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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: C-Kermit for Plan 9
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <7u79s0$lvc$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:09:28 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
C-Kermit communications software version 7.0:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck70.html
is nearing the end of its development phase. As noted in a recent
posting, it will include UTF-8 support, allowing text files to be
imported and exported from/to Plan 9 to/from other platforms that use
different character sets. It will also allow terminal sessions with
other computers that use "traditional" character sets like ISO Latin-1,
Latin-2, Latin/Cyrillic, Latin/Greek, Latin/Hebrew, the many ISO 646
national character sets, and numerous proprietary sets.
However, since Plan 9 has a different networking API than the other
platforms where C-Kermit runs (UNIX, VMS, VOS, AOS/VS, etc), it can't
be used as a Telnet or Rlogin client on Plan 9. I understand that
the Plan 9 networking API is "trivial" (a network connection looks like
a file), and I had Plan'd to take care of it myself, but I have not had
any luck installing Plan 9 on any of the local PCs (still trying), and
don't have guest access to any Plan 9 systems either.
Would anybody like to give this a shot? It shouldn't be too awful;
the network primitives (open, read, write, close) are well isolated,
and the Telnet and Rlogin protocol interpreters are totally isolated
from the networking code.
If we don't get networking into Plan 9 for 7.0, the next release
probably won't be for 2-3 years.
If you're interested, please send email. Thanks!
- Frank