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Article: 13926 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: totally OT: terminal emulators
Date: 4 Dec 2002 14:54:20 -0500
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In article <b10654c6.0212041112.168875b7@posting.google.com>,
Chris Olive <colive@technologEase.com> wrote:
:tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A. Horsley)
:wrote in message news:<usmxe4tj3.fsf@att.net>...
: I understand Frank's comment that PuTTY does 10% of what Kermit does
: (esp. after looking over the comparision link he handed out.) But
: that 10% is all I need. Kermit -- pardon the comparision -- is like
: having all the features of MS Word when all I need to do is type
: memos. ... The point that one could learn one product (Kermit) on
: multiple platforms though... that's a compeling thought.
:
Exactly. This topic comes up often enough that I have a stock response:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/kermit.html#complexity
It's the old tradeoff: invest some time up front into learning something,
and benefit from that investment for years to come.
: And I really think Jeffery deserves a cash incentive for writing in
: proxy support... 8-)
:
Definitely. And a drag-and-drop GUI for FTP and Kermit file transfer,
and lots else. But who has cash? (That's not a rhetorical question!)
- Frank