KLENSIN@INFOODS.MIT.EDU (John C Klensin) (01/18/90)
Most of the IBM PCs in the world run PCDOS of some flavor. The current MSDOS kermit (2.30 or 3.0) will run with PCDOS 2.1 or later if you have the circa 256K of memory it needs. For smaller or older machines or versions of the OS, you are going to need a very early kermit. I can paw throught my floppy disks if necessary and try to find you one, and let you know. IBM CP/M-86 Kermit has never been released, due to some difficulties in shipping, communications problems in the USA, and the fact that it represents a later release and compiler (with a few new features) than the other CP/M-86 kermits. Their maintainers weren't excited about putting the new features and structure (really intended to support a native Concurrent CP/M implementation) into their versions, and my collaborators and I have never gotten adequately motivated, despite good intentions, to retrofit the changes into the older version. If you really need the thing, I can try to send you a version, but this raises the other problem with CP/M-86 kermit, and CP/M-86 generally, which is that, unlike CP/M-80, there is no standard HEX format and LOAD/UNLOAD programs generally available. And, because we were never able to get recent versions of Concurrent to run on our hardware, it is difficult for us to even read and copy the diskettes now (it means booting CP/M-86 from floppies, then operating in a floppy- only environment). I *do* have diskettes containing a working version of IBM PC CP/M-86 kermit. If you really need it, do you have suggestions for getting the software to you? john klensin Klensin@INFOODS.MIT.EDU -------