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From: dwtamkin@chinet.chi.il.us (David Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: "officializing" Commodore-64/Commodore-128 Kermit
Summary: other ways to get Kermit 2.2 docs
Keywords: Kermit 2.2 docs
Message-ID: <7820@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 25 Feb 89 21:00:37 GMT
References: <2004@pur-phy>
Reply-To: dwtamkin@chinet.chi.il.us (David Tamkin)
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Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In <2004@pur-phy> Ray Moody wrote:
[information that Kermit 2.2 and its docs are available via ftp from
 maxwell.physics.purdue.edu for those who have ftp available]

[information on how to buy it from Dr. Evil Laboratories]

| A boot file is included [on the disk from Dr. Evil Laboratories]
| for the convenience of C64 users.  For  the  convenience  of
| C128  users  a  boot sector is provided that can load Kermit
| using the fast serial routines.

The C128 boot sector takes advantage of fast serial routines and of
autostart, but what is the C64 boot program for?  Is there something to be
done besides loading and running the uudecoded results of what Simon Gales
posted to the net (with kermit.ini on the disk, of course)?

|      Commodore Kermit may also be downloaded from the Kermit
| archives.   The  Kermit  archives  are  available on BITNET,
| ARPANET, and USENET.  For complete downloading instructions,
| see the file C64KER.HLP in one of these archives.

OK, I give.  How do you get to the archives from a Usenet site to see the
downloading instructions file in the first place?  Where are they?

[reminder that ftp of Kermit files from maxwell.physics.purdue.edu is still
 available for a while]

|      Many thanks to Fred Bowen and Frank Prindle for making
| this version of Kermit a reality.

I'd like to have reason to thank them too.  But how can one get the
documentation for verion 2.2 via Usenet?

David W. Tamkin     Post Office Box 567542    Norridge, Illinois  60656-7542
dwtamkin@chinet.chi.il.us         CIS: 73720,1570          GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN
Anyone on Chinet who agrees with me is welcome to speak up on his or her own.