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- MVS/TSO Kermit
-
- Historically, there have been several different Kermit programs for TSO,
- largely due to the fact that CUCCA has not used TSO and has, therefore,
- never been in a good position to give centralized direction to the
- development or support of TSO Kermit. On several occasions, a TSO Kermit
- program was devised just to add support for one new feature which was, at
- the time, unavailable in existing Kermits. The situation was simplified
- considerably when the main features of the existing TSO Kermit programs
- were incorporated into TSO Kermit-370, and some programs could be (and
- were) retired from the Kermit distribution.
-
- The most advanced TSO Kermit is, in fact, the TSO variant of Kermit-370,
- a generic 370 version of Kermit which supports all styles of front ends
- capable of carrying Kermit file transfer and which runs on several
- IBM/370-compatible operating systems. The files for TSO Kermit-370 have
- names beginning with IKT and IK0 (I K Zero), the latter group being
- shared with the other variants.
-
- TSOKER was basically the original IBM VM/CMS Kermit written at Columbia,
- adapted at the University of Chicago to run under MVS/TSO through line-
- mode connections (3705 asynchronous ASCII ports) only.
-
- TSOS1 was TSOKER adapted at the University of Toronto to run through
- Series/1-style front ends only. These front ends run the Yale IUP, and
- do 3270 full-screen protocol conversion.
-
- TS3KER was TSOKER modifed to run through the 3708 front end under VTAM in
- line mode.
-
- TSNKER is an outgrowth of TSOKER, largely rewritten and converted from
- assembler to ALP at NIH, with many more features and capabilities than
- TSOKER. However, it currently supports only line-mode connections.
-
- TS2KER is the CMS Pascal/VS Kermit CM2KER adapted to TSO.
-
- Other TSO Kermit programs were never included in the distribution.
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