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Subject: Re: MS-DOS Kermit, more capabalities
From: cangel@famvid.com
Message-ID: <_Hag4.2677$NU6.52105@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>
Organization: bCandid - Powering the world's discussions - http://bCandid.com
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 03:14:02 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On 2000-01-14 jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu(JeffreyAltman) said:
JA> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
JA> In article <66Af4.3341$0l4.96678@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,
JA> <cangel@famvid.com> wrote:
CA> Is there a binary archive of this source code anywhere that I can
CA> download or am I going to need a way to decode a 1meg+ UUE? Why would the
CA> MSKermit source code be in two ASCII formats when kermit itself has no
CA> problem doing binary transfers nor do any other protocols I am of aware
CA> of since the '80s?
JA> From the web page
JA> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskermit.html
JA> "The source code for MS-DOS Kermit is in the
JA> ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/a/
JA> directory. The filenames all start with "ms" and end
JA> with ".asm", ".h" and ".c"."
Yes, I could see that individual portions of the code were there. I have
found that most TCP/IP telecom packages are quite complex in the way that OBJ
files are compiled and then finally linked to create the executable(s).
For this reason many have embedded subdirectories and include a `makefile'
that either contains multiple definitions for various compilers or at least
can be edited for the compiler on hand at the time.
I was under the impression this was more or less standard procedure for
packages of this complexity.
The fact that archives _do_ exist would indicate that at some point in time
this was considered necessary. Both archives being in unusual formats is a
bit out of the ordinary. The `boo' format being non-standard and as I've said
no apparent decoder for `boo' anywhere in sight.
This is not unremarkable in itself IMO.
Anyone care to expand on the reason(s) why a binary archive cannot be made
available for MSKermit source code?
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