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Article: 12554 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: "Chris Townley" <news@townleyc.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: C-Kermit 8.0 Beta
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 00:09:52 +0100
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I will have a go on my hobbyist alpha (Compaq C V6.2-008 on OpenVMS Alpha
V7.3)
However I could not get the download - got a message that IE could not
download - server returned extended information.
I will hook it down at work and have a go on Monday or Tuesday. Do you want
the executables?
--
Chris Townley
chris@townleyc.demon.co.uk
townleyc@spicers.ltd.uk
"Frank da Cruz" <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote in message
news:9hlfsf$10m$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu...
>
> I announced C-Kermit 8.0 Beta.02 yesterday on the Kermit newsgroup:
>
> comp.protocols.kermit.misc
>
> You can find it here:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html
>
> Of course I still keep the VMS version current, and built this one
> on 5.5 through 7.2 with and without various TCP/IP packages (TGV,
> UCX, TCPware, etc).
>
> Can somebody who has VMS 7.3 and a C compiler please try building
> it there? (Was VMS 7.3 also released for VAX?)
>
> Other builds are needed too:
>
> . Any pre-5.5 VMS version
> . VMS 6-point-anything on VAX
>
> By the way, the new release of C-Kermit includes a built-in FTP client,
> which, because it's built-in to C-Kermit, is also fully scriptable and
> has all the other Kermit file transfer features, such as restart,
> automatic text/binary-mode switching, character-set translation, and
> cross-platform recursive directory-tree transfer. But it's only for UNIX.
> That's because it would take a better VMS programmer than I am to adapt
> it to VMS, mainly because of all the RMS aspects and the associated FTP
> protocol tricks used for VMS-to-VMS transfers and/or exporting bizarre
> VMS file formats to non-VMS systems, etc. If anybody is interested in
> taking this on, let me know.
>
> C-Kermit 8.0 also includes all sorts of security: Kerberos IV and V,
> SSL/TLS, and SRP. That hasn't been ported to VMS either. Same deal.
>
> - Frank <fdc@columbia.edu>