Kermit (protocol)

Kermit
Communication protocol
PurposeFile transfer
Developer(s)Columbia University
Introduction1981; 43 years ago (1981)
Websitewww.kermitproject.org

Kermit is a computer file transfer and management protocol and a set of communications software tools primarily used in the early years of personal computing in the 1980s. It provides a consistent approach to file transfer, terminal emulation, script programming, and character set conversion across many different computer hardware and operating system platforms.