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Article: 14571 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: mike@aral.vorkosigan.co.uk (Michael Bernardi)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: MS-Kermit 3.16
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On 5 Oct, in article <blpemv$brj$1@sesame.cc.columbia.edu>
fdc@sesame.cc.columbia.edu "Frank da Cruz" wrote:
> In article <20031004.2252.32745snz@aral.vorkosigan.co.uk>,
> Michael Bernardi <mike@vorkosigan.co.uk.nospam> wrote:
> > Is there any chance that the current 3.16 beta version of MS-Kermit
> > might come out of beta testing? It's been 4 years after all!
> >
> As you probably know, MS-DOS Kermit is taken care of by a volunteer
> developer at another site. Since 1999, as you know, life has become
> harder; many people who were able to devote copious time to such
> projects are now struggling to keep their real jobs or otherwise put
> food on the table.
Ay, keeping food on the table is of prime importance. It would be nice
to have a final release version though!
> > While C-Kermit 8.0 for *ix and Windows 32 are the sexy versions, as the
> > recent NASA news shows there's life in the old DOS yet.
> >
> It's an amazing and historic piece of software -- it does more in fewer
> bytes than any other program I can think of.
Yes, it still does the business. Are any of the other Kermit versions
still being developed? Or is C-Kermit now it ;(
> > Also if anyone can point me to a script for MS-Kermit that allows for
> > recursive copying of directories I'd be very grateful. I need to copy
> > material from a 486 running MS-DOS to a Pentium running Free Dos via an
> > ethernet connection, and dispite various alternative solution the
> > simplest looks like the MS-Kermit one.
> >
> See:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/msk316.html
>
> You should be able to use SEND /RECURSIVE send recursively, GET /RECURSIVE
> to get recursively, or the \frdirectories() function to build a recursive
> file list.
Thanks for both suggestion. I now have a solution that I can implement.
Mike
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