Kermit Documentation

This page serves as an index to the available documentation about Kermit.

From Open Kermit and John Goerzen

These are the latest and most up-to-date documents.

• Kermit Introduction and Tour, contains a feature list, description of Kermit modes, a tour of Kermit as a ssh wrapper, tuning, and so forth.
• Kermit FAQ
• C-Kermit downloads
• C-Kermit docs and notes
• C-Kermit reference, which is auto-generated from the C-Kermit source and help text available within C-Kermit
• C-Kermit scripting, which includes links to some amazing example scripts
• More than you wanted to know about C-Kermit’s permissions model
• John Goerzen’s pages about IKSD, the Internet Kermit Server Daemon, all offsite on www.complete.org:
  • Try the Last Internet Kermit Server (from 2023)
  • The quux.org Kermit Server
  • How to Run an Internet Kermit Server

Kermit Project and Columbia resources

There has been much written about Kermit over the years, including several books. Because compatibility has been a key goal for C-Kermit for decades now, most older material from the Kermit Project or Columbia University is still applicable to modern C-Kermit installations.

The books here are treasures of detailed Kermit information; for instance, The Kermit File Transfer Protocol was in print from 1986-2001 and used copies can still be found on Amazon.

• About Kermit
• C-Kermit tutorial
• Kermit online books and articles
  • The Using C-Kermit Book and Supplements
• Kermit Case Studies have a lot of interesting material
• C-Kermit 9.0 documentation index
• C-Kermit 9.0 installation instructions for Unix, still roughly applicable except for the first three sections which have dated downloading information
• C-Kermit 10 specifications

Quux.org resources

John Goerzen maintains Kermit mirrors on quux.org, for both the Columbia and Kermit Project FTP and HTTP sites. See https://kermit.mirrors.quux.org/.