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Article: 13989 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Club Kermit
Date: 7 Jan 2003 09:18:00 -0500
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <BkuS9.4726$Oj7.1841319@twister.nyc.rr.com>,
Jeffrey Altman [Road Runner NYC] <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
: At the suggestion of Alex Bochannek I am starting Club Kermit.
: ...
: (* please do not be fooled. its not April 1, but I am not serious about
: starting Club Kermit UNLESS someone wants to throws lots of cash my way.
: Its late, and this newsgroup has been much too quiet over the last few
: weeks. *)
:
No kidding. As someone else suggested, this would be a good time to discuss
problems that Kermit software is well or uniquely suited to solve, along
with specific techniques, as in the case studies of a couple years ago:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/studies.html
Since then we've added a lot to Kermit -- associative arrays, all sorts of
date/time functions, Lisp-like S-Expressions, floating-point arithmetic, an
FTP client that supports "atomic file movement" and who knows what else.
This stuff can be used in real life, and I know many of you are doing so.
Maybe others have applications in mind but don't know where to start or how
best to accomplish certain pieces. That's exactly what this newsgroup is
for. The harder the problem, the better.
Btw, old timers might recall that a Club Kermit existed for some years in
Europe in the 1980s as a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting and
distributing Kermit software mainly France and Belgium before the Internet
was available. You can find a few words about it here:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/e/newsn3.txt
- Frank