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From: [e-mail] (Kenneth Udut)
Subject: Re: File Transfer Using Telnet Host Menu?
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[e-mail] <Ken>
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                                                            02.Feb.1995

> Select from the following transfer protocols:
>
> T - TYPE file to your screen
> C - ASCII with DC2/DC4 Capture
> A - ASCII only, no Control Codes
> X - XMODEM
> O - XMODEM-1k
> Y - YMODEM (Batch)
> G - YMODEM-g (Batch)
> S - SEAlink
> K - KERMIT
> W - SuperKERMIT (Sliding Windows)
> Z - ZMODEM-90(Tm)
>
> Choose one (Q to Quit):
> ---------
>     That looks like a familiar list, doesn't it. So I tried W first
> and the protocol failed at the end. I then tried K and that failed at
> the end too. But the failures were in signaling no more files follow so
> the one transferred file looked ok. Neither dealt with long packets, despite
> the names. MS-DOS Kermit v3.14 at my end, running across the Internet
> with no modems involved.

This list looks like the venerable TBBS, which is a pretty darned
sturdy BBS, and has one of the fastest internal Kermit transfers of
internal Kermits in BBS's.  (I give TBBS great credit for keeping
various transfer protocols like ASCII with DC2/DC4 capture, variant
with no control codes, two variants of Kermit, and a sharp version
of Zmodem which is also speedy).

But I agree - the Kermit-Lite would provide *much much* better performance
than their internal variaties.   The Kermit's internal to TBBS are,
unfortunately, single-file transfer protocols, which is why multiple
file transfers failed.  I'm surprised the TBBS authors haven't
upgraded, but perhaps they never got the "nudge".  Now that more TBBS'
are getting on the Internet, at least in small doses, the authors might
consider implimenting this.  I would suggest that TBBS users/sysops
mention this to the TBBS people.

When I start calling local BBS's again (if I do :-> ) I will start
attempting to get Kermit-Lite installed on their systems, if for no
other reason but for myself :-)  It's not difficult to bring a new
product into your local BBS community (I brought BlueWave down from
college, convinced local sysops that it was a good thing) - you just
have to be persistant and truly believe in the product that you're
promoting.

>     I would suggest to the BBS sysops that they have a careful look
> at MS-DOS Kermit Lite, designed to be run as an external protocol on BBS'.
> It does "the whole thing."

Agreed :-)

>     Moral of the story: Carry On Regardless.
>     Joe D.

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Kenneth Udut                                          [e-mail]
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