800KER.LET	Per Lindberg, QZ	1984-01-11	-*- Text Fill -*-


Frank da Cruz
Columbia University in the City of New York
Center for Computing Activities
612 West 115th Street
New York,  NY 10025
USA


Dear Frank,

The enclosed tape contains a new implementation of KERMIT. It is
KERMIT-800 for the Luxor ABC800 and its work-alikes (like the Facit
DTC). It is written in BASIC-II, and based on the C version in the
manual. It uses the ADM3A terminal emulator which is built into the
terminal option PROM in ABC800.

This implementation is made by Torbjorn Alm, a member of the ABC users
group "ABC-Klubben". I have made some minor hacks in it. It consists
of the two files 800KER.BAS and 800KER.MAN.

The tape is written in INTERCHANGE format with the BACKUP program on a
DECsystem-10 in 1600 bpi density. Hope that you can read it. I also
enclose a floppy (5-inch, Single Sided, Double Density, ABCDOS format)
in the unlikely event that you should have a ABC800, or can distribute
floppy copies.

Many people has asked me for a KERMIT implementation for RSX-11. I
hope that someone makes one soon. If you get one, I would be most
interested to hear from you.

Thank you for acting as a distribution center, we appreciate it.
We hope that this implementation will be distributed to as many as
possible, it could be of great help to ABC800 users everywhere.

			Sincerly,


			Per Lindberg

			Stockholm University Computer Center, QZ
			Box 27322
			S - 102 54  Stockholm
			SWEDEN