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From: jkg@gatech.edu (Jim Greenlee)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Relief from 'MS-Kermit 2.31 1 of 9'
Message-ID: <17339@gatech.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 88 06:04:21 GMT
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Reply-To: jkg@gatech.UUCP (Jim Greenlee)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Bob Montante writes:

>If it's not too late, could the nine parts of kermit 2.31 be posted as nine
>independent ARC files rather than as nine pieces of 1 ARC file? [...] those 
>of us who only need/want some of it, such as the new .exe
>file and maybe the help file, can dispense with the rest altogether.

A. Peter Belsanti writes:

>If it isn't too late - please don't do that!!  Some of us would like the
>complete set of files since we do travel from computer to computer.  All files
>would be appreciated.

As the original submitter of the MS-Kermit 2.31 "monstrosity" :-), I had a
hard time deciding exactly what arrangement or grouping of the files would
be most useful for the majority of users. I finally opted for the single
archive file because that is how I normally distribute it to my students (I 
encourage them to obtain and use Kermit because it so widely available).

Anyway, I realized at the time that many people would not want the entire
distribution, so I am willing to mail just the executables and help files
to people that want only those files. Please *e-mail* requests (DO NOT POST -
I will ignore posted requests) to jkg@gatech.edu. Also indicate whether you
want the generic version or the IBM PC version (the PC version works in 99%
of the cases, so ask for that one first).

One word of warning - the executable-only files are still quite large (114K
and 148K for MSVGEN and MSVIBM, respectively), so I will most likely mail 
them out as multi-part uuencodes. I suspect that most folks will probably do 
just as well to wait for all parts of the complete distribution.

Incidentally, all of the Kermit files are available via anonymous ftp from 
cu20b.columbia.edu (that's how I got them). They are in the KER: directory
among approximately 827 other files :-). There are special versions for
the DEC Rainbow, Grid Compass, HP 150, and other MS-DOS computers. It is a
good idea to get the file MSKAAA.HLP first for file naming conventions and 
other assorted info.

						Jim Greenlee
-- 
Jim Greenlee - Instructor, School of ICS, Georgia Tech     jkg@gatech.edu

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