C-Kermit 7.0 Beta.11 is installed at: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck70.html and is ready for testing. It was an long time coming because we REALLY want this one to be the final Beta before release. The biggest additions are: . New "Open Source Friendly" license. . Pseudoterminal control (UNIX only) for SSH and tn3270 connections, etc. . HTTP client commands. . SSL/TLS security (USA and Canada only). And here is what else is new (the top items in each category are the most significant): Internet Kermit Service Daemon: . Now available in Kermit 95 (but not released yet). . IKSD active-sessions database and display module. . Streamlined IKSD server-mode operation. . Additional management controls. . LOGIN and LOGOUT commands added to client for logging into IKSD. Security (USA and Canada only): . Kerberos V support now compatible with MIT Version 1.1 release. . Secure Remote Password support now compatible with release 1.5.0. . SSL/TLS support finalized (details below) Character sets: , New support for KOI8-R and KOI8-U as file and terminal character-set. . Full conversion between Japanese character sets and Unicode. . Better detection of invalid UTF-8 sequences. . Fixed some translations that were broken since last July. . Corrected ISO-8859-7/Unicode (Greek) mappings. File Transfer: . SEND /ARRAY:\&a[] transfers the contents of an array. . Autodownload "pass-through" problem fixed. . Big performance improvements on certain kinds of connections. . Fixed SEND /TEXT and SEND /BINARY to work as documented. . Fixed server side of GET /RECURSIVE to not always switch into binary mode. . Explicit control for VMS file version numbers. . RELIABLE and CLEARCHANNEL status added to STATISTICS display. . ROBUST macro now also sets RELIABLE and CLEARCHANNEL appropriately. . SET CLEARCHANNEL AUTO fixed. . SET F-ACK-PATH { ON,OFF } for adjusting to MUMPS Kermit. . Avoidance of creation of multiple backup suffixes when receiving. . Stats for streaming downloads fixed. . Better filename transformation eliminates '.' in directory segments. . TRANSMIT completion status and error messages fixed. Client/Server: . REMOTE SET FILE CHARACTER-SET added. . REMOTE commands can now be longer than 84 characters. . Fix to long-standing problem in which REMOTE commands might print garbage. . Certain REMOTE commands that were not setting SUCCESS on success now do. Scripting: . The INPUT command can now match regular expressions (patterns). . New ON_CLOSE macro traps connection loss. . New ON_OPEN macro traps connection establishment. . WAIT