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- Bootstrapping:
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- Getting CC-DOS Kermit onto an CC-DOS or MS-DOS system initially when you don't
- have a diskette to read it from, but you do have it on line on another computer
- ... is called "bootstrapping." The method used with MS-DOS Kermit is to
- download (somehow) a version of the appropriate .EXE (executable binary) file
- that has been encoded in all printable characters by the MSBMKB.C program.
- Such a file is called a "BOO file". The result is then decoded on the PC
- using a short Basic (or C, or Pascal) program.
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- CCBMKB.C The "BOO File Maker" (runs on CC-DOS Systems with Lattice C)
- CCBOOT.FOR The mainframe side of a BOO-file downloader (in Fortran)
- CCBPCB.BAS The PC side of the BOO-file downloader (in Microsoft Basic)
- CCBPCT.C Like CCBPCT.BAS, but written in C for speed
- CCV*.BOO The BOO files for each version of CC-DOS Kermit, e.g. CCVIBM.BOO.
-
- The bootstrapping procedure is described in detail in the MS-DOS chapter of
- the Kermit User Guide.
-
- Briefly, here's what to do (assuming you already have some method of
- downloading files onto your PC, and you have BASIC):
-
- 1. Get CCBPCT.BAS
- 2. Get CCBPCT.BOO
- 3. Enter BASIC, load CCBPCT.BAS, and run it on CCBPCT.BOO.
- 4. There should be a program CCBPCT.EXE on your disk.
- 5. Run CCBPCT on the ccvxxx.BOO file for you system, e.g. "ccbpct ccvibm.boo".
- 6. You should now have CCVIBM.EXE on your disk. You can rename it to
- KERMIT.EXE if you want to (or even K.EXE).
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