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I was asked to upload the new patchlevel of Xcomm by the author.
These files superceed the old packages.


The Two files are xcomm3b-L1.5.src.tar.Z and xcomm3b-L1.5.bin.tar.Z

The binary package contains a striped binary linked with jumptable 4.1
with the new stat() call and the source used to compile it. The source 
package contains just the source used to compile the binary in the bin
package.

below is the message sent to me by the author and is also included in the
packages.

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Subject: Re: xcomm patchlevel 1.5
To: Jeff-Randall%bimbo@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 0:49:22 EST
From: Thomas McWilliams <bimbo!ukelele!tmcwill@pyrdc.va.pyramid.com>
Reply-To: pyrdc!bimbo!ukelele!tmcwill@pyrdc.va.pyramid.com


Hi Jeff,

> It seems to work fine.. you mentioned that you did not have FTP access,
> did you want me to put it at tsx-11 and sunsite?

Yes, could you do that for me? I would appreciate it *very* much.
That was the reason it hasn't been updated there in a long time.
I am going to sign up with holonet but since that is untested I would
think it best to trust you to move it to the FTP sites. You might
want to make a mention of it in comp.os.linux and I will post a 
message also describing the changes. 

Basically the changes are:

a) bug fixes, 
b) clean-up of the code, 
c) correction of the buffering problem with stderr (a fault of GCC 2.x), 
d) fixes to the dialing directory to not choke on the DEL character, 
e) improved dos_mode for displaying high-ascii characters and line graphics 
   (the latter by mapping them to vt102 graphics sequences), 
f) proper parsing of dos-type "ansi" (?) sequences which differ from the 
   vt102 standard.
g) *selectable* trapping of the DEL character and mapping it to backspace. 

It should be noted also that the internal xmodem protocols are considerably
improved and faster than stock XC. I should get around to submitting my
patches ..... :-)

If you have any suggestions, just drop me a line.

Thanks again, 

Thomas

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