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From news@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu Tue Dec 16 15:07:26 1997
Path: news.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!fdc
From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,alt.comp.tandem-users,comp.sys.tandem
Subject: New Kermit release for Tandem
Date: 16 Dec 1997 20:07:24 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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Message-ID: <676n1s$ej7$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
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This is to announce a minor new release, 2.0, of Kermit for Tandem Nonstop
systems. It has been contributed by an anonymous corporate donor that
commissioned the upgrade some years ago from CAIL Systems Ltd, a company
that does contract Tandem programming:
http://www.cail.com/
It is not clear exactly what the improvements are, since they are not
documented anywhere, not even in the source code. As before, there is no
user-level documentation at all.
The files are in ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/d/ (transfer in text mode):
tandem.tal: The original 1986 version, TAL source code.
tandem.src: The new 2.0 version, TAL source code.
tandem.dif: Context diffs between the two versions.
And in ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/bin/ (binary mode):
tandem.obj: The TAL object module based on tandem.src,
executable on CLX-8xx system.
In response to the many requests we receive for a high-performance,
high-quality, fully functional Kermit implementation for Tandem, the
best course would be for a Tandem programmer to port C-Kermit ("the
world's most portable communications software") to the Tandem platform.
This can be done "simply" by filling in some low-level system-dependent
i/o routines.
Anybody who is interested in doing this, please send e-mail to:
kermit@columbia.edu
Meanwhile, thanks to our anonymous donor for contributing the new release!
Frank da Cruz
The Kermit Project
Columbia University