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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit AS400 implementation ???
Date: 28 Nov 1994 14:02:12 GMT
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In article <3bcfii$mgq$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com>,
Helmut Stoecklin <100303.1604@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
> Is there a Kermit implementation for a IBM AS400 out in the field?
>
Of all the computers and operating systems in the world, there are only
a couple for which nobody has ever written any Kermit software, and the
AS/400 (and its predecessors, the Systems /34, /36, and /38) is one of
them. Evidently this line of computers must be very hard to program;
from what little I know about them, everything is "different" -- the
text character set (it's not ASCII), the file system (probably record-
oriented), the communication methods (some kind of bizarre proprietary
"twinax" block-mode affair). But we have hurdled such obstacles before
in the IBM mainframe world, thus we have the experience and know what is
required.
We get this question frequently, so there is definitely a big demand.
But we do not have an AS/400 ourselves for development, and even if we
did, we don't have a programmer to do the work. Back in the early days
of the Kermit project, there were dozens of sites developing Kermit
software for every imagineable platform. Maybe it's time to revive
that early spirit.
Anybody who is seriously interested in developing a Kermit program for
the AS/400 (or porting an existing program, such as C-Kermit) should
contact me.
- Frank