telnet port). This could result in Telnet negotiations failing to complete because Kermit thought the negotiation had already been performed. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 456. Spurious NUL characters on Telnet connections

The TELNET Network Virtual Terminal specification requires that a Carriage Return (CR) that is not followed by a linefeed (LF) must be followed by a NUL (ASCII 0). These NULs should be stripped away before processing incoming data; in most cases they were. Exceptions: (1) they were recorded in the session log, and (2) they were not ignored by the INPUT command. Both exceptions fixed in 1.1.16

### 457. Failure to recognize RLOGIN URLs

"rlogin://host" would not be recognized as a valid URL, since "rlogin" is not a valid TCP service name (the proper name is "login"). Not exactly a bug, but "rlogin" is recognized as a synonym for "login" in 1.1.16 and later.

### 458. Problems with Wyse graphics character sets in Windows NT

Wyse graphic characters were erroneously converted to the local Code Page instead of to Unicode in Windows NT. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 459. QANSI graphics characters displayed as ASCII

Bug, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 460. Problems with DG transparent printing

DG transparent printing would fail to send the escape character to the printer if the escape sequence was not the print terminator. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 461. Scrolling failures in ANSI X3.64 emulations

NEL (= Esc E) did not scroll on bottom line of screen or scrolling region in terminal types that followed ANSI X3.64 (including VT220 and 320, Wyse 370, ...) Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 462. Incorrect appearance of VT220/320 characters after erasure

<CSI> Pn X was not erasing characters properly; it was writing blanks with the current attributes, rather than with no attributes. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 463. SCOANSI and AT386 function-key programming broken

In SCOANSI and AT386 emulation, attempts to program function keys were being misinterpreted as Privacy Messages (PM). Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 464. Various problems in HPTERM emulation

Status Line Messages were not being parsed; unrecognized escape sequences were being displayed on screen. The entire emulation was rewritten to parse HP sequences in a general way, avoiding special cases.

### 465. Problems in Siemens/Nixdorf BA80 emulation

BA80 emulation did not handle Function Key Labels or Status Line commands. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 466. Spurious red lines on debug-mode terminal screens

When Terminal screen is in debug mode and a CR and/or LF arrives when the cursor is on the right margin, an extraneous blank line in debug color is displayed. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 467. Alt-x, Alt-h, etc, don't seem to work in AIXTERM (not a bug)

They don't, because AIXTERM remaps these as extended function keys; for example, Alt-x sends <CSI>102q (see DEFAULT.INI). K95 reassigns its own functions to the uppercase Alt keys, Alt-X, Alt-H, etc.

### 468. Difficulties pasting

Mouse-pasting using the Kermit method (double-click button 2) tends not to work because any miniscule motion between the two mouse clicks raises a drag event, thus putting Kermit into Mark Mode (which can be canceled with a terminal reset (Alt-R) or with Ctrl-F2 (Cancel Mark Mode). Fixed in 1.1.16. Workaround - Add the following commands to your K95CUSTOM.INI file:

      SET MOUSE BUTTON 2 NONE DRAG \Kmousecopyclip
      SET MOUSE BUTTON 3 NONE DRAG \Kmousecopyclip

### 469. Echoing delays

On certain PCs, under certain circumstances, there might be a slight delay in echoing of the characters you type. A large part of the delay is in the connection itself, but other components of it are attributable to Windows scheduling of K95's several threads and its semaphore management, especially under heavy system load, and to overhead from `CONAGENT.EXE`, which controls the window that K95 runs in. The situation was improved dramatically in K95 1.1.16.

Note that you can use SET TERMINAL SCREEN-UPDATE { FAST, SMOOTH } to control the tradeoff between high throughput (FAST) and snappy echoing (SMOOTH); see the SET TERMINAL Command List for details. Also see item 27 in this file.

### 470. MSKERMIT keycode for Ctrl-Enter was incorrect

Bug, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 471. APC command containing SET TERM TYPE would stop

A SET TERMINAL TYPE command in an APC command would reset the terminal emulator, thus clearing the APC status even though an APC was still in progress. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 472. Failure to receive files with long names on some systems

On Windows NT or OS/2, if K95 was set to FILE NAMES LITERAL and a file arrived to be stored on a FAT partition restricted to 8.3 filenames, and the file had a long name or a name otherwise illegal for FAT, the file transfer would fail unnecessarily. In 1.1.16, the name is transformed just enough to make it legal for FAT.

### 473. Autodownload failures with parity mismatch

Kermit or Zmodem autodownloads would fail to work if K95's parity was set differently to what the host was sending. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 474. File transfer thermometer might not complete

Due to some reorganization of K95's threads for better error and interrupt trapping, K95's file-transfer display thermometer might not go all the way to the end on the last or only file, especially if it is a short file. However, the Percent Done field still registers 100%, and the Last Message field still shows file and byte count and characters per second, and indicates a successful transfer (if the transfer was indeed successful). SHOW STATUS will also reveal the success or failure of the transfer. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 475. XYZMODEM statistics counted each file twice

After downloading when XMODEM, YMODEM, or ZMODEM, K95 would report twice the number of files that were actually downloaded. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 476. SET TERMINAL TYPE might mishandle 7-bit NRCs

An internal problem that occurred only when the terminal type was set to ANSI-BBS, SCOANSI, and AT386 emulations, which don't use 7-bit National Replacement Character-sets (NRCs) anyway. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 477. Problems typing 7-bit national characters

Refer to entry 430. Fixed in 1.1.16. Characters can now be assigned to keys without translation with the new SET TERM KEY /LITERAL switch.

### 478. Problem Selecting HP-Roman8 character set from the Dialer

When you choose HP-Roman8 as the remote character set in the Dialer, it writes "set term remote-char hproman8", but it should have included a dash ("hp-roman8"). Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 479. RETURN within SWITCH didn't work

Bug, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 480. \ffiles() counted directories when it shouldn't

The number of files reported by `\ffiles()` was always at least two greater than it should have been, since it was counting "`.`" and "`..`" (and any other directory) as files. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 481. Problems with REMOTE QUERY KERMIT function()

REMOTE QUERY KERMIT function(\%a) did not evaluate its argument before sending the query to the server; thus it was not possible to have the server run the function with client-side variables as arguments. Fixed in 1.1.16. Details in Section 5.2 of the C-Kermit 7.0 Update Notes.

### 482. K95 Host Mode might be slow to put up Login prompt

When Kermit 95 receives an incoming TCP connection, it looks up the incoming IP address to get the hostname, primarily so that your hostmode logs and displays will contain accurate information and not spoofed or forged names; this is standard practice on the Internet these days. This query, however, could take a long time -- if your local Domain Name Server can not satisfy it, it goes out to the Internet, and we all know how snappy the Internet at times... In 1.1.16, you can defeat the pause with the new SET TCP REVERSE-DNS-LOOKUP OFF command.

### 483. Host mode requires ANSI or VT terminal emulator

(Duplicate of 419; see Bug Number 419.)

### 484. Host-mode maximum users setting wouldn't stick

Typographical error in hostmode.ksc, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 485. Dialer Login Script text box data lost in OS/2

`K2DIAL.EXE` would lose data in the Settings Notebook Login Script Text box if the Printer entry field is edited AND the LOGIN page is not displayed. The bug appears in both Warp 3.0 and 4.0. Diagnosis: Compiler optimization bug in IBM VAC++. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 486. Dialer Printer Type combo box could not be set

The Dialer Printer Type Combo box could not be set to File, Pipe, or None types from saved values. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 487. Dialer Communications page speed entry wouldn't stick

The Dialer entry Communications page would not retain the override speed unless flow control was also overridden. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 488. HINTS: Alphanumeric Paging

(Not a bug.) If you can't get the Alpha paging script to work:

1. Check with your paging service to make sure you have the right settings (phone number, speed, parity, flow control), and modify the APAGE macro in APAGE.KSC accordingly.

2. If, when dialing, you still get only garbage and/or immediate hangups, you'll need to identify the settings to *force* your modem to dial the paging service in such a way that the two modems can communicate. Look in your modem manual for commands related to modulation, fallback, and speed buffering. You want the modem to dial at 1200 (or whatever the appropriate speed is), using the appropriate modulation, and you want it to stay at that speed after the connection is made, and you want the interface to stay at that speed too. It often turns out that old modems like the Hayes 1200 work just fine with paging services, where more modern models tend to fail because of complications during the modulation and protocol negotiation phase -- so do whatever you can to turn your fancy new modem into a dumb old one. Hint: use the new SET MODEM PREDIAL-INIT command to specify any commands you want sent to the modem just prior to dialing.

3. In the APAGE macro, try changing the flow control and/or parity to NONE, even if that is contrary to what your paging service told you.

4. Try adding "set output pacing 200" (or other number) to the APAGE macro -- this makes the difference with many paging services.

K95 probably can't be used to send pages from a modem that is connected to a terminal server, since it has no way to set the terminal server's communication port parameters -- speed, parity, etc -- as required by the paging service.

### 489. HINTS: For Blind Users

Kermit 95 reportedly works fine in Windows 95 when (a) used in conjunction with ASAP screen-reader software from Microtalk, and (b) all of the numeric keypad keys are mapped to `\Kignore`. Read the K95 FAQ for details.

Beginning in version 1.1.16, K95 should work with all speech devices and Braille devices that work with other Windows or OS/2 console applications. Use SET TERMINAL SCREEN-UPDATE SMOOTH and SET TERMINAL SCREEN-OPTIMIZE ON.

### 490. HINTS: Telnetting to OS/2

The Telnet server in recent versions of OS/2 (probably starting with Warp 4) evidently does character-set translation from CP850 to Latin1, which can interfere with the K95 Telnet client's screen formatting, especially if you are trying to use the ANSI terminal type. Cure: Start OS/2 telnetd with the "-cp none" parameter. Then "set term type ansi" in Kermit 95 should work as expected. But note that function keys are not supported since they are not part of ANSI emulation, and in any case there is no provision for them in IBM telnetd. Ditto for Alt keys, the gray keypads, etc.

### 491. HINTS: How to use K95 with Netscape Communicator 4.0

(Not a bug) In Netscape 4.0:

- Edit->Preferences
- Select Category: Navigator->Applications
- Select Description: "URL: Telnet Protocol"
- Select Edit
- Select Handled by Application:
- Fill in one of the following:

        c:\k95\k95.exe -J %1
        c:\k95\telnet.exe
        c:\k95\k95.exe -c -j %1 -S

  or any other valid command line.

(Replace "c:\k95" by the path of your actual Kermit 95 directory.)

Also: The K95REGTL program was made available on October 2, 1997, for download from the Kermit web/ftp site, and is included with K95 1.1.16. This program can be used to register Kermit 95 as the default Telnet application to be used by any browser at all: ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/utils/READ.ME.

### 492. TEMP or TMP environment variable definition can cause problems

In Windows 95 and Windows 98 (but not Windows NT or OS/2), if the TMP or TEMP environment variable is defined to be the root directory of a disk, unpredictable behavior can ensue, including crashes ("This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down"), not only in Kermit 95, but in other applications as well. This is worked around in K95 1.1.16 by checking for this in advance and posting a warning, but the problem itself occurs in the external DLLs that are used by K95 and other applications, not in K95 itself. Diagnosis: Many libraries (including the TAPI and Kerberos IV DLLs) use the TEMP or TMP definition to construct names for temporary files, by prepending the TEMP or TMP definition to the file name, with a backslash (\) in between. If (say) TMP is set to "D:\", and the temporary file is to be named "tmp", this results in "D:\\tmp". Windows 95/98 mistakes this for a UNC (which is a bug, because UNCs do not start with disk letters) and tries to find a network node called "tmp". This can result in long delays or worse, and at the very least, failure to create the temporary file, with results that depend on each application or library. The bug was reported to Microsoft, which declined to address it.

### 493. The GET Command Versus Filenames with Spaces

Prior to version 1.1.16, and K95 was in server mode, there was no obvious way to send a GET command to it for a file whose name contained spaces. Now the server allows such names to be enclosed in curly braces or doublequotes. See Section 5.4 of the C-Kermit 7.0 Update Notes.

### 494. HINT: CR and/or LF disappear!

You have connected to a host that is using even (or mark, or odd) parity, but Kermit's terminal bytesize is 8 and its parity setting is NONE. This usually happens only on serial connections direct to serial ports on UNIX hosts. Careful, you get a terminal bytesize of 8 by default when using VT220 or 320, or any kind of ANSI, emulation. Cure: SET TERMINAL BYTESIZE 7, or SET PARITY to match what is used by the host.

### 495. HINT: Eliminating "Press a key to continue" after RUN Command.

This message is issued when a RUN command is given at the prompt, to give you time to read the screen before returning to K95's command screen. The prompt is not given when the RUN command is issued from a macro or a command file. Thus you can avoid it by defining a macro that does what run does:

      define xrun run \%*

and then using the macro rather than the RUN command itself. Note: \%* means "all arguments".

### 496. Cursor positioning on double-width lines

Cursor positioning on double-width lines could be incorrect. Bug, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 497. Errors in Default Keymap for EMACS Mode

PgUp was mapped to ESC V instead of ESC v (lowercase). Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 498. SET HOST * Port Not Freed

On TCP/IP connections, the SET HOST * listening port was not freed until K95 termination. In 1.1.16 it is closed and freed when a SET HOST, SET PORT, or CLOSE CONNECTION command is issued. And of course, also on EXIT.

### 499. Unwanted Command Screen Size Change

If an escape sequence was received from the host that instructed K95 to change the height/width of the Terminal screen while it was processing an INPUT command, the physical height/width of the Command screen would also be changed although its virtual height/width would not be. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 500. MKDIR/RMDIR Problems with UNCs

Directory specifications such as \\node\directory were not handled correctly. Fixed in 1.1.16.

### 501. MKDIR/RMDIR Problems when Used in Macros or Command Files

Bug, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 502. RUN, REDIRECT, PIPE Interaction with Nonstandard Shells

There is no single standard interface for invoking command shells. But K95 must invoke your command shell when you give a RUN, REDIRECT, or PIPE command since (a) K95 has no way of knowing whether the text argument of your RUN, REDIRECT, or PIPE command is a built-in shell command, an external program, a shell script, a batch file, or what, and (b) if it is an external program, it is up to your shell to find it. As of 1.1.16, K95 has built-in knowledge of the calling conventions of various alternative shells, including 4DOS, 4NT, the Hamilton C-Shell, the Korn shell, the MKS Shell, ASH, and BASH.

### 503. Compression Skipped in Text-Mode Kermit File Transfers

Bug, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 504. Slow Local Echo in Terminal Screen

Bug, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 505. Slow Echo in Terminal Screen on Serial Connections

Bug, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 506. Problems with Bidirectional Printer Configuration in Dialer

SET PRINTER /BIDI was not putting all of the configuration options on the same line. Bug, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 507. Missing Error Messages in OUTPUT and INPUT

The OUTPUT and INPUT commands would fail silently under certain conditions, e.g. if the connection was lost. As of 1.1.16 a proper error message is issued.

### 508. Problems Editing Certain Commands

SET KEY (in its multiline format) and SET MODEM would react badly to editing via Backspace, Ctrl-W, etc. Bug, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 509. Redirection of Certain REMOTE Commands Didn't work

If the server sent back a "short-form reply" to a REMOTE command, and your REMOTE command had a redirection indicator, it was ignored. Bug, fixed in 1.1.16.

### 510. K95 did not work well with Citrix Winframe

When K95 1.1.15 or earlier was used for terminal emulation over a Winframe ICA connection into a Citrix Winframe, performance was very poor. Diagnosis: Winframe performs optimization on GUI windows but not Console windows. K95 1.1.16 overcomes this problem by doing screen optimization itself. The same is probably true for Microsoft Hydra (the Windows Terminal Server) and its various third-party clients ("Windows terminals" from Boundless, Network Computing Devices, Neoware Systems, Tektronix, and Wyse). This might also help with slowness that was reported under Windows NT with certain video drivers.

### 511. Wyse 370 colors didn't work

The Windows Console driver supports only 16 colors, whereas the Wyse 370 supports 64. Prior to version 1.1.16, K95 ignored Wyse 370 coloration directives. Beginning in 1.1.16, it attempts to map them into the 16 available colors. K95 will handle Wyse 370 colors better after conversion to full GUI is complete.

### 512. CJK Input Method Editors do not work in Windows 95

Chinese users have reported success viewing ideographic text on the screen when using AT386 and similar emulations (which automatically choose 8-bit characters and no translation), they are not able to enter Chinese (or Korean, or Japanese, etc) characters on the keyboard. This is because Microsoft chose to disable CJK Input Method Editors (IME) in Windows 95 Console windows. See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Q156793: "All Far East versions of Windows NT 4.0 support IME in a command prompt. Only the Japanese version of Windows NT 3.51 supports IME in a command prompt. None of the Far East versions of Windows 95 support IME in a command prompt." When an IME is not supported, Microsoft recommends that you "enter the Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters into Notepad or WordPad and then paste them into the command prompt".

### 513. Conflict between mouse and screen saver

It has been reported on systems with Logitech MouseWare Control Center 7.10 and driver 7.00, the mouse stops working when a screen saver is activated. This has nothing to do with Kermit 95.

### 514. Improper bolding in VT reverse-screen mode

The VT 220 or 320 emulator, when in reverse screen mode (DECSCNM), would apply the Bold attribute to the foreground rather than to the background of the cell. Fixed in 1.1.16. Also, there was no equivalent to the VT220/320 "screen mode" setup selection (even though there was a Kverb, \Kflipscreen, for this); this was added as SET TERMINAL SCREEN-MODE { NORMAL, REVERSE } in version 1.1.16.

### 515. Dialer does not work in OS/2 2.x

As of K95 1.1.14, the OS/2 version of the Dialer uses Work Place Shell features that are compatible only with with OS/2 3.0 and higher. `K2.EXE` itself can be used with OS/2 2.0 and later.

### 516. Log files can disappear in Windows 95 if K95 killed

In Windows 95, if K95 has a transaction, session, or other log open, and is killed from the task list, or crashes, or Windows itself crashes, the log file might be truncated, empty, or nonexistent. This is how Windows 95 works. This does not happen in Windows NT. To work around this Windows 95 problem, close and reopen essential logs periodically, to force commitment to disk, using APPEND mode in subsequent opens. Windows NT (or UNIX, etc) is recommended for critical applications.

### 517. Code Page 856 isn't really a code page

Code Page 856, used in Bulgaria, was evidently made up by a Bulgarian company without checking first whether there already was a CP856. And indeed there is: IBM Code Page 856 is for Hebrew. Furthermore, the code table for CP856, from which K95 support was added, is evidently only one of several variations. Testing has shown that, depending on the terminal emulation, Cyrillic letters are OK but box-drawing characters are not, or vice versa. The Bulgarian company has noted that this is to be expected. "CP856" is now referred to in K95 and C-Kermit as "bulgaria-pc".

### 518. SET TERMINAL IDLE-xxx command misdocumented

(Fixed.) The fixed description is in the SET TERMINAL Command List.

### 519. New screen updating method might not be good for everybody

The new optimized screen updating method might not be an improvement on every PC. Evidently results can vary with the video adapter and driver, etc. If you prefer the screen-updating method of K95 1.1.15, you can restore it by putting the following command:

      set terminal screen-optimize off

in your K95CUSTOM.INI file. At least one person has described a long delay in cursor position updating which is corrected by turning off the additional screen-optimizing calculations.

### 520. Problems invoking `RLOGIN.EXE` and `TELNET.EXE`

As noted elsewhere, spaces in file and directory names are a Very Bad Idea. Thus we do not recommend installing K95 in directories such as:

      C:\Program Files

One consequence of doing this is that the Kermit 95 `TELNET.EXE` and `RLOGIN.EXE` stubs don't work when invoked from outside the Kermit 95 directory (e.g. from the Start menu). Workaround: Use the "FAT" (8.3) name for the path when starting `RLOGIN.EXE` or `TELNET.EXE`. Or move Kermit 95 to a directory whose name has no spaces. `RLOGIN.EXE` and `TELNET.EXE` have been reprogrammed in version 1.1.17 to cope with this situation.

### 521. AIXTERM, HFT, SCOANSI, AT386 scrolling problem

Scroll Up and Scroll Down (SU/SD escape sequences) don't work right. Fixed in version 1.1.17.

### 522. Program crash during XMODEM transfer

K95 will crash during an XMODEM transfer over a serial connection if carrier detect drops during the file transfer. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 523. No means to receive XMODEM transfers with CRC block checking

CRC block checking must be specified by the receiver. K95 currently provides no way to specify this. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 524. (Two Bugs, One Number)

Two bugs were accidentally assigned to number 524:

524.1 QANSI emulation bugs

The default character sets were wrong. They should be:

      G0 - ASCII
      G1 - DecSpecial
      G2 - Latin1
      G3 - DecSpecial

K95 did not interpret the character 'U' as an indicator for CP437 in the ISO 2022 escape sequences. This is a non-standard identifier.

K95 did not properly implement CSI 10/11/12 m. The previous implementation would work since the default characters was CP437.

Cursor Horizontal Absolute was not implemented.

All fixed in 1.1.17.

524.2 Cursor position on Double Width line vs. Horizontal Scrolling

The cursor when positioned on a double-width line will be displayed on the wrong column if K95's internal horizontal scrolling is used. Fixed in 1.1.17

### 525. Invalid TMP or TEMP directory will cause K95DIAL to crash

If the TMP or TEMP variables are defined but point to a non-existent directory or a file, the dialer will crash at startup. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 526. INPUT command sets \v(instatus) to wrong value

If no connection is in progress instatus is set to 3 (Internal Error) when it should be set to 4 (I/O error). Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 527. SET TERMINAL ESCAPE-CHARACTER does not work

The command is supposed to accept ENABLED or DISABLED with aliases of ON or OFF. The command only accepts the aliases in 1.1.16. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 528. TCP/IP sessions do not work on OS/2 3.0

OS/2 3.0 does not allow more than 32K of data to be read from the TCP/IP socket even if more than 32K is waiting. This is due to the use of signed ints in the TCP/IP stack instead of unsigned ints. Version 1.1.17 restricts reads to 32K as in previous releases. This bug does not affect Warp 4.0.

### 529. OS variables not properly set in OS/2

The \v(osname), \v(osrelease), and \v(osversion) variables are not properly set on OS/2 in version 1.1.16. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 530. Win95/98 does not randomly access pooled IP hosts

When accessing a pooled IP host, each attempt is supposed to access a random host in the pool. If Win95/98 is not configured for a WINS server it is possible that the internal WINS cache may prevent PING, K95, and possibly other applications from being able to randomly access a pooled host and resolve the real name of the host being connected to. This results in authentication failures with Kerberos 4 and Kerberos 5. Microsoft will not be fixing this problem; they have designated it a feature.

### 531. Kerberos authentication fails with "invalid network address"

If a machine has multiple adapters installed (physical or virtual) and Kerberos is unable to tell which one to use, it might choose the wrong one. If so, the IP address associated with the Kerberos ticket does not match the IP address used to connect to the host. This results in an "invalid network address" error and authentication failure.

Workaround: Disable or remove adapters that are not in use if possible.

This bug is also present in Microsoft Proxy Server.

### 532. PAUSE command always reports FAILURE

FAILURE should only be reported if the PAUSE command was interrupted by the user pressing a key. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 533. Kermit 95 could not display the EURO character

The inability of Kermit 95 to display the Euro character is caused by two problems:

1. K95 1.1.16 and earlier did notsupport any character-sets (or code pages) that contain the Euro character. This has been addressed in 1.1.17 by the addition of ISO 8859-15 (IBM Code Page 923) and IBM Code Page 858. ISO 8859-15 is expected to become the new default character-set for Europe after Jan 1, 1999. CP858 is CP850 modified to replace the dotless i with the Euro symbol. Version 1.1.17 also supports the expanded versions of Windows Code Pages 1250 to 1257, in which the Euro character was added in a formerly vacant position.

2. The operating system does not support the Euro symbol. Microsoft is supposed to be adding the Euro symbol to NT 4.0 in Service Pack 4 due out Summer 1998. IBM has replaced CP850 with CP858 in OS/2 Warp 3.0 FP35 or higher, or OS/2 Warp 4.0 FP6 or higher. Windows 98 supports the Euro for GUI applications but not for Console applications.

   Microsoft has posted the Win95 Euro update (without Console window support) at:

         http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/contents/Updates/W95EuroPatch/default.asp

   Research has shown that the Monotype.com true type font available from Microsoft's http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm (which includes the Euro character) is available for use in console windows on Win NT immediately after installation. This font is thinner than Lucida Console and is therefore better suited to those sites that need 132 columns.

   The font can also be used in Win95 console Windows if the Registry is edited and if the key

         HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\MS-DOS Emulation\

   is edited to read

         "Font"="Monotype.com"

   Charles Bigelow of Bigelow and Holmes's has also pointed out that Microsoft could receive and distribute the latest version of Lucida Console which contains not only the Euro but also the missing Hebrew and Arabic glyphs for free whenever they want to from Monotype, the company that distributes the True Type versions of B&=38;H's typefaces.

As of Kermit 95 1.1.17, if the operating system provides support for the Euro, then Kermit 95 is able to display it.

### 534. TES32 for Win95 connections fail immediately

K95 attempts to test the connection with a function that is not implemented in the device driver. A workaround is provided in 1.1.17.

### 535. \fsplit() function parses extra words

The function does not stop splitting words at the end of the string. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 536. Cursor can disappear in command screen

When switching from the Terminal screen to the command screen, the cursor might disappear. This is because the Windows API for restoring the cursor fails to work -- i.e. another Microsoft bug. Experimentation shows that reCONNECTing and escaping back tends to revive the Command-screen cursor.

### 537. '\' at end of key definition cannot be sent to host

If a key is defined with either SET KEY or SET TERM KEY with a value ending in '\' such as:

       <ESC>_1<ESC>\

the '\' will not be sent. Now the way this really needs to be written since '\' is a quote character and kverbs and variables may be embedded into the string is

       SET KEY \nnnn \27_1\27\\

but because the string gets parsed twice, once and the command line and once before it is sent

       SET KEY \nnnn \27_1\27\\\\

but this results in

       <ESC>_1<ESC>\\

being sent to the host. The following workaround may be used if you do not need the definition to be general (for all terminal types) and the rest of the string does not contain kverbs or variables.

      SET TERM KEY  /LITERAL \nnnn \27_1\27\\

Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 538. LOOKUP command does not return failure

The LOOKUP command does not set STATUS to FAILURE if the specified name is either not found or ambiguous. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 539. Function rindex fails to match first instance of string

`\frindex()` would fail to match the first instance of a string if a starting index is specified.

      \frindex(r,rr,1)

returns 1 when it should return 2. Whereas

      \frindex(r,rr)

returns 2 as it should. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 540. Non-CP437 extended characters displayed improperly in NT

When Unicode support is active, all extended characters (those within the range 128-255) are displayed in CP437 regardless of the settings of SET TERMINAL CODE-PAGE and SET TERMINAL LOCAL-CHARACTER-SET. Fixed in 1.1.17.

It should be noted that the default code page for console windows does not match for GUI windows. For instance, in the U.S., the default GUI code page is 1252 while the default console code page is 437. This affects the characters that may be produced by the keyboard and delivered to K95. It is also important to realize that while K95 uses Unicode as an intermediary step in translating all characters and stores all display characters in Unicode, Unicode is only used for display output and is not in any way used for keyboard input. Therefore, it is very important that both SET TERMINAL CODE-PAGE and SET TERMINAL LOCAL-CHARACTER-SET be assigned to an equivalent value.

### 541. In NT, dead keys produce an error beep when pressed

In NT, dead keys are delivered to the application even if they are not generating a character. For instance, ~a is delivered as two key events. The first without a character value and the second with a character value. Since the first comes without a value K95 thinks it is similar to a function or gray key and when it finds no macro or kverb assigned to it, K95 beeps. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 542. SET BELL VISIBLE does not work reliably

The Visible bell was broken in 1.1.16 when implementing the screen diff optimization. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 543. SET TELNET ENCRYPTION {REFUSED, ACCEPTED, ... } broken

The SET TELNET ENCRYPTION {...} command when used to set anything other than the TYPE of encryption to be used does not work in 1.1.16. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 544. Max Command Length is not necessarily max length of macros

The SHOW COMMAND Max Command Length (10238 chars) is supposed to be the max length of macros. However, it turns out the lower levels of the command parser restrict this size to 4071 characters. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 545. END command numeric value is inaccessible to scripts

The syntax of the END command allows for an optional numeric value. This value is used to set the status of the IF SUCCESS and IF FAILURE tests. A value of '0' is SUCCESS and non-zero is FAILURE. However, there is no way for a script to perform a switch and the actual numeric end code that is specified which makes error handling difficult. In 1.1.17, the END value is available in \v(return).

### 546. 10-digit dialing rules forgets to dial the area code

When the SET DIAL LC-AREA-CODES command is used to specify area codes that should be dialed as local instead of long distance, Kermit would forget to dial the area code. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 547. GET/REGET with SET FILE PATTERNS ON may corrupt files

With K95 in SERVER mode, if GET is used to transfer a file which matches a TEXT file pattern it will be sent as TEXT regardless of the client's file transfer setting. However, the REGET command will transfer the file as BINARY which may corrupt the file. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 548. REMOTE commands may set STATUS to SUCCESS on FAILURE

If a REMOTE command fails due to an error that results in either an E-packet being sent or received (ie, "Too many retries") it is possible that the STATUS flag will be set to SUCCESS even though the REMOTE command failed. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 549. RUN command interferes with screen updates in a script

A simple script such as the following will exhibit screen update problems

      for \%i 1 10 1 {
        echo This is line \%i
      }
      run sleep 5
      wait 15

This is because the Screen Update thread is not given the opportunity to update the screen with the output from the ECHO command before the RUN is executed. When the RUN command completes the WAIT command (which generates no output) delays the screen update until after the WAIT completes. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 550. \fword() fails to find the last word in a string

The sequence:

      assign line {word1 word2 word3}
      echo \fword(\m(line), 3)

would echo a blank line instead of word3. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 551. Partial Dialing misuses dialing rules

When using partial dialing, the prefixing and suffixing rules apply to each PDIAL and DIAL command instead of prefixing only the first. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 552. The PRODUCT macro had an extraneous parameter

The PRODUCT macro, added in 1.1.16, was always given an extra parameter with the value '1'. If the command <CSI> < 1 ; 2 ; 3 ~ is sent to Kermit 95, the product macro will be called with four parameters and \%4 will equal '1'. Fixed in 1.1.17.

### 553. SETUP from CDROM might not exit cleanly

When installing in Windows from the CDROM, the Windows "Autorun" starts the `SETUP.EXE` program automatically. When the SETUP program exits, the Console window might not close automatically. No harm done; just click the close button [x].

### 554. URL hot spots vs Netscape Communicator

It has been observed that, at least on some systems, Netscape 4.0 discards the "/" characters from links passed to it in a DDE message, as when you Ctrl-click on a URL in K95. This seems to happen only when the browser was already started. Workaround: If SHOW BROWSER reveals a specific browser, type "set browser" (with no operand) to remove it. Then all your system defaults are used, this seems to clear up the problem (in which case, add "set browser" to your K95CUSTOM.INI file) (K2CUSTOM.INI in OS/2).

### 555. Missing files (not really)

Numerous text files were removed in 1.1.17, on purpose. All the information in these files was incorporated into the new Second Edition Kermit 95 manual, which is now in your Kermit 95 `DOCS\MANUAL` directory, and accessible from the Dialer's Help menu. The files affected are:

      DOCS\CYRILLIC.TXT    Incorporated into HTML manual
      DOCS\HEBREW.TXT      Incorporated into HTML manual
      DOCS\DIALING.TXT     Incorporated into Using C-Kermit, 2nd Edition
      DOCS\MODEMS.TXT      Incorporated into Using C-Kermit, 2nd Edition
      DOCS\TERMINAL.TXT    Incorporated into HTML manual
      DOCS\HOSTMODE.TXT    Incorporated into HTML manual
      DOCS\OS2K95.TXT      Incorporated into HTML manual
      DOCS\UPDATES.TXT     Incorporated into HTML manual
      KEYMAPS\KVERBS.TXT   Incorporated into HTML manual

Note: In Windows, those who install 1.1.17 (or later) new, as opposed to patching up to it, will also get a desktop shortcut to the manual. Those who patch up to 1.1.17 (or later) can make a shortcut as follows:

      My Computer .. k95 disk .. k95 directory .. Docs .. Manual

Right-click on kermit95.htm, choose Create Shortcut, and drag the shortcut to the desired place.

Or `K95REGTL.EXE` may be executed manually in order to re-create the Documentation Shortcuts.

### 556. DATE command does not return to command prompt

The new DATE command does not return to the command prompt. Instead the date string is printed each time you press the Enter key. Use Ctrl-C To get out of this situation. Fixed in 1.1.18.

### 557. CPS display in XYZmodem transfers is incorrect

The CPS display in XYZ-modem transfers was broken when floating point timer support was added in 1.1.16. Fixed in 1.1.18.

### 558. Problems with SET FILE INCOMPLETE DISCARD

It has been reported that this setting might not work when carrier drops during a file transfer on a modem connection. Still under investigation.

### 559. Crash during Zmodem download with SET FILE COLLISION RENAME

If SET FILE COLLISION RENAME is active and the incoming file requires renaming, then after the transfer of the received file is complete K95 can crash (or produce an unable to free memory error). Workaround: don't use the RENAME collision option. Fixed in 1.1.18.

### 560. TAPI dial gives "invalid call state message" after Busy

When using TAPI MODEM-DIALING and the number is BUSY, the next dial attempt will fail with an "invalid call state" message. Fixed in 1.1.18.

### 561. Dead Keys cause `K95.EXE` to terminate in NT

A bug in NT's implementation of the Win32 ToAscii() function causes the program stack to become corrupted. This results in `K95.EXE`'s immediate termination. A workaround is in 1.1.19.

### 562. If PDIAL is used, all subsequent calls are partially dialed

Once a PDIAL command is issued in 1.1.17, all calls from that point forward will be dialed as partial. Fixed in 1.1.18.

### 563. HOST.KSC vs. K95 1.1.17

HOST.KSC defines a FAIL macro which conflicts with the FAIL command that was added in 1.1.17. This results in two problems:

1. If the userid/password combination is invalid throughout the retry limit the user will be let on anyway with an invalid userid

2. If the connection is terminated prematurely without a proper LOGOUT the script would enter an infinite loop.

To be fixed with an updated HOST.KSC script. Contact kermit-support if needed. Note: whenever a macro name is the same as a built-in command, the built-in command takes precedence. To force the macro to be run, rather than the built-in command, preface it by DO, e.g. "DO FAIL".

### 564. Don't tell K95 to RUN 16-bit programs

In Windows 95, any command used in a pipeline must NOT be a 16-bit program, such as SORT. If it is, K95 will hang and must be killed from the task list, and your system will need to be rebooted. This is a Microsoft Windows 95 bug: a 32-bit program when starting a 16-bit program is unable to determine when the 16-bit program has terminated. You can work around this problem by creating a batch file to start the 16-bit program, and then RUNning the batch file from K95.

Note that many 16-bit programs, such as PKZIP/PKUNZIP, are available (or replacable) by 32-bit equivalants (such as the InfoZIP utilities). The 32-bit versions give you full access to Windows 95 features such as long filenames.

it is always better to run native 32-bit programs under Windows 95.

### 565. SET SERVER IDLE-TIMEOUT doesn't timeout

In 1.1.16 and 1.1.17, SET SERVER IDLE-TIMEOUT does not work if the connection is RELIABLE. TCP/IP connections default to RELIABLE.

Workaround:

      SET RELIABLE OFF

Fixed in 1.1.18.

### 566. VT Origin mode does not apply to Next Line (ESC E) command

K95 since 1.1.7 has been incorrectly applying the Origin mode to the Next Line command. Fixed in 1.1.18.

### 567. PCTERM support not compiled into 1.1.17

Due to a compilation time mixup the PCTERM support was only compiled into test versions of K95 1.1.17 and was never built into the release version. If you need PCTERM support contact kermit-support@columbia.edu. Fixed in 1.1.18.

### 568. Using K95 with a NASI modem

Set the NASI Global Settings to always report hardware flow control to the application.

### 569. VT Soft-character-set assignments (NOTE)

As documented, VT soft character-sets are not supported by Kermit 95 due to the limitations of the console environment in which it runs. K95 tells the host that it does not support soft character-sets when it is queried. If the host sends a soft-character-set, it will be ignored. If the host attempts to assign the soft-character-set to G0, G1, G2, or G3, K95 assigns US ASCII, which can be confusing. In 1.1.18 and later, K95 will do nothing in this situation.

### 570. Windows 95/98 DNS Caching results in Kerberos Authentication

As documented in the Kermit 95 HTML Manual Security section, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 3.5x, and Microsoft Proxy Server cache DNS entries without regard to the Time To Live (TTL) value associated with a particular entry. The result is that Kerberos authentication fails when attempting to connect to a hostname that is really an alias for several machines that provide a similar function. Microsoft has chosen to issue a private fix which may be applied to Windows 95 with the Winsock 2.0 update. The problem is documented in the Knowledge Base as article Q192425.

The following directions specify how to receive this fix:

1. Ensure that you have a valid product ID for a retail copy of the product (right-click on 'My Computer', select 'Properties', and use the number shown beneath the 'Registered to' text). If you do not have an ID for a retail copy of Windows 95 (if you have all OEM versions, for example) there will be a charge of $35 for the support incident.

2. Call the appropriate number for 'Standard No-Charge Support:' for Microsoft Windows 95:

         USA:    (425) 635-7000
         Canada: (905) 568-4494

   The best time to call is 8AM-6PM Pacific time (the support escalation staff is online during these hours)

   You will first talk to a customer service representative (CSR) who should activate your support, and transfer you to a support engineer. Please advise the CSR that you need to obtain a specific "hotfix for Windows 95".

3. Once you get to a support engineer, advise him or her of the following:

   > You need the hotfix referenced by knowledge base article: Q192425 Gethostbyaddr() Call with Winsock2 Returns Address Pool Alias.

   Hotfix fulfillment is done via an internal escalation team, which typically does a callback to validate the need for the hotfix. This is per Microsoft's support policy, and is strictly adhered to.

   The callback typically occurs within 72 business hours from the initial call-in.

This information was provided by a Microsoft Support Engineer. No fixes are available for NT 3.5x, Proxy Server or Win98 at this time.

### 571. TZ environment variable necessary for Kerberos Authentication

Kerberos Authentication relies on clock synchronization to determine when a Kerberos ticket is valid for use. All clock times are stored in tickets in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The C Run Time Library used the TZ environment variable to determine the local time zone so it can convert GMT to local time. For the Eastern Time zone of the United States the following must be placed into the `AUTOEXEC.BAT` file on a Windows 95/98 system or in the System Environment settings for Windows NT:

     SET TZ=EST5EDT

for California:

     SET TZ=PST8PDT

Version 1.1.18 defaults to EST5EDT if the TZ variable is not defined.

### 572. Word Perfect Keyboard Mode does not work

Even though 1.1.17 allows WP keyboard mode definitions to be assigned they are never actually used. Fixed in 1.1.18.

### 573. More about Caps Lock

Sometimes it is possible to get into a truly annoying predicament, in which Caps Lock is turned on every time you switch from one Console Window (Kermit 95 or any other console application) to another. No amount of turning Caps Lock off makes this stop happening. As noted in Bug #224, this is a Microsoft bug in Windows 95 (and 98?) but not NT. Here is a workaround: Switch to a GUI window and turn off Caps Lock there. Now your console windows are back to normal.

### 574. CONNECT /TRIGGER causes memory exception in OS/2

The second attempt to enter CONNECT mode with a trigger will result in a memory exception. Fixed in 1.1.18.

### 575. "NO CARRIER", SET CARRIER-WATCH, INPUT and Hayes High-Speed Modems

If you are using the following:

- A Hayes High Speed modem (V.32bis or higher) with ATE1 set
- SET CARRIER-WATCH ON or AUTO
- A script using a loop containing INPUT secs to read one character at a time into \v(inchar) which then either echos the character or OUTPUTs some other data.

When the modem loses the carrier signal, it will output the string "NO CARRIER" and then drop the carrier signal. However, because there is data waiting to be processed the INPUT command succeeds and does not detect the carrier loss. Since the modem is now in the command state it will echo data sent to it (because of ATE1) causing an infinite loop. To detect the lost connection, add a WAIT 0 CD command followed by IF FAILURE to the loop.

### 576. Install of K95 1.1.17 on Alpha does not perform registration

The program receives an "Out of Memory" error and terminates. Please contact kermit-support@columbia.edu for a replacement program.

### 577. Televideo terminals enter infinite loop when using Block mode

Block mode was never implemented for the Televideo terminals in K95 1.1.17. This capability has been added to version 1.1.18.

### 578. SNI 97801 terminal emulation bugs

K95 1.1.17 would improperly handle a scroll region larger than the display size and direct cursor addressing to the status line. This is corrected in 1.1.18.

### 579. K95 Telnet can crash if remote host crashes

Observed on Windows 95B during file transfer over a Telnet session to VAX/VMS 7.1 with MultiNet 4.0B. K95 crashes when remote host crashes. Windows crash dialog box says:

      K95 caused a stack fault in module WSOCK32.DLL at 0157:7c6ca4b8.

Stack dump shows all 0's. Winsock bug.

### 580. K95 prints double characters when Copy Print mode is used

ASCII terminal emulations such as Wyse, Televideo and DataGeneral have a Copy to Printer mode which prints each and every character that is sent to the terminal display. This mode on ASCII terminals will print double characters in 1.1.17. Fixed in 1.1.18.

### 581. REMOTE {SET, ASSIGN, RENAME, COPY} do not return to CONNECT mode

When a REMOTE {SET, ASSIGN, RENAME, COPY} command is processed by CONNECT mode it leaves the user at the command prompt instead of returning automatically to CONNECT mode as it should. Fixed in 1.1.19.

### 582. Incoming TAPI calls may result in K95 crashes during file sends

When the following conditions are true file sends may result in a K95 crash due to an "invalid access" error:

      SET TAPI MODEM-DIALING OFF
      SET TAPI LINE device
      SET WIN95 OVERLAPPED-I/O ON
      SET FLOW not specified to match that used by the modem

The problem is that when the TAPI device is allocated the transmit buffers are not properly allocated. Fixed in 1.1.19.

### 583. Kermit/2 1.1.17 SERVER does not return from REMOTE HOST commands

(OS/2 only) When the SERVER receives a REMOTE HOST command it does not correctly pass the command to be executed to the command shell. A workaround. If you know you are communicating to OS/2 K95 version 1.1.17, send the command to be executed as

       REMOTE HOST /c

instead of

      REMOTE HOST

Fixed in 1.1.19.

### 584. Transparent-print error if CSI received when remote character set is a code page

PC Code Pages are not compatible with international standards for character sets. Code Pages place printable characters in the range allocated for the C1 control characters. The C1 control character CSI (0x9B) is the equivalent of ESC [. When performing transparent printing the emulator must process CSI sequences to look for CSI 4 i to determine when printing should terminate. However, with code pages the code point 0x9B should not be treated as CSI because it is a printable character. 1.1.17 forgot to treat 0x9B as a printable character when performing transparent printing. This is corrected in 1.1.19.

### 585. MIT Kerberos 2.0 K5 support disables K95 telnet authentication

The MIT Kerberos 2.0 for Win32 includes a new Kerberos 5 1.1 compatible library. This library is missing a function that was available in the previous NT Alpha 2 distribution of Kerberos 5 1.0.

K95 1.1.17 has a bug that will result in all telnet authentication being disabled if it finds Kebreros 5 libraries but cannot successfully load all of the necessary functions.

This problem is fixed in K95 1.1.19.

### 586. SRP support fails to authenticate against SRP 1.5.0 Telnetd

K95 1.1.17 was designed to work with SRP 1.4.1 and simultaneously be compatible with the most up to date IETF Internet Draft on Telnet Authentication. SRP's Telnet Authentication did not adhere to the Internet Draft. The SRP Telnet authentication handshake did not protect against a man in the middle attack which would allow authentication to succeed and encryption to be disabled. In the process of fixing this security hole the SRP Telnet authentication handshake was altered. In the process it broke compatibility with Kermit 95 1.1.17's implementation of telnet authentication.

If you are connecting to a host that uses SRP 1.5.0 Telnetd you will not be able to authenticate using K95 1.1.17. K95 1.1.19 is compatible with SRP 1.5.0.

### 587. K95 1.1.17 breaks Host-Mode Script

Kermit 95 1.1.17 included a new FAIL command, which conflicted with the FAIL macro that was defined and used in `HOST.KSC`. Shortly after K95 1.1.17 was released, a corrected version of the host-mode script was put on the Kermit FTP site and downloaded by most people who used host mode. Unfortunately, this means that `HOST.KSC` will not be updated in the 1.1.19 patch. If you downloaded the fixed `HOST.KSC` file for K95 1.1.17 and then installed the 1.1.19 patch, you'll need to download the 1.1.19 version of `HOST.KSC` after installing the patch:

      ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/host.ksc

### 588. K95 and Host-Mode Script versions must agree

(Not a bug.) If you attempt to run old host-mode scripts with a newer version of Kermit 95, they are likely not to work. For example, the way Telnet negotiations are handled changed in K95 1.1.19, and the `HOST.KSC` and `HOSTTCP.KSC` scripts were modified accordingly. The new scripts are likely to fail with syntax errors under older K95 versions, and old scripts are likely to hang under the new K95 version. The host-mode scripts are updated automatically when you install an upgrade patch UNLESS YOU CHANGED THEM. Modified files are not, and can not be, patched. In this case, you can download the current scripts from the Kermit FTP site (previous item).

### 589. TAKE command arguments are persistent

A new feature in K95 1.1.19 and C-Kermit 7.0 is the ability to include parameters for command files on the TAKE command line, documented in Section 7.16 of the C-Kermit 7.0 Update Notes. As noted there, any arguments you give to a TAKE command are persistent. This can produce surprising results with subsequent TAKE commands. For example:

      K-95> take foo.ksc arg1 arg2 ...
      K-95> take bar.ksc

The second command file, `bar.ksc`, receives the same arguments as the first. This is not a bug, exactly, but it's not good either. Future releases of C-Kermit and K95 are likely to change this behavior, so don't depend on it. In the meantime, you can work around any problems caused by the current arrangement (e.g. when the second TAKE file refers to `\%1`, `\%2`, etc, but you don't include arguments when TAKE'ing it) by explicitly clearing the affected variables:

      K-95> take foo.ksc arg1 arg2 ...
      K-95> undef \%1
      K-95> undef \%2
      ...
      K-95> take bar.ksc

### 590. Title-Bar Close box [x] doesn't work in Win9x

It never did. Console applications do not receive a Close message from Windows 9x when you click the Close [x] box. The application is terminated abruptly by Windows, leaving all its resources (such as the TAPI device) in an indeterminate state, and Windows itself unstable until the next reboot. In K95 1.1.19, a method was found to disable the Close [x] box to prevent this from happening; the [x] box is simply grayed out and inoperative. Since it is not possible to receive a message when the user clicks this box, there is no way to issue a warning or give instructions on the proper way to exit K95.

A secondary problem with the disabled Close box is that it remains disabled even after K95 exits. You will notice this only if you start K95 from an MS-DOS Command window. Terminate the MS-DOS Command window with an EXIT command at the DOS prompt, or with Ctrl-Alt-Del.

### 591. VT102 emulation broken in 1.1.19

K95 Bug. Workaround: Use VT220 and specify VT102 as the Telnet terminal type if VT102 must be used. Fixed in 1.1.120.

### 592. Failure to make certain Telnet connections

K95 1.1.19 is stricter about enforcing Telnet protocol rules than previous releases, and therefore might fail to make connections with faulty servers when previous releases could do so. In most cases, the old behavior can be restored by including the /NOWAIT switch in your TELNET or SET HOST command, or (globally) with SET TELNET WAIT OFF. See https://kermitproject.org/telnet.html for details.

### 593. Faulty OS/2 Dialer Patch for K95 1.1.19

After applying the 1.1.19 upgrade patch to OS/2 Kermit 95, the OS/2 Dialer was corrupting the `DIALUSR.DAT` user database. This was fixed by replacing the OS/2 patch for 1.1.19 and notifying the affecting users.

### 594. LOGIN.KSC didn't work without the Dialer

There was a typo in the `LOGIN.KSC` file that prevented its use when not used in conjunction with the dialer. Fixed in 1.1.20.

### 595. C1 Printable characters of non-ISO-2022 character sets

Code Page character sets have printable characters in the C1 range. These characters are misinterpreted when they are printed in the rightmost column of VT terminal emulations. Fixed in 1.1.20.

### 596. IBM 3151 attributes

IBM 3151 attributes can be applied as bitmasks with replacement, bitwise OR and bitwise AND operations. Kermit was treating all attributes as replacement. Fixed in 1.1.20.

### 597. OpenSSL requires the PRNG to be seeded.

K95 did not properly seed the PRNG. Fixed in 1.1.20 along with an upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.5a (Win32 only; OS/2 is still using 0.9.4).

### 598. Kerberos support not compatible with NRL SecureID support

The NRL Kerberos DLLs use a slightly different interface than the MIT DLLs upon which they are based. 1.1.20 supports both interfaces and specifically supports the NRL distribution.

### 599. MAIL command does not work

The address field of the MAIL command was lost during parsing. Fixed in 1.1.20.

### 600. SEND `..\\*.c` fails with "unreadable error"

Workaround: `send ../*.c`. Fixed in 1.1.20

### 601. LOCAL and global variable name conflicts

In a macro, if a variable "abc" was declared LOCAL when there was an existing global variable "abcdef" the following side effects were observed:

- The global variable would be deleted when the macro was executed.
- The local variable would become global upon macro termination and would be assigned the value of the deleted global.

Fixed in 1.1.20.

### 602. Kerberos password prompts versus `-# 96` startup option

Kerberos password prompts were being displayed in popups when K95 was started with the `-# 96` command-line option (use standard input/output), even though popups do not work when K95 is instructed to use standard i/o. Fixed in 1.1.20

### 603. ANSWER 0 improperly times out

The ANSWER command with a timeout value of 0 is supposed to wait forever for a call. Instead, it was timing out after 254 seconds. Fixed in 1.1.20.

### 604. ANSWER fails to answer call with SET TAPI MODEM-DIALING ON

If a TAPI device was being used with TAPI Modem-Dialing set to ON, the ANSWER command would fail to answer the call reporting "Operation Unavailable". This is due to a change in behavior of newer TAPI service providers. Fixed in 1.1.20.

### 605. RLOGIN Window Size reports are not sent

1.1.19 did not send Rlogin Window Size reports. Fixed in 1.1.20.

### 606. Pulse dialing did not work

Kermit provides a method for automatically determining by country code whether Pulse or Tone dialing should be used by default. K95 1.1.19 had bug resulting in the automatic mode not being overridden by explicit SET DIAL METHOD PULSE or TONE commands. This more often than not results in Tone dialing being used under all circumstances in country codes:

> 1 31 32 33 352 353 354 358 39 44 45 46 47 49

Fixed in 1.1.20.

### 607. AUTH K5 INIT /NO-ADDRESSES may crash Kermit 95

There is a bug in the MIT Kerberos for Microsoft Operating Systems Release 2.0 which will result in a crash of Kermit 95 if the new /NO-ADDRESSES switch is used to retrieve tickets without embedded IP addresses. The problem (and a fix) has been submitted to MIT for inclusion in the next release.

### 608. RLOGIN protocol (and secure variations) does not work in 1.1.20

The previous fix to RLOGIN window size notifications (bug 605) appears to have made things worse. Fixed in 1.1.21.

### 609. Kerberos 5 NT Alpha 2 and previous releases do not work with 1.1.20

The prerelease versions of the Kerberos 5 libraries do not work with the initial release of 1.1.20 as they are missing necessary functionality to support the AUTH K5 INIT /NO-ADDRESSES and Hardware Pre-auth functionality. It was not intentional that older releases should no longer be usable. A future patch may restore this functionality with the limitations that /NO-ADDRESSES and Hardware Preauth cannot be used.

### 610. SET FILE DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY leads to unexpected bahavior

The SET FILE DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY command when issued without a directory name could lead to very unexpected results. Instead, of clearing the download-directory it would assign a directory of the null-string. How this causes Kermit to behave is unpredictable. This was fixed in 1.1.20.

### 611. HOSTMODE scripts updated

The HOSTMODE scripts for 1.1.20 might not be able to find either the k95.exe executable or the host.cfg file depending on how it is started. Please download:

      ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/hostmode.ksc
      ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/host.ksc
      ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/hostmdm.ksc
      ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/hostcom.ksc
      ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/hosttcp.ksc

and replace the copies in your `k95\scripts\` directory. Please download:

      ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/hostmode.bat

and replace the copy in your Kermit 95 Program directory. Fixed in 1.1.21.

### 612. Telnet Forward-X option negotiated even when an X Server not found

If the telnet server requests the use of Forward-X, K95 negotiates it even though it can't find an X Windows Server. This could lead to dual mode programs such as emacs to attempt to open an X Display when a display does not exist. To be fixed in 1.1.21.

### 613. Wyse 60 keyboard definitions are incorrect

The table of default keyboard definitions used to initialize the strings sent by Wyse keyboard verbs is incorrect for all keys other than F1 to F16. These values are used both for initial key assignment and when resetting the key values under host command. Fixed in 1.1.21.

### 614. `\v(krb5errno)` and `\v(krb5errmsg)` do not report all errors

The krb5 kermit variables report the status of the last kerberos 5 library call. After some errors occur, other kerberos 5 library calls are made that clear the error values. Corrected in 1.1.21.

### 615. The Dialer does not support `%ENVVAR%` expansion of file names

The names used in fields for file names do not support the `%ENVVAR%` style environment variable expansion used in the `.BAT` batch files. Not only does this notation not work in Kermit 95 but it can cause the dialer to perform a fatal exception. Fixed in 1.1.21.

### 616. How to debug SET PRINTER configurations in Windows

The SET PRINTER command has evolved since the introduction of Kermit 95 in October 1995. The original SET PRINTER command was extremely simple:

      SET PRINTER dos-name

where dos-name could be any filename or device name that could be opened via the C run time library fopen() call. By the time 1.1.17 was released the SET PRINTER command had been modified to support piped commands, windows printer queues, and numerous configuration values for timeouts, bidirectional printing, ... The problem with 1.1.17 was that if you wanted to change the printer timeout value you would need to re-enter the entire SET PRINTER command line to respecify all of the other configuration values.

So in 1.1.18 and higher, the SET PRINTER command switches are sticky. This means you can now issue a sequence of commands such as

      SET PRINTER /WINDOWS-QUEUE:            ; or /WINDOWS: or /WIN: or /W:
      SET PRINTER /TIMEOUT:300
      SET PRINTER /END-OF-JOB-STRING:\12

instead of combining them all on a single line. This is wonderful except that there is now confusion when using a mixture of commands. The help text for SET PRINTER states:

> If you give a printer name without specifying any of these switches, then it is assumed to be a DOS printer device or filename unless the name given (after removing enclosing braces, if any) starts with '|', in which case it is a pipe.

but the following sequence (in 1.1.18 through 1.1.20):

      SET PRINTER /WINDOWS-QUEUE:
      SET PRINTER PRN:

does not "choose the default windows printer queue" and then "choose the DOS device PRN:". Instead this sequence is treated equivalent to

      SET PRINTER /WINDOWS-QUEUE PRN:

which results in an invalid printer configuration since there is no windows printer queue with the name "`PRN:`". Not that this should be allowed either because "`PRN:`" is not a valid printer queue and K95 should detect that (but it does not.)

This situation becomes a problem when there is a mixture of SET PRINTER commands from a variety of sources: `K95CUSTOM.INI` file, the Dialer Connection Script, and a keymap or login script taken by the Connection Script. For instance, if the `K95CUSTOM.INI` file has a:

      SET PRINTER /WINDOWS-QUEUE:

command which selects the default Windows Printer Queue and a subsequent script contains a

      SET PRINTER LPT1:

command using the old format, the result is a printer configuration that does not work.

If printing does not work when you expect that it should, use the:

      SHOW PRINTER

command to examine the current configuration. If it looks like:

      [D:/kermit/src/] C-Kermit> sh print
      Printer: prn:
       /OUTPUT-ONLY
       /WINDOWS-QUEUE
       /TIMEOUT:0
       /END-OF-JOB-STRING:(none)
       /JOB-HEADER-FILE:(none)

where the printer name is correct but it is not a Windows Queue and yet the /WINDOWS-QUEUE flag is set; it means that you need to use the command form

      SET PRINTER /DOS-DEVICE:name

when setting the printer. Track down the script which contains the:

      SET PRINTER name

command and update it. Version 1.1.21 restores the proper functionality of the:

      SET PRINTER name

form of the command and also confirms the validity of the name if it is a Windows Printer Queue.

It should also be noted that the text describing the SET PRINTER command in the K95 HTML manual is a bit confusing because it describes the printer type switches as have the format

       SET PRINTER /WINDOWS-QUEUE[:]

when it should be described as:

       SET PRINTER /WINDOWS-QUEUE[:[]]

where providing the colon without a name implies the default printer name of the given type.

### 617. RLOGIN host userid fails to send userid to host

The userid field on the RLOGIN command is supposed to allow the specification of an alternate name to use on the remote host. Rlogin sends both the local and the remote names to the host. In all versions of K95 after 1.1.17 the names are swapped.

RLOGIN /K5 does not allow the userid to be input.

This is fixed in 1.1.21.

### 618. -M command-line option does not work

The -M option is supposed to allow you to assign an alternate userid (SET LOGIN USER name) from the command line. This switch has no effect in 1.1.18 to 1.1.20. To be fixed in 1.1.21.

### 619. \v(exedir), \v(startupdir), \v(inidir) results can contain spaces

Not really a bug. Spaces in path names are very hard to work with in scripting languages that use whitespace as token separators. Windows provides a mechanism to determine the short names for a given path. In 1.1.21 and greater these variables always use the short names instead of the long names, and new functions, `\flongpathname()` and `\fshortpathname()`, are provided to convert between the two forms.

### 620. Kermit 95 does not accept keyboard input on CJK Windows 95/98

CJK versions of Windows 95/98 do not (by default) install an Input Locale which supports any of the Latin Code Pages (CP 1250-1258). Since the Windows 95/98 Console mode does not support Unicode K95 must perform translations of all keyboard events to one of the Latin Code Pages. Without a translation table all keyboard events return error values and K95 is unable to process keyboard input.

In 1.1.20 and earlier, if an Input Locale for English, German, French, ... is installed it will still appear that input cannot be processed since the default Input Locale (CJK) does not include the Latin alphabet. Pressing Left Alt-Shift one or more times until the Latin language Input Locale is selected allows for proper processing of keyboard input. 1.1.21 and later support the following behavior:

- K95 tests each installed Input Locale until it finds one that is able to translate the letter 'a', at which time it stops and uses that Input Locale as the default for the session.

- if no input locales are available that can translate the letter 'a', Kermit 95 terminates with an error message stating that an Input Locale must be installed.

- K95 performs this test only if a user presses a key. This way if K95 is being run from a script or using stdin the test is never performed.

### 621. QNX terminal emulation keypad-Plus and -Minus keys do not transmit "+" and "-"

This is a design decision, not a bug. The QNX operating system toggles the value of the Keypad-Plus and Keypad-Minus keys when the NumLock key is pressed; Windows does not. Therefore, the keys can only have one of the two assignments. K95 uses the assignments recommended by Dan Hildebrand of QNX in his document "Terminal Control under QNX" dated Nov 14, 1991.

The default mapping is to assign the SELECT function to Keypad-Plus and CANCEL to Keypad-Minus:

      SET TERM KEY QNX /LITERAL \363 \{255}\{167}     ; SELECT
      SET TERM KEY QNX /LITERAL \365 \{255}\{163}     ; CANCEL

and to leave the "+" and "-" strings assigned to the Shifted keys:

      SET TERM KEY QNX \875 \{43}
      SET TERM KEY QNX \877 \{45}

These mappings can be reversed by adding the following to the K95CUSTOM.INI file:

      SET TERM KEY QNX /LITERAL \875 \{255}\{167}
      SET TERM KEY QNX /LITERAL \877 \{255}\{163}
      SET TERM KEY QNX \363 \{43}
      SET TERM KEY QNX \365 \{45}

### 622. IBM 3151 unable to restore ASCII character set after Graphics character set is used

The IBM 3151 is a 7-bit terminal with two character set storage areas. Both are set to ASCII by default. Once a storage area has been set to the Graphics character set, it cannot be restored to ASCII.

### 623. TYPE and TRANSLATE commands only work under specific circumstances

One of Kermit's strengths is its ability to handle translations between character-sets. With the release of 1.1.19 (and 1.1.20) we altered the program to use Unicode (UCS2) as the intermediate character set for all translations. Unlike traditional character-sets UCS2 requires that its data be represented in 16-bits instead of 8-bits. While this allows UCS2 to be the perfect intermediary character set since it includes all the characters in all other character sets the use of 16-bits means that the representation of the character in memory becomes dependent on the byte ordering of the underlying computer architecture: Big-Endian or Little-Endian. When the byte orders become confused translations give bad results.

In 1.1.20 the TYPE command can be used for ascii text but cannot be used to display text in alternative character sets such as UTF-8, UCS2, or files from other platforms.

In 1.1.20 the TRANSLATE command can be used to display files of any type to the display, but due to byte ordering issues it cannot be used to actually perform a translation without using a work around. The command

      translate infile incs outcs outfile

results in garbage. To get this to work in 1.1.20 you need to temporarily alter the byte ordering

      set file ucs byte-order big-endian
      translate filename hp-roman8 cp1252 newfilename
      set file ucs byte-order little-endian

This is fixed in 1.1.21.

### 624. 1.1.20 is incompatible with Services for Unix 2.0 Telnet Server

If you are using K95 to access the SFU v2 Telnet Server, do not use VTNT terminal emulation. Microsoft has altered the contents of the data structure and it is no longer compatible with the VTNT implementation in 1.1.20. This is fixed in 1.1.21.

### 625. Wheel Mouse Button Numbering

If you have a wheel mouse, the numbering of the buttons might not be what you expect. For example, the left button might be button 3 and the wheel might be button 2. Some wheel mice allow the wheel to be clicked (or double clicked). Since the default assignment for the \Kpaste verb is Mouse Button 2 Double-Click, users of wheel mice might need to change this assignment if they want it to apply to the left mouse button. If your Control Panel has a Test Mouse feature, you can use it to find out what the button assignments are. Also see Item 265 in the main K95 Bug List.

### 626. Transparent Print Bug introduced in 1.1.18

Invalid escape sequences are sent to the printer without the ESC character. Fixed in 1.1.21.

### 627. Attempts to Add/Edit in K95 Dialer produce GPF on Windows 95/98

This may be caused by an out of memory condition in the User Resource Heap. The User Resource Heap is a limited amount of special memory (64k) into which all applications must store their GUI objects such as Windows, Buttons, List Boxes, etc. The Dialer's Edit Dialog in 1.1.20 contain over 300 window objects and requires 23k of memory. If this much memory is not available, a GPF occurs. Fixed in 1.1.21.

### 628. K95 crashes on Windows 95 if SECUR32.DLL is missing

Windows 95/98 come with `SECUR32.DLL` to provide the Security Support Provider Interface. This is a standard part of the Windows API. If this file is missing, `K95.EXE` crashes upon startup. Fixed in 1.1.21.

### 629. K95 Dialer 1.1.20 dialer produces non-fatal GPF on startup

On a small number of Windows 95 systems it has been reported that there is a non-fatal GPF produced in `KERNEL32.DLL` when the Dialer is started. This has been traced to a defect in some versions of `IPHLPAPI.DLL`. One known version of the DLL with the problem is version 5.00.1952.1. You can download a newer version of the DLL that does not suffer the problem from

      ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/iphlpapi.dll

Either replace the file located at `\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IPHLPAPI.DLL` with this newer version or place the file in the K95 directory.

### 630. Printer device not closed (if open) when K95 exits

If K95 has a printer open when it terminates, the printer is not closed. When printing to a file, this can result in the print output being truncated. Fixed in 1.1.21.

### 631. Winmodems

We've said it before and we'll say it again: Winmodems should not be relied upon for any serious work. For testing new dialin modem pool banks at Columbia, we have a script that repeatedly dials, logs in, uploads and downloads a 100K ZIP file, logs out, and hangs up. When this script is used with a Winmodem, the rate at which successful calls were disconnected before the data transfer phase was complete was about 13% (1700 trials). The same script run with an equivalent external (real) modem on the same PC encountered zero (0) disconnections. Furthermore, when Winmodems are in use, they can impact your PC's performance in ways that an external modem can not: Windows freezes periodically; the keyboard buffer is scrambled, etc.

### 632. SRP client security hole discovered

A bug in the SRP client library that opens SRP to attack by a fraudulent server has been discovered. This is not a deficiency in the SRP authentication protocol but a programming error in the library which has been fixed as of SRP release 1.7.0. The fix for this release is incorporated into the 1.1.21 release of K95.

### 633. K95 Documentation Shortcut to bugs file is incorrect

The Start Menu shortcut for the Bugs file is created for the file named bugs.htm and not k95bugs.htm as it should be.

### 634. UPDATES.HTM file has wrong version number

The 1.1.19 version of `UPDATES.HTM` did not get updated for 1.1.20. 1.1.20 added:

- Kerberos 5 user to user authentication
- support for NRL Kerberos 5

### 635. K95 Linux Console emulation incompatible with Red Hat 7.x AND all other new Linux distributions

Due to changes to the definition of Linux Console in the Linux Kernel built into Red Hat 7.0 and later, the K95 Linux console implementation cannot be used with 'vi' and perhaps other applications. This is corrected in 1.1.21.

### 636. Buffer overflow caused by long modem response messages

It was found that a modem response message greater than or equal to 128 bytes in length causes a buffer overflow in K95 versions released over the last several years. This is corrected in 1.1.21.

### 637. Failures when connecting through SOCKS server takes too long

If a SOCKS server is being used, and the SOCKS server has multiple IP addresses, and access to the desired host is denied or otherwise unavailable, then K95 would attempt to connect the SOCKS server's alternate IP addresses as if they belonged to the desired host. This is fixed in 1.1.21.

### 638. Can't start K95 from a DOS Prompt or from with a DOS application

If you can't start `K95.EXE` from within a DOS Prompt or a DOS application it is most likely because that session is configured to prevent it. See:

      Cannot Start a Windows-Based Program from MS-DOS Prompt
      http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q134/4/89.asp

Apparently, some versions of Windows 98 Second Edition have the:

      [x] Prevent MS-DOS based programs from detecting Windows?

flag set in the `_Default.PIF` configuration program. The bizarre side-effect of this is that our SETUP.EXE program which is 32-bits cannot start sub-processes (e.g. `K95PACK.EXE`) because `COMMAND.COM` is executed by the `system()` API, and `COMMAND.COM` is an MS-DOS based program.

### 639. K95.EXE when started from dialer complains about invalid command line parameters (Windows 2000/XP)

The K95 Dialer uses the TEMP or TMP variables to determine where to create the temporary connection scripts used by `K95.EXE` to connect to a host. If the path contains spaces a command line of the form:

      k95.exe c:\temp path\script.ksc

is created. Since the filename is not surrounded by quotes `K95.EXE` treats the command line as two parameters; one of which is illegal. This is fixed in 1.1.21.

### 640. K95D.EXE stops accepting new connections after several hundred or thousand incoming connections

`K95D.EXE` contains a resource leak. Handles to the Process and primary thread spawned when starting `K95.EXE` were never closed. Windows eventually runs out of Handles or Process space. This prevents additional `K95.EXE` sessions from being spawned until the `K95D.EXE` process is shutdown and restarted.

### 641. SET FILE COLLISION BACKUP fails on some file names but not others

On Windows 95/98/ME, there is a strange behavior in the `CreateFile()` API when given the OPEN_ALWAYS flag. It is supposed to return ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS when the file exists. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. When this bug is triggered, the file being received has both an original and backup file created, both empty. Fixed in 1.1.21, by no longer relying on the documented behavior.

### 642. SET TAPI MODEM-DIALING ON can cause scripting to fail

A just-discovered bug which has been present since version 1.1.3 can result in scripting commands such as INPUT and OUTPUT to fail if a SET SPEED command was not executed after the SET TAPI LINE which opened the device. This is fixed in 1.1.21.

### 643. Dialer direct-serial configurations vs. Hardware Parity

The Dialer, when configured to use a direct serial connection, fails to output SET STOP-BITS defaulting to 1 and also fails to output SET PARITY if the setting is "Even_8Bytes", "Odd_8bytes", "Mark_8bytes", "Space_8bytes".

### 644. Windows XP default location causes K95.EXE to crash on startup

In Windows XP, the default location is not fully specified to the application. `K95.EXE` 1.1.20 and earlier do not check for an incomplete location and crash on startup if one is found. This bug is fixed in 1.1.21. Workaround: Use the "Phone and Modem Options" control panel item to create a location.

### 645. Ghost Character Fragments on NT/2000/XP Console Screen

When using certain fonts in Windows NT, 2000, or XP in the Console version of Kermit 95, character bits and pieces can be left behind when a cell is cleared, especially if the cell was highlighted and was adjacent to a block cursor (as often happens with Unix more, Lynx, or various news readers), or if it has been selected with the mouse. This has been observed consistently, for example, with the Lucida Console font in Windows XP. It's a Windows problem. Workaround: to clear the ghost fragments, type Alt-x twice in a row. To avoid the problem, pick a different font. This won't happen in the GUI version.

### 646. The Kermit Timesync Utility Might Not Work

`TIMESYNC.EXE` uses RFC868 Time protocol (1983). Increasingly, however, Internet time servers are shifting to Network Time Protocol (NTP, the topic of about twelve RFCs from 1985 to the present: see http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/index.html, which is a web site maintained by the authors of NTP for recommendations and software for synchronizing their clocks. Windows XP supports NTP as part of its "Date and Time Properties" control panel. See the "Internet Time" for the ability to "Automatically synchronize with an Internet Time Server" or "Update Now". Custom servers may be specified.

### 647. Unbalanced-Braces Error in Scripts

The following:

      define Bob {
          for \%i 1 1 1 {
              output \{13}
          }
      }
      do Bob

gets an "unbalanced braces" error (because of the quoted backslash). Workaround: avoid `\{nnn}` notation for characters inside brace-enclosed loops. Fixed in version 2.0.

### 648. Disappearing Cursor

For some people, under certain as-yet unknown circumstances, the terminal screen cursor can disappear. This is not a new problem, but we have never been able to identify a scenario to reproduce it. Workaround: two Alt-X's in a row to exit and reenter the terminal emulator, or do anything that would resize the terminal window. If you can give us a sequence of events that reliably reproduces this problem (or if we find one ourselves), we can fix it.

### 649. Escape Character Status Line Typo

The termininal-screen screen status looks like this if you type the CONNECT-mode escape character

     ESCAPE         Command:        Prompt: c     Help: h

It should say "Command Prompt: c" instead of "Command: Prompt: c".

### 650. Status Line Not Updated after Ctrl-] Ctrl-]

If, after typing the CONNECT-mode escape character, you type a second copy of the escape character, the terminal-screen status line is not restored. Fixed in version 2.0 Workaround: Use Alt-R to reset the emulator.

### 651. HELP REMOTE HOST text wrong

"help remote host" says synonym is RHELP instead of RHOST. Fixed in version 2.0.

### 652. SET COMMAND SCROLLBACK in a script can cause an invalid memory access

Fixed in 2.0.

### 653. Kerberos 5 Rlogin fails to authenticate

Apparently this has been broken through the entire 1.1.20 release period and no one ever complained. It's funny what a single missing colon can do in a protocol message. Fixed in version 2.0.

### 654. Dialer bugs:

There should not be a browse button for the TLS Ciphers field. The TLS Settings page cannot be used with FTP connections even though K95 supports SSL/TLS secured FTP sessions. The paths generated with the Browse buttons should use forward slashes instead of the traditional backslashes found on Windows. These are fixed version 2.0.

### 655. telnet.exe and rlogin.exe do not work

Both commands incorrectly generate the new k95.exe command line. Fixed in version 2.0.

### 656. Telnet ComPort option

Dialing does not work consistently when carrier detect watching is enabled. Fixed in version 2.0.

### 657. Russian and Hebrew keyboard modes broken

When SET TERMINAL KBD-FOLLOWS-GL/GR is OFF Russian and Hebrew keyboard modes don't work. Off is the default mode. Turn it ON to work around the bug. This is fixed in version 2.0.

### 658. SHOW SSH does not list all forwarded ports

Only the first local and remote forwarded port is listed in the display. This is fixed in version 2.0.

### 659. COMPOSE and UCS2 Kverbs in Command Window do not display an input box

The functionality works there is simply no visible feedback on the status line. Fixed in version 2.0.

### 660. SET SSH STRICT-HOST-CHECK ASK is treated as OFF

Internally ASK is set to the wrong numeric value and due to the order of value testing invalid values are treated as OFF. This means that invalid host keys will be accepted without warning. This is a security hole in K95. Fixed in version 2.0. To work around, use ON rather than ASK.

### 661. \Kpaste on serial connections only sends 5 or fewer characters

This is a bug introduced in 1.1.21 with no work-around. Fixed in version 2.0.

### 662. SET TERMINAL KEY { RUSSIAN, HEBREW } does not work

SHOW KEY ... { RUSSIAN, HEBREW } report success but the wrong mapping table was being referenced. There is no work around. Fixed in version 2.0.

### 663. Spurious K95G screen clearing on startup

If you launch a K95G connection from the Dialer, and the Dialer entry changes the terminal dimensions, and then if you move the K95G window (and only the first time you move it), the Terminal screen is cleared (but not lost; the cleared material is still available in the scrollback buffer). Should be fixed in K95 2.1.3.

### 664. Everson Mono Terminal Font Side Effects

It is conceivable that the presence of Everson Mono Terminal on your PC might affect other applications, such as Netscape, that search for appropriate fonts to display text in various scripts. In such cases, if the result is undesirable, you might need to reconfigure the affected applications, or uninstall Everson Mono Terminal (in the Windows Control-Panel Fonts dialog).

### 665. Dimensions popup inactive during resize

(Not a bug) If you disable screen updates while moving windows (e.g. in Windows XP Desktop → Properties → Appearrance → Show window contents while dragging), then in K95G when Actions → Resize Mode → Changes Dimensions is selected the popup that shows the changing dimensions is not updated, and with Actions → Resize Mode → Scales Font, you can't watch the font change size.

### 666. Possible Help→Manual misbehavior

K95G and the Dialer have Help→Manual dialogs, which bring up the Kermit 95 manual in your Web browser. This works fine for most users, but several users have reported various failures or problems with interaction between K95 or the Dialer and browser; these have to do with the particular browser and version, the particular OS and version, and K95's SET BROWSER value, if any. K95G and the Dialer are using totally standard APIs for invoking the browser. In a pinch you can refer to the manual directly using something like:

>     file:///C:/Program%20Files/Kermit%2095%202.0/docs/manual/kermit95.htm

### 667. Underline and Blink control

In K95 2.0, SET TERMINAL ATTRIBUTES UNDERLINE OFF does not disable underlining; SET TERMINAL ATTTRIBUTE BLINKING OFF does not disable blinking. Fixed in 2.0.1. In K95 2.1.3 you can also create a nonblinking cursor with SET TERMINAL CURSOR { FULL, HALF, UNDERLINE } NOBLINK.

### 668. Host-Initiated Resize vs Font Scaling

In K95G 2.0, when the Window is maximized and the Resize Mode is "Scales Font", if the host changes the line width, the font did not resize properly. Fixed in 2.1.3.

### 669. SET GUI WINDOW RESIZE-MODE command missing

There was no SET GUI WINDOW RESIZE-MODE command in K95G 2.0 to match the Actions→Resize Mode menu item. Fixed in 2.0.1.

### 670. Trouble with COM ports

COM-port connections (but not TAPI ones) could become disconnected upon escaping back to the Command screen and then re-entering the terminal screen. Fixed in 2.0.1.

### 671. Toolbar always visible

K95G 2.0 has no method of disabling the functionality of the Tool bar or Menu bar. Version 2.1 has a new command SET GUI TOOLBAR OFF, which disables parts of the toolbar (but does not make it invisible). Similarly for MENUBAR. Version 2.1.3 adds command-line options to remove the Menu and Tool bars.

### 672. Upgrade Registration Problem

Copying the registration info from your old K95 version to 2.0 could fail if your old registration did not include a company name. Fixed in 2.0.1.

### 673. SRP authentication attempted when not configured on incoming connections

This is a bug that affects 1.1.21 through 2.0.1. It is fixed in 2.1. The way to avoid it is to specify a SET TELNET AUTH TYPE command that does not include SRP. This command would be placed in either the IKSD.KSC (for Internet Kermit Service) or K95CUSTOM.INI or K95SITE.INI depending on how K95 is being used to accept incoming connections.

### 674. Extended argument error

When starting K95G from a Dialer entry that was cloned from a template, K95G can fail, reporting an "Extended argument error". Diagnosis: Templates have Lucida Console hard-coded as the default font, but Lucida Console is not necessarily installed on every Windows computer. To compound the problem, K95G fails to start if given an invalid font in the `--facename:` command-line option. Fixed in 2.1. Workaround: Install Lucida Console; you can download it from `http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/`. And/or change the font on the GUI page of the template (and any entries cloned from it) to be a monospace font that you have, such as Courier New.

### 675. Non-English Directory Names

Windows directories such as `C:\Documents and Settings\xxx\Application Data\` can have different names in different countries, e.g. in Germany:

> `C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\xxx\Anwendungsdaten\Kermit 95\`

For the most part, K95 handles these correctly, but different behavior (or misbehavior) can occur on different Windows versions; for example, the Dialer, on first use, might create:

> `C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\xxx\Application Data\Kermit 95\`

which confuses the definition of Kermit variables such as `\v(appdata)` and `\v(common)`, which in turn can interfere with proper location of K95's initialization and customization files. Windows 2000 and XP should be OK; Windows 9x/ME with IE 5.01 or later should be OK; others might have this problem, which we will attempt to address in a future release.

### 676. SSH-AGENT.EXE Broken

Apparently this was never tested and nobody noticed until after K95 2.0 was released. The problems also involve K95's interface to SSH-AGENT. Fixed in version 2.1.

### 677. Default RGB color values in Dialer off by one

In K95G 2.0, the default RGB values on the Dialer's GUI page should use 128 instead of 127 as the binary value. Fixed in version 2.1.

### 678. Bulk License update loses number of seats

After applying the K95 2.0 upgrade installation to a Bulk Right-to-Copy license, the number of seats displayed in the registration screen goes from whatever it was (e.g. 100) to 1. This was a bug in the original upgrade installer. It is fixed as of 12 June 2002 16:30:00 Eastern USA time. If your upgrade was affected by this bug: first make sure your old K95 version is still on the disk (reinstall from CD if necessary), then use Add/Remove Programs to remove "Kermit 95 2.0", then download a new copy of the upgrade from `http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95upgrade.html` and apply it.

### 679. SSH connections to Cisco PIX

If you get "connection refused", it probably means you are attempting a connection to a server that does not support compression, yet Kermit is configured to require compression. Try SET SSH COMPRESSION OFF or, equivalently, uncheck Data Compression on the Dialer entry's SSH Settings page.

### 680. TLS CBC Cipher incompatibility with IBM Info Exchange

Between the release of Kermit 95 1.1.21 and Kermit 95 2.0 a vulnerability was discovered in the SSL/TLS Cipher Suite being used by IBM. IBM is using 56-bit DES in Cipher Block Check mode. This cipher is weak and because of a recent discovery the CBC mode has been shown to data leakage. The contents of the data stream can be read by a passive attacker. This vulnerability can be avoided if the SSL/TLS implementation forces the transmission of an empty SSL/TLS frame (one that contains no application data.) Kermit 95 uses the OpenSSL open source library as our implementation of SSL/TLS. Between 1.1.21 and 2.0 newer releases of OpenSSL became available. The fix to avoid the vulnerability was incorporated into Kermit 95 2.0 when we updated to the newer OpenSSL library. As it turns out, the IBM server violates the SSL/TLS protocol specification by failing to properly handle empty frames. A workaround is to use a non-CBC mode cipher until IBM is able to update their server:

> `SET AUTH TLS CIPHER-LIST EXP1024-RC4-SHA`

### 681. SET TRANSFER MODE MANUAL doesn't completely work

To force a particular file-transfer mode (text or binary) globally for all transfers, you are supposed to use SET TRANSFER MODE MANUAL to disable automatic per-file text/binary mode switching and then choose the disired mode with SET FILE TYPE (Kermit) or SET FTP TYPE (FTP). This is not quite sufficient, however. To finish the job, also SET FILE SCAN OFF. The bug is that SET TRANSFER MODE MANUAL is supposed to imply SET FILE SCAN OFF. Fixed in version 2.1.

### 682. COPY command destination file can have junk at end

If the destination of a COPY command is an existing file and the source file is shorter than the destination file, the source file overlays the destination file without truncating the excess. Fixed in version 2.1. Workaround: delete the destination file first.

### 683. Secure FTP authorization failure error message missing

FTP authorization failures were not being reported to the user (even though the FTP OPEN command failed properly). Fixed in version 2.1. Workaround: SET FTP DEBUG ON to see the protocol-level messages.

### 684. Fencepost error in FTP MGET /UPDATE

In FTP MGET /UPDATE, equal times spuriously caused download. Fixed in version 2.1.

### 685. In FTP MGET /RECOVER failures

In FTP MGET /RECOVER, recovery was skipped if the local file is newer than the remote. This would seem to make sense, but when a download is interrupted, the partial file never gets the date of the remote file, so the partial file is always newer, and recovery never works. Fixed in the version 2.1 by ignoring file dates in recovery operations, and also by setting the file date for a partially received file.

### 686. Redundant downloads in FTP MGET /RECOVER wildcard wildcard...

The first file in each wildcard group would always be downloaded. Fixed in version 2.1.

### 687. Missing message for FTP MGET /EXCEPT

When TRANSFER DISPLAY is set to BRIEF, files skipped due to exception-list pattern match are reported as "ERROR" with no reason. The operation works, but the message is misleading. Fixed in version 2.1.

### 688. Automatic Locus switching fails when FTP connection drops

If an FTP transfer was in progress with automatic locus switching enabled but the FTP connection drops, the locus does not change back; thus (for example) a subsequent DELETE command makes Kermit send a REMOTE DELETE packet on stdout rather than delete a local file. Fixed in version 2.1.

### 689. FILE INCOMPLETE setting ignored by FTP module

The FTP module never handled SET FILE INCOMPLETE. Fixed in 2.1.

### 690. FTP MGET sends superfluous commands to server

When an FTP MGET command has selection clauses that would exclude a file based on its name (e.g. /COLLISION:DISCARD, /EXCEPT:pattern), it sent SIZE and/or MDTIM commands to the server for files that would have been skipped even without this information, which could slow a multifile download unnecessarily. Fixed in 2.1.

### 691. FTP MGET pattern1 pattern2 pattern3 could stop prematurely

If a list of patterns is given to FTP MGET and any of the patterns matched no files, the download would stop at that point, rather than proceeding to the next pattern. Fixed in 2.1.

### 692. Interrupting FTP operations with Ctrl-C is problematic

To be addressed in a future release.

### 693. Terminal screen might have fewer columns than desired

If you choose a font and size that would make the Kermit window wider than the screen at the chosen number of columns, Kermit creates the window with the maximum number of columns that fit across the screen; for example, 78 instead of 80. Workaround: choose a smaller font size. This should be much improved in version 2.1, and totally fixed in 2.1.3.

### 694. /POPUP switches in GUI version work improperly

When a /POPUP switch is used in the GUI with commands such as ASK the generated popup is missing the frame and is displayed with a random color instead of the HELP color. Workaround: Use SET GUI DIALOGS OFF or use the /GUI switch instead of /POPUP. Fixed in version 2.1.

### 695. Changing GUI Resize-Mode behavior while maximized

If the resize-mode is altered while the window is maximized, the condition of the window when restored is undesireable. Improved in version 2.1.3.

### 696. SET COMMAND CURSOR-POSITION broken

The SET COMMAND CURSOR-POSITION command does not work. Fixed in 2.1.

### 697. SSH disables password based logins upon key change detection

When an SSH Key Change is detected, the password based logins are disabled in order to prevent theft of user passwords. However, this state is not restored for subsequent connection attempts and password based logins cannot be performed until K95 is restarted. This is fixed in 2.1.

### 698. Scroll-mode exiting not always possible using the GUI scrollbar

This is fixed in version 2.1.

### 699. FTP PUT Text Xfers with Character-set Translation Broken

Character-set translation during FTP PUT operations is broken in version 2.0, with no workaround. TEXT transfers without character set translation work fine. This is fixed in version 2.1.

### 700. SET TERMINAL IDLE-TIMEOUT does not stick in some circumstances

The TELNET, SSH, and SET HOST /CONNECT operations when executed after a SET TERMINAL IDLE-TIMEOUT command will configure kermit in a manner such that after exiting CONNECT mode, the IDLE-TIMEOUT value would be reset. This does not happen if SET HOST ... is followed by CONNECT instead of using one of the combined commands. This is fixed in version 2.1.

### 701. Unable to write to various Windows directories from K95

This is not a bug. K95 checks the READ-ONLY attribute of Directory entries. If a directory is marked read-only, it will not be writable. The default attribute values for each user's:

> Application Data
> Favorites
> My Documents
> Recent
> SentTo
> Start Menu

directories have the "Read-only" attribute set. This is set by the Windows Shell to indicate that these directories are "special". K95 2.1 has been modified to ignore the read-only flag when set on directories.

### 702. Everson Mono Terminal font misbehavior on Win9x/ME

In earlier versions of Windows, the Everson Mono Terminal font might look like chicken scratches and sometimes shows a strange horizontal compression, to the extent that a regular 80-column x 24-row terminal screen is taller than it is wide. It behaves (and looks) much better on Windows 2000 and XP (it can also be used successfully on earlier Windows versions that have such enhancements as Font Smoothing or Clear Type installed). Even then, however, it has some drawbacks: the vertical spacing is greater than most other monospace fonts, allowing fewer lines per screen at a given size; the rendering is a bit light; and line- and box-drawing characters tend not to line up right. It looks better in certain color combinations, such as black on white. We hope that this font will improve over time. Despite its drawbacks, we include it with K95 to allow access to scripts and languages you would not otherwise be able to see in a terminal session: Georgian, Armenian, Katakana, Cherokee, Coptic, Runes, Ogham, etc, because these characters are not included in widely available monospace fonts like Courier New and Lucida Console. If you don't need these characters, you might prefer to use a different font. Beginning in K95 2.1, the default Installer behavior is not to install it.

### 703. FTP MGET Might Fail Immediately with Invalid Temp-File Name

This bug was new to K95 2.1.0. Temporary filenames for FTP were being constructed within a buffer that could be too small. Fixed in 2.1.1.

### 704. FTP MGET fails when directory segments contain wildcards

For example, "`ftp` `mget` `*/data/*.dat`". New to 2.1.0; fixed in 2.1.1.

### 705. Kerberos Leash Shows Garbage for Local Domain

Leash32 Options -> Kerberos Properties -> Your Computer's Domain shows random garbage; this is a known bug in MIT Leash32 2.2.0. Fixed the version of Leash that is included with K95 2.1.2.

### 706. K95 can't download files named CON or CON.anything

This is a DOS and Windows feature. The same is true for any file whose name (the part before the dot, if any) corresponds to a DOS device name like CON, LPT, PRN, or COM1. It's not a Kermit problem. You can't create a file on disk with such a name using any other Windows application either.

### 707. TELNET Com Port Control vs the INPUT command

Numerous problem with the TELNET CPC option and the INPUT command have been resolved in K95 2.1.2. The INPUT command would improperly close the network connection to the host if the Carrier Detect (CD) signal was not raised; even if Kermit's CARRIER WATCH setting was OFF. The network connection should not be closed simply because there is no carrier signal.

### 708. VTNT connections vs Ctrl-C

Reportedly the VTNT server absorbs Ctrl-C characters. Kermit 95 sends them, but they have no effect at the remote session. If the report is true, this would be a problem with the remote server, not with Kermit 95.

### 709. Mouse print selection broken in GUI

Button 1 Ctrl-Shift-Drag (default assignment) is supposed to select screen text and send it to the printer. This doesn't work in K95 2.1; it either prints the whole screen or nothing at all. Diagnosis: a race condition between threads; The thread that is being spun off to perform the print job is not starting before mark mode is terminated. Workaround: Select/Copy the text, then paste into WordPad or something, then print it. An all-in-K95 workaround would be define a macro that writes the contents of the \v(select) variable to a file, then prints the file, then deletes the file. The macro could be assigned to a mouse event of your choice. with the SET MOUSE command. Fixed in 2.1.3.

### 710. K95 Does Not Support Remote SSH Agent Proxies

This feature was added in K95 2.1.3.

### 711. Maximize and Restore versus Resize Mode

(Not a bug) In the GUI version of K95, when the Resize Mode is Change Dimensions and you maximize the window and then restore it, you get a blank screen. Whenever a window's height is reduced, the entire contents of the window are placed into the scrollback buffer to ensure that the data will not be overwritten or become garbage. This behavior has never changed, but might be more obvious now that the Maximize and Restore controls work.

### 712. FTP Brief-format transaction log shows wrong status

If a transfer failed, the log entry said OK; if the transfer succeeded the entry said FAILED. Fixed in 2.1.3.

### 713. FTP connections always complain about 'FEAT' command

Kermit sends a FEAT command to see what features the server supports. However, the FEAT command itself is a relatively new addition to FTP protocol, so most servers don't understand it and and reply with an error message such as "'FEAT': Command not understood", which Kermit displays. K95 2.1.3 suppresses this error message unless FTP DEBUG is ON.

### 714. Problems with FTP [M]GET /RECURSIVE

FTP GET /RECURSIVE somepath/somefile didn't work and MGET /RECURSIVE */somedir/* downloaded the files into the current directory, rather than re-creating the remote directory structure. Fixed in K95 2.1.3.

### 715. FTP USER and similar commands don't strip quotes

In most contexts there is no way to specify an FTP username that contains one or more spaces. Normally this would be done by enclosing the name in doublequotes or braces, but the parsing code in this did not strip the enclosing quotes or braces before sending the username to the server. Ditto for password and account. To be fixed in version 3.0. Workaround: assign the multiword values to variables and use the variables. Example:

    assign \%u Fred Foo
    assign \%p Secret Password
    ftp user \%u \%p

### 716. FTP MPUT requires all filespecs to match at least one file

The command "ftp mput *.jpg *.gif *.bmp" gets a parse error and does not execute if any of the file specifications do not match any files. This is fine for interactive sessions, but not good for scripts. For scripts use something like:

    ftp mput *.jpg
    ftp mput *.gif
    ftp mput *.tif

or:

    ftp mput *.{jpg,gif,tif}

or:

    ftp mput "{*.jpg,*.gif,*.tif}"

Type HELP WILDCARDS for more information about the syntax. Fixed in 2.1.3, which allows FTP MPUT commands to contain filenames or patterns that do not match any files, and the command will simply skip over them and still transfer any files that do match, and will fail only if no files match at all, or if any of the transfers fail.

### 717. GREP (FIND) does not allow pattern variables

The GREP (FIND, SEARCH) command does not expand pattern variables; it takes the pattern literally. To be fixed in the next release. Workaround:

    define mygrep {
    local xx
    assign xx {
    find \%1 \%2
    if fail end 1
    }
    do xx
    if fail end 1
    }

and then use MGREP instead of GREP.

### 718. Dialer GUI Menu/Tool/Status Bar settings don't stick

Any changes to the Menu Bar, Tool Bar, or Status Bar check boxes in the Dialer's GUI Settings page are not saved when you exit from the Dialer.

Workaround: After checking or unchecking the GUI-page boxes as desired, click OK on the GUI page, then click Shortcut on the Dialer's Toolbar, then launch the connection from the shortcut rather than from the Dialer entry.

This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 719. The K95 command parser does not handle the NUL device

Using NUL (or NUL: or NUL.anything) in a Kermit command in place of a filename does not always have the expected effect. Instead, the command tends to fail with "?file not found". This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 720. INPUT n \fpattern(xxx) doesn't work for case-independent matches

Fixed in version 3.0.

### 721. MINPUT n ... \fpattern(xxx) ... doesn't work at all.

The MINPUT command does not handle patterns. Fixed in version 3.0.

### 722. Associative array references not case sensitive

Fixed in version 3.0.

### 723. SET KEY xxx \27H erroneously lowercases the value

Any SET KEY command in which the first character of the definition was backslash quantity, and the ONLY character after the backslash quantity was an uppercase letter, e.g. "set key \1234 \27H", would erroneously lowercase the letter. Fixed in version 3.0.

### 724. Failing FTP CD/CDUP/RMDIR does not set failure status

FTP CD, FTP CDUP, and FTP RMDIR did not set the failure status when they failed, thus IF FAILURE or IF SUCCESS tests after these commands did not work when they failed. Fixed in version 3.0.

### 725. The RENAME command sometimes fails without printing an error message

Fixed in version 3.0.

### 726. ENABLE/DISABLE QUERY broken

ENABLE QUERY or DISABLE QUERY always give a parse error. Fixed in 3.0.

### 727. CD command with wildcard broken

For example, "cd a*" when only directory name begins with "a". Fixed in 3.0.

### 728. DIRECTORY command with multiple filespecs can list too many files

Example: "directory a b c" lists all files whose names END WITH a, b, or c, rather than the files whose names ARE a, b, or c. Fixed in version 3.0.

### 729. Display of Plane-1-and-beyond Unicode characters

At present, Kermit 95 can not display Unicode characters beyond Plane 0, i.e. whose code values have more than 16 significant bits. Examples include Gothic, Old Italic, and Vietnamese Nom. This limitation is due to the lack of support in the Windows operating system for glyphs beyond Plane 0.

### 730. k95g.exe ssh://xyzcorp.com --nobars causes invalid memory reference

Fixed in version 3.0.

### 731. Long Read Delays when using USB Serial Ports or Modems

K95's device ReadIntervalTimeout parameter is set to MAXDWORD, the intention being for the read to return immediately after the first byte(s) arrive. But serial port drivers differ in their interpretation of the serial port character-read timeout parameters. When a serial port or modem uses the USB bus rather than the PCI bus, this can result in a 500 second delay between reads unless the buffer is filled. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 732. Backspace Key setting in Dialer -> Keyboard might be ignored

If you have a SET KEY \127 xxx command in your K95.INI, K95SITE.INI, or K95CUSTOM.INI file, this overrides the Backspace Key setting in the Dialer's Keyboard Settings page, even though the Dialer script is executed AFTER the INI file.

### 733. SET PRINTER command in Dialer-generated scripts

One user reported that it takes a long time to make a connection from the Dialer, and traced the problem to the SET PRINTER command that is included in every Dialer connection script. The SET PRINTER command queries Windows for a list of printers, and in this case, the query was taking a very long time. The user deleted the default printer and recreated it, and the problem went away.

### 734. Sessions Logs are always 8-bit

Session logs always record the 8th bit of each character, even when PARITY is not NONE, and/or even when TERMINAL BYTESIZE is 7. In these cases the 8th bit should be stripped (unless SET SESSION-LOG DEBUG is in effect). To be fixed in a future release. In the meantime you can use:

    SET TERMINAL BYTESIZE 7
    SET PRINTER /FILE:name-for-log-file
    SET TERMINAL PRINT AUTO

to create a 7-bit session log.

### 735. Macros on Keys broken

In versions 1.1.21 through 2.1.3, when a SET [TERMINAL] KEY definition includes a macro invocation, then pressing the key while in the Terminal screen returns to the command screen (and in some cases might also fail to execute the macro). A workaround would be to:

    define myconnect connect /synchronous
    ; (make the connection with SET PORT, DIAL, or SET HOST)
    if success do myconnect

This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 736. FTP MGET might not fail when it should

When SET FTP ERROR-ACTION is QUIT and a file in an MGET sequence fails, Kermit just goes on to the next file, rather than quitting and failing. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 737. No way to totally disable WIKSD event logging

One message written to the event log prior to the processing of the IKSD.KSC file; thus even if IKSD.KSD says "no logging", log records will accumulate. It is unclear at the current time when this will occur. There is also known to be a handle leak in IKSDSVC.EXE which can result in system instability. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 738. OpenSSL Security holes in 0.9.7

Version 2.1.2 of Kermit 95 ships with OpenSSL 0.9.7 which contains known security holes. These holes have been fixed in subsequent releases. The current release at the time of 2.1.2 was 0.9.7f. Fixed in Kermit 95 3.0.

### 739. Kerberos for Windows updates

Version 2.1.2 of Kermit 95 ships with an outdated version of MIT Kerberos for Windows which does not support AES encryption and contains interoperability problems with the Microsoft Windows Active Directory implementation of Kerberos and MIT Kerberos 5 Release 1.3.x. Version 3.0 upgrades to the latest version of MIT Kerberos for Windows which should resolve these issues

Kermit itself has been improved to support new Microsoft Kerberos functionality including new encryption types as well as use of the Kerberos tickets stored in the Microsoft Logon Session Kerberos cache.

### 740. OpenSSH Security holes

Version 2.1.2 of Kermit 95 ships with OpenSSH 3.5 support containing known security holes. The OpenSSH support in the next release of Kermit 95 2.x will be updated to OpenSSH 3.6.1 with extensions for SRP and GSSAPI Kerberos.

Kermit 95 Version 3.0 includes an entirely new SSH implementation which resolves all past security issues. SRP security is no longer supported.

### 741. SEND command in Kermit function causes crash

A SEND command embedded in a macro and executed as a function with \Fexecute(macro) would cause K95 to crash. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 742. Denial of Service attack against TCP/IP SET HOST * connections

Incoming TCP/IP connections did not provide for timeouts enabling a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack against K95 configured to accept incoming connections. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 743. SSL/TLS Private Key Passphrase Dialog reveals passphrase

The passphrase dialog for private keys accessed during SSL/TLS connection attempts does not obscure the passphrase input. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 744. Pragma Systems Terminal Server Not Supported

Kermit 95 has supported being used as a Kermit protocol engine under the Pragma Systems Telnet and SSH daemons but not the Terminal Server product. This is fixed in 3.0.

### 745. Communication devices passed to Kermit as handles are closed on exit

Starting in 3.0, if a communication device is passed to Kermit 95 for use via an already existing HANDLE, the default for the SET EXIT HANGUP command will be OFF.

### 746. SET TCP HTTP-PROXY cannot be used with HTTP connections

Support for using HTTP Proxy connections for HTTP connections has been added to version 3.0.

### 747. UNC paths do not work during FTP operations

Support for using UNC paths with FTP operations has been added to version 3.0.

### 748. Dialer QUICK Command improvements

The dialer QUICK command does not allow connections to be based on existing template and can not be saved for later use.

### 749. Linux Character Set handling bugs

There are bugs in the handling of the Linux Character Set. These have been fixed in version 3.0.

### 750. XMODEM-CRC checksums are not computed properly

The XMODEM-CRC checksum computations are not performed properly in all instances.

### 751. BEEP when setting window title in a terminal session

An inadvertant beep was produced when a SET TITLE control sequence was received from the host. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 752. NEW FEATURE: SSH Debug Logging

Version 3.0 supports the ability to log debugging messages to the debug.log file to assist in diagnosing connection problems.

### 753. Telnet AUTH vs Telnet START_TLS protocol negotiation conflicts

A protocol message sequencing error could occur when connecting to some hosts which support both the AUTH and START_TLS Telnet protocol options. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 754. NEW FEATURE: SSH Version 2 Protocol Automatic Rekeying

SET SSH V2 AUTO-REKEY {ON, OFF} has been added to version 3.0 to support automatic rekeying of long lasting ssh version 2 connections.

### 755. Extended command line options not properly processed

When using a mixture of Extended command line options the even numbered options would be misinterpretted as multi-valued switches. This would produce very odd and unexpected results. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 756. SSH URLs did not set the window title

When starting K95 from a command line with an SSH URL or via a browser using an SSH URL, the title of the K95 window would not be properly set to the host name. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 757. NEW FEATURE: SKERMIT command

The SKERMIT ssh subsystem functionality now has its own shortcut command. No longer is it necessary to enter

    SET NETWORK TYPE SSH
    SET HOST host /SUBSYSTEM:SKERMIT

instead

    SKERMIT host

is all that is required. This is available in version 3.0.

### 758. Process handle leak in the IKSD Service

A process handle leak in the IKSD Service could cause Windows to be unable to start subsequent processes and/or become very sluggish. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 759. NEW FEATURE: FTP SSLv2 connections

K95 follows the specification for FTP AUTH SSL and FTP AUTH TLS and does not support the antiquated SSLv2 protocol on FTP connections. Unfortunately, not everyone else follows the specification. A new command

    SET FTP BUG USE_SSL_V2 {ON, OFF}

has been added to allow SSLv2 to be used with servers that won't negotiate SSLv3 or TLSv1. This is available in version 3.0 only when compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.2 as newer versions of OpenSSL exclude SSLv2 support.

### 760.

A new command

    SET SSH HEARTBEAT-INTERVAL <seconds>

has been added to the next release to allow the SSH to be maintained during long idle periods. This is similar to the

    SET TERMINAL IDLE-ACTION TELNET-NOP
    SET TERMINAL IDLE-TIMEOUT <seconds>

which can be used to preserve TELNET connections without actually sending data to the host applications.

### 761. NEW FEATURE: ON_CD macro

A new auto-execute macro, ON_CD, can be defined in version 3.0. This macro is executed whenever a change directory operation occurs either due to a CD command or a Kermit protocol operation.

### 762. NEW FEATURE: FTP MLSD parsing of extended strings

### 763. SET ATTRIBUTES DATE OFF did not apply to XYZmodem file transfers

The SET ATTRIBUTES DATE OFF command should be able to be used to ignore the actual date information of the file and instead use the current date/time information as the file is sent or received

### 764. FTP ASCII transfers generated incorrect end of line when sending

FTP SEND file transfers of ASCII files to Unix or MacOSX hosts produce the wrong end of line marker. This has been fixed in version 3.0.

### 765.

Firewalls often filter HTTP requests based upon the Agent tag in the HTTP headers. The Agent tag is supposed to indicate the requesting application. To allow Kermit to pretend to be Netscape, Mozilla or Internet Explorer a new

    SET TCP HTTP-PROXY /AGENT:<agent-string>

option has been added. This is available in version 3.0.

### 766. Windows Registry entries containing environment variables are not processed correctly

Windows Registry entries containing environment variables should have the environment variables expanded before use. This is important for roaming profiles and the locations of network available applications.

### 767. Reverse DNS Lookups cannot always be disabled

There are some circumstances in the SET HOST operation in which reverse dns lookups are not always disabled by SET TCP REVERSE-DNS-LOOKUP OFF. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 768. Directory operations fail on network mapped file systems which do not provide date information

Some networked mapped file systems do not provide attribute information for directory entries. This causes the Microsoft C Runtime Library stat() command to fail.

### 769. IBM 3151 emulation is missing keymap assignments for some keys

The IBM 3151 emulation was missing kverbs for the Home and BackTab keys. The I31_F21 kverb would send the output of the F11 key. These have been fixed in version 3.0.

### 770. Dialer FTP entries did not preserve alternative port numbers

When the connection type is FTP, the port number is not entered into the appropriate field when editing. This means that editing an existing entry which requires an alternate port will lose the alternate port if the GENERAL page is edited and saved. This is fixed in 3.0.

### 771. NEW FEATURE: Hyperlink Extensions for ANSI based terminals

Hyperlink Extension for Terminals based on ANSI X3.64-1979/ISO-6429/ECMA-048

The hyperlink extension utilizes the Device Control Sequence (DCS) to implement both URL and UNC hyperlinks within the terminal session with the equivalent of the HTML HREF tag:

    <a href="http:/host/path?parameters">Click Here</a>

In an HREF tag, only the "Click Here" string is visible to the end user. Clicking on any character in the string will result in the execution of the URL. The DCS equivalent to the HREF tag is:

    <DCS> Pn + m <link string> <ST>

where:

- <DCS> is either the 8-bit DCS control or the 7-bit sequence
- <ESC> P <ST> is either the 8-bit ST control or the 7-bit sequence
- <ESC> \ Pn is one of three parameters:
  - 0 - terminate the hyperlink attribute
  - 1 - activate a URL hyperlink attribute
  - 2 - activate a UNC hyperlink attribute
- <link string> is the link text which may optionally be surrounded in double quotes.

Here is an example of how this extension is used to specify a URL hyperlink associated with a text string displayed to the end user:

    <DCS>1+m"https://www.kermitproject.org"<ST>Kermit Home Page<DCS>0+m<ST>

When this string is received by a supporting terminal emulator, at the present only Kermit 95 3.0.0 or higher, a hyperlink character attribute is defined. This character attribute behaves identically to a Select Graphic Rendition (SGR) character attribute such as Bold, Underline, or Reverse. Terminal emulators which do not support this extension would only display the contents of the display string. An example of a UNC hyperlink follows:

    <DCS>2+m"\\server\path\document.pdf"<ST>Acrobat Document<DCS>0+m<ST>

The hyperlink attribute can be combined with SGR sequences to specify display attributes for the hyperlink:

    <DCS>1+m"http://www.cdaero.com"<ST><CSI>4mCD Aero Home <CSI>24m<DCS>0+m<ST>

In the above sequence a URL hyperlink is specified in combination with the Underline SGR sequence. The display text is therefore displayed with an underline. When the display text is printed the underline and URL hyperlink attributes are removed. This behavior could also have been obtained with the sequence:

    <DCS>1+m"http://www.cdaero.com"<ST><CSI>4mCD Aero Home<CSI>0m

This is because the SGR 0 sequence means to clear all character display attributes. Only one hyperlink attribute may be specified at a time. Therefore, sequences of the following form are also valid:

    <DCS>1+m"http://www.cdaero.com/index.html"<ST>Web
    <DCS>2+m"\\server\public_html\index.html"<ST>UNC<DCS>0+m<ST>

In this sequence the URL hyperlink is replaced by a UNC hyperlink and then hyperlink attributes are disabled. Kermit 95 3.0.0 will display with an associated hyperlink according to the values specified with the command:

    SET TERMINAL URL-HIGHLIGHT ON <attribute list>

Where <attribute list> is one or more of: BLINK, BOLD, DIM, INVISIBLE, ITALIC, NORMAL, REVERSE, and UNDERLINED. The default is BOLD for the console version and BOLD UNDERLINED for the gui version. This extension is supported in the following terminal types: AIXTERM, ANNARBOR, ANSI-BBS, AT386, AVATAR/0+, BETERM, HFT, LINUX, QANSI, SCOANSI, SNI-97801, SUN, VT220, VT220PC, VT320, VT320PC, WY370.

### 772. ANSI DCS sequences containing an intermediary '$' character are improperly handled

the processing of all sequences with intermediate character '$' fell through to sequences with intermediate character '|'. This could have done very bad things to the values assigned to DEC UDKs. This has been fixed in version 3.0

### 773. NEW FEATURE: 3DES Telnet support

Add SET TELNET BUG AUTH-KRB5-DES which defaults to ON. When OFF, 3DES encryption may be used with KRB5 Telnet authentication. This is added 3.0.

### 774. UNC paths in file transfer operations generate errors

This bug is fixed by the same code changes as number 768.

### 775. SET TITLE <title-string> is not brace stripped

In version 3.0, braces or doublequotes may be safely placed surrounding the title string. They will be stripped off before the window title is applied.

### 776. MOVE-TO and RENAME-TO functionality did not work with XYZmodem transfers

The MOVE-TO and RENAME-TO functions were never implemented for XYZmodem. Support needs to be added for both SEND and RECEIVE operations.

### 777. SEND /MOVE-TO:<directory> fails when using Kermit protocol

The SEND /MOVE-TO: switch was broken. It incorrectly overwrote the file name with the directory name. This caused a fatal error during the file transfer. This is fixed in 3.0.

### 778. SET TERMINAL DEBUG ON command does not work.

The command does not work but the keyboard verb \KDebug which is mapped to Alt-D does. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 779. The INFORMATION sound generates no audible output

The wrong system sound was being called for BEEP INFORMATION or events which produce an informational tone. This has been fixed in version 3.0.

### 780. NEW FEATURE: DG4xx Set Cursor Type support

The DG4xx Set Cursor Type sequence <RS> F Q <type> is now implemented for Data General terminals and many other DG4xx sequences are now parsed even if we do nothing with them. This prevents unwanted characters from disrupting the display layout when 400 series commands are sent to 200 series terminals.

### 781. SET PRINTER command causes Kermit to crash

A SET PRINTER command on a machine without any Windows Printer queues would attempt to allocate zero bytes of memory and cause the program to crash. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 782. ANSI Backtab Control Sequence (CSI Z) does not function

The ANSI control sequence CSI Z is supposed to be equivalent to CSI 1 Z. Unfortunately, it is interpreted since 1.1.21 as CSI 0 Z which results in the Backtab functionality being disabled. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 783. NEW FEATURE: GUI TYPE command

A new function /GUI option on the TYPE command allows the generated output of the TYPE command to be displayed in a GUI text box

### 784. SCO SGR Set Fg/Bg sequence sets colors to black on black

The SCO sequence `CSI 2 ; <fg> ; <bg> m` sets the fg and bg colors to black instead of the specified values. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 785. SCO Set Function Key sequence if mis-used can corrupt the data stream

The SCO set function key sequence `ESC Q <fn> <quote> .... <quote>` breaks the ANSI X3.64 parsing rules. This can result in data being lost if the sequence `ESC Q` is sent to the terminal without properly specifying the <fn> and <quote> characters. As of version 3.0, if <fn> is an invalid character the specified character will be pushed back onto the data stream and reparsed in case the ESC Q was mistakenly used. Under normal circumstances ESC Q would be treated as the PU1 STRING sequence introducer.

### 786. IBM Info Exchange commands fail randomly with SSL_R_MISSING_EXPORT_TMP_RSA_KEY error

This is a bug in the OpenSSL library used to provide SSL/TLS support in Kermit 95. While the IBM Info Exchange service no longer exists, the bug that once affected it should be fixed in version 3.0

### 787. Dialer generates incomplete script when Transaction Logging is On

When transaction logging is turned on, the dialer generates an incomplete SET TRANSACTION-LOG command. This either results in a warning or a fatal script execution depending on the state of SET TAKE ERROR.

### 788. Named Pipe Network Connections are not supported on Windows

In version 3.0, Named Pipe connections (both client and server side) have been added. Client side named pipe connections can be used in conjunction with VMWare and other hypervisors to allow K95 to be used either as a terminal connected to a serial tty (redirected to a named pipe) or for use in logging syslog output on the host system.

### 789. FTP FEAT response improperly parsed

The response to the FTP FEAT command is used to determine which features the FTP server supports. Kermit improperly parsed this response resulting in the FTP client functionality being improperly configured. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 790. SET FTP CHARACTER-SET-TRANSLATION ON displayed garbage

When SET FTP CHARACTER-SET-TRANSLATION ON is set, Kermit 95 would output FTP server responses to the screen in the wrong byteorder. This would result in output appearing to be unreadable. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 791. Dialer generates incorrect FTP Connection Scripts

The dialer generates FTP connection scripts which use the FTP OPEN /USER /PASSWORD plus SET FTP AUTOLOGIN ON which is not a safe script operation since the failure state of the FTP OPEN command does not indicate whether the login succeeded. Instead, FTP USER and SET FTP AUTOLOGIN OFF should be used. In addition, commands entered into the Login Script page textbox were not included in the generated script.

### 792. Installer does not initialize TAPI

Kermit 95 requires that the Telephony API (TAPI) be configured for the machine for all users of the machine. The Telephony subsystem is configured using the Phone and Modems Options control panel. If TAPI has not been configured, TAPI will attempt to prompt the user for configuration data the first time the subsystem is activated by an application. If the user account under which the application is started does not have the necessary privileges to make changes to the local machine configuration (they are not Administrator), the application which uses TAPI will fail to start properly. In the case of Kermit 95, this means that while the Kermit 95 GUI Window (or console window) may open properly, the application will be unusable for about two minutes until the TAPI subsystem fails. The fact that the TAPI subsystem is left unconfigured after the Kermit 95 installation should be considered a bug in the Kermit 95 installer. The installer really should query TAPI to force the configuration of the machine.

### 793. Print Selection Doesn't Work

Ctrl-Shift-Drag events are not recognized by K95. Therefore the Select-and-Print operation that is assigned by default to Mouse Button 1 Ctrl-Shift-Drag is inoperative. Fixed in version 3.0. Workaround: Drag the mouse over the desired text WITHOUT Shift and Ctrl pressed. Then, before releasing the mouse button, press the Ctrl and Shift keys. Then release the mouse button, then release the keys.

### 794. Dialer Database Corruption

The Dialer database can be damaged in various ways, mostly by bugs in the C++ Class libraries that were used to build the Dialer. Many of these bugs have been worked around in version 2.1.3, so if you are running an earlier version, you should upgrade to 2.1.3:

    http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95upgrade.html

A significant re-write of the Class Libraries took place after 2.1.3 was released to make them compatible with the latest Microsoft development tools. These changes were to be incorporated into the next K95 release, but were lost in the intervening years and the dialer that ships with Kermit 95 version 3.0 is based on the K95 2.1.2 dialer. Meanwhile, in 2.1.3 a corrupted entry in a .DAT file (if it cannot be corrected automatically) will cause the user to notified of the problem, specifying the entry that was damaged and indicating that the entry will be deleted. Meanwhile, Kermit 95 creates an automatic backup each time the .DAT file is edited. The backups are located in the same directory as the .DAT file, which varies according to your OS version and installation choices; see the K95 README file for details:

    http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95readme.html

and have filenames ending in .BK1, .BK2, .BK3, etc. To restore from a backup, move or rename your corrupted DIALUSR.DAT for possible future analysis, and copy the latest backup to DIALUSR.DAT. If that one is corrupt too, repeat the process going back through the previous backup copies.

As of Kermit 95 version 3.0, the dialer (based on the code from K95 2.1.2) is no longer under active development and only receiving occasional bug fixes where the fix is easy. This is because the Class libraries that were used to build the Dialer are no longer supported by the original vendor and haven't received any updates in over 20 years rendering them incompatible with modern compilers and increasingly out of place on modern Windows.

The long-term focus now is to eventually build a from-scratch replacement for the dialer that does not suffer from these problems.

### 795. Printer output includes question marks instead of non-ASCII characters such as line drawing characters.

There is a bug in the SET PRINTER /CHARACTER-SET: processing which will always cause the printer character set to be assigned the value of "Danish ASCII". This bug will cause all non-ASCII characters to be printed as question marks. The only work around is to not issue a /CHARACTER-SET command which will leave the value at the default which happens to be Code Page 437. Unfortunately, the dialer always issues a /CHARACTER-SET command and there is no work around for that. This is fixed version 3.0.

### 796. Titles set with --title are cleared after a connection is established

The behavior of --title should be the same as "SET TITLE". The work around is to use the form -C "set title text". This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 797. Dialer generated scripts include SET LOGIN PROMPT and SET LOGIN PASSWORD commands when fields are empty

Dialer generated connection scripts include SET LOGIN PROMPT and SET LOGIN PASSWORD commands when the fields are empty. This can break the use of the standard login.ksc script. There is no work around. Fixed in version 3.0.

### 798. NEW FEATURE: --noclose command line option

This new feature for the GUI version allows the [x] button and File->Exit menu item to be disabled. This has been added in version 3.0.

### 799. Writing to VTxxx Status Line corrupted when display cursor on right margin

If the VTxxx writable status line is in use, if the display cursor is located at the right margin, text written to the Status line will be inappropriately line wrapped. There is no work around. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 800. In key mappings, the form \K{verb} is ignored

When assigning key mappings, it is often necessary to surround the verb name in braces to avoid parsing collisions. For example,

    SET KEY key \40\Kverb\41

is mapped to the key as

    (\Kverb)

which will be output to the host as "(" because "verb)" is not a valid verb name. There are two work arounds. You can map the key definition as either:

    \\40\Kverb\\41
    \40\{Kverb}\41

This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 801. SET TERMINAL IDLE-ACTION OUTPUT does not send NUL

Bug, fixed in version 3.0.

### 802. Date-time differencing across years broken.

Bug, fixed in version 3.0.

### 803. No way to HTTP GET a file that has metacharacters in its name.

Fixed in version 3.0

### 804. Some string-matching patterns don't work

Patterns containing * followed by an [abc] or [a-z] selection construction could fail under some conditions. Certain other patterns could cause Kermit to go into an infinite loop. Fixed in version 3.0.

### 805. IF with disconnected multistatement ELSE part broken

IF-ELSE statements of the form:

    IF condition {
    statement
    statement
    ...
    }
    ELSE {
    statement
    statement
    ...
    }

do not work. Workaround: put the ELSE after the closing bracket of the IF group: "} ELSE {". Fixed in version 3.0.

### 806. REMOTE DIRECTORY response lines terminated only by LF

These lines should be terminated by CRLF. Fixed in version 3.0.

### 807. DNS SRV records don't work with SSH

Bug: The SRV lookup only occurs if you explicitly specify a service name. If you enter your connection as "ssh hostname ssh" it will work.

### 808. K95 spuriously seizes focus

If Kermit 95 is started in such a way that its window would be wider or taller than the physical screen size at the configured resolution, Windows will pop the K95 window into focus because it "needs attention". This can happen if K95 is in the background, or indeed, even when it is in the foreground but displaying a dialog box (e.g. for the SSH password). A quick workaround is to maximize the K95 window, which forces K95 to adjust the font size to the screen size and resolution. The real solution is to set the monitor to a higher resolution (if possible), or else to use a smaller font size and/or smaller screen dimensions (rows and/or columns).

### 809. S-Expression division broken in K95

An S-Expression like (/ a b) causes a fatal error if the magnitude of b is less than one. This bug was fixed in C-Kermit shortly after K95 2.1.3 was released. The fix is in K95 version 3.0. Workaround: replace (/ a b) with \ffpdiv(a,b).

### 810. GSSAPI authentication doesn't work for SSH

GSSAPI changed after K95 2.1.3 was released; there is presently no way to authenticate with K95 2.1.3 against modern versions of GSSAPI. This is fixed in version 3.0.

### 811. KCD DOWNLOAD command doesn't work in Windows Vista and Windows 7

Apparently the Windows API for finding the user's Download directory changed since Windows XP. Workaround: SET FILE DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY will populate the \v(download) variable and allow KCD DOWNLOAD to work.

### 812. Autodownload GUI Dialog needs more buttons

The default TERMINAL AUTODOWNLOAD setting for K95 is ASK, which causes a dialog to pop up for each file, giving you the opportunity to say OK or No to accept or refuse the file. This is not good when downloading a large group of files. There should also be buttons for "Yes to all", "No to all". There should also be a note in the box to the effect that these dialogs could be suppressed, if desired, by adding SET TERMINAL AUTODOWNLOAD ON to K95CUSTOM.INI or in the Actions->Autodownload menu (change the setting from Ask to On).

### 813. Kermit 95 and large files

Experimentation has shown that, although K95 is not supposed to be capable of transferring large files (longer than about 2GB), it can indeed send and receive them successfully. However the file transfer display is wrong -- the numbers, the progress bar, the percent done, since K95 2.1.3 does not support long integers (well, it does, but in the Windows C compiler with which K95 was built, sizeof(long) == sizeof(int) == 4). Similarly any post-transfer statistics and transaction logging will also have nonsensical numbers. This has been fixed in version 3.0.

### 814. Using K95 as a terminal emulator to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

K95's default terminal emulation is vt320, which is well understood by RHEL5. However, by default (or perhaps always) certain RHEL applications write to the terminal in Unicode UTF-8, such as gcc 4.1.2, which outputs filenames in warning messages in "smart quotes" that are encoded in UTF-8. K95 supports UTF-8, but not as its default terminal character set, so when the first error or warning message comes out, the screen goes blank, because the multibyte Unicode character happens to be the same as a VT320 8-bit escape sequence. This is not a bug, just a surprise. Simply choose "utf8" in the character set box on the toolbar, or "set terminal character-set utf8".

### 815. Incoming Ctrl-Z (SUB) character not properly displayed in VT emulation

The Ctrl-Z character, SUB, ASCII 26 (decimal) is supposed to be displayed as a reverse question mark in VT320 emulation but it is not displayed at all. Reportedly this causes major discomfort when using the VMS TPU editor. There doesn't seem to be a workaround for this.

### 816. 80/132 column switching and Resize Mode

Clarification: At present, the command

    SET GUI WINDOW RESIZE-MODE { SCALE-FONT, CHANGE-DIMENSION }

applies only when changing the window size by dragging an edge or corner with the mouse. It does not affect (for example) host-directed switching between 80 and 132 columns in VT100/200/300 emulation.

### 817. Columns can be lost if K95G window wider than physical screen

In the GUI version of K95 (K95G.EXE), if the combination of font size and number of columns produces a window that would be wider than the physical screen, the columns that would extend beyond the right edge of the physical screen are lost. There is no horizontal scrolling feature to access them. To avoid this effect, you must use a font-size/terminal-width combination that fits on the physical screen. Another workaround is also possible:

1. Create an 80-column K95G window with the desired font and point size.
2. Use the mouse to make the font narrower by dragging the right edge of the window leftwards.
3. Give a SET TERMINAL WIDTH command to change to the desired number of columns.

Note: the Console version does support a form of horizontal scrolling, as described here: scroll.html

### 818. Ghost tool tips

I don't know if this is a bug in Kermit 95 or in Windows, but in Vista and probably also Windows 7, when you bring K95 to the front by clicking in its main screen, a ghost tool tip from the previous application is floating on the Kermit screen. It can be removed by clicking on it or by moving the mouse off the screen and back on. (Later I found that the same thing happens between two other applications with K95 not involved; it's annoying, but it's not Kermit.)

### 819. CVTDATE function cannot process deltas with negative months

The CVTDATE function cannot process a delta with negative months. For example,

    echo \fcvtdate(20050121 - 2 month)

produces an incorrect year. This is fixed in version 3.0.

This bug was previously erroneously cataloged in newbugs.txt as number 794, a number which was already assigned to #794 Dialer Database Corruption. For the K95 v3.0 issue of the bug list, it has been cataloged as bug 819.

### 820. Entering plane-1 unicode values causes a crash

K95 allows you to enter any plane-1 unicode value by pressing Alt-n and typing in four digits. In K95 v2.1.3 when you enter the fourth digit the application crashes. This has been fixed in version 3.0.

This is also logged as Issue #133 on Github

### 821. Receiving files with non-ascii names can result in garbled filenames

Receiving a file named "Grüße" may result in a saved file called something like "GrÃ¼Ã\237e". There are likely two factors that contribute to this problem:

1. The Kermit Protocol has no way of transmitting the encoding of a filename - its just sent verbatim and if the sender and receiver happen to use different encodings for filenames then you end up with a mess.
2. K95 does not call the Unicode versions of the File Open APIs on Windows, so even if the filename happened arrive UCS-2 encoded we're not passing a UCS-2 string to the operating system when creating the file.

This is also logged as Issue #141 on Github

### 822. Receiving large files requiring more than 32 bits to represent their size fails immediately

K95 can not handle receiving files that require more than 32 bits to represent their size. The transfer fails immediately with "Refused, size". Fixed in version 3.0.

This is also logged as Issue #53 on Github

### 823. Some applications don't resume properly after being sent to the background (linux term type)

When using the linux terminal type, some applications fail to redraw their interface when suspended with Ctrl+Z and then returned to the foreground with `fg`. This is caused by linux private mode sequences not following ECMA-48 rules by using a non-standard terminating character. Fixed in Version 3.0.

This is also logged as Issue #92 on Github

### 824. The run and browse commands leave a console window open in K95G

In K95G, when you start a GUI program with the `run` command, or use the `browse` command, an empty console window appears alongside the started application.

This is also logged as Issue #114 on Github

### 825. Files requiring more than 32bits to represent their size are shown as having a size of -1 by the DIRECTORY command

Fixed in 3.0.

This is also logged as Issue #221 on Github

### 826. The K95G terminal screen is cleared when you first move the window

Probably related to bug 663, in K95 2.1.3 the the terminal screen is cleared the first time you move the K95G window regardless of how you started it. This bug is finally squashed for good in version 3.0.

This is also logged as Issue #49 on Github

### 827. Making the K95G window larger in any dimension than the primary display introduces blank space

On a computer with multiple displays of different resolutions, in K95 2.1.3 if you resize the terminal window to be larger in any dimension than the primary display the extra area in that dimension is just white space. Fixed in version 3.0.

This is also logged as Issue #187 on Github

### 828. The SET MOUSE ACTIVATE command does not work in K95G

Fixed in 3.0.

This is also logged as Issue #103 on Github

### 829. Receiving files with a specified destination fails when autodownload is set to ask

Fixed in 3.0

This is also logged as Issue #166 on Github

### 830. Switching between command and terminal screens via the keyboard does not update the toolbar button state

Fixed in 3.0.

This is also logged as Issue #116 on Github

### 831. On Windows NT 3.50 for Alpha, K95G causes Windows to crash

When K95G is started on Windows NT 3.50 for DEC Alpha, the Win32 subsystem begins malfunctioning so badly the computer is immediately unusable. If it doesn't crash entirely causing a Blue Screen, the only way to recover is to power cycle or reboot the machine yourself.

This is a bug in Windows NT 3.50 - a user mode application such as Kermit 95 should not be able to bring down the operating system. While there may be something specific that K95 is doing to cause this issue, given the limited demand for Kermit 95 on this platform it isn't really worth investigating developing a workaround for this problem. As of 3.0 beta 7, K95 for this platform is console-mode only (no K95G).

This is also logged as Issue #308 on Github

### 832. K95G crashes on exit if a connection is active and GUI dialogs are off

If you try to close the K95G window either with the [X] button, or the File -> Exit menu item while a connection is active and GUI dialogs are turned off (`set gui dialogs off` or Actions -> GUI Dialogs), instead of asking if you want to exit K95G stops responding and must be terminated with task manager.

This bug affects K95G 2.1.3 and likely all GUI versions of K95G going back to v2.0.

At the moment the workaround is to leave GUI dialogs turned on, or disable the on-exit warning with `set exit warning off`

This has been fixed in v3.0 - when closing the K95G window with the [X] button or the File -> Exit menu item, GUI dialogs will always be used.

This is also logged as Issue #322 on Github

### 833. Scrollback search input box isn't visible if the terminal status line is turned off

When you search within the scrollback buffer, the search field is shown in the terminal status line. If the terminal status line is turned off, the search field is invisible.

The search does appear to still work but this may just be confusing if you don't know about it - you hit Alt+Left and nothing visibly changed but your keystrokes aren't going anywhere obvious now.

This is also logged as Issue #326 on Github

### 834. Switching between command and terminal via \Kexit doesn't toggle the toolbar button

When switching between the command and terminal screens using the \Kexit kverb (Alt+X by default), the state of the associated toolbar button does not change. This can result in the toolbar button state getting out of sync.

This bug affects K95G 2.1.3 and possibly earlier versions. Fixed in 3.0.

This is also logged as Issue #116 on Github

### 835. The SET HOST command does nothing when the network type is NETBIOS

When using the NetBIOS network type under OS/2, the SET HOST command does nothing. `SET HOST *` does not listen for connections, and `SET HOST foo` does not connect to the host named foo. No output is produced in response to either command.

Based on available code, Kermit 95 version 1.1.17 (June 1998) was the last release where NetBIOS support was likely to work on OS/2. By 1.1.19 of February 2000 (1.1.18 wasn't a public release), the code to make actually make or listen for NetBIOS connections was missing.

Fixed in 3.0.

This is also logged as Issue #339 on Github

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