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- UCSD Pascal KERMIT for the IBM PC from Cornell University
-
- This implementation of KERMIT for the IBM PC p-System was submitted by Kate
- MacGregor and Steve Pacenka of Cornell University Computing Services. It
- requires version IV.x of the UCSD p-System, and is also intended to run on
- computers other than the IBM PC, provided they have an equivalent of
- REMUNIT.CODE to implement the standard UCSD Pascal Users' Society (USUS)
- "standard remote unit". It was developed on the IBM PC using NCI release C1F.
-
- The program is broken up into several modules, some system independent, some
- system dependent. These modules have been concatenated into a single source
- file, with the components separated by lines of the form
-
- >>>> filename
-
- Where the filenames are:
-
- HELPER.TEXT
- KERMGLOB.TEXT
- KERMIT.TEXT
- KERMPACK.TEXT
- KERMUTIL.TEXT
- PARSER.TEXT
- RECEIVER.TEXT
- SENDER.TEXT
- SETSHOW.TEXT
-
- Notes from Kate:
-
- The IBM psystem KERMIT is essentially the same as my [Terak 8510a UCSD II.0
- version of] Kermit. Unfortunately I neglected to forsee two system dependant
- areas:
-
- 1) Baud rate can be selected by software on some machines (e.g. IBM). The
- SET BAUD command was implemented by Steve in his version.
-
- 2) This is a newer version of the p-system and the operating system takes
- care of buffering the characters for you. Steve eliminated that part
- of the code.
-
- In addition, Steve fixed a bug which occasionally resulted in out of range
- string values. He also added Datamedia 1520A emulation. I haven't looked
- at the code for that but I assume that it is not system dependant and can be
- implemented in any version.
-
- I would like to incorporate these features into my version and (hopefully)
- come up with something which is clearly divided into non-system dependent code
- and separate system-dependent code. I suppose the obvious way to do this is
- with switches to be set before compilation. I hope to find time to do this in
- the near future (but I always say that).
-
- Kate
-
- [End of USIBMPC.HLP, May 1984]
-