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Subject: Kermit for Winsock
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From: MARKP@earlham.edu (Mark H Pearson)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 22:31:28 GMT
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I am sure that this question has been asked a zillion of times
already, but ...
I'm an avid user of Kermit and support it on all PCs at our College.
However, once on the network and using Windows, DOS Kermit becomes a
pain in the botty department. I have to load a Packet Multiplexor,
then a packet driver for Winsock, and WINPKT etc etc. You know the
score - with ODI in there too, it's as stable as a house of cards and
uses up acres of precious DOS memory. Sooooo ....
I gather there's a beta of Kermit for WIndows and I was wondering what
the 'official' line on this is. It's my humble opinion that even
though we're in the Web age, there's still a need for rock solid VT220
/ VT320 terminal emulation, pass throught printing support,
scriptability, etc and Kermit has it all. What are the sticky issues
in porting Kermit into the Windows environment, apart from the obvious
one that it sucketh and hath no development tools .... ?
Thanks for any comments.
Mark Pearson
Earlham College
Mark H Pearson
Academic Computing Free Agent NoozeReader
Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374
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