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Date: Wed Mar  1 11:42:49 1989
From: Christine M Gianone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Announcing Kermit for Hewlett-Packard BASIC Workstations
Keywords: HP-9000 Kermit, BASIC Kermit
Xref: Hewlett-Packard, See HP

This is to announce Kermit for the HP 9000 Series 200 and 300 BASIC
workstations, written in HP-BASIC by Andrew Campagnola of Hewlett-Packard
Measurement Systems Division in Loveland, Colorado, with contributions from
Keith Moore at the HP NJ Division labs.  This version, Kermit-RMB 1.0, of the
program is the initial release.  Kermit-RMB is capable of both remote and
local operation, transfers text and binary files over both 8-bit and 7-bit
connections, emulates the DEC VT100 terminal, does raw uploads and downloads,
includes logging functions, has a macro facility, and handles Kermit File
Attribute packets.  It also printer control, a hex editor and dump facility,
and a file type conversion utility.  It lacks certain other capabilities
including wildcard send, 2- and 3-character checksums, server functions, and
long packets.  The program runs on any Series 200/300 computer with 1MB of
memory and BASIC 5.0 or greater, and will run on any HP serial interface
available for these computers.

Kermit-RMB comes with an extensive manual, BASIC source code, and binaries
encoded in hexadecimal format.  The files are in the "C" area of Kermit
Distribution, kermit/c via anonymous FTP, or on the C tape, as files whose
names start with HPB.  The program will also be distributed by Interex, the
international HP computer user group, on native-format 3.5" diskettes, and
can also be obtained over BITNET from KERMSRV at CUVMA.

Many thanks to Andy for contributing this program.