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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)