SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET.UUCP (04/10/87)
Fri 3 Apr 87 15:35:48-EST
Fm: Frank da Cruz <SY.FDC@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Re: New Kermit Available for Apple II DOS and ProDOS
Keywords: Apple Kermit
This is to announce a new release (3.75) of Apple II Kermit that runs under
both Apple DOS 3.3 and ProDos, from Ted Medin (MEDIN@NOSC.MIL). It includes
new LOG, SERVER, and SET commands, the ability to do XON/XOFF, printer control,
VT52 emulation improvements, timeouts, support for various 80-column cards and
for a variety of communication cards including:
Apple Comm Card
CCS 7710
Hayes Micromodem II
Microtec Comm Card
Super Serial Card
and it has extended-length packet support.
The program is based on the previous release of Apple II Kermit, which remains
available (for now) as KER:APP*.*, because it's not yet clear at what point
these two versions diverged, and whether the old version has been serving as
the basis for parallel developments. The new version is in KER:A2*.*, and is
written in a dialect of the CROSS assembler language, and comes with a cross
assember (A2XASM.*) written in C to assemble it; this cross assembler can be
run on a Unix system (Berkeley or Ultrix, and possibly any other Unix system,
so long as it runs on a 2's complement, rather than 1's complement, machine).
It might also be possible to assemble it with the Merlin assembler after some
minimal editing, except that the source file is too big and would need to be
broken into pieces (anyone who succeeds in doing this is encouraged to report
back the actual procedure).
The memory size of this version of Kermit is currently $7000 so it should
run on a 32K Apple.