From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Subject: new ka9q (version 8) uploaded Date: 27 Jan 1993 09:49:58 GMT
A couple of people have said things that imply that KA9Q as now on
tsx-11 doesn't work with kernel 0.99. I'm not sure why that would be.
But I've uploaded the version of KA9Q I'm currently using. It works
(at least for me) with 0.99pl2, including with the experimental tty
driver. Note that the binary is linked static, so it doesn't matter
which sharable libraries you have. The next time I'll probably build
it dynamic, but at the moment I wasn't sure what to assume that people
had.
There is one minor change in functionality. It's possible to have
several sessions active at once. But only one is current. I now
output a message if input arrives on a session that's not the current
one. This is intended to alert you that you probably want to look at
that session to see what's going on. The message looks like
[Telnet: Input from session %d]
I noticed that somebody has a recent NOS release of KA9Q running on
Linux. That's a newer version of KA9Q than this one. I haven't had a
chance to look at it yet. I'll try to do so. I should note that
while the version of KA9Q I started from is fairly old, I've done a
certain amount of my own work on telnet and compressed SLIP. I have
spent a lot of time getting CSLIP and telnet to the point where I get
as good interactive response via KA9Q as a simple Kermit connection.
I'd like to verify that NOS has equivalent performance and features.
(There may also be a difference in style. I currently model the
telnet after Cisco's terminal servers, which I think have a better
user interface for telnet than the Berkeley code that's more commonly
used as a model. But I haven't seen what NOS looks like for a couple
of years, so it could well be as good.) If so, I see no reason for me
to continue supporting an old version of KA9Q.