Announcing G-Kermit 1.00

[Frank da Cruz]

This to announce a new, compact, and GPL'd Kermit program for UNIX. The
new program is called G-Kermit (GNU Kermit). It is intended to meet the
need for a Kermit protocol implementation that is:

. Stable and low-maintenance
. Compact and fast with no frills
. Under the GNU Public License

G-Kermit is command-line only (no interactive commands or scripting) and
remote-mode only (no making connections). It has an extremely simple user
interface, and implements a large subset of the Kermit protocol in a small
amount of highly portable code.

It has been built and tested on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, ranging
from early-1980s to up-to-the-minute, using both traditional C and ANSI C.
It is designed to be as independent as possible of platform-specific
features, and therefore to be stable for many years if we resist the
temptation to add features to it. The size of the binary ranges from 33K
(on HP-UX 8.00) to 104K on Ultrix/MIPS, with an average size of 53K over 64
builds, and a typical size of 37K on PC-based UNIXes.

It's easy to build, install, and uninstall. It requires no privileges.
Documentation is included as a plain-text README file and a man page.

You can find G-Kermit 1.00 on the Web at:

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html

and by FTP at:

ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/gkermit.tar.Z (88K)
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/gkermit.tar.gz (62K)
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/bin/gku100.* (individual binaries)

Uncompress, untar, read the README file, and take it from there (in most
cases you just type "make" to build it).

Send test reports to kermit-...@columbia.edu.

Frank da Cruz
The Kermit Project
Columbia University
New York City
Web: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/