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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 file transfer and management,
dialogs, and communication tasks through its built-in scripting
language.

C-Kermit includes:

    * 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 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.

This SlackBuild installs a default initialization file in the documentation
directory.  However, an initialization file is rarely required with ckermit.