[Info-vax] Kermit on Itanium VMS

[Frank da Cruz]

On 2009-12-21, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote:
: Etienne wrote:
:
:> To recap on your advice, I'm going to have to compile Kermit anyway.
:> And after I've downloaded the install kit I should replace the file
:> ckuusy.c with the one in your link.  And I should do that before
:> compiling I assume?
:
:    It won't help much after.
:
:> Do I need anything special in order to compile Kermit or will all the
:> tools be available and pre-installed?  Also, do I need any special
:> permissions?
:
:    You need a C compiler, which is commonly available, but it
: is an optional product.  No special permissions should be
: needed.
:
As far as I can tell the replacement ckuusy.c file is exactly the same
as the one in the current C-Kermit 9.0 distribution:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html

As for VMS 8.3 / Itanium, I don't see any reason why this or any other
recent version of Kermit would not work on it.  But I can't swear to it
because I no longer have access any VMS box later than 6.2 / Alpha, and
that one just barely.  If somebody could give me Telnet or SSH access and
a guest ID on any VMS 7.x or 8.x systems that have DECC and UCX or
whatever, I can verify and make any needed corrections and, when the time
comes, build new binaries for the archive.

VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
you find in the archive:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck80binaries.html#vms

(the ones at the bottom of the VMS section) should work.  These are
prebuilt binary images, you should be able to just download and run
them.  Release and installation notes are here:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckvins.html
  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckvbwr.html

Feedback by email to fdc at columbia.edu appreciated (as you can see
I'm not able to check the newsgroup very often).

- Frank