Last update: Wed Oct 30 14:54:46 2002 Welcome to the Columbia University Kermit software distribution area. You may cd to any of these directories and get any files you want. All files are provided without warranty of any kind. Please read specific copyright notices and disclaimers. Most of this software is not "public domain". WEB USERS This material is navigated much more easily with a Web browser: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ DOCUMENTATION C-Kermit (for Unix, VMS, etc) and MS-DOS Kermit for DOS are documented in professionally published manuals. Sales of these manuals are an important source of funding for the nonprofit Kermit project. If you use C-Kermit or MS-DOS Kermit, please also be sure to purchase the relevant manuals. Info below. KERMIT 95 Kermit 95 for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP must be licensed for use. You can download a full-featured time-expiring trial version through the website: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95demo.html DOWNLOADABLE SOFTWARE The Kermit software is broken up into subdirectories that contain lots of files, many of them for obscure machines and operating systems. This is confusing to many people. Therefore, several of the most popular versions have been packaged for easy retrieval: MS-DOS Kermit for the IBM PC with DOS or Windows 3.x: kermit/archives/msvibm.zip. FTP in binary mode, unzip on your PC. C-Kermit 8.0 for UNIX: kermit/archives/cku206.tar.Z or .gz FTP in binary mode, uncompress, untar, then "make" the appropriate version. Read the makefile and ckuins.doc for instructions. Various binaries: kermit/bin - current releases. kermit/test/bin - alpha or beta (upcoming) releases. kermit/test/tar - tar.Z or tar.gz of test releases of C-Kermit Much of this information is recapitulated below in greater detail, but if this is all you wanted to know you can stop reading. KERMIT SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION This is the definitive Kermit software distribution area. It is organized into subdirectories as follows: kermit/a/ - Tape A - MS-DOS Kermit for DOS and Windows; Apple II Kermit; CP/M-80 Kermit. kermit/f - Tape F - C-Kermit for UNIX, VMS, DG AOS/VS, OS-9, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Apollo Aegis, Stratus VOS (not all of these are current). kermit/b/ - Tape B - IBM mainframes (VM/CMS, MVS/TSO, CICS, MUSIC), VAX/VMS, PDP-11 (RSX, RSTS, RT, TSX, MUMPS). kermit/c/ - Tape C - Acorn, Apollo, Atari, Commodore 64/128, CP/M-86, Concurrent CP/M-86, BTOS, CTOS, LISP machines, Flex, UniFlex, HP BASIC, UCSD Pascal, Intel 8051 Microcontroller, Intel Development Systems, Luxor ABC, Lilith, ICL/Perq, Sinclair, RML, TRS-80, and other Tandys, etc. kermit/d/ - Tape D - DG AOS/VS and RDOS, Burroughs, CDC, Cray, GEC, Gould/SEL, Harris, Honeywell, HP minis, DEC-10/20, DEC PDP-8/12, MAI Basic Four, MODCOMP, IBM mainframes (MTS, GUTS), NCR, Norsk Data, Perkin-Elmer/Concurrent, PICK, PRIME, Tandem, TI, Sperry/UNIVAC/UNISYS, ICL, etc. kermit/e - Tape E - General Kermit documentation, mail archives, etc kermit/g - Tape G - G-Kermit source and text files. --DEVELOPMENT AREAS-- kermit/test - Kermit development or Beta Test versions, see kermit/test/READ.ME. This directory has a text and a bin subdirectory, and some others. kermit/test/tar - C-Kermit daily builds (tar.Z, tar.gz, zip). --BINARIES-- kermit/bin - Binary executable Kermit programs (use binary mode). kermit/vmshex - VMS Kermit executables in HEX format (text mode). kermit/uue - UUencoded, compressed G-Kermit binaries (text mode). --ARCHIVES-- kermit/archives - Packed archives of popular versions (binary mode). cku*.tar.Z: compressed tar archive of current UNIX C-Kermit release, e.g. cku206*.tar.Z; msvibm.zip: ZIP archive of current MS-DOS Kermit distribution diskette (KERMIT.EXE, KERMIT.PIF, MSKERMIT.INI, MSCUSTOM.INI, etc etc). cko191.zip: OS/2 C-Kermit distribution files. See kermit/archives/read.me for further info. --OTHER-- kermit/charsets - Character set tables and info (8-bit text!) kermit/printers - Printer utilities to be used with Kermit software kermit/old - Old versions, superseded by new ones. kermit/extra - Extra, redundant, or rarely-used versions. kermit/vttest - The VT100/102 terminal emulation test program. File names all start with letters and are of the form name.typ (lowercase!) and normally appear in alphabetical order in a directory listing or on a tape. Exception: READ.ME files have uppercase names, so as to appear at the top of a directory listing, but are usually also accessible as read.me. Kermit programs are stored in the Kermit distribution areas with related files grouped together using filename prefixes; the names of all the files for a certain implementation all start with the same 2- or 3-character prefix, for instance all the files for MS-DOS Kermit have names starting with "ms". Similarly, "ck" for C-Kermit, "ik" for IBM mainframe Kermit, "k11" for PDP-11 Kermit, and so on. A group of files for a particular Kermit program is often headed by an "aaaa" file, for example "msaaaa.hlp" for MS-DOS Kermit; "ckaaaa.hlp" for C-Kermit; "ckvaaa.hlp" for the VMS version of C-Kermit, "ckoaaa.hlp" for the OS/2 version of C-Kermit, and so on. These files explain the organization of the files for a particular Kermit version. The most popular Kermit programs are: MS-DOS Kermit for PC-DOS, MS-DOS, and MS-Windows: Overview file: kermit/a/msaaaa.hlp Binary ZIP archive: kermit/archives/msvibm.zip Sources: kermit/a/ms*.* (assembler and C) C-Kermit for UNIX, VAX/VMS, OS/2, Data General AOS/VS, the Commodore Amiga, Stratus VOS, the Atari ST, and OS-9: Overview file: kermit/f/ckaaaa.hlp. Binary compressed tar archive of UNIX source code: kermit/archives/cku206src.tar.Z (206 is the program edit number, subject to change). Selected binaries are in kermit/bin/ck*. Hexified VMS binaries are in kermit/vmshex/ckv*.hex. Other binaries can be found in kermit/b/ck*.uue (UUENCODed versions), ck*.boo (BOO-encoded versions), etc. Sources: kermit/b/ck*.[cwh], ck*ker.mak. Macintosh Kermit: Overview file: kermit/f/ckmaaa.hlp Source code: kermit/f/ck[cuwm]*.[cwhr] Binary: kermit/f/ckmker.hqx (BinHex 4.0 format) Further information: kermit/f/ckmker.bwr IBM Mainframe Kermit for VM/CMS, MVS/TSO, MVS/ROSCOE, CICS, and MUSIC: Overview file: kermit/b/ik0aaa.hlp Source code: kermit/b/ik*.* (ik0*.* + ikc*.* for CMS, ikt*.* for TSO, etc) Files whose names start with "aa" -- normally appearing at the top of a directory listing -- give general information about Kermit. There should be an identical set of "aa" files at the top of each Kermit subdirectory a-e. The following files describe what's available in the Kermit distribution: aafiles.hlp - Explanation of what files are available and how they are named. aanetw.hlp -- Information about network access to Kermit files. aatape.hlp -- Information about Kermit distribution tape formats. Files whose names start with "aav" are complete tabular lists of existing, available Kermit versions, sorted in various ways: aavers.hlp -- Master list, in no particular order aavnew.hlp -- Listed in reverse chronological order of release date aavops.hlp -- Listed alphabetically by operating system only aavlng.hlp -- Listed alphabetically by programming language aavpfx.hlp -- Listed alphabetically by filename prefix, regardless of tape aavsys.hlp -- Listed alphabetically by machine and operating system aavtap.hlp -- Listed by tape (A-F), then alphabetically by file prefix And there are some bureaucratic files, whose names start with "aax": aaxfly.doc -- The Kermit catalog and mail-order form, terms and conditions. aaxfly.ps -- A PostScript version of the catalog and order form. aaxcom.doc -- Commercial-Use policy. aaxcom.ps -- PostScript version of commercial-use policy. PUBLISHED DOCUMENTATION ... is available for MS-DOS Kermit and C-Kermit. Please use it. Sales of the documentation are the primary source of funding for the Kermit project. The manuals show you how to use the software and get the most out of it. Christine M. Gianone, Using MS-DOS Kermit, Second Edition, Digital Press / Butterworth-Heinemann, Woburn, MA, 1992, 345 pages, ISBN 1-55558-082-3. Packaged with version 3.14 of MS-DOS Kermit for the IBM PC, PS/2, and compatibles on a 3.5-inch diskette. In computer and book stores, or order direct from Columbia University or from Digital Press. Frank da Cruz and Christine M. Gianone, "Using C-Kermit", Second Edition, Digital Press / Butterworth-Heinemann, Woburn, MA, 1997, 622 pages, ISBN 1-55558-164-1. In computer and book stores, or order direct from Columbia University or from Digital Press. The Kermit File transfer protocol is specified in the following book, which also includes tutorials on computers, file systems, data communications, and using Kermit: Frank da Cruz, Kermit, A File Transfer Protocol, Digital Press / Butterworth-Heinemann, Worburn, MA, 1987, 379 pages, ISBN 0-932376-88-6. In computer and book stores, or order direct from Columbia University or from Digital Press. (End of kermit/READ.ME)