After I put the changes into Tops-20 Kermit to recognize Ultrix and
properly check protocol, I finally got around to testing it against few
hosts on HECnet. As I had dimly recalled from the late 1980's, Ultrix
supports Tops-10/Tops-20 NRT, viz:
Kermit-20>c nofar/st
[Remote system *NOFAR*:: is running _ULTRIX-32_]
[KERMIT-20: Connecting to DECnet node NOFAR::]
and also:
Kermit-20>c ostara/stay
[Remote system *OSTARA*:: is running _ULTRIX-32_]
[KERMIT-20: Connecting to DECnet node OSTARA::]
Sure made my day!
When I finish wringing some more bugs out of Kermit-20 (I'm redoing the
parity routines to use string instructions), I'll see about testing
against Ultrix in addition to Tops-10 and older versions of Tops-20
Kermit (I've got them going back to the 1980's)
SETHOST currently cannot connect to these hosts as it reports incorrect
configuration messages. That's probably an easy enough fix.