CURRENT STATE OF MACINTOSH KERMIT

  Wed May 22 15:28:44 1996

Macintosh Kermit is an unfinished and unsupported software program.  It is
usable for most serial-communication purposes, but it does not have a
comprehensive manual, and there have been no Macintosh programmers devoted to
upgrading and maintaining it since about 1988.  Nevertheless, occasional
upgrades and fixes have been made on an ad-hoc basis since then.

The current version is 0.993(192), which is a prerelease of an Alpha-test
version, based on a Alpha version of C-Kermit 6.0.192.  Although it is not
supported in any way, this is the version we recommend because:

 a. It fixes the problem exhibited by earlier releases in which the program
    would bomb during downloads on Power Macs and/or system 7.1 or later.

 b. It uses the Communications Tool Box, and so can be used with various
    devices that earlier versions could not be used with.

The last formal release of Mac Kermit was 0.9(40) in 1988.  Unfortunately, it
does not work very well on newer Macintoshes or Systems.  However, newer
versions are too big for 512K Macs or below, so you'll have to run 0.9(40) on
these old models.

A comprehensive user manual will be published when and if the final 1.0
release is ever completed.  Sorry, I can't give any reasonable estimate about
when that will be.  Watch the comp.protocols.kermit.misc newsgroup for further
announcements.

Mac Kermit 0.993(192) is available via anonymous ftp from kermit.columbia.edu,
directory kermit/test/macintosh, file ckm192.hqx.  After downloading to your
Mac, convert it back to a runnable application using BinHex 4.0.

Other Mac Kermit files, from the same directory:

  ckmker.doc -- user documentation for 0.9(40), the previous release (1988)
  ckmker.ps  -- PostScript version of user documentation for 0.9(40)
  ckmker.bwr -- Notes about the current prerelease, FAQ's, etc
  ckmker.fon -- Notes about the new Mac Kermit terminal emulation font
  maclatin.* -- The new Mac Kermit font itself

Read the ckmker.bwr ("beware") file for further details.

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