C-Kermit for Windows

This is C-Kermit for Windows. It is a free and open source version of the program formerly known as Kermit-95, a commercial product of Columbia University from 1994 to 2011. For more information on Kermit, visit the Kermit Project website: http://www.kermitproject.org.

This software is currently based on C-Kermit version 9.0.304 Dev.13 of 6-FEB-2015.

OS/2 support is still present but untested. It should still work if someone can get it building with freely available tools.

This version has been released under the 3-clause BSD license and does not include any features which rely on proprietary libraries or SDKs. This includes:

• DECnet (formerly provided by DEC PATHWORKS)
• LAT (formerly provided by either SuperLAT or PATHWORKS)
• X, Y and Z MODEM (formerly provided by a library called 'P' from Oy Online Solutions Ltd).
• The Dialer (relied on Zinc, a proprietary GUI framework)
• SSH

A number of other features have been removed as they relied on ancient versions of 3rd-party libraries. These are:

• Kerberos
• SSL
• SRP

Other features may be missing as a result of the above features being disabled. For a full list of features available, type the following at the Kermit prompt:

    SHOW FEATURES

This code is based on what was going to be Kermit 95 v2.2. Compared to the final K95 release (2.1.3) a number of bugs have been fixed and a few new features have been added. A full list of these is available here:

http://www.kermitproject.org/k95-fixes-since-213.txt

Compiling

To build Kermit for Windows you will need Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 SP6 or higher. Edit /setenv.bat to point to your source directory then run through the following:

1. Open up a console window

2. Setup the Visual C++ environment. You'll want to run vcvars32.bat. This will be where ever you installed your compiler. For example:

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat
   

3. CD into your source directory and run the following:

    setenv.bat
    cd kermit/k95
    mk.bat
   

This should leave you with a number of binaries in the current directory, the most interesting being:

• cknker.exe - Console version of C-Kermit for Windows
• k95g.exe - Graphical version of C-Kermit for Windows

Future stuff to do:

• Remove need for /noBool switch and #defines in kui code.
• Restore use of fsetpos in ckofio.c (see function zfseek(CK_OFF_T) around line 5418)
• Turn long long support back on (remove -DNOLONGLONG in makefile)
• Re-enable/rewrite features that were disabled due to missing or obsolete dependencies. This will require upgrading to current versions or finding/writing replacements.
  • SSH
  • Kerberos (use Heimdal instead of MIT Kerberos for Windows)
  • zlib
  • SSL (upgrade to current OpenSSL release)
  • SRP
  • Z/Y/Z Modem
  • LAT (port from linux-decnet?)