For those of us with a long memory: John Goerzen has announced
the release of C-Kermit 11, the first release of this file-transfer
utility in 15 years.
As Debian maintainer of Kermit, I noticed some areas where it
wasn't matching modern expectations. One area was, not surprising
for a project of its age, security. Another area was that its
character set or line-ending conversions are usually not desired
now; we are used to byte-identical binary transfers, and the
defaults caused confusion and even some rare instances of data
corruption. So I started making a few patches last year.
See the
changelog for details on the work that has been done.
Most of us probably haven't thought about C-Kermit in years (if ever), but there was a time when it was an essential tool for moving files between machines.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1086953/
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