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Article: 12820 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!fdc
From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Announcing C-Kermit 8.0 Beta.03
Date: 25 Sep 2001 14:31:20 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <slrn9qvu2s.1mr.billy_ball@green.home.org>,
bball <bball@green.home.org> wrote:
: On 20 Sep 2001 15:58:38 GMT, Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:
: >In article <9o7ipr$b8b$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>,
: > fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
: >>: ...
: >> Nothing prevents C-Kermit from being included with Linux, NetBSD,
: >> FreeBSD, or OpenBSD. The copyright specifically allows it:
: >>
: >> ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/c-kermit/COPYING.TXT
: >>
: >> and indeed distributors of all of these free OS's are welcome and
: >> invited to include it. C-Kermit is included in some Linux
: >> distributions; sometimes in the base package, sometimes with the "power
: >> tools" or whatever.
: >
: >Not to cloud the issue with facts, but binary packages of kermit-7.0.96
: >have been available for download on ftp.netbsd.org for nearly every
: ^^^^^^
: >architecture NetBSD supports for over a year now. Just look, huh?
:
: 'nearly' doesn't include hpcmips... although rebuilding minicom provides a
: viable client...
:
Minicom and Kermit are not the same thing. Besides doing what minicom does,
Kermit transfers files, converts character sets, sends numeric and alpha
pages, makes Telnet, Rlogin, FTP, and HTTP connection, supports four
different IETF standard security methods, and includes a built-in
programming language for automation of any communication task.
As noted in the original announcement, C-Kermit 8.0 is in Beta test; one of
the purposes of the Beta test is for people to build it and try it out on
platforms that I don't have access to.
You should be able to build the NetBSD version on any hardware platform
by following these simple steps:
get ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/cku200b03.tar.gz
gunzip cku200b03.tar.gz
tar xf cku200b03.tar
rm cku200b03.tar
make netbsd
I don't think there will be any problems, but if there are, of course,
you can report them to kermit-support@columbia.edu and they will be fixed.
Again, the C-Kermit test is here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html
When C-Kermit 8.0 is released for real, I hope that people who have NetBSD
on non-Intel platforms will contribute binaries for the archive, and will
also assist in getting NetBSD ports made for the various architectures.
- Frank