Bootstrapping:

Getting CC-DOS Kermit onto an CC-DOS or MS-DOS system initially when you don't 
have a diskette to read it from, but you do have it on line on another computer
...  is called "bootstrapping."  The method used with MS-DOS Kermit is to 
download (somehow) a version of the appropriate .EXE (executable binary) file 
that has been encoded in all printable characters by the MSBMKB.C program.  
Such a file is called a "BOO file".  The result is then decoded on the PC 
using a short Basic (or C, or Pascal) program.

 CCBMKB.C     The "BOO File Maker" (runs on CC-DOS Systems with Lattice C)
 CCBOOT.FOR   The mainframe side of a BOO-file downloader (in Fortran)
 CCBPCB.BAS   The PC side of the BOO-file downloader (in Microsoft Basic)
 CCBPCT.C     Like CCBPCT.BAS, but written in C for speed
 CCV*.BOO     The BOO files for each version of CC-DOS Kermit, e.g. CCVIBM.BOO.

The bootstrapping procedure is described in detail in the MS-DOS chapter of
the Kermit User Guide.

Briefly, here's what to do (assuming you already have some method of
downloading files onto your PC, and you have BASIC):

1. Get CCBPCT.BAS
2. Get CCBPCT.BOO
3. Enter BASIC, load CCBPCT.BAS, and run it on CCBPCT.BOO.
4. There should be a program CCBPCT.EXE on your disk.
5. Run CCBPCT on the ccvxxx.BOO file for you system, e.g. "ccbpct ccvibm.boo".
6. You should now have CCVIBM.EXE on your disk.  You can rename it to
   KERMIT.EXE if you want to (or even K.EXE).

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