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Hello Winston - 

->> I got into 'it' with Santos over his kermit transfers and
->> after some vulgarity aimed at me the short version is he
->> didn't write that part and can't 'fix' it. No WildCat BBS
->> will allow larger than 120 byte packets which reduces a 56k
->> modem to 300 baud transfer speeds. It was the de-facto
->> standard for calculator 

WS> ^^^^^^^^^^ 

->> transfers long ago and somehow the person who wrote the
->> kermit transfer grabbed that data and never looked any
->> further into kermit (kermit can be faster than zmodem if
->> setup properley at both sender and receiver). 

WS> A HA! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Now I
WS> know what I am looking for! So WildCat! Kermit is -- in
WS> reality -- HP41C Kermit ? I think I'll just visit Hewlett
WS> Packard and see if the source code is lying around
WS> anywhere.... (Hopefully any listings will be heavily
WS> commented...). 

Source code for MSKermit is available as is C-Kermit source
code. HP did not write kermit, they just happened to include a
kermit transfer within their calculators. 

Links to all of the kermit info you could hope for is at my
website. 

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