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Article: 13744 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Help! Trying to send files via serial modem...
Date: 27 Sep 2002 19:06:08 -0400
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <amsde3$d5d$1@watsol.cc.columbia.edu>,
Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu> wrote:
: In article <7ea6ad1.0209241717.7af4adc8@posting.google.com>,
: Ray Ward <rayward@metronet.com> wrote:
: : The Xenix boxes have only a
: : 1.2Mb 5.25 floppy and a serial port external US Robotics Sportster
: : modem (ranging from 2400-14400 bps). They were bought with
: : application software only, no C compiler, make, man, etc..
: :
: OK, too bad, no building modern Kermit versions. But maybe other readers
: can help there.
:
By the way, there is also a very small -- but modern -- Kermit program
for Xenix (and any other Unix) called G-Kermit:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html
It's only the file-transfer part -- no communications or dialing. However,
it can be used to bootsrap the larger C-Kermit into a computer that doesn't
have it, and doesn't have any other way to load it. The method is described
at the end of the G-Kermit page.
Of course in this case, since you don't have a C compiler, you can't use
G-Kermit either unless somebody can first build it for your old Xenix
version (the oldest version we have it for is for Xenix 2.3.4).
Can anybody out there build G-Kermit for earlier and/or 16-bit Xenix
versions? If so I can put the binaries up for the next time we get a call
like this. It never ceases to amaze me how much Xenix is still out there,
like in almost every doctor's or dentist's office I visit... It's an
amazingly compact and fast version of Unix -- it boots and shuts down
almost instantaneously, and it "just works" (and works, and works, ...)
- Frank