E-KERMIT COMPILATION WARNINGS EK 1.7 compiled without warnings on a great many platforms in 2011. Now in 2021 it gets all kinds of political-correctness warnings, different ones on different platforms. This is because every release of every variety of Unix tends to change or move header files and/or the function definitions within them out from under the applications that depend on them, and also because the C compilers become increasingly picky. Earlier programming environments were not like this; for example, if you wrote a program in PL/I or SNOBOL, it *stayed* written. I'm not going to worry about this; it's a rabbit hole and no amount of fixing will prevent it happening again in another year or two. E-Kermit 1.8, released today, corrects a bug when using the Unix demo version and the -B or -T option is included on the command line. It gets the same warnings as 1.7 The warnings are harmless; the program works on at least on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.6, on NetBSD 9.0, and Ubuntu 20.04.1. If you have any ideas how the improve the E-Kermit code to cope with this situation without burying it in mountains of #ifdefs, please let me know. Frank da Cruz The Kermit Project fdc@columbia.edu 26 May 2021