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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!think.com!spdcc!merk!winston
- From: winston@merk.com (Winston Smith)
- Subject: Re: Kermit-65 source code
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.145256.8122@merk.com>
- Keywords: KERMIT, UNARC, huge, VT100, Speedscript, Catch-22
- Organization: Technology Partners, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec19.090253.7940@merk.com> <1gu5qqINN79a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1gvcv3INNp04@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:52:56 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- I performed an FTP request (called a "get" I believe?) of the KERMIT-65
- source code. The good news is that the file was delivered to the
- requesting UNIX machine. The bad news is that the file was delivered in
- an "ARC" format as one large file of over eight hundred double-density
- sectors! What the heck am I supposed to do with this?!?? Needless to say,
- I gave it the old college try and downloaded it to my ATARI 8-BIT. On my
- ATARI 8-BIT I attempted to UNARC as much of it as I could. Unfortunately,
- the first thousand sectors or so contained mainly the KERMIT file transfer
- protocol (which very few people use) and the command line parser. I was
- hoping to find information about the VT100 terminal emulator. The file
- contained some interesting code, such as sections to translate C64 VIC20
- screen "poke" graphics character codes (Speedscript character type) into
- ASCII.
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- Needless to say, I am placed in a "Catch-22" situation. The KERMIT-65
- source files are --NOT-- in an ATARI 8-BIT format, but in some text format
- too large to be contained on an ATARI 8-BIT drive. I can not successfully
- download this humongous file to an ATARI 8-BIT and then UNARC it. Is there
- some way that I can UNARC this behemoth on a UNIX system? I know that UNIX
- uses COMPRESS, TAR, and ZOO, but I do not believe that I have seen ARC on a
- UNIX box before. Most of this KERMIT source file contains extraneous
- information, anyway. The part that I am interested in, namely the VT100
- terminal emulator, probably comprises a small part of the whole work,
- however I do find the programming techniques employed very interesting. I
- just wish that there was some way to successfully examine the thing. I
- have often wondered why no further work had been done on KERMIT-65. Now I
- know why! You need to own another computer with a hard drive just to hold
- the source code! :-( Any help I can get UNARC-ing this program and
- cutting it up into smaller pieces... so that it will actually --FIT-- on
- an ATARI 8BIT machine and --BE USABLE--, would be greatly appreciated.
- Does anyone out there have any ideas how to solve this problem? Thanks.
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