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From: mike@ccs-sparc2post.QueensU.CA (Mike Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: The Mac version of Kermit has less features than other OS versions.
Date: 7 Nov 1994 14:34:39 GMT
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In article <phinely-0611941748190001@nts224.dialup.hawaii.edu>, phinely@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu writes:
|>
|> Is this a joke, or did this message get lost in cyberspace for a couple
|> years? Why would anybody want to use kermit? It's slow and error prone
|> plus a pain to use.
I can't offer an opinion on the Mac version. But as a general statement
you are wrong. We use Kermit as the recommended communications software
at Queen's for our PC users. It is not slow, it certainly isn't error
prone, and as for being a pain to use, wrong again. Kermit has a very
complete scripting language that made it possible for us to develop
homegrown login scripts for our University's dial-in services. This
lets us conceal a myriad of idiosyncracies related to our mainframe,
PACX, telnet servers, etc.
Why would anybody want to use Kermit? Because it does the job, works
on all of our systems, is well-documented and supported, and incredibly,
is free.
--
Mike Smith mike@ccs.queensu.ca
Queen's University Michael.D.Smith@QueensU.CA
Computing and Communications Services (613) 545-2024