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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Announcing a new GPL'd Kermit program for UNIX
Date: 18 Dec 1999 01:49:54 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
This to announce a brief testing period for a new, compact, and GPL'd
Kermit program for UNIX. The new program is called G-Kermit (GNU Kermit).
It is intended to meet the need for a Kermit protocol implementation
that is:
. Stable and low-maintenance
. Small and fast with no frills
. Released under the GNU Public License
G-Kermit is command-line only (no interactive commands or scripting) and
remote-mode only (no making connections). It has an extremely simple user
interface, and implements a large subset of the Kermit protocol in a small
amount of highly portable code.
It has been built and tested on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, ranging
from from early-1980s-era to up-to-the-minute, using both traditional C
and ANSI C. It is designed to be as independent as possible of platform-
specific features, and therefore to be stable for many years if we resist
the temptation to add features to it. The size of the binary ranges from
29K (on HP-UX 8.00) to 99K on Ultrix/MIPS, with an average size of 52K
over 37 builds, and a typical size of 34K on PC-based UNIXes.
It's easy to build, install, and uninstall. It requires no privileges.
Documentation is included as a plain-text README file and a man page.
You can find G-Kermit 1.00 Beta.01 at:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/gkermit.tar.Z (78K)
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/gkermit.tar.gz (53K)
Uncompress, untar, read the README file, and take it from there (in most
cases you just type "make" to build it).
Send test reports to kermit-support@columbia.edu.
- Frank