Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!nprdc!malloy From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Unix Kermit and 8-bit transfers Keywords: kermit,unix Message-ID: <1128@skinner.nprdc.arpa> Date: 4 Dec 88 22:29:35 GMT References: <1383@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> <5616@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <9053@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego Lines: 29 In article <9053@smoke.BRL.MIL> w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith Petersen) writes: >Tell me why anyone would want to use Kermit on Unix when Zmodem (rz/sz >on the Unix end and DSZ on the PC end) is so much faster and provides >the ability to continue where you left off in an aborted download. Well, the reason _I_ use kermit on Unix is that at our site, the dial-in lines are connected to aegean.nprdc.arpa, while my VAX account is on pacific.nprdc.arpa (where I ftp to SIMTEL20 from), and I read netnews and save postings on our Sun network from skinner.nprdc.arpa, and our network won't let us change the comm parameters on the modem from any machine other than aegean, and having to move all the files to be down- or up-loaded to /usr/tmp on aegean from whichever machine they're on, as well as moving the comm program, then deleting the files after the transfer is complete is a little too much of a pain in the ass to do every time I want to transfer files to or from my home system. Where time permits, I generally use 'Walknet' to transfer files to or from my home system to work: Floppies carried between home and work, with the files rcp'd to the Sun network from pacific, then copied to the floppies on one of the Zenith machines using PC-NFS with the Suns. Unfortunately, this doesn't work well with 800K archives and the 360K floppies I use, so I still have to rely on kermit for some things. Sean Malloy Navy Personnel Research & Development Center San Diego, CA 92152-6800 malloy@nprdc.arpa