[Linux-decnet-user] latd 1.18 released

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

Here's version 1.18 of LAT with a major new feature and a fix for a
long-standing bug that finally hit me so I decided to try to fix it :-)

The major new feature is support for reverse-LAT services. The most practical
use for this is to use LATSYM on VMS to print to printers on Linux. In brief you
can create a printer service on Linux like this:

latcp -A -a LINUXPRINT -c "lpr" -ulp -glp 

and print to it from VMS by associating  an LTA device with the node and
service. Thanks to Paul Hanson for the idea.


The important bug fixed is one that I never saw on Linux (but it had been
reported to me) but I have not seen on Darwin - users logging into a LAT service
found that the shell didn't have job-control enabled.

Here's the full changelog

  * Fix configure --enable-debug
  * Fix configure --sysconfdir
  * Don't send issue file if it exists but is empty.
  * Add support for reverse-LAT services. you can now use LATSYM
    to print to LAT printers on Linux (and probably many other things too!)
  * Make sure node names are truncated at 16 characters
  * Fix shell job control problems when connecting to some systems
  * Send remote credit a little earlier in an attempt to avoid those
    annoying pauses.

Get it from the usual places:
 https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4993
 or your local Debian mirror.


patrick