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- [VTKERMIT.DOC] -- Overview documentation for VTKermit -- 9 Feb 86
-
- VTKermit is an enhanced version of Columbia University's MS-Kermit program.
- VTKermit is based on version 2.26 of MS-Kermit and contains all features from
- that version with the exception of the Heath-19 emulation mode and the ability
- to run under versions of MS-DOS prior to 2.0.
-
- This version of VTKermit supports IBM PCs (and /XTs, Portables, ATs, maybe jr)
- and most compatibles. Also, the EXE file will run on the DEC Rainbow, though
- some features (some VT100 extensions, menu mode) are not supported on the
- Rainbow. Limited testing of scripts on the Rainbow suggests that they don't
- work either: perhaps usage on the Rainbow should be restricted to the vanilla
- terminal emulation and file transfer functions until a future version
- addresses these problems.
-
- VTKermit adds the following features to MS-Kermit:
-
- 1) VT100 emulation
- 2) Script files
- 3) Command menus
- 4) Many other features too numerous to mention here
-
- For a longer list of VTKermit features, see FEATURES.DOC.
-
- The documentation distributed with VTKermit makes no effort to replace
- Columbia University's fine documentation for Kermit. Instead, the more
- important differences between vanilla Kermit and VTKermit are identified, and
- some usage instructions are provided. The major documentation effort went
- into documenting scripts and menus, which are completely new features.
-
- Also, since VTKermit emulates very closely a DEC VT100 terminal, no effort to
- document the available VT100 escape sequences was made. See a VT100 manual
- for help with VT100 features. Instead, VT100.DOC talks about differences
- between the VT100 emulation mode provided by VTKermit and that of a real
- VT100. Also, some details of screen handling are covered in that document.
-
- Documentation distributed with VTKermit consists of:
- VTKERMIT.DOC -- This file
- FEATURES.DOC -- Glossy-style list of some VTKermit features
- VT100.DOC -- Documentation of VT100 features
- SCRIPT.DOC -- Documentation of script facility
- MENU.DOC -- Documentation of command menus
- OVERVIEW.SCR -- Simple "interactive" overview, a script file
-
- VTKermit is distributed with source code. The program is written in 8086/8088
- Macro Assembler language and may be assembled with any Microsoft-compatible
- assembler from IBM's MASM version 2.0 onward. Microsoft's version 4.0
- assembler is recommended due to its higher speed. The distributed
- VTKERMIT.EXE file was compressed with the EXEPACK program that comes with MASM
- version 4.0, which is also highly recommended.
-
- To install VTKermit to run on a floppy disk, just copy the files from the
- distributed "EXE disk" to a DOS system disk.
-
- To install VTKermit to run on a hard disk system, create a VTKermit (or other
- name) directory, copy the files from the "EXE disk" into that directory, and
- add the directory to the PATH that is set up in AUTOEXEC.BAT. VTKermit
- searches the default PATH for most of its "system" files, so you can be
- connected to any directory you want while running the program.
-
- To rebuild VTKermit, copy all of the files from the two "SOURCE disks" into a
- VTKermit (or other) directory on your hard disk and type DOITALL. MASM and
- LINK should both be on your default PATH, as should EXEPACK if you have it.
- (EXEPACK is well worthwhile, as it cuts the size of the EXE file from about
- 80K to about 50K bytes.) Be sure that you have a lot of free disk space when
- rebuilding VTKermit ... you will need something like a megabyte. If after
- changing a few pieces of VTKermit you need to relink but don't want to
- reassemble everything, you can use the LINKIT batch file instead of DOITALL.
-
- The original MS-Kermit version 2.26 on which VTKermit is based was written by
- Jeff Damens and Daphne Tzoar at Columbia University. The design of the Kermit
- file transfer concept and protocol was by Frank da Cruz and Bill Catchings at
- Columbia.
-
- All of the VTKermit enhancements were written by Tad Marshall. Funding for
- the development of the VT100 emulator came from Bankers Trust Company.
- Funding and much of the design for the rest of the enhancements came from Stan
- Baer and Rich Stillman at Harvard Business School. The script language was
- modelled after the script language of Datability's Remote Access Facility,
- RAF, for which Rich Rupp and Ron Howard of Datability get credit.
-
- VTKermit is
-
- Copyright (C) 1982,1983,1984,1985,1986 Trustees of Columbia University
-
- and is subject to all the conditions imposed by Columbia University. These
- primarily disallow any attempt to sell VTKermit or other Kermits for profit.
-
- [End of VTKERMIT.DOC]
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