From the website: C-Kermit is a combined network and serial communication software package offering a consistent, transport-independent, cross-platform approach to connection establishment, terminal sessions, file transfer, file management, character-set translation, numeric and alphanumeric paging, and automation of communication tasks through its built-in scripting language. C-Kermit includes: * Along with Kermit 95, the fastest and most advanced implementation of the Kermit file transfer protocol available anywhere. * A powerful, portable, easy-to-use script programming language to automate all your routine communications tasks. * Consistent operation over serial connections (direct or dialed) and network connections (TCP/IP and in some cases also LAT or X.25) -- on a huge selection of hardware and software platforms. * Secure authentication and strong encryption. * Built-in scriptable FTP and HTTP clients plus an SSH interface * Configurability as an SSH Subsystem * Character-set translation in both file transfer and online sessions, for Western- and Eastern-European languages, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Japanese, now including Unicode. * Ability to send numeric and alphanumeric pages. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: xterm, aterm, rvtx etc all are essentially VT-100 based terminal emulators. This is restrictive for those of us whom must make use of applications requiring Wyse-50, Espirit 125C, Televideo and other ascii terminal emulations. Kermit provides support for all these other dumb terminal types. I suggest using ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/cku209.tar.gz as the base of the ebuild. This archive contains source code, build procedure, license, initialization files, CA certificates, manual page or help topic, initialization files, and plain-text documentation. I have the ability to test the resulting ebuild with Wyse 30, 35, 50, 55, 60, 150 and 160 terminals, various DEC VT-1XX versions as well as several odd ball Data General terminals. I also know how to use 'termcmp' and 'tic' to create or modify terminfo entries for best compatibility. I can feed these back to the ebuild creator if needed. Thank you for your attention.
I guess app-misc/ckermit is what you're looking for. Right?(I think it should be net-misc/ckermit, though)
Ah-HAH! You are correct! And you are also correct that the category should be someplace else. net-misc is where I expected it but an argument could be made for x11-terms. My personal preference is net-misc. Sorry. It just occurred to me that I should have run 'emerge -s kermit'. :-( Thanx much!
closing this since it already exists in portage
