ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA (07/29/85)
NetLandians, Moved down a nice little Turbo Pascal Kermit from DEC-MARLBORO. Author is Jeff Duncan, written in Dec 84. Didn't hear anything on the nets about it (as I recall), so thought I'd remind people. Nice little package. Not a real "full house" Kermit with all the bells and whistles, but a real nice neat framework and the basic protocol to work from. Much easier to hack and install than the big Assembler Kermits (believe me!), and works just fine as is. His package is "generic CP/M", using the Iobyte to switch ports between Rdr/Punch and Console, but the interface is so nice and clean that it would be fairly easy to hack in anything else you want. Maybe some PC or MS-DOS wizard could do a hack and give us a module to handle that environment? Sure could use that myself, since I have friends with PC type systems that need something, but don't have a machine handy to experiment on. That Kermit is NOT at SIMTEL20, to the best of my knowledge, and maybe oughtta be - sure is neat! Regards, David Kirschbaum Toad Hall ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID
WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Frank J. Wancho) (07/29/85)
Dave, KERMIT is the one set of "public domain" files we do not keep on SIMTEL20. We don't keep KERMIT sources here for two reasons: we don't have the SPACE to keep redundant copies of what is already available via FTP from CU20B, and we wouldn't have the TIME to keep our copies current even if we did have the space. If anybody wishes to keep track of new developments with KERMIT, subscribe to the weekly INFO-KERMIT-DIGEST by sending your request to be added to the mailing list to INFO-KERMIT-REQUEST@CU20B. Currently under discussion are proposed major extensions to the protocol as well as the regular announcements of new versions available and bug reports and fixes to current versions. --Frank