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  9. From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
  10. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
  11. Subject: Re: downloading across platforms
  12. Date: 24 Apr 1997 19:02:00 GMT
  13. Organization: Columbia University
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  18. Keywords: kermit download
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  20.  
  21. In article <5jo5dr$odt@acmex.gatech.edu>,
  22. SHONKWILER R W <ma201rs@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
  23. : We installed the new kermit on our sun (unix) system, version
  24. : 6.0.192 for Solaris 2.x.  Right away PC users complained of
  25. : having trouble downloading even ascii files.
  26. : 
  27. Kermit protocol is designed for cross-platform text-file transfer
  28. by default -- you have to go out of your way to get anything else.
  29.  
  30. So what OS is on their PCs, and which communications software are
  31. they using?  And what exactly was the trouble they were having?
  32.  
  33. - Frank