Subj : Pure DOS TelNet Kermit

Subj : Pure DOS TelNet Kermit
To : Mark Lewis
From : Michel Samson
Date : Thu Nov 04 2004 11:35 am

Hi Mark,

About "Pure DOS TelNet Kermit" of November 3:

ML> ...i (finally) saw that you had uploaded a private package to me...
ML> ...you still wanting to do/try something with it... ...?...
MS> I didn't change my mind... ...though... ...i forgot what's in...
ML> ...you marked it as "sysop's eyes only"...

It would help if you could remind me the file-name of this archive.

ML> I was just not wanting you to be jaded about sending some info this
ML> way and then nothing ever being done with it...

You must be the 3rd `OS/2' SysOp with who i discussed `Kermit' this
year, so far; consider that you're likely to get the better part of the
deal since i identified/collected some of the needed information already
and it wouldn't be a 1st time, anyway (i've been "jaded" before)... %-)

ML> My biggest problem is to decide if i should go with native OS/2
ML> flavor of whatever or go with a DOS flavor...

That's my problem as well: i don't run a BBS and much less `OS/2'.

Here's what i learned. `C-Kermit 5A(190)' of November 16, 1994 was
the last release WITH A 16-BITS `OS/2' VERSION INCLUDED. I can't do any
test with it in a `W32' DOS box but it seems the "ReSend" feature (which
would support Transfer Recovery), the passing of File Attributes and the
~REXX~ interface were finally supported there. The LAST RELEASE was `C-
Kermit 5A(191)' of April 24, 1995; you get NO 16-BITS VERSION IN IT and
don't expect too much out of a 32-Bits build because of a bug, i'm told.
In short, forget about a cure for bugs introduced in `C-Kermit 5A(190)'!

As far as i'm concerned i bet on `MS-Kermit' - a much better choice
in terms of maturity: October 12, 2003 for v3.16 and September 17, 1997
for v3.15 - and it's also the 2nd most stable DOS program i ever used...

If you go for the later then i recommend that you take a peek here:

http://fidonet.sensationcontent.com/echomail/searchlight/f742a4263556c006.html

This late setup includes all of the ~URL~s you'd need, in any case.

;-)

The one archive which i didn't include yet can be found right here:

ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/cko190.zip (790 Kb)

The 16-Bits `C-Kermit 5A(189)' executable CAN be tested under `W32'
environments, which is important because the command-line differs a lot;
the features enumerated above are absent from this older version but i'm
hoping that's sufficient for me to figure out a few things from it. ;^)

Perhaps you'd be well advised to read the related thread started in
`FdN_TeleGard' by Sean Dennis, any details which i may have forgot could
have been discussed out there: Sean is also an `OS/2' SysOp, after all.

Salutations, :)

Michel Samson
a/s Bicephale
-> Contact -> http://public.sogetel.net/bicephale

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