Date   : Wed, 17 Jan 1990 14:53:11-EST
From   : John C Klensin <KLENSIN@INFOODS.MIT.EDU>
Subject: IBM PC kermit

Most of the IBM PCs in the world run PCDOS of some flavor.  The current 
MSDOS kermit (2.30 or 3.0) will run with PCDOS 2.1 or later if you have the 
circa 256K of memory it needs.  For smaller or older machines or versions 
of the OS, you are going to need a very early kermit.  I can paw throught 
my floppy disks if necessary and try to find you one, and let you know.

IBM CP/M-86 Kermit has never been released, due to some difficulties in 
shipping, communications problems in the USA, and the fact that it 
represents a later release and compiler (with a few new features) than the 
other CP/M-86 kermits.  Their maintainers weren't excited about putting the 
new features and structure (really intended to support a native Concurrent 
CP/M implementation) into their versions, and my collaborators and I have 
never gotten adequately motivated, despite good intentions, to retrofit the 
changes into the older version.  If you really need the thing, I can try to 
send you a version, but this raises the other problem with CP/M-86 kermit, 
and CP/M-86 generally, which is that, unlike CP/M-80, there is no standard 
HEX format and LOAD/UNLOAD programs generally available.  And, because we 
were never able to get recent versions of Concurrent to run on our 
hardware, it is difficult for us to even read and copy the diskettes
now (it means booting CP/M-86 from floppies, then operating in a floppy-
only environment).

I *do* have diskettes containing a working version of IBM PC CP/M-86 
kermit.  If you really need it, do you have suggestions for getting the 
software to you?
    john klensin
    Klensin@INFOODS.MIT.EDU