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Good Lord. That takes me back. I ported Kermit to the Computervision CGOS environment. It was very popular in the user community. Internally, it was used to transfer files between systems over the terminal concentrator when you didn't want to walk down to the machine room, scavenge a mag tape, and put up with FUTIL.

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I had never heard of CGOS, but this is still up on the Kermit archive! https://kermitproject.org/archive.html Are you Val? Looks like you had to add some hacks to deal with long file naming conventions on CGOS but short filenames on CP/M.

The Kermit Software Source Code Archive is such a treasure trove of software for obscure systems

For several of them, it is possibly the only surviving publicly accessible code.

For example, the GUTS (Gothenburg University Timesharing System) implementation-I doubt you will find any other code written for GUTS anywhere online. Maybe some offline archive at some former user still has some code for it, maybe this is all that survives

I honestly don't remember. It took me a moment to even get back to TPL, a variation on RATFOR. I don't remember anything about the BYU conversion. That must have happened after I left CV.

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