MSAAAA.HLP       Per Lindberg QZ         -*-Text-*-         1985-06-10
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Information on KERMIT-MS files on the Columbia Distribution area (KER:).
The filenames are shortened to 6.3 format (they may be longer on some
systems, e.g. MSBUILD.HLP instead of MSBUIL.HLP).

MS-DOS Kermit is available for:

. DEC Rainbow 100, 100+
. "Generic" MS-DOS
. Heath/Zenith 100
. Hewlett-Packard 110
. Hewlett-Packard 150
. IBM PC,PCjr,XT,AT and compatibles (Z150, Compaq, etc)
. NEC APC
. Sanyo MBC
. Texas Instruments Professional PC
. Wang PC

  General info:

MS228   UPD     List of updates from version 2.27 to 2.28
MS227   UPD     List of updates from version 2.26 to 2.27
MS226   UPD     List of updates from version 1.20 to 2.26
MSAAAA  HLP     This file
MSBUIL  HLP     How to assemble MS-DOS KERMIT, info on source files
MSKERM  DOC     MS-DOS Kermit chapter from the Kermit User Guide
MSKERM  MSS     Scribe text formatter source for MSKERM.DOC
MSKERM  HLP     Help file -- how to use MS-DOS KERMIT
MSKERH  MSS     Scribe text formatter source for MSKERM.HLP
MSKERM  MSG     Announcement of current version of MS-DOS KERMIT
MSKERM  BWR     Bug list for current version of MS-DOS KERMIT

  Files to be read by MS-DOS Kermit:

MSKERM  INI     (MSKERMIT.INI) Initialization file, used by KERMIT.EXE
MSRBEM  INI     KERMIT-MS Command File to make Rainbow function keys for EMACS
MSMETA  INI     KERMIT-MS Command File to make IBM PC ALT key to a META key
MSIH19  INI     Heath-19 keypad setups
MSS3270 INI     Sim3270 keypad setups
MSMETA  HLP     Help file for MSMETA.INI

  System/Device Independent source code:

MSDEFS  H       Source code, header file for all source modules
MSKERM  ASM     Source code, main module
MSCMD   ASM     Source code, command processor
MSRECV  ASM     Source code, file receiver module
MSSEND  ASM     Source code, file sender module
MSFILE  ASM     Source code, file i/o handler
MSCOMM  ASM     Source code, communication port buffering & flow control
MSSERV  ASM     Source code, server operation
MSSET   ASM     Source code, SET, SHOW and STATUS commands
MSTERM  ASM     Source code, terminal mode (CONNECT command)
MSXDMB	ASM	Source code, force correct segment order
MSFINAL	ASM	Source code, marks end of data segment

  System/Device dependent source code:
    MSXxxx.ASM - System-dependent code for system xxx
    MSYxxx.ASM - System-dependent screen and keyboard code
    MSZxxx.ASM - Modem control (modem-dependent)

MSXGEN  ASM     Generic MS-DOS "specific" source code
MSXHP1  ASM     HP 150 -specific source code
MSXHPX  ASM     HP 110 -specific source code
MSXIBM  ASM     IBM PC -specific source code
MSYIBM  ASM     IBM PC -system-dependent screen & keyboard source code
MSXWNG  ASM     Wang PC-specific source code
MSXRB   ASM     Rainbow-specific source code
MSXAPC  ASM     NEC APC-specific source code
MSXMBC  ASM     Sanyo MBC-specific source code
MSXTEK  ASM     Tektronix 4010 emulation for TI Pro Kermit
MSXTIP  ASM     TI PC  -specific source code
MSXZ10  ASM     Z100   -specific source code
MSYZ10  ASM     Z100   -specific screen & keyboard source code

  Documentation on system-dependent stuff:

MSAPC   HLP     Documentation for NEC APC-specific features
MSAPC   BWR     Beware (bugs) file for NEC APC Kermit
MSIBMP  H19     Note on how to make a H19-style keypad for IBM PC
MSMPC   HLP     Documentation for Sanyo-MBC-specific features
MSPCJR  HLP     Notes on using IBM PC Kermit on the PCjr
MSXDMB  HLP     Documentation for segment-ordering dummy module
MSXSYS  DOC     Programming documentation for system-dependent modules
MSXSYS  MSS     Scribe source for MSXSYS.DOC
MSXTIP  BWR     Documentation for TI/Pro-specific Kermit module
MSZ100  HLP     Documentation for Z100-specific features

  Bootstrapping programs and information:

MSMKBO  C       Encoding program, 8-bit-binary .EXE to ASCII .BOO-file 
MSPCBO  BAS     Transfer .BOO-file to PC, decoding to .EXE on the fly (PC end)
MSBOOT  FOR     Send .BOO file to PC (mainframe end of boostrap)
MSPCTR  BAS     Decode PC-resident .BOO-file to .EXE (MS Basic)
MSRBBO  BAS     Special .BOO file decoder for Rainbow (MBasic-86)
MSRBBO  HLP     Note on how to translate .BOO to .EXE on a Rainbow
MSBOOT  BWR     Note on problems with bootstrapping MS-DOS Kermit

  Downloadable object code -- 8-bit .EXE files translated by MSMKBOO.C
  into a 4-byte-for-3 7-bit ASCII printable encoding with zero-compression:

MSAPC   BOO     Boot object code for NEC APC (?)
MSGENE  BOO     Boot object code for generic MS-DOS KERMIT
MSHP15  BOO     Boot object code for HP150 KERMIT
MSIBMP  BOO     Boot object code for IBM-PC,XT,AT KERMIT
MSMBC   BOO     Boot object code for Sanyo MBC Kermit
MSRB10  BOO     Boot object code for DEC Rainbow 100, 100+
MSTIPR  BOO     Boot object code for Texas Instruments TI PC (?)
MSWANG  BOO     Boot object code for Wang PC
MSZ100  BOO     Boot object code for Heath/Zenith 100

  On some tapes, binary 8-bit .EXE files are also provided.  In the
  Kermit distribution area at CU20B, they are in KB:MS*.EXE, with the
  "*" replaced by the names shown above.
