Mac Forum / General / Networking / September 2004

Thanks everybody. Zterm may well be what I need/want, at least it'll
talk to my modem. Interestingly, the OS9 version of Zterm does not
appear to work, so I assume Classic apps cannot get to the modem...

Uli

From Darwinports
% port search kermit
kermit          comms/kermit    8.0.209         Serial and network communications package.

Or get it from Columbia U. (newer version) at
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/bin/cku211.macosx103-10.3
See http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html for information about Kermit,
its S-expression-based scripting language, and the terminal types it
emulates.

Here is just an intro from the page:

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 communication tasks through its built-in scripting language. C-Kermit
includes:

    * Along with Kermit 95, 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 (TCP/IP and in some cases also LAT or X.25) -- 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.

ZTerm ... the one I used way back when now updated to MacOS X.

http://homepage.mac.com/dalverson/zterm/