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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: KERMIT 95: Where to buy?
Date: 6 Dec 1995 20:20:48 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
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A question for the world (or anyone on the K95 team): what retail
outlets are supposed to be carrying the new Kermit for Windows?
The announcement of its release posted to the newsgroup indicated
that the new package ("payware" if you will) would be sold through
normal software distribution channels; this is also indicated by the
KERMIT web page at www.columbia.edu . It's now been a couple
of months since it was released, and today I was chasing some other
stuff in the local outlets and started asking around. The results:
- CompUSA: asked two clerks and the store manager: none of them would
admit to even knowing what "KERMIT" was, much less having a copy
of the new kit.
- Egghead: recognized the name "Kermit" and even knew that it came
from Columbia ... but Egghead carries only the book with the
MS-KERMIT disk. Calling 1-800-EGGHEAD got the same response
- Computer City: long hold with unusually lousy Christmas music; just
before I was ready to hang up they finally answered, but kept
trying to believe that I was looking for BBS software. No Kermit
titles.
- PC Connection: never heard of KERMIT, don't carry it.
The web page suggests that Egghead and CompUSA (misspelled, btw) would
be the first to have the kit.
Suggestions?
Joe Morris / MITRE