Luxor ABC80 KERMIT


Program:        Anders Franz`n

ABC-Club        "ABC-Klubben", Stockholm, Sweden, a computer club.
                The name is in english the ABC-Club.

                The ABC-Club was founded 1979 as a user group in Sweden for
                the Luxor ABC 8 bits microcomputers.

                Today, Nokia has taken over Luxor and Nokia sells IBM
                compatible PC:s. The club has today a lot of members that
                use PC:s and other modern computers. The aim of the ABC-Club
                is today to be a user group for the old Luxor ABC computer
                users and PC users in Sweden.

Language:       All routines in assembler Zilog Z80

Documentation:  Anders Franz`n

Version:        1.0

Date:           Sept 24, 1987


KERM ABC80 Kermit Capabilities At A Glance:

  Local operation:                   Yes
  Remote operation:                  No
  Transfers text files:              Yes
  Transfers binary files:            Yes
  Wildcard send:                     Yes
  ^X/^Y interruption:                Yes
  Filename collision avoidance:      Yes
  Can time out:                      Yes
  8th-bit prefixing:                 Yes
  Repeat count prefixing:            Yes
  Alternate block checks:            Yes
  Terminal emulation:                No
  Communication settings:            Yes
  Transmit BREAK:                    No
  IBM mainframe communication:       No
  Transaction logging:               No
  Session logging:                   No
  Raw transmit:                      Yes
  Act as server:                     No
  Talk to server:                    No
  Advanced server functions:         No
  Advanced commands for servers:     No
  Local file management:             No
  Command/init files:                No
  Command macros:                    No
  Attribute packets:                 No
  Extended-length packets:           No
  Sliding windows:                   No


KERM is a program that implements the Kermit file transfer protocol
for the Luxor ABC80. The computer use the Zilog Z80 processor and
has a proprietary operating system called ABC-DOS. The computer had
a big market share in Sweden before the age of the IBM PC. They were
also sold in the other nordic countries and to a lesser extent in the
rest of Europe.




Program Invocation

The KERM.BAC is the main program. Start the program with the BASIC
command "RUN KERM". All the text in the program is in english.




Terminal Emulation

The characters you type are sent out the port, and characters that
arrive at the port are displayed on your screen.


Installation of KERM

If you already have Kermit on your ABC80, you can use it to obtain new
versions of KERM by Kermit file transfer.

If you do not have Kermit and there is no one from whom you can borrow a
floppy disk to copy Kermit from, then try to download it on a IBM PC or IBM AT.

The IBM PC/AT program ABCDISK or WABC can format a diskette for ABC80
on an IBM PC or IBM AT with 5.25 " diskettes and copy files from PCDOS/
MSDOS to the ABC-diskette. ABCDISK and WABC are commercial software that
is sold in Sweden.



Program Organization

The program is:

KERM.BAC        Main program


Sources:

KERM.ASM
KERM1.ASM
KERM2.ASM
KERM3.ASM
KERM4.ASM
KERM5.ASM
KERM6.ASM
KERM7.ASM

Documentation:

KERM.DOC	This text
KERM.INF	Short infofile in swedish
KERM.TXT        Big documentation in swedish
KERMASM.INF	Info about the sources in swedish

Utility programs:

KERMDUMP.BAS	Source for a program that dumps the session on file
KERMDUMP.INF	Info in swedish
KERMQUIT.BAS	Source for a sample program for exits back to Kermit