I got in touch with my old boss, Frank da Cruz, one of the original designers of Kermit, which is still actively being supported on the Windows and Unix platforms.

There is an updated page with the sources below, https://www.kermitproject.org/kermit-20.html.

If you download https://www.kermitproject.org/kermit20/kermit20.tap.gz, you will have a DUMPER tape image that you can mount, which will allow you to restore a running executable.

The person daydreaming in front of CU20A is me, 36 years ago on May 20^th 1986.  Actually, I'm sleepy as it was a little past midnight since that was only period when you were allowed to get system time: third shift.  Don't miss that...

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On 4/4/23 9:53 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:

Version 5.3 is the first major release of Kermit-20 in two decades and represents over a year of development for the following functionality:

·      Updates Kermit to version 7 of Tops-20.

·      Adds DECnet NRT transport to Tops-10, Tops-20 and Ultrix hosts.

·      Adds pseudo-terminal support.

·      Support for batch stream execution, including extensive testing.

·      Microsecond timing (limited by Tops-20)

·      Efficiency Enhancements

·      Symbolic (C) escape sequences and enhanced parsing

·      New and Enhanced commands

·      Revamped and enhanced macro facility

I am still working out where this is going up on the Internet, but for now, HECnet users can feel free to access the package anonymously as follows:

VENTI2::K20:  Kermit-20 Executable and release notes
VENTI2::K20D: Kermit documentation in various formats
VENTI2::K20S: Macro source code plus build files for Batch (.CTL) and Interactive (.MIC)
VENTI2::K20T: Extensive testing control files and results

Gigantic thanks to Bob Armstrong for providing countless Tops-10 cycles, support and other resources to me for testing and troubleshooting.

I'm celebrating climbing out of this particular rabbit hole by breaking Tops-20 NFT, but FAL is OK.  I think.