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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit MAC??
Date: 4 Jun 1995 15:45:12 GMT
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In article <3qseva$ed7@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>,
The Shriminator <shrim@bubba.temple.edu> wrote:
> BTW to the Kermit Gods, I read in a Kermit related book that the
> protocol is much improved in MacKermit 1.0. Where would such a beast
> exist, if it does ?
>
I wish it did exist. We started work on Mac Kermit in 1984 and made a lot
of progress. Then our programming staff was, well, reassigned. Then we
had a series of volunteer Mac programmers from elsewhere who made terrific
contributions, but the last of them succumbed to the pressures of real
life several years ago. We don't have the funds to hire a Mac programmer
(let alone someone who could merely keep track of the ever-changing
Macintosh landscape) and the few of us who spend most of our time in the
Kermit project are not Mac programmers and have overfull plates already.
So, in short, Mac Kermit is still not at 1.0 level. You can find a list
of its faults, and our plans for the future should someone willing and
able to implement them step forward at any time, in the ckmker.bwr file.
Nevertheless, every so often somebody does a few small things to it to
make it better. Last August, by brute force and dumb luck, I was able to
track down and fix the bug that was making it crash on downloads under
System 7.1. Of course, since that time, Apple has released numerous new
Systems and models, and broke Kermit yet again. Reportedly, in System
7.5, Mac Kermit once again has all sorts of trouble finding the
communication port. An anonymous donor has sent in a probably fix for
this problem (i.e. addition of Communications Tool Box support), which
everybody is encouraged to try. You can find it in:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/mac/makermit.hqx
Transfer it in text mode, unBinHex it, and try it out. If you have been
seeing error boxes containing codes like "-98", this might fix it.
There is also another possible improvement on the horizon, namely the
addition of MacTCP support by someone who is interested in that, and
probably only that. There is no formal commitment, just a glimmer of
hope.
If all the universities and corporations that were interested in a
production-quality Mac Kermit were to chip in to endow a Macintosh Kermit
programmer position for a few years, they would get a good return on
their investment.
- Frank