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  1. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!mips!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!gumby!tim
  3. From: tim@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Timothy L. Kay)
  4. Subject: Good Unix modem software?
  5. Message-ID: <tim.711873159@gumby.cs.caltech.edu>
  6. Sender: news@cco.caltech.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: gumby.cs.caltech.edu
  8. Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
  9. Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 06:32:39 GMT
  10. Lines: 28
  11.  
  12. I am familiar with the following software:
  13.  
  14.     uucp       -- requires too much set up time
  15.     tip/cu/etc -- doesn't do a good job of binary file transfers
  16.     kermit     -- doesn't seem to do a good job of binary file
  17.                       transfers and only knows kermit protocol
  18.     pro yam    -- to bizarre
  19.  
  20. I really want a *simple* modem program that supports kermit and
  21. [xyz]modem transfers so that my wife can call BBS's from her Unix
  22. workstation and download data at a reasonable rate.  (She has a
  23. WorldBlazer.)
  24.  
  25. Does anybody have suggestions for an inexpensive package that meets
  26. these critera?
  27.  
  28. Is kermit supposed to be able to do binary transfers?  My files keep
  29. getting corrupted at CR and LF characters.
  30.  
  31.             Thanks,
  32.  
  33.  
  34.                 Tim
  35. --
  36. Timothy L. Kay        tim@cs.caltech.edu    Member of the   League for
  37. Caltech, 256-80                    Programming Freedom--write
  38. Pasadena, CA  91125                to  league@prep.ai.mit.edu
  39. voice:818-356-6633 fax:818-356-6790        for information.
  40.