[Info-vax] Kermit on Itanium VMS

[Bob Gezelter]

On Dec 29, 2:27 pm, Frank da Cruz <f... at panix.com> wrote:
> On 2009-12-21, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... 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 f... at columbia.edu appreciated (as you can see
> I'm not able to check the newsgroup very often).
>
> - Frank

Frank,

On Itanium with 8.2, I had no problems with C-Kermit (native or
translated images).

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com