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Subject: Re: MS-DOS Kermit, more capabalities
From: cangel@famvid.com
Message-ID: <Vntg4.4436$NU6.161022@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:29:41 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On 2000-01-16 jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu(JeffreyAltman) said:
JA>Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
JA>In article <4Iag4.2679$NU6.52105@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,
JA><cangel@famvid.com> wrote:
CA> Possibly a more specific answer to the question would aid in my
CA> being able to understand the answer. "Parted company", "hardly",
CA> and "fork in the road" are poetic but not in any way
CA> specific. In a technical discussion they are no answer at all.
JA> I will try to answer the question one more time.
JA> At some point in the past the author of WATTCP donated his code to
JA> the Kermit Project. In other words, he gave permission to the
JA> Kermit Project to use his source code in MS-DOS Kermit. There were
JA> no efforts made to ensure that the changes that were put into
JA> MS-DOS Kermit and the changes that were made to WATTCP were kept in
JA> sync. The reason for this is that the needs and motivations of the
JA> two development efforts were very different.
This is the information I was looking for, thank you.
JA> It would be exceedingly difficult after more than 10 years for you
JA> to go back and apply the changes to the MS-DOS Kermit TCP/IP stack
JA> to the WATTCP code.
Having not looked at the MSK code I cannot say what this would involve but
the ability to do this or not do this is more a matter of how much time
I would be willing to devote to doing such a thing.
I would be more inclined to rebuild from the ground up rather than augment
either `package'.
Charles.Angelich