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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
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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