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From: zben@umd5 (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple,net.wanted.sources
Subject: Re: More on Wanted: Kermit for the Apple][
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Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 22:37:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  3 22:37:48 1986
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Summary: Where we stand
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Some people suggested that since they have other means of transfering
stuff from their Unix machines to their Apples I should post Kermit
anyway.  So I sat down and started to upload the source.  I didn't get
very far.  The Apple ][ that I use doesn't have lower case.  Unix is
not very friendly to upper-case-only terminals that try to use Kermit.
(To try it yourself, next time you sign on, type your userid in upper case.)

I got it uploaded to the Sperrysaur which is a case insensitive machine.
Unfortunately it doesn't like lines longer than 132 characters so I'm gonna
hafta do moby "join" commands when I get it FTPed up here.

But this exposes a pathological problem.  It probably works if you have the
lower case stuff, but what should the response of Kermit be to an unmodified
Apple?  Should there be a force-to-lower-case option?  Suggestions?

Oh, the other feature this Kermit has is a 70 column display-to-hires option.
It doesn't make it on a color TV, but it's barely tolerable on my B/W set.
On a video monitor it should be better...

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