From news@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu Tue Dec 16 15:07:26 1997 Path: news.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!fdc From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,alt.comp.tandem-users,comp.sys.tandem Subject: New Kermit release for Tandem Date: 16 Dec 1997 20:07:24 GMT Organization: Columbia University Lines: 39 Message-ID: <676n1s$ej7$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: watsun.cc.columbia.edu This is to announce a minor new release, 2.0, of Kermit for Tandem Nonstop systems. It has been contributed by an anonymous corporate donor that commissioned the upgrade some years ago from CAIL Systems Ltd, a company that does contract Tandem programming: http://www.cail.com/ It is not clear exactly what the improvements are, since they are not documented anywhere, not even in the source code. As before, there is no user-level documentation at all. The files are in ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/d/ (transfer in text mode): tandem.tal: The original 1986 version, TAL source code. tandem.src: The new 2.0 version, TAL source code. tandem.dif: Context diffs between the two versions. And in ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/bin/ (binary mode): tandem.obj: The TAL object module based on tandem.src, executable on CLX-8xx system. In response to the many requests we receive for a high-performance, high-quality, fully functional Kermit implementation for Tandem, the best course would be for a Tandem programmer to port C-Kermit ("the world's most portable communications software") to the Tandem platform. This can be done "simply" by filling in some low-level system-dependent i/o routines. Anybody who is interested in doing this, please send e-mail to: kermit@columbia.edu Meanwhile, thanks to our anonymous donor for contributing the new release! Frank da Cruz The Kermit Project Columbia University