Columbia University Kermit Project website conversion of FTP links to HTTP

Frank da Cruz
July-August 2021

This pages lists the Columbia Kermit Project pages that have had their FTP links converted to HTTP so they will continue to work as FTP disappears from the Internet after 50 years of faithful service [Why?]. These conversions mark the first changes to this website since it was closed and frozen in 2011. Pages marked with asterisk were also converted to HTML5 with full fluidity, W3C validated, and/or have updated or improved content.

By 22 July 2021, the following pages that contained FTP URLs had been fixed:

• index.html (Kermit Project home page)*
• archive.html (the Kermit software archive as of 2011)*
• mskermit.html (MS-DOS Kermit)*
• ek.html (Embedded Kermit)

On 23 July 2021, the following pages were fixed:

• ckermit.html (which is a link to ck90.html)
• ckermit90.html (What's new in C-Kermit 9.0)
• ckututor.html (C-Kermit tutorial for Unix)
• ckfaq.html (C-Kermit frequently asked questions)
• ckbinaries.html (677 prebuilt C-Kermit binaries)
• kermit.html (About Kermit)

30-31 July 2021:

• k95.html (Kermit 95 for Windows main page)*
• k95faq.html (Kermit 95 for Windows Frequently Asked Questions)
• k95bugs.html (Kermit 95 bug list)
• pdp10.html (Kermits for PDP-10 and DECSYSTEM-20)
• ckdaily.html (C-Kermit test releases through 2011)
• ckermit80.html (C-Kermit 8.0 release notes)
• ckermit70.html (C-Kermit 7.0 release notes)
• ibm370.html (IBM mainframe Kermit)
• cpm.html (Kermit for CP/M-80, 85, and 86 microcomputers)
• gkermit.html (simple GPL-license Kermit file transfer for Unix)
• security.html (Kermit's security methods explained)
• news.html (Kermit News issues 1986-1995)
• support.html (Kermit tech support)
• iksd.html (Internet Kermit Service Daemon)
• uiksd.html (IKSD Administrator Guide for Unix)
• cuiksd.html (IKSD at Columbia)
• wiksd.html (Windows IKSD overview)
• wiksdadm.html (Windows IKSD administrator)
• wiksduser.html (Windows IKSD user)

1 August 2021:

• ftpclient.html (Kermit FTP client, ironically)
• whatsnew.html (What's new on this site)*
• safe.html (Safe computing 2001)
• k95sourcecode.html (Kermit 95 source code)
• mac.html (Macintosh Kermit)*
• appleii.html (Apple II Kermit)
• k370.html (Kermit for IBM 370-series mainframes)
• pdp8.html (Kermit for DEC PDP-8 minicomputers)
• pdp11.html (Kermit for DEC PDP-11 minicomputers)
• csettables.html (Character-set tables)*
• accents.html (Paper on character-set conversion)
• ckc211.html (C-Kermit 8.0.211 release notes)
• ck90tables.html (C-Kermit 9.0 build tables)
• ckcbwr.html (C-Kermit general "beware file")
• ckubwr.html (C-Kermit Unix "beware file")
• ckuins.html (C-Kermit Unix installation instructions)
• ckvins.html (C-Kermit VMS installation instructions)
• nasa.html (Kermit in space)*
• papers.html (Kermit technical papers)
• utf8-t1.html (Unicode UTF-8 table)
• st-erkenwald.html.html (Middle English orthography)
• photoalbum.html (a simple photo gallery maker)

2 August 2021:

• sshclient.html (Kermit 95's SSH client)
• dec20.html (History of the DECSYSTEM-20 at Columbia)
• ckccfg.html (C-Kermit configuration options)
• standards.html (Contributions to industry standards)
• misconceptions.html (Misconceptions about Kermit)
• newsn6.html (Kermit News #6 March 1995)
• ftpfaq.html (Kermit FTP client FAQ)
• hp.html (Kermit for Hewlett-Packard platforms)
• ckcplm.html (C-Kermit programming logic manual)
• licensing.html (Kermit license converted to Open Source)
• ck80.html (C-Kermit 80 release notes 2004)
• ck90.html (C-Kermit 90 release notes 2011)
• (Plus various case studies)

17 August 2021:

• cp861.html (IBM code page 861 - Icelandic)
• case21.html (Secure Telnet with Stunnel)
• cko191.html (OS/2 C-Kermit 5A(191))
• k95news.html (What's new in K95 2.1.3)
• ckc211.html (C-Kermit 8.0.211 details)
• ckpackages.html (C-Kermit install packages)
• k95gui.html (K95 GUI)
• infokermit.html (Info-Kermit Digest archive)
• ckc209.html (C-Kermit 8.0.209 details)

The foregoing are all the pages that were visited over the course of a recent month. The remainder (below) are pages that were not visited; most of them have to do with earlier releases of different Kermit programs, or Alpha or Beta tests of them.

18 August 2021:

• studies.html (Index to Kermit case studies)*
• proof.html (Correctness proof of Kermit protocol)*
• c64.html (Kermit for the Commodore-64)*
• pdp11.html (Kermit for the DEC PDP-11)
• pdp12.html (Kermit for the DEC PDP-12)
• ck90updates.html (C-Kermit 8.0 update notes)
• ck60text.html (C-Kermit 6.0 text files)
• telnet.html (The Kermit Telnet client)
• safe.html (safe network computing circa 2001)
• netnews.html (Kermit newsgroups)

Plus about 100 other pages containing several thousand FTP links but these have not been accessed in a long time, and in any case are generally superseded by newer versions of the same pages.

20 August 2021:

• documentation.html (Kermit books)*

31 August 2021:

• In the Kermit software archive, all of the file-list links in the rightmost column now should show you the contents of the file on your screen, rather than (in many cases) prompting you to specify a "helper app" for each file or go to an "app store" to buy one. This change affects over 4000 files. See the MS-DOS Kermit file-list or the C-Kermit file-list as examples, in which the new README files on top have been added by hand as a kind of guide to 1980s-90s file-naming conventions. README files have not been added to the other archives, but they would be very similar to these two.

The Kermit Project / Columbia University / kermit@columbia.edu / 22 July 2021 Updated: Tue Aug 31 21:02:53 2021