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29-Sep-86 00:16:16-EDT,2097;000000000001
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From: Herm Fischer <hermix!fischer@rand-unix.ARPA>
Reply-To: hermix!fischer@rand-unix.arpa
To: sy.fdc@cu20b.arpa
Subject: WINKRM review
Date: Sun Sep 28 17:04:01 1986
Frank,
After my note to you on windows (& etc, which I hope you got),
I saw the note in the kermit digest on winkrm (kermit for microsoft
windows) and downloaded it.
It's not much to write home about, and needs lots of work.
Plain old regular kermit for the PC works fine in a window EXCEPT
that the connect mode text output is painfully slow (about 30 cps
on a 1200 baud connection using PC 8 Mhz hardware), but the plain
old MSDOS kermit does fine in all of the sophisticated file transfer
modes.
Windows comes with a free terminal emulator, terminal.exe, which is
much faster for connect mode, and includes a capture (logging) and
file extract capability.
The WINKRM dies in file transfer if the host and PC get out of synchron-
ization, which occurs regularly with the nonpre-emptive multitasking
windows provides (e.g., various programs hog the CPU when they
should be nicer about releasing to other tasks). (For example, when a
button on the mouse is depressed for log periods (dragging a symbol,
retiling or sizing windows, etc), or try formatting a floppy, the
WINKRM cannot recover.
I don't like the idea of proliferating so many versions of kermits,
especially when we have robust ones floating about. I'd prefer to
see an adaptation of c-kermit or mac-kermit for windows than derive
enhancements independently to winkrm (but maybe that is under way
anyway).
Furthermore I'd prefer the arpanet community, if it gets more kermits,
to get relatively full featured versions when that can be handled.
(As an example of how windows compatible programs can be written,
WINKRM is certainly useful...)
Herm