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# Kermit Documentation

This page serves as an index to the available documentation about Kermit.

## From Open Kermit and John Goerzen

These are the latest and most up-to-date documents.

- [Kermit Introduction and Tour](../ckermit/intro), contains a feature list, description of Kermit modes, a tour of Kermit as a ssh wrapper, tuning, and so forth.
- [C-Kermit downloads](downloads)
- [C-Kermit docs and notes](ckermit)
- [C-Kermit reference](../ckermit/help-reference), which is auto-generated from the C-Kermit source and help text available within C-Kermit
- [C-Kermit scripting](../ckermit/scripting), which includes links to some amazing example scripts
- More than you wanted to know about [C-Kermit's permissions model](../ckermit/permissions)
- John Goerzen's pages about IKSD, the Internet Kermit Server Daemon, all offsite on www.complete.org:
  - [Try the Last Internet Kermit Server](https://www.complete.org/try-the-last-internet-kermit-server/) (from 2023)
  - [The quux.org Kermit Server](https://www.complete.org/quux-org-kermit-server/)
  - [How to Run an Internet Kermit Server](https://www.complete.org/how-to-run-an-internet-kermit-server/)


## Kermit Project and Columbia resources

There has been much written about Kermit over the years, including several
books.  Because compatibility has been a key goal for C-Kermit for decades now,
most older material from the Kermit Project or Columbia University is still
applicable to modern C-Kermit installations.

The books here are treasures of detailed Kermit information; for instance, The
Kermit File Transfer Protocol was in print from 1986-2001 and used copies can
still be found on Amazon.

- [About Kermit](https://kermitproject.org/kermit.html)
- [C-Kermit tutorial](https://www.kermitproject.org/ckututor.html)
- [Kermit online books and articles](https://www.kermitproject.org/booksonline.html)
  - The [Using C-Kermit Book and Supplements](https://www.kermitproject.org/ckbindex.html)
- [Kermit Case Studies](https://kermitproject.org/studies.html) have a lot of interesting material
- [C-Kermit 9.0 documentation index](https://www.kermitproject.org/ck90.html#doc)
- [C-Kermit 9.0 installation instructions for Unix](https://www.kermitproject.org/ckuins.html), still roughly applicable except for the first three sections which have dated downloading information
- [C-Kermit 10 specifications](https://www.kermitproject.org/ck10specs.html)
  
## Quux.org resources

John Goerzen maintains Kermit mirrors on quux.org, for both the Columbia and Kermit Project FTP and HTTP sites.  See <https://kermit.mirrors.quux.org/>.