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From: madler@kanga.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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Subject: Re: kermit...
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Date: 4 Mar 91 08:14:23 GMT
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In article <1991Mar4.060611.2022@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> ta-aca@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew C. Athan) writes:
>following info: the latest release is 5a(166); the kermit/sw directory

The latest source release is still 5A(165), not 166.

>ckuker.mak.  However, if you don't want to go through the trouble of
>compiling the source, or if you don't have a lot of bandwidth and would
>rather download the (much smaller) binary directly, you can get it from the
>kermit/bin directory as the file ckuker.next.

That binary *is* 5A(166).  However, one doesn't know whether it was
compiled under 1.0 or 2.0.  As far as bandwidth is concerned, it is
422289 bytes.  They should have stripped it, which makes it 294912
bytes.  I have compiled the 5A(165) source under 2.0 and (as noted
in a previous posting) put it at cs.orst.edu in pub/next/submissions
as kermit5a.165.bin20.tar.Z.  It was compiled under 2.0, using the
"-object" compiler option and stripping it, giving a 289364 byte
object file.  The .Z is (of course) compressed to 164976 bytes.

That binary also has one other cosmetic change: the version reads:
"NeXT Mach 2.0" instead of 1.0.  I changed this in ckuver.h (line 88).
This change is not in the source in kermit5a.165.tar.Z (same place
at cs.orst.edu mentioned above)--those files are verbatim from
watsun.cc.columbia.edu.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu