10 MS-DOS Kermit Patches Don't Seem to Take Effect.

Since the release of MS-DOS Kermit 3.14, there have been persistent reports that patches don't seem to "stick". That is, after giving a PATCH command, the patch level is still reported as 0. This can happen if the patch file is transferred to the PC from a UNIX system in binary mode, so the lines end with LF rather than CRLF -- DOS does not recognize the line boundaries and therefore Kermit does not see valid patches. Cure: make sure each line ends with CRLF. Fix it in an editor, or re-transfer the file in text mode.

Also, remember there is no longer a need to rename the patch file to MSKERMIT.PCH. Since there are now three different Kermit executables, there must be three corresponding patch files. For version 3.14, these are:

  MSR314.PCH  -- For full-featured KERMIT.EXE
  MSRM314.PCH -- For "medium-size" KERMITE.EXE
  MSRL314.PCH -- For "Kermit Lite" KERLITE.EXE