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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Kermit, more capabalities
Date: 16 Jan 2000 06:40:36 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <_Hag4.2677$NU6.52105@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,
<cangel@famvid.com> wrote:
: 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.
The BOO files are encoded binary files not source files.
Is there as reason that you are unable to say
mget ms*.asm ms*.c ms*.h ...
in your ftp client?
As for supporting multiple compilers. MS-DOS Kermit is written primarily
in assembly language. It requires an assember, MASM, in addition to
a compatible compiler DOS C compiler.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org