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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: a newbie question
Date: 8 Jan 2001 21:01:07 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <93d9qj$r04$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <93d7n8$6l7$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, <krmadhu@my-deja.com> wrote:
: I want to transfer around 10 Mb of cobol datafiles from a SCO Unix 3.2
: m/c(without TCP/IP stack) at the customer end which is not networked
: using TCP/IP to my PC at home . Currently there is a dial up connection
: from my PC to the unix box.
: I came to know that kermit is a right tool for getting data from the
: unix box to my PC. So please tell me if I should install kermit
: software on both ends...
:
Yes, you must.
: and if so which kermit should I install.
:
C-Kermit for SCO UNIX 3.2v4.x is here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html
: I am confused with c-kermit and g-kermit.
:
Or you could use G-Kermit, which is here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html
: What is the best kermit client
: software which I need at my PC end.
:
That would depend on the OS. If it's DOS or Windows 3.x:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskermit.html
If it's Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, or 2000, or OS/2:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
If it's Linux or other PC-based UNIX variety:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html
: Is it a viable solution instead of
: going to customer site and taking a tape backup and dumping at my PC.
: I want to do this operation once in a week
:
It's a tradeoff. If you have to drive 400 miles to your customer site,
Kermit is preferable. On the other hand, old SCO versions do not support
high baud rates. I'm not sure off hand what the maximum is, but if it's
19200 bps, then it will take at least 10,000,000 / 1920 = 5208 seconds
= about 1.5 hours to transfer 10MB. If it's 38400 bps, then 45 minutes,
etc.
: I have reflection terminal client installed at my PC. Is it enough.
:
I don't know. It probably has a Kermit protocol implementation, but I
can't speak for the quality or efficiency of it.
- Frank