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The New Open-Source Kermit Project

Frank da Cruz
fdc@kermitproject.org
Page created:  1 July 2011
Most recent update:  5 March 2024

New offsite (August 2023): Try the Last Internet Kermit Server by John Goerzen, complete.org. Also by John:
Kermit (intro); The quux.org Kermit Server: a publicly available Internet Kermit Server; Old and Small Technology (newer and bigger isn't necessarily better).

C-Kermit 10.0 Beta.10, 3 July 2023:    Specs  Change log  Builds  Download

Fifth Beta Test of C-Kermit for Windows, 3 July 2023:   Info  Download 

DECSYSTEM-20 Kermit 5.3(235)-5, 11 June 2023:    Web page and download 

K95 Relay: A way for Kermit 95 2.1 to make connections to modern SSH servers:    Read about it 

Kermit books and articles online:   Click here to access them 

February 2022
Cross-domain file downloads from HTTP sites are no longer allowed by browsers such and Firefox and Chrome; thus the Kermit Software Archive page here no longer works because most of the files are archived at Columbia, which has not yet converted the original Kermit Project website to HTTPS. To download old Kermit software from the Kermit archive, CLICK HERE to visit the archive page at Columbia. When Columbia converts the original Kermit site to HTTPS, downloads from outside will work again.

27 April 2021
Firefox and Chrome have dropped support for FTP links. More than 10,000 FTP links at this site had to be changed to HTTP, but certain types of FTP links have no HTTP equivalent. READ MORE HERE.  Report any remaining broken links to me by email.

25 October 2022
But you can still use FTP the old-fashioned way: ftp ftp.kermitproject.org, user: anonymous, password: anything, cd kermit (and at this point you might have to give the "passive" command depending on the FTP client) and then (for example) cd test/tar to download ("get") C-Kermit Beta-test tarballs. For best results use C-Kermit's built-in FTP client.

Kermit is a robust and portable platform-and-transport-independent file-transfer protocol and a large collection of software programs that implement it on a wide variety of platforms. In addition to file transfer, many of these programs also make network, dialed, and/or serial-port connections and also offer features such as terminal emulation, character-set conversion, and scripting for automation of any communication or file-management task. The Kermit Project originated at Columbia University in New York City in 1981 and remained there for 30 years. Since 2011 it is independent. CLICK HERE for more about the Kermit Project, protocol, and software.

News:

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See Timeline for other items.

Kermit programs currently in use

   And hosted at kermitproject.org...

All of these are written in the C programming language, with source code available.

Program Operating systems
C-Kermit Unix, VMS
Terminal sessions, file transfer, character-set conversion, scripting. Makes serial and TCP/IP network connections, including secure ones. Unix is the operating system family that includes Linux, Mac OS, Android, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and hundreds of others. C-Kermit 9.0 and later has an Open-Source BSD license. Prebuilt C-Kermit binarires for over 700 platforms 1985-2011 are archived at the Columbia University Kermit website. As of 2023, C-Kermit 10.0 is in Beta test.
G-Kermit Unix
File transfer only, does not make connections*. GNU Public License.
E-Kermit None/Any
For embedding in devices that might not have an operating system. File transfer only. Programming is required for adaptation to a given device. Extremely small and compact. BSD license.
Kermit 95 Windows, OS/2
Terminal emulation, file transfer, character-set conversion, scripting. Makes serial and TCP/IP network connections, including secure ones. The new Open Source version is now in Beta Test (Windows only so far, maybe OS/2 later).
Local and remote computers “Does not make connections” means that this Kermit program is used only on the "far end" of a data connection. For example, if you have a PC on your desk with Windows and Kermit 95, or with Linux and C-Kermit, you can make a connection (direct serial, or dialed with a modem, or Telnet, or SSH) to another (remote) computer, and you can use G-Kermit or E-Kermit (or C-Kermit) on the remote computer to transfer a file with your local computer (the PC in this case) using Kermit protocol [see diagram].

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 programming languages and many more dialects. The archive page indicated just below links mostly to Columbia, but also links to some newer items that are here at the new site:

Kermit Software Archive 1981-2023:
http://kermitproject.org/archive.html

In July 2014, Columbia University changed its FTP service in such a way as to break all FTP links to files at Columbia, of which there were more than 5000 in the Columbia University Kermit Project pages. The links in the Kermit Software Archive were updated, but none of the others. If you follow an FTP link from a Columbia page and it doesn't work, please try the corresponding page at this site, e.g. the C-Kermit Binaries page.

My thanks to Panix Public Access Networks Corporation on behalf of the open source community and Kermit software users and developers for hosting this site since 2011. —Frank da Cruzfdc@kermitproject.org

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Most recent update: 5 March 2024