VAX/VMS KERMIT-32 USER GUIDE

                              R. McQueen, N. Bush
                 (formerly of Stevens Institute of Technology)

                            C. Gianone, F. da Cruz
              Columbia University Center for Computing Activities
                           New York, New York 10027

                                 April 2, 1987

1. VAX/VMS KERMIT

Authors:    Robert C. McQueen, Nick Bush, Stevens Institute of Technology;
            Jonathan Welch, Amherst College
Language:   BLISS-32
Documentation:
            R. McQueen, N. Bush, C. Gianone
Version:    3.3.117
Date:       June 1, 1988


VAX/VMS Kermit-32 Capabilities At a Glance:

  Local operation:                   Yes
  Remote operation:                  Yes
  Transfers text files:              Yes
  Transfers binary files:            Yes
  Wildcard send:                     Yes
  ^X/^Y interruption:                Yes
  Filename collision avoidance:      Yes
  Timeouts:                          Yes
  8th-bit prefixing:                 Yes
  Repeat character compression:      Yes
  Alternate block check types:       Yes
  Communication settings:            Yes
  Transmit BREAK:                    No
  IBM mainframe communication:       Yes
  Transaction logging:               Yes
  Session logging (raw capture):     Yes
  Debug logging:                     Yes
  Raw transmit:                      Yes
  Login scripts:                     No
  Act as server:                     Yes
  Talk to server:                    Yes
  Advanced commands for servers:     Yes
  Local file management:             Yes
  Command files:                     Yes
  Initialization File:               Yes (VMSKERMIT.INI)
  Long packets:                      Yes (to 1000 bytes)
  Sliding windows:                   No
  Attribute packets:                 No

Kermit-32 is a program that implements the Kermit file  transfer  protocol  for
the  Digital  Equipment  Corporation  VAX  series  computers  under the VAX/VMS
operating system. It is written in BLISS-32 and MACRO-32, with sources for  all
BLISS  modules also available as MACRO-32 sources.  Kermit-32 should run on any
VAX/VMS system from version 4.0 on (Version 3.1 of Kermit-32 is the  last  ver-
sion that runs under pre-4.0 releases of VMS).


The Kermit here is the "BLISS" VMS Kermit, supporting long packets and
able to run on VAX/VMS or Alpha/VMS.