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Article: 13768 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: dold@25.usenet.us.com
Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Embedded Kermit File-Transfer Protocol
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:08:42 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.protocols.kermit.misc Robert Reimiller <bob@certsoft.com> wrote:
> On 7 Oct 2002 09:53:27 -0400, fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) wrote:
>>: That takes me back in time, do people still use Kermit?
>>:
>>They sure do; take a look at the Kermit Project website:
>>
>> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
>>
> Used Kermit a lot in the early 90's on Quanterra seismic data logger
> systems. They often used just a dial-up line and a Telebit modem that
> had "kermit spoofing" to speed up transfers. You would first use a text
> interface to select the data you wanted, which would be written to a
> file, and then use Kermit to download it.
I was a sysadmin on a beta test of the Telebit TrailBlazer modem.
I started complaining about the Kermit spoofing almost immediately.
It was slower than using Kermit sliding windows that were already
available.
But that wasn't what we were beta testing, and our input on that topic
wasn't welcome.
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Clarence A Dold - dold@email.rahul.net
- Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA.