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Subject: Re: DesTerm V2.0
Keywords: kermit desterm
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Date: 26 Feb 91 00:42:38 GMT
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In article <1991Feb25.220956.20154@athena.mit.edu>, bhelf@athena.mit.edu
(Bill Helfinstine) writes:
|>In article <1991Feb25.175456.21919@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop) writes:
|>>>I'm gonna go for broke: anyone know of an overlay for DesTerm that allows
|>>>for Kermit file transfers?
|>>
|>>I'm gonna go for broke too: if such an overlay doesn't exist, if somebody
|>>could reference me to (1) a description of the algorithm for
implementing the
|>>Kermit protocol, and (2) a description of what needs be done to program a
|>>DesTerm overly, I will attempt to write such an overlay myself, eventually.
|>>
|>>-Rob Knop
|>>rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu
|>
|>
|>I can help with part (1).  I have seen a fairly thick paperback book called
|>something like _The Kermit File Transfer Protocol_.  It is written by the 
|>original developers of Kermit, so is very detailed and explicit in its 
|>description.  I don't recall the author's names, but I'm sure Caltech's
|>libraries would have it.
|>
|>Bill Helfinstine
|>bhelf@athena.mit.edu
|> 
                      
The Kermit Protocol was written by people at Columbia University (New
York City).
You can probably get the documentation from them.

Gregg Riedel


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