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Article: 13834 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.vms,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Last call for C-Kermit 8.0.206 binaries
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From: peter@langstoeger.at (Peter LANGSTOEGER)
Reply-To: peter@langstoeger.at
Organization: OpenVMS Hobbyist, Vienna, AUSTRIA
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In article <aqh3c2$p$1@watsol.cc.columbia.edu>, fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
>In article <3DCC0339.8DB24B6F@vl.videotron.ca>,
>JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vl.videotron.ca> wrote:
>: Frank da Cruz wrote:
>: > but there's always room for improvement. If you can build C-Kermit on
>: > any platform for which we don't yet have an 8.0.206 binary, we can put
>: > it on the CDROM if you send it in soon. You can find the current list
>: > of binaries here:
>:
>: I'd be willing to build it for VMS 7.2 TCPIP-5.3
>:
>: However, is there really any differennce between such a build and one built
>: with TCPIP 5.1 which you already have ? (TCPIP = UCX).
>:
>That one wouldn't be essential. It's more important to get builds on
>platforms that have earlier OS's or, in the VMS case, earlier TCP/IP
>versions than the ones for which C-Kermit 8.0.206 is already built.
>
>: Also, just a comment, in the list of OS at the top of the page, just use
>: "DEC Tru64, DEC VMS" instead of "DEC/Compaq/HP VMS" etc.
>:
>: Or as a compromise, "DEC/HP VMS".
>:
>: The word Compaq doesn't belong anywhere near "VMS" and it just make things
>: look far more complicated than they really are.
>:
>Understood, but on the other hand if I left it out somebody else would
>complain. This way more searches succeed. Also, it *is* more complicated;
>e.g. DEC OSF/1 and Digital Unix, but Compaq and HP Tru64 (DEC never called it
>Tru64, unless I'm mistaken)... Plus, if you think it's complicated now, just
>wait til VMS comes out on IA64. Then we'll have:
>
> (VAX vs Alpha vs IA64) x ([Open]VMS version) x (TCP product) x (TCP version)
Not really. Because [Open]VMS has a great history of beeing upward compatible.
Built for UCX it will run on TCPIP, Multinet and TCPware also.
Built on ancient/earlier VMS versions it will run on more recent ones also.
I used an image of 1978 (TAPECOPY.EXE) up to the late 90s...
--
Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER
Network and OpenVMS system specialist
E-mail peter@langstoeger.at
A-1030 VIENNA AUSTRIA I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist