The Kermit Project |
Columbia
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612 West 115th Street, New York NY 10025 USA • kermit@columbia.edu
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MS-DOS Kermit is not designed or intended for use in Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, or IBM OS/2. The recommended, supported, native, and current Kermit software for these operating systems is Kermit 95. CLICK HERE for details.
MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 is a compact and efficient communications software package for IBM PCs and compatibles offering a wide range of faithful text and graphics terminal emulations, an astonishing variety of serial and network communication methods, a vast array of international character-set conversions, exceptionally flexible and powerful key mapping, a powerful, easy-to-use script programming language, and advanced Kermit file transfer.
MS-DOS Kermit supports communication through serial ports, a wide variety of local networking methods (like NetBIOS, BAPI, DECnet, NASI, SuperLAT, TELAPI, and TES, plus it has its own built-in TCP/IP stack and Telnet client. Modem dialing is accomplished with modem-specific dialing scripts
It includes faithful emulation of the DEC VT52,100,102,220,320 terminals; ANSI, Heath-19, Wyse50, various Data General DASHER models, and the Tektronix 4010 Graphics terminal, as well as DG terminals in graphics mode.
MS-DOS Kermit runs directly under DOS 2.0 and later and under Microsoft Windows 3.11 or earlier. MS-DOS Kermit is not supported in Windows 95 and later.
MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 is packaged on diskette with the book Using MS-DOS Kermit by Christine M. Gianone, Digital Press (1992) |
If you will be downloading MS-DOS Kermit, please also order the book – it will enable you to get the most out of the software, and book sales help to support the self-funding Kermit project. Also be sure to check the KERMIT.UPD file on your MS-DOS Kermit diskette or in the archive for the latest information on MS-DOS Kermit.
MS-DOS Kermit may be downloaded by individuals for their own use or for use within an organization. However, MS-DOS Kermit must be licensed for redistribution; CLICK HERE for terms and conditions.
MS-DOS Kermit 3.14, 21 May 1995, is the most recent complete distribution. If you don't have MS-DOS Kermit at all, begin by downloading version 3.14:
MS-DOS Kermit 3.15, 15 September 1997, issued as an update to version 3.14 (you can install this on top of version 3.14):
MS-DOS Kermit 3.16 is an even later release with a lot of improvements in the script language to make it almost the same as that of C-Kermit and Kermit 95. You can install this one on top of 3.14 or 3.15):
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MS-DOS Kermit was one of the original Kermit programs, written in 1982, shortly after the IBM was announced, following just behind the Kermit programs for the DECSYSTEM-20, CP/M-80, and the IBM mainframe. It was written in response to overwhelming demand to make this PC, which was very soon to dominate the universe, communicate with other kinds of computers, including IBM's own.
The prototype was done by Bill Catchings of the Kermit project in a single EMACS section using macros to convert his CP/M-80 Kermit from 8080 assembly language to Intel 8088 assembler (in this respect it was a first cousin of the now long-forgotten but once significant CP/M-86 Kermit). "PC Kermit", as it was called at first, was turned over to Daphne Tzoar who polished it sufficiently for general use and maintainted for some time, and later to Jeff Damens who produced several major new releases through version 2.28. There were separate releases for the IBM PC, the DEC Rainbow, the HP-150, the Heath-Zenith 100, the Victor 9000, the NEC APC, and many other of the DOS machines of mid-1980s that were not code- or disk-compatible with each other.
In 1985 MS-DOS Kermit was taken over by Professor Joe R. Doupnik of Utah State University, who added more improvements than can be listed in a short web page, but most notable among them:
MS-DOS Kermit's popularity waned as DOS was phased out in favor of Window 95 and its successors, where MS-DOS Kermit could not be fully functional for the reasons described here. But to this day, MS-DOS Kermit remains one of Kermit's Greatest Hits.