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Article: 13766 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: Robert Reimiller <bob@certsoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Embedded Kermit File-Transfer Protocol
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 16:49:52 +0000
Organization: Certified Software Corp.
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On 7 Oct 2002 09:53:27 -0400, fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) wrote:
>: That takes me back in time, do people still use Kermit?
>:
>They sure do; take a look at the Kermit Project website:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
>
Used Kermit a lot in the early 90's on Quanterra seismic data logger
systems. They often used just a dial-up line and a Telebit modem that
had "kermit spoofing" to speed up transfers. You would first use a text
interface to select the data you wanted, which would be written to a
file, and then use Kermit to download it.
As the decade progressed we added SLIP connections along with telnet and
ftp for doing these types of things. Over time more and more systems
used ethernet interfaces almost exclusively. The latest equipment uses a
web server where you fill in the boxes with the data and time ranges
desired and it returns back a file as the response.
I suppose there are still a lot of these systems in the field where
Kermit is still used, but I mostly work on the new product development
so I don't know.
Bob