[HECnet] Tops-20 Kermit Version 5.3(255)-5 Maintenance Release Announcement

Version 5.3(255)-5 incorporates additional features, enhancements and fixes since the minor release of 5.3(248)-5 in November 2023. These are as follows and can be identified in the code with the edit number as the prefix of a comment. [249] Implement relative directory connect [251] Emit new directory name when either wildcarded structure or directory changes [252] Fix some of the directory parsing logic to properly handle .CMDEV and .CMDIR [253] Fix ^A to print the number of pages sent and the total; was always omitting total [254] Implement CDUP, generic 'G' [255] Make CWD accept ".." as token for Unix, DOS, Windows, and OS/2 CDUP The changes were mainly driven to simulator relative directory connection as Tops-20 directory punctuation (I.E., '<' and '>') can too easily be confused with piping requests on some Kermit clients.  On some, it proved impossible to convince them otherwise... Generic 'G' is an addition to the Kermit protocol.  C-Kermit currently implements this in addition to Tops-20 Available for ANONYMOUS NFT from VENTI2:: and from https://www.kermitproject.org/kermit-20.html.