Columbia University pulling the plug on Kermit

[evwhore]

The communications software, not the muppet.

"Columbia University has announced that the Kermit Project will be ended in July 2011, after more than 30 years in existence. Open Kermit (C-Kermit) will remain available, but without any support or ongoing development. Kermit-95, which cannot be open-sourced, will remain available for license purchases

Comments

[clutch_c]

Pretty cheesy to cut off support and maintenance but still try to sell Kermit-95 licenses.

[adb_jaeger]

14.4? LUXURY.

Heh. A while back, I happened to be ego-surfing, and found an entire source code dump of a terminal emulator my father and I wrote back in the early 1980s for the IBM-PC.

From the readme file:

"The main function of this program is to provide a reasonable terminal simulation on the IBM PC of an HP-like
terminal to a UNIX(tm) system. The file `simterm.exe' is the load
module and, when invoked, assumes a default of 1200 baud, 1 stop
bit, no parity, and flow control (XON/XOFF). "

I remember adding features to the termcap entries (and the program, of course) explicitly to make the stardreck game run faster over that 1200 baud line.

Heh.

[evwhore]

Well, my first modem was a 1200. I've also been present when an acoustic coupler was used.

[fich]

You kids today...

zmodem

[ext_1460]

I still build/install lrzsz for every box I use regularly. SecureCRT has zmodem support built-in, so it's the easiest file transfer mechanism there is for already-existing ssh sessions.