New Open-Source Kermit Project website

Welcome to the new Open Source Kermit Project website. As you can see, it is very similar to the Columbia University Kermit website; in fact, it is a copy of it, but with most references to Columbia removed and most links fixed to point to pages and files on the new site. Over time, the two sites will diverge. Current information is to be found here; historical archives are to remain at Columbia.

Why two websites? The Kermit Project at Columbia University was canceled by the University effective 1 July 2011, as explained on the Columbia University Kermit Project home page. The Kermit website there is frozen effective 1 October 2011; it will remain available but will not change. A new website and software archive was needed to maintain and develop the software and supply updated information as the the world changes.

The “New Open Source Kermit Project” is found at kermitproject.org, also known as kermitsoftware.org, hosted by Panix.com Public Access Networks Corporation in Manhattan, New York City. It will house only the active open-source Kermit software versions: C-Kermit, E-Kermit, and Kermit 95, plus any new Kermit programs that might appear later. Kermit software for older platforms (such as MS-DOS or IBM Mainframes, to name only two), remains available on the Columbia University Kermit website.

The historical Kermit software archive — the one that contains all the Kermit programs and files from 1981 to August 2011 — is at Columbia University: about 150 different programs, covering thousands of hardware-OS-version combinations, in 36 different languages and many more dialects...

Kermit Software Archive 1981-2011: http://kermit.columbia.edu/archive.html

Here's the layout of the new FTP site:

New Kermit Project FTP Site Map

Area	Mode	FTP URL
C-Kermit Source Code	text	ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/ckermit
E-Kermit Source Code	text	ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/ekermit
Kermit 95 Source Code	text	ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/kermit95
Kermit Script Library	text	ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/scripts
Tar and Zip Archives	binary	ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/archives
Test and Development Source Code	text	ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/test/text
Test and Development Tar and Zip Archives	binary	ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/test/tar
PDF and PostScript Files	binary	ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/pdf
Plain-Text Documents	text	ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/etc

Tar and Zip archives in the archive directory are also available individually via HTTP links in the Download section of each program page (for example, here), for the benefit of those who have FTP blocked. In fact, any Kermit Project FTP URL can be converted into an HTTP URL as follows:

Change green to blue and add red: ftp://ftp.kermitproject.org/kermit/directory/filename http://www.kermitproject.org/ftp/kermit/directory/filename

The reason FTP is offered at all is that following an FTP link into a directory shows you all the files and lets you look at or download each one individually, whereas you can't get a file list with HTTP. Also, when using a command-line FTP client (such as C-Kermit), you get a lot more control than you do with HTTP.

My thanks to Panix Public Access Networks Corporation on behalf of the open source community and Kermit software users and developers everywhere for hosting this new site.

—Frank da Cruz, fdc@kermitproject.org

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The New Open-Source Kermit Project hosted by Panix.com / 29 September 2011