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Article: 14214 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: ANNOUNCE: C-Kermit included with Red Hat 9.0
Date: 9 Apr 2003 15:51:30 -0400
Organization: Columbia University
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I'm happy to announce that C-Kermit is now included with the basic
Red Hat Linux distribution. This means that Red Hat Linux users will
no longer have to download, install, and configure it themselves.
Red Hat 9.0, just released, includes C-Kermit 8.0.206 as /usr/bin/kermit.
This is a fully configured version including Kerberos and SSL/TLS
security, ready to run -- just type "kermit" at the shell prompt to start
it and type "help" at the C-Kermit> prompt to get started.
Use C-Kermit to:
. Make secure or clear-text Telnet connections.
. Make secure or clear-text FTP connections.
. Make secure or clear-text HTTP connections.
(Security methods include SSL/TLS, Kerberos IV, and Kerberos V.)
. Make directly dialed modem connections.
. Make serial-port null-modem connections.
. Make RFC 2217 Telnet Com-Port connections.
. Have online text-mode terminal sessions with other computers,
services, or devices.
. Transfer files with Kermit or FTP protocol.
. Capture or transmit files with "ascii" protocol.
. Transfer files with external protocols such as rz/sz.
. Convert character sets (now including Unicode) on terminal
connections and in text-mode file Kermit or FTP transfer.
. Send numeric or alphanumeric (TAP/IXO) pages.
. Manage local files.
. Manage remote files on Kermit or FTP client/server connections.
Red Hat characterizes C-Kermit as "The quintessential all-purpose
communications program":
http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/packages.html
It embodies the functions of a host of other packages (ftp, telnet, cu,
minicom, find, grep, ls, iconv, recode, expect, wget, etc) into a single
consistent package with an integrated command and scripting language,
allowing you to automate any communication or file-transfer or management
task you could do by hand in a platform- and transport-independent
manner, thus allowing rapid prototyping and development of complicated
and/or secure procedures with decision-making capabilities, hooks into
the file system, the transport medium and protocol, and so on.
C-Kermit also can use your external SSH client as a transport, thus
allowing in-band file transfer, character-set conversion, and scripting
on SSH connections. And C-Kermit can be configured as an SSH subsystem
on the server side, offering a more-powerful alternative to SCP and SFTP,
especially across platforms. It can even be an Internet file-transfer
and management service in its own right, as described in RFCs 2839 and 2840.
Links:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ The Kermit Project
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html C-Kermit Home Page
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckspecs.html Specifications
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckututor.html Tutorial
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckfaq.html FAQ
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckscripts.html Script library
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpclient.html FTP client overview
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpscripts.html FTP scripting tutorial
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/security.html Security reference
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/iksd.html Internet Kermit Service
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html Windows version of Kermit
In Red Hat Linux 9.0, type "man kermit" for an introduction (the man page
is the same as the C-Kermit tutorial on the Kermit website).
Frank da Cruz
The Kermit Project
Columbia University
New York City