lenoil@mit-eddie.ARPA (Robert Scott Lenoil) (03/21/85)
I just posted the following message to USENET. Briefly, I offered to provide copies of diskettes containing Kermit for the Commodore 64 for seven dollars, to defray my costs (diskette, mailer, postage, wear and tear, and my time - which will be a lot, considering that I only own a single disk drive, and therefore will have to swap disks back and forth to perform a copy.) To address your problem (how to obtain Kermit) I thought I'd let you know that I am willing to provide Kermit diskettes to those people who are reluctant or unable to go through the downloading procedure. For $7.00 (U.S. funds), I will provide a diskette containing the executable code and documentation file. (Outside North America, please enclose an extra $1.00 to cover additional mailing expense.) Send requests and inquiries about Commodore-64 Kermit disks to the address below. Note that Kermit is written using the CROSS cross assembler which runs only on DEC-10's and DEC-20's; hence enclosing the source code would not be of much help. An additional problem is that the source code is larger than an entire 1541 diskette, and therefore would be too much trouble for me to copy. Please note that I am not conducting a business. I am making this offer to increase the availability of Kermit, which I hold to be a fine program. I must stress that Kermit may be copied free of charge, so long as this copying is not for "explicitly commercial purposes" (Taken from Columbia University's policy document on Kermit distribution), and those of you who wish to do so may download it free of charge from Columbia University machine CU20B (on ARPANET), using BITSERVE (from BITNET), or via UUCP from host OKSTATE. If people have questions, they can contact me by sending mail to lenoil@mit-eddie. Mit-eddie is on both the DoD internet and USENET, so I'm fairly accessible. Also note that I will not be at my present U.S. mail address for this summer, but my network mail will forward. Therefore, starting in June, it would be a good idea to first send me computer mail to obtain my current mailing address, rather than suffer the problems of delay and lossage of forwarded U.S. mail. Yours truly, Robert Lenoil 229 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02116 (USA)