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From: sentinel@killer.UUCP (The Sentinel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Kermit 2.0
Message-ID: <842@killer.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-May-87 23:42:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.842
Posted: Sun May  3 23:42:37 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 08:47:55 EDT
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(I could swear I posted this already, but I can't find any record  of it...
 so, if you've seen something like this before I apologize)

    First of all, Dr. Evil Labs is real.  If you have sent for a disk, you
WILL get it.  If they are a bit slow, it is because they are students, and
it's finals time.  Also, becuase of the changing nature of University
addresses, the address they gave is one of their homes.  But you will get
your disk as soon as they can send it.

    Second, the new Kermit does a pretty good job of emulating a VT100.  It's
good enough to use on a Unix system without any termcap tweaking;  in fact,
that is how it was tested.  The only thing you have to add to the termcap
entry is the additional information about the status line, if you wish to
use a program such as sysline.
    Now, I haven't tested it very heavily myself.  I just used it for a
short vi session in which I edited and scrolled around in a large file,
followed by a game of hack.  There is a lot of stuff the VT100 can do that
probably isn't covered, but Kermit works well enough to get by.  It
certainly works better than MicroVT or BobsTerm Pro, both of which I've
had sisignificant problems with when trying to use them on the same system.

    As to why they didn't send a .hex or .bin file to Columbia, I can't
imagine why they left the binary out of the distribution.  If someone
will post or mail me the details of how to submit something to Columbia,
and if D.E.Labs doesn't send a binary soon,  I'll send a copy of mine.

--TS

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Disclaimer:  I have no business affiliation with Dr. Evil Labs.  I do,
  however, know the gentlemen who make it up, and usually play with their
  software before anybody else does.
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