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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Help with SmarTerm 2xx and C-Kermit
Date: 1 Dec 1994 14:40:11 GMT
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In article <3bie1h$1dp@alvin.ach.uams.edu>,
Bruce Hulsey <bruce@mail.uams.edu> wrote:
>... I can't find any mention of Kermit-32 in the listing of Kermit
>software versions in the "Using C-Kermit" book. Is Kermit-32 a
>'legitimate' member of the Kermit family?
>
It used to be, but the people who wrote and maintained it -- Bob
McQueen and Nick Bush of Stevens Institutue of Technology -- disappeared
about eight years ago. The program is not supported, it's written in
a language (Bliss-32) that nobody has and that even DEC has dropped
support for, etc. So I'd say no, it is no longer recommended or
encouraged. There is hardly anything it can do that C-Kermit for VMS
can't do, and C-Kermit can do thousands of things that Kermit-32 can't.
And C-Kermit is fully supported. If you have some old commercial
software that does not implement the Kermit protocol correctly, you
probably won't get any sympathy from that quarter either -- they will
tell you, just like I will, to use the up-to-date versions that fix
older bugs and that are supported.
- Frank