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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
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Subject: Re: kermit for the palm pilot
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In article <k1rr47.p8l.ln@linux.lisse.na>,
Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el@linux.lisse.na> wrote:
: Dunno, file transfer? :-)-O
of course. but what feature set of the Kermit protocol. Clearly,
we want send/receive but what about the server functions?
For the protocol engine we want sliding windows but because of the
PalmPilot memory constraints (2K stack, 64K memory limit) the size
of packets and the number of sliding windows is restricted.
Do we need character-set translation during file transfer? What is the
character set of the palm pilot if there is one?
: But seriously, that's of course the issue, because it has to be
: written in the g++ cross compile.
Sorry, I don't understand this comment. What does file transfer have
to do with the g++ cross compiler?
Is your intended purpose to use Kermit to download compiled
applications from Linux to the Palm Pilot without using the Palm
Desktop?
: DialUp, log in via dumb terminal (or a simple script), start the
: server, return and have a frontend like the Mac, perhaps, to operate
: the server (change directories, download PDB, PRC and mabe ZIP files,
: exit/bye).
What level of terminal emulation? VT102, VT220, or given the Linux
community would a Linux console be better?
For the script language do people expect compatibility with C-Kermit
and Kermit 95?
: What do other limited systems written in C offer?
Usually no terminal emulation, no sliding windows, small packets, no
server functions, no character-set translation, and no scripting
language, and no networking support. They are usually very bare bones
implementations of Kermit. A Palm Pilot Kermit needs to be written from
scratch since it must not use the C Run Time Library, should
call directly to the network functions in order to preserve space,
and must not use local variables in order to allow function calls to
exist within a 2K program stack.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org