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.