BJ> Grap the (C?)Kermit source and try to compile it on a Sparc and see 
 BJ> what happens.  I thought the kermit code was ported to almost every 
 BJ> unix based platform.....

 MK> Oh yeah!  It works and has for quite some time.  Long 
 MK> before Windows was around.  No browsers either until 
 MK> Lynx came on the scene but everyone hated it.  The text 
 MK> was all off and hard to read.  Them were the days.  :-)

Ok...You've been around a while.....  [Still remember the Comp Sci
department's Vax (11/780) (running VMS) being taken down at least twice a
week to run BSD unix so that something (UUCP / UUCICO stuff) could be run
on a regular basis (to transfer mail, and the starting up of netnews)..... 
At the time I was needing the VMS side for a class.....


 BJ>> Some place I thought I had the hook for using kermit with Max under 
 BJ>> DOS and/or OS/2.....

 MK> I know BBBS can do kermit.  I am not sure about any 
 MK> other Linux BBS packages.  If you're asking what other 
 MK> protocal I'd like to see a Linux Maximus capable of it 
 MK> would have to be ftp.  That way browsers or ftp clients 
 MK> that any OS already has could be employed.  I know some 
 MK> of the older DOS guys wouldn't mind kermit.  I'm going 
 MK> to check the protocals and see what's already there.  
 MK> Kermit won't hurt my feelings any.

Kermit should integrate with the existing max code, but may need some
porting work.....  Ftp I suspect would be a (an interersting) kludge (since
to be logged into max, and ready to download files would duplicate part of
FTP's basic functions....)....

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41



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