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From: John Stumbles <suqstmbl@reading.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit for Winsock
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 17:56:31 +0100
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In article <3nlksr$b4k@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
(Frank da Cruz) writes:
(I hope I got the attribution right!)
> >Everybody wants Kermit for Windows but nobody is willing to pay for it.
> >This is a massive development effort, and we presently do not have the
> >funds or programmer time to do it.
> > ...
> >We have put 15 years into developing MS-DOS Kermit. It does everything
> >you want. It has the best VT terminal emulator around, scripting,
> >character sets, etc etc. It even has its own incredibly fast and compact
> >built-in TCP/IP protocol stack.
> > ...
> >But that's got good enough because now there is Winsock, .....
> >...................In the meantime, sites that have
> >thousands of MS-DOS Kermit users that are suffering grievously because
> >Kermit is not "Winsock compliant" should feel free to send money to
> >help fund the work that would be needed to solve this problem. The
> >situation now is that we have much more work on our plates than we can
> >ever do, and less income to pay for it because of the rapid expansion
> >of the Internet and the universal perception that the Internet is a
> >giant bag of free goodies.
Well I don't have a big pot of money to throw at the Kermit folks ...
neither have I anything but praise to lavish on them for the effort
they've put into Kermit so far ... however I have a suggestion: the people
at Univ. of Washington who develop PINE (another fine public-domain
application that knocks spots off most of the commercial offerings :-)
have a winsock version of PC Pine - maybe they have some code that could
be reused for a Win/kermit?
Just my $0.02 worth :-)
John Stumbles j.d.stumbles@reading.ac.uk
Computer Services Centre 01734 318435
University of Reading Whiteknights Reading RG6 2AF UK
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