Date: Fri 15 Apr 88 16:06:45-EST
From: Frank da Cruz <SY.FDC@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: New Sliding Windows Kermit for the IBM PC
Keywords: MS-DOS Kermit, Sliding Windows, BIX

This is to announce a version of Kermit for the IBM PC by Terje Mathisen of
Norsk Hydro Data, announced by him on BIX in November 87 (his BIX mail ID is
"terjem").  It's written in Turbo Pascal, and claims to include long packets
AND sliding windows, and a nonstandard "fast mode", in which data fields are
not encoded at all (it can only use this to talk to itself).  There is dumb
terminal emulation, which seems to take place only in a small horizontal
window under the command menu.

The executable program is encoded as TP4KER.BOO (which can be decoded back
into TP4KER.EXE using any of the MSBPCT programs).

There is no manual, but a very short summary is in TP4KER.HLP.  Comments &
reviews welcome, as would be results of testing the long packet and sliding
window features against other Kermit implementations that have them.