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From: Abid Khan <Abid_Khan@Plan21.com>
Subject: Re: a newbie question
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 03:47:50 GMT
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In article <93d9qj$r04$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>,
fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) wrote:
> 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
>
Dialing in to the system and using kermit is a fine choice as long as
it is not a long distance call, if it is a long distance call and your
connection is 9600 baud, then driving down to the client site is not a
bad idea either depands on how far you have to drive, another choice is
to create a shell script to backup the file(s), have client backup the
file(s) and mail you tape once a week. I am using Kermit and Mlink (X-
Modem) both to do this kind of activity on SCO boxes.
Abid
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