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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Will MS-DOS Kermit act as server?
Date: 30 Sep 1995 15:07:16 -0500
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In article <44c736$6on@clarknet.clark.net>,
David Clausen <clau@clark.net> wrote:
>When I said "background", I meant that Kermit would be running as an
>MS-DOS session under WINDOWS 3.11.
>
>Now, I need to make a decision between implementing MS-DOS Kermit, or
>UUPC. UUPC's server (uucico) runs as a dedicated Windows session,
>which probably means it won't bog the system down as much as MSK
>will running as a DOS session. However, from what I've read, it would
>seem that Kermit may be more reliable (although my connection is a
>direct null-modem cable).
>
>If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions regarding UUPC vs. Kermit,
>I would love to hear them.
It will work to use either but if you care about performance you
should consider an ethernet connection if the machines are in
the same building. You can run the 'samba' file server on
the unix host and Windows-for-Workgroups as a client and simply
have the PC create the files transparently on the host's drive
in the first place, or share the WFW drive and copy from the
unix host with smbclient which is sort of like ftp. Or use
any of the usual tcp/ip tools to move files. If you really
have to use a serial connection you could still use one of
the slip/ppp winsock interfaces like trumpet and use the
tcp/ip tools. You can't use WFW/samba over trumpet, but you
could do it with Win95 and its slip/ppp connection. The
advantage of going this route is that you can switch to a
network connection with no change except speed. And with either
the slip or network link you get access to all the other
machines on the network, not just the one at the end of
the serial line, and you can use it from the other windows
sessions as well. I think you can run the Windows version
of UUPC over tcp/ip on the winsock link (along with other
things). Unfortunately you can't do that with kermit so if
you start that way you'll have to change to go with a
networked Windows 3.11 system.
Les Mikesell
les@mcs.com