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- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 87 15:35 N
- From: <BAGNARA@IBOINFN.BITNET> (Roberto Bagnara)
- Subject: Kermit68K release 1.0, file K6AAAA.HLP
-
- *** A small important request ***
-
- Here we have Kermit68K prerelease 1.0.00, not well checked and completed
- as I wanted. The main problem I've met was to find implementors for the
- system dependent part of the program. Furthermore, most of the persons
- who got in touch with me, although apparently interested, caused me to
- lose time and nothing else.
-
- All but one, indeed; Steve Williams, Texas University at Austin, has done
- an excellent job on the system dependent part for the OS9 operating system.
- I hope, by prereleasing Kermit68K at this time, to involve experts of other
- operating systems/machines, failing this I'll write by myself the system
- dependent part for CP/M-68K and VERSADOS (I have access to two such systems).
-
- If you read the draft manual of Kermit68K (K6GMAN.DOC) you understand
- that Kermit68K has been designed and written to be (among other things)
- portable. This means that it can be implemented on any operating system
- (really also on machines without an operating system).
-
- People willing to try other implementations of Kermit68K (for example under
- UniFLEX, PDOS, VERSADOS, CPM/68K etc.) shouldn't hesitate to contact me at
- any time (my addresses are at the bottom of this file).
- The type and amount of work necessary is deducible by reading the file
- K6GSYS.ASM.
-
- *** File naming scheme ***
-
- The naming scheme of the Kermit68K distribution set files is
-
- K6sccc.ttt
-
- where:
-
- K6 is the two-character prefix that identifies the Kermit68K files
-
- s denotes which system the file applies to:
- A for files that contain descriptive material and explain various
- things of general interest, these files appear first in an
- alphabetical directory listing
- C for CP/M-68K specific files
- G for files that applies to all the Kermit68K implementations,
- among these there are the general sources, the ones from which
- all the system specific sources are extracted by use of a text
- pre-processor
- O for OS9 specific files
- V for VERSADOS specific files
-
- ccc is a mnemonic that denotes the contents of the file:
- AAA a "read-me" file, like this one
- KER a file whose function is denoted by the type field
- CMD 1st command parsing module
- CM2 2nd command parsing module
- CM3 3rd command parsing module
- CM4 4th command parsing module
- CTB command tables module
- DEF common definitions module
- IOF I/O functions module
- MAI main program module
- PRO protocol module
- PSF parsing functions module
- PTF 1st protocol functions module
- PT2 2nd protocol functions module
- STR strings module
- UTF utility functions module
- SYS 1st sytem dependent module
- SYn nth sytem dependent module
-
- ttt is the file type, give more information about what's in the file:
- ANN text of an announcement of a particular version
- ASM assembly sources
- BWR beware file, list of known bugs and restrictions
- DOC documentation file
- HLP help file
- MAK makefile or other building procedure
- SRE executable image S-Record encoded
- TEX TeX sources
- UPD program change log
-
- Stated that the distribution set of this first Kermit68K release will
- contains the following files:
-
- K6AAAA.HLP this file
- K6AAAA.BWR general beware file, reports known bugs and restrictions
-
- K6GMAN.DOC draft from the user's and implementor's guide
- K6GSYS.ASM the system dependent part skeleton, for potential implementors
-
- K6OAAA.HLP Kermit68K/OS9 specific help file
- K6OAAA.BWR reports known bugs and restrictions for the OS9 implementation
- K6OMAK.BLD the make file to build Kermit68K/OS9 from the assembly sources
- K6OIMG.SRE executable IMaGe S-Record Encoded
- K6OREN.COM command file to rename the OS9 source files
-
- K6OCM2.ASM the OS9 sources
- K6OCM3.ASM
- K6OCM4.ASM
- K6OCMD.ASM
- K6OCTB.ASM
- K6ODEF.ASM
- K6OIOF.ASM
- K6OMAI.ASM
- K6OPRO.ASM
- K6OPSF.ASM
- K6OPT2.ASM
- K6OPTF.ASM
- K6OSTR.ASM
- K6OSYS.ASM
- K6OUTF.ASM
-
- *** A small strange request ***
-
- If you are using or redistributing Kermit68K, please send me a note
- detailing who you are, where are you employed and on which machine you or
- other people use it.
-
- This strange and rather unusual request has its aims, stay in the saddle,
- here they are !!
-
- 1) to convince my superiors about the fact that I haven't lost my time
- during this last year of developments;
-
- 2) to make the aforecited people understand that the hours I'm going to
- spend in correcting, refining and improving Kermit68K are of great
- help to the world researching community;
-
- 3) I need, from time to time, some gratification. In a Physics
- Department life is hard for a boy whose greatest aspiration is to
- work and study in a Computer Science department, in Italy such
- things are inexistent so I work and study where I can.
-
- (End of K6AAAA.HLP)
-