C-Kermit 11 released

For those of us with a long memory: John Goerzen has announcedthe release of C-Kermit11, the first release of this file-transferutility in 15years.

As Debian maintainer of Kermit, I noticed some areas where itwasn't matching modern expectations. One area was, not surprisingfor a project of its age, security. Another area was that itscharacter set or line-ending conversions are usually not desirednow; we are used to byte-identical binary transfers, and thedefaults caused confusion and even some rare instances of datacorruption. So I started making a few patches last year.

See thechangelog for details on the work that has been done.

Most of us probably haven't thought about C-Kermit in years (if ever), butthere was a time when it was an essential tool for moving files betweenmachines.