Date: Wed Mar 1 11:42:49 1989 From: Christine M Gianone Subject: Announcing Kermit for Hewlett-Packard BASIC Workstations Keywords: HP-9000 Kermit, BASIC Kermit Xref: Hewlett-Packard, See HP This is to announce Kermit for the HP 9000 Series 200 and 300 BASIC workstations, written in HP-BASIC by Andrew Campagnola of Hewlett-Packard Measurement Systems Division in Loveland, Colorado, with contributions from Keith Moore at the HP NJ Division labs. This version, Kermit-RMB 1.0, of the program is the initial release. Kermit-RMB is capable of both remote and local operation, transfers text and binary files over both 8-bit and 7-bit connections, emulates the DEC VT100 terminal, does raw uploads and downloads, includes logging functions, has a macro facility, and handles Kermit File Attribute packets. It also printer control, a hex editor and dump facility, and a file type conversion utility. It lacks certain other capabilities including wildcard send, 2- and 3-character checksums, server functions, and long packets. The program runs on any Series 200/300 computer with 1MB of memory and BASIC 5.0 or greater, and will run on any HP serial interface available for these computers. Kermit-RMB comes with an extensive manual, BASIC source code, and binaries encoded in hexadecimal format. The files are in the "C" area of Kermit Distribution, kermit/c via anonymous FTP, or on the C tape, as files whose names start with HPB. The program will also be distributed by Interex, the international HP computer user group, on native-format 3.5" diskettes, and can also be obtained over BITNET from KERMSRV at CUVMA. Many thanks to Andy for contributing this program.