3-Jul-86 15:37:24-EDT,2255;000000000001 Mail-From: SY.FDC created at 3-Jul-86 15:37:22 Date: Thu 3 Jul 86 15:37:22-EDT From: Frank da Cruz Subject: Kermit Now Available for Atari ST To: Info-Kermit@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU Message-ID: <12219794750.76.SY.FDC@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU> This is to announce Kermit for the Atari ST series of personal computers, contributed by Bernhard Nebel, Technische Universitaet Berlin (NEBEL@DB0TUI11.BITNET). The program is written in DRI C, and is based upon the OS9 version of Kermit, which was in turn based on the original (simple) UNIX Kermit. The program transfers text and binary files, can do wildcard sends, and includes the necessary settings for communicating with IBM mainframes (parity, handshake, 8th-bit prefixing). IBM communications is one major advantage of this program over the Kermit program that DRI has been distributing with their GEM developers kit (and which they never submitted to Columbia Kermit Distribution), and another is that this one (unlike DRI's) actually employs the GEM user interface. GEM Kermit does not provide a terminal emulator, nor does it manipulate RS-232 parameters itself. Instead, it relies on existing accessories from the desk menu to supply these functions. Bernhard has also supplied a special IBM line-mode terminal accessory. The source consists of C and header files, and there are also some "uuencoded" binary files for the Kermit program itself and various accessories and resource files. As originally submitted (via BITNET mail), the file names had the prefix ST, but since that prefix was already in use for Software Tools Kermit, I changed the names of the files from STK*.* to AST*.*. In most cases this was a simple string replacement, but STKERM.* became ASTKER.*. Also UUENCODE.C and UUDECODE.C became ASTUUE.C and ASTUUD.C, respectively. I also changed (I hope) all internal references to these filenames accordingly. The files are available in KER:AST*.* on CU20B via anonymous FTP on the Internet, or on BITNET from KERMSRV at CUVMA, and should appear within a reasonable amount of time at Oklahoma State for UUCP access. ASTKER.DOC is the documentation (in English), which includes installation instructions. -------