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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: I can't find the spec...
Date: 25 Feb 2000 19:06:47 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <Smzt4.716$Kp5.13649@news.uswest.net>,
Timothy A. Anderson <tima@nospam.com> wrote:
: So everything on the planet tells me to get this great book that doesn't
: exist anymore. Is there a copy like ONLINE and ON THE NET somewhere? We are
: trying to implement the basic send/receive portion by deciphering 20 year
: old unix code, and it would be more instructive to have a SPEC instead. It
: appears this thread went flying by earlier and I missed it. Unfortunately
: the archives appear to go up to only about 4 months ago.
:
The current "volume" is always here:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/e/misc.txt
If you were looking for it in the newsgroups directory, it is also linked
to from there in two different ways:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/newsgroups/misc.txt
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/newsgroups/CURRENT
Each volume is about a megabyte of text; previous ones are in the newsgroups
directory as misc.yyyymmdd, where yyyymmdd is the date of the first posting
in the volume.
: I aplogize in advance for asking this again, but I REALLY DID look around.
:
Very briefly:
1. The book finally did go out of print recently, after 13 years.
2. We still have a few copies left here; you can order it from us.
3. There will be a new edition when we have time to do it, but right now
there is plenty else with higher priority: getting the next K95 out,
the next Using C-Kermit edition, etc.
4. There are other books containing the spec, like Tim Kientzle's book,
"The Networking Programmer's Guide to Serial Protocols".
5. In most cases you don't need to write your own Kermit implementation;
you can just interface our Kermit programs with your application.
See http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/sdk.html for details.
- Frank