respond to a port disconnect event by abandoning the transfer currently in progress. this is for dialup modems that may hang up abruptly. in Kermit.Receive, respond to a bogus request with a NAK, not an error packet. some PC implementations of Kermit.Send will not give up if they keep receiving error packets. be more robust about accepting remote filenames with strange punctuation. Ideally, never try to Receive an illegal name.