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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: kermit in limited memory environment?
Date: 30 Mar 1995 14:28:43 GMT
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In article <3l9v34$7qq@inxs.ncren.net>,
Andrew J. Esposito <aje@mars.gtcc.cc.nc.us> wrote:
>Please don't laugh. We have a few PC's sitting around with 256K of RAM.
>DOS takes up 54K, which leaves me with 202K. Kermit needs 220K (pg. 10,
>MS-DOS KERMIT by C.M. Gianone). Now in this nifty little book it says
>that KERMIT will run on more or less memory -- but nowhere does it
>explain how this is accomplished.
>
MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 comes in a special "medium" edition for small systems.
The small size is accomplished by removing the network support and the
graphics terminal emulation. On its own -- i.e. without a lot of macros
defined and screen rollback buffers allocated (hint hint) it occupies
about 200K of memory, give or take 5K -- so you might be able to squeeze
it in.
Anonymous ftp to kermit.columbia.edu,
directory kermit/archives,
binary mode,
file msvibm.zip.
If you had a previous version of MS-DOS Kermit, and you
want to install the new version over it, first make safe copies of
your MSCUSTOM.INI and DIALUPS.TXT files, as well as any other
file you might have modified.
Then unzip (with PKUNZIP or equivalent) using the "-d" switch to
preserve the directory structure. Then read the top-level READ.ME
file for further installation instructions.
The program you want to try is KERMITE.EXE (not KERMIT.EXE).
You might need to run it without the standard MSKERMIT.INI file,
which defines a bunch of macros, which add memory:
kermite -f nul
and you might also need to set the KERMIT environment variable to
disable rollback:
SET KERMIT=ROLLBACK 0
If it's still too big, we can probably dig up an old pre-3.0
version that would fit.
- Frank