Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!egrunix!steyaert
From: steyaert@egrunix.UUCP (Terry Steyaert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Kermit (& Thanks for previous)
Message-ID: <202@egrunix.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 03:11:19 GMT
References: <9041@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: steyaert@unix.secs.oakland.edu.UUCP (Terry Steyaert)
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Organization: Oakland University, Rochester, MI
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In article <9041@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> cloos@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.) writes:
>Now, if someone could mail me the address and phone, if any, to order
>Kermit, I would be most appreciative.

In actuality, there is no phone number that you can order Kermit
through.  Kermit is a public domain program that is available
from several anonymous FTP sites, through several BBS's (I know
I have it on my BBS, and have seen it on other BBS's local to me.)
I have also heard that Kermit is available on Q-Link also.  I
got mine through a user uploading it to my board.  (Like the gentleman
going through the Mac, UUencoded files (actually the binary) files
didn't go through the THREE computers I tried copying through.  I
interemed in an IBM and an Epson PX-10 portable before getting it to
the Commodore.

All in all, my suggestion for getting kermit would be to:
   1. Check your local BBS's, and ASK.  I asked, and one
         of my users found.  Ask, and your local SysOp, or
         another user may have a copy hidden away.
   2. Check Q-Link, if you are on it.
   3. You can call my BBS.  If you send me mail with a
         password and a handle, I will set up an account
         and give you enough credits to DL the program.
         (The phone bill will be your problem though!)


All in all, I don't see why number 1 won't work.  Most C64 users
I have found are realy helpful in getting software.  Also, if you don't
have an account, usually another user on a local BBS does and will
call and download the program for you.  Basically, 3 is a very
last resort.

Terry Steyaert    (steyaert@unix.secs.oakland.edu)
    aka
The Guard            of The Software Pool (313)463-8777, 25 Megs on-line.
                     (Sorry, not close enough to Detroit for PCP.)