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Article: 12776 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!fdc
From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Announcing C-Kermit 8.0 Beta.03
Date: 12 Sep 2001 15:46:30 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <9nna5l$8pt46$2@ID-49635.news.dfncis.de>,
Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net> wrote:
: from fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) :
:
: > C-Kermit 8.0 Beta.03 is available for testing:
: >
: > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html
:
: There are newer released versions of OpenBSD (2.9) and NetBSD (up to 1.5.1).
: What about Linux?
:
Of course it is available for Linux too, and all other known versions of
Unix, past and present, as well as other operating systems such as VMS.
See the web page.
: I would be unlikely to run OpenBSD <= 2.8 or NetBSD <= 1.4.1.
:
I don't have access to them. That's one reason why I posted the announcement,
so people with *BSD versions that I don't have access to can build and test
on these versions. Presumably it is only a simple matter of unpacking the
tarball and typing "make openbsd" or "make netbsd". If there are problems,
I want to hear about them.
: Where does one get to test telnet and lowly modem program these days, with
: BBSes having given way to the Internet?
:
If you don't need and don't have a way to test Kermit's modem features,
don't test them. However, you might be interested to learn that direct
dialing is still widely used in many applications, all supported by Kermit:
. Numeric and alphanumeric paging
. Medical and pharmaceutical claims submission
. EDI
. Fast food franchises, etc etc.
You can still test:
. Its telnet client (regular, or secured via Kerberos, SSL/TLS, or SRP).
. Its rlogin client (regular, or secured via Kerberos).
. Its FTP client (regular, or secured via Kerberos, SSL/TLS, or SRP).
. Its HTTP client (regular, or secured via SSL/TLS).
. Its SSH interface.
On all of these are fully and innately scriptable. The Telnet and rlogin
clients include file transfer. All but the HTTP include character-set
conversion, e.g. Latin-1/UTF8.
There seems to be a common perception that Kermit has not progressed since
its first 1980s incarnation. Perhaps you should take a new look:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
- Frank