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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit and FTP
Message-Id: <1995Apr17.202839.47761@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 95 20:28:39 MDT
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In article <3mumis$voj@uwm.edu>, dbm@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Dennis B Meilicke) writes:
> I was just reading the latest issue of Kermit News, and ran across the
> following:
>
> Another interesting property of the RESEND feature is that it can
> also be used to recover interrupted non-Kermit transfers, such as
> with Ymodem-G or FTP. As long as you have a partial file that was
> transferred in binary mode, by whatever means, you can continue the
> transfer from the point of failure using Kermit's new RESEND
> feature.
>
> So. How does one do FTP transfers using c-kermit? Or is this a
> reference to a feature in one of the other (MS-DOS?) versions of
> kermit?
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The reference is to FTP, as in the cutout below. It does not mean
that Kermit implements ftp (since you already have a large ftp program).
Joe D.
$ man ftp
ftp(1) ftp(1)
NAME
ftp - file transfer program
SYNOPSIS
ftp [-c | -C] [dgintv] [hostname]
DESCRIPTION
The ftp command is the user interface to the ARPANET standard
File Transfer Protocol (FTP). ftp allows a user to transfer
files to and from a remote network site.
USAGE
Options may be specified at the command line, or to the
command interpreter.
etc
recv remote-file [ local-file ]
A synonym for get.
reget Retrieve a file restarting at the end of the local-file.
--> restart
Restart the transfer of a file from a particular byte-
count.
rhelp [ command-name ]
Request help from the remote FTP server. If a command-
name is specified it is supplied to the server as well.
etc.