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For those who are interested, we have located versions of Kermit
that work on the PRO 350 under P/OS and Venix.

K11POS.TSK is runnable from DCL on P/OS.  You can find copies on
ftp.utoledo.edu or watsun.cc.columbia.edu.  The problem is bootstrapping
it into the machine over the network.  If you already have an older
version of K11POS.TSK, then bootstrapping is no problem, but if you
have no existing way to transfer binary files over the COM1 Port,
then you either need an RX50 diskette, or you have to load it in
with ASCII transfer of K11POS.HEX, a 'Hexified' encoding of K11POS.TSK
similar in spirit to uuencode on Unix and BinHex on Macintosh.  There
is a small Basic program, K11HEX.BAS to convert a .HEX file into a .TSK
binary, but it only runs under RSX/Reese Basic, not under the P/OS
Basic 1.2 or 1.4.

The only version of Kermit that I was able to compile successfully
on PRO Venix 1.0 is an old, primitive version called uxkermit.c,
found on watsun.cc.columbia.edu in the kermit/extra directory.  You
need all uxk*.c files except uxkervms.c (which is for C on VMS).
There is no Makefile.  You have to hand-build it with 

	cc -c uxk*.c and cc -o kermit *.o

I had no luck compiling either Kermit 4E or 5A on PRO Venix 1.0.
4E exceeds the limits on the size of the Data Space.  It compiles
but doesn't load.  5A doesn't compile at all, due to various
compiler complaints too numerous to list.

If anyone knows of a superior version of Kermit for either P/OS or
Venix, please let us know.

Barry