It's sometimes useful to use kermit over a serial console
to get software onto a remote host.

Would it be OK to add gkermit to the base system?  See
<ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/gku100.tar.gz> or
pkgsrc/comms/gkermit.

From the ANNOUNCE file in the distribution:

    G-Kermit is command-line only (no interactive commands or scripting)
    and remote-mode only (no making connections).  It has an extremely
    simple user interface, and implements a large subset of the Kermit
    protocol in a small amount of highly portable code.

I propose to put the sources in gnu/dist, a reachover Makefile in
gnu/usr.bin, install in /usr/bin/gkermit, and possibly add it to
/rescue.

--apb (Alan Barrett)