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Kermit 95 3.0 beta 7
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- Published: Tuesday, 28 January 2025 13:10
Kermit 95 3.0 beta 7 is now available for OS/2 2.0 and up! This was made possible by MichalN who provided a lot of help sorting out the various issues that popped up switching from IBM C/C++ 3.6 to Open Watcom 1.9.
This release replaces OS/2 C-Kermit 5A(191) of April 1995 and mostly replaces Kermit 95 2.1.2 of November 2002. Compared to the last OS/2 release of Kermit 95 the following features are currently unavailable due to the compiler switch:
- SSL/TLS support in the FTP, HTTP and TELNET clients
- Legacy DES/CAST TELNET encryption
- The PM Dialer/connection manager (the dialer from K95 2.1.2 should be compatible if needed)
- Support for FTP Software PC/TCP 1.2 and IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 (In the unlikely event someone needs these they should work if you grab a few DLLs from K95 2.1.2)
Where possible I hope to get these features back eventually. Aside from the above, this release should be fairly similar to K95 2.1.2, just with a handful of bugs fixed (eg, NetBIOS connections work now) plus all the new features and enhancements from the last 20 years of C-Kermit releases. As with past releases there is no GUI/PM version or SSH support here, though it is at least now possible to add SSH support if there is enough demand.
As far as TCP/IP stacks go, it should work with IBM TCP/IP 2.0 or newer, and I've tested it myself against IBM Internet Connection (Warp 3), IBM TCP/IP 3.1 (Warp 4 Advanced Server) and IBM TCP/IP 4.0 (Warp 4 FixPak 15).
Downloads for OS/2 are available now from Github: https://github.com/davidrg/ckwin/releases/tag/3.0.0beta7
For more information on Kermit 95, see the project readme: https://github.com/davidrg/ckwin?tab=readme-ov-file#readme