ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (07/20/88)
In the current issue of "Kermit News" it says that there is a version of C-Kermit for MINIX. If that still works with the new RS232 driver, perhaps there would be enough interest in it to have someone post a uuencoded binary at least, and maybe diffs to the sources(?). In any event, I imagine there is interest in Kermit for MINIX since Kermit is available on so many machines. Any thoughts on the subject? Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
alanf%smile@Sun.COM (Alan Fargusson) (07/21/88)
Once I get a machine that runs MINIX (or a version that runs on my Z158) I want Kermit. I have used C-Kermit and like it. I would like to get source since I don't have the source for C-Kermit right now. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alan Fargusson Sun Microsystems alanf@sun.com ..!sun!alanf
frank@morgan.com (Frank Wortner) (07/25/88)
In article 921@ast.cs.vu.nl Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) writes: >> In any event, I imagine there is interest in Kermit for MINIX >> since Kermit is available on so many machines. Any thoughts on >> the subject? I'd love to see it. Back in February, I tried to port C-Kermit 4E to Minix. While the 1.2 compiler handled the sources without any real problems, asld ran out of memory trying to link the resulting ".s" files. I later set up a cross compiler on a Sun at work and generated a seemingly working C-Kermit, but I junked the project when it struck me that not many people would be interested in a Kermit that required a Sun-based cross-compiler. I know, I should have used Turbo C, Aztec C, or one of the numerous other DOS-based compilers, but I figured if a PDP-11 under Un*x could compile and link C-Kermit, a Minix system should be able to do it too. It looks like the next big improvement in Minix C should be a better asld for 8086-based machines; memory presumably won't be a problem in 680x0 versions of Minix. Frank