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C-Kermit for Windows 10b11 Beta 6

C-Kermit for Windows Beta 6 (C-Kermit 10.0 Beta.11)

This sixth beta release of C-Kermit for Windows sees the full return of DEC Alpha support (discontinued after 1.1.20 around May 2000) and PowerPC support (discontinued after 1.1.16 of 8 April 1998), and the addition of MIPS support.

If you're upgrading from beta 5, you might like to consult Whats New in Beta 6. If you're upgrading from an earlier release or upgrading from Kermit 95, the full change log and SSH Readme are probably worth a look too - especially if you're using Windows XP or Server 2003 where additional steps are required to resolve an error there.

If you used the dialer in a release prior to beta 5 and don't have Kermit 95 installed, the beta 5 release fixes a long-standing bug in the dialer relating to default terminal colours. You may need to adjust any saved connections you have. See the beta 5 section of the change log for more details.

Name Change Coming

The next release of C-Kermit for Windows will be carrying a new shorter more well known name and version number: Kermit 95 version 3.0 beta 7 or K95 for short.

Kermit 95 is the original name for this program and many websites and users still continue to use the Kermit 95 name. As the reasons for the rebrand back in 2013 no longer apply, the decision has been made to switch back. It is hoped this will reduce confusion in the future as Kermit 95 will likely be seeing more frequent releases than C-Kermit on other platforms to keep up with evolving security standards and Windows features.

Installing and Running

Just download and unzip it somewhere convenient and run k95g.exe. If it doesn't run you may need to download and install the Visual C++ Redistributable that goes with the package you downloaded and the Windows version you're running. If you get an error about ctl3d32.dll, run ctl3dins.exe to install it.

Download

For Windows XP Service Pack 3 or newer with an x86 or ARM CPU

Please note that The Kermit Project does not currently have access to any Windows-compatible ARM hardware to test on so only very limited support can be provided. If you encounter a problem on ARM that does not exist on x86 then please report it.

Package	CPU Architecture	Description
ckw-b6-x86-64.zip	x86-64 / AMD64	For 64bit PCs. This is most likely the version you want. Visual C++ Redistributable : for Windows 7 and newer, or Windows XP SP3 and Vista
ckw-b6-x86-32.zip	x86 (32bit)	For 32bit PCs. If you have MIT Kerberos for Windows installed, see Known Issues Visual C++ Redistributable : for Windows 7 and newer, or Windows XP SP3 and Vista
ckw-b6-arm64.zip	ARM64	For 64bit ARM devices running Windows 10 or 11. No Kerberos/GSSAPI support Visual C++ Redistributable
ckw-b6-arm32.zip	ARM	For 32bit ARM devices running Windows RT, 10 or 11. No Kerberos/GSSAPI or SSH support. Untested on Windows RT but likely to work.

Pathworks32 support is only available in the 32bit x86 version. ARM versions lack Kerberos support. ARM64 currently has no SSH compression support due to issues with zlib, ARM32 has no SSH support at all at this time. The dialer is also unavailable in ARM builds though you may be able to run the x86 version of the dialer under emulation.

For Vintage PCs with an x86 CPU (Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT 3.5x/4.0, 2000/XP pre-SP3)

Two feature-reduced versions are provided for x86 PCs running version of Windows older than Windows XP SP3. These lack SSL/TLS and SSH support as the required 3rd party libraries no longer support such old versions of Windows or the compilers required to target them. They are otherwise functionally equivalent to C-Kermit on modern windows with the same terminal emulations and unencrypted connectivity options.

Package	Minimum Windows Version	Description
ckw-b6-vintage.zip	Windows 95 Windows NT 3.51	Feature (and security) reduced for compatibility with vintage PCs. If required: Visual C++ Redistributable
ckw-b6-nt350.zip	Windows NT 3.50	For Windows NT 3.50 only. Additionally, no NTLM, TAPI, GUI Toolbar support or dialer. May work for serial connections only on Windows NT 3.10 - networking support is known to be broken on NT 3.10.

For Vintage Workstations/Servers using a non-x86 CPU (Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, Itanium)

These builds are for computers that are not PCs and won't run on anything with an x86 compatible processor.

Please note that the Kermit Project currently lacks access to Windows compatible Itanium hardware so only very limited testing could be done on the Itanium build.

Package	Windows Version	CPU Architecture	Description
ckw-b6-ia64.zip	Tested on Windows Server 2008 R2, may work on older.	Intel Itanium (IA-64)	For Workstations and Servers with an Intel Itanium processor (not regular 64bit PCs). Produced with the Windows Platform SDK v7.1 (Visual C++ 2010). Includes SSL/TLS support but no SSH support (compiler too old). This has been tested on Server 2008 R2 only. Its status on Server 2008, Server 2003 and XP 64-Bit Edition is currently unknown.
ckw-b6-mips.zip	Windows NT 3.51, 4.0	MIPS	Does not include TAPI support due to a bug in the Visual C++ 4.0 RISC Edition compiler. Does not include any cryptography support due to compiler age.
none	Windows NT 3.50	MIPS	Must be built from source using Visual C++ 2.0 RISC Edition as there are compatibility issues with earlier MIPS compilers.
ckw-b6-ppc.zip	Windows NT 3.51, 4.0	PowerPC	Does not include debug logging support due to TOC size limits on this platform. Does not include any cryptography support due to compiler age.
ckw-b6-axp.zip	Windows NT 3.51, 4.0, 2000 RC2	DEC Alpha AXP	Functionally the same as the vintage build for x86 PCs (ckw-b6-vintage.zip)
ckw-b6-axp-nt350.zip	Windows NT 3.50	DEC Alpha AXP	For Windows NT 3.50 only. Additionally, no NTLM, TAPI, GUI Toolbar support, dialer or support for large integers and large files. May work for serial connections only on Windows NT 3.10 - networking support is known to be broken on NT 3.10. This build was produced with the NT 3.50 SDK which includes a compiler equivalent to Visual C++ 1.1 so its a little more limited than the NT 3.50 build for x86.
ckw-b6-axp64.zip	Microsoft internal 64bit Windows 2000/XP builds	DEC Alpha AXP (64bit)	You almost certainly don't want this one. It's a 64bit build for 64bit versions of Windows for the DEC Alpha that Microsoft never publicly released - the oldest 64bit Windows target. It won't work on Windows NT or Windows 2000 RC2 as these are all 32bit. It was built with the January 2000 Platform SDK.

Source Code

C-Kermit for Windows is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license. To build it Visual C++ is recommended - any retail copy should work along with recent free/community editions. Some features will be automatically disabled when building with older compilers so newer is better unless you're targeting vintage computers. OpenWatcom 1.9 is supported though only with a feature set similar to the Vintage Windows builds (no ssl/ssh/pty/etc). GCC/MinGW should work too, but it is not recommended.

Package	Description
ckw-b6-src.zip	The source code, available under the 3-clause BSD license.

Known Issues

32bit x86 CKW may crash on 64bit systems that have the 64bit version of MIT Kerberos for Windows installed. Use the 64bit version of CKW instead if you experience this problem (or install the 32bit version of KFW)
When launching the dialer you may get an error about ctl3d32.dll - if you do, run ctl3dins.exe to install it
The dialer may fail to start on some systems
On the original retail release of Windows 95 (possibly all versions of Windows 95), the GUI version of C-Kermit constantly steals focus and performs poorly. The solution at this time is to run the console version, k95.exe
The dialer is not currently available on Windows NT 3.50 - this may be corrected in a future release
Networking is broken on Windows NT 3.10 - this may be corrected in a future release.

Other known bugs can be found in the CKW issue tracker on GitHub.

Reporting Bugs

If you think you've found a bug in CKW you can either send an email to ckw@kermitproject.org or you can log it directly in the CKW Issue Tracker on GitHub

David Goodwin