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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Announcing Open Source E-Kermit
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:59:53 +0000 (UTC)
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Embedded Kermit was released as Open Source on March
30, 2011, as version 1.6:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ek.html

Version 1.7 is being released today together with
C-Kermit 9.0 Beta.01, the first two Kermit programs
to embody a strengthened form of the Kermit protocol
called "Force-3", which is explained here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck90.html#force3

that works only between Kermit programs (such as
these two) that support it.  The primary application
is in the storm-tracking ocean-monitoring floats
described here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/em-apex.html

Also in connection with this project, there is an
entirely new Embedded Program, also Open Source,
called EKSW, found on the page as regular E-Kermit:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ek.html

which implements true sliding windows transport with
selective repeat (but as yet, not Force-3).  Also
available on this page is a new protocol stress
testing program called SIMIRID, which was used in the
development and test of all the above.

Thanks to John Dunlap of the Applied Physics
Laboratory of the University of Washington for
SIMIRID and EKSW, and for the suggestion for the
Force-3 protocol extension.

- Frank