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From: Skip Collins <collibf1@jhuapl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: compiling ckermit with cygnus win32 tools
Date: 17 Mar 1998 12:44:32 -0500
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fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
> : Does anyone else have experience with ckermit and cygnus?
> :
> There already is a version of C-Kermit for Windows 95; it's called
> Kermit 95:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
>
> You probably didn't realize that it takes several hundred thousand
> lines of specialized code and some years of work to do what you are
> trying to do. Luckily, we have already done all that so you don't
> have to.
Thanks for the pointer. I am aware of K95. I do realize that a lot of
effort has gone into getting K95 "right". But I am tinkering with the
Cygnus tools now. I would like to see just how robust they are, how
easy it is to port relatively complex programs (e.g. kermit) from unix
to win32, etc. So far I have a mixed opinion of the package. On the
one hand, it was able to compile ckermit almost out of the box. On the
other hand, the compiled program doesn't work. I think that this is in
part due to my unfamiliarity with the mapping of concepts from unix to
win32 that Cygnus uses. So far, that mapping seems to be less than
ideal. Then again, if I can work out what the serial port problem is,
get ncurses working, and get tcp working, that would be pretty
impressive. Then I would seriously look into using Cygnus for some
serious cross-developement projects.
Skip Collins