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From: Jeff Dickson <jdickson@vtol.jpl.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: RZSZ & Kermit w/2.1 Rel?
Date: 9 Feb 1996 17:58:50 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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rshepard@MCS.COM (Robert E. Shepard) wrote:
>I have the Walnut Creek 2.1 version on CDROM.  My question is,
>are RZSZ and Kermit Binarys on the CRDOM?.  It appears that
>the system might want to FTP the files and only the setup/install
>files are actually on the CDROM.
>
>Can Anybody Help?
>
>Thanks :)
>
>

I doubt Kermit is on there. Kermit is still free, but the Kermit folks have
seriously constrained it's availability. Their policy was much more relaxed
before. I learned all this when I hunted for Kermit on the Linux distribution
and couldn't find it and so ftp'd to their internet site:

	watson.cc.columbia.edu

It's too bad, because until you get your Linux or FreeBSD machine hooked up to
a network and thus can use tools like ftp to transfer files - you're pretty
much cut off from the outside world. 

Jeff S. Dickson
jdickson@vtol.jpl.nasa.gov