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Subject: Re: Kermit for the CoCo3
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Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 09:51:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 09:51:33 1987
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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Kermit is not exactly public domain; it is copyrighted by
Columbia University in order to protect it from improper use.  Kermit
may be freely distributed and you are encouraged to write versions
for new computers or improve existing versions if you so desire.  The
copyright prohibits selling Kermit for profit and entitles everyone
to a copy for free (or reproduction-costs only.  Columbia charges ~$100
for the five-magtape distribution which contains *all* kermit versions.)

There is an OS-9 Kermit which is based upon the original Unix Kermit
from long ago.  I still haven't gotten around to building it (it's in C),
so I can't say too much about it.  I get the feeling, though, that everyone
would like something a little better.  I also hear mention of various
other non-Kermit terminal emulators (MickeyTerm, GreggyTerm???) which
someone else may be able to elaborate upon.

I believe Bob Larson once took on the task of porting C-Kermit to
OS-9/68000.  I have no idea what has happened on that front.  Any ideas
guys?  Recently, I've become the "Kermit god" at Carnegie Mellon -- working
with Kermit-MS (for the IBM PC) and C-Kermit (for our distributed
Unix workstation environment, Andrew).  I may consider trying to port
C-Kermit (or some subset) to OS-9/6809 on the CoCo3, but don't hold
your breath.  I definitely couldn't get to it until summer. . . .



Walt Wimer
Carnegie Mellon University

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