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diff --git a/network/ckermit/README b/network/ckermit/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d6e2449094ca --- /dev/null +++ b/network/ckermit/README @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +C-Kermit is a combined network and serial communication software +package offering a consistent, transport-independent, cross-platform +approach to connection establishment, terminal sessions, file +transfer, file management, character-set translation, numeric and +alphanumeric paging, and automation of file transfer and management, +dialogs, and communication tasks through its built-in scripting +language. + +C-Kermit includes: + + * The fastest and most advanced implementation of the Kermit file + transfer protocol available anywhere. + * A powerful, portable, easy-to-use script programming language to + automate all your routine communications tasks. + * Consistent operation over serial connections (direct or dialed) + and network connections ¿ on a huge selection of hardware and + software platforms. + * Secure authentication and strong encryption. + * Built-in scriptable FTP and HTTP clients plus an SSH interface + * Configurability as an SSH Subsystem + * Character-set translation in both file transfer and online sessions, + for Western- and Eastern-European languages, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, + and Japanese, now including Unicode. + * Ability to send numeric and alphanumeric pages. + +This SlackBuild installs a default initialization file in the documentation +directory. However, an initialization file is rarely required with ckermit. |