[Info-vax] C-Kermit 9.0 first Alpha test

[Frank da Cruz]

It's been a while since new C-Kermit code has seen the light 
of day in our "daily builds" area but now, against all odds,
C-Kermit 9.0 is ready for testing.  Here's the web page that
describes it:

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

The biggest change is adaptation to 64-bit platforms, and to
64-bit APIs on 32-bit platforms that have them, for transferring
"large file" and to be able to use big numbers in arithmetic,
have larger buffers, etc.  Tons of smaller improvements, fixes,
and speedups are listed in the URL.

A lot of platforms that I once had access to for development and
testing have vanished.  I especially miss the HP Testdrive site,
which was terrific (it had every conceivable OS running on every
HP hardware platform -- i386, alpha, ia64, parisc...).  When it
was shut down, I lost access almost completely to VMS.  I'll do
my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
(telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
that have C compilers.

- Frank