file transfer, mainframe to micro

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From:  (Bill Johnston [csam])johnston at lbl-csam

The following is an abstract of the man page for Kermit:

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KERMIT(1)           UNIX Programmer's Manual            KERMIT(1)


NAME
     kermit - file transfer, virt. terminal over tty link


DESCRIPTION
     Kermit provides reliable file transfer and primitive virtual
     terminal communication between machines.  It has been imple-
     mented on many different computers, including microproces-
     sors (see below).  The files transferred may be arbitrary
     ASCII data (7-bit characters) and may be of any length.  The
     file transfer protocol uses small (96 character) checksummed
     packets, with ACK/NACK responses and timeouts.  Kermit
     currently uses a five second timeout and ten retries.


     Detail on other implementations and on the protocol is given
     in the Kermit Users Guide, and the Kermit Protocol Handbook.

     Kermit Users Guide, Fourth Edition (4 May 83), Frank da
     Cruz, Daphne Tzoar, Bill Catchings

     Kermit Protocol Manual, Protocol Version 3 (29 April 83),
     Frank da Cruz, Bill Catchings

     Both of the above documents are from the Columbia University
     Center for Computing Activities, New York, New York, 10027.

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Further onformation can be gotten from info-kermit-request at columbia-20
or cc.fdc at columbia-20 (Frank da Cruz).

  Bill [johnston at lbl-csam]